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

1. Happy Death Day

Happy Death Day is one of the biggest surprise horror hits of the last few years, following a young woman (Jessica Rothe) caught in a time loop every time she dies, while desperately trying to capture the masked perpetrator behind her torment.

Though the marketing focused heavily on the creepy cherub mask worn by the killer, Happy Death Day is instead an unapologetic horror-comedy, a PG-13 cross between Scream and Groundhog Day that never quite gets the blood pumping.

Between the family-friendly audience rating and its deceptively goofy tone - aided by a game performance from Rothe - the film proved how large the market for teen-skewing horror-comedy truly is.

And though it blew the box office wide open while scoring surprisingly decently with critics, it did feel rather benign as a piece of horror filmmaking.

This proved doubly true for the recent sequel, which took the comedic focus to self-parodic levels by introducing a time travel element and ditching even the faintest semblance of horror.