10 Horror Movies Monsters That Just DIDN'T Work

9. Jack-O - Jack-O

Adorning households with jack-o-lanterns has been a time-honoured custom during Halloween for over a century. As a result, it was only a matter of time before a Halloween slasher centred around a grinning pumpkin monster came to fruition.

Which brings us to 1995's Jack-O. In this supernatural slice-a-thon, the townsfolk of Oakmoor Crossing find themselves being tormented by a pumpkinhead scarecrow wielding a scythe.

Sadly, Jack-O is an absolute mess, thanks to its sluggish pacing, dodgy action, and shoddy dialogue. It also contains a terribly distracting cameo from John Carradine - who'd been dead seven years before this film was released - as a wizard.

Of course, Jack-O's biggest problem is the titular villain. Thanks to the atrocious lighting, it's sometimes difficult to tell that Jack-O has a pumpkinhead. Due to his generic design and blank expression, there's nothing intimidating about this paranormal foe. Heck, the jack-o-lanterns from the Goosebumps series were scarier, and that was a kids' show.

The kills are equally uncreative, with the camera regularly cutting away before Jack-O plunges his scythe into his victims. 

Though viewers probably weren't expecting a fruit-based monster to be nerve-wracking, this was embarrassing to watch.