💣 The Absolute Worst Movies of 2025: Five Disasters That Tested Human Patience

Bad movies aren’t just failures — they’re warnings. They show us exactly how cinema can go wrong when ambition outruns craft, when IP is mistaken for storytelling, and when indulgence replaces intent. While “best of” lists celebrate triumphs, worst-of lists document cautionary tales — cinematic wrecks that future filmmakers should study like crime scenes. In 2025, our critics sat through dozens of misfires, but these five stood out for all the wrong reasons. This isn’t casual snark. This is a post-mortem. Buckle up.

1. Eden

When prestige collapses under its own weight

“Eden” wants desperately to be profound — a sweeping, philosophical meditation on humanity, morality, and survival. What it actually delivers is ponderous nonsense, smothered in self-importance. Every frame screams importance, yet nothing lands. Characters speak in cryptic platitudes instead of behaving like humans, and the narrative drifts endlessly, mistaking vagueness for depth. This is the kind of movie that dares you to admit you’re bored, then punishes you for being honest. A hollow art-film façade that mistakes confusion for complexity.

2. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

IP exploitation at its most shameless

If the first film was a mixed bag, this sequel is a creative flatline. “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” doesn’t expand its mythology — it cannibalizes it. The scares are recycled, the lore is incomprehensible to newcomers and insulting to fans, and the film seems actively allergic to tension. Instead of horror, we get noise. Instead of atmosphere, exposition dumps. This isn’t made to scare — it’s made to exist on a release calendar, and that cynicism bleeds through every animatronic twitch.

3. The Testament of Ann Lee

Ambition without discipline is just chaos

There’s a compelling story buried somewhere inside this spiritual-historical drama, but the film never finds it. Instead, “The Testament of Ann Lee” drowns itself in aesthetic obsession and narrative paralysis. Scenes stretch endlessly, symbolism is piled on without coherence, and emotional connection is treated as optional. It’s not daring — it’s inert. What could have been a haunting portrait of belief becomes an endurance test that mistakes stillness for significance.

4. Hurry Up Tomorrow

The most ironic title of the year

Nothing in “Hurry Up Tomorrow” hurries. Nothing arrives. Nothing pays off. The film crawls forward with a suffocating sense of self-regard, convinced it’s saying something urgent while refusing to actually say anything at all. Themes are hinted at, then abandoned. Characters drift in and out like unfinished thoughts. By the time the credits roll, the only lasting emotion is frustration — not because the movie challenged you, but because it wasted your time with alarming confidence.

5. Anemone

Minimalism pushed past the breaking point

“Anemone” strips cinema down to its barest elements — and forgets to leave anything worth holding onto. This is minimalism as punishment. Sparse dialogue, repetitive imagery, and a refusal to engage emotionally result in a film that feels actively hostile to its audience. There’s a fine line between restraint and emptiness, and “Anemone” sprints past it without looking back. What remains is a void masquerading as art.

🎬 Final Verdict: Why These Failures Matter

The worst movies of 2025 aren’t just bad — they’re instructive. They reveal what happens when filmmakers confuse seriousness with substance, branding with storytelling, and ambiguity with intelligence. cinema grows not only by celebrating its highs, but by calling out its lows — loudly, clearly, and without apology.

Because every truly terrible movie leaves behind a lesson.
And 2025 left behind plenty. 💥