re: In the Spirit of October: The Horror Renaissance

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John Dies at the End)

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I watched this movie one night on my phone in bed when I was having trouble sleeping. Picked it at random to just try to pass the time.

Ended up staying up watching the whole thing. It was awesome.

Pre-2010 but The Ring and The Grudge scared the shite out of me. Especially watching that shite in theaters.

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Too much of a downer ending in terms of it being a legit threat?

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The ending is quite uplifting, I thought. No, my biggest problem with the film is that its not scary. Like, not even a little bit. It's a horror movie made for people who don't like horror movies but want a movie title than drop into conversation to show off their sophisticated taste.

Also, the sound mixing on that movie was clearly done by a person who was unable to hear the soundtrack he was mixing. Just an incompetently done botch job, and for a technical genre like horror, incompetent technique is a death blow (Low production values is no problem, incompetence is a big one).

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It's a horror movie made for people who don't like horror movies but want a movie title than drop into conversation to show off their sophisticated taste.

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I felt the same way. I thought the whole thing went over my head or something because of how well received it was so I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels negatively about it. I also feel the same way about The Conjuring. I thought it was a well made movie but it was not an effective horror movie imo. The only people I know that liked it were people that typically don't watch horror movies.

I thought it was a good movie but it just didn't scare me. And it wasn't an issue of the genre not being scary to me bc ghost movies typically scare me the most. For example, Woman in Black scared the shite out of me but my brother thought it was lame and thought The Conjuring was scary.

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I thought it was a good movie but it just didn't scare me. And it wasn't an issue of the genre not being scary to me bc ghost movies typically scare me the most. For example, Woman in Black scared the shite out of me but my brother thought it was lame and thought The Conjuring was scary.

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I'm different. I don't judge a horror movie's quality on how much it scared me. It's not to say that mvies don't or can't ever scare me, but I find it doesn't happen often, or if I'm not scared, I'm at least on the edge of my seat (and I'm not talking about cheap jump scares).

I liked The Conjuring for one main reason. Sure, it was creepy and all that, but the biggest problem with supernatural-type movies like that are that they never seem to have a solid, fulfilling ending...it just seems like directors never really know how to end their movies. But The Conjuring had a solid ending, so I liked it a lot. Most movies taht deal with supernatural ghosts and the like, I find myself liking them up until the end and then the failure to wrap things up well leaves me disappointed (looking at you, The Devil Inside...also things like The Last Exorcism, or even Babadook to use one from this thread).

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I really like the Conjuring as well. Besides, the hide and clap scene is one of the most legit terrifying scenes I've ever seen. Also, almost all of the actions of the characters are logical (well, except the kids, but kids do illogical things because kids suck... my daughter would totally sell me out to the ghost world by accident). The movie also has a legit cast, solving the big issue of a lot of horror: the acting.

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Although the film was meh, the boy from the Poltergeist remake stepped up in a big way. Good call there on the director/writer's part.

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Yes, I know the Warrens are frauds and the whole "true story" bit is BS. I don't really care about that.

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You can't really care about this stuff or it ruins the whole thing.

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so I am having a horror movie watching with a friend who doesn't do "real scary" what should I watch? I already watched CitW and tucker/dale.

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Well there's Cooties, in the same vein as Cabin and Tucker.

Off of this list - The Guest is a ton of fun, and is not straight horror. It's more thriller/creepy. But it's kind of unique.

You're Next is also a solid thriller. Not supernatural at all and has some great characters. It's fairly gore-heavy though.

I'd put a small recommendation out there for Mama. It is a horror, it is supernatural, but it's presented like a fairy tale. Think a more horror-ful Pan's Labyrinth. Not as good but Del Toro's fingerprints are all over it as he was executive producer.

thanks. I watched the guest last year and loved it.