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The Worst Horror Movies You Have Ever Seen

horror movies today are they better or worse than those 10 or 20 years ago

  • yes, they are better today

    Votes: 2 50.0%

  • no, they are worse today

    Votes: 2 50.0%
  • Total voters
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what is/are the worst horror movies past or present you have ever watched that make you go "did i really just watch that"

to name a few:

return of the living dead
tool box murders
jeepers creepers 1 & 2
house of a 1000 corpses
pumpkin head
 
The Exorcist was a bit rubbish really, and Day of the Dead is way overrated.
Resident Evil and Aliens vs Predator are quite bad as well
 
I've moved the thread to culture.

For the sake of clarity: your poll question "horror movies today are they better or worse than those 10 or 20 years ago, yes or no?" Do you mean "yes, they are better than 20 years ago" or "yes, they are worse than 20 years ago", or vice versa, ie "No, they are better than 20 years ago" or "no, they are worse than 20 years ago"?

I can alter the poll if you want...

Anyway, I think most these days are either entirely derivative or so determined to out-gross others that they lack any genuine attempt at suspense or good story-telling. For me the best horror film of all time remains "The Haunting" (1963). Why so frightening? You see nothing, that's why. It's left to the imagination.
 
Yeah, and one of the worst of recent times is the idiotic remake of The Haunting.

My bottom worst modern horror movie is Stigmata, a godawful mixture of The Exorcist and Seven. If I never see it again it'll be too soon.
 
stuneville said:
For the sake of clarity: your poll question "horror movies today are they better or worse than those 10 or 20 years ago, yes or no?" Do you mean "yes, they are better than 20 years ago" or "yes, they are worse than 20 years ago", or vice versa, ie "No, they are better than 20 years ago" or "no, they are worse than 20 years ago"?

I can alter the poll if you want...
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Yup, I was just thinking the same thing. I have no idea which way to answer this poll.
 
The remake of The Haunting is dire.

Any Nightmare on Elm Street except the first is garbage

The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue is so bad it's actually quite entertaining
 
sorry about that its yes they are better now than before and no they are better before and not now my bad :lol:

in reply to stuneville feel free to change it if you want to :D

and to gordonrutter its not an excellent movie when you have seen so many zombie flicks you start to realise they all have the same plot im a zombie i must eat flesh type of plot and in my opinion return of the living dead was one of the worst "sorry".

when they do sequels you cant beat the orignal except for some the 2nd 3rd or even fourth part are never as good
 
Mainstream - that Sin Eater movie or somesuch, with Heath Ledger. To be fair I only watched half of it, but from that alone I could infer it was horrific. Between that and A Knight's Tale was the reason I didn't like him as an actor until the new Batman movie. Six months after he died, dammit.

Overrated 'classic' - Day of the Dead as already mentioned. To be original I'm going to throw in Poltergeist too, but from what I remember maybe it was meant to be a 'children's' horror movie. Come on, a tornado? A swimming pool full of skeletons? Craig T. Nelson smoking pot?!

So bad it's good - The Swarm; America is beset by bees while Michael Caine screams in the background. Insecticide bad, flame throwers good.

In the history of the universe - Dracula 3000. Dracula. In outer space. In the 31st century. Coolio's in it. It's painful, and not in a good way. Keep in mind though I haven't seen the Leprechaun and Jason sequels also set in space, so there could be room for lowering the bar.

And I assume whoever said Seven was being droll.
 
i have to agree with the_walking_dude on most of what he said.

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In the history of the universe - Dracula 3000. Dracula. In outer space. In the 31st century. Coolio's in it. It's painful, and not in a good way. Keep in mind though I haven't seen the Leprechaun and Jason sequels also set in space, so there could be room for lowering the bar.


i couldnt agree more beileve me when i say avoid the jason x and the leprecaun films there so bad i would rather sit through sex and the city :lol:

and as for the poltergeist i think it was just meant for kids,

just thought of another movie after the first omen all others went to pot it was jut boring after that one
 
Timble2 said:
The remake of The Haunting is dire.

Any Nightmare on Elm Street except the first is garbage

The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue is so bad it's actually quite entertaining
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Hold your horses there, Wes Craven's New Nightmare is mighty fine (and better than the first, especially if you like cynical movies about Hollywood) and Manchester Morgue is one of the great Italian zombie movies.

Spot on about the Haunting remake, though.
 
goth13girl666 said:
i couldnt agree more beileve me when i say avoid the jason x and the leprecaun films there so bad i would rather sit through sex and the city :lol:

and as for the poltergeist i think it was just meant for kids,

just thought of another movie after the first omen all others went to pot it was jut boring after that one
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Jason X was a hell of a lot more entertaining than most Friday the 13th sequels, even the jokes were mildly amusing.

Poltergiest was meant to scare the shit out of the kids in typical Spielberg fashion, but I don't think it's exclusively a kids' movie. It's not The Gate, for example. I like it a lot, maybe for nostalgia, though.

At least the second Omen had the crow scene to give you the chills, but yeah, Part III was incredibly dull (and no way does Ruby Wax scream like that!).
 
I've always enjoyed the first two Poltergeist films. 1951's The Thing From Another World was great, and I would class it as both horror and sci-fi.

Does anyone else think that Cabin Fever was a pile of shit?
 
Poll question altered.

the_walkin_dude said:
And I assume whoever said Seven was being droll.
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No, I think Seven is a terrific film. Again, lots of implication. I'd much rather watch that than stuff that doesn't spare details - Hostel, Saw and the like are just nasty. Not because I'm squeamish in the slightest, but I'd rather pay for suspense and entertainment than a procession of (admittedly clever) FX that have absolutely no soul.

It ain't the quality of the dummies that scare you in a ghost train, it's the sudden lurching out of the shadows ;).
 
I have to disagree with some of the earlier posts - Return of the Living Dead is one of the finest zombie movies there is, and a classic piece of 80s humour. Sorry, but that's my opinion. Same goes for Manchester Morgue, too!

Guaranteed, there were some stinkers in the horror genre 20 years ago, but there's just as many stinkers nowadays - mainly these inane remakes of J or K-Horror films. Pulse was awful, compared to the original - likewise with The Ring - the original, Ringu, was very creepy - whereas the American remake was spoiled by the irritating, "I know everything" kid. I watched the remakes of Prom Night and Black Christmas the other week - shameful! Whilst the first Resident Evil was partly fun, to a degree, the two sequels were plain shite. Filmmakers rely too much on false scares and loud bangs to incite fear in their audience - whereas genuine terror, like that found in the classics Halloween (Carpenter's version, no less!) and The Thing, as well as more recently 28 Days Later can prove that lots of money and an overly attractive cast aren't necessary.
 
If you like bad horror movies, find Night Train to Terror. It blows everything else on this thread away in an instant, but it's bad in a hilarious way. I have seen it on big multi-movie packs by Mill Creek Entertainment. Come to think of it, I'm from the US and many of you are from the UK, so there may be extra trouble finding it... Regardless, it is so bad you'll want to show it to your friends!

Edit: Also, I disliked Se7en. Even the name is pretentious. It felt like it was trying too hard to be shocking and didn't really have any substance. (Not that it didn't TRY to.)
 
"The Haunting" (the original) is my favourite ever!!! Didn't bother to look at the re-make - you could just tell it was rubbish!

By the way - there was a Japanese horror TV show on when I was just a babe - must have been around 1972 or so? All in black and white - scared the living daylights out of me... :D

Any idea what this might have been called? All I remember was a monster rising out of the water in the opening bit, and the Japanese ""Scully and Mulder" riding around in a little Honda sports car. Of course, memory is a fickle thing, so...

Any takers?
 
firstly to dougallongfoot:

Does anyone else think that Cabin Fever was a pile of shit?

yes i do think it was a whole heap of a shit film, there was very little to keep you entertained throughout the film and you could mostly see what was going to happen next before it happened.

in reply to gncxx i stand by what i said that most films that have sequels dont turn out to be so good, and as for the jason x film it was really bad, the plot was not up to the same standard as some of the other jason films that were made.

i thought with the exception of the 1 0r 2 freddy films the rest were really good to watch and the plot didnt lose you half way through either.

what does anyone think to the freddy vs jason film? or the vipco screamtime collection?
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oops sorry about that qoute bit came out abit wrong my bad :oops:

with the exception of the does anyone think that cabin fever is a pile of shit the rest was not supposed to be a qoute
 
tilly50 said:
The Chuckie movies, I consider them all dire
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If your bad taste threshhold goes up to eleven, then Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky are very funny in a "I can't believe they're getting away with this" kind of way. Incredible when you recall how poor the original was.
 
goth13girl666 said:
what does anyone think to the freddy vs jason film? or the vipco screamtime collection?
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Freddy vs Jason was OK, but not really a Jason film and they didn't have the invention to back up their big idea (which was just a gag at the end of Jason Goes To Hell). And they wasted Katharine Isabelle, shame on them.

One good-bad film from Vipco is Rats: Night of Terror, which hilarious at times. Those killer rats are so cute!
 
i think the chucky films were mostly based on a comdey angle as was nothing remotely scary in them at all.

there is some decent horror movies both past and present, and the fact is to many and remade and the remakes spoil the original movies i think but thats my opinion.

in reply to mister_awesome, night train of terror sounds very familiar??
will have to look it up.

this is the thing some horror movies are so bad you canthelp but watch them, they just make you laugh, look at how many vampire and werewolf films out there and only a select few are any good and worth the watch, you can only watch so many of a certain content before they all have a similar plot to the point you know whats gonna happen
 
goth13girl666 said:
this is the thing some horror movies are so bad you canthelp but watch them, they just make you laugh, look at how many vampire and werewolf films out there and only a select few are any good and worth the watch, you can only watch so many of a certain content before they all have a similar plot to the point you know whats gonna happen
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You could say that about any genre fiction: westerns, science fiction, film noir, romance, the trick is to come up with something fresh within the confines of their rules. Horror especially has been the subject of sequels, remakes and rip-offs ever since the thirties but it's still going strong. Like anything enduring it has its peaks and troughs, but every so often along comes something that makes trawling through the garbage worthwhile.

Horror is generally thought of as really easy to do, hence all those derivative low budget efforts, but it's really not. Not easy to do well, anyway.
 
Mister_Awesome said:
Edit: Also, I disliked Se7en. Even the name is pretentious. It felt like it was trying too hard to be shocking and didn't really have any substance. (Not that it didn't TRY to.)
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Admittedly the official name is pretty stupid, and fair enough you don't like it. But really, mentioning it in the 'worst horror movies ever' thread? Come on.

gncxx said:
Horror is generally thought of as really easy to do, hence all those derivative low budget efforts, but it's really not. Not easy to do well, anyway.
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Exactly. The majority of 'horror' movies these days are either Halloween clones (Prom Night, All The Boys Love Mandy Lane etc) or torture porn (Hostel, Wolf Creek, Hills Have Eyes). Granted, I like some movies in the genre that are more bloody than scary (DOTD remake for example) but there definitely seems to be a lack of creative psychological terror in most of them these days, beyond the nihilistic 'and everyone died' ending.

Spoilers for The Mist: the ending where he kills everyone in the car just seemed like a gimmick to me to fit it with the bleak atmosphere of other films, it wasn't even the ending in the book. Up till that point I enjoyed the movie, but once it finished I felt kind of disappointed. Maybe because it clashed with the message before then of 'if we work together we'll come through this'... Having a dark ending can work well if that was the general tone of the film beforehand, like REC or as mentioned, the DOTD remake.

Basically, I'd like to see more directors/screenwriters try to make more of an investment of their characters' perception of events, either in a big blockbuster-y way like Cloverfield or trim thrillers like Pi. What kind of disturbs me is the people who go out of their way to see all this Saw-esque exploitation subgenre guff. I'm not one to label, but they must have issues of some kind. Plus if they continue seeing them, the studios are going to keep making them, and we're going to have a whole slew more titles to put in this topic.
 
The worst horror movie I've seen in sometime is the Finnish Dark Floors - http://www.darkfloorsmovie.com/

It's got the Eurovision winning Lordi in it.
I know. How terrifying is that?
Ok, he's not in it very much, and he doesn't sing, but the rest of the film still doesn't do anything terribly well.
Which isn't to say there aren't a few nice ideas in it, but is to say that it perpetrates crimes against cinema that have only been seen in the 1980s.

One to avoid.
 
the_walkin_dude said:
Basically, I'd like to see more directors/screenwriters try to make more of an investment of their characters' perception of events, either in a big blockbuster-y way like Cloverfield or trim thrillers like Pi. What kind of disturbs me is the people who go out of their way to see all this Saw-esque exploitation subgenre guff. I'm not one to label, but they must have issues of some kind. Plus if they continue seeing them, the studios are going to keep making them, and we're going to have a whole slew more titles to put in this topic.
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I have to agree with you on that Mist ending, I was enjoying the film's intelligence before it went all pointlessly depresssing (it was depressing before, but there was a point, and a good one at that).

But as for the much-maligned "torture porn", it was a flash in the pan and only the Saw series has emerged as a big money maker out of it. Hostel Part II flopped badly, remember. They're no more sadistic than the seventies horror that they're taken from, so they're not even original. Maybe the effects budget was better. But horror's out of fashion at the moment.
 
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