10 Horror Movies That Squandered HUGE Potential

Scott Cooper's Antlers is a "close, but no cigar" horror movie - a Guillermo del Toro-produced creature feature based off an acclaimed short story, with an atmospheric Oregon setting and top-drawer cast led by Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons.

Though the wendigo's creature design is excellent, Antlers is too often a low-energy family-centric drama which tones down the more disturbing nature of the source material.

It's well shot and compellingly acted, for sure, but ultimately not terribly memorable, thanks to the boilerplate dialogue, thin characters, and overall lack of atmospheric flavour you'd surely expect from a horror film steeped in such fascinating mythology.

At even just 99 minutes in length, this one's a bit of a snoozer that fails to deliver the expected intensity, instead struggling to reconcile its dramatic ambitions with the demands of its genre.

There's so much talent here both in front of and behind the camera, but it all adds up to a not-bad, not-great offering that had the potential to be a stone cold genre masterpiece.