8 Horror Movies So Awful They Were Pulled From The Cinema

After pharmaceutical giant the Umbrella Corporation's ruin of Raccoon City, a group of survivors work together to uncover the truth behind the organisation and fight off the evil they've been brewing in the basement. So far, so familiar. But Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City is not your parents' Resident Evil. It has no Milla Jovovich (boo!), no Paul WS Anderson (phew!), a slimmer production budget than the original or any of its sequels, and no ties to the canon of those films. But then maybe that's a good thing, right?

Wrong.

The film bombed on initial release, causing certain cinemas in the UK to pull it, including industry giant Odeon. Despite the chain having been screening previews for the return to Raccoon City, none of their 120 UK cinemas ended up showing it. Though the only official line from the company was that they couldn't reach an agreement with the distributor (Sony), the film's critical rating and lack of box office potential meant that Odeon would have been seeking to show it on a limited run, rather than a full theatrical release, and Sony weren't having it.

This is not the first time Odeon have gone head-to-head with distributors over specific titles, as they previously refused to show the new Fast & Furious in its post-lockdown release, in protest of Universal's decision to take the film to VOD early.