Forget monsters, slashers, or serial killers. The scariest thing about horror movies is failure at the box office.
I’m serious. A great horror villain can stay alive forever, provided his movies keep making money. Just when their profits started to dry up, Jason Voorhees went to hell and Freddy Krueger was haunted by his final nightmare. In a strange way, ticket sales are what give every cinematic monster its power. Take them, what do they have? Some bloody machetes and some evil memories.
Take the ten films below, for example. Such forgotten horror films drained the vitality from their central antagonists, to the point that they ended their runs for years or decades — or, at the very least, drove them out of theaters and into the purgatory known as direct-to-video.
These days, these 10 titles (and sometimes their entire franchise) have been forgotten. Two of them are not that old. (The most recent movie on the list was released this decade! Now that’s a forgotten movie. The pandemic has already spawned a number of unlucky titles released in 2020, let me tell you.)
You won’t find any A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th Movies in this list; The conclusions to those films were temporary anyway, and both were soon revived in reboots, sequels, crossovers, games, etc. In any case, the bad movies of those series were so bad that they at least made an impression on the die-hard fans. The films below weren’t so lucky. They were something far worse, far more terrifying, than the bad. They were forgotten.
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