10 Great Horror Movies With Terrible Concepts

10. Idle Hands

A teen horror where a slacker’s hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree after he manages to remove it from his body? Sounds like an underwritten attempt to spin one great Evil Dead II scene into an entire feature film, stretching the joke less than paper thin in the process.

Released in the late nineties during the post-Scream teen horror boom, Idle Hands is a one-joke film whose one joke had already been explored a decade earlier by a classic of the genre. The flick’s description reads like a half-baked attempt at remaking 1978’s already laughable The Hand as an intentional comedy…

So what better approach than go fully baked (as it were), fill the script with silly weed jokes and double entendres, and abandon any attempts at seriousness by hiring the likes of Seth Green, Jessica Alba, and the Offspring to ensure this Rodman Flender project becomes a goofy and surprisingly agreeable horror comedy.

Epitomising the offbeat zaniness of nineties comedy, this flick turns its potentially thin premise into a launching board for progressively sillier horror sequences and ends up a classic stoner comedy as a result.