10 Horror Movies That Sound Terrible (But Are Actually Great)

8. The Fourth Kind

Critics were pretty brutal towards The Fourth Kind when it hit theaters in 2009, and it currently holds a 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. In the years since, though, horror fans have been discovering it on Netflix and realizing it's a really unique little movie.

Like The Blair Witch Project before it, The Fourth Kind really tried to convince audiences it was real. In the opening scene, Milla Jovovich appears on screen as herself to explain that what you're about to see is based on actual footage of alien abductions, and Universal even promoted the movie with fake newspaper articles about disappearances. That all just annoyed people and made them more critical, but if you put the publicity out of your mind, the film itself can be quite effective. 

It uses an interesting technique of doing a split screen with the "real" footage on the left and the actors' recreation on the right. Once again, some viewers were put off by this apparent attempt to fool them, but really, it's just a cool device to get you more invested. Obviously it's all just a movie, but it's still fun to pretend it could be legit. The Fourth Kind has a fair amount of logic gaps and bad dialogue, but it's one of the few films to make the idea of alien abduction genuinely terrifying without needing to show a single alien.