Learning to enjoy the terrible movies is essential to the experience. : spooky

[-] TimeChild@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Just finished Bring Her Back. Pretty top notch, imo. Same directors did Talk To Me which was great. Weapons was enjoyable, but not in my top 10 of last 15 years, give or take.

I feel like we’ve been in a horror movie golden age for a bit. It will likely sputter out soo . A lot of them seem to be hitting the same vibe/style, so getting overdone feeling.

[-] its_kim_love 42 points 1 week ago

The terrible movies are fun too!

[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think most horror fans enjoy terrible horror movies.

The worst sin is when they're just boring, though.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, like I find horror movies to be mostly just unintentionally funny, but that doesn’t make them bad to me. I enjoy them like that!

I’m not really a fan of the ultra-realistic gore stuff like Hostel though. I much prefer classics like The Exorcist, the Wicker Man, Hellraiser, Evil Dead, and literally anything with Vincent Price!

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Boring is probably the worst thing any movie can be.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

If you watched hundreds of hours of movies and you didn't like any of them, you might not be a fan of the genre.

[+] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

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[-] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

Hard disagree. A well crafted movie should be well crafted regardless of genre.

There are gem horror movies, but there are way too many turds.

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 10 points 1 week ago

We're one of the only genres where a 10% RT audience score on a movie we've never heard of gets us excited

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

You know what horror movie you should see? Creep, by Patrick Brice, 2014. Do not look any trailer, do not see anything about it. Just go and watch it. It will take only one hour of your time.

[-] OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Seconded. Don't think the second one captured what the first one did.

Creep is the movie I show people when they say they like terrifying horror movies that are grounded in their premise. I love this movie, and it still unsettles me every time

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I wanted my hour back at the end of it.

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

rewind the movie

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They nailed with X (2022), but I think they screw it with their sequels. I know a lot of people that claim that every movie is superior, one by another (Pearl and MaXXXine), the same thing happened with Terrifier, the first movie is awesome, but the sequels.... uggghh.

Edit: M3GAN was funny, but happened the same thing whit the sequel.

Edit 2: My favorite horror movie sequel is Hellraiser II

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Hellraiser II is a fantastic movie!

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

X was awesome, Pearl was alright, but I couldn't even finish Maxxxine.

[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

I personally would flip that. X is meh, pearl is fantastic, but Maxxxine isn't great.

Honestly, X is better after watching Pearl, but I still prefer the prequel.

[-] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

As a horror fan, I guess I don't really understand the desire to wade through low-tier films when we live in the age of reviews and online-word of mouth. Every horror film I watch is almost always a great film or better. I sat through maybe 4 or so low quality films a few years back, and realized I should just cut my losses and trust what people say, unless I find some super obscure found-footage Japanese horror flick from the 80's that doesn't even have a translated subtitle track, then I'll take the risk.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

Those are rookie numbers. I was subbed to Amazon prime for years. You have no idea how bad a bad movie can be and just how many there are.

But honestly, it makes you appreciate the bad movies that put the effort in. You feel like a Klondike gold prospector when you finally find not even a good movie, but a good part in a bad movie. And sure, I'll watch the good movies too but there's barely enough of them for even one streaming service.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

These are fair points, that I have no real argument with, but I do have a different perspective.

Tastes vary widely, especially when you try to start trying to throw a little humor into the horror mix. I genuinely enjoy watching some things others really hate and conversely can't stand to watch some franchises that I know are actually pretty good.
I freely admit that I enjoy cheaply made horror and movies that makes big swings and take wild chances. Sometimes that works out. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes even the failures open the door to something else. The Alien franchise might have taken a really different direction if James Cameron didn't work on Galaxy of Terror (a low budget mess of a movie that I don't recommend to anyone that isn't seriously into bad movies the way I am). Even though I don't like Galaxy of Terror enough to repeatedly watch it, I'm grateful for the insight.
I think the trick really is to find a reviewer(s) whose taste align with yours. For example, I enjoy watch Brandon Tenold's takes on cult movies on YouTube. I don't always bother to find and watch the movies he reviews, but after watching his take I can usually get a good feel for if I'll enjoy it enough to spend the time and effort to find and watch it.
My time for movies, shows, and books is not precious and limited. If I start watching or reading something that I'm not into, I'm okay with not finishing it. There's no reason to torture myself over it, I just move on. I don't consider this a waste of time.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

This really depends on what type of horror fan you are. Some people enjoy the "so bad, it's good" category. Personally, I dislike the really suspenseful and depressing ones that get really high critical ratings because they triggery anxiety or depression, but I'll laugh through gore and excellent practical effects. I also enjoy ghost stories like The Haunting of Bly Manor.

[-] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Myself I don't mind some gore but I don't like anything too explicit. "Those" horror films will never be films I'll watch, ever. That being said I really, really love legitimately scary movies, of which there are few, and go ga ga over anything that does cosmic horror right (which is almost unheard of but the existence of annihilation makes me hopeful for the future).

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Just watched Sinners.

It was awful.

1.5+ hours of largely unnecessary back story leadup for maybe 25 minutes of actual vampire survival content. Horror movies aren't supposed to be 2.5 hours long.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago

Sinners wasn't a horror movie though. It was a movie that happened to include some horror elements.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean it's a movie about people surviving the night against a vampire attack.

It's like From Dusk Till Dawn. Sure there's some action and some humor, but it's a horror movie. Sinners is a horror movie, despite having some action and drama.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is a movie about two brothers opening a black owned business in the racist south and a vampire happens to show up.

What you call unnecessary backstreet is the main movie.

[-] tatann@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Aliens is 2h37 (director's cut) and you don't see the first xenomorph until 1h30 in (not counting facehugger)

Ok it's horror scifi but still

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

My filter is usually age. There has been a massive glut of shitty horror in the past 20 years as it's become cheaper and easier to make and distribute independent film.

I tend to look at the 70s and 80s for things have stood the test of time in terms of favorability. Letterboxd is a great resource for that, especially obscure stuff. I'm sure there is plenty of great contemporary horror but I'll stick to things that are recommended to me.

[-] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I let other people watch the terrible stuff so I don’t have to

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