[2] The plot follows two friends who, while visiting a relative's house, encounter a horde of hostile creatures that are the results of experiments by a demented doctor.

Doug explains to Don and Fred about the experiments he and Susan had been involved in with Doctor Lucas, and that they went awry.

Fred appears with a chainsaw while Don finds a golf club, and the two kill several of the creatures.

The creatures attack Doctor Lucas, and Don is shown escaping the house and coming across a passerby, who walks with him to a car.

Don is then seen back in the house, alongside a bloodied but apparently living Doctor Lucas.

Critics from The Beachwood Reporter, Dread Central and Cinema Sewer each described it as being the worst film ever made.

[13][7][2] Adam Symchuk of Screen Rant writes: "While films like The Room and Birdemic seem to be constant contenders for the best 'so bad it's good' movie, [Things] is the true unheralded champion among many cinephiles.

"[15] Meanwhile, J Hurtado of Screen Anarchy described it as "critically unassailable" and Will Pfeifer opined that "It's so terrible I can’t think of another movie that even comes close.

[19] Things was also reviewed by RedLetterMedia on an episode of Half in the Bag in 2013,[20] and RiffTrax spoofed it on March 4, 2022, with the latter concluding that "It's definitive, universal… the worst movie we've ever done".