The 2020s have been hot for horror, and 2022 took things up a notch for the beloved, albeit unsettling genre. From the chilling plot of Jordan Peele’s Nope, to Mia Goth’s breakthrough with X and Pearl, the revival of Scream and Prey, and many more cinematic successes, 2022 was undeniably the year of horror.
Whether you want to attribute it to the pandemic or the rising respect of the genre, horror is becoming even more of a force in cinema today. But while many of these haunting, creepy, or downright gory films were at the receiving end of significant praise, a lot of releases last year ultimately fell flat, leading to yet another Reddit post dedicated to slashing the works that failed to impress aficionados of the genre, earning them the title “The Worst Horror Movie of 2022”.