Every year around Halloween, horror movie lovers look for films to satisfy their seasonal craving for scares. But if you look for new horror films to watch by Googling something like “best horror films” or “most famous horror films,” and then you cross-reference those results against a site like Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes, you’ll find that many of the best-known and most-watched horror movies in history got pretty bad reviews from film critics. These are movies that launched massive multimedia franchises; titles that continue to spawn sequels and spinoffs and TV shows to this day. Famous Horror Movies That Got Bad Reviews These huge horror movies — most of which launched franchises — got bad reviews from film critics. READ MORE: 25 Classic Movies That Got Bad Reviews