10 Worst PG-13 Horror Films Since 2000

10. Darkness Falls

This is the movie that Rolling Stone magazine dismissed in 14 words: €œDo you really need me to tell you how scary this horror show isn€™t?€ It€™s a riff on A Nightmare On Elm Street, with a suspected child killer returning from the grave to wreak vengeance on the inhabitants of the eponymous town, but the movie€™s too bland to provide much in the way of entertainment. All the adult characters, particularly the cops, act like frightened children, so it€™s up to The Hunky Guy and The Blonde Hottie to save the day which €“ spoiler alert €“ they do, but the final scene suggests the monster isn€™t dead. All the usual clichés are present and correct: when people start to disappear, suspicion falls on the hero. The power goes out during a storm. Characters die in reversing billing order, with the dumb rednecks getting their just desserts first. The director later made the American classics The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'