10 MORE Horror Movies That Actually Benefitted From Bad Acting

The Scream movies have spent the past three decades treading a fine line between classy and cheesy; tasteful and trash; high and low horror. And the new (now-aborted) trilogy has had to manage this in whole new ways, reckoning with a large and improbable history, bringing new surprises and villains to the screen, and remaining tense enough to keep us coming back.

And for the most part, it has managed this well, with Scream VI serving as a prime example of how the old tricks can look fresh against a new canvas. In this outing, Ghostface stalks the new series cast to the Big Apple, and characters old and new have to band together in order to face a different breed of killer with an obsession about the past.

It is from Scream VI's villains - yes, once again multiple killers - that we find some pretty hysterical acting. Dermot Mulroney, Liana Liberato, and Jack Champion play Detective Bailey, Quinn, and Ethan, a small family unit of murderers seeking to avenge one of their own - the previous film's Richie (Jack Quaid). 

This trio is way out there, with the actors going so much farther over the top than those of any of the previous Scream films' killers, as if in an effort to out-wacko them. But somehow it works. Their less-than-serious performances gel well with Scream VI's overall vibe and rotating scene beats (meta-silly-scary), and put a satisfying cap on this most recent Scream offering.