10 Horror Movies Critics Were WAY Too Harsh On

10. Jennifer's Body

In a time when many, including Michael Bay, were only too quick to point out Megan Fox's ability to bend her torso at 90 degrees in two different places at once, Diablo Cody had other plans for Fox's flexibility. Jennifer's Body flopped in 2009 and while it should have elevated Fox from pin-up to break-out, critics had other plans.

Robert Abele (LA Times) was not impressed: "Oscar-winning Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody does her language-laden best to make Jennifer’s Body... into a femme-tactic anti-Carrie, but her glib teen-hip dialogue mostly feels like self-conscious splatter over a sorely lacklustre scare flick."

When a rock band decide to murder a virgin in a demonic ritual to hit the big time, Jennifer is not that chaste and is soon a demon herself, tearing indiscriminately through Jocks and Goths alike. "Jennifer's evil... No, I mean actually evil, not high school evil... " explains Amanda Seyfried's Needy (even Cody's names have subtext).

The dialogue is an exercise in slick, witty observations on themes like girl-on-girl hatred - the lens of horror shouldn't always be a straight, male one. "Sandbox love never dies" riffs Needy - it's that fractured friendship that critics missed - all eyes were firmly on Jennifer's body and not on Diablo's wordplay.