10 HATED Horror Movies That Are Awesome Now

10. The Thing

We'll get this one out of the way first because, by virtue of quite how shocking it is, it was been talked to death. Now pretty widely agreed to be one of the very best horror films of all time, The Thing at its time of release was a laughing stock; Cinefantastique, a horror magazine, went as far as to publish a cover asking if The Thing was "the most hated horror film of all time", if you can believe that.

Ever since, people have been trying to figure out why the film was so hated at the time. Many film historians accredit it to the movie's nihilistic, depressing tone, which people vehemently rejected whilst they were in the midst of a depression. It sounds about right to be fair, the film's ending is about as bleak as it gets: two blokes just waiting to freeze to death in the great frozen expanse.

It's the film's cynicism, suspicion and general dark mood that make it so great (amongst other things, of course), and it's just a shame that it was released at the exact time that audiences didn't want to see exactly that.