In the last decade, only three flicks have had audience feedback as scathing as her new release The Box, say the company who monitor fan reaction to Hollywood movies.

CinemaScore compile Friday-night audience ratings for new releases, asking US cinema-goers to grade them. An A is said to signal a long life with a C described as "pretty much a death sentence". 

The Box - written and directed by Donnie Darko's RICHARD KELLY - scored an F.  Ed Mintz, who runs CinemaScore, said: "People really thought this was a stinker."

The only films he remembers doing as badly were 2006 horror Bug, Wolf Creek in 2005 and Darkness, a 2002 film about a haunted-house.  Ed, puts the poor score down to the movie's controversial ending, telling the LA Times: "Who'd want to pay $10 to see that?

"I'd love to hear how they thought they were going to get good word-of-mouth."  In the film, Cameron plays a cash strapped mum who is promised a million dollars by a stranger if she agrees to press the button on top of a mysterious box.

When she does so, tragedies start happening - including her son going deaf and blind.  The Box flopped at the American box office and scored generally poor reviews from critics. But the 37-year-old beauty defended her decision to make the movie, saying: "There is no much about humanity in the script and so much we are trying to understand about who we are as people."