|
1/6
|
12%
|
The Unborn (2009) |
"
David S Goyer's non-kosher riff on 'The Exorcist' is stillborn,"
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 27, 2009
|
|
1/6
|
59%
|
Quarantine (2008) |
"
An American remake of the Spanish horror movie '[Rec]' that adopts the same basic recipe, but removes any hint of flavour or texture, reducing cutting-edge Catalan cuisine to bland, bite-sized McNuggets."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 21, 2008
|
|
1/6
|
14%
|
Mirrors (2008) |
"
This is without question the dumbest horror movie of recent years. There is simply no way to piece together its fractured shards."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 10, 2008
|
|
1/6
|
8%
|
Prom Night (2008) |
"
By far the worst 'slasher movie' remake to date, replaying all the clichés, but delivering none of the guilty pleasures."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2008
|
|
1/6
|
71%
|
The Cottage (2008) |
"
Andy Serkis shouts a lot, as if raising the decibel level will compensate for the dire dialogue, while Jennifer Ellison displays more cleavage than acting ability."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2008
|
|
1/6
|
12%
|
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (AVP 2) (2007) |
"
Scriptwriter Shane Salerno's dialogue is unspeakable, the visceral horror all too familiar, and the ideas distinctly second-hand."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 18, 2008
|
|
1/6
|
23%
|
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"
CGI-assisted ping pong and lame gags about dead pandas, simpering homos and 'Antiques Roadshow'."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 28, 2007
|
|
1/6
|
17%
|
Saw IV (2007) |
"
The need to incorporate familiar characters and icons from the earlier films, together with flashbacks that flesh out Jigsaw's pre-'puppet master' past, simply leads to an irritating series of creative dead ends. Truly, a hack-Saw."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 26, 2007
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
Piranha 3DD (2012) |
"
Even the gore is sporadic, poorly staged and unimaginative: as a result, this is neither fish nor foul."
—
Time Out
Posted May 15, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
59%
|
Wanderlust (2012) |
"
You know you're in trouble when not even the improvised scenes and fluffed out-takes are funny."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 29, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
28%
|
Underworld Awakening (2012) |
"
Crude, cheap and pointless, this surely drives a stake through the heart of the 'Underworld' franchise."
—
Time Out
Posted Jan 20, 2012
|
|
1/5
|
40%
|
Saw VI (2009) |
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
35%
|
The Hangover Part II (2011) |
"
Your head hurts like hell, the whole thing feels horribly familiar, and it's just not funny any more. Can this really be happening again?"
—
Time Out
Posted May 25, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
Sucker Punch (2011) |
"
Snyder pulverises our senses with derivative digital images and obvious musical choices. But his failure to delineate the levels of 'reality' is confusing and self-defeating."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 30, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
30%
|
Sanctum (2011) |
"
Even in this dim light, one can see every plot development coming a mile off."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 2, 2011
|
|
1/5
|
39%
|
A Serbian Film (2011) |
"
A sordid welter of sexual sadism, incestuous necrophilia and 'snuff movie' nihilism."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 9, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
18%
|
You Again (2010) |
"
Vapid, Disneyfied post-teen comedy lacks a mean (girl) streak."
—
Film4
Posted Nov 11, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
6%
|
The Last Airbender (2010) |
"
One is bored and stupefied by what seems like an eternity of vacuous spectacle, cod-Buddhist tosh and clunking dialogue."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 12, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) |
"
This is the worst yet from Michael Bay's horror production company Platinum Dunes, which also brought you rubbish re-makes of Halloween and Friday the 13th."
—
Time Out Sydney
Posted May 21, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
Cop Out (2010) |
"
[A] pitifully unfunny 'hommage' to '80s action comedies."
—
Time Out
Posted May 20, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
15%
|
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) |
"
This is the worst yet from Michael Bay's horror production company Platinum Dunes, which also brought you rubbish re-makes of Halloween and Friday the 13th."
—
Time Out
Posted May 6, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
23%
|
Case 39 (2010) |
"
This is horror hokum of the cheesiest kind. Rent 'Orphan' instead."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 5, 2010
|
|
1/5
|
12%
|
The Stepfather (2009) |
"
Not so much a contemporary re-make of Joseph Ruben's 1987 psychological thriller as a lobotomised bastard step-child: over-plotted, over-long, and stripped of the original's sharp, satirical subversion of suburban family values."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 11, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
18%
|
The Fourth Kind (2009) |
"
Osunsanmi's tricksy formal device simply reinforces our disbelief and invites ridicule."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 6, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Jack Said (2009) |
"
If writer Paul Tanter's voiceover and dialogue had been delivered with any conviction, it might have distracted us from the dull visuals, over-complicated flash-back/flash-forward structure and TV soap opera-style acting."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 25, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
7%
|
Whiteout (2009) |
"
John Frizzel's over-worked soundtrack keeps telling us how exciting everything is, but it feels as if we're frozen in time. Not so much a white-out as wipe-out."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
5%
|
Miss March (2009) |
"
A crude, crass, virtually laugh-free sex comedy."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 11, 2009
|
|
1/5
|
0%
|
Scar (2007) |
"
To make a 3-D 'torture porn' movie is at best opportunist; to make one with flat, boring torture scenes is unforgivable."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 7, 2008
|
|
1/5
|
13%
|
Saw V (2008) |
"
Even the most die-hard of Saw fans won't credit how tedious, lame and pointless this fourth sequel manages to be."
—
Time Out
Posted Oct 27, 2008
|
|
|
28%
|
Next (2007) |
"
Another failed attempt to bring Dick's deliriously paranoid mind-set to the screen."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 22, 2007
|
|
|
20%
|
The Pacifier (2005) |
"
Per its title, The Pacifier will lull you to sleep."
—
Time Out New York
Posted Aug 16, 2007
|
|
|
7%
|
Captivity (2007) |
"
The film's clunky point-of-view shift and obviously re-shot climax are likely to have you choking in disbelief."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 22, 2007
|
|
|
0%
|
Messages (2007) |
"
It's easy to see why this piffle had to be independently financed - no film company executive in its right mind would have touched it with a barge pole."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 15, 2007
|
|
|
20%
|
The Hitcher (2007) |
"
Bloated, boring and over-explained."
—
Time Out
Posted May 31, 2007
|
|
|
15%
|
The Breed (2006) |
"
A mongrel killer-dog movie that takes us back to â~Cujoâ(TM) territory, where Manâ(TM)s Best Friend turns into his most ferocious enemy."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 27, 2007
|
|
|
8%
|
The Reaping (2007) |
"
I prophesy an early exodus from cinemas."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 19, 2007
|
|
|
12%
|
The Messengers (2007) |
"
Many of the images feel over-familiar, and the shocks a mite too forced."
—
Time Out
Posted Apr 5, 2007
|
|
|
11%
|
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) |
"
Weisz' first feature was 'Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story', a banal study of a real-life cannibal killer. Like this sorry sequel, it amounted to far less than the sum of its body parts."
—
Time Out
Posted Mar 29, 2007
|
|
|
50%
|
Sheitan (Satan) (2006) |
"
t's pronounced 'Shite-an', as in 'Shite an' then some'."
—
Time Out
Posted Feb 22, 2007
|
|
|
14%
|
Black Christmas (2006) |
"
A modern horror movie featuring a non-ironic shower scene is far less knowing than it pretends to be."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
|
16%
|
Eragon (2006) |
"
A painful reminder of what fantasy cinema was like before the Lord of the Rings trilogy re-wrote the rules."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
|
3%
|
The Covenant (2006) |
"
Flying scenes, frat-boy face-offs and pyrotechnic punch-ups are punctuated by excruciating expository dialogue."
—
Time Out
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
|
26%
|
Saw III (2006) |
"
The second Saw sequel develops the mythology of sadistic puppet-master Jigsaw in ambitious, gruesome but ultimately self-defeating ways."
—
Time Out
Posted Nov 2, 2006
|
|
|
10%
|
Pulse (2006) |
"
As the ghosts suck the life out of their victims, the audience suffers the same fate."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 23, 2006
|
|
|
15%
|
The Wicker Man (2006) |
"
Neil LaBute's utterly misconceived remake of Robin Hardy's 1973 cult horror film is a boring, fright-free catastrophe."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 23, 2006
|
|
|
40%
|
The Night Listener (2006) |
"
The plot dawdles along, intrigue gives way to risible melodrama, and [director] Patrick Stettner fails to get to grips with the issues."
—
Time Out
Posted Sep 23, 2006
|
|
|
68%
|
Snakes on a Plane (2006) |
"
The massaged script is now a little too knowing and calculated, nudging the audience in anticipation of each snake attack or corny gag."
—
Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2006
|
|
|
59%
|
Hostel (2006) |
"
Sadly, as with [director Eli] Roth's promising but flawed debut feature, its central conceit is more compelling than what ended up on screen."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
9%
|
Ultraviolet (2006) |
"
Derivative, adolescent tosh."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
|
|
26%
|
The Omen (2006) |
"
A disastrously miscast remake of the 1976 horror classic, which retains the apocalyptic themes of David Seltzer's original script but renders them dull and fright-free."
—
Time Out
Posted Jun 24, 2006
|
65%
——
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