10 Great Horror Movies With Terrible Concepts

This one is a little different, as the structural problems inherent in the premise are still there in the finished film. It’s just so good that you won’t care.

Yeah, it’s easy to claim decades after the success of Frank Marshall’s 1990 horror comedy Arachnophobia that any film which boasted the likes of John Goodman, Bill Pullman, and Julian Sands was always going to be a creepy, comedic delight.

But as screenwriting guru Blake Snyder noted, normal sized spiders aren’t even scary to all filmgoers. And as for an entire town being the small, inescapable confined space that the film’s characters are caught in? Well, unlike the ocean in Jaws or the dense woods of many monster movies, the local inhabitants in Arachnophobia could always just, you know, leave town until the exterminators are finished up and they’d be fine.

Of course, none of these problems occurs to viewers until after this delightful monster movie is over, as the infestation’s gradual pace means locals might believably not have noticed it and the likeable cast and witty script overcome the fundamentally not-all-that-scary monsters.up