10 ‘Bad’ Horror Movies Everyone Gets Wrong

10. Valentine

Much like how Halloween brought the genre to life before it, Scream successfully reanimated the bloated corpse of the slasher genre, and seemingly overnight, moviegoers were bombarded with all manner of stalk-and-slice films that were keen to get in on the box office cash cow.

Most of which were somewhat warmly received by fans and critics alike, with films like Cherry Falls and I Know What You Did Last Summer still being praised to this day.

But sadly Valentine has never been so lucky.

Panned by critics on release due to it bearing too many similarities to older slasher films, and lacking the wit and reflexive humour of Scream, the film sits at a woeful 12% on Rotten Tomatoes. Which if you've seen the movie, you'll know that's a grotesque over-exaggeration of its supposed badness.

Sure, it's not exactly going to win over those at the Academy, but taken for what it is, Valentine is a competently made slasher that's full of nasty little surprises along the way. Taking us back to a time when slasher films weren't so reliant on meta humour and snarky dialogue to capture an audience's imagination.

And to our minds, it's the best eighties slasher film, that wasn't made in the eighties.