5 Overrated 80s Horror Movies
When it comes right down to it, the horror movie genre might have been around for quite a while, but it got a bit of a boost towards the end of the 20th century. Horror films in the 1970s got a boost with some iconic characters and stories. The 1980s continued that trend by introducing even more characters or keeping some stories that first got their start a decade earlier. That doesn’t mean that everything that came out in the 1980s was absolutely perfect. There were some films that seemed to get some hype they didn’t really deserve.
In fact, there are three categories that most horror films in the 1980s fell into. There were those that were honestly very good. There were those that were really, really bad and those that were not actually bad but did get a bit more love than they really deserved. To some degree or another, these films were still plenty important and worth watching. It just turned out that they weren’t quite as good as they eventually got credit for, because of one factor or another. Adaptations and sequels were among those that were right at the top of the list of overrated films in the 1980s.
Friday The 13th: How Does Jason Keep Surviving?
Children of the Corn is one of those classic horror movies that had a really good story and a very spooky “villain” at the center of it. It turns out that because the story was quite original and something that hadn’t really been seen on the big screen, it got more love than it probably really deserved. In fact, when boiling down the Stephen King adaptation to its essence, it was just full of really bad acting and a story that needed to be filled out a bit better. To this day, it seems as if the flick benefits more from audiences filling in the gaps with their own
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