10 Comic Book Movie Moments That Felt More Like Horror Movies

By K.J. Stewart /

5. Jonah Hex Speaks To The Dead (Jonah Hex)

The Jonah Hex movie was absolutely slammed by critics and audiences alike - and rightly so, as it wasn't great. One of the biggest criticisms of the movie was the inexplicable inclusion of supernatural powers possessed by the titular anti-hero. In the comic books, Hex is simply an insanely skilled combatant - in both hand-to-hand combat and marksmanship - and yet, in this live action movie, he was given the ability to speak to corpses as long as he was making physical contact with them - a fact that made Roger Ebert describe the movie as "a graphic anthology of strange occult ideas." An example of this power would be when he dug up Jeb Turnbull - the son of the man he was hunting down, Quentin Turnbull - and brought him back to life for a discussion about his father. The corpse emerges, rotten and rancid, and Hex touches it to have a conversation with him in what is a very eerie situation. There are other moments when Hex talks to fresher corpses who look like extras from a zombie movie, adding another unwelcome addition to a movie that could have been so much better.