So far this year, we've brought you plenty of lists of horror films you can add to your October playlist or get for your friendly neighborhood Halloween film festival, depending on what kind of movies you are looking for. You might also glean suggestions from genre lists or the array of what's available to rent. Maybe your friends gave you some suggestions, too. But unless you've already seen a movie, you might not know whether it's any good. Most horror films have something going for them even if they aren't masterpieces. But as in any collection, there are a lot of stinkers still existing at the bottom.
To ensure quality, you'll want to cross-reference your curated horror list now to avoid the 100 Worst Horror Films of All Time. Some suffer from bad scripts or bad acting or both. A lot of them are third or fourth sequels to a franchise that ran out of ideas. A few are just too predictable to produce any payoff. A few feature poor special effects that aren't good enough to be plausible, and not bad enough to make you laugh. And some just forgot to be scary. Are they really all that bad? No one is telling you that you can't spend a couple of hours finding out, but it's your time, and you can't get it back.