A brand new horror film has earned a 0% rating throughout its Rotten Tomatoes debut. Like all style, horror tends to have main crucial ups and downs. Whereas many entries within the style are well-respected classics with stellar opinions, together with 2017’s Get Out (which has a near-perfect 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes), 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs (95%), 1975’s Jaws (97%), and 1960’s Psycho (97%), others have been broadly lambasted, together with 1987’s Jaws: The Revenge (2%), 2002’s FeardotCom (3%), and 2022’s Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (3%).

Nonetheless, early 2025 has been a fertile interval for horror motion pictures which are each critically and commercially profitable. Whereas April and Might have seen essentially the most success, three of the Prime 20 highest-grossing motion pictures of 2025 basically are entries within the style, particularly February’s The Monkey (which has a 78% Rotten Tomatoes rating and grossed $68.6 million worldwide towards a reported funds of $11 million), Might’s Closing Vacation spot: Bloodlines (92%, $234.9 million towards $50 million), and April’s Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (97%, $351.6 million towards $90 million). Up to now, June doesn’t appear set to proceed this development.

The Ritual Is Being Rejected By Critics

The New Exorcism Film Stars Al Pacino

The Ritual has been lambasted by critics. The horror film, which purports to be based mostly on the true story that impressed The Exorcist, follows monks Theophilus Riesinger (The Irishman’s Al Pacino) and Joseph Steiger (The Visitor’s Dan Stevens) reluctantly working collectively to exorcise a possessed girl named Emma Schmidt (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s Abigail Cowen). The 2025 horror film, which was directed by David Midell (NightLights), additionally stars Ashley Greene (Twilight) and Patricia Heaton (All people Loves Raymond).

Al Pacino has been nominated for 9 Oscars, successful one for 1992’s Scent of a Girl.

Rotten Tomatoes has now calculated an official Tomatometer rating for the brand new Al Pacino horror film The Ritual forward of its United States theatrical premiere. Whereas the rating may fluctuate if and when extra opinions are added, on the time of writing it has 26 opinions, all of that are unfavorable, which has earned it a uncommon 0% rating. That is the lowest-possible rating for a film on the evaluation aggregator platform. In its opinions with five-star scoring techniques, the film has usually acquired scores of between one and two stars, although a number of critics have given it 0.5 stars.

What This Means For The Ritual

It Might Be Cemented As The Worst-Reviewed Horror Film In A Decade

Customized Picture by Milica Djordjevic

If it maintains this 0% rating, 2025’s The Ritual may find yourself on Rotten Tomatoes’ checklist of the worst-reviewed horror motion pictures of all time. The checklist, for which the film is eligible as a result of it solely components in motion pictures with greater than 20 opinions, presently solely options 5 motion pictures with 0% scores, particularly 2008’s One Missed Name, 2009’s Homecoming, 2011’s Beneath the Darkness, and 2016’s Cabin Fever and The Disappointments Room. This could make the brand new film the primary main 0% horror title of the 2020s in addition to the primary in 9 years.

Supply: Rotten Tomatoes

The Ritual

Launch Date

June 6, 2025

Runtime

98 Minutes

Director

David Midell

Writers

David Midell, Enrico Natale

Producers

Andrew Stevens, Enrico Natale, Mitchell Welch, Ross Kagan Marks

Father Theophilus Riesinger

Dan Stevens

Father Joseph Steiger

Ashley Greene

Sister Rose

Abigail Cowen

Emma Schmidt