A quiet place or hereditary

I liked both. I would say Hereditary is more of a “scary” movie than A Quiet Place

Hereditary is a straight up horror movie whereas A Quiet Place is more a thriller.

A Quiet Place by a lot for me

Wow wow wow. A Quiet Place is definitely a horror movie. A horror movie doesn’t have to be “scary”. It just has to have horrific subject matter. Don’t go trying to rewrite 70 years of horror movie there.

For the audience memember? Nope, not at all. Scary is completely arbitrary. With that mindset, anyone can claim any movie isn’t scary because it didn’t scare them.

To me, a horror movie is a movie that deals with a situation of intense terror.

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Horror comedies are the perfect example of this. We the audience laugh at situations the characters feel are horrific.

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But these scenes are deliberately played for laughs in a horror comedy. Take the Scream movies for example. They walked the fine line between horror and comedy, although the first two in the series lent themselves more to horror.

That said, to each his own. I preferred Hereditary over A Quiet Place because I thought it was a better overall film, better acted, and the plot, while admittedly a bit slow in the beginning, went into full blown horror in the final act.

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The thing about Hereditary that disturbed me the most (in a good way) wasn't the gore (those who've seen it will know the scene I'm referring to), it was that all of the horrible things that the family endured were part of the "master plan" all along. They were surrounded by people who were all in on it, but the family didn't realize it until it was too late.

Hereditary.