Seriously. I always give horror films a huge curve when I read reviews because so many aren’t “good” movies. The Hills Have Eyes Remake got absolutely trashed by critics and I love that movie.
Idk about anyone else, but a terrible critic score actually makes me more likely to watch it. If the mainstream hated it, it's probably just up my alley
I love the Underworld movies and the Resident Evil live action adaptations. They're horror camp cult classics, which is a simple way of saying "they're so dumb and I love them".
RE: QOTD - WhatCulture seemingly also overlooks KoRn frontman Jonathan Davis’ soundtrack on that movie which to this day is revered by Goths and Metal fans alike. Not to mention the way in which Davis’ vocals in the performance segments perfectly complement Stuart Townshend’s physical performance and overall look. Oh, and Davis also has a small cameo in the concert scene as a ticket scalper outside the venue.
see, this is why I never listen to critics. or general reviewers. there's not a person out there who shares my exact opinions, tastes or viewpoints. so, I'd rather follow my own instincts (which seldom do me wrong), than potentially be lead astray.
The audience scoring Queen of The Damned highly must have been the ones who never read the books. Although Aaliyah did a great job as Akasha, I gotta admit. And the movie has a GREAT soundtrack.
THANK YOU!!!!! Only decently intelligent comment here abt QOTD. It was an atrocious movie. They're only ranking it b/c of the Aaliyah rose colored glasses.
I adore Stay Alive. I actually got to see it at the drive in movies when it came out and it was the most fun I have ever had at a move. Gawd I wish drive ins still did horror. Its all kids movies if you are even lucky enough to have a drive in theater at all.
If i only watched movies based on aggregated scores, there's so many movies I love that I would never have watched otherwise. Also some sub genres just get a lower score because of the genre or sub genres: horror, camp, musicals, female-oriented, etc
Critics are worthless and objectively untrustworthy. It's obvious that they're paid for reviews by the studios. Then there's the contrarians that actively hate anything popular just because it's popular. The numbers speak for themselves, most film on this list has very dedicated fans even after decades yet you'll still see people trying to say "it's not good" or "it's only liked because" and have flimsy arguments that don't change that hundreds of thousands of people still love the movies.
I found Fallen to be more of a solid thriller, than a horror film. I remember enjoying it in the theater; and I recently rewatched the film on dvd. 🙂🙂 Sure, it had a supernatural/religious element to it; but it was still a great film. 🤔🤔 I agree with Ellie that Fallen is one of Denzel Washington's more underrated movies. 🤔🙂 Also, The Covenant seems to have a strange obsession with me. I've never seen it (for as long as I can remember, the film seemed like a gender-swapped version of The Craft to me 🤔🤔); but everytime I go into a store which sells dvds and/or blu-rays; I'll be browsing the shelves, and sure enough, The Covenant pops out at me. It's like the film wants me to watch it. 🤔🤔 I know, I know, that sounds weird; but here we are. 😜🤪🤣
Underworld is one of my mother's favorite movies and House of 1000 Corpses was adored by my best friend. I'm way more critical of horror movies because it's the story, not the genre that attracts me though. I remember nothing about Stigmata except for that quote about the kingdom of God that was actually life changing for me. It was a light bulb moment that let me release my guilt about rejecting organized religion.
If Tubi has taught me anything it would be to ignore the IMDB rating. So many movies which have good icons and descriptions will have 3-5.0 ratings. Yet I will thoroughly enjoy the storylines and the acting. Are they masterpieces? No. But they don't have to be. They just don't have to be a waste of time. And the majority of these low rated movies were well worth the time spent.
Somebody at WhatCulture should make a video like this, but a non-horror version of this list. Also, I would like to see that along with certain movies that audiences hated but critics loved, both horror and non-horror variants. Any one of your staff can make it.
Stay Alive was one of the most fun horror/slasher movies from the 2000s, at least to me. The problem was, like horror movies in the past, it got butchered in editing, leaving out an entire segment detailing who made the game and why it exists, as well as more gore to the deaths. It also reminded me of a more sadistic take on Jumanji and Zathura at the time, but with a video game instead of a board game.
Queen of the Damned wasn’t great let’s be honest but the soundtrack was incredible! lol most of the films on this list are films I loved and watched endlessly in my teen years
I can only speak for myself, but I absolutely loved Stay Alive and have watched it a few times as I thought was original, frightening and fun!!!I truly hope and pray that all you beautiful souls out there are blessed and happy!!!!❤😂💗🌺🌈🧚♂️🥀❤😁🏵🌻🌹⚘🌼
Wait, did the writer say that Blade Runner was a "main stream" movie?! As much as I love Blade Runner, it was way more underground than the Thing was on release lol!
Underworld, to this day, has one of the best supernatural worlds; it does not go into a "sent from hell itself" trope but rather for the biological setup and stablishes their abilities and weaknesses clearly. It works, uses practical effects, and has a lot of style. As a product of the 2000's, you cannot expect more. It has blood and passable edginess. Works for anyone.
Personally, I never look at what critics say no matter the genre. Too many times have I thoroughly enjoyed a movie that they panned. Many seem to have certain criteria they look for no matter what even if those criteria don't fit the genre or style of the movie. I've also seen reviews from critics that you can tell right off the bat that there was no way they were going to like the movie no matter how good it was because of personal bias or opinions.
…..Did people “love” 5 Nights At Freddy’s? I’m sure the people that were obsessed with the games got a kick out of it, but as someone casually aware of them, played the first one a few times and watched some lore vids, I thought it was dreadfully boring.
There is a definite flaw in describing 67% as more than 2/3 of the audience. It is 2/3. And that is definitely not an "audiences loved it" kind of score. That's an "it's okay" kind of score.
Plot twists like what happened in High Tension are what make me absolutely never want to watch those films again. They feel so insulting to me. The worst offender of this to me is still The Mist.
being a fan of aaliyah, i enjoyed queen of the damned as a kid. Then I watched it a couple years ago and yea...that is not a good movie lol. Its absolutely a mess lol. Aaliyah a couple others are the best thing in it because they actually look like they're having fun playing their roles. It just did not hold up. First two underworlds and rise of the lycans are teflon tho. No slander will be tolerated.
Queen of the Damned is my shit! I absolutely love Aaliyah so i am biased but on top of that the fucking music is soooooo GOOD!!!!!! I still to this day listen to the whole soundtrack album all the time! To be honest I love all the movies on this list!!! 😂😂
Atrocious movie. Ppl who didn't read the books have zero idea what they're talking abt, only giving accolades to Aaliyah, & the music - which I agree on, its just unfortunate that her final piece of work was that pos movie. The entire directorial & production crew should forever be shamed for having that abomination attached to her name.
Woo stigmata!!! Rotten tomatoes sucks I don't ever use that site u watch what I want and Roger ebert didn't like anything dunno why he was a movie critic
ALL video game adaptations should be as faithful to source material as FNAF is. The whole reason they make the adaptations in the first place is because the games are SO popular, so why make it less interesting to the key demographic that are interested in the first place 🤣
I feelike the covenant suffered from being perceived as for teenaged girls. It was campy and ran on fan service, but that was the point. Gratuitous shower scenes and antagonistic homoerotic tension for example? I feel like would be given a lot more leeway if it was an all female cast for people to drool over. It knew what kind of movie it was, the marketing was obvious. so i don't buy the excuse that people were ordering burgers and expecting a steak dinner. Given that it was aimed towards a different audience is probably why it got labeled as cringe rather than camp. Edit: lol i wrote this comment just seconds before the presenter mentioned just that.
TBH I feel about FNAF movie how some felt abiout the Mario movie. If ur'e a fan of the franchise u'll probably like it but if not u won't. I found the Fnaf movie too boring and long tbh honest tht i turned it off after about 45 minutes.
Stay Alive was terrible. With that premise they should have actually made the game play some useful part in the movie instead of just having the villain CHEAT and completely ignore the set rules. The characters in the game have weapons. Why the hell was the combat against the villain reduced to throwing roses at her? And why the hell WAS the premise as stupid as it was? What the hell is Countess Bathory doing in AMERICA!?
Underworld: Loved it House of 1000 Corpses: Not a fan The Thing: Overrated Fallen: Very good High Tension: Nvr saw it Stigmata: Great movie Stay Alive: Nvr saw it Queen of the Damned: Absolutely HORRENDOUS piece of crap. (Directors proved they never read the book(s) nor understood the story) ONLY reason it ranked anywhere was b/c of Aaliyah - not a good enough reason, sorry not sorry. FNAF: Meh wasn't that great The Covenant: Eh neutral
I liked Five Nights at Freddy's some, but it was boring as a horror movie. It had 0 scares and, it had been marketed as what it was, a drama, I would have enjoyed it more.
fnaf movie scores show the lack of braincells amongst fnaf fans. that movie was shite and didnt even come close to adhering to even the FEEL of the games
I think if you're a straight up horror fan you've probably never cared about a critic's opinion.
Seriously. I always give horror films a huge curve when I read reviews because so many aren’t “good” movies. The Hills Have Eyes Remake got absolutely trashed by critics and I love that movie.
Or any movie fan
Idk about anyone else, but a terrible critic score actually makes me more likely to watch it. If the mainstream hated it, it's probably just up my alley
I agree, I've seen so many really good horror movies that critics gave poor reviews, John Carpenter's The Thing being one of my favorite horror movies
True! Like most Movies that got Oscars suck!
I love the Underworld movies and the Resident Evil live action adaptations. They're horror camp cult classics, which is a simple way of saying "they're so dumb and I love them".
The late 90s and early aughts action horror thing (kicked off by Blade IMO) was awesome.
The resident evil movies were and are still God awful.
I just don't see how Underworld is a horror movie. It has vampires and werewolves but that doesn't make it a horror movie.
@@maeburekaiser it’s action-horror in the same sense as Blade or RE.
Fallen is one of my favorite horror movies. Great job by Denzel and great story.
All these years and im still waiting for the ending of underworld
Blade crossover???? Fingers crossed!
@@CorporalGrievous93 No. Just no.
I thought Stigmata was great 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸
i saw that in the theater on acid
RE: QOTD - WhatCulture seemingly also overlooks KoRn frontman Jonathan Davis’ soundtrack on that movie which to this day is revered by Goths and Metal fans alike. Not to mention the way in which Davis’ vocals in the performance segments perfectly complement Stuart Townshend’s physical performance and overall look.
Oh, and Davis also has a small cameo in the concert scene as a ticket scalper outside the venue.
I LOVED Fallen!!!
Have I ever told you about the time I almost died
see, this is why I never listen to critics. or general reviewers. there's not a person out there who shares my exact opinions, tastes or viewpoints. so, I'd rather follow my own instincts (which seldom do me wrong), than potentially be lead astray.
The audience scoring Queen of The Damned highly must have been the ones who never read the books. Although Aaliyah did a great job as Akasha, I gotta admit. And the movie has a GREAT soundtrack.
THANK YOU!!!!! Only decently intelligent comment here abt QOTD. It was an atrocious movie. They're only ranking it b/c of the Aaliyah rose colored glasses.
I didn't like the adaptation cos well The Chronicles just didn't go that way haha but as for Aalyiah, she did a great job
I adore anything that plays around with Catholic dogma, so Stigmata is as fascinating to me as Dogma was, one of my first buys on VHS back in the day.
I was lucky enough to get Dogma on DVD when it was released. Highly underrated.
I love Queen Of The Damned mostly cause I love Aaliyah and I love her portrayal of Queen Akasha.
So did i!
I agree! She was a truly stylish Akasha.
@@valerierosario491Too bad her untimely death put the kibosh on her career!
NO WAY. Before watching this I thought about Stay Alive. Such an awesome movie, I can never find people who knew about it!
I adore Stay Alive. I actually got to see it at the drive in movies when it came out and it was the most fun I have ever had at a move. Gawd I wish drive ins still did horror. Its all kids movies if you are even lucky enough to have a drive in theater at all.
If i only watched movies based on aggregated scores, there's so many movies I love that I would never have watched otherwise. Also some sub genres just get a lower score because of the genre or sub genres: horror, camp, musicals, female-oriented, etc
A true trekker, throwing in a quick reference for the wrath of Khan. 😆 👏 👏
Someone who truly understands the needs of the many 😉
one thing about horror is that most of the time the lower the critical score is that it’s likely the movie is still very good.
Aaliyah was the only good thing about "Queen of The Damned", she was AMAZING as Akasha!
It sucks that she died in that plane crash, she could have had a great acting career!
I love Stigmata, The Thing, and QotD.
Critics are worthless and objectively untrustworthy. It's obvious that they're paid for reviews by the studios. Then there's the contrarians that actively hate anything popular just because it's popular. The numbers speak for themselves, most film on this list has very dedicated fans even after decades yet you'll still see people trying to say "it's not good" or "it's only liked because" and have flimsy arguments that don't change that hundreds of thousands of people still love the movies.
They are paid by the studios and do negative reviews?! How does this make sense?
I love Underworld!! STEP ON ME KATE!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I found Fallen to be more of a solid thriller, than a horror film. I remember enjoying it in the theater; and I recently rewatched the film on dvd. 🙂🙂
Sure, it had a supernatural/religious element to it; but it was still a great film. 🤔🤔
I agree with Ellie that Fallen is one of Denzel Washington's more underrated movies. 🤔🙂
Also, The Covenant seems to have a strange obsession with me. I've never seen it (for as long as I can remember, the film seemed like a gender-swapped version of The Craft to me 🤔🤔); but everytime I go into a store which sells dvds and/or blu-rays; I'll be browsing the shelves, and sure enough, The Covenant pops out at me. It's like the film wants me to watch it. 🤔🤔
I know, I know, that sounds weird; but here we are. 😜🤪🤣
I saw stigmata when I woke up at 3 am with a fever....and it was the creepiest thing ever at the time
Fallen! Great movie I watch it when ever I can!
WhatCulture really needs to let go of High Tension. Its like beating a fucking dead horse.
The Descent: Did some mention beating a dead horse?!
Not to mention Get Out. They definitely have a hard-on for that movie.
High tension was awesome but they do play that same note wayyy too much
They also made "The thing" quota 🤦🏾♂️
Underworld is one of my mother's favorite movies and House of 1000 Corpses was adored by my best friend. I'm way more critical of horror movies because it's the story, not the genre that attracts me though. I remember nothing about Stigmata except for that quote about the kingdom of God that was actually life changing for me. It was a light bulb moment that let me release my guilt about rejecting organized religion.
If Tubi has taught me anything it would be to ignore the IMDB rating. So many movies which have good icons and descriptions will have 3-5.0 ratings. Yet I will thoroughly enjoy the storylines and the acting. Are they masterpieces? No. But they don't have to be. They just don't have to be a waste of time. And the majority of these low rated movies were well worth the time spent.
Somebody at WhatCulture should make a video like this, but a non-horror version of this list. Also, I would like to see that along with certain movies that audiences hated but critics loved, both horror and non-horror variants. Any one of your staff can make it.
I don't know if The Boondock Saints would make the list, but it has a 26% Critics and a 91% Audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. I love that movie!
I watched High Tension for the second time with my girlfriend who didn't watch horror movies or foreign films.She loved it.
The Covenant was 97 minutes of thinking "welp I'm definitely gay"
Stay Alive was one of the most fun horror/slasher movies from the 2000s, at least to me. The problem was, like horror movies in the past, it got butchered in editing, leaving out an entire segment detailing who made the game and why it exists, as well as more gore to the deaths. It also reminded me of a more sadistic take on Jumanji and Zathura at the time, but with a video game instead of a board game.
Van Helsing too was hated by critics af.. but was rather entertaining when I first watched it..
Queen of the Damned wasn’t great let’s be honest but the soundtrack was incredible!
lol most of the films on this list are films I loved and watched endlessly in my teen years
Omg the soundtrack is my shit! And Aaliyah as Akasha!!!
🥉
I watched Queen of the Damned back when it came out. I'd watch Aaliyah in anything.
She was great, wasn't she?
I can only speak for myself, but I absolutely loved Stay Alive and have watched it a few times as I thought was original, frightening and fun!!!I truly hope and pray that all you beautiful souls out there are blessed and happy!!!!❤😂💗🌺🌈🧚♂️🥀❤😁🏵🌻🌹⚘🌼
unreliable critical opinion versus Kate Beckinsale in Lycra and Ailiyah in a shiny bikini.
I never realized that The Covenant was a horror movie😂😂😂
Wait, did the writer say that Blade Runner was a "main stream" movie?! As much as I love Blade Runner, it was way more underground than the Thing was on release lol!
After Fallen and The Bone Collector, I was really hoping Denzel would sprinkle more horror into his career moving forward.
Queen of the Damned suffered cause they condensed two books into like 90 minutes.
Stay Alive is one of my favorites horror movies. 🎮💀
Underworld, to this day, has one of the best supernatural worlds; it does not go into a "sent from hell itself" trope but rather for the biological setup and stablishes their abilities and weaknesses clearly. It works, uses practical effects, and has a lot of style. As a product of the 2000's, you cannot expect more. It has blood and passable edginess. Works for anyone.
I hated queen of the damned lol i think thats more of a love it or hate it rather than all horror fans loved
Personally, I never look at what critics say no matter the genre. Too many times have I thoroughly enjoyed a movie that they panned. Many seem to have certain criteria they look for no matter what even if those criteria don't fit the genre or style of the movie. I've also seen reviews from critics that you can tell right off the bat that there was no way they were going to like the movie no matter how good it was because of personal bias or opinions.
…..Did people “love” 5 Nights At Freddy’s? I’m sure the people that were obsessed with the games got a kick out of it, but as someone casually aware of them, played the first one a few times and watched some lore vids, I thought it was dreadfully boring.
They are all ungrateful.
There is a definite flaw in describing 67% as more than 2/3 of the audience. It is 2/3. And that is definitely not an "audiences loved it" kind of score. That's an "it's okay" kind of score.
Plot twists like what happened in High Tension are what make me absolutely never want to watch those films again. They feel so insulting to me. The worst offender of this to me is still The Mist.
being a fan of aaliyah, i enjoyed queen of the damned as a kid. Then I watched it a couple years ago and yea...that is not a good movie lol. Its absolutely a mess lol. Aaliyah a couple others are the best thing in it because they actually look like they're having fun playing their roles. It just did not hold up.
First two underworlds and rise of the lycans are teflon tho. No slander will be tolerated.
I love the underworld movies,queen of the damned also the convented too.
I do love me some Underworld
Queen of the Damned is my shit! I absolutely love Aaliyah so i am biased but on top of that the fucking music is soooooo GOOD!!!!!! I still to this day listen to the whole soundtrack album all the time! To be honest I love all the movies on this list!!! 😂😂
@Stang2023 okay....
Atrocious movie. Ppl who didn't read the books have zero idea what they're talking abt, only giving accolades to Aaliyah, & the music - which I agree on, its just unfortunate that her final piece of work was that pos movie. The entire directorial & production crew should forever be shamed for having that abomination attached to her name.
@nymri8537 I have read the books. It's just a guily pleasure of mine.
There's a reason why critics comments aren't listened to if ever. They are not the actual audience and never will be.
love underworld
It wasn’t just critics, but anyone with a brain, who found High Tension’s plot twist terrible.
Fallen has a great ending
Queen of the Damned is horrible. They could have done so much more with the source material.
Critics are ALWAYS irrelevant! Exspecially IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes!
Woo stigmata!!! Rotten tomatoes sucks I don't ever use that site u watch what I want and Roger ebert didn't like anything dunno why he was a movie critic
ALL video game adaptations should be as faithful to source material as FNAF is.
The whole reason they make the adaptations in the first place is because the games are SO popular, so why make it less interesting to the key demographic that are interested in the first place 🤣
Underworld is an action movie.
Honestly if audiences or just one viewer likes the movie who cares what critics think
I feelike the covenant suffered from being perceived as for teenaged girls. It was campy and ran on fan service, but that was the point.
Gratuitous shower scenes and antagonistic homoerotic tension for example? I feel like would be given a lot more leeway if it was an all female cast for people to drool over. It knew what kind of movie it was, the marketing was obvious. so i don't buy the excuse that people were ordering burgers and expecting a steak dinner.
Given that it was aimed towards a different audience is probably why it got labeled as cringe rather than camp.
Edit: lol i wrote this comment just seconds before the presenter mentioned just that.
If Critic's hate it, it's probably good.
I'm audience, did not care for 1000 Corpses. Terrible movie imo and I love horror. The Thing 1982 is classic, top 10 horror for sure.
I thought FNAF was okay at best, not impressed, but I'll watch a sequal to either love or laugjt it, lol.
Underworld is not a horror movie. Not even close.
That's because critics suck!
Yeah, no. A lot of these movies are terrible.
What does Elizabeth Bathory have to do with a video game? Stay alive is still a stupid movie
Death, taxes, and Roger Ebert proving that he was an idiot
It's amazing how much trash you guys talked about the FNAF movie in a previous video. But now change tune, because "numbers"...
House of 1000 Corpses was f*cking terrible. Zombie puts his insufferable, can’t act whatsoever wife in all his films too.
Queen of the dammed was HORRIBLE only reason why it had any attention was because of the death of the star. Fact.
ABSOLUTELY
Gotta disagree. If not for the movie I never would have found the cronical books
And the soundtrack is pretty solid, even if the versions on the album are different from the ones in the movie.
@@ryanhall7607that's what i came here to stay. The soundtrack was solid.
🥈
LOVE queen of the damned
Critics are such know it alls like Lisa from simpsons
Lisa was consistently, if not always correct.
TBH I feel about FNAF movie how some felt abiout the Mario movie. If ur'e a fan of the franchise u'll probably like it but if not u won't. I found the Fnaf movie too boring and long tbh honest tht i turned it off after about 45 minutes.
Stay Alive was terrible. With that premise they should have actually made the game play some useful part in the movie instead of just having the villain CHEAT and completely ignore the set rules.
The characters in the game have weapons. Why the hell was the combat against the villain reduced to throwing roses at her?
And why the hell WAS the premise as stupid as it was? What the hell is Countess Bathory doing in AMERICA!?
Speak for yourself on Queen of the Damned - I loved the books in the Vampire Chronicles.... Queen of the Damned was trash.
Totally agree
Oh, and Underworld is awful, both the worst werewolf and the worst vampire film in one. Which I guess is an achievement
FNAF was TERRIBLE, one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Willy's Wonderland is 100x better but that's not saying much lol
YOU ARE UNGRATEFUL!
Underworld: Loved it
House of 1000 Corpses: Not a fan
The Thing: Overrated
Fallen: Very good
High Tension: Nvr saw it
Stigmata: Great movie
Stay Alive: Nvr saw it
Queen of the Damned: Absolutely HORRENDOUS piece of crap. (Directors proved they never read the book(s) nor understood the story) ONLY reason it ranked anywhere was b/c of Aaliyah - not a good enough reason, sorry not sorry.
FNAF: Meh wasn't that great
The Covenant: Eh neutral
SHUT UP, YOU SNOB
Who the hell cares about Roger Ebert?
Queen of the dammed was absolutely rubbish. I remember going into a local video shop and removing all copies off the shelves.
Bahahahaha. What? You didn't like the movie so you went to a store and took it iff the shelves? Why?
I liked Five Nights at Freddy's some, but it was boring as a horror movie. It had 0 scares and, it had been marketed as what it was, a drama, I would have enjoyed it more.
Underworld did suck.
Also, Rob Zombie has yet to make a good movie. Everything he touches is trash
fnaf movie scores show the lack of braincells amongst fnaf fans. that movie was shite and didnt even come close to adhering to even the FEEL of the games