Totally disagree that Tremors has a bad, much less "terrible" premise. It's a love letter and homage to old school 50s type monster flicks. Honestly I think it's brilliant and one of my favorite horror-comedies with fun practical effects, a good score, and better than expected acting. It's very re-watchable and this review didn't even explain how it's a terrible premise outside of "killer worms" which is a perfect premise for a monster movie set in the desert. IMO of course.
Dont know if anyone caught that she said that the Tremors characters played to perfection, which happens to be the name of the town. Now that Perfection
I watched it with my dad when all I knew was that it was a scary movie with Kevin Bacon, and I thought it was brilliant! It was fun trying to work out what the monsters were 😅
Prince of Darkness was one of those movies that stayed with me long after I had watched it. the bizarre transmissions from the future were what sealed it for me, making the movie unforgettable.
I like it I just think it's feel a bit strange that it's part of the "apocalypse trilogy" (or quartet now), together with "the thing" and "in the mouth of madness"
Well if you compare it to the jumpscares of the likes of conjuring and really any average modern horror movie than it is. In a sense that the jumpscares that lacked in the Babadook are the startling kind - like someone clapping before your eyes. Babadooks jumpscares are much more subtle, they're always "announced", devoid of loud music of sudden noise, yet they do surprise you, even if, once again, you've been expecting them any second now.
I'm sorry, but in what world was Shaun of the Dead a "terrible premise"? A sarcastic, British version of Dawn of the Dead sound like a winner from the get go to me.
I think it was the timing that made it a "bad" idea. Zombies had been done to death by the time Shawn hit the scene, so a lot of people were thinking, "Oh no, not again."
@@funtimefoxy6699 I didn't. I was thinking hmm Zombie comedy with a British flavour??? Hell yeah Bring it on! Lol But I admit I've been a zombie nut since 85 when my cousins rented Dawn Of the Dead and later that year Day of the Dead came out and I was hooked!!! Lol
Please. Bride of Chucky was a return to form after Child's Play 3 didn't bother looping in the creator Don Mancini, perfectly riffing on the Frankenstein franchise.
I loved the premises of Tremors, Lifeforce, Bride of Chucky, Oculus, and Prince of Darkness. Space vampires? Liquid Satan? Burrowing tentacle monsters? Heck yeah! Tell me more! With PoD, if anything it was the muddled execution which betrayed the high concept.
Tremors is still one of my favorite movies. Would disagree that it has a terrible premise. I thought it worked perfectly. Plus the nice combination of decent writing, good acting, and great deadpan comedy (that's my definition of it) made this a very fun, re-watchable film.
@@scottdoesntmatter4409 I have visited a local film store and they couldn't find one. If it's available, I would bet that I couldn't even watch it normally because of the stupid region lock thing anyway, since it would be available only on DVD.
How in the world can you call Prince of Darkness, Carpenter's 2nd entry in his Apocalypse Trilogy (Sandwiched between The Thing and In The Mouth of Madness) a movie with a terrible premise? And don't you even get me started on your opinion on Lifeforce.
Bcs it's utterly *reductive* . You know when you take an already existing notion, and randomly and incoherently change one thing about it and call yourself an artistic genius. Think printing out Mona Lisa and covering her eyes with a duct tape, gluing a single eye in the middle and sketching a tulip behind her, and then claiming you've solved the mystery of her smile - she's always been a Dutch cyclops, who had a rare neurological condition causing her to smile awkwardly and fart simultaneously upon smelling a tulip. Likewise, a fallen angel from Judaic and Christian lore being spacegoo accidentally kept in a dusty tin can at a random university is what you *objectively* call a (very much completely) horrible premise.
I think we have seen a different version of Talk to Me, since I would put it in the exact opposite list. The premise is actually great, the idea of talking to the dead becoming addictive or a trap for those dealing with grief, it just falls flat in the latter half when the movie stops relly developing things. Also, several of these could hardly be considered horrible premises. Children's rhymes have been always creepy, a children book as medium isn't really that new or head-tilting, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg making a parody always sounds great, monsters eating you from below that can sense you if you are on the ground is actually an excellent premise.
There are a couple movies on this list that most certainly do not sound terrible in their premise. But you know what movie does? "GET OUT." If I had known it involved brain transplants, I would have never gone to see it. Brain transplants?! That's some schlocky 1950s monster movie crap right there. But the movie was so good beyond that concept that I loved it! "Get Out" should have been on this list instead of "Happy Death Day" or "Oculus."
@themantyf1116 It's part of the premise. If you described what the movie is about, a family that does brain transplants for their rich clients to give them new bodies would be part of it.
@@sailorhathor9705 if you went to the cinema, you went to see a movie about a black man experiencing disconcerting events in a rich white house. If you want to describe it, it's the black experience and the exploitation from white people. The brain surgery is a secondary detail functional to the story, calling it part of the premise is like calling "The Martian" a movie about a man duct-taping equipment.
One day I'll see a list where people DON'T like The Babadook. I have an irrational hatred for it, haha, but I've barely met anyone who says they didn't like it. That, and It Follows.
I like Babadook, but I’m with you on It Follows. I really like Maika Monroe, but I’ve watched it *4 times* because I felt like I must be missing something. Maybe I am, but I just don’t think it’s scary. 🤷🏻♀️
Mirrors was a remake of a South Korean horror movie "INTO The Mirror" from 2003. I see the research from WhatCulture didn't go back far enough when comparing that American Remake to OCULUS. Just pointing that out...
I cannot speak well enough about talk to me. Totally thought it’ll be a teen paranormal movie done bad just like Ouija. But nope! Wild ride and perfectly captures teen tic tok feelings with the montage! I loved it.
It is exactly a random, bland cookie cutter formulaic teens + ouija board movie, but instead of the actual board there is an embalmed hand. It's very reductive and derivative.
The Tremors is one of my favorite moster movie out there. The second and third movies were not as good. But i still love them. Burt Gummer is my favorite character in the franchise. UZI4U 😂
First off, I don't see how Occulus is a bad premise. But anyway, the mirror didn't trick her into biting into a lightbulb. Sounds like someone only watched the trailer. It made her think she'd bit into a lightbulb, but then she realized it had been an apple all along. It was showing her that it could change her reality if it wanted.
My dad let me watch this when I was old enough. Loved it. He told me about midnight movie showings when he was younger, where you dressed up as one of the characters. Some places gave prizes. He said he went to one dressed as Frank-N- Furter. That was something I could have lived the rest of my life not knowing.
I enjoyed Happy Death Day but the idea that the killer would take out so many other people just to get to Tree was absolutely ridiculous. All because she slept with the guy this girl had a crush on? There's crazy and then there's unbelievable
Romero’s Dawn of the dead was released in 1978 and Snyder’s version (which I doubt was the version you were talking about as nothing about it was comedic) was released In March 2004. Shaun of the Dead was released in September of 2004 6 months after Snyder’s version. How is Shaun of the dead ahead of its time compare to Dawn of the Dead?
"Will curdle the blood of the most hardened horror veterans." 😂😂 ... nope. I'm obsessed with horror, and it didn't scare me. I love the movie... but did it scare me? Nope. Sorry. I wish you were right. I want to be scared again. But since you put SOTD as one I forgive you because it'd the GOAT.❤
Graboids don't have an armored shell. They're worms, remember? So it is entirely possible to shoot them dead, and this video even showed a clip of this very thing happening to one of them. It's just a matter of getting them out in the open, and, not least, having enough bullets.
Oculus is a bad premise?? Aren’t haunted artifacts a pretty common trope? How would that be bad, if anything maybe not creative. But the beauty of oculus is in the details.
I thought Talk to Me was average. I wanted to enjoy it, but to me, it was just another teen pg13 attempt at horror. It was worth a watch, but it definitely didn't come close to living up to the hype.
didnt yall have a list like a week ago that said happy death day was "meh"? now its on a list of "great" movies? Also, scream trapped in groundhogs day sounds like a really good premise just sayin. The premise of Talk to Me is good as well.
Here are two more for the follow up video: It Follows: An evil entity that follows you because you had sex. Smile: Similar premise but this time it's not sex but watching a smiling person kill him-/herself.
Totally disagree about Tremors and Shaun of the Dead. Ya need to pull your head out of your fourth point of contact if you think those have terrible premises. Ugh
Nope y'all wrong y'all are reaching. The Prince of Darkness was scary as hell. And had an original idea... This was a JOHN CARPENTER CLASSICS and one of three of a trilogy !!!
What in the First Aid Spray were you smoking when you decided that Oculus was a great movie? It is utter garbage, predictable and just plain boring. And the "twist ending" was one that anyone versed in horror could see coming a mile off. "Oh, there's a massive axe that's going to be swung down from the ceiling to attempt to destroy the indestructible mirror, I wonder how that's going to turn out .... " Oh and for the record, Mirrors is a far better film. It's ludicrous to the extreme but that jaw rip scene in the R rated version puts it far above Oculus.
When a channel is ran by Millennials and Gen Z, who don't understand the horror genre. The same ones who think Scream is better than the films of the 80s.
Lmao I’m convinced Shaun of the dead, The descent, and St.Maude are the only horror movies uk has produced the way you guys always mention them in these lists, and the worst part is that they’re mediocre at best. It’s 2024 Shaun of the dead and the decent are not good movies compared to what we have 😂
Totally disagree that Tremors has a bad, much less "terrible" premise. It's a love letter and homage to old school 50s type monster flicks. Honestly I think it's brilliant and one of my favorite horror-comedies with fun practical effects, a good score, and better than expected acting. It's very re-watchable and this review didn't even explain how it's a terrible premise outside of "killer worms" which is a perfect premise for a monster movie set in the desert. IMO of course.
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I didn’t even like Tremors but you’re absolutely right. 👍
Dont know if anyone caught that she said that the Tremors characters played to perfection, which happens to be the name of the town. Now that Perfection
I watched it with my dad when all I knew was that it was a scary movie with Kevin Bacon, and I thought it was brilliant! It was fun trying to work out what the monsters were 😅
I love tremors too
Prince of Darkness was one of those movies that stayed with me long after I had watched it. the bizarre transmissions from the future were what sealed it for me, making the movie unforgettable.
The ending was so haunting, it's a great take on the antichrist.
I like it I just think it's feel a bit strange that it's part of the "apocalypse trilogy" (or quartet now), together with "the thing" and "in the mouth of madness"
Yet still, many arent ready for the physics meets horror genre....but i agree epic film❤
I always thought linking physics and the supernatural was a brilliant plot device. I love it.
The Babadook is devoid of jump scares??? Have you even watched the movie??
I’m beginning to wonder. They make so many basic, blatant errors that it feels like they’re reading a script, movie unseen.
Well if you compare it to the jumpscares of the likes of conjuring and really any average modern horror movie than it is. In a sense that the jumpscares that lacked in the Babadook are the startling kind - like someone clapping before your eyes. Babadooks jumpscares are much more subtle, they're always "announced", devoid of loud music of sudden noise, yet they do surprise you, even if, once again, you've been expecting them any second now.
I'm sorry, but in what world was Shaun of the Dead a "terrible premise"? A sarcastic, British version of Dawn of the Dead sound like a winner from the get go to me.
Omg yes!! I love that movie
Same Here!
Awesome movie! I don't understand how that was a bad premise either.
I think it was the timing that made it a "bad" idea. Zombies had been done to death by the time Shawn hit the scene, so a lot of people were thinking, "Oh no, not again."
@@funtimefoxy6699 I didn't. I was thinking hmm Zombie comedy with a British flavour??? Hell yeah Bring it on! Lol
But I admit I've been a zombie nut since 85 when my cousins rented Dawn Of the Dead and later that year Day of the Dead came out and I was hooked!!! Lol
Please. Bride of Chucky was a return to form after Child's Play 3 didn't bother looping in the creator Don Mancini, perfectly riffing on the Frankenstein franchise.
It's called "Click Bait"... Never go by the title of these videos. But they do bring light to some fun movies!
I loved the premises of Tremors, Lifeforce, Bride of Chucky, Oculus, and Prince of Darkness. Space vampires? Liquid Satan? Burrowing tentacle monsters? Heck yeah! Tell me more!
With PoD, if anything it was the muddled execution which betrayed the high concept.
Oculus, Happy Death Day, Tremors...some of my all-time faves.
Tremors is still one of my favorite movies. Would disagree that it has a terrible premise. I thought it worked perfectly. Plus the nice combination of decent writing, good acting, and great deadpan comedy (that's my definition of it) made this a very fun, re-watchable film.
I dunno, making a horror version of a comedy classic sounds like a great idea to me and something that would pitch well.
"Amelia turning the pages of the book is spine tingling"..... is that an unintentional pun?
Considering WCH writers do almost nothing intentionally, I'd assume so 😢
If it was an intentional pun it was definitely a novel one.
Oculus was pretty good. I can imagine Stephan King writing something scary with that premise.
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With regards to "Therapy for a Vampire" in the words of Brennan Lee Mulligan, "WALK INTO THE SUN!"
I saw Therapy for a Vampire in a local sort of indie movie festival and I loved it. I haven't found a copy of it ever, unfortunately.
not even on ebay?
@@scottdoesntmatter4409 I have visited a local film store and they couldn't find one. If it's available, I would bet that I couldn't even watch it normally because of the stupid region lock thing anyway, since it would be available only on DVD.
Tremors is my favourite film
How in the world can you call Prince of Darkness, Carpenter's 2nd entry in his Apocalypse Trilogy (Sandwiched between The Thing and In The Mouth of Madness) a movie with a terrible premise? And don't you even get me started on your opinion on Lifeforce.
Bcs it's utterly *reductive* . You know when you take an already existing notion, and randomly and incoherently change one thing about it and call yourself an artistic genius.
Think printing out Mona Lisa and covering her eyes with a duct tape, gluing a single eye in the middle and sketching a tulip behind her, and then claiming you've solved the mystery of her smile - she's always been a Dutch cyclops, who had a rare neurological condition causing her to smile awkwardly and fart simultaneously upon smelling a tulip.
Likewise, a fallen angel from Judaic and Christian lore being spacegoo accidentally kept in a dusty tin can at a random university is what you *objectively* call a (very much completely) horrible premise.
I enjoyed The Babadook, Happy Death Day, Oculus, Talk to Me, and Shaun of the Dead
I think we have seen a different version of Talk to Me, since I would put it in the exact opposite list.
The premise is actually great, the idea of talking to the dead becoming addictive or a trap for those dealing with grief, it just falls flat in the latter half when the movie stops relly developing things.
Also, several of these could hardly be considered horrible premises. Children's rhymes have been always creepy, a children book as medium isn't really that new or head-tilting, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg making a parody always sounds great, monsters eating you from below that can sense you if you are on the ground is actually an excellent premise.
There are a couple movies on this list that most certainly do not sound terrible in their premise. But you know what movie does? "GET OUT." If I had known it involved brain transplants, I would have never gone to see it. Brain transplants?! That's some schlocky 1950s monster movie crap right there. But the movie was so good beyond that concept that I loved it! "Get Out" should have been on this list instead of "Happy Death Day" or "Oculus."
Good point.
You can't really call the reveal the premise of a movie, though.
@themantyf1116 It's part of the premise. If you described what the movie is about, a family that does brain transplants for their rich clients to give them new bodies would be part of it.
@@sailorhathor9705 if you went to the cinema, you went to see a movie about a black man experiencing disconcerting events in a rich white house.
If you want to describe it, it's the black experience and the exploitation from white people.
The brain surgery is a secondary detail functional to the story, calling it part of the premise is like calling "The Martian" a movie about a man duct-taping equipment.
@@themantyf1116 You don't make any sense, little man.
One day I'll see a list where people DON'T like The Babadook. I have an irrational hatred for it, haha, but I've barely met anyone who says they didn't like it. That, and It Follows.
I like Babadook, but I’m with you on It Follows. I really like Maika Monroe, but I’ve watched it *4 times* because I felt like I must be missing something. Maybe I am, but I just don’t think it’s scary. 🤷🏻♀️
What the fuck? Are you me?? We're friends now - no objections!!!
The son in Babadook was the real monster
No joke.
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No he wasn't. He was a troubled little boy and a hero who loved his mum.
@@WaddedBliss he was troubled for sure but the real monster indeed. Irritating has hell basically screaming the whole movie
Damn right. That kid was annoying AF
Did you actually see Prince of Darkness?
Not the premise at all.
Mirrors was a remake of a South Korean horror movie "INTO The Mirror" from 2003. I see the research from WhatCulture didn't go back far enough when comparing that American Remake to OCULUS.
Just pointing that out...
Anyone terrified or shook by any part of Talk to Me is not a real horror fan. Only casual movie goers would have been unsettled
Oculus is REALLY good!
Hell yes! It was the first movie in a long long time that actually made me feel scared while watching it.
Agree. It was genuinely scary for me and the bleak depressing ending was a cherry in top.
Yes. But I'm guessing the writer of this didn't really watch the movie. From the line about "Kalee biting into a Lightbulb instead of an apple. 😎
I cannot speak well enough about talk to me. Totally thought it’ll be a teen paranormal movie done bad just like Ouija. But nope! Wild ride and perfectly captures teen tic tok feelings with the montage! I loved it.
It is exactly a random, bland cookie cutter formulaic teens + ouija board movie, but instead of the actual board there is an embalmed hand. It's very reductive and derivative.
Wow WhatCulture did yall drop the ball on this list
Swear to god, I don’t even think they’ve watched the movies they talk about.
@@fiofiofioletta1898 I've wondered the same thing
The Tremors is one of my favorite moster movie out there. The second and third movies were not as good. But i still love them. Burt Gummer is my favorite character in the franchise.
UZI4U 😂
Think of Tremors as a prequel to Dune.
First off, I don't see how Occulus is a bad premise. But anyway, the mirror didn't trick her into biting into a lightbulb. Sounds like someone only watched the trailer. It made her think she'd bit into a lightbulb, but then she realized it had been an apple all along. It was showing her that it could change her reality if it wanted.
I love so many of these movies. Life Force is a go to movie for me.
Sinister would be the one for me. A great movie about the boogie man 😂😂😂
Oculus is actually one of my favorite horror movies ❤❤❤
"Talk to me" was disappointing.
Where is rocky horror picture show. It just sounds like a Frankenstein knockoff but went in a completely different direction
@Stang2023 motion picture
My dad let me watch this when I was old enough. Loved it.
He told me about midnight movie showings when he was younger, where you dressed up as one of the characters. Some places gave prizes. He said he went to one dressed as Frank-N- Furter. That was something I could have lived the rest of my life not knowing.
Love Gem
I still love POD, and in more recent times Oculus, the third act is second to none✔️
Oh no! I rebuke you! Happy Death Day is one of my favorite movies. Shame on you for putting it on this list. I love this movie. Enough said.
I enjoyed Happy Death Day but the idea that the killer would take out so many other people just to get to Tree was absolutely ridiculous. All because she slept with the guy this girl had a crush on? There's crazy and then there's unbelievable
I agree, the reveal was very unsatisfying and nonsensical. I enjoyed the rest of the movie so much I forgive the bad ending.
@@Multi_Purpose_Weirdo yes! I was expecting some big reveal and it was a HUGE letdown.
Romero’s Dawn of the dead was released in 1978 and Snyder’s version (which I doubt was the version you were talking about as nothing about it was comedic) was released In March 2004. Shaun of the Dead was released in September of 2004 6 months after Snyder’s version. How is Shaun of the dead ahead of its time compare to Dawn of the Dead?
You also get a bonus of Patrick Stewart in Lifeforce
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Lifeforce - according to Patrick Stewart, this was his first kiss on the screen, and it was with Steve Railsback
"Will curdle the blood of the most hardened horror veterans." 😂😂
... nope. I'm obsessed with horror, and it didn't scare me. I love the movie... but did it scare me? Nope. Sorry. I wish you were right. I want to be scared again.
But since you put SOTD as one I forgive you because it'd the GOAT.❤
The first time I watched tremors.I was a young child and it had me scared to walk on the ground lol
and then your family bought you a pogo stick.....
Graboids don't have an armored shell. They're worms, remember? So it is entirely possible to shoot them dead, and this video even showed a clip of this very thing happening to one of them. It's just a matter of getting them out in the open, and, not least, having enough bullets.
I would like to add " Night Of The Comet "
It follows?
Oculus was a great film. Or maybe that pony tail hypnotized me.
You can shoot holes in any concept if you describe it with as little detail as possible.
You've got red on you.
Why is the Romantic Comedy Shaun of the Dead on a list of horror movies?
Oculus is a bad premise?? Aren’t haunted artifacts a pretty common trope? How would that be bad, if anything maybe not creative. But the beauty of oculus is in the details.
I thought Talk to Me was average. I wanted to enjoy it, but to me, it was just another teen pg13 attempt at horror. It was worth a watch, but it definitely didn't come close to living up to the hype.
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Tremors is an action comedy. There isn't even a single attempt at a scare.
didnt yall have a list like a week ago that said happy death day was "meh"? now its on a list of "great" movies?
Also, scream trapped in groundhogs day sounds like a really good premise just sayin. The premise of Talk to Me is good as well.
This channel has insulted Mirrors tons of times.
Here are two more for the follow up video:
It Follows: An evil entity that follows you because you had sex.
Smile: Similar premise but this time it's not sex but watching a smiling person kill him-/herself.
Shame on you! Bride of Chucky is a good movie!
While I love Carpenter, Prince of Darkness is my least favorite of his work.
Talk to me sucked
You forgot demonic commodes.
Smile. Up until the moment we saw it I think we all thought it was gonna be some Lucy Hale level garbage
Totally disagree about Tremors and Shaun of the Dead. Ya need to pull your head out of your fourth point of contact if you think those have terrible premises. Ugh
Nope y'all wrong y'all are reaching. The Prince of Darkness was scary as hell. And had an original idea... This was a JOHN CARPENTER CLASSICS and one of three of a trilogy !!!
Talk to me is the trashiest movie I’ve ever seen
Babaduck
How TF is Talk to Me a bad premise? Teens get addicted to getting possessed to represent drug abuse. Sounds like a cool idea to me
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What in the First Aid Spray were you smoking when you decided that Oculus was a great movie? It is utter garbage, predictable and just plain boring. And the "twist ending" was one that anyone versed in horror could see coming a mile off. "Oh, there's a massive axe that's going to be swung down from the ceiling to attempt to destroy the indestructible mirror, I wonder how that's going to turn out .... " Oh and for the record, Mirrors is a far better film. It's ludicrous to the extreme but that jaw rip scene in the R rated version puts it far above Oculus.
When a channel is ran by Millennials and Gen Z, who don't understand the horror genre. The same ones who think Scream is better than the films of the 80s.
Lmao I’m convinced Shaun of the dead, The descent, and St.Maude are the only horror movies uk has produced the way you guys always mention them in these lists, and the worst part is that they’re mediocre at best. It’s 2024 Shaun of the dead and the decent are not good movies compared to what we have 😂
I love both the descent and Shaun of the dead. Can we watch many many times
I hate Oculus 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Ty for not having Elle narrate
The Babadook is not a good film. Stop praising it so much
What Culture is a terrible premise for a CZcams channel
The main character in Talk to Me is so unbearable that it ruined my experience with the film.
I didn’t have the first like, but it was the 800 and first… does that count?
Babadook was terrible. So glad i didn't spend money to watch it
Didnt like Oculus or Talk To Me
oculus is flanigan’s terrible work! The plot is so shitty and stupid! It deserves to be thrown out of the window