10 Horror Movies With Amazing Concepts But TERRIBLE Execution

10. Antebellum

The marketing for Antebellum seemed to imply that it was a horror film about Black people being kidnapped and sent back through time by white supremacists to live on Southern slave plantations. If nothing else, it was one hell of a provocative idea.

But in a classic case of a movie being grossly mis-marketed, it actually turns out that Antebellum is a single temporal narrative - there's no time travel involved, and protagonist Veronica (Janelle Monáe) and her fellow slaves have simply been kidnapped and imprisoned within a Civil War reenactment park.

Even so, that was probably a workable premise if the movie didn't bend over backwards to try and make a plot twist out of it, saving the Big Reveal for the very end of the film, by which point large swaths of viewers had lost interest.

Much as Antebellum sounds like a great idea for a feature-length Black Mirror episode on paper, the howlingly on-the-nose writing, awkward narrative structure, and obvious last-minute twist add up to a deeply underwhelming experience, no matter the solid lead performance from Janelle Monáe.