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Jennifer’s Body is far from the only movie to gain cult classic status. Every year, older films that struggled out of the gate are revisited and given a second life, whether it’s through success on streaming or just positive word of mouth. Here are seven movies from 2025 that are destined to be cult classics.
7) Regretting You
Collen Hoover’s work has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons because of the fallout from the issues on the set of It Ends With Us. Unfortunately, another Hoover adaptation, Regretting You, didn’t do the author any favors because it received less-than-stellar reviews upon release. Not even a $90 million box office haul could save it from becoming a laughing stock.
What Regretting You has going for it is its ridiculous plot. Following a teenage girl named Clara who loses her dad and aunt in a car accident, most of the movie’s plot focuses on her grief and love life. However, her mother and uncle also grow closer, leading to some truly bonkers moments.
6) Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
The Five Nights at Freddy’s fanbase is intense, to say the least. The games are some of the most popular in the world, and the people who play them want to make sure they’re done right in live-action. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 gets the job done in some regards, but it’s structurally not a sound movie.
The sequel fails to really bring anything new to the table, making it a bit of a drag. In terms of practical effects, though, it knocks it out of the parks. The animatronics look fantastic and play a role in some genuinely terrifying moments. That could be enough to redeem Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 in the future.
5) Playdate
Comedy is so subjective. What is hilarious to one person might not even garner a chuckle from another. Well, Playdate, a film starring Kevin James and Alan Ritchson, made more people groan than laugh when it was released on Prime Video.
While James is up to his old tricks in Playdate, it’s Ritchson who makes the project worth watching. He embraces the absurdity of a story about two dads taking on a group of mercenaries, going all out at every opportunity. With his star on the rise, the narrative around Playdate may change as the years go by.
4) War of the Worlds
Another stinker to hit Prime Video this year was War of the Worlds, starring Ice Cube as a Department of Homeland Security officer who can only sit by and watch from his computer as the world deals with an alien invasion. The response to the movie was fast and furious, with many calling out its lack of production value and phoned-in performances.
While War of the Worlds seems destined for a life of ending up on “Worst Of” lists, there’s a chance that the world starts to accept it for what it is: a movie so bad it’s good. Moments like Ice Cube’s character reacting to the death of his son by throwing his arms up in the air and moving on don’t just grow on trees.
