What is everyone's worst horror film?

I've already mentioned "Poltergeist III" being the worst horror movie I have ever seen but I just hate the damn movie so much that I have to go into detail here why! :D

The Lowdown on the Movie: If anybody here even knows what makes a movie sequel work, "Poltergeist III" had nothing going for it except "Heather O' Rourke" (the young actress from the first two movies). "Poltergeist III" is pointless, "II" ended the story, bringing Kane back for "Poltergeist III" was a stupid, stupid idea anyway, his character in "III" is AWFUL, poorly written, poorly scripted and poorly executed like the rest of the movie, (his character was fantastic in "II"). "II" is a worthy good sequel, "III" is "TERRIBLE!". The remaining (virtually new) cast are unbearable, the so-called music score by "Joe Renzetti" is nothing more then a load of synthesized nonsense (no "Jerry GolRABmith" in sight this time). As for the effects, they are the kind of cheap, poor effects you find in a TV movie and getting back to the script, why didn't they just add the line "Carol Anne!" to Kane's pathetic, laughable dialogue in the script another 10,000 times or so, they seemed to think "118" already was "acceptable". :rolleyes:

The Lowdown on the Music Score: MGM asked "Jerry GolRABmith" to leave the "Poltergeist III" production, if you are going to remove a legendary composer from scoring a movie you don't replace them with a rookie who A) had no intention of writing an orchestral based score (even though he was actually offered an orchestra he could have used along with his synthesizers) = he was selfish, lazy and careless B) had no intention of using the previous established musical themes from the first two movies = he didn't want "GolRABmith" to get any credit or loose any of his precious money due to it having to go to "Jerry" by default and C) thinks his ideas were actually good ones! = he was and "still is" in my opinion, a complete a**hole. (excuse my language). "Carol Anne's Theme" was as important to the "Poltergeist" story as say "Darth Vader's Theme" was to "The Empire Strikes Back". You don't just decide NOT to use it because your paycheque will be deducted otherwise. By "Joe" taking that theme away he had already removed a large section of the story's appeal and ruined it there and then. :mad:

The Lowdown on Heather O' Rourke: Heather's mother was informed during her filming "Poltergeist III" that she may have a bowel obstruction and need surgery to correct it, so Heather's mother Kathy asked MGM if she could remove Heather from filming so that she could take her to see the specialist and find out if this was really the case and get her the surgery but MGM said NO because they didn't want filming to be put on hold and loose money as a result by not having their main star so they talked her out of it and into thinking nothing of that nature was wrong with Heather. Five weeks went by, then filming had to be put on hold suddenly anyway because Gary Sherman (the director) had a personal engagement of his own and therefore couldn't show up to work. During this time Heather's mother did not try to contact the clinic specialist again because she was convinced Heather was OK (she was already on a very powerful drug "Cortisone" which is the reason why her face seemed fat during her appearance in the movie because of her gain in weight) and Heather was not one to complain about herself being in pain etc. During this period MGM informed everyone that they wanted a new ending for the movie shot as they did not like the one already filmed. Then it eventually came to that tragic morning when Heather passed out and was rushed to hospital, dying later that day (her intestines had burst). Gary Sherman informed MGM that due to Heather's death nobody was interested in doing the movie anymore but MGM basically said "if you don't come back and shoot it, we shall get someone to do it for you". The remaining cast returned to work, a body-double was used for Heather and Kipley Wentz wasn't even asked to return (he played Scott). There is also a large number of other factors that contributed to Heather's death but I shall not go into them here. :(

That's why "Poltergeist III" IS and FOREVER will be nothing more then a complete and utter "ABOMINATION". :sleep:
 
Candyman 2. Not just because it is a very poor movie, but because it followed on from a very great one (Candyman 1, for those of you who are slow of brain) and effectively trashed it.

Hellraiser 4 is also pretty bad. Again, a good few first films (we can argue about whether HR2 is better than HR1, and by HR3 it had become a bit formulaic but it still has its points). HR4 takes everything which is interesting and throws it away, and replaces it with this "bloodline" nonsense which is rubbish. Add poor dialogue and total absence of redeeming features.
 
I agree with flagship2...

I am 31, and i watched it prolly about the same time as you coz i was about 16 when i saw it and it is, to this day, the only film that scared the bejeesus out of me when i did, and i used to watch allsorts then!

It might have been to do with the fact i was reading an awful lot about poltergeists and ouija boarRAB.... plus the fact the videp i saw was a copy of a copy of a copy (ooh, slap my wrists) and therefore grainy and the quality not being very good adding to it. Or just the fact that scarred heaRAB with thier eyes rolled backwarRAB freak me out anyway.

Got to say though, i wasnt as freaked when i saw the rerelease a few years back.... prolly coz of the reasons above!
 
well if you're 28 and saw the film when you were 12 that mean you watched a film that was 16 years old 1n 1989 as it was released in 1973 - when the Excorcist was released it was the 1st film of its type and was considered to be very extreme and as far as I recall it had an X rating which was the same rating that Enter the Dragon had - I've watched a lot of the horror films that scared me in the 70's in the last few years and I'd agree that they are no longer frightning but I do think it is becoming harder and harder to scare people I can't think of anything that I've watched in the last 20/30 years that has scared me
 
I don't think there's been a properly scary horror film I can remember off the top of my head since the early 80's (The Thing, The Fog, Evil Dead, etc).

The worst is probably the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, mainly for the reason that it is a remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre - sacrilege.
 
Pulse. A horror film with no actual horror.
Any of the Friday the 13th sequals or anything after Halloween 2.
Not strictly horror but Open Water was as dull as ditchwater.
 
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