20 AWFUL Horror Movie Moments You Wish You Could Forget
10. Fantasy Island: The Whole Finale
Fantasy Island is one of the very-worst horror films of the 21st century. Pretty much everything about it is infuriating and yet, just when you think it can't get any worse, it outdoes itself with this climax, an overpowering crescendo of awfulness in which everything wrong with the movie is on display. The unconvincing special effects, the wasted cast, the head-smackingly dull PG-13 scares, the groan-worthy attempts at emotional manipulation, the convoluted, never-ending twists... it's all here.
This finale, with its uber-generic zombie monsters and total lack of grit, couldn't have been any less scary and worst of all, it throws in one final twist, the most insulting one of all. It's revealed that Melanie (Lucy Hale), one of the people trapped on the island, actually orchestrated the whole thing, bringing the other characters there because she blames them for the death of a guy she was meant to go on a date with one night.
As well as feeling totally forced, Melanie's motives were petty in the extreme. If this had been a parody and the joke had been that the villain had silly motivations then this would've worked but, much like with everything else in this unbearable train-wreck, it's all played far too straight.