10 Best & 10 Worst Horror Movies Of 2016

5. The Darkness

Nope, not a biopic of the British one-hit wonder, !*$% rock revival band of the early noughties unfortunately. Even that might’ve been preferable to this uninspired excuse for a horror movie from Wolf Creek director Greg McLean.

Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell star as one half of a nuclear family alongside their bulimic daughter and autistic son who unwittingly invoke the wrath of a supernatural entity after they bring home some haunted Native American rocks from a vacation in the Grand Canyon. In just an hour and a half, the movie not only manages to craft offensive stereotypes of Native Americans, people with autism and people suffering from bulimia, it’s also crammed with all-too-familiar genre tropes and perfunctory jump scares.

Shame, because we’ve seen solid horror performances from Bacon and Michell in the past in films like Stir of Echoes and The Crazies but here those two talents are wasted.