15 Least Scary Horror Movies Since 2000

10. The Grudge 2

After 2 straight-to-video films, 2 theatrically released features and an American remake starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, the amusingly titled The Grudge 2 was director Takashi Shimizu€™s sixth take on the material, making it his Revenge of the Sith. Like George Lucas€™ final trip to the well, it€™s the act of a malevolent creator who doesn€™t like you, never wanted you and views you as an impediment to his golf game, but at least Hayden Christensen isn€™t in it. Gellar€™s not the main focus this time around, so in tried-and-true horror movie fashion, a sister (Amber Tamblyn) who looks nothing like her shows up and starts poking around in a haunted house, then before you can say €œHuh?€, the narrative jumps backwards and forwards in time, moving between Japan and Chicago, where a succession of hotties (Arielle Kebbel, Teresa Palmer, Sarah Roemer etc) are stalked by a female ghost with a serious vitamin deficiency. For all its supposedly elliptical storytelling, though, the film deals in the same old same old: characters behave in stupid ways, the hot blonde takes a shower, people wander off alone down dark corridors blah blah blah. There are hooded figures, creepy kids and false scares by the dozen, the most irritating being the crashing chords heard whenever someone turns around.