10 Horror Movie Actors Who HATED Their Own Performances

10. Jamie Lee Curtis - Virus

Few actors are as synonymous with the horror genre as Jamie Lee Curtis.

Sure, Curtis has gone on to have major success outside of horror, but it's hard not to be forever tied to this creepy corner of cinema when you have five Halloween movies (soon to be six, then likely to be seven), The Fog, Prom Night, Terror Train and Roadgames under your belt.

While those films clearly vary in quality, one picture that Jamie Lee has particular disdain for is her appearance in 1999's Virus.

Based on Chuck Pfarrer's comic book of the same name, Virus is a sci-fi horror offering based around an alien entity on a mission to turn mankind into a race of cyborg slaves. Despite having an impressive headline cast of Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland and Billy Baldwin, John Bruno's movie was so horrendous that it didn't even make back half of its $75 million budget.

As for Curtis' thoughts on Virus, back in 2010 she told WENN (via the Express):

"That's a piece of sh*t movie. It's an unbelievably bad movie. Just bad from the bottom."

Continuing on, the famed Scream Queen would add:

"It was maybe the only time I've known something was just bad and there was nothing I could do about it."

Authored by Andrew Pollard

Senior Writer

Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks/Saints, Jamie Hayter, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.

First Posted On: 21st Jul 2021

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