3. The Mangler (1995)
If you thought "killer elevator" was bad, how about "killer laundry press"? That's not a joke or anything: they really made a movie about a killer laundry press imbued with supernatural powers. Based on a short story from Stephen King's "inanimate objects become bad" stage, The Mangler is about as scary as it sounds. Rather bizarrely, the movie was directed by Tobe Hooper, who knows a thing or two about horror, given that he was the guy behind The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist. I'm not sure whether it was the concept or his lack of enthusiasm for the project that sunk this one: The Mangler fails to create a single real moment of horror in all its 106 minutes. Not surprising, of course, but it's somewhat disappointing to see that a collaboration between two horror maestros turned out so badly. It's genuinely embarrassing that somebody could call this a horror film, because how can you take a haunted laundry press - which chases people, by the way - seriously? Tobe Hooper deserved better - and so did we.