Random Bad Horror Movies That Are Actually Good (20 items)

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  (#18) Troll 2

  • Jason F. Wright, Darren Ewing, Michael Stephenson, Connie Young, Jason Steadman, George Hardy, Michele Abrams, David McConnell, Gavin Reed, Deborah Reed, Lance C. Williams, Christina Reynolds, Elli Case, Margo Prey, Robert Ormsby, Don Packard, Hermann Weisskopf, Melissa Bridge, Mike Hamill, Glenn Gerner

  Back in 1990, US distributors had a problem on their hands, and it came in the form of a movie titled Goblins. Thinking that the movie would flop, distributors opted to rename the film Trolls 2, making it a direct sequel to the 1986 movie Troll. The biggest problem with this plan was the simple fact that this was not a sequel to anything, and simply calling it one didn't help the movie make any sense.

  This movie was plagued with problems long before distribution issues arose. For one thing, the crew only spoke Italian while the cast only spoke English, and the result was a movie that has long been called one of the worst ever. Years after it was first released, it gained a cult following, and Michael Stephenson, the child star of the film, created a documentary called Best Worst Movie, which analyzed the production and eventual popularity of the movie. Troll 2 is definitely a movie that's so bad, it's good, and fans love watching it for this reason.

  Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 6%
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  (#10) Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

  • Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover, Judie Aronson, Peter Barton, Ted White, Lawrence Monoson, Kimberly Beck, Bruce Mahler, Camilla and Carey More, Joan Freeman, Erich Anderson, Barbara Howard, Carey More, Clyde Hayes

  Believe it or not, there once was a time when people thought the Friday the 13th franchise was coming to an end. In 1984, the fourth installment of the franchise launched with a title that suggested as much, but as we now know, it was all al lie! The fourth film picks up just after the events of Friday the 13th Part III, when Jason Voorhees is taken to the morgue, but spontaneously revives and escapes, to continue his killing spree out at Crystal Lake.

  At the time it was made, the movie was intended to be a final installment in the franchise, but it went on to make $33 million off a budget of only $2.2 million, so the franchise lived on for more. The movie was about as bad as it could be despite the production assistance of Frank Mancuso Jr., who worked on the previous films in the franchise. It developed a cult following like most of the films of this quality released in the 1980s.

  Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 20%
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  (#11) The Village

  • Bryce Dallas Howard, Sigourney Weaver, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Eisenberg, William Hurt, Brendan Gleeson, Adrien Brody, Judy Greer, M. Night Shyamalan, Michael Pitt, Fran Kranz, Cherry Jones, Celia Weston, Jayne Atkinson, Frank Collison, Charlie McDermott, Liz Stauber, Charlie Hofheimer, Robert Randolph Caton, Scott Sowers, Kevin Foster, Thomas M. Hagen, Shannon Lambert-Ryan, David Foster, John Christopher Jones, Evangeline Williams, Robert Lenzi, Joey Anaya, John Rusk, Sean Andrew Fash, Willem Zuur, Matthew Flynn, Jordan Burt, Christopher Descano, Jessica Jennings, Tim Moyer, Nicholas Alexander Martino, Sydney Shapiro, Chloe Wieczkowski, Zack Wall, Jane Lowe, Mia Rose Colona, John Dinan, Pascale Renate Smith, Sydney Wieczkowski

  A small, isolated Pennsylvanian village in the 19th century houses residents who live in fear of a nameless monster who lurks in the woods, terrorizing the population. A young blind woman named Ivy Elizabeth Walker earns the affection of two men, one of whom stabs the other out of jealousy. Ivy is given permission to travel through the forest in search of medicine -- something nobody is allowed to do. As she embarks on her perilous journey, she encounters a wall and scrambles over it to find people who give her the medicine she needs. 

  Being blind, she is unable to see that the man who helps her isn't a 19th century Pennsylvanian; he's a modern-day guard, keeping an eye on the village, which is peopled with men and women who wanted to get away from modern society. The monsters also turned out to be a ruse crafted by the village elders to keep curious children from exploring too far into the woods, which would expose the truth.

  Overall, The Village is a decent movie, but it suffered in critics' eyes for the lackluster twist at the ending. The pacing is slow, which is necessary for such a film, but the ending doesn't meet those pacing expectations some viewers would have preferred.

  Rotten Tomatoes Score: 43%
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  (#12) Ravenous

  • Jeffrey Jones, Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Neal McDonough, Jeremy Davies, John Spencer, Stephen Spinella, Bill Brochtrup, Joseph Runningfox

  Ravenous is a Western horror flick that falls out of its genre to become more of a black comedy or satire than the horrific observance of cannibalism it set out to be. The movie takes place during the Mexican/American War and follows the misadventure of Second Lieutenant John Boyd from the United States Army. He's soon banished to a desolate outpost, where he's greeted by some less than ideal Soldiers of the U.S. Army. After a beleaguered Scotsman shows up, stories of cannibalism begin, and things devolve from there.

  The movie was judged harshly for trying to take a serious look at the subject of cannibalism but making it into more of a satire than a real analysis in a horror setting. The critics certainly didn't like it, but that's not true of the fans. It holds an Audience Score of 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is far better than the 47% "rotten" rating it picked up from professional critics.

  Rotten Tomatoes Score: 47%
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  (#19) Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2004)

  Shark Attack 3: Megalodon is the second sequel in the Shark Attack franchise, which inexplicably stars one John Barrowman, whom many fans will know for his work on Torchwood and Doctor Who. The film follows two researchers after they discover a Megalodon tooth, but it's not a fossil, so the beast must still be alive! The movie would have been lost to the annals of history had it not used some of the cheesiest special effects, which included a size-changing shark.

  The movie picked up a cult following simply by being part of the Shark Attack franchise, which itself is pretty silly and maintains a cult following. Some of the clips from the movie have been used and abused in Internet memes, and people tend to watch the movie because it's so bad, making it yet another movie that's so bad it's good.

  Rotten Tomatoes Score: 20%
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  (#16) The Cloverfield Paradox

  • Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Aksel Hennie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chris O'Dowd, John Ortiz, David Oyelowo, Zhang Ziyi

  The Cloverfield Paradox was released in 2018 as the third installment in the Cloverfield franchise. Like 10 Cloverfield Lane, it had little to no connection to the other films outside of the general universal notion of aliens. The movie is based around a group of astronauts aboard a space station. After using a particle accelerator to fix the Earth's energy crisis, they must find a way home after the planet completely vanishes.

  The production was plagued with delays, having been first acquired for production back in 2012. The tenuous connection to the other Cloverfield movies was added, but it didn't help the plot or make it tie in very well. The release was delayed for nearly two years, and when it finally released, it fell flat. The movie hasn't done well with critics, but it's not a bad sci-fi movie on its own. The paltry connection to the franchise weakened its appeal, as it didn't fit right with the other two movies.

  Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 20%

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