10 Horror Movie Reveals So Bad You Almost Walked Out
6. Black Goo Mind Control - Black Christmas (2019)
2019's Black Christmas remake didn't exactly set high expectations from the jump, but plumbed such mind-numbingly stupid depths by the end that it became an actual chore to finish.
There are certainly worse ideas than updating a sorority-set slasher film to confront contemporary issues like hazing and campus rape culture, but Sophia Takal's movie goes wildly off the deep end in its third act.
It's eventually revealed that the murderous frat boys are in fact being possessed by a magic black goo which pours out of a bust of the university's founder, Calvin Hawthorne, allowing his spirit to take control of the boys in order to murder "troublesome" women. Yup.
It's a jaw-droppingly stupid revelation that forces the movie to collapse in on the weight of its own silliness, while also undermining anything serious the script might be trying to say about sexual assault at academic institutions.
Magical black goo - really!? Could it not just be a cult or something?