10 Horror Movies That Aren’t As Bad As Everyone Says

Released in 2010, James Wan's Insidious was one of the first small scale projects from Blumhouse Productions whose sleeper success went on to make a megastar of producer Jason Blum.

Starring a superb Rose Byrne and future The Conjuring hero Patrick Wilson, the creepy original film revived the tired haunted house premise with a conceit epitomised in the line "it's not your house that's haunted, it's your son."

Of course, the law of diminishing returns was in effect for the film's first sequel, released a few years later. Though most of the cast reprised their roles, the scares were scant and the story was more predictable.

As such expectations were low for the third instalment, and critics roundly dismissed Insidious Chapter Three when it was released in 2015.

The thing is, this threequel may be is admittedly be full of cliché characters, but there’s no denying it’s terrifying and arguably even scarier than the original film.

Despite critical dismissal, this intense, chilling tale of a bed-bound girl haunted by a grotesque ghostly presence and unable to escape it was written off by critics who seem to have never actually seen it.

The fact that our heroine is literally immobile makes the film far scarier, and it's a killer premise the movie takes full advantage of.