12 Unwatchable Horror Movies That Wasted Great Ideas

With a title which required the directors to truly try and be taken seriously, 2017’s scare-free dud The Bye Bye Man doesn’t feel like a flick overburdened with potential success.

After all, what’s so good about the idea of a villain who steal his ways into the minds of innocent victims, germinating there and gradually growing to dominate their thoughts until eventually they are driven mad seeing his presence everywhere? It’s not like that plot could be used to make a compelling allegory for the persistence of ideologies and their choke-like grips on people’s perceptions, the way everything from mental illness to racism can contort and reshape people’s minds for the worse?

Actually, the film could have illustrated that easily with its clever premise—they just chose to go down the “give Doug Jones some extra-long fingers and a zombie dog” route instead.