10 Acclaimed Recent Movies That Audiences HATED
9. Presence
Just like Babygirl, Steven Soderbergh's new film Presence suffered considerable audience backlash due to dishonest marketing which misrepresented what it actually is, despite scoring a cool 88% from critics.
From the trailer, you'd assume that this experimental effort - which takes place entirely from the perspective of a ghost - was a card-carrying horror flick.
The posters and trailers emphasised every sliver of even vaguely creepy imagery, even though the reality is that Presence is actually more of a familial drama with fringe thriller elements.
Most of the film focuses on a splintered family simply being observed by the entity, and even when the intensity ramps up later on, it's a stretch to call it horror at all.
And so, it's little surprise that Presence's audience score is barely half that of the critical rating - a middling 54% - while it landed a "C+" CinemaScore.
Audiences who were banking on a spooky haunted house movie instead got a far more pared down supernatural drama that was mostly lacking the expected genre elements.
Presence is a good movie well worth checking out - just know what you're getting into before you sit down to watch it.