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13 Movies and Shows Where Everything Goes Wrong
These people are having a way worse day/week/life than you.
By Ananda Dillon
April 9, 2026
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Off days are inevitable. A missed alarm clock leads to a missed bus, which leads to a missed meeting. A downward spiral ensues. We can play the blame game: Mercury in retrograde, unreliable people, our own bad luck. But as any enlightened person will tell you: “We can’t control what happens, only how we respond.”
That said, watching fictional characters crash out as things go from bad to spectacularly worse is oddly enjoyable. Decisions backfire, plans collapse, break-ups occur, supernatural dangers threaten, bad people show up, or nature rears its ugly head — no matter how rough it gets, it’s nice to know at least we’re not that person.
Here are 12 movies and shows where everything goes wrong. Because it’s entertaining to see that rock bottom has a basement.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
Rachel (Camila Morrone) and her fiancé, Nicky (Adam DiMarco), travel to his rich family’s posh home in the wilderness to meet her soon-to-be in-laws and have a small, family wedding. A little wary of marriage and unsure if soulmates even exist, Rachel gets bad vibes from the get-go. The locals, who share a dark history, behave strangely; Nicky’s family gives off creepy eccentricity; and his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and sister (Gus Birney) take over the wedding plans to suit their selfish desires. But more guests at the wedding just means more witnesses to the horrors the series’ title promises as Rachel’s journey down the aisle takes a twisted turn.
Big Mistakes
Dan Levy knows how to put the “fun” in dysfunctional family. In this series, which Levy showruns and executive produces, he plays Nicky, a gay pastor who juggles his secret relationship, his pastoral duties, and his incredibly high-maintenance family. His mother (Laurie Metcalf) insists he and his sister, Morgan (Taylor Ortega), get a necklace for their dying grandmother, which leads Morgan to steal a cheap one from a shop manager who claims it’s only for display. The siblings soon find out the necklace wasn’t cheap after all, and that they stole from the wrong people, catapulting them into a chaotic new world of organized crime.
BEEF
In this dark comedy series, a close encounter is all it takes to set off the two volatile main characters on a battle for revenge. It begins with a near collision between contractor Danny (Steven Yeun) and entrepreneur artist Amy (Ali Wong) in a hardware store parking lot. Things escalate from there to a car chase in suburbia and then an all-out feud that consumes their relationships. Resentment and misdirected anger spiral to an extreme that threatens to ruin both their lives.
The End of the F***ing World
In this bleak dramedy, two unusual teens join forces to wreak havoc on their own lives. James (Alex Lawther) is a 17-year-old psychopath who wants to graduate from killing animals to killing a real human. Alyssa (Jessica Barden), a rebellious new student, catches his eye. Before he can act on his plan, however, Alyssa proposes they run away together. She wants to escape her turbulent home life, and James takes her up on it, figuring this will give him a good opportunity to kill her. Their road trip across England is riddled with mishaps and bad choices that escalate each day, but bring the unlikely couple closer together.
Oh, Hi!
What starts as a romantic countryside escape turns into a bit of a reckoning for the couple in this dark rom-com. Iris (Molly Gordon) and Isaac (Logan Lerman) are enjoying their weekend away, cooking together, dancing, and having a little fun in the bedroom with handcuffs. It’s while Isaac is cuffed that Iris admits to how happy she is in this relationship, but she doesn’t get the response she expects. Turns out she and Isaac aren’t exactly on the same page about everything. Isaac may wish he’d stayed quiet, though, when Iris decides to keep him locked to the bed until he sees that they are truly meant to be together.
Fall
Adrenaline junkie Shiloh (Virginia Gardner) invites her grieving best friend Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) to come with her to climb a 2,000-foot-tall decommissioned TV tower in the middle of nowhere. Becky’s husband died in a climbing accident a year prior, and she hasn’t attempted a climb since. But Shiloh insists it will be therapeutic, so Becky agrees, following her friend up the rusted ladders of the tower. They reach the daunting top platform, but things start to go very wrong on their descent, with no help in sight.
10x10
Cathy’s (Kelly Reilly) day starts off fairly normal: breakfast at the local café and yoga at the gym. But before she can get any further, she’s bound, gagged, and kidnapped by a man named Lewis (Luke Evans). He brings her to his home, where a soundproof 10x10 padded cell waits. While she desperately tries to find a way to escape, Lewis begins to ask Cathy questions she’d rather not answer. As the truth of their connection is slowly revealed, it appears that neither of them is going to end this day particularly happy.
Don't Move
To be fair, at the start of this movie, Iris (Kelsey Asbille), a grieving mother, has already endured serious hardship. She’s visiting the memorial she’s built for her recently deceased son at a state park and steps out onto a cliff’s edge, clearly contemplating ending it all. A stranger, Richard (Finn Wittrock), convinces her not to go through with it. But after seemingly bonding with Iris, Richard attacks her, knocking her out, and she wakes up in his car, having been injected with a drug that is slowly paralyzing her muscles. It’s just a matter of time before she fully loses her ability to move.
One of Them Days
Sometimes a bad day makes for a hilarious chain of events. Dreux (Keke Palmer) and Alyssa (SZA) are best friends and roommates who go looking for Dreux’s no-good boyfriend Keshawn (Joshua Neal) after he takes off with their rent money. They find Keshawn, but of course, the money is gone, leading them on an adventure all over LA in search of quick cash. Chaos ensues, and the two BFFs will see their bond tested in more ways than one before the day is through.
Triangle of Sadness
Satire is the perfect outlet for watching bad things happen to bad people and feeling fully justified in laughing. Here we have rich people on a yacht cruise, ordering the staff to do ridiculous things for their entertainment and arguing with each other over the merits of capitalism versus communism as they stuff themselves with decadent food. A tumultuous storm and a band of pirates strand the helpless passengers on an island where the hierarchy they’re used to is flipped upside down. Only a member of the ship’s cleaning staff, Abigail (Dolly de Leon), has the skills to keep them alive, and she’s not afraid to wield her newfound power. Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, and Woody Harrelson also star.
Till Death
Another reminder to choose your spouse carefully, this thriller stars Megan Fox as Emma, an unhappily married woman having an affair with another man. Her husband, Mark (Eoin Macken), takes her to a secluded lake house for their anniversary. When Emma wakes the next morning, she finds that Mark has handcuffed himself to her. He then abruptly commits suicide. Forced to drag her dead husband’s body along, she finds that he’s elaborately planned this ordeal as revenge for her affair, breaking her phone, draining the gas tank, and removing all sharp objects in the house. In the dead of winter, in the middle of nowhere, she’ll need to find a way to survive the many traps Mark has laid.
Bad Shabbos
Meeting the in-laws is often tense, but in this dark comedy, a dinner between two families goes about as badly as it can. David (Jon Bass) and his fiancée, Meg (Meghan Leathers), invite her Catholic parents to meet his Jewish family at Sabbath dinner. David’s younger brother, his sister, and her rude boyfriend all arrive, and the usual bickering ensues. A prank on his sister’s boyfriend goes very wrong, resulting in his death. Now they have a body on their hands, legal ramifications to consider, and Meg’s family at the door, leading to a hilariously tense night.
Becky
Thirteen-year-old Becky (Lulu Wilson) has had a pretty rough go of things lately. Her mother died of cancer a year ago, and now her father (Joel McHale) takes her to their family lake house only to reveal he’s engaged to his girlfriend, who joins them on vacation with her son. Then, things go from bad to worse. Having stormed off into the woods, Becky is out of the house when a group of neo-Nazi escaped prisoners invade and threaten the others at gunpoint. The group’s leader, Dominick (Kevin James), is in search of a key hidden in the house, but he doesn’t realize Becky is full of rage and not willing to back down from a fight.
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