I've seen tons of bad horror films but Eli Roth's films are still on the top of my list. I very deeply hated Cabin Fever, lord only knows why I tortured my self by watching Hostel. I think that he is one the worst things to happen to contemporary american horror cinema

Halloween 3 was my all time favorite

Watched final destination 5 man how many of these are they going to make and try wo retell LOL

I actually like most of the movies listed here...

That said...I remember seeing FeardotCom in the theater years ago and thinking for the first time in my life I'd like my money back...

I thought the The Grudge (the remake) was awful. One of the least redeeming horror films I've ever seen. The Fog remake was also horrendous, considering I'm a pretty big fan of the original. In terms of non-remakes, Undead was a HUGE letdown. I had heard so many people singing the praises of it and then I had to force myself to sit through the whole thing just so I could faithfully tell everyone how terrible it was.

Yet none of those come close to Cannibal Holocaust. To me, that film is absolutely deplorable. I had heard many things about it before going into it but did not realize the full extent of what I was about to watch. I'm all for realistic special effects and gore - that's one of the many things that consistently draws me back to horror films. Tom Savini is one of the reasons why I became a horror film fanatic - the ingenuity it takes to make convincing gore on screen is something I feel is worth admiration, but the scenes involving animals in Cannibal Holocaust infuriated me. Hunting for food and survival is one thing - killing in the name of entertainment, in my eyes, puts you in the same category as the rapists and violent offenders that live behind bars as we speak.

Haha, oops. Sorry for the rant, I didn't expect it to turn into this. All I had to do was think about that film and it just came spewing out. I hadn't thought about it in a while.

I saw a few people mention Bug in this thread. I thought Bug was great. It helps that I went into it thinking of it more as a character drama than a horror film. Also - I thought Michael Shannon was phenomenal. But, to each his own.

If it makes you feel better, the natives did eat the animals that they killed. Still i'll agree there was no need for that at all.

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Yet none of those come close to Cannibal Holocaust. To me, that film is absolutely deplorable. I had heard many things about it before going into it but did not realize the full extent of what I was about to watch. I'm all for realistic special effects and gore - that's one of the many things that consistently draws me back to horror films. Tom Savini is one of the reasons why I became a horror film fanatic - the ingenuity it takes to make convincing gore on screen is something I feel is worth admiration, but the scenes involving animals in Cannibal Holocaust infuriated me. Hunting for food and survival is one thing - killing in the name of entertainment, in my eyes, puts you in the same category as the rapists and violent offenders that live behind bars as we speak.


I agree, a few of the animal killings are a bit too much for me. That's why I always watch the cut version of it. Shameless just put out a really cool Blu-ray of it, without all the animal suffering. ;)

I loved Cabin Fever, it's in my top ten. The Hostel movies were okay but Cabin Fever was excellent IMO.

Jeez - they killed some animals (maybe not in the most humane way) which the cast later ate and you think that they are worse than rapists...

Give us a break.

I actually enjoyed Cabin Fever too. It seems we are among a minority though. :p

As for the worst films...

Nightmare on Elm Street (Remake)
Halloween 2 (Rob Zombie Remake)
Lady in the Water (I want to list this 10 times it was that bad)
Day of the Dead (Remake)

I will come back when I think of more... lol

I have you all beat, Platoon of the Dead

Dark Harvest 2: The Maize
Leprechaun 3
House of the Dead
iMurders
Evil Bong
Hellraiser: Inferno

If it is then I will watch it-they all deserve to die! :)

WORST films...
 

mostly under the horror genre but some might extend out into syfi or others. no order. all are awful

Prom night (original and remake) -both were awful, Jamie lee is the only thing worth watching in the original.

Tremors 3 and 4... without the bacon.. those movies are terrible

Blackxmas remake - havent watched the classic yet but this eye ball eatting retard makes 5 mins feel like an hour..

Critters 4 - the aliens are finally off earth and back into space and sucking at life. atleast the first two were original and sort of coated with black humor and the 3rd had Leo in it. but there really is no excuse for this film.

Demonic Toys 1 & 2 - talk about the awful monsters... there was nothing good about those films

Carnosaur & sequals- A dino movie that came out in 1993. some might know of another that came out in 1993 it was called jurassic park. compare those two films.

Dolly Dearest - chucky's whore girl friend.

Friday the 13th part 5 ( no jason..) jason goes to hell (umm he shits down peoples throats) , and jason goes to space ( needs no comment)

Troll 2 - hard to explain

House of wax remake - cuthbert and hilton could have had a lesbo scene and it wouldnt havent made this film any better

I spit on your grave (remake) - disgusting film. not even worth watching. gross rape scene, torture porn just isnt my thing.

Its alive 1 & 2- wow.. ugly killer baby..?

Jaws 3, 4 - looks like a wind up shark toy in the 3rd one.. terrible what they did to that series

Lake placid 3 - dont ask why i skipped two. never seen it,but the 3rd was just that bad

Last house on the left remake - again, rape scene and the character development just lagged..

Attack of the giant leeches - its old, but it still wont escape this list..

Cabin fever 1 & 2 -one good scene, bath tub, the rest of the series.. burn it

Children of the corn genesis - worst in the series, it stole paranormal activity and put it in this movie... its bad

Doom- i love the rock, but this has to go in the trash

Exorcist 3 - wtf was the point of this movie..?

Final desination 3,4,5 - the first one had it. weak ending but good story, second one ehh it continued the trend, but i dont need to see it 3 more times after that. come on just stop it.

Fun house - bad

Frozen - the wolf scene was intense but the rest was boring

Hatchet - how in the blue hell did this movie win so many awards?? crack epidemic? take hills have eyes and mash it with wrong turn which btw are both awful movies as well. i just cant comprehend it.

Hills have eyes remake - nuclear radiation and family incest...wtf? not even interesting

Leprechaun 3,4,5,6 -kill that fucking irish midget please. stop these films. from farms, to ghetto, to space, to back to the ghetto..

Mega piranha - lets just say, this makes the other ones look well done

Mummy 3 - jet li let me down here

Survival of the dead -Romeros worest in the series

Nightmare on elm street 2 ( gayest horror film of all time. no joke ) , and part 5 was just plain bad

Halloween 5 - wtf was up with his mask in this one. lost all scaryness

Resident evil 3, 4 - first one had an interesting take. wasnt a huge fan but i liked the idea. the second one was pretty bad but i put up with it. however, with this pro women super hero shit they have going on in the last 2? ugh stop it please, go back to the game story which was actually scary

Shark night - holy hell.. dumb

Silent hill - could have been sooooo much better

Snakes on a plane - samuel L was the best part, yet it still made this list

28 weeks later - 28 days, was one of the best. weeks, made no sense and ruined what the first one had installed

House of the dead - should have stayed an arcade game and D&Bs

Saw 2,3,4,5,6,7 - torture porn is not cool, or entertaining,or scary. first saw was great, i dont need to see it 7 more times..

Anaconda 3 - Baywatches david hastelhoff (or whatever) stars in this film... epic fail

Grude 2,3 - first one was iffy. rip off of the ring stealing jap horror stories. 2 and 3 were just cash crops. bad ones as well

Ill always know what you did LAST summer - im confused. i thought it happened 3 summers ago.. hmmm

so far going through my list of horror movies i own (over a 1000) dumb and great, this has to be the set of the worst films. i havent seen all of my own films as strange as that may sound but im chippin away at it day by day.

any who AVOID at all cost any of these films.

- the ham HORROR critic

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Paranormals are amazing
 

Second didn't hit as hard as the first because of the originality but damn that shit was scary. Taps the deepest of fears in the the most simplistic way. Making it terrifying. 3rd one was pretty good too. Second one caught me by surprise on how good the story actually was..

What are you talking about? It was soooo boring. To each their own i guess.

Prom night the original i think was a classic but i dont think a very good one. i think it got that because the scream queen was in it. there are much stronger classics in that same style of film that put this one to shame

tremors were fun. bad but fun

blackxmas was really bad lol

critters 4 was bad but still fun to me

demonic toys were also fun,

(fun but still terrible by nature, i enjoy dumb movies none the less)

dont watch the carnosaurs.. please

dolly dearest was also fun

friday the 13th part 5 was a rip off. you cant put it with the first one because jason wasnt in it, the first one was revolutionary. did it try to rip off halloween, yes. but it was the first rip off of halloween on top of a decent story, icon, and the path way to the basic set up of every teen killer horror movie after that. but the 5th one was way bad .i was let down and felt cheated after that. jason x wasnt even funny to me... i kinda felt sad and bad. it felt "made for tvish" to me. some strong kills like the face in the ice but still tough to watch and call myself a serious fan of the series

troll 2 was the best worst movie every. have you seen the documentary about that film. =)

dont watch house of wax. the hotties dont even get naked...

i spit on your grave was nothing short of awful

i could not get into the "its alive" series. i know the first one is a classic to some back in the 70s but still, it did nothing for me, it felt too dated for me to enjoy.

jaws were bad after the first one..

lake placid the first one was actually pretty entertaining. i enjoyed it. as far as a good "big croc" film goes. it holds the title.

Last house on the left remake, again, not into the rape stuff.

attack of the leeches being old doesnt make it good by anymeans. again there are plenty monster films that came out in that time but were far superior to this piece.

please explain how cabin fever was good.. in anyway... that movie was so awful lol. the second one entertained me more than the first one did actually. not saying it was any better but i was actually expecting something out of the first one..

doom wasnt a horror but it has monsters so i added it

exorcist 3? all it had was characters. it was major boring comparatively speaking from the first film.

ill only give the first final desination the time of day. again i dont need it 5 more times in my face

funhouse?? thats why i bought it on the midnight horror movie list of 8 films. to also include evil bong 2 and demonic toys vs dollman.... cheap film

frozen- yes good characters, but it wasnt enough. story wasnt strong enough. it had one tough scene to watch which i mentioned but after that i was just waiting for the boy meets world guy to go

Hatchet has to be one of the worst slasher films made. it was cheap, it inspired no new tatics to the genre or theme. its all been done before and this one didnt change from any of the sterio typical aspects of the ones before it. like i said ive seen it before. plus i had high hopes for this film seeing as how blown up it was. major let down. talk about not even scary. the jump scenes were weak

Hills have eyes - weak like hatchet

Leprechauns were fun but got way too old and then i think spike lee bought the films and set them in the ghetto. why? no clue

Mega piranha was not fun lol. it makes the other piranha movies look good. atleast those had awesome tits in them. the CGI in this movie makes super croc vs python look good

mummy 3 - i included due to the mummy aspect and yes it was still the worst. the first mummy wasnt bad tho.

i actually thought diary of the dead was a lot better than survival... i think land, survival and diary were all pretty bad. the remake of day of the dead is horrible, but the original day, original and remake of dawn, and original and remake (90s) of night were all the best.

nightmare on elm street 2 was the worst in the series. he has red eyes, different than in any other with the exception of freddy vs jason, it holds no real logic to the first film besides him and his house, the pariot scene was awful lol, and its totally a gay film lol. super gay. no denying it. and 5 was just a dumb addition. it got boring.

halloween 5 was rushed and took more away from the series than it added

agree with the resident evils. they really need a spider man reboot

sharknight was soooooooooo bad

the saws were torture, maybe less on the porn side but thats all it was. the first one had a great story, but thats all that needs to be said. i dont need to see it 7 more times lol

anaconda, i thought the first one was good. holds the title of best large snake movie. j-lo, ice cube, owen wilson. good strong cast. it was fun

btw, im trev
i could talk horror shop all day even if i dont agree lol. i collect films of this genre. i love that i found this site!! finally i can go on and on about horror topics and not have my friends want to kill me lol. so thanks for reading and adding and listening. they are all in good conversations. =)

i rewatched the 3rd halloween. at first as a kid i hated it like everybody else. i wanted to see mike. but this film by itself, under a different title than halloween 3 like just "season of the witch" and the movie is actually a good little halloween style film. it was original and well done. i enjoyed it a lot more now. but you have to separate it from the halloweens to enjoy this film

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It's good to know that i can disagree with someone and not have them jump down my throat. Good talking to you.

halloween 2
 

at first i didnt like the second remake. but i watched the commentary with rob and he explains it much better. this isnt a remake of the second halloween. this isnt another slasher film about micheal. its about the surviving charaters from the first one and that transition from normal to insane due to past events. if you watch it like that, the film then turns into something new and interesting. i very much enjoyed it after i took into consideration of what style this movie is

The reason i didnt like H2 wasn't because it was a bad remake...it was because it was a bad movie. Plain and simple.

#1 blair witch project - use of imagination is the scariest thing in the world. you never see the wtich, the acting was so real it was deep. i can imagine being in there shoes. no other movie put me into the characters like that did.. until

#2 paranormal activity - scared the shit outta me. it was so not hollywood and that was wat did it. i didnt need the moeny or cgi to scare me. its the simpleness behind them that scares people to the bones. its that shiver and the way ur hair raises on the back of ur neck when you are alone at night and your door creeps open, you begin to make excuses like the wind, but the fact that you dont know keeps you up at night, too afraid to get out of bed then to close the door. thats the scare that stays with you after the film is over.

to me, those are the two scareist films made since ive been alive -1989. just left me shivering after the theatres. but thats my style that scares me the most. some people its torture. this is my cup of tea and its sad to see how many try to copy them and fail..

fail movies copys
paranomal entity
grave encountours
atrocious
cloverfield
ect

yet another movie i didnt like at first.but watching it again, movie really impressed me. it was a reimagination of poltergiest with out saying it. awesome. did a good job. the score was as scarey to me as halloween, exorcist, shinning, amtyville horror, children of the corn, jaws...it was totally spooky. this movie had some scenes that were just so intense. i did hate the monster.. look like darth mal, rip off, and his side kick was weak as hell too with the trench coat. also i thought the ending was over the top. it w as too hollywood and the set look like it was taken off tnts charmed, acting was real as hell tho, and the build up in the first half was sooo well done that the second half of the film couldnt add up. but over all i did enjoy this film the more i watched it.

First of all Blair Witch was not the first found footage movie. It was just the first one with good marketing.

I found the movie boring. Am i supposed to ignore that fact because it was supposedly innovative?

I liked Paranormal Activity the first time i saw it. I just found that i got bored the second time around. It's not a bad movie at all, just not one that i can watch repeatedly.

Was all set to agree with you on the "copycats" but then you mentioned Cloverfield. I loved that movie but i'm a sucker for giant monster movies. But i also have to say that Cloverfield was entirely different from PA. It's not a ghost movie so how can you call it a rip off? Sure PA started the craze and so you can argue that Cloverfield used that device because of it but given that they are entirely different types of movies, i don't think that really matters.

nightmare on elm street's freddy has always been a child molester. they just keep it kinda hush in the series due to that touchy subject but oh yes, he was a child molester in the originals. actually wes craven talks about in the documentary never sleep again. there was a bad case going on at the time about a teacher molesting students so wes thought it was best to keep the child molester part under hush hush. but the vibe and info is still in the film just not up in ur face like the remake made it.

you have lost it if you think house of a 1000s corpse, devils rejects or halloween remake were bad.. rob zombie has morphed the horror industry. i loved those three, he is the kinda director i want doing all my remakes.

that is the most disturbing sickest discusting film i own... i got it at the horror conventnion a few years back called flash back weekend in chicago. i had no idea what i was getting myself into. ill never watchin tha tmovie again, but it is a rare and classic.

Black Xmas remake- Thought the remake was meh, but the original is terrific.

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning- I've always enjoyed the Friday the 13th movies except for Jason X and the remake.

Troll 2- Cult classic, what else needs to be said.

House of Wax remake- Awful, next!

I Spit on Your Grave remake- Enjoyed this one but the original is better.

Last House on the Left remake- Trash it, pick up the original.

Cabin Fever- Love the first one and have yet to see the sequel, but I like Ti West so I might check it out.

Doom- Not bad to watch high.

Exorcist III- The original tops it but I do like this one quite a bit.

Hatchet- good ol' fashion slasher fun, same goes for the sequel.

The Hills Have Eyes remake- not too bad

Nightmare on Elm Street 2- Like it, not my favorite but not awful. Part 5 is second best to Part 3.

Halloween 5- I'm a Halloween geek, so I love this one.

Shark Night- Agreed, dumb

Silent Hill- One of the most unnerving films to date.

Snakes on a Plane- Horrible, Samuel Jackson's worst movie, he was awful.

28 Weeks Later- First one was better but the sequel was good too.

House of the Dead- So terrible it's fun to watch.

Saws 2 through 7- I think it is ignorant to call this kind of movie torture porn. It's just splatterpunk for this day and age. Big deal, get over it. Having said that, I've only watched the first 3 and got tired of them.

The rest of the movies on the list are ones that I haven't taken the time to watch.

Yeah, I love this movie too, anyone who doesn't like this movie needs to have their head examined.

No way that Paranormal Activity is better than Blair Witch. Blair Witch was actually creepy, Paranormal Activity was just dumb.

Couldn't have been more bored watching Blair Witch

cabin fever - it was boirng to me. i felt like i was getting cheated outta a story made for teens. and this was the movie that had the boy meets world dofus in it. ya totally wanting him to die through out that film

i dont judge films that are combined in a group either but where do you draw the line? fun house by itself was by no means anygood. it deserved t o be with those other titles

frozen didnt have that actor in it, it was the guy from x men, which i enjoyed but he annoyed the piss outta me. the movie wasnt believeable. it was slow as hell too. dialogue needs work as well, i mean if you are going to only have a few people in your film, make them worth while. PA series did a good job at making the dialogue entertaining so you can stay with the story and characters.

hatchet, i guess if i wanted a throw back i woulda went with something good back from the passsst. hatchet did nothing for me...

mega piranha and anuymporeof those cheap ones that come out ill never watch again. the dino croc, or python or mega shark.. just dumb,, and tits and ass are a huge part of horror history. atleast if your movie is going to suck, add something in there to keep me mildly entertained. and liking boobs makes you a pervert or immature, count me in. i love em both in my horror movies. just something you dont skip, especially in a dumb horror movie

and i never said there was anything wrong with a gay film. but it was just that. even in the documentary they talk abou tit.. freddys dead was acutally fun. wasnt serious, awesome one liners. brought back the freddy i enjoy. they had fun with it. side not, the 5th nightmare was also the one to do the worst in the theatres

umm spiderman reboot.. ugh meaning like they just made spiderman films that sucked right.. just like resident evil. they are already redoing the spiderman series in under a decade. which is exactly what the resident evil series needs now. a reboot.

i rather enjoyed halloween 2 after i took into consideration what that film is about

never said blair witch was a first, just it was the best of that type

Cloverfield made me puke it was so shaky. it was way over the top, characters were blank and the monster wasnt that scary or cool... and the shakinees of that film was so bad.. no other movies have made me that sick because of the camera movement.

that movie really is the only movie i can think of that scared me. nothing else comes to mind. i was actually scared after that film. thats a very rare thing

It did nothing for me.

Ditto I liked it because it was the most disturbing, sickest, disturbing film I've seen along with "Salo". I'm not sure I would watch either of them again either (despite having them on dvd) but only because they are so challenging to watch but I like to challenge myself occasionally so who knows.

not been on for so long been dying to list some of my most hate.

cabin fever remake
the darkness
lights out (but i loved the short on you tube)
don't breathe
conjuring 2 (never liked any of these movies)
10 cloverfield lane (bored me from beginning to end)
the forest

I've probably done a fairly good job blocking out the worst of the worst, but I'll try to put a list together:

A Serbian Film
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Jason X
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Halloween II (2009)
The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence)
Leprechaun: In the Hood (pretty much any Leprechaun sequel really)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Jaws: The Revenge
Hellraiser: Revelations
Cabin Fever (2016)

Keep in mind that there are plenty of bad horror films that I watched without really even caring to check out what the title was to it. These I just managed to remember.

Haha, wow people have listed some proper dross in here!

I agree with the guy who said Avatar, I thought this was a terrible terrible film. All special effects and visuals but a plot with not a shred of originality, formulaic and terminally dull.

I'd also like to mention The Prestige. I can't really describe why I hate it so much with dropping a big spoiler but few films have left me as angry & irritated at the wasting of 2 hours!

Like 90% of the movies listed are just here because "they're boring."

Ya, one said Blair Witch (org) was boring. I thought it was one of the finest acted films, with natural dialogue. Oddly, I was more riveted the second time I saw it.

But heck, I understand the complaint in that it's three people walking through a forest without kill scenes, explosions, etc. If it's not meeting expectations, it'll seem boring. It's a bit like Rosemary's Baby in that respect -- if you're waiting for 'something to happen' you've missed the film.

I might have been the one to say Blair Witch Project was boring because it was. I'm all for a slow burn that builds up tension and suspense but BWP didnt do that, it was just three people walking in the woods with no tension at all.

Fair enough. If it bored you, it bored you. First time I saw it, I eventually became a little annoyed with the forest section (which is 80%). But after seeing it the second time, I realised my expectations ruined my first viewing.

Second viewing, I found it effectively building tension and frustration slowing beginning to boil over into conflict and cause disorientation, cause the forest was changing on them, etc. I was really into the characters. And then it moved to some pretty effective suspense and scares when they were getting messed with at night.

And then (you'll probably remember from the Best Decades discussion we had) I actually understood the ending (along with another member), because I missed some key info the first time around.

Blair has been a divisive film, with a high level of both high and low appreciation.

Fair enough. I might have to give it a second shot. The first time i saw Black Christmas i hated it. But i watched it again this year and loved it