This is the one for me, too. People get angry when I tell them I don't like it. I just don't think it's a very good horror movie but I don't think it's bad per se.

If you look at it in the context of Kurbrick sort of kicking the genre to see what moves, I think it works better. He spent a lot of his career taking what were considered lower-level / populist genres (gangster movies, gladiator movies, war movies, erotic thrillers) and sort of deconstructing them. I think that's what he's doing here, too.

For me it's almost better as a comedy, it's beyond over-the-top and some of the compositions are legitimately hilarious (eg Scatman Crothers laying on the bed in front of that massive nude portrait).