10 Horror Movies That Suck So Bad You Can't Believe They Got Made

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00:00Betraying conventional wisdom, some truly awful horror ideas have somehow been given

00:05the green light over the years. Whether the concepts were flawed, the characters were

00:09one dimensional, or there was simply no realistic way these films could ever work, somehow money

00:15was spent to get these stinkers made. So, with thy mind, I'm Andrew from WhatCultureHorror

00:20and here are 10 horror movies that suck so bad you can't believe they got made.

00:2510. Dreamcatcher When it comes to adapting the work of the legendary

00:30Stephen King, it's been an extremely mixed bag over the years. Quite simply, some of

00:34King's written tales just don't translate all that well to other mediums. And one of

00:39the very worst King adaptations is 2003's Dreamcatcher. Despite an impressive cast featuring the likes

00:45of Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Damien Lewis, Timothy Olyphant and Jason Lee, Brody Bruce

00:51represent you, this tale of friends battling a horde of alien parasites was a total dud,

00:57butchering large elements of King's story and becoming a convoluted, bloated mess. Dreamcatcher

01:02should have been a slam dunk, but despite how King himself is fond of the movie, most people

01:07would class it as the worst ever adaptation of his work.

01:109. Shutter The 2008 remake of the 2004 time movie of the same name, Shutter, which I picked

01:18up for £1 back in the day, centres on Joshua Jackson's Ben, a newly married photographer

01:23who moves to Japan with his wife Jane. After being involved in a traffic accident that leads

01:27to the death of a young girl, strange lights begin to appear in Ben's pictures. Could it

01:31be that he's just not very good at his job? Nah, instead it's all about an evil spirit.

01:36While the original time movie was a hit and had plenty of charm to it, the remake is just

01:40painfully dull, full of cliches and just a disappointing cash in at a time when it was still all the

01:46rays to just lazily remake foreign language horrors. As for that cash in element though,

01:50it actually kind of worked, as the film actually made nearly $50 million from its $8 million budget,

01:56which is really, really baffling.

01:588. Mary Mary begins with a woman and her two daughters being discovered at sea after being

02:04presumed dead. What began as a jolly family sailing trip turned into a living hell when the salvaged boat

02:10they were sailing on, turned out to be haunted. Never convenient. With Gary Oldman and Emily

02:15Mortimer leading the cast, and plenty of potential for seafaring scares, Mary could have been alright,

02:21but it turned out to be a complete shipwreck. Excuse the pun. The plot is all over the place,

02:26and even with an interesting premise and a claustrophobic location, Mary just isn't scary one bit. In fact,

02:33it's actually quite boring, and one of those rare bad Gary Oldman films. But hey, if you're looking for a

02:38genuinely great seaside set horror tale, you could do a lot worse than check out 1976's The Witch Who

02:44Came From The Sea. 7. The Resort

02:47If you were friends with a horror fiction writer who asked you to come with her to an abandoned hotel

02:52on a remote island to investigate reports of a ghostly presence, would you go? If you said no,

02:57you are officially smarter than the characters in the resort. Lex and her friends quickly find out that

03:02ghost hunting isn't as fun as Scooby Doo makes it out to be, as they end up trapped in the creepy

03:07locale with a mythical half-faced girl hot on their heels, before they get picked off one by one in

03:13increasingly gruesome manners. Despite only clocking in at 75 minutes, the resort feels like it's

03:18constantly running out of ideas. But one impressive face-ripping sequence, the resort's just so

03:23vanilla, and somehow manages to properly drag even with its short runtime.

03:286. Alone in the Dark

03:30Oh boy. Movies inspired a lot. The Alone in the Dark film is just a properly rough one,

03:36full of abysmal camera work, stilted dialogue, and actions so unexciting you'd have no idea it was

03:42based on a game that used to be legitimately terrifying back in the day.

03:475. Alice in Murderland

03:49Lewis Carroll's whimsical tales of Alice and her time in Wonderland are regarded as classics of

03:54children's literature. If you're in the mood to ruin a beloved childhood favourite though, here's a

03:59god-awful horror movie that borrows heavily from it. Yay. Alice Lewis is just your ordinary 21-year-old,

04:05with a fear of growing up. So her best pals decide to throw her a special birthday party

04:10themed around Lewis Carroll's books. Unfortunately, somebody sneaks in dressed as a Jabberwocky and

04:16starts picking them all off. Alice in Murderland has all the bad qualities of a low-budget horror,

04:21but with none of the charm. It's poorly acted, poorly produced, poorly written, and you can even

04:26see crew members in several of the shots. Yeah, not good. Not good at all. Although it could be worse,

04:32it could be Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. 4. Slenderman

04:36Real-life murders have always inspired horror movies, but there are times when it converge

04:41into the exploitative. Case in point, Slenderman. In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured their friend

04:47into a forest and stabbed her 19 times, almost killing her. They claimed to have carried out

04:52this horrendous act to appease the Slenderman, the creature that had gained popularity through its

04:56appearance on various online forums. In 2018, just one year after the girls involved in the attack

05:02were sentenced, a film came out featuring the Slenderman as the main villain. Whilst not explicitly

05:08inspired by the real-life attacks, the movie was still way too close to the truth to be enjoyable.

05:14Also, it was really bad. Thinly constructed characters, the most lazily basic of plots,

05:18no actual scares. Slenderman had it all, and it was roundly savaged by audiences and critics alike.

05:253. American Psycho 2

05:28Yes, there is an American Psycho 2. Originally written as a completely unaffiliated screenplay,

05:33this story was tweaked to include a tacked on reference to the first film. The main character,

05:37a murderous criminology student played by Mia Kunis, begins the film by killing Patrick Bateman,

05:42before… wait a second… she kills Patrick Bateman? That alone should be a red flag.

05:47Kunis' character then follows in Bateman's footsteps, covertly killing her classmates in order to

05:52advance her studies. Her course is overseen by a former FBI agent, played by… William Shatner.

05:57Yeah, that's another red flag. Nobody wanted a sequel to American Psycho, especially not one

06:02with so little to do with the first movie. Bret Easton Ellis, the author of the original novel,

06:07has gone on record with how much he hates this film. And even Mia Kunis herself has expressed

06:12regret that she was even in it. All of this without even mentioning how terrible the movie is,

06:16but that kind of goes without saying. 2. Exorcist II The Heretic,

06:20sequel of all time. Well, maybe until The Exorcist Believer came around last year.

06:25Exorcist II The Heretic is just so, so bad. Set four years after William Friedkin's Exorcist,

06:31here we have the teenage Riga McNeil struggling to adjust to life after her possession,

06:35while a priest questions her on the death of Father Merrin. Both Friedkin and William Peter Blatty,

06:40as in the writer of the Exorcist novel and its screenplay, opted against returning,

06:44as they didn't feel a sequel was necessary. And boy, did Exorcist II The Heretic prove them right,

06:50with Blatty even reportedly attending the screening of the film, where the audience was outright

06:54laughing at the horrors on screen. Still, don't let that put you off The Exorcist III though,

06:59for that is a genuinely stunning movie that's thankfully received a little more love in recent years.

07:051. Things The story of 1989 independent Canadian

07:10Horror Things is an absolutely fascinating one. Starring Barry J. Geels, one of the film's writers,

07:16and Amber Lynn, best known for her work in the adult industry, Things is about a group of men

07:20who have to fend off a series of mutant creatures created by a mad doctor. Sounds fairly unassuming,

07:26until you learn that this is one of the worst made films in all of human history. Up there with The Room

07:32and Troll 2 in terms of famously dreadful films, Things is shoddily made, poorly acted, badly scripted,

07:38and about as scary as a paddling pool full of puppies. It doesn't help that Things was made on

07:43a budget of roughly nothing and shot on a Super 8 camera by people who had seemingly never even seen

07:49a film before, let alone made one. Although it's mad to think that something so terrible actually exists,

07:54there are plenty out there who love Things for just how horrible it is. It lives on in the hearts of

08:00fans of bad cinema and will stand forever as a testament to the phrase, so bad it's good. Or you know, just bad.

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