Top rated movies with retro-style directing that have wasted potential

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with retro-style directing and wasted potential! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with retro-style directing and wasted potential, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Book of Monsters (2019)

Sophie's 18th birthday becomes a bloodbath when monsters descend upon her house, devouring the guests and killing anyone who tries to leave. To survive the night, Sophie must face her destiny: monsters are real and she's the only one who can stop them.

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2019-03-19 | Comedy / Horror

Cast

Lyndsey Craine, Michaela Longden

Rating

rating icon 5.123
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    waste of three hours
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fun romp
  3. Ranked #1 for
    with showmanship

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2 The Owners (2020)

A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

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2020-08-27 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy

Rating

rating icon 5.621
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    kind of weird
  2. Ranked #1 for
    followable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    uncreative story

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3 Revealer (2022)

Tensions rise when a stripper and religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980s Chicago.

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2022-06-23 | Horror

Cast

Caito Aase, Shaina Schrooten

Rating

rating icon 5.324
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sizable
  2. Ranked #1 for
    religious fanatic
  3. Ranked #2 for
    rejoinder lines

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Revealer trailer
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4 The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)

At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows.

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2020-02-14 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck

Rating

rating icon 4.869
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    incoherent
  2. Ranked #1 for
    needlessly complicated
  3. Ranked #1 for
    begging the question

Trailer

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5 Skylines (2020)

When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.

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2020-10-25 | Science Fiction / Action

Cast

Lindsey Morgan, Alexander Siddig

Rating

rating icon 5.586
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    not that bad
  2. Ranked #1 for
    reintroduction
  3. Ranked #1 for
    ok acting

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Skylines trailer
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6 The Devil's Machine (2019)

Antique expert Brendon Cole is summoned to authenticate a 300-year-old clockwork doll with a notoriously dark history known as The Inferno Princess. In the remote Highlands mansion where it has recently been uncovered, Brendon soon finds himself the victim of the automaton’s legendary curse as the malevolent forces surrounding it are terrifyingly awakened.

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2019-03-02 | Horror

Cast

Jamie Scott Gordon, Erich Redman

Rating

rating icon 4.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    effectively creepy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    Baroque imagery
  3. Ranked #1 for
    moody lighting

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The Devil's Machine trailer
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7 Beauty (2022)

A young singer on the brink of a promising career finds herself torn between a domineering family, industry pressures and her love for her girlfriend.

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2022-06-11 | Romance / Drama

Cast

Gracie Marie Bradley, Aleyse Shannon

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unfinished
  2. Ranked #2 for
    can carry a tune
  3. Ranked #2 for
    baffled

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8 The Munsters (2022)

Lily is a typical 150-year-old lovelorn vampire who's looking for the man of her nightmares -- until she lays her eyes on Herman, a 7-foot-tall green experiment with a heart of gold. It's love at first shock as these two ghouls fall fangs over feet for each other in a Transylvanian romance. Unfortunately, it's not all smooth sailing in the cemetery as Lily's father has other plans for his beloved daughter's future, and they don't involve her new bumbling beau.

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2022-09-27 | Comedy / Fantasy

Cast

Jeff Daniel Phillips, Sheri Moon Zombie

Rating

rating icon 5.679
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    campy
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cornball
  3. Ranked #1 for
    sorely disappointing

Trailer

The Munsters trailer
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9 Monstrous (2022)

Laura, traumatized by an abusive relationship, runs away from her former husband with her seven-year-old son Cody. But in their new, idyllic and remote sanctuary, they find they have another, bigger and more terrifying monster to deal with…

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2022-05-13 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Christina Ricci, Santino Barnard

Rating

rating icon 5.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    uncanny
  2. Ranked #1 for
    fairly easy
  3. Ranked #2 for
    crisp editing

Trailer

Monstrous trailer
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10 Warning (2021)

Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.

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2021-10-22 | Science Fiction

Cast

Alex Pettyfer, Alice Eve

Rating

rating icon 4.824
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sadly disappointing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    loosely connected plot
  3. Ranked #2 for
    deeply disappointing

Trailer

Warning trailer
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