10 Terrible Movies That Still Managed To Break The Box Office

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 6%

When William Brent Bell (of recent Orphan: First Kill fame) was making found footage supernatural horror The Devil Inside, it had all the trappings of an indie super-hit. Produced on a budget of just $1 million, the film follows Isabella (Fernanda Andrade) as she investigates the motives behind her mother Maria's (Suzan Crowley) murder of three people, via interviews and exorcisms at a hospital for the criminally insane where she attempts to save Maria's soul while fighting off her literal demons.

The trailer was tense, and it seemed Bell was making best use of all the hallmark subversions and camera tricks of the found footage genre. And yet, when it came down to it, the film fell flat on its face. The Devil Inside is not just bad, it's not scary - the death knell for any horror film whose premise is built purely on tension. And that's not to mention the abrupt and unresolved ending, which left plenty feeling cheated.

But no matter how cheated we felt, the money was already out of our pockets and in the filmmakers' coffers - all $101 million of it, which is not bad at all considering how little it cost to make.