There have been many films over the years that, on paper, sound strange but were very successful. However, for every good movie, there's an equally bad one that leaves audiences asking how it was even made. It's hard to blame the creators as it might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but some ideas are better left unsaid.

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Whether they didn't make their money back, didn't gain any traction in the awards trail, or just received poor reviews from critics and audiences, there's no doubt that some of these films are meant to be forgotten.

10 Old Is Not M. Night Shyamalan's Best Work

Charles in a cave

The director of The Sixth Sense is known for his great psychological films and unexpected plot twists. His latest film, Old, struggles to live up to his reputation. The film is about a family who takes a vacation to a beach that rapidly ages them.

The film is as bizarre as its core concept, with a twist leaving many viewers with more questions than answers. It received an ugly 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, and while it earned $90 million at the box office, profiting $72 million, it left most who spent their money with much to be desired.

9 Hot Tub Time Machine Should Travel Back And Try Again

Cast of Hot Tub Time Machine

The concept of time travel has an extensive history in cinema, with films like Back to the Future and Avengers: Endgame proving that it could work. Of course, there are many ways to go about the physics of time travel in a movie, but a hot tub is perhaps more outlandish than the idea that time travel could even exist.

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Hot Tub Time Machine is a silly movie about four friends who use a time machine at a ski resort to travel back to their youth. While it succeeds as a fun, stupid comedy, it fails to offer much more to a genre that has seen more intriguing time travel stories.

8 A Film Literally About Snakes On A Plane

A snake eating on a plane

It's as bizarre of an idea as it is lazy, as Snakes on a Plane is pretty much all in the title. It's a movie about a bunch of snakes let loose on a plane, and Samuel L. Jackson has to stop them from attacking everyone on board.

All due respect to SLJ, who brings his best to the role as he always does, but this one certainly isn't up there with Pulp Fiction. While the film made a decent earning at the box office due to the online hype, this is primarily thanks to the film becoming more of a meme than anything. As a result, it loses traction very quickly, and is only remembered as the movie where Sam Jackson fights snakes 30,000 feet in the air.

7 A Ruff Film About Politics

The lawyer transforming into the dog

Disney has a lot of rather interesting films locked away from a long time ago, and one they'd much rather forget about is The Shaggy D.A. Kids movies always have wacky plots, but The Shaggy D.A. takes it to a whole other level. It follows a lawyer running for District Attorney, but he gets turned into a dog and has to save his campaign without being caught by an animal control officer.

It's incredibly dull and forgettable, not to mention poorly made. There's even a scene where the dog man punches someone in the face, and it looks so clearly like a costume. Even kids are going to be questioning this one.

6 Yesterday Just Glorifies Plagiarism

Jack Malik and Ed Sheeran

Everyone loves The Beatles, and many successful movies have been made about them. Their music is influential, having inspired thousands of musicians since Beatlemania took the world by storm in the 1960s. However, nothing screams random like a movie about the entire world forgetting who the Beatles are (among other things) after a random blackout.

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The rest of the film is just the main character Jack Malik (Himesh Patel), stealing their songs for his own career. It has heart to it, but not much else. No amount of Ed Sheeran can save this truly bizarre plot.

5 Hellboy Has Its Own Circle In Hell

Hellboy and Alice in the 2019 remake

David Harbour is a phenomenal actor known for his performance as Jim Hopper in Stranger Things. However, his skills aren't enough to save the 2019 film Hellboy, which is about the titular character, a giant demon trying to help stop the world's end.

As bizarre as it is to think about a demon saving the world, it's even more bizarre to think the movie did well. It sits with a horrid 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, and it barely made its money back as it cost $50 million to make and made $55 million at the box office. It's safe to say this one was better left on the studio shelf.

4 Somehow Hitler and Bigfoot Are In The Same Movie

Sam Elliott hunting down Bigfoot

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot is the name of an actual movie starring Sam Elliott, and the title pretty much says it all. Elliot plays Calvin Barr, a man who killed Adolf Hitler during World War II, who gets recruited to find and kill Bigfoot. This certainly took some thinking outside the box to come up with.

The movie tries to take itself seriously but falls flat, and comes across as rather laughable (not in the good way) most of the time. Elliott has some good moments, but overall this movie fails at committing to any one idea.

3 There Should Be A Spell To Reverse The Witches

Anne Hathaway as the head witch

Adapting a novel is always risky, as it can be challenging to match the author's vision. This is the case with Roald Dahl's The Witches, which has a plot about a boy and his grandmother escaping a group of witches by going to a hotel, except the witches follow them there and turn him into a mouse.

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The movie is not enjoyable for kids or adults, and misses almost all of the marks that the novel, and even the predecessor film, hit. As intriguing as this absurd plot sounds, it's best to stay away like the boy, and his grandmother should have.

2 Are Tomatoes Supposed To Be Scary?

A man being chased by a tomato

Audiences have let some truly bonkers films pass over the years, but nothing may be as absurd as the idea that tomatoes come to life and start attacking humans. This is the plot of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! Of course, filmmakers often ask viewers to suspend their disbelief, but that can only be taken so far.

The spoof movie has an abysmal 27% on Rotten Tomatoes and barely made any money. Worst of all, the movie had three even worse sequels. If people only want to measure a film's success on sequels, then Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! is very successful. These are some tomatoes that should've been left to rot.

1 All Comedic Nazi Movies Should've Been Left In 1945

Nazis on the moon

In 2012, a film called Iron Sky was made. It's about Nazis retreating to a fortress on the dark side of the Moon, where they spent 70 years building up an army and weapons as they prepare to invade Earth.

This is about as out-there of a film idea as it gets, and to nobody's surprise, it didn't work. The space flick is rocking a 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, leaving viewers glad to see the credits rolling. But, even with a worse sequel, it's safe to say this idea did not work.

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