It has been many months, but I can confidently say that I successfully watched over 100 movies from the IMDb Bottom 100 ranking in 2014. That was my goal at the beginning of the year, and here we have it! In no particular order, here are links to my reviews of 104 IMDb Bottom 100 movies.

1. In The Mix
2. Blubberella
3. Monster A Go Go
4. Santa Claus
5. Anne B Real
6. Santa With Muscles
7. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
8. Battlefield Earth
9. Saving Christmas
10. Daniel der Zauberer
11. Bat People
12. Popstar
13. Nine Lives
14. Garbage Pail Kids*
15. Ator, The Blade Master
16. Baby Geniuses
17. Oasis of the Zombies
18. Copper Mountain
19. Aag
20. The Wild World of Batwoman
21. Breaking Wind
22. Track of the Moon Beast
23. Demon Island
24. Invasion of the Neptune Men
25. Horrors of Spider Island
26. Beast of Yucca Flats
27. From Justin to Kelly
28. Eegah
29. ROTOR
30. Bratz: The Movie
31. The Mangler*
32. Highlander 2*
33. Surf School
34. Simon Sez
35. Jaws 3D*
36. On Deadly Ground*
37. Foodfight!
38. Robocop 3*
39. Miss Castaway
40. The Hillz
41. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning*
42. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan*
43. The Hottie and The Nottie
44. Prince of Space
45. Zaat
46. Troll 2
47. Red Zone Cuba
48. Glitter
49. Disaster Movie
50. Die Hard Dracula
51. Fat Slags
52. McHale’s Navy*
53. Ben and Arthur
54. Torque*
55. The Omega Code*
56. American Ninja 5
57. Titanic: And the Legend Continues…
58. Legend of the Titanic*
59. Captain America (1990)*
60. Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
61. The Creeping Terror
62. Hobgoblins
63. Zombie Nightmare
64. Mitchell
65. Gigli
66. Super Mario Bros*
67. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
68. .com for Murder
69. 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain
70. Touch of Satan
71. The Maize: The Movie
72. The Gaul
73. Car 54, Where Are You?
74. Alone in the Dark
75. Tangents
76. Chairman of the Board
77. Zombie Nation
78. Final Justice
79. The Atomic Brain
80. Epic Movie
81. The Final Sacrifice
82. Ed
83. I Accuse My Parents
84. Leonard Part 6
85. Laserblast
86. Lawnmower Man 2
87. The Starfighters
88. Soultaker
89. Son of the Mask
90. House of the Dead
91. Pod People
92. Pumaman
93. Devil Fish
94. Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies
95. Girl in Gold Boots
96. Turks in Space
97. Space Mutiny
98. Pledge This
99. Crossover
100. Birdemic: Shock and Terror
101. Boggy Creek II
102. Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
103. Going Overboard
104. Manos: The Hands of Fate

Let me explain why there are 104 movies, and what those asterisks mean. As it turns out, watching all of the IMDb Bottom 100 is more complicated than you might think for a number of reasons.

Thanks to the international representation that has grown on the list in the past couple of years, there are a fair number of films in the ranking that did not get a Region 1 release: this means that no only was there no official distribution in the US, but there are also no official English subtitles or dubs. For some of these films, like “Daniel der Zauberer” and “Turks in Space”, they have enough of a following that fans have created subtitles so that English audiences can watch them. More often than not, however, these international entries in the IMDb Bottom 100 are just not available in any form to an English-speaking audience. Movies like “A Fox’s Tale” and “Danes Without a Clue”, for instance, just do not exist in an English-friendly form, and aren’t popular enough to have fans distributing them online and creating subtitles for them.

In addition to foreign films that lack English language versions, a number of other movies in the IMDb Bottom 100 simply don’t have any distribution, and similarly lack the popularity for there to be online copies of them available. IMDb Bottom 100 movies like “The Tony Blair Witch Project”, “Anus Magillicutty”, and “Ghosts Can’t Do It” all fall into this category: the first two are just low-budget projects that didn’t get spread around, whereas “Ghosts Can’t Do It” is simply out of print and only available (scarcely) on VHS.

In an attempt to make up for these unattainable members of the ranking, I went back through some archived versions of the IMDb Bottom 100. Because the list is democratic and constantly accepting new votes, movies regularly fall out and break into the ranking, meaning that a snapshot of the IMDb Bottom 100 from 2004 looks very different from the one that exists today. All of the movies in the above list marked with an asterisk were pulled from these archived lists to make up for the missing movies that I couldn’t get copies of.

So, how did I wind up with 104 movies covered? As I mentioned, the IMDb Bottom 100 is consistently shuffling in new movies as votes come in and movies reach the qualification quota of 1500 votes for the list. As was the case with “ROTOR” and “Saving Christmas”, I chose to cover new movies as they popped into the Bottom 100 over the course of 2014. Between covering movies from the IMDb Bottom 100 archive and new members of the ranking from 2014, I managed to tip over 100 movies covered in total. In fact, there are even more IMDb Bottom 100 movies that I could still cover (and in all likelihood I will at some point).

For now, I am going to put the IMDb Bottom 100 on the back-burner: I managed to watch and review over 100 of them in 2014, and I am interested in taking on some new bad movie challenges in 2015. That said, I am planning on doing my own ranking of those 104 movies in the near future, and writing a more in depth retrospective on the challenge after I’ve had some time to mull it over.

As for now, I wish you all a Happy New Year, and look forward to having you back in 2015!