10 Popular Horror Movies That Really Weren't Scary At All

2. The Wicker Man

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Show this 1973 horror classic to any teenager nowadays and, even if they enjoy it, they'll likely find nothing scary about it - and, really, they're right.

The Wicker Man is unquestionably one of the greatest horror films of all time, a mood-thick thriller in which an unsuspecting police sergeant (Edward Woodward) heads to a remote Hebridean island in search of a missing girl.

And though Robin Hardy's film is suffused with unease from almost minute one, it is almost entirely bereft of conventional scare-pieces, focused intently on the altogether more unsettling banality of evil.

The closest the movie ever gets to palpable terror is its brilliantly downbeat ending, of course, but even then, it's more of a jaw-dropping WTF moment than it is truly bone-rattling.

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