Howdy loyal followers! Now that 2018 is well into the dirt, I wanted to, once again, shine a spotlight on the publicly perceived worst films of the year.

Once again, I want to re-emphasize that this is a list I generated based on public perception, and not objective quality. I chose to measure this by compiling 15 currently published year-end “Worst of 2018” lists (from sources like The AV Club and Variety), then I tallied up how often each film appeared. It is a pretty simple and data-driven way to make this sort of list, and gives a rough idea of how widely despised individual films were.

Even more so than last year, there was very little consensus among the various rankings. Between the 15 lists I compiled entries from, 103 individual films received tallies. For the sake of brevity, I am only including the films that appeared most often in this post. However, as always, the full spreadsheet of films and sources is available here.

As with the past two years, there was no runaway “Worst Movie of 2018.” The two films with the most tallies were only on 10 of 15 lists (66.66%), which means that they were left off of an entire third of popular year-end lists. On top of that, there was a tight cluster of ties, with 18 movies earning enough tallies to crack the Top 5.

If you are curious about what past rankings looked like, feel free to check out my Worst Movies of 2017 and Worst Movies of 2016 posts.

Now, without further ado, here are the publicly perceived worst movies of 2018:

1. The Happytime Murders / Gotti
2. Venom / Life Itself / Fifty Shades Freed
3. Robin Hood
4. Mile 22 / Dark Crimes / Slender Man / 15:17 To Paris
5. Winchester / Overboard / Truth Or Dare / Death Wish / Show Dogs / Death of a Nation / The Cloverfield Paradox / Peppermint