The 10 Worst Horror Movies of the Last 10 Years

Horror is one of the most popular and lucrative genres out there, outlasting the eras of movie musicals, action flicks, and fantasy epics, and holding strong against a current era dominated by comic book blockbusters. Horror movies have always been here, and they’re here to stay, because, for the most part, they’re pretty great. Even the bad ones are still pretty fun, because scary movies have the ability to be at least entertaining even if they aren’t instant classics. When you’re in the mood for something fun, horror is always a good bet.

Then again … because there’s a lot of horror out there, there are even more opportunities for it to get bad. Like, really, really bad. There are few things worse in this world than sitting through an awful horror movie, one devoid of tension or scares or cool creatures or plot or characters you don’t hope are immediately killed off. Whether they’re bad because they pull too many punches, or don’t pull enough, it’s easy to tell within the first few minutes whether you’ve landed on a dud. This week, we are dishonoring the worst ones from the last decade — that is, from the past ten years.

And let’s be honest here: The absolute worst horror movies are the low-budget, low effort, low quality slopfests you find if you scroll for too long on Netflix or Prime, stuff with titles like Zombie Unicorn Cannibal Attack III: Curse of the Werespider. (If anyone wants to make that, we’d watch it.) These horror movies are bad mainly because we were kinda hoping against hope that they’d defy the odds and end up being pretty good. Though I think we can safely say we all predicted The Bye Bye Man would be one of the worst.

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