Travers Tosses Octobers Scary-Awful Flicks Into the Scum Bucket

For this years Halloween installment of At the Movies, Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers says good riddance to Scum-tober, tossing the months 10 scary-awful flicks into the Scum Bucket. Theres the trick, he says, and theres no treat about it.

The first film to receive a scummy death sentence is Ouija,the supernatural horror directed by Stiles White. Travers keeps his verbal review short and not-so-sweet: Horrible, he says of the movie, recoiling with the wrong kind of horror. Dull in the extreme. Walking the plank next is the John R. Leonetti-directedAnnabelle, a horror outing about a demon-possessed doll. Can you imagine? Travers sarcastically asks. BO-RING. Our critic has no patience for snooze-worthy fantasy-thrillers, fromDracula Untold (I cannot tell you how unendurable this movie is) toHorns (Dont care).

Following in scum-tastic form isBefore I Go to Sleep, starring two Academy Award winners Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth in an eye-rolling drama about a woman with amnesia. This wouldnt even play as a Lifetime movie, Travers jabs. Theres also the hideousYoure Not You, a histrionic slab of overacting which stars Hilary Swank as a woman afflicted with ALS though its not as scummy asAddicted, a would-be erotic thriller starring Sharon Leal as a sex addict.

Next up: The pathetic Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Best of Me and the flatlining familial/legal dramaThe Judge, which wastes high-caliber actors like Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall. But no amount of cinematic drivelcan prepare audiences forJason ReitmansMen, Women & Children, an overbearing, tech-centric drama that Travers predicts will be remembered not for just this year but for years to come as a piece of unmitigated crap.

Dont go see it, he says. I embrace my Scum Bucket, and I say, Take these movies and let them all burn in hell.'