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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Is it just me or are modern Horror movies today pretty much the same in terms of story and antagonists?
The stories always have the usual predictable jump scares and the antagonists are always some psychotic killer or a demon. The only decent Horror movie I've seen that came out in the past year was IT. Even though IT was a new adaptation of the novel, I still thought IT was a great movie. It had a good story, good characters, good scares and the antagonist was a shape-shifting alien.
I miss the days when horror movies had other antagonist (rather than the ones mentioned above) in terms of vampires, werewolves, witches and many others but sadly, it seems they can only be found in fantasy or kids films. It would be nice to see a new horror movie with a vampire or a werewolf for once. |
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over a year ago
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I'm bored of today's 'Horror' genre. I'm very much over the whole possession storyline.
I know it's hard to be truly original when it comes to most movie genres, but I'd love to see something different. |
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I especially love Werewolf movies; There’s something incredibly unnerving regarding the sheer ferocity of these mythical beasts.
Funnily enough, have you seen the YouTube clip doing the rounds at the moment of a supposed ‘werewolf’ (according to some would be cryptozoologists) in America which attacks a dog?  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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""A Quiet Place" is supposed to be amazing
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Oh yeah. I completely forgot that one. The concept seems pretty original and the antagonists are blind aliens that hunt by sound which does sound pretty scary. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I'm bored of today's 'Horror' genre. I'm very much over the whole possession storyline.
I know it's hard to be truly original when it comes to most movie genres, but I'd love to see something different. "
I agree. There is a horror movie coming out called Hereditary that many are saying it is very scary but from what I've read in the spoilers, it's nothing new as it's the same usual horror movie with a demon plus it has some plot elements that are similar to those awful paranormal activity movies. |
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""A Quiet Place" is supposed to be amazing
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Oh yeah. I completely forgot that one. The concept seems pretty original and the antagonists are blind aliens that hunt by sound which does sound pretty scary."
It's a bit Meh though.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I adore horror, I watch loads. I'd rather watch a shit horror than a lot of other stuff.
For recent originality, Creep comes to mind. I mean the American one. The first was good and the second even better.
I have an unhealthy addiction to the extreme stuff too like Fred Vogel, Guinea Pig, etc. I love oriental/Eastern cinema.
For a modern vampire flick I thought Thirst was wonderful. Slow paced but the cinematography is lush and the storyline very enjoyable.
Can't wait for 3 From Hell, I really like Rob Zombie's films. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"how can you have a chat about modern horror and not once of you have mentions jordan peele's superb film.. "get out!!"..............
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+1. It took me two viewings to appreciate it but yes, good movie. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I enjoy horror films but yeah they work more on gore factors since saw, hostel and human centipede came out and big numbers drive a trend.
I love stuff like aliens or America ware wolf in London |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We have become desensitised to horror.
That is true. Not many horror movies are scary anymore as they've become so predictable. "
I can watch vidoes of people having surgery now, without batting an eyelid. Knives and scalpels used to make me cringe. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Love horror films but find modern ones boring and predictable, also the majority have a 15 rating so you know there's not gonna be much gore. The old ones are the best but really looking forward to the new Halloween film looks awesome and follows straight on from the original and forgetting the rest |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Love horror films but find modern ones boring and predictable, also the majority have a 15 rating so you know there's not gonna be much gore. The old ones are the best but really looking forward to the new Halloween film looks awesome and follows straight on from the original and forgetting the rest "
Let's hope the new Halloween movie doesn't go down the same way as Terminator Genesys and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 3D |
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"I'm bored of today's 'Horror' genre. I'm very much over the whole possession storyline.
I know it's hard to be truly original when it comes to most movie genres, but I'd love to see something different.
I agree. There is a horror movie coming out called Hereditary that many are saying it is very scary but from what I've read in the spoilers, it's nothing new as it's the same usual horror movie with a demon plus it has some plot elements that are similar to those awful paranormal activity movies."
I fancy this one, I like Toni Collette ever since Muriel's Wedding and Sixth Sense.
Sadly the last few I've seen at the cinema have been pants. My favourites are French and have been for some time. |
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I love The Prophecy series of films. For II and III its just for the Christopher Walken bits. Walken is one guy that can read Little Red Riding Hood out loud and make it creepy. He's on Youtube doing it. Funny as fuck!  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I'm bored of today's 'Horror' genre. I'm very much over the whole possession storyline.
I know it's hard to be truly original when it comes to most movie genres, but I'd love to see something different.
I agree. There is a horror movie coming out called Hereditary that many are saying it is very scary but from what I've read in the spoilers, it's nothing new as it's the same usual horror movie with a demon plus it has some plot elements that are similar to those awful paranormal activity movies.
I fancy this one, I like Toni Collette ever since Muriel's Wedding and Sixth Sense.
Sadly the last few I've seen at the cinema have been pants. My favourites are French and have been for some time."
The sixth sense was a good movie. It had some pretty good scares. Who can forget the ghost of the very sick girl that appears inside the tent with her mouth dribbling with puke? |
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Dario Argento seems to have killed any remakes.
He's a dab hand at turning out utter trash.
Think Hostel was probably the most recent semi believable movie that was at least a little scary as you could see it happening in the eastern block. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Only Japanese people know how to make horror films. True fact. "
I love Japanese horrors. And Korea makes some good stuff too.
I disagree that nobody else makes good horror though. I like British and Australian a lot, they often have a bleak brutality and lack of polish about them which I really enjoy. Eden Lake for instance. I still like a lot of US stuff too though.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Dario Argento seems to have killed any remakes.
He's a dab hand at turning out utter trash.
Think Hostel was probably the most recent semi believable movie that was at least a little scary as you could see it happening in the eastern block."
+1 for the Hostel trilogy. I really like those  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I adore horror, I watch loads. I'd rather watch a shit horror than a lot of other stuff.
For recent originality, Creep comes to mind. I mean the American one. The first was good and the second even better.
I have an unhealthy addiction to the extreme stuff too like Fred Vogel, Guinea Pig, etc. I love oriental/Eastern cinema.
For a modern vampire flick I thought Thirst was wonderful. Slow paced but the cinematography is lush and the storyline very enjoyable.
Can't wait for 3 From Hell, I really like Rob Zombie's films. "
Both Creeps were excellent. Definitely went through a gore phase with the August Underground/Guinea Pig films etc but that doesn't do much for me now. I love people like Van Bebber,Buttgereit etc but so much of the underground stuff is meh.
More recently I liked Raw and Get Out,The Witch was superb as I say. For sheer bleakness Martyrs is unbeatable though. |
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"Only Japanese people know how to make horror films. True fact.
I love Japanese horrors. And Korea makes some good stuff too.
I disagree that nobody else makes good horror though. I like British and Australian a lot, they often have a bleak brutality and lack of polish about them which I really enjoy. Eden Lake for instance. I still like a lot of US stuff too though.
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Yes I've been increasingly impressed with Korean cinema. Train to Busan is great, but I'm not sure it's really horror. The Japanese actually understand the psychology of horror, 99.9% of American 'horror' is just jump scare shit |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Only Japanese people know how to make horror films. True fact.
I love Japanese horrors. And Korea makes some good stuff too.
I disagree that nobody else makes good horror though. I like British and Australian a lot, they often have a bleak brutality and lack of polish about them which I really enjoy. Eden Lake for instance. I still like a lot of US stuff too though.
Yes I've been increasingly impressed with Korean cinema. Train to Busan is great, but I'm not sure it's really horror. The Japanese actually understand the psychology of horror, 99.9% of American 'horror' is just jump scare shit"
I agree on what you said about American horror as it seems that horror movies with ghosts or demons are the only ones they want to make. Whatever happened to horror movies with vampires or werewolves? Oh yeah, Twilight happened. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Only Japanese people know how to make horror films. True fact.
I love Japanese horrors. And Korea makes some good stuff too.
I disagree that nobody else makes good horror though. I like British and Australian a lot, they often have a bleak brutality and lack of polish about them which I really enjoy. Eden Lake for instance. I still like a lot of US stuff too though.
Yes I've been increasingly impressed with Korean cinema. Train to Busan is great, but I'm not sure it's really horror. The Japanese actually understand the psychology of horror, 99.9% of American 'horror' is just jump scare shit"
Yeah I can't be doing with jump scare movies. I don't watch horror to be scared, I watch it to be entertained, to have a laugh, to be absorbed in a story for a while, or to be grossed out and sickened. Sometimes all four
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Only Japanese people know how to make horror films. True fact.
I love Japanese horrors. And Korea makes some good stuff too.
I disagree that nobody else makes good horror though. I like British and Australian a lot, they often have a bleak brutality and lack of polish about them which I really enjoy. Eden Lake for instance. I still like a lot of US stuff too though.
Yes I've been increasingly impressed with Korean cinema. Train to Busan is great, but I'm not sure it's really horror. The Japanese actually understand the psychology of horror, 99.9% of American 'horror' is just jump scare shit
I agree on what you said about American horror as it seems that horror movies with ghosts or demons are the only ones they want to make. Whatever happened to horror movies with vampires or werewolves? Oh yeah, Twilight happened. "
31 Days of Night is a pretty good modern vampire film. As is Thirst |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I really liked Howl as well, for a modern werewolf flick.
I read that a remake of American Werewolf is in the pipeline. That's one of my all-time favourites so I can't see myself enjoying a remake much. |
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"Only Japanese people know how to make horror films. True fact.
I love Japanese horrors. And Korea makes some good stuff too.
I disagree that nobody else makes good horror though. I like British and Australian a lot, they often have a bleak brutality and lack of polish about them which I really enjoy. Eden Lake for instance. I still like a lot of US stuff too though.
Yes I've been increasingly impressed with Korean cinema. Train to Busan is great, but I'm not sure it's really horror. The Japanese actually understand the psychology of horror, 99.9% of American 'horror' is just jump scare shit
I agree on what you said about American horror as it seems that horror movies with ghosts or demons are the only ones they want to make. Whatever happened to horror movies with vampires or werewolves? Oh yeah, Twilight happened. "
I hate being one of those people who says "movies were better when i was younger", but i don't know how anyone who knew movies before twilight could avoid making the claim. |
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"Only Japanese people know how to make horror films. True fact.
I love Japanese horrors. And Korea makes some good stuff too.
I disagree that nobody else makes good horror though. I like British and Australian a lot, they often have a bleak brutality and lack of polish about them which I really enjoy. Eden Lake for instance. I still like a lot of US stuff too though.
Yes I've been increasingly impressed with Korean cinema. Train to Busan is great, but I'm not sure it's really horror. The Japanese actually understand the psychology of horror, 99.9% of American 'horror' is just jump scare shit
Yeah I can't be doing with jump scare movies. I don't watch horror to be scared, I watch it to be entertained, to have a laugh, to be absorbed in a story for a while, or to be grossed out and sickened. Sometimes all four
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I watched a detailed analysis of the US Office vrs the UK Office. They explained that British style is to focus on gritty realism, whilst American's go for pure escapism. That, in a nut shell, it what makes their films shit. So when you're watching a film with a reasonable plot like "paranormal activity", you get dialogue that simply doesn't sound natural to even the dumbest american and it ruins the experience. |
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By *htcMan
over a year ago
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Horror films now, are just very few good ones per year. And i watch hundreds of trailers a week to find them, around 60+% are just the same story.
Seems to go through trends, horror is not in the main market |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I liked the anthologies, V/H/S and ABCs of Death. ABCs had some great stuff I thought.
Not especially horrific, but Salad Fingers on YouTube is wonderfully dark and weird. I love it. |
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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago
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The Babadook, Get out, and IT 2017, It Follows
I recommend staying away from the usual Teenage make out horror movies with jump scares and lame plots and too many gimmicks
Eg Conjuring and Insidious and their many oversold and cheap sequels |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think this film i like is called Eden Lake or Lake Eden. Not a horror as such. But makes you think as it could happen with todays society.
Anyone else seen it? |
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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago
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"I think this film i like is called Eden Lake or Lake Eden. Not a horror as such. But makes you think as it could happen with todays society.
Anyone else seen it? "
Yes, It Eden lake Starring Kelly Reilly and Micheal Fassbender.
I thought the same watching |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I liked the anthologies, V/H/S and ABCs of Death. ABCs had some great stuff I thought.
Not especially horrific, but Salad Fingers on YouTube is wonderfully dark and weird. I love it. "
V/H/S was on last night....great film and 2
Let's not forget the REC films |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I think this film i like is called Eden Lake or Lake Eden. Not a horror as such. But makes you think as it could happen with todays society.
Anyone else seen it? "
Great film, bleak British horror at its best I think it sits quite firmly within the horror genre. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We are both horror lovers. Honestly though I think the last actual time we were both scared at a film was The Descent. Dont like potholing and then to have a new species down there 2 really!!
Liked it the original as Tim Currie was genius |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Anyone else seen The Shallows? I really enjoyed that.
I like the spoofs too... Sharknado, Sharktopus. And Shark Exorcist really has to be seen to be believed. One of those "so bad it's great" films. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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We both love brutal horror films
The more gore the better 
Huge fans of the saw films, even though the story lines were shit the human centipede 2 & 3 had some pretty fucked up moments |
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Not too keen on modern horror films the cunjuring films have been good. Can't stand the saw films. I like the 70s and 80s horror best just met the director of demons (the one where they was trapped in the cinema) and cloudio simoniti who was part of the group called goblin who did those great scores for dario argento like suspria, deep red and tenebre |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We both love brutal horror films
The more gore the better
Huge fans of the saw films, even though the story lines were shit the human centipede 2 & 3 had some pretty fucked up moments "
Human Centipede trilogy is something else. The first is like some weird indy arthouse flick, the second is total gross out, and the third is like Tarantino on mescaline. Laurence R Harvey is just wonderful in 2, the role could have been written for him.
Collector 1 and 2 are pretty good I thought, reminded me of Saw in the concept. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"There is not much blood in the original Texas chainsaw massacre"
Which doesn't detract from it one little bit. Great film. Still pretty brutal anyway, especially the first killing. |
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"I think this film i like is called Eden Lake or Lake Eden. Not a horror as such. But makes you think as it could happen with todays society.
Anyone else seen it?
Yes, It Eden lake Starring Kelly Reilly and Micheal Fassbender.
I thought the same watching "
I enjoyed watching that one |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"There is not much blood in the original Texas chainsaw massacre
Which doesn't detract from it one little bit. Great film. Still pretty brutal anyway, especially the first killing. "
I agree. It is a great horror movie. What's messed up is that the body of the deceased grandma of leatherface was a real corpse. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"There is not much blood in the original Texas chainsaw massacre
Which doesn't detract from it one little bit. Great film. Still pretty brutal anyway, especially the first killing.
I agree. It is a great horror movie. What's messed up is that the body of the deceased grandma of leatherface was a real corpse."
It was filmed in Texas in 100+° heat,the cast weren't very happy with tobe Hooper |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"There is not much blood in the original Texas chainsaw massacre
Which doesn't detract from it one little bit. Great film. Still pretty brutal anyway, especially the first killing.
I agree. It is a great horror movie. What's messed up is that the body of the deceased grandma of leatherface was a real corpse.
It was filmed in Texas in 100+° heat,the cast weren't very happy with tobe Hooper "
Not to mention that they actually cut the girl's finger for the scene of "feeding grandpa" |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone seen Snowtown? Powerful performances, that film got right inside my head.
Australian?"
Yes. Small town vigilantes killing paedophiles. Harrowing film, I thought. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Sorry spoiler alert. A Quiet Place has no dialogue in the movie and I thought it was crap???
I’m not a horror film fan however The American Werewolf in London was scary and a classic “stick to the paths” “stay off the moors”.
Recent horror films I have watched would be Saw, Hostel and The Collector. |
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Won't we generally find it scarier as we grow to adults and it's largely downhill from about 20? Obviously plots and acting would need to be good regardless but I'm thinking our naivety as young adults is high but it's lost, so we don't scare so well after.
Movies generally are formulaic and little innovation is around in the big studio financed output.
I enjoyed some of the silly stuff like Scream though |
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"Sorry spoiler alert. A Quiet Place has no dialogue in the movie and I thought it was crap???
I’m not a horror film fan however The American Werewolf in London was scary and a classic “stick to the paths” “stay off the moors”.
Recent horror films I have watched would be Saw, Hostel and The Collector. "
American Werewolf in London was incredible, especially given its time. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Won't we generally find it scarier as we grow to adults and it's largely downhill from about 20? Obviously plots and acting would need to be good regardless but I'm thinking our naivety as young adults is high but it's lost, so we don't scare so well after.
Movies generally are formulaic and little innovation is around in the big studio financed output.
I enjoyed some of the silly stuff like Scream though "
Love the Scream series. And Urban Legend, but that's possibly because I fancy the pants off Alicia Witt. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Found footage are normally bad but I can highly recommend Hell House LLC and The Borderlands, both pretty creepy.
Hereditary was excellent, also liked The Babadook, the VVitch, It Follows and the new IT. Get Out was brilliant as well. I do end up watching a lot of rubbish horrors, interested in the new Slenderman but that will probably be rubbish. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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What I personally think makes a good horror movie is:
Good well-developed characters
A good decent storyline
A decent amount of scares that aren't cheap and predictable |
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By (user no longer on site)
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It's tricky to get that fine line between slowly building up to something and being a bit boring. I like it when the is tension and dread that lasts for a long time making you want something to happen and put you out of your misery!
Yeah, gonna avoid The Nun, looks bad. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Had to bump this up to ask, what do you think makes a good horror movie?"
Something physiological. The Others is still one of my favourite scary films. I'm not one for blood and guts. |
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"Had to bump this up to ask, what do you think makes a good horror movie?
Something physiological. The Others is still one of my favourite scary films. I'm not one for blood and guts. "
The sixth sense is a good one that fits in the psychological horror genre. It sure is an interesting movie about a kid who is frightened at first with what he sees and yet as the movie goes on, he starts to be understanding of his ability to communicate with the deceased. |
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