10 Worst PG-13 Horror Films Since 2000

4. The Roommate

The Roommate thinks it€™s an ersatz Single White Female, but it€™s really the Beverly Hills 90210 of psycho thrillers €“ there€™s no plot, and no characterization beyond good and evil, so it€™s just 91 minutes about the lives of good-looking people you couldn€™t care less about. They wear the clothes the producers want you to buy, listen to the CD soundtrack and chase the MTV Awards demographic, who nominated Minka Kelly in the Best Scared-As-Sh*t Performance category. Because we€™re talking PG-13, Rebecca (Leighton Meester), the movie€™s ersatz Jennifer Jason Leigh, conducts the kind of bloodless rampage unseen since the days of Poverty Row quickies. When she€™s not subtly suggesting her fragile mental state by stabbing the furniture, Ersatz Jennifer is blackmailing The Creepy Teacher or threatening The Slut which, considering she€™s about as menacing as a Smurf riding a unicycle, proves remarkably successful. In fact, waiting for her to achieve critical mass is such an ordeal that you€™ll be reminded of Terry Southern€™s advice to a writer of limp screenplays: €œWhy don€™t they just get stoned and f**k?€
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'