20 Recent Horror Movies That Made ONE Huge Mistake
These horror movies all got ONE thing really wrong.
Getting any movie, no matter how good or bad, to the finish line and actually releasing it is a basically Herculean feat, typically requiring hundreds of artists and crafts-folk to put their skills towards the same end-goal.
But sometimes it's clear that a film just fundamentally doesn't work because of one big issue - an issue that probably should've been ironed out during some stage of development.
And that's absolutely the case with these 20 recent horror films, which despite their praise-worthy aspects, ultimately fell short of the mark due to one big creative gaffe they made.
It might be a refusal to trim the runtime down, iffy casting choices, baffling marketing decisions, or any number of other factors that arise during the creative process of making and releasing a film.
In some instances these mistakes totally ruined the film enough that most probably won't bother watching them again, while in others it simply placed a ceiling on how far the movie could go.
Either way, if these issues were rectified before release, they would've surely been embraced far more enthusiastically...
20. The BRUTAL Runtime - Lee Cronin's The Mummy
While it's fair to say that Lee Cronin's The Mummy was largely deemed a disappointing follow-up to his Evil Dead Rise, critics and horror fans alike might've been more eager to overlook its myriad flaws were it more editorially disciplined.
It's pretty rare for horror movies to clock in at more than two hours in length, and with a beefy 132-minute runtime, Cronin's film needed to absolutely earn that extended play.
But ultimately many came away from The Mummy feeling that it could've shed 20-30 minutes without losing anything substantial - quite the opposite in fact.
Again, the oft-questionable character decisions would've been easier to overlook if this was a pacy 100-minute sprint, but instead its issues are compounded by the fact it's also a stamina-obliterating slog.
Every movie should of course be as long as it needs to be, but it's honestly shocking that Warner Bros. didn't force Cronin to kill his darlings and bring this in well under two hours.