For every brilliant, Oscar-nominated film, there’s a slew of truly awful pieces of cinema–like not even enjoyable-bad. And during the ’80s, it was a time when Hollywood started catering more towards kids, but there wasn’t really a formula for how to create a money-making blockbuster with at least a somewhat coherent and interesting story.
So what we got during this time was a lot of not-so-great movies that parents had to sit through that were either bland, trying to rip off another movie, or just incredibly bizarre–something that should have never been made. Luckily, we rounded-up some of the worst of them.
We looked for some of the worst-reviewed movies from the ’80s on GameSpot’s sister site Metacritic and found the 13 worst-reviewed movies from that decade. Sadly, some films we wanted to see on this list, like Munchies or Little Monsters, didn’t receive enough reviews to get an average rating. Luckily, we have 13 others to talk about.
