10 Horror Movies That Just Aren’t Scary
Regardless of the hype, these films fell flat on the fright front.
For whatever reason, so many of us love nothing more than having the pants scared off us. For as long as the concept of cinema has been around, there has forever been the demand and need for horror movies designed for nothing more than to get the blood pumping and to make you feel uncomfortable in your own skin.
There have been countless horror offerings over the decades that have done just that, that have caused many a sleepless night, and that still make us wince in terror at the mere thought of them to this day, but that's not always been the case.
Of course, there are horror movies that are just plain bad, yet here the spotlight is to be put on horror efforts that aren't being highlighted due to necessarily being outright awful films. No, more this feature is about horror movies that are just plain not scary.
As odd as it may sound, not every horror film has to be an outright assault of fear and shocks, but there are those films that promise to be a fright-filled rollercoaster ride and fail miserably in delivering such an experience.
Here, then, are ten such horror movies that don't get even close to scaring their audience.
10. Annabelle
With James Wan’s The Conjuring in 2013, New Line’s shared Conjuring Universe of films got off to a fantastic start, as Wan delivered one of the greatest horror movies of the past decade. Since then, this shared realm has been a hugely mixed bag when it comes to quality and to scares, and bottom of the class in all of this is 2014’s Annabelle.
Simply put, Annabelle just wasn’t scary.
After the creepy doll being nicely, intriguingly introduced in that first Conjuring film, anticipation was high amongst horror fans at just what devilish delights awaited in Annabelle’s own picture. Sadly, the end result was a dud of a movie that struggled to muster up any reaction other than boredom.
Foolishly, Annabelle relied far too much on the overplayed trope of just using musical notes to let its audience know when it should be scared. Only, regardless of this musical score, the on-screen action seen just wasn’t scary. Rather than using the score to accentuate the horrors seen in a movie, Annabelle went the other way and used its music to try and convince you what you were seeing really, really was grim and ghastly.
Thankfully, follow-up Annabelle: Creation was a vastly improved, far scarier affair. The less said about this year’s Annabelle Comes Home, though, the better.