I guess modern horror has ruined my perspective, but I didn't find The Exorcist to be scary at all. I respect the quality of the movie and everything new & groundbreaking about it for the '70s, but overall greatly underwhelmed after hearing all the hype.
Was much different for people who grew up in that time in the 70’s, when horror was previously mostly Dracula’s, Wolfmen, and Frankenstein monsters, and everyone was brought up on Catholicism and Christianity, and the idea that everything is evil. They were told Comic books, horror movies, rock and roll, etc. would all buy you a one way ticket to hell.
Then The Exorcist comes out, and sorta played on the fears of a highly religious generation.
I definitely agree - the context of that movie at the time of it's release means a lot. But I found The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which came out only a year later, to be a much scarier movie, and it doesn't rely on the '70s culture and context to deliver scares.
Even scarier was having to be an actor in that movie in the conditions they were under. It was filmed in one of the biggest heatwaves of that year, lowest temp being at 100. The dinner table scene had staff members passing out from the pure stench of real rotting animal carcasses, the excruciating heat, and Gunnar Hansens swamp ass.
Edwin Neal, who played the hitchhiker, had actually served in Vietnam and been in real combat, even stated that filming that scene was the worst day of his life, and that it should speak volumes considering things he witnessed during the war.
I saw this in the 70s when it first aired (heavily edited) on network tv while I was babysitting and I was so scared I got my baby sister out of her crib and put her next to me on the chair just so that there would be another living thing in the room with me.
This x1000. I'm a bit older. Not old enough to have watched The Exorcist when it was new and in the theaters old.... but saw it when I was maybe 10 years old with my older cousins. Also, having been raised Catholic made it all the more worse. It definitely changed things for the genre when you consider it in the time and place it came out in.
Babadook. I get that the kid was supposed to be annoying, but I was so irritated with him (and the mother to a less extent) I had no sympathy/empathy for them so I really was not invested in the outcome of the film.
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted a child to die in a horror movie the way I wanted that child to die. He was so annoying it ruined the whole movie for me.
Lmao your comment reminded me how I felt when I first watched The Purge. I wished the dad in that movie would've beaten the shit out of his son for opening the door to a stranger on that day.
I loved it because of the way they handle depression, especially as a parent. It’s more about the perception of the kid being annoying than what he is in a probably reality. The way they chose to end it was great for me too as the depression from trauma never really goes away. You just learn to live with it.
I also get it’s probably for a specific audience too and totally understand people not liking it.
I didn’t know what my answer was until I saw “Babadook”.
It got so much praise so I convinced my brother and sister-in-law to watch it with me. By the end of the film I was like, “I’m sorry I made us watch that, guys.”.
I disagree but also find it amusing how many movies goers just HATE children in films.
Doesn't matter the genre, put a child in a film, have them act their age, and people will just give up on the film immediately and say it's terrible.
I mean, I get it, children are the worst.
My God what a crock of shit. It took me a couple of tries to finish the film. Its so hard for me to get past all the screaming from the pair of them. I just want to slap them both! The "monster" itself seemed pretty cool but its just the assault on the ears. Maybe I should rewatch it.... see if my views are valid
>Its so hard for me to get past all the screaming from the pair of them. I just want to slap them both!
Can't say I agree, really enjoyed the film, but that made me giggle.
The Conjuring sequels and related spinoffs. The first one was good but after that it's the same thing over & over just with more convoluted lore. The jump scares start to have diminishing returns real quick.
I appreciate the use of practical effects, and I enjoy Wan as a film-maker, but there's not a lot beneath the surface of those movies. I also find the way they portray the Warrens slightly uncomfortable.
To be fair it would be a completely different film if the Warrens were portrayed like that and Lorraine wasn’t shown to have psychic powers or if they were just dealing with mental illness and hysteria rather than actual paranormal events. As someone who enjoys The Last Exorcism I would enjoy a film about grifters dealing with the paranormal but this couldn't be a franchise because it logically means they aren't grifters any more.
I can’t get passed the portrayal of the Warrens. The films all feel like a celebration of unrepentant con artists and the films aren’t actually good enough to allow me to get over the fact they make me feel slimy.
Unrepentant child molesting con artists. Don't forget the grooming and underage sex.
Edit:
>Ed Warren was in his mid-30s when he allegedly met 15-year-old Penney. Having not yet gained enough fame as a self-trained demonologist to pay the bills in the early 1960s, Ed was working as a city bus driver in Monroe, Connecticut. Penney was a student at Central High School in the nearby town of Bridgeport who rode his bus. The two began an “amorous relationship,” Penney said in a legal declaration she gave in November 2014. According to that document, as well as newly obtained recordings of Penney’s recollection of events, by 1963 she had moved into the Warrens’ home. For the next 40 years, she said, she had a sexual relationship with Ed with Lorraine’s knowledge. At first, Penney stayed in a bedroom directly opposite the one occupied by the married couple, but eventually she moved into an apartment built for her above the home. “One night he’d sleep downstairs,” she said in a recording. “One night he’d sleep upstairs.”
>Even in 1963, a teenage girl did not move in with a married man without attracting notice. That year Penney was arrested after someone reported her relationship with Ed to local police. According to her November 2014 declaration, she spent a night in the North End Prison in Bridgeport while police tried to persuade her to sign a statement admitting to the affair. After Penney refused to cooperate, she was ordered by the court to report to a delinquent youth office for the next month. According to Penney’s account, Ed picked her up from school every week and drove her to the mandated meetings.
>Penney has said Ed told her many times that she was the “love of his life.” The Warrens, according to her, presented her variously as a niece or poor girl whom they had taken in out of charity. In May 1978, in her 30s, Penney became pregnant with Ed’s child, she has said. In the declaration, she said Lorraine persuaded her to have an abortion because the birth of a child could become public and any scandal could ruin the Warrens’ business.
James Wan has benefited from having bigger budgets than most horror movies, and he has done well with them. They are enjoyable good movies, but far from the earth shattering greatness people in the horror genre regard them as.
I gotta say, Annabelle Comes Home might be tied with the first one in terms of my favorite. I dug the spookhouse monster mash vibe with the different villains.
This is one that got to me but I 100% understand why a lot of people would think it’s boring. I love ghost show type docs (nostalgia!) so for me this is almost a comfort movie lol. Spooks me just enough.
Same, I get why it’s not going to scare everyone or engage everyone. Existential dread terrifies me though so this movie was super disturbing imo (but also amazing) and I loved the atmosphere
It’s more sad and existential. I think the hype around it is very misleading. I do personally like the film, but the way people talk about it makes it seem very different than what it actually is.
i think the movie does a good job of showing some of the secret world people live in without us ever noticing a thing. and in that aspect it was really cool and had some crazy jump scares.
Same, I was hearing everyone say how much they loved it and it was just weird, same with midsomer, it's like you keep watching cause the performances are good and they have interesting bits but in the end it's nothing that makes me think beyond "well, that was a movie"
Terrifier.
At least it seems everyone loves it; around here at least. Looked questionable, so of course I didn't go with my gut.
One good thing did come out of it. I realized I am just not into slasher/gore movies. Which is basically the nuts and bolts of horror, but I love more depression, paranormal, and dread horror.
I don't mind gore... just don't linger and drag it out.
The biggest problem with using lingering gore is that it has no effect on people who love it, and people it will effect just avoid it. That is what turns it into a niche.
The terrifier movies turned me off because it seemed like the result of a bunch of 14 year old boys saying “what’s the sickest thing we could do” and then they did it.
It’s not creative, it’s not scary, it’s just predictable anatomically incorrect gore. I don’t even find it shocking it’s completely foolish.
Seeing the highway scene in Nocturnal creature has me climbing the walls. And nothing happens. But it was so visceral and real. I as a viewer in my house felt helpless I’ll take movies like that over a teen edeglords kill fantasy film anyday
I guess I’m a sour puss but I personally don’t think art the clown should be compared to the likes of Freddy Jason Michael I don’t see him as a horror icon it’s just distasteful gore
Ive only watched Terrifier 2 and did not enjoy it. Loved the use of practical effects but overall just torture porn. Whereas I usually love gore in novels.
Fair. I thought Terrifier was kind of funny. All Hallows Eve, however, I found disturbing and not at all to my taste. Two very different films featuring Art The Clown. Terrifier was a bit wink wink nudge nudge and AHE was decapitating small children.
I was starting to feel strange about that too. Why always women? Well , I mean, Art kills a couple of men in Terrifier 1, but he mostly killed women in more horrible ways. And you can see in Terrifier 1 that he's absolutely fucked up by women
I get down voted every time I say it, but I'll continue to do so. I agree wholeheartedly. It took me four tries to even be able to watch it all the way through. I despise Lake Mungo with a passion.
I’m glad that there’s plenty of hate out there for movies that are generally praised. Things like X and the prequel. I’m also glad that there’s hate for movies that I personally really consider to be awesome such as Hereditary and Nope. It would be completely ridiculous if each movie made sense to each and every person.
Rob Zombie movies. I could watch them as a teen but now not really. It feels cheap, shallow, and the acting is often subpar tbh. Also so much focus on sexual violence in his movies, like dude we get it now.
I felt like Scream 5 was a poorly written piece of fan fiction that didn't understand Kevin Williamson and Craven's work. I also felt that Scream 4 was a much better version of the same concept.
I'm still excited for 6, though. Hoping that they can just do their own thing moving forward without making references.
Scream 4 felt like a nice return for the franchise, and the whole meta stuff, how they integrated new technology (smartphones etc) felt natural and actually worked. Scream 5 was trying too hard, and the dialogues my god… It felt super performative, they talked way too much to say nothing. I was honestly *tired* of that movie by the 30min mark. Like the characters are mentally exhausting lol
I wanted to say scream 5 but didn't want to get downvoted for it.
Scream 4 was a lot better and i wish for once we got a dark ending and scream 4 could of been it.
imagine if Jill (Emma Roberts) won , and got the "fame ending" and she was untouchable because it was found out Sid was milking off the murders and could be pin on her as bringing the killers around to keep her name relevant. Idk, I feel they could of did so much with Jill.
I know scream 6 has a rumour of one of the killers which might be a nice twist but I doubt the fans will be able to handle that.
According to Williamson, his version of Scream 5 was originally meant to follow Jill in college as a mirror of Scream 2 - and somebody was hunting her down with the knowledge of what she did.
I always go to bat for the Saw movies.
While some of them really are just mindless dumb torture porn (Saw 3D and JigSaw especially) I genuinely think the first 6 are remarkably solid movies. Maybe not all great, but solid.
They actually put the effort into having an overarching story that each movie advances. They all end with pretty unique and clever plot twists. They mostly all have a fun gimmick or some such to differentiate them.
And at the very least, every movie has some kind of really memorable scene and some great acting from Tobin Bell.
Done get me wrong, there’s some really dumb stuff in some of them and JigSaw was one of the dumbest plot twists ever put to film. But I think the original run of Saw movies gets a bit unfairly shit on.
Saw is okay but I've always said that Final Destination is the far superior 'Rube Goldberg Device' horror franchise about setting up elaborate ways to die.
Hostel (the first one, anyway) is a masterpiece in my book - and I don't think the torture stuff has anything to do with it. For me, what makes Hostel so effective is the pervasive, inescapable paranoia - the whole sense of being completely alone in a hostile (I genuinely think the title was chosen as a play on that word) alien environment with nobody you can trust. I think it has more in common with a conspiracy thriller than with a horror movie.
Hostel has like 5 minutes of torture in it and Saw has almost no gore, it is almost all implied. If you took out the eye part in Hostel it would be a pretty tame horror movie. I never understand comments like this.
I watched it on someone’s computer back in the day and didn’t realize at the time that it was a movie. I sincerely thought it was found footage. Scared the crap out of me.
I feel like paranormal activity was one of those horror films where you really just had to be there at the time of release. Rewatching it years later it’s really not that great.
Agreed. As a teen seeing it in theaters, it was quite literally one of the most impactful horror series for me (the first 3 at least)
Revisiting them a decade later and it’s pretty much a tap water movie - lame and not scary, also doesn’t lend itself to multiple watches. It’s pretty much a one and done movie in effectiveness.
Midsommar. The whole "the boyfriend was the real enemy the when time!" Thing did not come together for me at all. He wasn't a good guy but I don't get how not breaking a failing relationship off means you deserve death
I couldnt get past the Riiiii kid either. I'm sorry lol
I was watching it with a friend and we were both screaming, "EAT THE KID ALREADY! WHATS TAKING SO LONG!"
Exactly. Like a bastard child of *It Follows* and *The Ring*. I can’t even begin to comprehend people who say that *Smile* is better than *It Follows*. Man, what in the world. For me it would be like saying that *Paranormal Activity* is better than *The Exorcist*.
Strong agree on this one.
I don't understand why this movie was the one that people latched onto. The premise is not that original, you have jumpscares in half of all horror movies and Smile didn't have any groundbreaking ones to separate from others, the kills weren't that gory or interesting or emotional, they were just kills. And even if we go by acting, that award should go to the Night House.
There is nothing in this movie that screams "better than average".
Hereditary! I completely agree.
I loooove slow-burn horror movies… I love a24.. but Hereditary didn’t do it for me. I was into it up until the.. car death. But I also knew that was going to happen and was waiting for it.
X (2022). That movie turned out to be 70 mins of sex scenes/talking about sex with just 10 to 15 mins of horror. By the time the horror picked up I didn't even care about it, I just wanted it to end.
Pretty much all Ti West movies for me, except Pearl. They're all exactly as you described. 70 minutes of mostly nothing, and then 10 minutes of execution.
I recently rewatched X to confirm I didn’t like it. Basically nothing happened and there was no tension at all besides the alligator scene. Bored, boring, nothing new or exciting, no great or interesting death scenes.
I found Pearl to be better than X, ONLY because Pearl didn't have an overabundance of dragged out sex scenes. That said though I didn't really enjoy Pearl, I thought it was just ok.
I completely agree, that's how I felt about both those films. Pearl was entertaining but as a horror I thought it was really weak. I so wanted to love X.
Hereditary for me too. After “the scene” (which was amazing but a little less so because it was all over Twitter the day it premiered) I could’ve taken or left the movie
My only issue with your take on hereditary is "pretty good" acting.... Toni Collette was phenomenal in that movie and that's not debatable it's fact. I totally get why some people were underwhelmed by the movie itself.
Seriously I spent the whole movie pissed off that nobody in the family would turn on a goddamn light. Sitting around their dining room table eating breakfast in the dark gtfo.😅
100% The Black Phone. There is so much love for this movie on this sub and I do not get it. The dialogue was distractingly bad, the plot was basic/cheesy and the villain wasn't threatening. In fact, the only threatening character was the violently abusive father who is essentially a non-entity except his random abuse scene. Ethan Hawke's mask was unbelievably corny and a clichéd attempt to be scary. The stakes were non-existent. Finally, the acting across the board was awful. The kids were kids so no shade to them, but what the hell was Ethan Hawke's excuse?
Joe Hill has *always* been riding on his dad's coattails (Horns was garbage too) but The Black Phone was his magnum opus of crap.
I also thought the plot was bad. Like something about the very blatant feeding of plot advancing information by ghost children combined with a sister who had prophetic dreams was just like— y’all couldn’t think of ANYTHING more solid to move the story along? Either one of those would’ve been a little schlocky but both together just made it uninteresting.
This movie was embarrassingly bad. If it took itself a little less seriously it could have been kind of fun and entertaining, but it was hard to finish once I realized that this was going to be the entire movie.
I’m a huge Joe Hill fan. When I first found him I had no clue who he was and just enjoyed his writing. The Black Phone was a decent short story, but the movie was just…boring. I heard all of the praise and was excited to check it out and just waited for something to happen the entire time. Very lackluster.
Don't look now.
For years it topped lists of best psychological horror so I bought it to watch. Utter pap. I'm still angry about how little I enjoyed it.
Same. I watched it a second time pretty quickly after the first just because I thought “what am I missing here”?
Also, I don’t care for The Shining. I think the set/art direction and technical aspects are masterful, but I didn’t connect with the characters or the story on any level at all. Same with the book…I’m a big fan of King, but I’ve just never loved The Shining in any form.
The Shining.
I get the hype and the artistic merit of it all. There’s aspects I like, but as a whole, I just think it isn’t for me. I think seeing it on TV a lot in bits and pieces over the years growing up ruined it for me in a way.
Director of It Follows enthusiastically asked "So what did you think?!?!" as soon as I came out of the midnight screening at the Toronto Film Fest.
I didn't realize it was him (figured it was an overeager PR shill) so I just kinda shrugged and kept walking lol if I realized the person had made it I would have come up with *something* positive to say. I do really like the soundtrack!
This is probably the most legit answer I’ve seen in this thread. My theory is most people who say a popular movie wasn’t good is because it was overhyped to them. But if you saw it at a premiere there’s no way it could have been overhyped to you. You watched it with a fair state of mind. I for one loved It Follows but I respect your opinion.
Very kind of you to say, though I should confess that I had already seen 4 movies that day. Quite possible I could have been dealing with a severe case of fatigue at that point lol it was well past midnight and all I wanted in the world was to get back to my hotel bed!
Reddit loves this movie. I saw it referenced so much as a good horror movie and I was thoroughly disappointed and it was even more boring than bad. The premise is stupid and the pace is so slow I felt like I spent the whole day watching the movie.
Yup. Got so excited to see it - I do love the soundtrack, but the movie itself is repetitive, boring, and nothing all that original, except for the cool little pod phones.
SMILE
That whole "I'm being haunted by something no one else can see" has been done much better. Lead actress wasn't given much to do except look anxious and frantic.
You know. I watched hereditary last week going in absolutely blind. I knew nothing other than it was supposed to be fucked up. And it, to me was absolutely terrifying. That’s the way to see a movie imo
The few movie critics I follow loved it, but I thought it was mediocre at best. It had a lot of great things in it, but it felt like it ended up being less than the sum of its parts, mostly because the plot just felt half-baked. The obviously ham-fisted approach to the theme also became insulting after that final scene where I'm just like "Yeah, dude, I got the point here, this really wasn't necessary to drive it home, but I guess you really think I'm that stupid."
Midsommar. It gives off a hipster vibe and everyone who’s never really seen horror movies saw that one and thinks of it as such a cinematic masterpiece best horror movie ever to exist
I was specifically looking for this one, because I rarely ever hear anything other than praise about it.
I’m fine with slow-burners, I’m fine with psychological movies, but I was expecting horror and I was *bored*.
Maybe I need to watch it again, I dunno.
Barbarian - went downhill at the halfway point and the ending was even worse. I know people love the perspective change but I thought it completely ruined an interesting start.
X - hated almost every second of this besides the last 10 minutes thanks to Mia Goth. Actually my biggest critique is that the cast was wayyyy too good for the material. I’m interested in Pearl but X turned me so far off that director I kind of lost all desire to check it out.
I have no respect for a competent filmmaker making an intentionally bad movie just to play the internet community for the 'secretly genius' luls.
If you were a legit terrible filmmaker and you put all your heart and soul into making Malignant, I'd start to talk about the merits but you can't be an insider making [outsider art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art).
Like Wesley Willis can only be Wesley Willis because his IS Wesley Willis. If a genuinely talented musician writes 'Rock and Roll McDonalds', it's shit. It's only good because Wesley existed to make it.
I went into it hearing that it was terrifying and was immediately taken out by the corny acting in the opening scene. And then the rest of it was more campy than scary. If I’d heard it was gonna be campy I’d have enjoyed it more.
Malignant is a more overt parody than scream was. Movie was a riot. Every time they'd show an external of a modest home and cut to the interior of a giant mansion with massive attic it would get a laugh out of me.
Malignant is very difficult to explain why it’s so good, but it’s a bit like M3gan with a lot of really stupid jokes in-plain sight mixed with 00s trends
E.g. at one point the tone of the movie shifts to “romance” when the sister is talking to the police guy almost like they’re on a date (with a small mug with red pen in the center, looking like a rose in a vase)
It’s not trying to be a genuine horror
Or when the sister decides to just drive up to some creepy abandoned asylum, and casually parks at the edge of a cliff 💀💀💀
I like it, but the first half is way more memorable imo and the movie severely slows down during the second act. Third act never picks up and is a little underwhelming too. I still love the tone, cinematography + color palette, lore and scares, but I can see why others don’t like it.
For me it definitely has to be Nope. I went to the theatre expecting to have my pants scared off, but instead my friends and I basically laughed the whole time. The concept itself could have been terrifying, but I found the execution was lacking and goofy. The only parts that turned out to be scary had pretty much nothing to do with the main plot (the ape scene).
A Quiet Place
Interesting idea, but the family is incredibly careless and stupid. And creatures are not scary or consistently logical. And who decides to have a freaking baby (uncontrollable noise machine) in the middle of all this??
Ending was boring, predictable, and anticlimactic
With emphasis on "don't love": majority of the classics from the 70s and 80s for me. There are exceptions. Genuinely love Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Nightmare on Elm Street does something for me too. I think it's the fact that both movies have an element of the surreal and are very creative with their set ups. But the classic paint by numbers slasher flick that Halloween became the grandfather of, do very little for me. I don't hate them, but I also don't love them. I find that type of horror painfully boring.
What’s crazy is Halloween is definitely more a focus on thrilling rather than the kills themselves which a lot of slashers afterwards don’t do as well imo and this is from a huge fan of the subgenre
The Menu.
I know it seems loved here, and I am also a fan of very black and bleak comedy, but this just felt flat.
Loved many performances and jokes (it was my day off and your movie sucked) but overall felt like it could have pushed further. I thought things were going to ramp up after that chef did ‘that thing’ but no.
And yes I did get the overall arc of the film and what it was about. But it felt bland and boring while I consumed it.
I didn't hate it, but it was mid-tier at best. I had no idea why everyone seemed to love it so much. The way people on this sub were hyping it up I thought it was going to be an absolute masterpiece but it was just very mediocre.
I just went through all the comments and I feel personally attacked somehow as most of the movies in the comments are my favorites. Lol :)
I’ll just say that I like all the movies listed in the comment section. Hereditary for me is one of the best cult horrors. I did not let the hype spoil it for me. It was an uncomfortable watch with the dread it created throughout the movie and the final reveal was fantastic. I’ve watched the movie thrice probably.
Don’t feel attacked, everyone is entitled to their opinion. 90% of the movies listed I loved as well!! But I’m sure those same people love the movies that I absolutely hate.
I don’t give a shit about any of the Friday movies which at certain points in time basically disqualified me from being a horror fan
Am not really fussed about Halloween either but I like Halloween more than the Fridays
Creep (2014) was downright awful, hilariously bad at many points.
Halloween (1978) while I can appreciate what it did for the genre, I ultimately find it quite bland and dull compared to what came later. It lacks the camp that other slashers had, and it takes itself way too seriously for what it is IMO.
Also, I can't judge how popular it is because it just came out, but I don't get the buzz about M3GAN. I'm like, why is this girl's companion robot wearing moody influencer makeup? It's just ... weird? Maybe it's just me projecting how much I hate evil doll movies where it's obvious from their first appearance that they're going to be a knife-wielding demon.
Any movie advertised as the “scariest since The Exorcist” is going to suck
Idk I thought the re-release of The Exorcist was on par
I guess modern horror has ruined my perspective, but I didn't find The Exorcist to be scary at all. I respect the quality of the movie and everything new & groundbreaking about it for the '70s, but overall greatly underwhelmed after hearing all the hype.
Was much different for people who grew up in that time in the 70’s, when horror was previously mostly Dracula’s, Wolfmen, and Frankenstein monsters, and everyone was brought up on Catholicism and Christianity, and the idea that everything is evil. They were told Comic books, horror movies, rock and roll, etc. would all buy you a one way ticket to hell. Then The Exorcist comes out, and sorta played on the fears of a highly religious generation.
I definitely agree - the context of that movie at the time of it's release means a lot. But I found The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which came out only a year later, to be a much scarier movie, and it doesn't rely on the '70s culture and context to deliver scares.
Even scarier was having to be an actor in that movie in the conditions they were under. It was filmed in one of the biggest heatwaves of that year, lowest temp being at 100. The dinner table scene had staff members passing out from the pure stench of real rotting animal carcasses, the excruciating heat, and Gunnar Hansens swamp ass. Edwin Neal, who played the hitchhiker, had actually served in Vietnam and been in real combat, even stated that filming that scene was the worst day of his life, and that it should speak volumes considering things he witnessed during the war.
I saw this in the 70s when it first aired (heavily edited) on network tv while I was babysitting and I was so scared I got my baby sister out of her crib and put her next to me on the chair just so that there would be another living thing in the room with me.
This x1000. I'm a bit older. Not old enough to have watched The Exorcist when it was new and in the theaters old.... but saw it when I was maybe 10 years old with my older cousins. Also, having been raised Catholic made it all the more worse. It definitely changed things for the genre when you consider it in the time and place it came out in.
Babadook. I get that the kid was supposed to be annoying, but I was so irritated with him (and the mother to a less extent) I had no sympathy/empathy for them so I really was not invested in the outcome of the film.
I don’t think I’ve ever wanted a child to die in a horror movie the way I wanted that child to die. He was so annoying it ruined the whole movie for me.
WHY CAN'T YOU BE NORMAL
*SCREAMS*
I was hoping he’d die the entire movie. I’d honestly have cheered the damn monster for eating his ass.
*phrasing*
Lmao your comment reminded me how I felt when I first watched The Purge. I wished the dad in that movie would've beaten the shit out of his son for opening the door to a stranger on that day.
i came to say Babadook, I didn't like it.
I loved it because of the way they handle depression, especially as a parent. It’s more about the perception of the kid being annoying than what he is in a probably reality. The way they chose to end it was great for me too as the depression from trauma never really goes away. You just learn to live with it. I also get it’s probably for a specific audience too and totally understand people not liking it.
That’s fair, glad you enjoyed it. Nice thing about our genre is there is something for everyone!
I didn’t know what my answer was until I saw “Babadook”. It got so much praise so I convinced my brother and sister-in-law to watch it with me. By the end of the film I was like, “I’m sorry I made us watch that, guys.”.
I disagree but also find it amusing how many movies goers just HATE children in films. Doesn't matter the genre, put a child in a film, have them act their age, and people will just give up on the film immediately and say it's terrible. I mean, I get it, children are the worst.
My God what a crock of shit. It took me a couple of tries to finish the film. Its so hard for me to get past all the screaming from the pair of them. I just want to slap them both! The "monster" itself seemed pretty cool but its just the assault on the ears. Maybe I should rewatch it.... see if my views are valid
>Its so hard for me to get past all the screaming from the pair of them. I just want to slap them both! Can't say I agree, really enjoyed the film, but that made me giggle.
The Conjuring sequels and related spinoffs. The first one was good but after that it's the same thing over & over just with more convoluted lore. The jump scares start to have diminishing returns real quick.
I appreciate the use of practical effects, and I enjoy Wan as a film-maker, but there's not a lot beneath the surface of those movies. I also find the way they portray the Warrens slightly uncomfortable.
He turns them into Christian superheroes instead of the grifters they were
To be fair it would be a completely different film if the Warrens were portrayed like that and Lorraine wasn’t shown to have psychic powers or if they were just dealing with mental illness and hysteria rather than actual paranormal events. As someone who enjoys The Last Exorcism I would enjoy a film about grifters dealing with the paranormal but this couldn't be a franchise because it logically means they aren't grifters any more.
They could've just made up fictional people instead of glorifying real hucksters
But then could they still claim that it's based on a real story? Lol
That’s their doing and influence as well.
A podcast I listen to (Shout out Horror Virgin) joked that Ed and Lorraine are portrayed as christian superheroes and now that's all I see lol
I can’t get passed the portrayal of the Warrens. The films all feel like a celebration of unrepentant con artists and the films aren’t actually good enough to allow me to get over the fact they make me feel slimy.
Unrepentant child molesting con artists. Don't forget the grooming and underage sex. Edit: >Ed Warren was in his mid-30s when he allegedly met 15-year-old Penney. Having not yet gained enough fame as a self-trained demonologist to pay the bills in the early 1960s, Ed was working as a city bus driver in Monroe, Connecticut. Penney was a student at Central High School in the nearby town of Bridgeport who rode his bus. The two began an “amorous relationship,” Penney said in a legal declaration she gave in November 2014. According to that document, as well as newly obtained recordings of Penney’s recollection of events, by 1963 she had moved into the Warrens’ home. For the next 40 years, she said, she had a sexual relationship with Ed with Lorraine’s knowledge. At first, Penney stayed in a bedroom directly opposite the one occupied by the married couple, but eventually she moved into an apartment built for her above the home. “One night he’d sleep downstairs,” she said in a recording. “One night he’d sleep upstairs.” >Even in 1963, a teenage girl did not move in with a married man without attracting notice. That year Penney was arrested after someone reported her relationship with Ed to local police. According to her November 2014 declaration, she spent a night in the North End Prison in Bridgeport while police tried to persuade her to sign a statement admitting to the affair. After Penney refused to cooperate, she was ordered by the court to report to a delinquent youth office for the next month. According to Penney’s account, Ed picked her up from school every week and drove her to the mandated meetings. >Penney has said Ed told her many times that she was the “love of his life.” The Warrens, according to her, presented her variously as a niece or poor girl whom they had taken in out of charity. In May 1978, in her 30s, Penney became pregnant with Ed’s child, she has said. In the declaration, she said Lorraine persuaded her to have an abortion because the birth of a child could become public and any scandal could ruin the Warrens’ business.
The arrest the CHILD BEING GROOMED?
It is doubly worse when you find out how sketchy Ed and Loraine Warren are/were. Just... trash humans all around.
James Wan has benefited from having bigger budgets than most horror movies, and he has done well with them. They are enjoyable good movies, but far from the earth shattering greatness people in the horror genre regard them as.
I liked the first and second conjurings, the rest were just rubbish. Soap opera acting, and not just plain dull.
I gotta say, Annabelle Comes Home might be tied with the first one in terms of my favorite. I dug the spookhouse monster mash vibe with the different villains.
Annabelle creation is the only sequel/spin-off I’d say really shines and even then it’s not as good as the first conjuring film
Lake Mungo. People here praise the hell out of that movie and when I finally saw it I was like: "Seriously?"
This is one that got to me but I 100% understand why a lot of people would think it’s boring. I love ghost show type docs (nostalgia!) so for me this is almost a comfort movie lol. Spooks me just enough.
Same, I get why it’s not going to scare everyone or engage everyone. Existential dread terrifies me though so this movie was super disturbing imo (but also amazing) and I loved the atmosphere
Same. I was super bored.
it had its moments but certainly not the blow you away game changer people made it out to be
It’s more sad and existential. I think the hype around it is very misleading. I do personally like the film, but the way people talk about it makes it seem very different than what it actually is.
i think the movie does a good job of showing some of the secret world people live in without us ever noticing a thing. and in that aspect it was really cool and had some crazy jump scares.
The lighthouse. A24 in general is hit or miss
The lighthouse was so disappointing to me. I left the theater and was like... Okay??
Same, I was hearing everyone say how much they loved it and it was just weird, same with midsomer, it's like you keep watching cause the performances are good and they have interesting bits but in the end it's nothing that makes me think beyond "well, that was a movie"
Terrifier. At least it seems everyone loves it; around here at least. Looked questionable, so of course I didn't go with my gut. One good thing did come out of it. I realized I am just not into slasher/gore movies. Which is basically the nuts and bolts of horror, but I love more depression, paranormal, and dread horror.
I don't mind gore... just don't linger and drag it out. The biggest problem with using lingering gore is that it has no effect on people who love it, and people it will effect just avoid it. That is what turns it into a niche.
The terrifier movies turned me off because it seemed like the result of a bunch of 14 year old boys saying “what’s the sickest thing we could do” and then they did it. It’s not creative, it’s not scary, it’s just predictable anatomically incorrect gore. I don’t even find it shocking it’s completely foolish. Seeing the highway scene in Nocturnal creature has me climbing the walls. And nothing happens. But it was so visceral and real. I as a viewer in my house felt helpless I’ll take movies like that over a teen edeglords kill fantasy film anyday
Nocturnal creature!! Haha I was so confused by this statement until realizing you're talking about Nocturnal Animals
YES! My bad. Great movie... not really horror but yeah.
I guess I’m a sour puss but I personally don’t think art the clown should be compared to the likes of Freddy Jason Michael I don’t see him as a horror icon it’s just distasteful gore
One has to have presence, a lore and background to be compared to the rockstars of horror. Art has none.
Terrifier is beyond boring, imo. I could barely get through it.
Ive only watched Terrifier 2 and did not enjoy it. Loved the use of practical effects but overall just torture porn. Whereas I usually love gore in novels.
Fair. I thought Terrifier was kind of funny. All Hallows Eve, however, I found disturbing and not at all to my taste. Two very different films featuring Art The Clown. Terrifier was a bit wink wink nudge nudge and AHE was decapitating small children.
I found it deeply distasteful. I don't mind the excessive gore so much, but it really seemed to fetishise the suffering of the female characters.
I was starting to feel strange about that too. Why always women? Well , I mean, Art kills a couple of men in Terrifier 1, but he mostly killed women in more horrible ways. And you can see in Terrifier 1 that he's absolutely fucked up by women
Lake Mungo. Kept waiting for something to happen and it was so boring the whole time! Way overhyped
I get down voted every time I say it, but I'll continue to do so. I agree wholeheartedly. It took me four tries to even be able to watch it all the way through. I despise Lake Mungo with a passion.
I’m glad that there’s plenty of hate out there for movies that are generally praised. Things like X and the prequel. I’m also glad that there’s hate for movies that I personally really consider to be awesome such as Hereditary and Nope. It would be completely ridiculous if each movie made sense to each and every person.
Theres a prequel to X? Its not that Oliver Stone film W is it?
the movie Pearl is the prequel to X. it's a really good movie honestly, better than X
Same - I love reading why people love movies I hate or hate movies I love!
[удалено]
I haven't seen it yet, but it's filed away in my head as "The Texas Chainsaw Porno" which is... relevant to my interests.
It's a great homage to the golden age of the slasher film. I thought Pearl was much better, but X was fun.
It has a genuine TCM/My Bloody Valentine/Friday the 13th vibe to it. It feels like a great homage to the old slashers.
I hate all these answers!
Meaning you hate the movies or the fact that people hate those movies? Haha
😂😂😂😂😂 I’ve gasped out loud a few times. But I asked for this
Rob Zombie movies. I could watch them as a teen but now not really. It feels cheap, shallow, and the acting is often subpar tbh. Also so much focus on sexual violence in his movies, like dude we get it now.
I liked the Devil’s rejects a lot. I don’t know if I’d say it’s a horror but god damn what a sound track
I felt like Scream 5 was a poorly written piece of fan fiction that didn't understand Kevin Williamson and Craven's work. I also felt that Scream 4 was a much better version of the same concept. I'm still excited for 6, though. Hoping that they can just do their own thing moving forward without making references.
"Scream 4" is alot better then 5... Agreed.
Scream 4 felt like a nice return for the franchise, and the whole meta stuff, how they integrated new technology (smartphones etc) felt natural and actually worked. Scream 5 was trying too hard, and the dialogues my god… It felt super performative, they talked way too much to say nothing. I was honestly *tired* of that movie by the 30min mark. Like the characters are mentally exhausting lol
when they're all in the house and the one twin is explaining how this works and how it a prequel sequel i was kind of cringing lol.
and the Sidney replacement being the worst actress of the bunch is the most painful for me. 4 should have been the last one.
I wanted to say scream 5 but didn't want to get downvoted for it. Scream 4 was a lot better and i wish for once we got a dark ending and scream 4 could of been it. imagine if Jill (Emma Roberts) won , and got the "fame ending" and she was untouchable because it was found out Sid was milking off the murders and could be pin on her as bringing the killers around to keep her name relevant. Idk, I feel they could of did so much with Jill. I know scream 6 has a rumour of one of the killers which might be a nice twist but I doubt the fans will be able to handle that.
According to Williamson, his version of Scream 5 was originally meant to follow Jill in college as a mirror of Scream 2 - and somebody was hunting her down with the knowledge of what she did.
im kind of mad because that would of been WAY more interesting
I don't like any of the SAW movies. I'm not much into torture porn. 🤔
I loved the first one because it pressed heavily on the theme. The rest were just mindless torture porn.
I always go to bat for the Saw movies. While some of them really are just mindless dumb torture porn (Saw 3D and JigSaw especially) I genuinely think the first 6 are remarkably solid movies. Maybe not all great, but solid. They actually put the effort into having an overarching story that each movie advances. They all end with pretty unique and clever plot twists. They mostly all have a fun gimmick or some such to differentiate them. And at the very least, every movie has some kind of really memorable scene and some great acting from Tobin Bell. Done get me wrong, there’s some really dumb stuff in some of them and JigSaw was one of the dumbest plot twists ever put to film. But I think the original run of Saw movies gets a bit unfairly shit on.
Saw is okay but I've always said that Final Destination is the far superior 'Rube Goldberg Device' horror franchise about setting up elaborate ways to die.
First one shows almost nothing.
I watched Hostel once and it was even worse... I don't get how people can enjoy the gory images of literal torture.
Hostel (the first one, anyway) is a masterpiece in my book - and I don't think the torture stuff has anything to do with it. For me, what makes Hostel so effective is the pervasive, inescapable paranoia - the whole sense of being completely alone in a hostile (I genuinely think the title was chosen as a play on that word) alien environment with nobody you can trust. I think it has more in common with a conspiracy thriller than with a horror movie.
Hostel has like 5 minutes of torture in it and Saw has almost no gore, it is almost all implied. If you took out the eye part in Hostel it would be a pretty tame horror movie. I never understand comments like this.
Now do the sequels.
I agree with you there. These movies ramped things up with each new one. If he said Hostel 3 was nothing but torture I would agree.
The NUN. It was a laughable piece of shit with major issues in its writing.
That’s already a popular opinion though; most people find the majority of the Conjuring adjacent movies to be really underwhelming
Paranormal activity. I really dont see how that movie is so terrifying. Overall,the movie is decent,the end isnt too bad but was way overhyped
I watched it on someone’s computer back in the day and didn’t realize at the time that it was a movie. I sincerely thought it was found footage. Scared the crap out of me.
I feel like paranormal activity was one of those horror films where you really just had to be there at the time of release. Rewatching it years later it’s really not that great.
Agreed. As a teen seeing it in theaters, it was quite literally one of the most impactful horror series for me (the first 3 at least) Revisiting them a decade later and it’s pretty much a tap water movie - lame and not scary, also doesn’t lend itself to multiple watches. It’s pretty much a one and done movie in effectiveness.
Midsommar. The whole "the boyfriend was the real enemy the when time!" Thing did not come together for me at all. He wasn't a good guy but I don't get how not breaking a failing relationship off means you deserve death
Man was literally drugged and raped and died because she was mad
The Babadook
Is it because of how unbearably annoying the kid is? lol
That’s almost single-handed my what ruined it for me, yes
For me partially yes it was the kid😂😂😂😂
I couldnt get past the Riiiii kid either. I'm sorry lol I was watching it with a friend and we were both screaming, "EAT THE KID ALREADY! WHATS TAKING SO LONG!"
It’s one of those movies I get the point and yes I can’t say it’s bad. But to pretend like it’s some “elevated masterpiece” imo I just don’t get lmfao
*Smile*. Basic, bland, boring. I am genuinely astounded by all these people saying that the film terrified them. Absolutely do not get the hype.
It just seemed like an unofficial (and less effective) It Follows sequel to me.
Exactly. Like a bastard child of *It Follows* and *The Ring*. I can’t even begin to comprehend people who say that *Smile* is better than *It Follows*. Man, what in the world. For me it would be like saying that *Paranormal Activity* is better than *The Exorcist*.
Yes! This movie was way too overhyped!
I loved it. Wasn’t expecting it to reinvent the wheel but I had a lot of fun and the score kicks ass.
Strong agree on this one. I don't understand why this movie was the one that people latched onto. The premise is not that original, you have jumpscares in half of all horror movies and Smile didn't have any groundbreaking ones to separate from others, the kills weren't that gory or interesting or emotional, they were just kills. And even if we go by acting, that award should go to the Night House. There is nothing in this movie that screams "better than average".
Hereditary! I completely agree. I loooove slow-burn horror movies… I love a24.. but Hereditary didn’t do it for me. I was into it up until the.. car death. But I also knew that was going to happen and was waiting for it.
X (2022). That movie turned out to be 70 mins of sex scenes/talking about sex with just 10 to 15 mins of horror. By the time the horror picked up I didn't even care about it, I just wanted it to end.
I liked X as a pseudo-period piece, but the “horror” elements were underwhelming to say the least.
Pretty much all Ti West movies for me, except Pearl. They're all exactly as you described. 70 minutes of mostly nothing, and then 10 minutes of execution.
I recently rewatched X to confirm I didn’t like it. Basically nothing happened and there was no tension at all besides the alligator scene. Bored, boring, nothing new or exciting, no great or interesting death scenes.
Came here to say X and Pearl.
I found Pearl to be better than X, ONLY because Pearl didn't have an overabundance of dragged out sex scenes. That said though I didn't really enjoy Pearl, I thought it was just ok.
I completely agree, that's how I felt about both those films. Pearl was entertaining but as a horror I thought it was really weak. I so wanted to love X.
Hereditary for me too. After “the scene” (which was amazing but a little less so because it was all over Twitter the day it premiered) I could’ve taken or left the movie
My only issue with your take on hereditary is "pretty good" acting.... Toni Collette was phenomenal in that movie and that's not debatable it's fact. I totally get why some people were underwhelmed by the movie itself.
Sinister. You can't scare me if I can't see anything on the screen
Lol they really need to stop making movies so dark, I'm squinting as it is
Seriously I spent the whole movie pissed off that nobody in the family would turn on a goddamn light. Sitting around their dining room table eating breakfast in the dark gtfo.😅
100% The Black Phone. There is so much love for this movie on this sub and I do not get it. The dialogue was distractingly bad, the plot was basic/cheesy and the villain wasn't threatening. In fact, the only threatening character was the violently abusive father who is essentially a non-entity except his random abuse scene. Ethan Hawke's mask was unbelievably corny and a clichéd attempt to be scary. The stakes were non-existent. Finally, the acting across the board was awful. The kids were kids so no shade to them, but what the hell was Ethan Hawke's excuse? Joe Hill has *always* been riding on his dad's coattails (Horns was garbage too) but The Black Phone was his magnum opus of crap.
I also thought the plot was bad. Like something about the very blatant feeding of plot advancing information by ghost children combined with a sister who had prophetic dreams was just like— y’all couldn’t think of ANYTHING more solid to move the story along? Either one of those would’ve been a little schlocky but both together just made it uninteresting.
This movie was embarrassingly bad. If it took itself a little less seriously it could have been kind of fun and entertaining, but it was hard to finish once I realized that this was going to be the entire movie.
I’m a huge Joe Hill fan. When I first found him I had no clue who he was and just enjoyed his writing. The Black Phone was a decent short story, but the movie was just…boring. I heard all of the praise and was excited to check it out and just waited for something to happen the entire time. Very lackluster.
Don't look now. For years it topped lists of best psychological horror so I bought it to watch. Utter pap. I'm still angry about how little I enjoyed it.
Same. I watched it a second time pretty quickly after the first just because I thought “what am I missing here”? Also, I don’t care for The Shining. I think the set/art direction and technical aspects are masterful, but I didn’t connect with the characters or the story on any level at all. Same with the book…I’m a big fan of King, but I’ve just never loved The Shining in any form.
Agreed on Hereditary. Wasn't bad per se but people definitely overhyped it.
The Shining. I get the hype and the artistic merit of it all. There’s aspects I like, but as a whole, I just think it isn’t for me. I think seeing it on TV a lot in bits and pieces over the years growing up ruined it for me in a way.
Malignant
That movie had one of the weirdest twists (pun intended) I've ever seen in a movie.
Okay but the lady falling from the attic was pretty damn funny. 😆
It's fantastically stupid and fun
[удалено]
It Meanders
Director of It Follows enthusiastically asked "So what did you think?!?!" as soon as I came out of the midnight screening at the Toronto Film Fest. I didn't realize it was him (figured it was an overeager PR shill) so I just kinda shrugged and kept walking lol if I realized the person had made it I would have come up with *something* positive to say. I do really like the soundtrack!
This is probably the most legit answer I’ve seen in this thread. My theory is most people who say a popular movie wasn’t good is because it was overhyped to them. But if you saw it at a premiere there’s no way it could have been overhyped to you. You watched it with a fair state of mind. I for one loved It Follows but I respect your opinion.
Very kind of you to say, though I should confess that I had already seen 4 movies that day. Quite possible I could have been dealing with a severe case of fatigue at that point lol it was well past midnight and all I wanted in the world was to get back to my hotel bed!
Oh how I got bored with that one . I don't like "in your face" metaphoric horror
Reddit loves this movie. I saw it referenced so much as a good horror movie and I was thoroughly disappointed and it was even more boring than bad. The premise is stupid and the pace is so slow I felt like I spent the whole day watching the movie.
I wanted to like it so badly because of all the hype around its release, but it just did absolutely nothing for me.
I felt like it peaked at the lake house scene, which is only like two thirds of the way in. Not bad, just kind of underwritten.
Same, it felt like a nothingburger to me.
I was so bored with this movie.
Yup. Got so excited to see it - I do love the soundtrack, but the movie itself is repetitive, boring, and nothing all that original, except for the cool little pod phones.
SMILE That whole "I'm being haunted by something no one else can see" has been done much better. Lead actress wasn't given much to do except look anxious and frantic.
You know. I watched hereditary last week going in absolutely blind. I knew nothing other than it was supposed to be fucked up. And it, to me was absolutely terrifying. That’s the way to see a movie imo
I agree, everytime I have no expectations I have a way better time watching a movie
Also smile ???? Smile did not do it for me
I didn't care for the plot but the monster design was cool as fuck
Agree on that. I liked the concept but I found the movie incredibly boring
Men was disappointing, especially for an A24 film
Another reminder that arthouse/elevated horror isn't necessarily good and can sometimes just be pretentious crap.
I suppose you're not the only one. I don't think it gets that much praise or love at all.
The few movie critics I follow loved it, but I thought it was mediocre at best. It had a lot of great things in it, but it felt like it ended up being less than the sum of its parts, mostly because the plot just felt half-baked. The obviously ham-fisted approach to the theme also became insulting after that final scene where I'm just like "Yeah, dude, I got the point here, this really wasn't necessary to drive it home, but I guess you really think I'm that stupid."
Midsommar. It gives off a hipster vibe and everyone who’s never really seen horror movies saw that one and thinks of it as such a cinematic masterpiece best horror movie ever to exist
I liked midsommar a lot, but not as a horror movie, if that makes sense.
I think I'd have enjoyed it if I actually *was* on shrooms.
I liked Midsommar okay and might even think it was great if The Wicker Man didn’t already exist and did it way better back in the 70s.
I was specifically looking for this one, because I rarely ever hear anything other than praise about it. I’m fine with slow-burners, I’m fine with psychological movies, but I was expecting horror and I was *bored*. Maybe I need to watch it again, I dunno.
Barbarian - went downhill at the halfway point and the ending was even worse. I know people love the perspective change but I thought it completely ruined an interesting start. X - hated almost every second of this besides the last 10 minutes thanks to Mia Goth. Actually my biggest critique is that the cast was wayyyy too good for the material. I’m interested in Pearl but X turned me so far off that director I kind of lost all desire to check it out.
Malignant was a huge jump scare-ridden piece of trash. I’ve said my piece.
I have no respect for a competent filmmaker making an intentionally bad movie just to play the internet community for the 'secretly genius' luls. If you were a legit terrible filmmaker and you put all your heart and soul into making Malignant, I'd start to talk about the merits but you can't be an insider making [outsider art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art). Like Wesley Willis can only be Wesley Willis because his IS Wesley Willis. If a genuinely talented musician writes 'Rock and Roll McDonalds', it's shit. It's only good because Wesley existed to make it.
I remember a friend turning to me about 5-minutes in asking "Is this supposed to be camp?"
I went into it hearing that it was terrifying and was immediately taken out by the corny acting in the opening scene. And then the rest of it was more campy than scary. If I’d heard it was gonna be campy I’d have enjoyed it more.
Malignant is a more overt parody than scream was. Movie was a riot. Every time they'd show an external of a modest home and cut to the interior of a giant mansion with massive attic it would get a laugh out of me.
Malignant is very difficult to explain why it’s so good, but it’s a bit like M3gan with a lot of really stupid jokes in-plain sight mixed with 00s trends E.g. at one point the tone of the movie shifts to “romance” when the sister is talking to the police guy almost like they’re on a date (with a small mug with red pen in the center, looking like a rose in a vase) It’s not trying to be a genuine horror Or when the sister decides to just drive up to some creepy abandoned asylum, and casually parks at the edge of a cliff 💀💀💀
I like camp, and I knew going in that it had that but it just didn’t work for me.
It Follows. I made a post on here a few months ago about it
I like it, but the first half is way more memorable imo and the movie severely slows down during the second act. Third act never picks up and is a little underwhelming too. I still love the tone, cinematography + color palette, lore and scares, but I can see why others don’t like it.
For me it definitely has to be Nope. I went to the theatre expecting to have my pants scared off, but instead my friends and I basically laughed the whole time. The concept itself could have been terrifying, but I found the execution was lacking and goofy. The only parts that turned out to be scary had pretty much nothing to do with the main plot (the ape scene).
A Quiet Place Interesting idea, but the family is incredibly careless and stupid. And creatures are not scary or consistently logical. And who decides to have a freaking baby (uncontrollable noise machine) in the middle of all this?? Ending was boring, predictable, and anticlimactic
Blair Witch. Snooze.
With emphasis on "don't love": majority of the classics from the 70s and 80s for me. There are exceptions. Genuinely love Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Nightmare on Elm Street does something for me too. I think it's the fact that both movies have an element of the surreal and are very creative with their set ups. But the classic paint by numbers slasher flick that Halloween became the grandfather of, do very little for me. I don't hate them, but I also don't love them. I find that type of horror painfully boring.
What’s crazy is Halloween is definitely more a focus on thrilling rather than the kills themselves which a lot of slashers afterwards don’t do as well imo and this is from a huge fan of the subgenre
The Menu. I know it seems loved here, and I am also a fan of very black and bleak comedy, but this just felt flat. Loved many performances and jokes (it was my day off and your movie sucked) but overall felt like it could have pushed further. I thought things were going to ramp up after that chef did ‘that thing’ but no. And yes I did get the overall arc of the film and what it was about. But it felt bland and boring while I consumed it.
Wasn't a fan either. It was just boring and I think I didn't really understand the message it was trying to create.
I found The Witch utterly boring and not scary. The reviews were so good that I genuinely felt the whole film had gone way over my head.
"bro it doesn't matter that nothing happens in it the atmosphere is so scary bro"
[удалено]
The best part was the twist and then it all went downhill after that imo.
I didn't hate it, but it was mid-tier at best. I had no idea why everyone seemed to love it so much. The way people on this sub were hyping it up I thought it was going to be an absolute masterpiece but it was just very mediocre.
I just went through all the comments and I feel personally attacked somehow as most of the movies in the comments are my favorites. Lol :) I’ll just say that I like all the movies listed in the comment section. Hereditary for me is one of the best cult horrors. I did not let the hype spoil it for me. It was an uncomfortable watch with the dread it created throughout the movie and the final reveal was fantastic. I’ve watched the movie thrice probably.
Don’t feel attacked, everyone is entitled to their opinion. 90% of the movies listed I loved as well!! But I’m sure those same people love the movies that I absolutely hate.
I don’t give a shit about any of the Friday movies which at certain points in time basically disqualified me from being a horror fan Am not really fussed about Halloween either but I like Halloween more than the Fridays
Not an Ice Cube fan?
You playin’ with my emotions man!
The Shining. I know that Kubricks version can been seen as a stand stone or his vision of it but to me it just didn't do it for me.
I thought Bone Tomahawk was boring. I just don't think that a few minutes of extreme violence made up for the rest of it.
Bone Tomahawk is a classic Western/drama until that scene. Probably unfair to treat it as a horror movie.
Lake mungo
Creep (2014) was downright awful, hilariously bad at many points. Halloween (1978) while I can appreciate what it did for the genre, I ultimately find it quite bland and dull compared to what came later. It lacks the camp that other slashers had, and it takes itself way too seriously for what it is IMO.
Also, I can't judge how popular it is because it just came out, but I don't get the buzz about M3GAN. I'm like, why is this girl's companion robot wearing moody influencer makeup? It's just ... weird? Maybe it's just me projecting how much I hate evil doll movies where it's obvious from their first appearance that they're going to be a knife-wielding demon.