10 Horror Movies That Wasted Brilliant Concepts

Technology is something of a low-hanging fruit when it comes to horror movies, as it’s easy to bring something to life that could threaten or change either the entire world or just one individual’s life. Just look at how incredibly popular Black Mirror has become.

While Charlie Brooker’s TV show produced an episode where an app told couples exactly how long their relationship had left, Countdown took this one step further, showing users just when they would die.

This had the potential to open the story up to so many different questions. Would you want to look or would you not want to know? How would you react if you did find out? Would there be any way of changing your death date or is it genuinely destined? While the potential for such a story was through the roof, Countdown thoroughly underwhelmed.

Atop the laundry list of defects that made Countdown one of 2019’s most disappointing movies, and not just within the horror genre, was the ridiculously silly demon that was behind the app. This made it absolutely impossible to take seriously, and even if the rest of the movie was any good, which it wasn’t, this would have been impossible to get past anyway.