The Order

If repenting for our sins is going to be this bad, we’ll take eternal damnation. Heath Ledger leads a no-star cast in this affront to faith and filmmaking as a priest who staves off evil. When Alex’s (Ledger) mentor winds up dead, he rendezvous in Rome with a wisecracking priest buddy (Mark Addy) and bad things start to happen—to both them and us. The first half of the movie is completely nonsensical and fails at being funny, scary, and mysterious all at once. In the second half, our villain appears—we know this because of his goatee—in search of a successor to his unenviable post as sin-eater (one who assumes the sins of others while on their deathbeds in order to send them to heaven), and your standard battle of good vs. evil ensues. Creepy children and flocks of bats pop up to pump up the horror, while Ledger does his best badass priest, and Shannyn Sossamon helps with the sex scene. Needless to say, you don’t have to be a devout churchgoer to be offended.