Ask most horror fans about the genre’s best decade, and the overwhelming majority will likely agree that it’s the 1980s.
But not every movie from the 80s is classic. Even at the high point of horror, movie studios cranked out films that scared no one. Here are 25 of the worst the era has to offer: movies so bad, it’s scary.
Despite a cast of greats such as Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr., Carol Kane, and Geena Davis, this spoof about tabloid reporters on a dangerous quest fails as both a comedy and a horror movie.
In theory, comedy and horror should work hand in hand. Who doesn’t like a good laugh after a surprising scare? But as Saturday the 14th painfully proves, horror comedy is a hard genre to get right.