Could it get any worse?

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2004)

This remains, even after 5 years, solidly at the top of my "worst films ever" list. It is simply the absolute worst film I have ever seen. If it was meant to be irritatingly laughable then it is extremely successful, but if so it still isn't up my street. The money went, quite clearly, on special effects. That is, a calamitous jumble of humorous 'spirits' and the likes. I.e. pure garbage.
The remaining 1% of the budget probably (if they were lucky) went on the cast and the script writer. This had the best collection of the nation's (I really mean planet's) worst actors/actresses. They were painfully bad and if I'm being honest, it's probably this that distracts you from the 99% that was spent on the effects. Maybe that is a slight alleviation for Sommers from delivering the worst film of all time, but he's pushing it.
The dialect and script is so bad you feel embarrassed for the cast that they have to further relinquish their barely existent reputations by nearly enacting them.
Now that I have slated this awful, awful movie, I will advise anyone who hasn't seen it never to even pick up the box and read it. The fact that this was so popular (admittedly among kids) is unlikely to be beaten as the biggest mystery on the face of the earth