10 Recent Horror Movies Ruined By Their Third Act

Now to be completely fair to Blumhouse's AI-themed horror Afraid, it's not a particularly good film to start with. 

But in the very least, audiences held onto hope that the third act would deliver a deliciously campy finale as our human heroes face off against a now-unfathomably powerful AI.

But Afraid's third act is instead a rushed, scarcely comprehensible mess, hurriedly reintroducing characters who've been absent since the film's opening scene for a wildly convoluted reveal, bafflingly having the act of swatting save the heroes from sure death, and then ending on a predictable downer ending where the omnipotent AI wins.

Director Chris Weitz races through all this with the unfussed efficiency of someone handed an extra work task at 4:45pm on a Friday, in turn depriving audiences who've stuck with the film of an intriguingly heightened final reel that might've made it all actually worth it.

On the other hand, given that the end credits roll at around the 75-minute (!) mark, at least it's a short trainwreck.