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Were scraping the bottom of the cauldron for this one, freaky folks. Here lies a group of wretched movies with the lowest Tomatometers of all time with a minimum of 20 reviews now rising and shambling into our guide to the worst horror movies ever made.
No movie listed here achieved higher than 9% on the Tomatometer. As you might expect, the list features an inordinate number are remakes, the biggest offenders including The Fog, Jacobs Ladder, Flatliners, and Martyrs. Same goes for sequels, as Jason, Jaws, the living dead, and an American werewolf make their appearances. And then theres movies that will never even get a sniff of a chance for a sequel, like Sandra Bullocks Premonition, the Daniel Craig clunker Dream House, or the eerily and aptly-titled The Disappointments Room.
Nothing but trouble coming up on in the worst, lowest-rated horror movies of all time! Alex Vo
#1
Adjusted Score: 2393%
Critics Consensus: One of the weakest entries in the J-horror remake sweepstakes, One Missed Call is undone by bland performances and shopworn shocks.
#2
Adjusted Score: 2050%
Critics Consensus: Illogical, tension-free, and filled with cut-rate special effects, Jaws: The Revenge is a sorry chapter in a once-proud franchise.
#3
Adjusted Score: 763%
Critics Consensus: No need for a quarantine -- enthusiasm for this inert remake is not contagious.
#4
Adjusted Score: 642%
Critics Consensus: The Disappointments Room lives down to its title with a thrill-free thriller that presumably left its stars filled with regret - and threatens to do the same for audiences.
#5
Critics Consensus: A lazy collection of obsession thriller clichs, Homecoming will leave viewers wishing they'd opted for a lopsided football game and some awkward dancing instead.
#6
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#7
Adjusted Score: 5371%
Critics Consensus: Inept on almost every level, Alone in the Dark may not work as a thriller, but it's good for some head-slapping, incredulous laughter.
#8
Adjusted Score: 2737%
Critics Consensus: The Haunting of Molly Hartley is a rather lifeless horror endeavor, with a pedestrian plot and few scares.
#9
Adjusted Score: 5624%
Critics Consensus: As frustrating as a 404 error, Fear Dot Com is a stylish, incoherent, and often nasty mess with few scares.
#10
Adjusted Score: 4356%
Critics Consensus: A grungy, disjointed, mostly brainless mess of a film, House of the Dead is nonetheless loaded with unintentional laughs.
#11
Adjusted Score: 4607%
Critics Consensus: The Apparition fails to offer anything original, isn't particularly scary, and offers so little in the way of dramatic momentum that it's more likely to put you to sleep than thrill you.
#12
Adjusted Score: 4128%
Critics Consensus: The Darkness clumsily relies on an assortment of genre tropes, leaving only the decidedly non-frightening ghost of superior horror films in its wake.
#13
Adjusted Score: 6326%
Critics Consensus: Bless the Child squanders its talented cast on a plot that's more likely to inspire unintentional laughs than shivers.
#14
Adjusted Score: 8880%
Critics Consensus: A murky thriller with few chills, Godsend features ludicrous dialogue, by-the-numbers plotting, and an excess of cheap shocks.
#15
Adjusted Score: 8719%
Critics Consensus: Flatliners falls flat as a horror movie and fails to improve upon its source material, rendering this reboot dead on arrival.
#16
Adjusted Score: 6013%
Critics Consensus: The Fog is a so-so remake of a so-so movie, lacking scares, suspense or originality.
#17
Adjusted Score: 5388%
Critics Consensus: Yet another predictable variation on the hoary old haunted-house movie, Darkness is an illogical, portentous mess.
#18
Adjusted Score: 4952%
Critics Consensus: Soul Survivors' stock characters and utter lack of suspense gives viewers little reason to attempt deciphering the confusing plot.
#19
Adjusted Score: 4084%
Critics Consensus: The most mind-bending aspect of 6 Souls is Julianne Moore's participation, the overqualified star wasted on a goofy horror premise that generates more guffaws than scares.
#20
Adjusted Score: 4512%
Critics Consensus: Misguided from stem to stern, Mary wastes the talents of an outstanding cast -- and makes a soggy mess of its supernatural horror story.
#21
Adjusted Score: 4288%
Critics Consensus: A needless remake that quickly loses sight of the themes that elevated the original, this is a Jacob's Ladder that leads straight to nowhere.
#22
Adjusted Score: 4056%
Critics Consensus: Oh my god.
#23
Adjusted Score: 4585%
Critics Consensus: Zero brains.
#24
Adjusted Score: 8681%
Critics Consensus: Slowly, steadily, although no one seems to be moving it in that direction, the Ouija planchette points to NO.
#25
Adjusted Score: 8785%
Critics Consensus: The Devil Inside is a cheap, choppy unscary mess, featuring one of the worst endings in recent memory.
#26
Adjusted Score: 12506%
Critics Consensus: While there are some built-in scares, the movie is muddled and unsatisfying.
#27
Adjusted Score: 9600%
Critics Consensus: Dream House is punishingly slow, stuffy, and way too obvious to be scary.
#28
Adjusted Score: 9125%
Critics Consensus: Boring, predictable, and bereft of thrills or chills, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is exactly the kind of rehash that gives horror sequels a bad name.
#29
Adjusted Score: 8326%
Critics Consensus: It's all been done before, and done better.
#30
Adjusted Score: 7819%
Critics Consensus: Markedly inferior to its cult classic predecessor in every way, An American Werewolf in Paris is felled by the silver bullets of clumsy storytelling and chintzy special effects.
#31
Adjusted Score: 14324%
Critics Consensus: Overdosing on flashbacks, and more portentous than profound, the overly obtuse Premonition weakly echoes such twisty classics as Memento, The Sixth Sense, and Groundhog Day.
#32
Adjusted Score: 13013%
Critics Consensus: It may feature such accomplished actors as Hilary Swank and Stephen Rea, but The Reaping also boasts the apropos tagline "What hath God wrought?" It's schlocky, spiritually shallow, and scare-free.
#33
Adjusted Score: 15325%
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