8 Horror Movies So Awful They Were Pulled From The Cinema

8. Dashcam (2021)

Rob Savage's found-footage horror Dashcam – or DASHCAM, as it likes to be known – flew under the radar for most, despite its decent reception at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

Dashcam is about Annie (Annie Hardy), a young woman who livestreams improvisational music from her dashcam. She travels from America to the UK to circumvent COVID-19 restrictions, meets up with a former bandmate and agrees to help out Angela (Angela Enahoro), a passenger who soon gets them all in a deadly spot of bother.

Despite its inventive format, which sought to push the boundaries of horror cinema just that bit farther than the equally capitalisation-crazy Joe Keery vehicle SPREE, there were simply too many jump scares and an unlikeable lead character in the form of Hardy's inventively named right-wing anti-masker.

While not an outright dud, the film nonetheless received mixed to negative reviews from fans and critics alike, and some of the nation's favourite mainstream filmhouses agreed with them. Vue cinemas in the UK pulled the film from their schedule, leading to a Twitter spat between Savage and the company, which revealed that the decision was made on the basis of the film's "commercial conditions not being viable".

Ouch.