8 Horror Movies So Awful They Were Pulled From The Cinema

Jared Leto has had an uneven career, to say the least, going from the wunderkind breakthrough star of Requiem For A Dream (2000), to Academy Award winner for Dallas Buyers Club (2013), to a backslide that began with his portrayal of the Joker and has come to a shuddering, gasping standstill with this year's horror-hero flick Morbius.

Leto stars as Dr Michael Morbius, a scientist suffering from a rare degenerative blood disease, who splices his genes with those of a Costa Rican vampire bat and, well, becomes something of a vampire himself.

Morbius was doomed to fail from the beginning. As with so much of the non-MCU superhero fare of late, fans had pre-judged the film prior to release and, when it didn't pull any rabbits out of the hat – or vampires out of the bat? – joined critics in slaughtering it online. Considering the marketing campaign behind this one, the $39 million opening weekend in the US was tepid at best (against, say Spider-Man: No Way Home's $260 million) and things only went downhill from there.

Showings dwindled as cinemas globally began to minimise their daily screenings, and the majority had stopped showing it altogether by the end of the first month. Riding in on a wave of memes, Sony opted to relaunch Morbius in 1,000 US cinemas a mere two months after its original release, but only made $300,000 on opening weekend, and it was pulled again within a week.