10 Terrible Movies Everyone Goes Way Too Easy On

9. The Thing (2011)

We seem to be coming out of the tunnel of rush-job remakes of horror classics. Occasionally a Carrie will come along and bore everyone with repetition for a couple of hours, but the late-naughties craze of taking whatever film scared America twenty years ago, pulling it to the modern day and replacing jump scares with gore (predominantly a crime of Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes) has abated as even lowest-common-denominator audiences smartened up to the industries tricks.

But while Nightmare On Elm Street and Friday The 13th took the brunt of the fan hate, other remakes ended up slipping past with the veil of presumed mediocrity hiding their real bile. Nowhere is this more true than with 2011's The Thing.

Ever wondered what happened at the Norwegian station before the start of John Carpenter's The Thing? It turns out exactly the same thing that happened at the American one. Masquerading as a prequel, but only to temporarily silence its critics, the film is an exact narrative retread of the original horror-sci-fi classic. If you've seen the original there's nothing new or insightful about the monster or it's arrival in the Antarctic. What pushes this film from bad to an irredeemable cash-grab, however, is what didn't make it to screen.

As the original's USP was it's incredible and consistently fresh practical effects, director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. originally opted to follow suit in a sort of homage. Unfortunately as release approached much of the on-set work was overlaid with not-quite-cutting-edge CGI that ended up making the boring and repetitive film pointless as well.