30 Movies With 0 Percent Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes has been guiding movie goers about what to watch for more than 20 years, via its Tomatometer curated critics' consensus and its Audience Score.
Joel Meares, the site's editor-in-chief, says the two different rating metrics offers people a "different perspective" to help guide their TV and film choices.
"We try to provide information at multiple levels," he tells Newsweek. "We offer the Tomatometer score, which shows what critics are saying and then you can deep-dive a little more and see the critics' consensus, and then even read and watch the reviews.
"But we also offer the Audience Score, as we want to give people the option to see what the general public, the non professional-critic hive also thinks of the movie.
"This gives you a different perspective, which sometimes is the same as what the critics are saying and sometimes it diverges."
Meares offers, as an example recently discussed on the Rotten Tomatoes is Wrong podcast, the 1998 Michael Bay film Armageddon, which has a 38 percent Tomatometer, but a 71 percent Audience Score.
"Critics found the movie a bit like a video game and overly jingoistic with silly dialogue," he adds.
"[But] there was something about the nonstop, relentlessness action and the Bruce Willis' and Ben Affleck's star power and that emotional finale that really connected with people and made them love it.
"The Tomatometer is a living, breathing thing, in the sense a review review is added, and therefore the percentage may change and that applies to something that's 50 years old.
"But it's much less frequently added to them the Audience Score, which is constantly alive and breathing, and so you may have 10,000 more people watch Armageddon this year, and go and add their their reviews on Rotten Tomatoes."
"So there is a time timeline difference between how the Tomatometer and the Audience Score responds."
Below, Newsweek reveals 30 movies with a 0 percent Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes. Enjoy...
1. 400 Days
2015 ‧ Sci-fi/Thriller ‧ 1h 31m
This low-budget sci-fi thriller involves four astronauts involved in a long-running mission simulation that goes disastrously wrong.
The movie, which has a 22% Tomatometer rating, was described by The Guardian critic Leslie Felperin as, "like watching Solaris performed by sock puppets."
2. 5 Card Stud
2002 ‧ Romance/Rom-com ‧ 2h 1m
An aspiring screenwriter falls in love with a woman trapped in an unfulfilling, long-term relationship.
An audience review for the movie, which has yet to receive a Tomatometer score, from Hermann P, states: "Dumb dumber, dumbest, this kitsch is the latter. I had bought it for $2 it's in the bin now."
3. Artworks
2003 ‧ Thriller ‧ 1h 33m
A mismatched trio plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from an art gallery owner's wealthy clients.
Alex L posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Boring, cheesy script, they never hang upside down or do anything cool like it shows you in the picture on the box, although with a plot as bad as this it wouldn't've helped at all."
4. Casting About
2005 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1h 26m
This lyrical documentary discusses the experience of auditioning actresses for a dramatic movie.
Alex M posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie, which received a respectable 63% Tomatometer rating, writing: "Kind of makes me hate the whole idea of 'acting.'"
5. Corporate Affairs
1990 ‧ Comedy ‧ 1h 22m
A leading Wall Street executive assists his ambitious colleague who suspects she has killed her supervisor while having sex.
Private U posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "An interesting film, but it drags towards the middle and makes you lose interest."
6. Dance with Death
1992 ‧ Thriller/Erotic thriller ‧ 1h 30m
An LAPD detective investigates a series of exotic dancer murders with a journalist going deep undercover as a stripper.
Cindy C posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "It's kind of like herpes; a bad thing that stays with you long after you watch it. Laughably bad.
"If you catch it on cable one night and you have nothing else to do, or if you want to catch [future Friends actress] Lisa Kudrow in one of her earlier roles, have fun with it."
7. Flesh Feast
1970 ‧ Horror/Thriller ‧ 1h 12m
Mad scientists in possession of Adolf Hitler's body plan revive his the Nazis leader's cadaver with maggots to take over the world.
Tristan P posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Veronica Lake, once one of the most beautiful women in the world, is a sad, pathetic shadow of her former self in this awful horror flick."
8. Hitters
2002 ‧ Thriller/Action ‧ 1h 28m
A respected civic leader is caught between two rival mafia families teetering on the verge of an all-out war.
Jason posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "One of the worst mafia movies I have ever seen."
9. If I Didn't Care
2006 ‧ Thriller ‧ 1h 15m
An opportunist and his lover plot the demise of his wealthy wife, but when their scheme soon fails to go according to plan.
Peter N posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie that received a 37% Tomatometer rating, writing: "Ehhh, not really worth :-/."
10. Left Behind
2014 ‧ Thriller/Action ‧ 1h 51m
A man and his daughter struggle to survive while chaos reigns resulting from the Rapture's arrival.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics' consensus for the movie, which has only a 1% Tomatometer rating, states: "Yea verily, like unto a plague of locusts, Left Behind hath begat a further scourge of devastation upon Nicolas Cage's once-proud filmography"
11. Lured Innocence
2000 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 1h 39m
A reporter returns to his home town to cover a murder trial but becomes a key witness implicated in the suspect's alibi.
A review for the film, which has no Tomatometer rating, by AllMovie's Buzz McClain states: "Boring and derivative—laughably, the murder is stolen outright from Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques—this thrill-less thriller goes nowhere fast."
12. Moscow Heat
2004 ‧ Action/Drama ‧ 1h 40m
An LAPD detective is forced to navigate a black-market arms dealer in Russia while investigating his partner's suspicious death.
Az D posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Horrendous action flick!! Steer clear from this one!!"
13. Mummy Maniac
2007 ‧ Horror/Slasher ‧ 1h 21m
The hunt is on for a sadistic serial killer who snatches young women from the streets and transforms them into mummies.
Amy H posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Pathetic attempt at making a horror movie. Couldn't stand it after listening to half an hour of pathetic dialogue and screaming."
14. Out of the Darkness / Night Creature
1978 ‧ Thriller/Adventure ‧ 1h 23m
A huntsman and his family race to destroy the man-eating panther that once attacked him.
Shawn W posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Be warned, this one is plodding and appears older than its 1977 date. Cat appears quite friendly and well behaved at times."
15. Once Upon a Time in China VI
1997 ‧ Action/Western ‧ 1h 42m
During a visit to America, a Chinese amnesiac and his friends battle cowboys and Indians in the Wild West.
An unnamed poster supplied the sole Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "I was expecting the worst, but that was actuality a lot of fun."
16. Out in Fifty
1999 ‧ Psychological thriller/Indie film ‧ 1h 43m
A drug-addicted cop with a vendetta involves a reformed ex-convict in a love triangle leading to murder.
Matt W posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing simply: "This is the WORST MOVIE EVER."
17. Papertrail
1998 ‧ Murder ‧ 1h 29m
A strung-out private eye tracks down a psychopathic serial killer who sends him cryptic clues about his grisly murders.
Lee posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Dull, run-of-the-mill serial-killer movie ... Not even the appearance of Chris Penn and Michael Madsen can make this worth watching."
18. Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
2011 ‧ Comedy-drama/Drama ‧ 1h 36m
With divorce imminent, an uptight New York attorney takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse for a family vacation.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics' consensus for the movie, which boasts a 30 percent Tomatometer rating, states: "Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding produces many unintentional laughs with its absurdly contrived plot and cheery insistence that everything is just super."
19. Peaches
2000 ‧ Romance ‧ 1h 24m
A young man anticipates his final summer of fun before he is sucked into the world of adulthood.
Tallullah X posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Great movie ... funny, irreverent, cheeky, and well worth watching, if only to ogle yummy Matthew Rhys."
20. Satan Hates You
2010 ‧ Horror ‧ 1h 34m
When the paths of a homicidal maniac and a woman cross, the pair teeter between salvation and the highway to hell.
Dimitris K posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie that received a 33 percent Tomatometer rating, writing: "No matter how hard you look, you will NEVER find a worse movie than this one."
21. Search for the Beast
1997 ‧ Horror ‧ 1h 22m
A mad scientist searches for a giant man-beast believed to be living in the Okaloosa wilderness.
Hunter D posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Search For The Beast is the sort of film you watch with a fast-forward button, a bottle of Jack, and a revolver with one in the chamber to click at your temple periodically, just to see if luck will end the Hell this movie puts you through before it mercifully ends."
22. Soundman
1998 ‧ Drama/Romance ‧ 1h 44m
A sound mixer on a low-budget movie wins favor with a virtuoso violinist by blackmailing others into hiring her.
Eskimosound posted a review on IMDb for the film yet to receive a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating, writing: "The movie itself isn't half bad although it had a bit of a B quality to it that it manages to shake off until the rushed crazy ending which sort of ruins it."
23. The Blood Rules
2000 ‧ Crime/Drama ‧ 1h 36m
A team of professional killers' mission suddenly goes horribly awry, resulting in a bloodbath.
Critic Kozo wrote for LoveHKFilm.com about the movie yet to receive a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer rating, wrote: "[A] thriller that's watchable but only if bored."
24. The Ghost and the Guest
1943 ‧ Mystery/Comedy ‧ 1h 1m
A newlywed couple spends their first night together in a creepy old house occupied by a group of gangsters.
Orlock W posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Undercooked old house spoof that's kind of funny."
25. The Hagstone Demon
2009 ‧ Horror ‧ 1h 36m
Supernatural forces killing an apartment black's occupants turn their nefarious attentions on another resident.
John W posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Laughably over the top, but played straight and with total sincerity."
26.The Human Duplicators
1965 ‧ Sci-fi/Indie film ‧ 1h 40m
A pair of government agents prevent an alien's dastardly plot to conquer the planet with fake space rocks.
Jared G posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Extremely cheap flick about aliens taking over the world by using ridiculously fragile 'duplicates' of the entire human race."
27. The Proud and Damned
1972 ‧ Western/Adventure ‧ 1h 32m
Five Confederate guns for hire agonise over which side to fight for when the village they are staying in faces a rebellion.
Donald W posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "This is a really bad movie. Bad acting and no action."
28. Time of Fear
2005 ‧ Documentary ‧ 56 mins
This documentary examines the fate of the 16,000 Japanese-American men, women and children who relocated to military camps following the Pearl Harbor attacks.
Marcio S posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "Depicts a nightmarish and chaotic situation but lacks focus, character development and doesn't even know what closure truly means. It's frustrating!"
29. Xtro II: The Second Encounter
1990 ‧ Sci-fi/Horror ‧ 1h 32m
A top-secret experiment uncovers a method to travel to other dimensions but the scientists are soon attacked by aliens.
Ennis Brokeback L posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "This movie is awful. It took everything I had to finish this boring garbage of a film."
30. Submerged
2000 ‧ Action ‧ 1h 35m
Navy SEALs attempt an audacious rescue mission after terrorists down a plane carrying missile-launching tech into the ocean.
Pele L posted an Audience Review on Rotten Tomatoes for the movie yet to receive a Tomatometer rating, writing: "For a low-budget action movie, I really didn't expect much.
"This was quite slow and the inciting incident doesn't occur until well into the second act. From there, everything happens way too fast to bring forth any type of entertainment value!"
