10 Most Overrated Horror Films Of The Past 20 Years

6. Let The Right One In

Scream Babadook
Magnet Releasing

What The Critics Said: “Stick your neck out for this Swedish horror show. It’s a winner, full of mirth and malice, plus a young romance you’ll never see on the Disney Channel.” (Rolling Stone)

Why They’re Wrong: Because of its po-faced presentation, this very silly film - your typical story of a bullied 12-year-old boy who falls in love with a 200-year-old vampire (who’s a dab hand at dealing with school bullies) - is just begging for the Rifftrax treatment.

Silliest of all is the end, where – spoiler alert – our young hero runs away with his girlfriend, who he keeps in a box while he boards a train. The final shot shows them communicating with each other by tapping out messages in Morse code. Was this meant to be a comedy? 

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'