10 Most Disappointing Horror Movies Of The Decade (So Far)

After remaking The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday The 13th and Conan The Barbarian, The Asylum was Marcus Nispel’s first stab at “original” material, and whatever your opinions of Nispel’s previous efforts, even his harshest critics concede that he has a good eye. Given a decent story, he could deliver a killer movie.

Alas, The Asylum turns out to be as original as its title, a load of tosh about drug-fuelled teenagers in (you guessed it) an abandoned asylum who decide to experiment with the occult. This of course leads to one of them becoming possessed, and you can probably guess the rest.

This is one of those films where it’s difficult to say which parts were meant to be funny, and which parts are just stupid-funny. There’s some odd talk about possessed souls who murder “those who abuse drugs and blackmail girls for sex” and Nispel seems to have his tongue in his cheek on occasion, but mostly he gets on the business of delivering generic shocks.