11 Big Name Actors Who Ruined Good Horror Movies

The laws of horror fiction state that every popular Stephen King adaptation has to be remade at least once every decade, and unfortunately (for her) duties for 2013's Carrie landed with Chloe Grace Moretz.

Moretz is a talented actor with plenty of top-tier films under her belt, including the original subversive comic book movie, Kick-Ass (2010). Nevertheless, living up to Sissy Spacek's genre-defining turn as the film's titular troubled teen was a task that even the most accomplished thespians might have had trouble pulling off. Add to the mix the fact that director Kimberly Peirce (known best for 1999's Boys Don't Cry) was climbing a mountain with cinema legend Brian De Palma's flag on top, and this could only have ended one way.

What the film does have going for it is an updated setting, allowing a little more fluidity with the material, but despite Moretz's best efforts it never quite feels like we're watching Carrie in its own right. She lacks the distance from reality that Spacek could turn on and off at will, seeming too at home in the high school setting she's supposed to despise.

If anything, though, Carrie just proves that you can't improve on perfection.