Although other streaming services have become fierce competitors, love it or hate it, Netflix is still arguably the most successful platform in terms of producing original content. Over the past several years, Netflix has distributed everything from Oscar and Emmy-winning masterpieces to universally panned failures. When creating an enormous amount of content, it's inevitable that some works won't be up to par with others.
Like Netflix itself, much of their works are love-or-hate debate starters. However, there are some films that the majority of the public has deemed so irredeemable and inexcusable that a shared hatred of them has brought people together.
10 "The Woman In The Window" Should Have Looked Away
This definitely isn't the worst film from Netflix, but it was severely disappointing after months of COVID-related delays and hype for those who are fans of the book it's based on. The Woman In The Window follows an agoraphobic child psychologist who inadvertently witnesses a brutal crime at the apartment across the street, and right off the bat is nothing more than yet another rehash of Rear Window. Amy Adams is game, but even her performance couldn't save this suspenseful thriller completely devoid of suspense and thrills.
9 "The Wrong Missy" Forgot To Be Funny
The first installment of the Happy Madison Extended Universe on this list, David Spade plays an extremely bland man who invites his dream girl to an island resort. However, he instead winds up with a previous blind date of his, and hilarity ensues. Except... it doesn't.
The Wrong Missy isn't the worst project Adam Sandler has produced, but it does leave a strange aftertaste of unintentional misogyny, and the film seems to think that yelling the jokes (and repeating them) will somehow make them funnier.
8 "He's All That" Wasn't All That Good
Netflix frequently capitalizes off the public's nostalgia; sometimes the result is satisfactory and a loving tribute to the original work while others are nothing but a desperate cash grab that tries to win over too many people and fall flat on their faces. He's All That, a gender-swapped reboot of the mediocre '90s rom-com She's All That, is the latter.
Unfortunately, this film is another cringe attempt by Netflix to connect with today's youth by casting Tik Tok stars instead of real actors, and another cringe attempt at rebooting something they think we're nostalgic about.
7 The Do-Over Shouldn't Have Been Done In The First Place
Spade and Sandler team up once more, this time for a thrilling premise involving faking their own deaths, assuming new identities, and once again "hilarity" ensues. It actually seemed like it maybe, somewhat, kind of looked promising from the trailer, but in actuality, The Do-Over is just every recycled joke from previous Sandler films Frankensteined together into a mind-numbing mess. The Do-Over isn't the worst Sandler movie either, but it also deserves every bit of criticism it has received, including being placed on this list.
6 "Thunder Force" Was Powerless
The talents of two stars are squandered in Thunder Force, a story of two childhood friends who reunite and become a crime-fighting superhero duo after one of them invents a formula that grants them powers. Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer clearly have comedy chops, but one would never guess that from this film alone.
In an era of a non-stop barrage of superhero media, Thunder Force could have been a fun parody, but the jokes just don't land. However, the film still acts as if they are landing the entire time, and the unsalvageable script is to blame.
5 "The Ridiculous 6" Is More Offensive Than Funny
With apologies to Mr. Sandler, The Ridiculous 6 is the third Happy Madison film on this list, and the only one to receive a perfect 0% on Rotten Tomatoes (yes, even below The Master of Disguise and Jack and Jill). This non-stop series of decades-old racist jokes follow White Knife, an orphan who was raised by Native Americans, who discovers that a group of outlaws are his half-relatives, so he joins them for some reason (to get back at their dad or something?).
It seems to be Sandler's attempt at making his own version of Blazing Saddles, but without the charm, humor, or understanding that some jokes in the 70s did not age well and therefore should not be used in 2015.
4 "The Open House" Should Have Stayed Closed
Have you ever seen a horror movie at some point in your life? You'll totally believe what happens next in The Open House!
This film is just evidence that the writers' main resource was a checklist for every possible horror movie cliche they could cram into 95 minutes. The Open House follows a teenager and his mother who experience all sorts of spooky happenings in their new home, and suspect someone--or something--is watching them. Capping off a plethora of sketchy shadows, heavy breathing, and things that go bump in the night is an extremely anti-climactic and pointless ending with zero setup or payoff.
3 "Death Note" Killed A Great Concept
Aside from a perfect casting of Willam Dafoe as the voice of Ryuk the Shinigami, the American, live-action Death Note movie has gone down in history as one of the most blatant examples of a shameless rehash that almost completely ignores its beloved source material. Fans of the original Death Note manga and anime were treated to a series of baffling decisions like "What if we took Light Yagami, a literal genius and sociopath, and made him stupid and emotional?" and "What if we took L, a quiet, anti-social detective, and made him a gun-toting maniac?" Not all live-action adaptations of manga or anime are failures, and Death Note didn't have to be the mess it became.
2 "Tall Girl" Can't Step Over Its Own Problems
Jodi's life isn't exactly easy: she's a white, conventionally attractive, talented high schooler who comes from an extremely privileged household in a first-world country, and has several men fawning over her. There's only one problem: sometimes she was bullied for being a little over 6 feet tall, which is the same height as many supermodels. But all that changes when she meets a guy who is taller than 6 feet. There's a love triangle involved, she and her friends argue and make up, and she ends up with a guy who's shorter than her.
Perhaps the pointlessness and tone-deafness of Tall Girl can best be summed up by one of Jodi's grievances: "When you're a tall girl, it's the only thing people see."
1 "Enter The Anime" Is Just A Long Commercial
Enter The Anime is a documentary told from the perspective of a woman who literally knows nothing about the film's topic, who then gets a free trip to Japan for the sole purpose of advertising all the anime titles available on Netflix. It's an hour-long infomercial masquerading as an exploration of a worldwide phenomenon, with an unbelievably broad concept: "Did you know Japan makes cartoons and that people from all over the world like them? Well, I've never seen 'em. Until today!"
Enter The Anime thinks it can avoid these criticisms by attempting a sense of self-awareness, which ultimately makes one cringe and ask themselves: "Who is this documentary actually made for?"