5 Overrated Sci-Fi Horror Films

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Science fiction and horror go very well together, thanks to the former's often cynical look into the unknown and the latter's fondness for new forms of cruelty. Though there are countless ways to make the next stages of human evolution scary, there are a few that everyone's seen too many times.

Overrated is an overused and nebulous term in modern pop culture discussion. Can anything be accurately stated to «deserve» the praise or attention it gets? Probably not, but in the world of cinema, everyone has a few beloved smaller projects that got drowned out by something with a bigger name attached. Those big projects may not be bad, they may even be great, but something contributes to their name being on the audience's minds much longer than they would be on their own merits.

The Creator Of Sweet Tooth Directed This Underrated Sci-Fi Thriller

In 2019, Netflix put out a horror film called The Silence. The critical reception was dreadful, with countless critics boldly proclaiming it a shameless rip-off of a film that had dropped only two years earlier. The Silence was an adaptation of a novel written in 2015, the adaptation of which sat shelved for multiple years. A Quiet Place was produced during the production of the adaptation with a disconcertingly identical premise to the novel, then came out first, causing countless people to consider the original work a rip-off. How did this simple B-movie premise with decent execution manage to net a near-perfect score from critics and audiences? By the use of a strong gimmick. A Quiet Place would've been forgotten shortly after release if it weren't for the ridiculous goodwill Krasinski gained from The Office. People claim to hate jump scares, but, as long as it has the right celebrity