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Record-Breaking Box Office Disaster For Epic Failures Creature and Bucky Larson

We spend a lot of time dedicating front page headlines to movies at the top of the box office, but for now, it's time to honour a couple of films to turn heads with truly catastrophic bum-to-seats ratios.

The two fantastic flops in question are Creature, a swamp-monster horror flick to have opened wide across the US this week, and Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star, from producer and co-writer Adam Sandler.

In the past we've seen some great films do badly at the box office, so are these two films really as bad as the turnout suggest, or are they hidden gems of mastercraft filmmaking?

First up is Creature, the directorial debut from production designer Fred Andrews. It opened on 1,507 screens and made an estimated $331,000 off a $3,000,000 budget. It slides comfortably into place as the fifth lowest-grossing opening on record for a nationwide release, second worse in terms of per-location average and the worst ever gross for a film screening at over 1,500 cinemas, with an average per-screening attendance of six people.

Creature currently has a Metacritic score of 27/100 and has been described as "Absurdly plotted, ineptly scripted and haplessly acted" by the Orlando Sentinel and "devoid of scares, imagination and basic technical and screenwriting competence" by Box Office Magazine.

Ouch.

But don't let others make up your mind for you. Take a look at the trailer and decide for yourselves if this looks like a work of undiscovered genius.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ogz0PteWM[/youtube]

Next up is Bucky Larson, which didn't break any records but still made waves (or rather, didn't) with a per-showing attendance of eight people.

Bucky Larson is one of those comedies. It's about an ill-favoured, buck-toothed kid from the Midwest who moves to Hollywood to become a pornstar, where hilarity apparently ensues. Even Christina Ricci and Stephen Dorff, along with a screenwriting credit from Adam Sandler, weren't a big enough pull for audiences after seeing this trailer.

Again, here's the trailer.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRT93a8xE5s[/youtube]

Bucky Larson currently beats out Creature with a Metacritic rating of 14/100, and is "inept, lazy," "faintly nauseating," "a one note joke played over and over and over," and "about as funny as the typical scribbling on a public bathroom stall."

Or is it?

The only way to find out for sure is to take a couple of friends along to a screening and triple the box office gross.

Thanks to Box Office Mojo for the stats.

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