15 Horror Movies Since 2000 So Awful They'e Genuinely Horrifying
Horror movies that do what the genre is supposed to a little too well.
Something wonderful is currently happening; we are in the middle of a horror revival. As films such as It Follows, The Conjuring and Get Out show, horror is becoming scary again. They are deviating from formula, doing away with the jump scares and gore and also telling more meaningful stories.
It's great that horror is getting good again, since the genre has been in a bad state for... well, more or less over 20 years. The 90s and noughties were terrible decades for horror cinema. Looking back over the 21st century in particular, there have been a lot of stinkers which serve as a sad reminder of just how rough things have been.
All these terrible horror flicks - remakes, sequels, reboots, found-footage turds, PG-13 duds - make the recent flurry of great horror movies even more satisfying. These following 20 films may be irredeemably awful, but they are useful in showing everything wrong with recent horror films and as long as newer horror films don't do anything these movies did, the current higher standard of horror will hopefully carry on.
15. Ichi The Killer
The Plot:
This one has little plot. It's basically a bunch of Yakuza gangs warring with the focus being on a psychologically tortured man named Ichi and a sadomasocistic assasin named Kakihara.
Why It Sucks:
This is a film most probably weren't expecting to see here, as it is moderately popular overall. This is a mystery that cannot be explained, since it is a strong contender for the most worthless film in existence. Not the worst, but the most worthless.
Ichi the Killer is one of those rare films which literally does nothing. It isn't funny, it isn't thrilling, it isn't emotionally engaging and is also wildly incoherent, so it's hard to even understand what's going on.
Thanks to the generally cartoon-like feel, even the violence disappoints. Here we have a film which is about nothing, tells us nothing and makes us feel nothing, making it a truly worthless film if there ever was one.
With migraine-inducing cinematography, flat storytelling and a horrendously immature and juvenile feel, this is a technically awful film in every sense of the word and it's truly bizarre that it's still quite well-regarded.