The horror genre didn’t begin as mainstream, with the genre only in recent years hitting
the highs with larger audiences.
Get Out, A Quiet Place and Hereditary being some of the scariest films to hit the big
screen in recent years.
However, as great as these movies are, there have been many duds over the years, with the
genre notorious for its low-budget effects and restrains.
So today on Top 5 Scary Videos, I’m going to be counting down our list of the Top 5
Worst Horror Movies You Should Never Watch.
Lets jump in.
5 The Gingerdead Man (2005) The Gingerdead Man is straight up crazy -- and
while some may call it “so bad it’s good”, I believe that’s giving it way too much
credit.
Just listen to this absurd plot and you’ll understand why.
So, essentially, a convicted murderer gets executed by electric chair for murdering two
people in a diner.
Then, his bat shit crazy mother takes his ashes and mixes them into gingerbread dough.
Crazier still, she then delivers it to the bakery of the women who sent her son to the
electric chair.
So, of course what happens when you bake someone into a gingerbread man?
They come to life, cos science.
The woman decides to bake the gingerbread because people are too trusting, however,
she gets blood in the mix?
How you might ask, who the f knows!
But, regardless, it causes an electricity surge in the oven thus creating The Gingerdead
Man who wields a knife, intent on killing the woman who had him executed.
So, you may be thinking, this movie couldn’t possibly get any worse than it already is,
right?
Wrong!
I’m sure you’re wondering who could possibly be playing Mr. Gingerdead?
None other than Gary Busey.
Now, it’s clear that much of this film is played out for the laughs, but yet, here we
are, listing it as one of the worst of the worst, and quite honestly, I have no regrets.
4 The Happening (2008) Of course this trainwreck was going to make
an appearance on our list, I mean, how could it now?
We were totally wowed back when M. Night Shyamalan blessed us with his breakout horror hit The
Sixth Sense, and, of course, his somewhat superhero film Unbreakable.
He became a Hollywood King, but not just a King, a plot-twist King.
However, he had a momentary lapse in judgement when he came out with truly horrendous movies,
including Lady in the Water, and the 2008 aforementioned trainwreck, The Happening,
Shyamalan's first R-rated movie.
The film starred Mark Wahlberg as Elliot Moore, a science teacher engaged in a biological
conspiracy after the Northwestern US is plagued by mass-suicides.
Now, the plot is passable, but sadly nothing saves this movie, especially not Zooey Deschanel
who plays Wahlberg’s husband.
And definitely not the invisible attacker who is chasing down this bizarre couple.
Now, you may think that perhaps the twist could save the movie, I mean, it’s Shyamalan’s
fortee right?
Wrong.
It turns out the plants were the villain all along, and were in a fit of revenge against
humans.
Yep.
Need I say more?
3 House of the Dead (2003) Director Uwe Boll is notorious for making
horror movies, specifically horror video game movies.
So, it’s no surprise his 2003 horror flick House of the Dead is making an appearance
on or list.
Based on the popular arcade game where the player uses a light-gun to shoot slow-walking
zombies, Boll takes this concept, and obliterates it within seconds.
House of the Dead has a truly atrocious plot, with even worse characters, all one-dimensional,
of course.
So, what exactly is the plot?
Well, our wooden characters head to a zombie-filled island to attend a rave, because why not?
What is life?
Now, the film goes from bad to worse when you realize what the strange splicing of footage
is throughout the movie.
It is of course gameplay footage from the original video game, just in case we needed
to be reminded that we’re watching a video game movie.
CinemaBlend summed up the movie perfectly by stating, I quote, “House of the Dead
is that rare beast that goes beyond bad and then beyond ‘so bad it’s good’ into
its own little niche where even the most die-hard horror fans fear to tread.”
There you go friends, you have been warned.
Do not watch House of the Dead.
2 Sleepwalkers (1992) I typically love Stephen King adaptations,
but sadly this one missed the mark, and it missed it by miles.
In the early 90’s, King decided to branch out and do some screenwriting.
Enter the 1992 flop, Sleepwalkers.
The film follows Charles and Mary Brady, a mother and son who engage in a little bit
of incest, because, why not?
Not only that, but it is soon discovered to us that this incestuous couple are a gruesome
duo of shape-shifting beasts who feed off the life force of young vigin women.
It’s always the virgins.
Unfortunately the movie was an over-the-top gore fest with nonsensical dialog.
To top things off, this horrendous film had far too many celebrity cameos for my liking,
including, Ron Perlman, Mark Hamill, Clive Barker, Tobe Hooper, Joe Dante, and John Landis.
Nothing makes sense in this movie, and the only thing that does is the shape-shifters
deathly fear of cats.
1 Troll 2 (1990) A somewhat sequel to the 1986 movie Troll,
Troll 2 is utterly bizarre, and makes very little sense, even for hardcore horror fans.
The film tells the tale of a family terrorized by a gang of goblins, that’s right, goblins,
not trolls.
There are no trolls in this movie...makes sense, right?
Nope, not at all.
Anyway, as it turns out, these goblin guys are vegetarians, the turn to the plants before
turning to their human captives.
It’s a dimwitted film that has literally nothing going for it, and is often seen as
a result of a culture clash between the Italian filmmakers and the American film establishment.
The film is so bad it garnered the high score of 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, with the film going
down in cult movie history as one of the worst movies of all time.
On a more comical note, the child star of the movie, Michael Paul Stephenson, hated
the movie so much he made his own documentary about it called Best Worst Movie.
Now that you should watch.
Well, there we have it!
Do you guys agree with our list?
Were there any terrible horror movies that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 2.
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