If we have winners then, in most cases, we most also have losers.
And that most certainly is the case in the horror movie genre.
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Yet, for better or worse, we consider ourselves horror completists and try and watch both the good and bad ones.
Here are the ones we were most sorry about seeing in 2025.
We advise you to avoid these 5 horror films this Halloween season.
We’ll start out with the worst of the worst and slowly creep to the merely miserable.
1.“28 Years Later”
It was one of the three or four most highly anticipated horror films going into 2025. Yet, it also turned out to be the most disappointing one we saw this year. It’s pretty much rubbish from start to finish, yet the last half is such an uninspired convoluted mess of “Apocalypse Now” and “Walking Dead” (with Ralph Fiennes coming in somewhere between Daryl Dixon and Marlon Brando) that you’ll be sorry for watching it.
2. “Him”
Take a seat and let director Justin Tipping hit you over the head, repeatedly, with the point that society puts too much emphasis on The G.O.A.T. – especially in sports. Yes, it’s a worthy point to make, yet it’s hard to imagine a worse way to make it than in this horror/sports epic that manages to fail both film genres.
3. “The Long Walk”
One Stephen King adaptation hit it out the park (“The Monkey”) in 2025, while this one – which King published in 1979 under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman – should’ve never gotten into the game. Failing at the fundamentals, from simple dialogue to character development to shot selection, this bore of a film should’ve been called “The Long Watch.”
4. “Death of a Unicorn”
Talk about a one-trick pony (pun intended). The filmmakers only had one joke – “Oh, no, it’s a killer unicorn!” – and literally nothing else. Watch “Bambi: The Reckoning” instead.
5. “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
It pains us a bit to see this one on the list, since we do really like the 1997 original model and even the following year’s goofy follow-up “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer.” Yet, the lack of quality writing and fresh ideas (or even inspired ways to connect to the source material) dooms the project. Still better than 2006’s “I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer” though.