I think most horror fans enjoy terrible horror movies.
The worst sin is when they're just boring, though.
Boring is probably the worst thing any movie can be.
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!
The terrible movies are fun too!
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.
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.
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
Honestly, I wanted my hour back at the end of it.
rewind the movie
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
X was awesome, Pearl was alright, but I couldn't even finish Maxxxine.
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.
Hellraiser II is a fantastic movie!
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.
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.
These are fair points, that I have no real argument with, but I do have a different perspective.
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.
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).
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.
Sinners wasn't a horror movie though. It was a movie that happened to include some horror elements.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I let other people watch the terrible stuff so I don’t have to
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