10 Bad Horror Movies (With ONE Great Scene)

2. The Razor-Wire Massacre - Ghost Ship

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You'll struggle to find many people who actually remember anything beyond the first 10 minutes of this 2002 supernatural horror flick, because it's so aggressively front-loaded with awesome that everything else pales wildly by comparison.

The opening scene takes place in 1962 and shows the gloriously gory fate of the passengers aboard the doomed SS Antonia Graza.

An unseen entity pulls a lever which causes a giant spool of razor wire to slice through the dance floor like butter, cutting everyone in half save for a young girl (Emily Brown) who is too short to be sliced, though evidently not too short to avoid being traumatised.

In pure creative terms this is brilliant, but the fantastic fusion of practical and digital gore effects really take it to the next level.

It makes for a great short film, but the rest of the movie is a frustratingly bland squandering of overqualified actors such as Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, and Karl Urban.

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