The 50 Least Scary Horror Movies
By Complex Magazine | Oct 21, 2010 | 2:57 pm | Permalink
This may come as a startling revelation to some filmmakers, but we go to horror movies because we want to be horrified. Well, that and we want to terrify a chick so she's on edge and ready for the portion of our date where we lock her in the basement with our one-eyed monster. Unfortunately, a lot of the "scary movies" that Hollywood's sphincter squeezes out for us fail to deliver a good scare on every level. We're not talking about the tongue-in-cheek, genre-mocking films that play for laughs, mind you, but the ones that claim to be frightening and then fall short by using cheesy CGI monsters and actors who clearly couldn't overpower anyone as serial killers, spelling out death scenes in advance, and generally sticking to a script of nothing but horror clichés. For genuine chills, check out our countdown of the 50 scariest movies of all time. For the 50 least scary horror movies, keep reading...if you dare...to not be frightened!
Fuck Your Staff October 21st, 2010 at 12:38 PM
Seriously some of these aren't even Horror movies. The inclusion of Amityville Horror, shows that you have no taste and your writing staff probably Diggs these lists up.
tuputaamadre October 21st, 2010 at 05:55 PM
Actually one of the 3 actually comes home you f u c k a s s b i t c h. This is the worst list on Complex ever!
Deliverance October 22nd, 2010 at 06:18 AM
So ...`Children of the Corn` is the 49th least scary movie ... AND the 49th scariest movie at the same time ?!? http://best.complex.com/lists/The-50-Scariest-Movies-of-All-Time/children-of-the-corn WTF Complex ?!? I love your lists most of the time , but scary and unscary arent exactly the same thing, also I think there are more than 100 horror flicks, so this is kind of inconsistent ...
Seal October 23rd, 2010 at 04:56 AM
Why don't you put them on one page so we don't have to load 50 pages??? Douche
deheor October 29th, 2010 at 04:32 AM
I ignored the highly entertaining Resident Evil being listed but this one is just plain wrong. You may not like the films it has inspired but Hostel is very effective.
Jason October 29th, 2010 at 05:01 AM
John Carpenters Village of the Damned, while not the scariest movie ever made, it sure is entertaining.
shobhana shiknis October 29th, 2010 at 05:06 AM
Wow ! Enjoyed reading all the comments, and totally agreed with the analysis. Though tilted towards vulgarity ,like sticking pubic hair on Nicholson's face,or the comment, no one did the blow job,etc. , it was one hell of a hilarious commentary, which i read through non-stop for all the fifty movies ! Would enjoy reading some thing more like this. May be some phony war movies ? or boring sci-fi ? Thanks, Shobhana.
Amazed October 29th, 2010 at 06:11 AM
Did you even watch the movie? No one dies from eating pop rocks and soda. The comment about the actress killing a child in real life is in bad taste. This list is terrible as well.
Rich Galuppi October 29th, 2010 at 06:24 AM
You need to get your facts straight. It's Uwe Bowle not Ulli Lommel that is the the "direct to DVD hack".
tom October 29th, 2010 at 06:37 AM
i think you're looking at "open water" as a horror water when in fact it's nothing of the kind. suspense, maybe a thriller, but not horror. if you are watching it on the wrong level then you're going to find it lacking on that level. i would suggest you go back and watch it for what it is. someone's vacation movies. and what happens when you don't learn to count. really not that bad of a movie.