When will studios stop making terrible "horror" movies?

[Briggs8417]

I never go into a horror movie expecting it to be good, however The Conjuring is a great one. Most are cheesy, but there are exceptions to them all. The Excorcist is still creepy to me.

 

[haketh]

- The Collector/The Collection - Also not like Oscar worthy but super entertaining

The Collector is grea but the collection, eh

- REC (and its sequels) - I shouldn't have to explain this haha. But it's awesome. The American remake (Quarantine) is done decently but its sequel sucked

Curious how you feel about REC3, I loved it personally.

- 1408 - Super underrated imo. I guess this is bigger but I forgot to mention it haha

The Cusak film? If so I loved it

- The Shrine - Could've been better, but still good

I really need to see this.

 

[rev0lver]

For some good modern horror

Also heard good things about Wer, the Houses October Built, & Horns

I've heard really good things about The Babadook. If it delivers I'll be super happy. Lord of Tears is also one I've wanted to check out.

 

[rev0lver]

The Collector is grea but the collection, eh


Curious how you feel about REC3, I loved it personally.


The Cusak film? If so I loved it


I really need to see this.

The Cusack film yeah. I haven't actually seen REC 3 yet but I've been meaning to

 

[Yoaks]

oh god , FishFail (yes i know its really FailFish)

Dude I know FishFail. lol Im in your streams and others when ppl use it.

 

[haketh]

The Cusack film yeah. I haven't actually seen REC 3 yet but I've been meaning to

REC3 is extremely different as you know probably but it works in favor of it IMO. REC4 is pretty awful though blech.

 

[HellblazerHawkman]

I've heard Annabelle was dogshit (literal rating), I'd stay away. Oculus was one of my favorite movies this year, and I expected it to suck.

My beef with the current state of the genre is that they all follow the same formula, and it's a really terrible one. Opening has big scares, next 30 minutes is bullshit filler, spooky thing happens, character tells friend or cop and is called crazy, 30 minutes of them investigating and ending on 5-15 minutes of scary stuff. The problem is all that stupid shit in the middle, it's never well written, so you don't care about the characters and want them to die in the end

 

[Clark L.]

REC3 is extremely different as you know probably but it works in favor of it IMO. REC4 is pretty awful though blech.

i haven't even heard of these... jeez

 

[Clark L.]

I've heard Annabelle was dogshit (literal rating), I'd stay away. Oculus was one of my favorite movies this year, and I expected it to suck.

My beef with the current state of the genre is that they all follow the same formula, and it's a really terrible one. Opening has big scares, next 30 minutes is bullshit filler, spooky thing happens, character tells friend or cop and is called crazy, 30 minutes of them investigating and ending on 5-15 minutes of scary stuff. The problem is all that stupid shit in the middle, it's never well written, so you don't care about the characters and want them to die in the end

this guy gets it

 

[Compbros]

I've heard Annabelle was dogshit (literal rating), I'd stay away. Oculus was one of my favorite movies this year, and I expected it to suck.

My beef with the current state of the genre is that they all follow the same formula, and it's a really terrible one. Opening has big scares, next 30 minutes is bullshit filler, spooky thing happens, character tells friend or cop and is called crazy, 30 minutes of them investigating and ending on 5-15 minutes of scary stuff. The problem is all that stupid shit in the middle, it's never well written, so you don't care about the characters and want them to die in the end

"Mainstream" horror, sure, because it's easily digestible for the masses and its target audience.

 

[HellblazerHawkman]

this guy gets it

Fucking right I do.

It's actually what made Oculus great, the bulk of the movie was whether or not the main female was crazy because of the big event in their childhood. That story is told along side the current one and you see their childhood go to shit and feel for them. Weird shit happens a lot in the current time and then the two timelines get blended and you see them fall into the trap they were trying to avoid. It's all done in a realistic manner, I never said like "Oh, that's bullshit, why did xxxxxxxx" happen.

 

[Zoidberg747]

Not at all, some classics are PG-13 or even PG (or should be) such as When a Stranger Calls and Psycho.

Psycho is not a horror movie.

The truth is most of these terrible movies make tons of money, so why would they stop?

Best ones for me in the past five-six years:
Cabin in the Woods
Evil Dead remake
The house of the devil
Trick r Treat

Its like any other genre really, there is a lot more bad then good.

 

[HellblazerHawkman]

"Mainstream" horror, sure, because it's easily digestible for the masses and its target audience.

Word, but it used to be the mainstream stuff was stellar. We can have that time again. The Conjuring doesn't need to be the hero of horror!

 

[Briggs8417]

For some good modern horror

Also heard good things about Wer, the Houses October Built, & Horns

Damn those look creepy.

 

[Clark L.]

Psycho is not a horror movie.

The truth is most of these terrible movies make tons of money, so why would they stop?

Best ones for me in the past five-six years:
Cabin in the Woods
Evil Dead remake
The house of the devil
Trick r Treat

Its like any other genre really, there is a lot more bad then good.

some people are claiming "drag me to hell" to be super good, i thought that was terrible

 

[rev0lver]

I forgot 2 really worth bringing up -

Silent House - It's difficult because the movie itself is honestly not that exciting, just kind of tense. But Elizabeth Olsen's acting is amazing and worth watching just for that.

Funny Games - This is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time now. There's some real meta and 4th wall shit in this movie that makes it amazing despite how basic it looks on top.

 

[rev0lver]

Also I automatically hate anybody who liked the new Evil Dead sry @Zoidberg747

 

[rev0lver]

some people are claiming "drag me to hell" to be super good, i thought that was terrible

I also thought that movie was pretty overrated. Not terrible imo but nothing near what I was expecting

 

[Compbros]

Psycho is not a horror movie.

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Psychological Thriller, though, IMO, it's a thin line between thriller and horror. What makes slasher flicks "horror" but not Psycho?

Word, but it used to be the mainstream stuff was stellar. We can have that time again. The Conjuring doesn't need to be the hero of horror!

For the most part? No. Just like today there were some GREAT ones and a LOT of SHIT ones. We only point out the great ones because why point out the shit ones? They're shit. It's like go back to the NES/Sega era of games, you could say how many great, mainstream titles each had but you'd rarely point out the trash that was rampant.

 

[TopTierHarley]

Fun fact, the girl from Oculus played Amy Pond in the Doctor Who series

 

[Clark L.]

Horror movies are just terrible nowadays. I think this video explains why perfectly:

One of the great points made are jump scares. They're overused. They're cheap and easy way to frighten an audience, but really, it's nothing more than the horror equivalent of a fart-joke, it may get a reaction out of us at the moment, but it doesn't contribute to the film in a meaningful way. But horrormovies insist on just consisting of nothing but them, and using them constantly. That's not horror, that's blowing a bullhorn in my ear and screaming in my face every ten minutes.

Horror directors need to re-watch The Exorcist. Learn how it's done properly.

Haha, I wonder if they really stop for 10 years, if they'll be good when they return

 

[rev0lver]

Also for those who mentioned Ti West movies (House of the Devil, The Sacrament).... I find his style really weird. It's hard for me to call his movies bad, because I think they're done really well. I just always find myself appreciating his movies more than actually enjoying them

 

[TKB]

Most recent horror flicks are boring and shock flicks. No story, no character development. Just boring for the most part. HOWEVER... The people saying all horror movies are bad... I have to disagree with that fully.

One of my all time favorite movies and IMO one of the scariest flicks of all time...

Alien.

 

[Under_The_Mayo]

Anyone who thinks all horror sucks needs to spend some time with classics like Poltergeist. And then modern masterpieces like Martyrs and Let The Right One In (the original).

 

[AeroGrunt]

Funny Games - This is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time now. There's some real meta and 4th wall shit in this movie that makes it amazing despite how basic it looks on top.

The original or the shot-for-shot US remake? I thought the original was better in a lot of ways, the whole core story worked much better in the 97 version with the phones and stuff. Funny Games is a movie a lot of people will hate due to all the meta stuff.