00:00By the very nature of the industry, many a major movie star has a dud or two hidden in
00:05their closets. While some choose to embrace those stinkers, others will do their absolute
00:10best to forget that these films ever, ever happened, totally distancing themselves or
00:15outright just refusing to even acknowledge a project. And that's what the focus is on here.
00:20So with that in mind, I'm Andrew from WhatCultureHorror, and here are 11 horror movies
00:23so bad actors completely disown them.
00:26Number 11 – Katherine Isabelle – Freddy vs Jason A major horror favourite due to the
00:31likes of American Mary and the Ginger Snaps franchise, one picture Katherine Isabelle
00:35does not have fond memories of is Freddy vs Jason. Having been promised by director Ronnie Yu there
00:40would be zero nudity required for her role as Gibb Smith, Isabelle was left angry when she arrived on
00:46set, only to be informed she'd be getting naked for a shower scene, which in turn caused an argument
00:51between Katherine Isabelle and Ronnie Yu. Yes, her body double was eventually used for this
00:56sequence, but the relationship between the pair never recovered, with Isabelle later saying how
01:00she expected more from that movie.
01:03Number 10 – Dennis Hopper – Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
01:06I love Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, with its blend of dark comedy, satire and genuine terror
01:12ticking plentiful boxes for many a horror fan. One person who reportedly did not love Texas
01:17Chainsaw Massacre 2 though, was Dennis Hopper. Well, that's not entirely true, for the legendary
01:22Easy Rider star, seemed to enjoy some of the filming of Toby Hooper's sequel, even celebrating
01:27his 50th birthday on set by cutting his cake with a chainsaw. However, the main reason Dennis Hopper
01:33took the Austin, Texas-based gig was basically so that he could play golf at Willie Nelson's
01:37golf range in nearby Springfield, Texas. Once Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 was released, Hopper was
01:43never shy of trashing both the film and his character of Lefty Emright.
01:47Number 9 – Rennie Zellweger – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Next Generation
01:52Sticking with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre theme, it took Rennie Zellweger over 20 years to even
01:58acknowledge that one of her early career roles came in the fourth Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie.
02:02While fellow fresh-faced newcomer Matthew McConaughey has always laughed about his performance in
02:07Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4 and poked fun at himself for that, Zellweger refused to talk about the film
02:12until 2016, a whopping 21 years since the film's 1995 release. In terms of what she said about
02:20The Next Generation at that time, Zellweger lambasted the ridiculous kamikaze filming that
02:25she also questioned whether was even legal.
02:28Number 8 – Eddie Murphy – Vampire in Brooklyn
02:30Initially labelled a total dud at the time of its release, Wes Craven's Eddie Murphy starring
02:35Vampire in Brooklyn has been somewhat reappraised in more recent years, becoming a low-key cult classic
02:41that's praised for the electric chemistry between Murphy and the ever-great Angela Bassett.
02:45For Eddie, he's totally disowned the film though, complaining how the wig his character wore
02:50totally ruined his performance, and also being a little unhappy with shots taken at the film
02:54on Saturday Night Live. Thankfully for Eddie Murphy, the following year saw him bounce back
02:59in spectacular fashion with The Nutty Professor, while director Wes Craven, yeah, he followed Vampire in
03:04Brooklyn up with the absolute game-changer that was Scream.
03:08Number 7 – Paul Rudd – The Curse of Michael Myers
03:12If looking for positives from The Curse of Michael Myers, Donald Pleasance gets to spend a good
03:16amount of time going full crazy Donald Pleasance. Plus, his Sam Loomis character, he's got a pretty
03:22sweet beard this time around. Other than that, yeah, this is a properly ropey Halloween entry,
03:28and one that was butchered in the editing suite following initial test audience reactions.
03:32Of course, this sixth Halloween movie is noteworthy for featuring Paul Rudd,
03:36in only the second movie role of his career, though Rudd has subsequently stated how he's
03:41embarrassed by the film, and by his performance as Tommy Doyle. Also, he was critical that the
03:46original script was effectively tore up and didn't make it to cinema screens.
03:50Number 6 – Tom Hanks – He Knows You're Alone
03:521980's He Knows You're Alone is a totally unspectacular slasher, whose one claim to fame is
03:58an extremely minor role for future A-lister Tom Hanks. Speaking about the movie, during an appearance on
04:04Letterman years later, Hanks slammed the film, mocking its various working titles,
04:09jokingly calling it an epic hack and slash film from 800 years ago, and saying he played
04:15a guy who had nothing to do with anything. Which is pretty accurate, to be honest.
04:19And the more Tom Hanks described his experience on He Knows You're Alone,
04:22the more this rant just turned into comedic.
04:25Number 5 – Janet Leigh – Night of the Leapers
04:28Forever immortalised in horror history for playing Marion Crane in Alfridge Hitchcock's Psycho,
04:33one less memorable role for the legendary Janet Leigh came in 1972's Night of the Leapers,
04:39a movie about murderous giant rabbits. Yes, that is a thing.
04:43In the time after Night of the Leapers' release, Leigh said how embarrassed she was by her involvement
04:47in the film, admitting that she only took the role in this low-budget horror because it was
04:52shooting near her home and it would allow her to spend more time with her family. To be fair,
04:56Janet Leigh choosing work based on the fact it would give her more family time, that's pretty great.
05:00Night of the Leapers though, yeah, not so great.
05:02Number 4 – Mia Kunis – American Psycho 2
05:05A sequel to Mary Harron's brilliant 2000 adaptation of American Psycho in name only,
05:11the entirely unrelated directed DVD American Psycho 2 was disowned upon this release by
05:17embarrassed author Bret Easton Ellis and star Mia Kunis. Kunis plays Rachel,
05:21a murderous college student who's shown killing Patrick Bateman in the film's opening moments.
05:26Over the years, Kunis has talked several times about how awful this movie is, and it is,
05:31it's really, really bad, how embarrassed she is by it, and that this was never meant to even be an
05:36American Psycho sequel. Instead, this was a different project that was re-edited and had the American
05:41Psycho 2 title put on it. And when rumours of an American Psycho 3 started up in 2005-ish,
05:47Mia Kunis pleaded with people to put a petition together to stop the film from becoming a thing,
05:52and thankfully it never did.
05:54Number 3 – Jennifer Aniston – Leprechaun
05:56Friends star Jennifer Aniston has enjoyed an impressive, storied career with many blockbusters
06:01and indie hits alike to her name. And amongst those early credits, there's 1993's Leprechaun,
06:07where Aniston plays Final Girl, Tori Redding, opposite Warwick Davis' titular villain. While that
06:12first Leprechaun does have its fair share of fans, as, to a lesser extent, there's a general mixed bag that
06:18is the Leprechaun franchise, one person who is not a fan of that first film is Jennifer Aniston.
06:23During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show years later, Aniston even admitted how she squirmed
06:28through two hours of pure embarrassment, as she put it, when ex-husband Justin Theroux
06:32stumbled across the movie on TV. Still, it could have been worse. She could have appeared in Leprechaun
06:37in Space, or Leprechaun in Da Hood, or Leprechaun back to Da Hood. They're really bad.
06:41Number 2 – Christopher Lee – Funny Man
06:44Icons of film don't get much more iconic than Sir Christopher Lee, the dearly, dearly missed Sir
06:50Christopher Lee. And one film the legendary actor would prefer we all forget about is 1994's
06:55atrociously unfunny and disastrously unscary Funny Man, which tells the tale of a demonic
07:01jester who terrorises a mansion recently won in a poker game from Christopher Lee's character.
07:06Of the many, many roles in Christopher Lee's vast career, this is the one he most distanced himself
07:12from, being particularly unhappy with how he was featured so prominently in the Funny Man
07:16advertising push, despite only having a minor, fairly unsubstantial role in the film. But then
07:20again, if you're an awful movie that has a cast of relatively unknown actors, it does kind of make
07:25sense that you want to go big in utilising the star power of Christopher Lee to get people's attention.
07:30Number 1 – Jamie Lee Curtis – Prom Night
07:33And Halloween Resurrection
07:34And Virus
07:35Much like her psycho star mother, horror legend Jamie Lee Curtis has one of the genre's most iconic
07:41characters to her name. That being her role as Laurie Strold in John Carpenter's Halloween,
07:46a role that she later revisited in Halloween 2, Halloween H20, Halloween Resurrection,
07:51and David Gordon Green's more recent opinion-splitting Halloween trilogy. However,
07:55one horror offering Jamie Lee Curtis is not so fond of is 1998's big budget space set Virus,
08:02which is simply labelled as shit, and only suitable for bad movie nights. Not just that,
08:06but Jamie Lee has also dissed 1980's Prom Night, which itself has a strong fanbase,
08:10and has thrown plenty of shade at Halloween Resurrection over the years,
08:14knowing how she only did that movie on the basis that she was under contract,
08:17and on the understanding that Laurie Strold would be killed off in the opening act.
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