The film is about a young woman (Suki Waterhouse) exiled to a desert where she is attacked by a group of cannibals, led by a person called Miami Man (Jason Momoa), and barely escaping alive to a bizarre settlement run by a charismatic leader (Keanu Reeves).

The Bad Batch was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize.

A young woman named Arlen is exiled to a desert outside Texas, where people deemed undesirable by the government (the "bad batch") are forced to fend for themselves.

He kills another cannibal who is looking to trade gasoline for her flesh and reveals that he was put into the lawless territory because he was an illegal immigrant from Cuba.

She searches for Honey, eventually discovering she is living in The Dream's mansion, along with his large harem of pregnant young women.

[15] In addition to its limited theatrical release, and streaming on Netflix, sales on Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes commenced on June 22, 2017.

The website's consensus reads: "The Bad Batch has its moments, but it's too thinly written and self-indulgent to justify its length or compensate for its slow narrative drift.

"[17] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[18] Guy Lodge of Variety wrote that "though there's much to savor in the pic's lavishly distressed visuals and soundscape, its narrative feels increasingly stretched and desultory.

"[21] It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize.