THE BAD

ERASERHEAD (1977)

Rotten Tomatoes audience rating:
83 percent

A man living in an industrial wasteland
nds out he impregnated an earlier fling
and marries the expectant mother. After they
get a place together, she gives birth to a weird
alien like child and he begins have surreal
nightmares. Although this movie may be
regarded as a cult classic and rated highly
for its nightmarish images and insane plot,
but this movie is awful. Complicated in an
“artistic” way, this movies fails to entertain
because it is too impressed with how
interpretive it is. This is one of those movies
you have trouble understanding until you
read what it means, which translates as, it
might've been a good book—but it’s a dumb
movie.

POSSESSION (1983)

Rotten Tomatoes audience rating:
79 percent

wife reveals to her husband that she

is having an affair and abandons her
family, including their son. The husband
is devastated and after some violent and
uncomfortable confrontations, he hires a
private investigator to follow her. Meanwhile,
the film documents the wife’s spiral into
madness and the reason for her insanity.
(Spoiler!!: It’s because she’s having sex with
a weird alien creature thing.) This movie
is as ridiculous as the ending and justifies
the nonsense by calling it a “metaphor for
something.” Movie endings that have to
be explained are never good endings. This
“meaning” and overkill screaming scenes
are the reasons this cult classic should be
flushed down the toilet. There is also an
uncomfortable amount of unnecessary gore
and violence, and it borders on absurd. In
short, what would possess you to watch this
movie?

HALLOWEEN (1978)

Rotten Tomatoes audience rating:
89 percent

oung serial killer, Michael Myers,

murders his older sister and is put in jail
for 15 years. On the day before Halloween, he
escapes security while being transferred, and
goes back to terrorize his hometown in this
classic American slasher flick. This movie
is bad because there is too much tension,
and plot buildup—and not enough action.
Halloween is essentially a full go minutes of
a guy walking towards you. It may be iconic,
but it’s definitely not worth your time when
you could be watching better, scarier films.
On this Halloween, skip Halloween.

 

 

 

THE
MEDIOCRE

MIDSOMMAR (2019)

Rotten Tomatoes audience rating:
63 percent

his horror flick is about a group of

students who travel to Sweden to visit
and study a rural village’s mid-summer
festival. Starting their trip with an idyllic
tone, the group soon realize that they are at
the clutches of a pagan cult’s twisted culture.
Midsommar is the worst kind of mediocre
horror movie because there are so many
reasons to hope the film will be good. It pulls
you in with its’ pleasing cinematography,
vivid colours, an unbelievable number
of flowers, and menacing undertones of
dysfunctional relationships—but ultimately
the movie falls flat. It lacks meaningful
elements that satisfyingly guide and explain
the story. Many elements are haphazardly
thrown in; plot plots don’t naturally click into
place. Unfortunately, the film squanders any
chance for enjoyable scares by prioritizing
gore, and overly dramatized horror scenes
that are so out of the realm of possibility that
they just feel silly. Like a lot of content being
produced today, the film prioritizes visuals
over story. Infants may be able to enjoy such
films that are essentially stimulating flashing
colours—but for anyone else, the movie is
not deserving of an extended attention span.

THE THING (1982)

Rotten Tomatoes audience rating:
g2 percent

group of scientists in Antarctica are
esearching at a base camp when they

take in a rogue sled dog. After it brutally
kills some of the other dogs and begins to
attack some of the crew members, a pilot
and a doctor fight the creature into a gory
battle for their own lives. This movie deserves
some praise because of its iconic special
effects— but has poor build up. There is
also a great cast (Kurt Russel) and character
development, but it falls flat on its climax.
The actual “thing” they are running from is
pretty goofy and not very scary. Overall, this
movie registers as more of an action movie
with horror movie elements—making it sort
of meatless if you want to be truly terrified.