10 Worst Horror Movies Of 2023
9. We Have A Ghost
It's clear that filmmaker Christopher Landon - who, incidentally, is directing the imperiled Scream 7 - wanted We Have a Ghost to evoke Beetlejuice vibes throughout, yet this bland Netflix Original ultimately settles for being merely excruciating.
This toothless, charmless family-friendly horror-comedy boldly - and ultimately, foolishly - casts David Harbour in the role of a mute ghost, leaving the script to be filled up with woeful Very Online dialogue and exhausting amounts of exposition.
At a brutal 127 minutes in length, this thing is at least a full half-hour too long, overstuffed with subplots and characters (looking at you, Tig Notaro) which ensure what should've been a breezy, seat-of-the-pants romp is instead a cumbersome, soporific bore.
When folks use "Netflix Original" as a negative, this forgettable nothingburger serving of genre slop is precisely what they're talking about.
That $51 million budget could've been so much better spent by giving $10 million to five talented on-the-rise horror filmmakers instead. Or, you know, tried-and-tested directors like Ti West or Leigh Whannell.