10 Utter Trash Horror Movies You Loved Anyway

10. Malignant

Let's kick things off with the most recent film on this list, James Wan's utterly unhinged supernatural horror flick Malignant.

Pre-release there were persistent rumours that the film had performed horribly with test audiences and Warner Bros. basically had no idea what to do with it - a claim that's evidently confirmed by the bonkers end product.

For its first two thirds, Malignant is a relatively by-the-numbers genre romp - a familiar murder-mystery yarn in which a terrifying, long-haired individual named Gabriel is venturing on a killing spree, all while cops investigate the case via moldy detective procedural tropes.

The dialogue is awful and the performances stiff throughout, but Malignant earns a place for itself in the annals of genre legend when its bats**t third act arrives.

Without giving things away if you haven't seen it yet - and you really should - Wan introduces a game-changing reveal sure to leave even the most seasoned horror buff's jaw on the floor.

Wan leans aggressively into the unapologetically idiotic campiness of the scenario, delivering a narrative rug-pull worthy of the world's most messed-up telenovela, combined with a festival of brutally creative violence sure to leave gore-hounds cackling with glee.

Since Malignant's release, many have suggested that Wan basically made the film as a joke, to see what madness he could convince Warner Bros. to let him make in exchange for directing the second Aquaman movie. It's incredibly easy to believe that.