15 Recent Horrors You Should Avoid This Halloween
1. Rob Zombie's 31
The Running Man meets The Devil's Rejects - what's not to love? Answer: almost everything about Rob Zombie's 31, a strong contender for the most disappointing horror film of 2016. After a while spent out of the horror filmmaking fray, Zombie returns to it with his love letter to Hillbillies and Killer Clowns - maybe the most Rob Zombie movie ever made.
What that involves is surprisingly not-fun swearing, unlikeable characters (including his wife, again), a boring story and barely coherent action. Worst of all, its clowns barely even look like clowns, being too self-consciously 'scary' looking to ever actually scare. Everything about Rob Zombie's 31 seems to be trying too hard, and, as a result, it's an abject failure.
Instead, you should go for Zombie's underrated masterpiece - The Lords of Salem - which is spooky, clever and actually, properly scary at times.
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