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

Betraying conventional wisdom, some truly awful horror ideas have somehow been given the green light over the years

Whether the concepts were flawed, the characters were one-dimensional, or there was simply no realistic way these films could ever work

somehow money was spent to get these stinkers made. So, with thy mind, I'm Andrew from WhatCultureHorror, and here are 10 horror movies that suck so bad you can't believe they got made

Number 10, Dreamcatcher When it comes to adapting the work of the legendary Stephen King, it's been an extremely mixed bag over the years

Quite simply, some of King's written tales just don't translate all that well to other mediums

And one of the very worst King adaptations is 2003's Dreamcatcher. Despite an impressive cast featuring the likes of Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant and Jason Leigh, Brody Bruce represent yo

this tale of friends battling a horde of alien parasites was a total dud, butchering large

elements of King's story and becoming a convoluted, bloated mess. Dreamcatcher should have been a

slam dunk, but despite how King himself is fond of the movie, most people will class it as the

worst ever adaptation of his work. Number 9, Shutter. The 2008 remake of the 2004 Thai movie

of the same name, Shutter, which I picked up for one pound back in the day, centres on Joshua

Jackson's Ben, a newly married photographer who moves to Japan with his wife Jane. After being

involved in a traffic accident that leads to the death of a young girl, strange lights begin to

appear in Ben's pictures. Could it be that he's just not very good at his job? Nah, instead it's

all about an evil spirit. While the original Time movie was a hit and had plenty of charm to it

the remake is just painfully dull, full of cliches and just a disappointing cashing at a time when it

was still all the rays to just lazily remake foreign language horrors. As for that cashing

element though, it actually kind of worked as the film actually made nearly $50 million

from its $8 million budget. Which is really, really baffling. 8. Mary

Mary begins with a woman and her two daughters being discovered at sea after being presumed dead What began as a jolly family sailing trip turned into a living hell when the salvaged boat they were sailing on turned out to be haunted Never convenient With Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer leading the cast and plenty of

potential for seafaring scares, Mary could have been alright, but it turned out to be a complete

shipwreck. Excuse the pun. The plot is all over the place, and even with an interesting premise

and a claustrophobic location, Mary just isn't scary one bit. In fact, it's actually quite boring

and one of those rare bad Gary Oldman films. But hey, if you're looking for a genuinely great

seaside set horror tale, you could do a lot worse than check out 1976's The Witch Who Came From the

Sea. Number seven, The Resort. If you were friends with a horror fiction writer who asked you to come

with her to an abandoned hotel on a remote island to investigate reports of a ghostly presence

Would you go? If you said no, you are officially smarter than the characters in the resort

Lex and her friends quickly find out that ghost hunting isn't as fun as Scooby-Doo makes it out

to be, as they end up trapped in the creepy locale with a mythical half-faced girl hot on their heels

before they get picked off one by one in increasingly gruesome manners. Despite only

clocking in at 75 minutes, the resort feels like it's constantly running out of ideas

But one impressive face-ripping sequence, the resort's just so vanilla and somehow manages to

properly drag even with its short runtime. Number 6, Alone in the Dark. Oh boy. Movies

inspired by video games had a dire reputation for the longest time imaginable, and right up there

with the absolute worst of them is Uwe Ball's Alone in the Dark, which drew inspiration from

the video game series of the same name. Whilst the first game was a genuine trailblazer

the same cannot be said about its movie counterpart. The Alone in the Dark film is just a properly

rough one full of abysmal camera work, stilted dialogue and actions so unexciting you'd have

no idea it was based on a game that used to be legitimately terrifying back in the day

Number 5 Alice in Murderland Lewis Carroll whimsical tales of Alice and her time in Wonderland are regarded as classics of children literature If you in the mood to ruin a beloved childhood favourite though here a god horror movie that borrows heavily from it

Yay. Alice Lewis is just your ordinary 21-year-old with a fear of growing up, so our best pals

decide to throw her a special birthday party themed around Lewis Carroll's books

Unfortunately, somebody sneaks in dressed as a Jabberwocky and starts picking them all off

Alice in Murderland has all the bad qualities of a low-budget horror, but with none of the charm

It's poorly acted, poorly produced, poorly written, and you can even see crew members in several of the shots

Yeah, not good, not good at all. Although it could be worse, it could be Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey

Number 4, Slenderman. Real-life murders have always inspired horror movies, but there are times when it converge into the exploitative

Case in point, Slenderman. In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured their friend into a forest and stabbed her 19 times

almost killing her. They claimed to have carried out this horrendous act to appease the Slenderman

a creature that had gained popularity through its appearance on various online forums

In 2018, just one year after the girls involved in the attack were sentenced

a film came out featuring the Slenderman as the main villain. Whilst not explicitly inspired by the real-life attacks

the movie was still way too close to the truth to be enjoyable

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

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

Number 3, American Psycho 2. Yes, there is an American Psycho 2. Originally written as a

completely unaffiliated screenplay, this story was tweaked to include a tacked on reference to

the first film. The main character, a murderous criminology student played by Mia Kunis

begins the film by killing Patrick Bateman before... wait a second, she kills Patrick Bateman

That alone should be a red flag. Cudis' character then follows in Bateman's footsteps

covertly killing her classmates in order to advance her studies. Her course is overseen

by a former FBI agent played by William Shatner Yeah that another red flag Nobody wanted a sequel to American Psycho especially not one with so little to do with the first movie Brett Easton Ellis the author of the original novel has gone on record with how much he hates this film And even Mia Kunis herself has expressed regret that she was

even in it. All of this without even mentioning how terrible the movie is, but that kind of goes

without saying. Number 2. Exorcist 2 The Heretic. Quite possibly the worst big name horror sequel of

all time. Well, maybe until The Exorcist Believer came around last year. Exorcist 2 The Heretic is

just so, so bad. Set four years after William Freakin's Exorcist, here we have the teenage

Riga McNeil struggling to adjust to life after her possession, while a priest questions her on

the death of Father Merrin. Both Freakin and William Peter Blatty, as in the writer of the

Exorcist novel and its screenplay, opted against returning as they didn't feel a sequel was

necessary. And boy, did Exorcist 2 The Heretic prove them right, with Blatty even reportedly attending

the screening of the film where the audience was outright laughing at the horrors

on screen. Still, don't let that put you off The Exorcist 3 though

for that is a genuinely stunning movie that's thankfully received a little more

love in recent years. 1. Things The story of 1989 independent Canadian

horror Things is an absolutely fascinating one. Starring Barry J. Gills, one of the film's writers, and Amber Lynn, best known for her work in the adult

industry, Things is about a group of men who have to fend off a series of mutant creatures created

by a mad doctor. Sounds fairly unassuming, until you learn that this is one of the worst made films

in all of human history. Up there with The Room and Troll 2 in terms of famously dreadful films

Things is shoddily made, poorly acted, badly scripted, and about as scary as a paddling pool

full of puppies. It doesn't help that Things was made on a budget of roughly nothing and shot on a

Super 8 camera by people who had seemingly never even seen a film before, let alone made one

Although it's mad to think that something so terrible actually exists, there are plenty out

there who love Things for just how horrible it is. It lives on in the hearts of fans of bad cinema

and will stand forever as a testament to the phrase, so bad it's good. Or you know, just bad