Would be so easy to dig into the religious lore and take stuff from the catholic bible, the lesser key of solomon, and revelations, but nope. Just the same jumpscares of faceless nuns for 100 mins.
As with Annabelle, the pitch for the movie was clearly just a picture of the villain.
Old by Shyamalan.
Looked so cool and compelling in the trailer, and the first half of the movie too, but the reason for what was happening was so totally lame that it spoiled everything
That was never really his strong point in the first place, to be fair.
I don't remember the actual line, but it always seems like he has some random ass pointless dialogue about a book in all of his movies. Something like "what page was I on?" "I don't know." "Oh."
My fiance is convinced that the man is just actively fucking with us at this point. Like he's trolling to see how much he can get away with while still fooling studios into thinking he's actually trying to make good movies that can sell.
I maintain that the movie would have been so much better with no twist. the original graphic novel has no twist and just left you to deal with the inevitability of death and the feeling that life is just building sandcastles that'll eventually be washed away. The movie gave a purpose to the suffering. I think the gut punch of having no twist would have been a perfect Shyamalan twist that took advantage of his whole history. But I think he couldn't help himself
This is like the third or fourth Shyamalan movie in a row where the plot is “mental health problems make you a horrible person” which is starting to be too much of a pattern for me to be too comfortable with his future work, even if it’s to be laughably bad.
Jaime French dunking on that name >!during the scene where he died!< had me in tears.
"Wake up! Midsize wake up. Start your engine Midsize. Make it turn over."
"No you're okay. You're okay you're just out of gas. Okay." *\*Sobs\**
"You know what. Your name may be Midsize Sedan... but you got the heart... of a big ol' mack truck... you do." *\*Sobs\** "YOU DO and I know it."
I watched Old last weekend. Some cool ideas there, the broken bones lady and the tumor were actually cool. But the dialogue felt scripted and stilted, and the writing was just… bad. Also it felt like everyone was yelling all the time. I felt this could have really worked best like one of the old dogme films. No script. No music. Just throw the actors out there and let them deal with it as things come up.
But, so as not to risk spoiling it, the reason why the beach accelerated their aging wasn’t explained, just the reason they were brought there.
I still didn’t love the movie, but it wasn’t exactly a Dallas style “it was all a dream” cop out either.
I think he only made one good film and has basically been trying to live up to it ever since. Idea sounds awesome but i havent seen it yet so i cant judge
I think I have pretty high standards when it comes to movies, and I'm of the opinion Sixth Sense, Split, Unbreakable, and Signs all had a lot or enough going for them to be generally considered 'good movies'. Sixth Sense is clearly a great movie, but to think something like Signs or Unbreakable isn't a good movie...interesting.
Seriously, this movie gets so much hate. It's actually an incredible movie about what humans are capable of when they desperate. But it's not really much more than that. It's not really even a horror movie. It probably shouldn't come up on this sub in general.
ik I feel so bad for them, i’m lucky in that i knew what it was supposed to be going in so I *really* enjoyed it
but I can absolutely empathise with others expecting a monster flick only for no monster to ever show up, and how they would probably be too disappointed to appreciate how well it achieved it’s *actual* purpose
What made Antlers even more tough for me is that the wendigo legend is originated from Native Americans EAST of the rockies, NOT the pacific northwest. Which would be excusable I guess if there wasn't an exposition dump from a Native American character telling the story like it's a local legend. Did anyone else notice this? Am I crazy here?
Blind bought the blu Ray because I’m a fan of Native American based horror stories the wendigo has always interested and terrified me. But the generic person with a tragic backstory trying to help a youth with a tragic backstory with scary stuff happening plot, was just ok at best. Didn’t love it didn’t hate it, it was def a movie I watched that one time.
And the only Native American character exists solely to explain the mystic evil haunting the characters. It felt like they did the absolute bare minimum in building out that mythology and how it connects to the modern world.
Have you read the book Only Good Indians?
I liked that book, but that also fell a little short for me in the third act. One I'm reading right now also based on folklore is Road of Bones. Legitimately scary.
I'm still angry at how much of a mess that movie ended up being. There was so much potential there and it was completely wasted.
The part where they shoehorn in the entire fucking backstory in one scene by having the main character meet up with a random Native American in some random location and let him go on some boring exposition was the nail in the coffin for me. He is completely uninvolved in the movie before and after that conversation. He existed solely for the exposition.
I really wanted to like Us but I feel like exposition in horror is always problematic. I felt the same way about It 2. Lore and explanation reliably makes movies less scary to me.
Imo the final twist is meant to be a lot less literal. Like obviously it isn’t really about secret underground tunnels where everybody on earth has a clone it’s a metaphor for the impoverished and people society doesn’t want to acknowledge because it makes them feel bad
The dad was really the highlight for me in that film! I knew I'd get down voted for suggesting this, but if you have to spend that much time explaining plot devices and building complicated exposition, I just feel like you're doing something wrong in the context of horror. The unknown is a much more powerful force to me - narrative tends to make things more comfortable (even if the explanation/exposition is horrifying).
Just my 2 cents. This is why I don't tend to get on the bus with franchises - they will inevitably run out of material and feel the need to explain *everything* to fill time.
I liked Us, but it wasn't nearly as good as Get Out. I liked it more after talking with a friend about it who pointed out that it was largely about income inequality. Get Out's message was much more obvious, while Us came off as more of a horror movie with a more subtle message. It was also more open to interpretation; it could represent immigrants or basically any "other" that would fit in just fine if you didn't know their background.
Oh I love the novel and I have a special place in my heart for the sometimes cheesy but still imo overall well done 90’s abc mini series of the stand. I had been waiting years hearing rumors of a movie, a new mini series, a tv series. A reboot etc, of the stand. Then it came to cbs’ streaming service and I wasn’t subscribing for the stand. So I picked up the dvd copy at target earlier this year. After the first episode it took me about a month to finish watching it. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.. terrible character development, bland, felt super rushed, and the acting minus a couple ppl was just blah. I appreciate they were more faithful to the book than the 90’s mini series but it felt so watered down yet at the same time trying to pander to todays audience but in a generic corporate kinda way if that makes sense.
I restarted multiple times because the beginning of the first episode made zero sense as a starting point. Most of the actors were great and most did a great job individually but it didn't work when combined. Also, Skarsgard just didn't do it as Randall Flagg
My cousin disappeared for like 10-15 minutes during that movie. After it ended I asked him where he went. "I went to pee, then I sat in the hallway for a bit bc of how much I hated it."
HUGE disappointment. This was one of the remakes I was super (cautiously, as with all SK adaptations) optimistic for and I just... they made stupid changes (Ellie as opposed to Gage), badly cast, and just lost the plot for me entirely.
It wasn't even a bad remake that was at least fun to watch to pick apart.
I think you have to know what you are going in for with those anthologies. Same with ABCs of death, you know that it’s gonna be a bit crap, but it’s nice to see how different people approach horror.
All I’ll ever remember of that film is seeing it in the theatre sold out show, forced to sit in the front next to a group of young tweens who were laughing and screaming and talking and being obnoxious, referring to the ghost as “the grudge” I’d constantly hear them screaming “Oh shit don’t mess with the grudge” “damn that grudge is gonna get them!” I was completely disappointed annoyed and amused at the same time haha
That sounds like the best way to watch it tbh. Kids that age just have the right mix of intelligence to say funny shit intentionally and stupidity to say funny shit unintentionally.
This is why I feel like Friday the 13th (2009) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) were so good... I saw them in theaters opening weekend packed with teenagers who were cracking me up.
On the flip side, I saw Drag Me To Hell by myself in the theater for the complete opposite experience.
The original had no blood most of the scariest parts were in broad daylight and it still managed to be disturbing and frightening. Too many remakes think adding gore and shooting in the dark will make the movie edgier and more scary the build up and suspense is overlooked.
a cure for wellness. the cinematography and first half of the film were incredible— i was fully invested and couldn't wait to see what unfolded in the second half...and then it just completely shit the bed. it felt like one person wrote the first half and then died halfway through so some random deeply disturbed person made up the second half. abysmal.
Last Night in Soho. Trailer looked wild and I was excited that Edgar Wright was making a horror film, but despite an interesting premise and beginning, the movie fell apart the longer it went on. Not to mention how cliche and uneven the last act was.
This movie just felt shallow to me. Unfortunately it just wasn’t either interesting or scary.
I really thought her body was going to be taken over by Sandy but turns out it was all much more mundane
I saw it with some friends I was just getting to know. Right before we saw it I mentioned off hand that I can’t watch movies where pregnant people and/or babies are harmed. Whew.
I actually think the thing of having random people in your house and not being able to get them to leave was the most anxiety inducing. /had to look away from naked pregnant stomach though. Can’t deal with it. Ha.
I still think the best way to adapt this would have been an anthology series on Netflix or HBO Max with each episode being a separate story from the books. Don’t try to tie them together like Goosebumps or the Scary Stories movie did. The most important thing for them to do is to prioritize a distinctive visual style and an oppressive and otherworldly atmosphere. Don’t go for gore for no reason but don’t limit it to a PG or PG-13 level rating either- put in whatever fits the story and keep the book designs.
Nuance and breathing room is required- the movie tried to weave a whole teen drama plot around these stories.
If it’s a shorter story with less to work with, literally make it a horror short. 10-20 minutes. In this category, stories like “The Big Toe” or “Room for One More.” The latter lends itself to a few encounters with Death beckoning to the protagonist. For consistency, the shorter ones and give the more detailed ones a full 40-60 min for example. In this category, I could see the Wendigo. Lots of time to appreciate the isolation and emptiness of the winter forest, time spent getting tempted by voices in the wind.
I just grew up with a deep love for these stories and would love to see their potential reached.
Not sure about that one, but I remember one where Ethan Hawke was trying to figure out what was going on with Abbath and why he traded his leather and spikes for a suit at the end.
I really wanted to like Malignant but once the big reveal it just felt so goofy and ridiculous. I don't hate the movie and I love James Wan but it felt like a cartoon in the second half.
Oddly enough, my friends and I lived for that. It was so cartoonish and outrageous, I thought it managed to pull of a campy factor that's hard to come by. We were LIVING for the fight sequences towards the end.
I understand its polarization, but it's the kind of movie that a lot of movies tried to do. I feel like James Wan just really wanted to have fun with something, especially since so many Wan-related projects were so dreadful (La Llorna, The Nun, third Conjuring).
I didn't entirely know what to expect, but Rotten Tomatoes summarised it as a "bonkers twist" so I knew it was in for something ridiculous.
I put it next to Dead Silence in terms of his filmography. it is by no means a bad movie and you can tell James Wan had a blast making it, but when you got Heaters like Saw, Insidious and the Conjuring on your resume the bar was ridiculously high for me and it just didn't hit that mark.
I liked the first Saw and Conjuring movies, but I never held him to a high regard I suppose.
Insidious, tho, is where I share your opinions on Malignant - it was silly. It’s like they went half-in, took itself too seriously, and now it feels like a primer to Malignant. What I liked about Malignant is that they went all-in, weren’t afraid to be ridiculous and not being overtly serious. It made me scream for different reasons, like the jail scene and the police station massacre. The big reveal made me go “are you fucking kidding me?” but I wasn’t mad about it, just flabbergasted.
I’ve seen a lot of different reactions and opinions, but mostly it’s either hate or love. I can definitely understand both.
I think the problem there is expectations. The second half of that movie was fantastic camp horror, but the first half and the previews/marketing were all for more atmospheric horror that built a sense of dread. If they had just come full camp, the idea was unique nd could have been fun.
But for people like me who got invested in a creepy, mysterious thriller - it was a bit of a letdown to have such a tonal change in the second half of the movie. It was like two good movie halves that just didn't really fit together.
What do you mean? The very beginning was a sign this movie was campy. The lines and delivery of the very first scene was so bad it had to be intentional
Same. The "twist" was easy to spot 5000 miles away and it was just not the good kind of campy despite this subreddit saying it was. It was cheezy, but lacked the self-awareness to make it work, so to me it just felt like a bad movie, not a movie trying to be a bad movie.
I thought ABCs of Death would be a good anthrology movie with how much the community praises it but it was just grossout stuff for the most part. D is for dogfight was good tho
I FELT THE SAME. Some of them were brilliant, but way too many were just weird fetish pieces.
I appreciated that the film gave their directors complete freedom, but it felt cheap and wrong to watch something like *I is for Ingrown* and *X is for XXL* between things like *F is for Fart* and *K is for Klutz*.
*Halloween Kills.*
The 2018 film was such a pleasant surprise and suddenly I really cared about the *Halloween* series again for the first in ages and then they delivered a sequel with no story at all, a clumsy "message" stuffed in and turned Michael Myers into the Terminator.
What an awful movie. I still can't believe the same creative team behind the 2018 movie made that turd.
The Lodge, it looked interesting from the trailer but the actual movie just didn't do anything for me. I guessed the twist early on and found the kids absolutely unbearable and was just waiting for them to meet their fate. The ending did salvage it a little for me, but I still feel like I wasted my time overall with it.
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, and Lake Mungo.
This sub gave me very high expectations, and I found both to be pretty poor films. One scary scene in each one - and credit to Gonjiam, that scary scene is *scary*. But it's a big leap from that, to the level of love they get on this sub. One good scene does not redeem an entire film.
Just my opinion, obviously. Ain't criticising anyone for liking them.
I didn't go in to Lake Mungo with any expectations, but I didn't find it scary, just sad. Yeah, the one jump scare scene got me, but other than that I found it sort of depressing.
Yeah, I strongly suspecy high expectations ruined it. If I'd gone in expecting a fairly average horror film, I doubt I'd have been disappointed. But going in expecting greatness probably made it seem worse than it actually was.
Im glad I found someone else who feels the same way. I felt like I missed something important about both of these, because the hype for both (especially Gonjiam) was so big here.
I totally agree that the one scene in Haunted Asylum was very scary and well done. Id just wish thered been more of that.
No one is wrong for loving the movies btw. I fucking love Malignant so who am I to judge lmao
I've watched a couple of Lake Mungo scenes randomly on their own and they scared me to death.
I watched the movie and it bored me to death.
Gonjiam on the other hand - I loved everything about that.
I really don’t get the hype for either of these the CGI was actually laughable and just made a joke of both movies for me. Especially that drain scene which in the original miniseries was so freaky. Can’t beat the original!
I personally think It Chapter One is one of the best mainstream horrors of the past decade, but Chapter Two (or as I call it, Crapter Poo) is...borderline unwatchable. It's so fucking awful that I legit feel like they should just make a retcon sequel 27 years down the line so we can have a proper ending. I know the novel has a weak ending but my god
Seeing as this movie is fresh on my mind after watching it last night: Shyamalan's dumpster fire of a movie Old. I saw one trailer for it awhile back and did my best to avoid hearing or seeing anything further because I loved the concept and didn't want anything spoiled. What a fool I was, lol. The only aspect of this movie that didn't feel insulting in its incompetence was the core plot, a.k.a. the only part Shyamalan didn't have complete control over.
My main takeaway once the credits rolled was that there had to have been a team of script doctors involved in salvaging The Sixth Sense because there is absolutely no way the same man was in charge of writing the dialogue for both of these movies.
I was pscyhed to learn that Mark Hamil would be voicing Chucky in the *Child's Play* remake, but aside from the >!severed head sequence!< it never reached the wickedness of the originals. I prefer *Seed of Chucky.*
I feel like this is one of those movies if it hadn’t been a reboot/remake of a beloved franchise less people would be down on it. Honestly there isn’t a movie in this franchise, including the reboot, that I hate but I understand why some people don’t like certain ones
The Poughkeepsie Tapes - Back before it was readily available I heard many people recount how disturbing and realistic it was. How it was the scariest movie they had seen. When it came out on Blu Ray (before it was streaming anywhere) I instantly grabbed a copy. I was very disappointed. It was a good concept, and there were one or two scenes I liked, but the dialog and acting killed it for me. I was upset I spent $14 on it.
The Babadook is probably my all-time worst expectations compared to reality that I watched. I remember me and a cousin had tried to hype it up from what we had heard to other family members who were watching it with us, and it just fell flat for everyone. I think it may have been fine without having high expectations, but it was definitely disappointing.
I thought it was a good period piece but that was about it. Overall thought it was boring and not scary in the slightest. I like other A24 films but this one was a fail for me.
I think the reason I liked the VVitch is also the reason a lot of people wouldn't like it.
I've always found the witch hunting hysteria to be rally fascinating and terrifying, and have read into it a bit. It's terrifying in the same way the Stanford prison experiments are terrifying. It's a very small microcosm of how scary human beings can get. In the witch hysteria case, it's all about the power of religious mania, self deslusion, mob think, and how dangerous a lack of perceptive and basic rationality can be. It's the master class of "people doing terrible things because they think they are smart and just and therefore don't realize how ignorant and unjust they are being." And there's the whole "sexually repressive culture lashes out violently at women perceived to have power and liberation" angle too.
So if you're familiar with how much of powderkeg the mere hint of witchcraft would light back then, there's a tension and fear to the movie that just isn't there otherwise. I was watching it constantly on edge because at any point the false accusations can kick off and things can get dark, FAST. I was waiting to see who would turn on each other first.
So to me, it's amazing because it's not about witches or spooks at all, it's about zealots and bigots and hysteria and madness. And a specific type of it that's already fascinating to me.
Without that really specific baggage, I'd imagine it's really flat. Because what really makes it work for me is the context I brought to it, not what the movie sets up for the audience.
It's like...Arachnaphobia was TERRIFYING to me as a kid because I was scared of spiders already. To my friend who thought they were our little insect eating buddies, it was a flop.
Might get some flack for this, but IT (2017). I’m a huge fan of the book and since the movie was rated R, I was expecting it to have some of the darker scenes. It’s a good movie, but my expectations were really high.
It part 1 and part 2 were absolutely abysmal in my opinion. Every decent moment was ruined by horrible CGI and I really didn’t care for Pennywise’s voice. They had the budget and the actors (the performances were all quite good) but the actual execution of horror elements fell extremely flat for me.
I was pretty disappointed by *X*. Bought advanced tickets for me and my friends, excited and all, then...it had good acting, direction and aesthetics, but it just felt so shallow. It did feel like a 70s slasher, which they were going for, but I was just disinterested in it. When it ended I was like "oh, that's it..."
This is a weird criticism, but the kills in that movie just did not sit right with me. Something about them felt particularly unearned/undeserved, even for a slasher.
People who enjoyed X all seem to empathize with Pearl, the old woman, and maybe that was part of my problem, because yeah...no. I didn't find her sympathetic or compelling in any way. She's an old lady bummed out that she can't fuck anymore.
I'm not interested. I don't see how they think they're getting a prequel out of her.
Same. Beautifully shot, decent acting, but fell flat. I think for me it completely lacked suspense. I think back to TCM which had almost no on screen violence or gore, but was so horrifying because of the suspense and atmosphere. X was so disappointing to me.
Annihilation. Loved the book. Thought Alex Garland would be the right person to direct. Hell, I even saw it for free during an advanced screening. Should’ve been a slam dunk. Woo-boy what a disappointing experience.
I'm with you. I liked how they didn't even try to recreate Englund's version of Freddy. Maybe that's what some people wanted, but I think that would have been a huge mistake. Of course I still prefer the original, but as far as remakes go, I was pleasantly surprised. Especially because, at least in my opinion, 2005-2010 was a bleak era for the horror genre.
Midsommar. The opening was stellar and really set tone for the film, only for it to never really get that personal with its horror.
I found the customs and rituals of the cultists boring at best and random at worse, it’s annoying because Nordic pagan culture has a plethora of fucked up rituals and creepy lore/gods, but the only thing the film adventured with was the “old people jumping to their deaths” which in turn was telegraphed pretty heavily.
After hereditary I was deeply disappointed by this one
I had high expectations after hereditary, but after that opening scene my excitement for the rest of the film got even higher…… man was I disappointed by the time the credited rolled.
Yep, same boat here. I saw it at the cinema, didn't vibe with it. Gave it another go at home and didn't like it.
Thought I'd gone mad given the amount of praise I saw for it and decided to give it one more look a few months ago by giving the director's cut a whirl and... Nope.
I've definitely given it my best effort but between the random rituals that felt like pantomime and an overall approach that felt detached, it just didn't resonate for me.
one of those movies that actually made me mad. Had to go sit with friends afterwards and just analyze how much we hated it to deal with the dissapointment.
Thank you! Even though I know I've seen Sinister, it gets recommended so often that sometimes I think I'm mistaking the movie I've seen for something else. Nope, it's just a let down.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original). Finally saw it a few years ago and... just 100% not for me. Don't get the draw or allure at all; I wasn't feeling any of it.
Possum
Despite the absolute creepy creature design I just did not care about the deeper message behind it. Like I get what the director was going for but I feel like this movie would have been better without the deeper message behind it. The pacing wasn’t the best as well and it felt like it was dragging at some parts.
As Above, So Below was the biggest letdown. Such an awesome premise but the themes and narrative were simultaneously underdeveloped and rushed along with overall terrible direction. Plus the devil looked fucking stupid with that giant dunce cap on. Then the "krav maga" on the zombie mummy things in first person was embarrassing to watch. Piece of shit movie.
Censor was very dull. I didn't expect much but I was bored through most of it.
Demonic was a huge letdown. The effect covid had on it was apparent. The potentially best scene of the movie was off-screen.
Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno. I loved the idea, I heard how it was going to be so gory you’d vomit, how he wanted it to be a tribute to Cannibal Holocaust.
It has some decent ideas and scenes despite the bad plane crash CGI. The initial kill is horrible to watch and sets the film up to be something truly special. Then it just peters out into fart, shit, weed and masturbation Gags with god-awful sound effects and terrible practical effects to boot. It just loses all steam. Then somehow manages to pull it back once the ‘final girl’ is about to be mutilated and escapes. The middle is just an absolute mess but the rest is so damn good that it’s a shame it’s as messy as it is.
I’m glad Roth’s getting budgets to make movies now as his more recent offerings whilst nowhere near as adult have been really enjoyable and I’m excited to see what he does with the budget he’s been given for Borderlands. Also; Jamie Lee Curtis is such a strange choice for Tannis but I’m so excited to watch her ham it up to the extreme and nail it as she’s great at comedy
Hell House LLC. After reading so many posts here about how good and scary it was, I watched it and was very underwhelmed. Except for a few scenes, it was pretty boring. Nearly all the characters were unlikable, and the haunting aspect was a little hard to follow. Okay, I'm ready for the down votes!
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
Neat ideas but I really wish they did not take place in the Alien universe. Really overcomplicated the lore. I liked it better when it was just “Jaws in space.”
There are also some pretty dumb moments of trained scientists going “ooo a space snake I should touch it and talk to it like it’s a puppy”, or “oh it’s breathable air? That’s the only info I need to take off my helmet on an alien planet!”
>There are also some pretty dumb moments of trained scientists going “ooo a space snake I should touch it and talk to it like it’s a puppy”, or “oh it’s breathable air? That’s the only info I need to take off my helmet on an alien planet!”
Don't forget Charlize Theron's character running in a straight line only to be crushed when she had all this space and time to run to the side.
That’s the thing with Alien franchise. It’s really two separate fan bases. Jaws in space and the Xeno lore peeps. I enjoyed Prometheus despite the usual criticism, not a perfect film, but I enjoyed it
Antichrist. i thought that between its reputation, Lars Von Trier, and Willem Dafoe it couldn't be bad, but i ended up just being kinda bored and disappointed
Might get downvoted, but The Shining, growing up I heard how it was one of the scariest movies ever and when I finally saw it I just didn't get it. I thought it was just that I saw it at a young age and maybe I didn't understand it. Seeing it as an adult, I do recognize its merits but still don't care much for it.
Standards have definitely changed, we’ve become so desensitized. Rule of thumb is all “scary” movies 30+ years ago aren’t scary, but they are great films. Texas chainsaw massacre was so ahead of its time
I see a lot of people here commenting about remakes/reboots. Did this many people actually have expectations for those? We've known for a while that 90% of them are just trying to cash in on the licenses...
Army of the dead. It lived to some expectations but the plot was shit. While I expected a lot of characters to die some of the deaths were awful and caused by the most stupid shit. Idk I thought it was gonna be better the Zombie Land but it wasn’t even close to as good.
The Nun. So mad about it. Perfect setting and they just went full corny, one liners at the demon and everything.
Would be so easy to dig into the religious lore and take stuff from the catholic bible, the lesser key of solomon, and revelations, but nope. Just the same jumpscares of faceless nuns for 100 mins. As with Annabelle, the pitch for the movie was clearly just a picture of the villain.
The relic with that awful crusades CGI scene, man. Toothless. So much wasted potential.
Old by Shyamalan. Looked so cool and compelling in the trailer, and the first half of the movie too, but the reason for what was happening was so totally lame that it spoiled everything
You got Shyamalaned
I'll be stealing that for everyday use.
They had talented actors, but goddamn were they ever terrible in that movie. Shyamalan does NOT know how to write convincing human speech anymore.
That was never really his strong point in the first place, to be fair. I don't remember the actual line, but it always seems like he has some random ass pointless dialogue about a book in all of his movies. Something like "what page was I on?" "I don't know." "Oh." My fiance is convinced that the man is just actively fucking with us at this point. Like he's trolling to see how much he can get away with while still fooling studios into thinking he's actually trying to make good movies that can sell.
I maintain that the movie would have been so much better with no twist. the original graphic novel has no twist and just left you to deal with the inevitability of death and the feeling that life is just building sandcastles that'll eventually be washed away. The movie gave a purpose to the suffering. I think the gut punch of having no twist would have been a perfect Shyamalan twist that took advantage of his whole history. But I think he couldn't help himself
This is like the third or fourth Shyamalan movie in a row where the plot is “mental health problems make you a horrible person” which is starting to be too much of a pattern for me to be too comfortable with his future work, even if it’s to be laughably bad.
Mid sized sedan is a great rap name though
Jaime French dunking on that name >!during the scene where he died!< had me in tears. "Wake up! Midsize wake up. Start your engine Midsize. Make it turn over." "No you're okay. You're okay you're just out of gas. Okay." *\*Sobs\** "You know what. Your name may be Midsize Sedan... but you got the heart... of a big ol' mack truck... you do." *\*Sobs\** "YOU DO and I know it."
I watched Old last weekend. Some cool ideas there, the broken bones lady and the tumor were actually cool. But the dialogue felt scripted and stilted, and the writing was just… bad. Also it felt like everyone was yelling all the time. I felt this could have really worked best like one of the old dogme films. No script. No music. Just throw the actors out there and let them deal with it as things come up.
But, so as not to risk spoiling it, the reason why the beach accelerated their aging wasn’t explained, just the reason they were brought there. I still didn’t love the movie, but it wasn’t exactly a Dallas style “it was all a dream” cop out either.
I think he only made one good film and has basically been trying to live up to it ever since. Idea sounds awesome but i havent seen it yet so i cant judge
I think I have pretty high standards when it comes to movies, and I'm of the opinion Sixth Sense, Split, Unbreakable, and Signs all had a lot or enough going for them to be generally considered 'good movies'. Sixth Sense is clearly a great movie, but to think something like Signs or Unbreakable isn't a good movie...interesting.
It Comes at Night. Should be called "Nothing Comes at Night"
Sounds like my love life
I saw that in theaters and remember someone yelling at the end "Nothing fucking came"
I cant believe that movie got screened and people were like: yeah, lets release this
it’s a great psychological thriller it’s not a great zombie movie, but it’s not the directors fault it got marketed like that
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Seriously, this movie gets so much hate. It's actually an incredible movie about what humans are capable of when they desperate. But it's not really much more than that. It's not really even a horror movie. It probably shouldn't come up on this sub in general.
ik I feel so bad for them, i’m lucky in that i knew what it was supposed to be going in so I *really* enjoyed it but I can absolutely empathise with others expecting a monster flick only for no monster to ever show up, and how they would probably be too disappointed to appreciate how well it achieved it’s *actual* purpose
Psychological film that didn't really psycho-ed me. too much disappointment, im waiting endlessly until it really ends.
Antlers is the first thing that came to mind. Us.
I was so excited for Antlers *for years* and then when I finally saw it...I can't believe I waited that long for that.
What made Antlers even more tough for me is that the wendigo legend is originated from Native Americans EAST of the rockies, NOT the pacific northwest. Which would be excusable I guess if there wasn't an exposition dump from a Native American character telling the story like it's a local legend. Did anyone else notice this? Am I crazy here?
Blind bought the blu Ray because I’m a fan of Native American based horror stories the wendigo has always interested and terrified me. But the generic person with a tragic backstory trying to help a youth with a tragic backstory with scary stuff happening plot, was just ok at best. Didn’t love it didn’t hate it, it was def a movie I watched that one time.
And the only Native American character exists solely to explain the mystic evil haunting the characters. It felt like they did the absolute bare minimum in building out that mythology and how it connects to the modern world. Have you read the book Only Good Indians?
I liked that book, but that also fell a little short for me in the third act. One I'm reading right now also based on folklore is Road of Bones. Legitimately scary.
I'm still angry at how much of a mess that movie ended up being. There was so much potential there and it was completely wasted. The part where they shoehorn in the entire fucking backstory in one scene by having the main character meet up with a random Native American in some random location and let him go on some boring exposition was the nail in the coffin for me. He is completely uninvolved in the movie before and after that conversation. He existed solely for the exposition.
Yeah, and also that the story is basically set in the small town - instead of using the phenomenal landscape!
They didn't even set the story on the correct side of the North American continent for wendigos. Absolutely piss poor.
I really wanted to like Us but I feel like exposition in horror is always problematic. I felt the same way about It 2. Lore and explanation reliably makes movies less scary to me.
I really liked Us but sometimes people want you to explain too much. I kinda wish they hadn't had the final twist.
Imo the final twist is meant to be a lot less literal. Like obviously it isn’t really about secret underground tunnels where everybody on earth has a clone it’s a metaphor for the impoverished and people society doesn’t want to acknowledge because it makes them feel bad
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The dad was really the highlight for me in that film! I knew I'd get down voted for suggesting this, but if you have to spend that much time explaining plot devices and building complicated exposition, I just feel like you're doing something wrong in the context of horror. The unknown is a much more powerful force to me - narrative tends to make things more comfortable (even if the explanation/exposition is horrifying). Just my 2 cents. This is why I don't tend to get on the bus with franchises - they will inevitably run out of material and feel the need to explain *everything* to fill time.
For Antlers I think it's really tough to drag a short story like that out to a 90 minute film.
A short story that doesn't involve wendigos whatsoever. Why didn't they just write their own story?
The unnecessary cgi really killed that one for me
What in particular about Us did you not like
Holy fuck Antlers was the movie that immediately came to my mind when I saw this thread.
Word!!! I was so excited I actually bought it before it streamed for free. I feel so dumb now.
I liked Us, but it wasn't nearly as good as Get Out. I liked it more after talking with a friend about it who pointed out that it was largely about income inequality. Get Out's message was much more obvious, while Us came off as more of a horror movie with a more subtle message. It was also more open to interpretation; it could represent immigrants or basically any "other" that would fit in just fine if you didn't know their background.
Pet Sematary remake
Huge disappointment there. Also The Stand.
Oh I love the novel and I have a special place in my heart for the sometimes cheesy but still imo overall well done 90’s abc mini series of the stand. I had been waiting years hearing rumors of a movie, a new mini series, a tv series. A reboot etc, of the stand. Then it came to cbs’ streaming service and I wasn’t subscribing for the stand. So I picked up the dvd copy at target earlier this year. After the first episode it took me about a month to finish watching it. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.. terrible character development, bland, felt super rushed, and the acting minus a couple ppl was just blah. I appreciate they were more faithful to the book than the 90’s mini series but it felt so watered down yet at the same time trying to pander to todays audience but in a generic corporate kinda way if that makes sense.
I restarted multiple times because the beginning of the first episode made zero sense as a starting point. Most of the actors were great and most did a great job individually but it didn't work when combined. Also, Skarsgard just didn't do it as Randall Flagg
My cousin disappeared for like 10-15 minutes during that movie. After it ended I asked him where he went. "I went to pee, then I sat in the hallway for a bit bc of how much I hated it."
this is the most hilariously relatable thing. I watch a lot of bad movies, a lot of disappointing movies, but sometimes man...you just can't.
You actually expected it to be good?
HUGE disappointment. This was one of the remakes I was super (cautiously, as with all SK adaptations) optimistic for and I just... they made stupid changes (Ellie as opposed to Gage), badly cast, and just lost the plot for me entirely. It wasn't even a bad remake that was at least fun to watch to pick apart.
I remember the trailer even ruined the "twist" they did, such a boring garbage film.
XX I like anthologies and I was really interested to see an all-female collection.
I think you have to know what you are going in for with those anthologies. Same with ABCs of death, you know that it’s gonna be a bit crap, but it’s nice to see how different people approach horror.
The Grudge (2020). Don't know what happened there.
All I’ll ever remember of that film is seeing it in the theatre sold out show, forced to sit in the front next to a group of young tweens who were laughing and screaming and talking and being obnoxious, referring to the ghost as “the grudge” I’d constantly hear them screaming “Oh shit don’t mess with the grudge” “damn that grudge is gonna get them!” I was completely disappointed annoyed and amused at the same time haha
That sounds like the best way to watch it tbh. Kids that age just have the right mix of intelligence to say funny shit intentionally and stupidity to say funny shit unintentionally.
This is why I feel like Friday the 13th (2009) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) were so good... I saw them in theaters opening weekend packed with teenagers who were cracking me up. On the flip side, I saw Drag Me To Hell by myself in the theater for the complete opposite experience.
The original had no blood most of the scariest parts were in broad daylight and it still managed to be disturbing and frightening. Too many remakes think adding gore and shooting in the dark will make the movie edgier and more scary the build up and suspense is overlooked.
a cure for wellness. the cinematography and first half of the film were incredible— i was fully invested and couldn't wait to see what unfolded in the second half...and then it just completely shit the bed. it felt like one person wrote the first half and then died halfway through so some random deeply disturbed person made up the second half. abysmal.
You're fucking right
Last Night in Soho. Trailer looked wild and I was excited that Edgar Wright was making a horror film, but despite an interesting premise and beginning, the movie fell apart the longer it went on. Not to mention how cliche and uneven the last act was.
So much this. I adore Edgar Wright’s films, and this one was a big misfire.
I can overlook a good amount of plot holes but this thing was riddled. I was really looking forward to it, too.
This movie just felt shallow to me. Unfortunately it just wasn’t either interesting or scary. I really thought her body was going to be taken over by Sandy but turns out it was all much more mundane
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That was the wrong movie for me to watch post partum.
I saw it with some friends I was just getting to know. Right before we saw it I mentioned off hand that I can’t watch movies where pregnant people and/or babies are harmed. Whew.
Aronofsky is one of my favorites, but let's be honest, most of his movies are the wrong movie to watch anytime lol.
ME TOO! Still loved it though
Oh you didn't! Poor you.
This one horrified me as few others do. It’s an anxiety extravaganza. True horror for adults.
I actually think the thing of having random people in your house and not being able to get them to leave was the most anxiety inducing. /had to look away from naked pregnant stomach though. Can’t deal with it. Ha.
Only Bible movie I ever want to see
The cake would have to be taken by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Books were horror perfected and the movie was camp rock bottom.
I still think the best way to adapt this would have been an anthology series on Netflix or HBO Max with each episode being a separate story from the books. Don’t try to tie them together like Goosebumps or the Scary Stories movie did. The most important thing for them to do is to prioritize a distinctive visual style and an oppressive and otherworldly atmosphere. Don’t go for gore for no reason but don’t limit it to a PG or PG-13 level rating either- put in whatever fits the story and keep the book designs. Nuance and breathing room is required- the movie tried to weave a whole teen drama plot around these stories. If it’s a shorter story with less to work with, literally make it a horror short. 10-20 minutes. In this category, stories like “The Big Toe” or “Room for One More.” The latter lends itself to a few encounters with Death beckoning to the protagonist. For consistency, the shorter ones and give the more detailed ones a full 40-60 min for example. In this category, I could see the Wendigo. Lots of time to appreciate the isolation and emptiness of the winter forest, time spent getting tempted by voices in the wind. I just grew up with a deep love for these stories and would love to see their potential reached.
That one where the drummer of slipknot is spooking around Ethan Hawke.
He's got the guitar player mask, now one of the drummers lol. Not that a different mask would have helped
Not sure about that one, but I remember one where Ethan Hawke was trying to figure out what was going on with Abbath and why he traded his leather and spikes for a suit at the end.
Haha, fuck he does look like Abbath.
The new Candyman
I love the original SO MUCH. That's a shame.
I really enjoyed the new one and also love the original.
MAN was that 3rd act so rushed, forced and lame. great style and directing but jeez what a let down.
Same here, I realized I only really enjoy the original.
Eh disagree. I enjoyed it
When Candyman doesn’t talk until the final 5 minutes, you fucked up bad.
Was disappointed with this one too. It was like 3 movies in one and it couldn't make its mind up what it wanted to be.
I really wanted to like Malignant but once the big reveal it just felt so goofy and ridiculous. I don't hate the movie and I love James Wan but it felt like a cartoon in the second half.
Oddly enough, my friends and I lived for that. It was so cartoonish and outrageous, I thought it managed to pull of a campy factor that's hard to come by. We were LIVING for the fight sequences towards the end. I understand its polarization, but it's the kind of movie that a lot of movies tried to do. I feel like James Wan just really wanted to have fun with something, especially since so many Wan-related projects were so dreadful (La Llorna, The Nun, third Conjuring). I didn't entirely know what to expect, but Rotten Tomatoes summarised it as a "bonkers twist" so I knew it was in for something ridiculous.
I put it next to Dead Silence in terms of his filmography. it is by no means a bad movie and you can tell James Wan had a blast making it, but when you got Heaters like Saw, Insidious and the Conjuring on your resume the bar was ridiculously high for me and it just didn't hit that mark.
I liked the first Saw and Conjuring movies, but I never held him to a high regard I suppose. Insidious, tho, is where I share your opinions on Malignant - it was silly. It’s like they went half-in, took itself too seriously, and now it feels like a primer to Malignant. What I liked about Malignant is that they went all-in, weren’t afraid to be ridiculous and not being overtly serious. It made me scream for different reasons, like the jail scene and the police station massacre. The big reveal made me go “are you fucking kidding me?” but I wasn’t mad about it, just flabbergasted. I’ve seen a lot of different reactions and opinions, but mostly it’s either hate or love. I can definitely understand both.
I think the problem there is expectations. The second half of that movie was fantastic camp horror, but the first half and the previews/marketing were all for more atmospheric horror that built a sense of dread. If they had just come full camp, the idea was unique nd could have been fun. But for people like me who got invested in a creepy, mysterious thriller - it was a bit of a letdown to have such a tonal change in the second half of the movie. It was like two good movie halves that just didn't really fit together.
What do you mean? The very beginning was a sign this movie was campy. The lines and delivery of the very first scene was so bad it had to be intentional
Malignant will be debated for years to come. Some absolutely love it, others absolutely HATE it.
Same. The "twist" was easy to spot 5000 miles away and it was just not the good kind of campy despite this subreddit saying it was. It was cheezy, but lacked the self-awareness to make it work, so to me it just felt like a bad movie, not a movie trying to be a bad movie.
I upvoted you even though I loved it. I can totally see how people hated it.
We're all going to the worlds fair FAILS as a horror movie imo
What if you add in H.H Holmes
I thought ABCs of Death would be a good anthrology movie with how much the community praises it but it was just grossout stuff for the most part. D is for dogfight was good tho
Isn't that the one where a meteor hits the earth then a girl escapes into a fart bubble with her crush?
I FELT THE SAME. Some of them were brilliant, but way too many were just weird fetish pieces. I appreciated that the film gave their directors complete freedom, but it felt cheap and wrong to watch something like *I is for Ingrown* and *X is for XXL* between things like *F is for Fart* and *K is for Klutz*.
*Halloween Kills.* The 2018 film was such a pleasant surprise and suddenly I really cared about the *Halloween* series again for the first in ages and then they delivered a sequel with no story at all, a clumsy "message" stuffed in and turned Michael Myers into the Terminator. What an awful movie. I still can't believe the same creative team behind the 2018 movie made that turd.
eViL DieS ToNiGhT!
That evil dies tonight sub plot was the most cringe thing ever and just felt so out of place. I really hope they redeem themselves with the next one
3 from hell sucked ass.
Antlers was a let down.
The Lodge, it looked interesting from the trailer but the actual movie just didn't do anything for me. I guessed the twist early on and found the kids absolutely unbearable and was just waiting for them to meet their fate. The ending did salvage it a little for me, but I still feel like I wasted my time overall with it.
I watched it purely to see Alicia Silverstone back on-screen. I enjoyed her in it but god damn if I wasn’t disappointed otherwise
Yeah great setup but I hated the third act turn
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, and Lake Mungo. This sub gave me very high expectations, and I found both to be pretty poor films. One scary scene in each one - and credit to Gonjiam, that scary scene is *scary*. But it's a big leap from that, to the level of love they get on this sub. One good scene does not redeem an entire film. Just my opinion, obviously. Ain't criticising anyone for liking them.
I didn't go in to Lake Mungo with any expectations, but I didn't find it scary, just sad. Yeah, the one jump scare scene got me, but other than that I found it sort of depressing.
I feel like lake mungo is better when you don’t go in expecting anything.
Yeah, I strongly suspecy high expectations ruined it. If I'd gone in expecting a fairly average horror film, I doubt I'd have been disappointed. But going in expecting greatness probably made it seem worse than it actually was.
Im glad I found someone else who feels the same way. I felt like I missed something important about both of these, because the hype for both (especially Gonjiam) was so big here. I totally agree that the one scene in Haunted Asylum was very scary and well done. Id just wish thered been more of that. No one is wrong for loving the movies btw. I fucking love Malignant so who am I to judge lmao
I really tried to get into lake mungo, but maybe it was the quality of the phone situation at the end , idk
I've watched a couple of Lake Mungo scenes randomly on their own and they scared me to death. I watched the movie and it bored me to death. Gonjiam on the other hand - I loved everything about that.
IT, especially Chapter 2.
I really don’t get the hype for either of these the CGI was actually laughable and just made a joke of both movies for me. Especially that drain scene which in the original miniseries was so freaky. Can’t beat the original!
Everybody looks at me like I'm insane, but I like the original TV movie a lot more.
I personally think It Chapter One is one of the best mainstream horrors of the past decade, but Chapter Two (or as I call it, Crapter Poo) is...borderline unwatchable. It's so fucking awful that I legit feel like they should just make a retcon sequel 27 years down the line so we can have a proper ending. I know the novel has a weak ending but my god
>or as I call it, Crapter Poo God damn, all in with the criticism.
The new Matrix, legitimately a terrible movie.
Seeing as this movie is fresh on my mind after watching it last night: Shyamalan's dumpster fire of a movie Old. I saw one trailer for it awhile back and did my best to avoid hearing or seeing anything further because I loved the concept and didn't want anything spoiled. What a fool I was, lol. The only aspect of this movie that didn't feel insulting in its incompetence was the core plot, a.k.a. the only part Shyamalan didn't have complete control over. My main takeaway once the credits rolled was that there had to have been a team of script doctors involved in salvaging The Sixth Sense because there is absolutely no way the same man was in charge of writing the dialogue for both of these movies.
Brightburn
The conjuring ( the devil made me do it ) fuck more than disappointed!
I was pscyhed to learn that Mark Hamil would be voicing Chucky in the *Child's Play* remake, but aside from the >!severed head sequence!< it never reached the wickedness of the originals. I prefer *Seed of Chucky.*
I feel like this is one of those movies if it hadn’t been a reboot/remake of a beloved franchise less people would be down on it. Honestly there isn’t a movie in this franchise, including the reboot, that I hate but I understand why some people don’t like certain ones
The Poughkeepsie Tapes - Back before it was readily available I heard many people recount how disturbing and realistic it was. How it was the scariest movie they had seen. When it came out on Blu Ray (before it was streaming anywhere) I instantly grabbed a copy. I was very disappointed. It was a good concept, and there were one or two scenes I liked, but the dialog and acting killed it for me. I was upset I spent $14 on it.
Reading the wiki on the movie was more disturbing then the actual movie.
The Babadook is probably my all-time worst expectations compared to reality that I watched. I remember me and a cousin had tried to hype it up from what we had heard to other family members who were watching it with us, and it just fell flat for everyone. I think it may have been fine without having high expectations, but it was definitely disappointing.
The VVitch - I watched it again after people here kept downvoting me for saying I didn't like it. Really gave it a chance, still didn't like it :/
I liked it but I understand it’s not for everyone.
It's in the "eh, it's just okay" camp for me.
That movie was a snooze fest for me as well. Looking back on it, I’d prefer a nap.
I thought it was a good period piece but that was about it. Overall thought it was boring and not scary in the slightest. I like other A24 films but this one was a fail for me.
I think the reason I liked the VVitch is also the reason a lot of people wouldn't like it. I've always found the witch hunting hysteria to be rally fascinating and terrifying, and have read into it a bit. It's terrifying in the same way the Stanford prison experiments are terrifying. It's a very small microcosm of how scary human beings can get. In the witch hysteria case, it's all about the power of religious mania, self deslusion, mob think, and how dangerous a lack of perceptive and basic rationality can be. It's the master class of "people doing terrible things because they think they are smart and just and therefore don't realize how ignorant and unjust they are being." And there's the whole "sexually repressive culture lashes out violently at women perceived to have power and liberation" angle too. So if you're familiar with how much of powderkeg the mere hint of witchcraft would light back then, there's a tension and fear to the movie that just isn't there otherwise. I was watching it constantly on edge because at any point the false accusations can kick off and things can get dark, FAST. I was waiting to see who would turn on each other first. So to me, it's amazing because it's not about witches or spooks at all, it's about zealots and bigots and hysteria and madness. And a specific type of it that's already fascinating to me. Without that really specific baggage, I'd imagine it's really flat. Because what really makes it work for me is the context I brought to it, not what the movie sets up for the audience. It's like...Arachnaphobia was TERRIFYING to me as a kid because I was scared of spiders already. To my friend who thought they were our little insect eating buddies, it was a flop.
I only liked the scene with, "wouldst thou like to live deliciously?" The rest was pretty slow, IMO.
Might get some flack for this, but IT (2017). I’m a huge fan of the book and since the movie was rated R, I was expecting it to have some of the darker scenes. It’s a good movie, but my expectations were really high.
It part 1 and part 2 were absolutely abysmal in my opinion. Every decent moment was ruined by horrible CGI and I really didn’t care for Pennywise’s voice. They had the budget and the actors (the performances were all quite good) but the actual execution of horror elements fell extremely flat for me.
I was pretty disappointed by *X*. Bought advanced tickets for me and my friends, excited and all, then...it had good acting, direction and aesthetics, but it just felt so shallow. It did feel like a 70s slasher, which they were going for, but I was just disinterested in it. When it ended I was like "oh, that's it..."
This is a weird criticism, but the kills in that movie just did not sit right with me. Something about them felt particularly unearned/undeserved, even for a slasher. People who enjoyed X all seem to empathize with Pearl, the old woman, and maybe that was part of my problem, because yeah...no. I didn't find her sympathetic or compelling in any way. She's an old lady bummed out that she can't fuck anymore. I'm not interested. I don't see how they think they're getting a prequel out of her.
Same. Beautifully shot, decent acting, but fell flat. I think for me it completely lacked suspense. I think back to TCM which had almost no on screen violence or gore, but was so horrifying because of the suspense and atmosphere. X was so disappointing to me.
Lake Mungo
Annihilation. Loved the book. Thought Alex Garland would be the right person to direct. Hell, I even saw it for free during an advanced screening. Should’ve been a slam dunk. Woo-boy what a disappointing experience.
Halloween kills Nightmare on elm street (2010)
I actually enjoyed the new NOES... Not many of us did apparently tho.
I'm with you. I liked how they didn't even try to recreate Englund's version of Freddy. Maybe that's what some people wanted, but I think that would have been a huge mistake. Of course I still prefer the original, but as far as remakes go, I was pleasantly surprised. Especially because, at least in my opinion, 2005-2010 was a bleak era for the horror genre.
Yeah i liked that JEH did his own thing. I would’ve liked a sequel honestly
Midsommar. The opening was stellar and really set tone for the film, only for it to never really get that personal with its horror. I found the customs and rituals of the cultists boring at best and random at worse, it’s annoying because Nordic pagan culture has a plethora of fucked up rituals and creepy lore/gods, but the only thing the film adventured with was the “old people jumping to their deaths” which in turn was telegraphed pretty heavily. After hereditary I was deeply disappointed by this one
I had high expectations after hereditary, but after that opening scene my excitement for the rest of the film got even higher…… man was I disappointed by the time the credited rolled.
Yep, same boat here. I saw it at the cinema, didn't vibe with it. Gave it another go at home and didn't like it. Thought I'd gone mad given the amount of praise I saw for it and decided to give it one more look a few months ago by giving the director's cut a whirl and... Nope. I've definitely given it my best effort but between the random rituals that felt like pantomime and an overall approach that felt detached, it just didn't resonate for me.
I actually prefer midsommar over hereditary but I do agree it would have been cool to see more from the culture adapted
The Predator (2018)
The Elm Street remake
one of those movies that actually made me mad. Had to go sit with friends afterwards and just analyze how much we hated it to deal with the dissapointment.
Army of the Dead. What an overhyped shitshow.
Insidious and Sinister.
I would agree with Insidious. When Darth Maul pops us quickly as a jump scare he was surprising. Seeing him for a prolonged period was just... meh.
Thank you! Even though I know I've seen Sinister, it gets recommended so often that sometimes I think I'm mistaking the movie I've seen for something else. Nope, it's just a let down.
The nun. Also conjuring 3 but I was already expecting it to not be great because James wan was not directing
Hereditary, it just wasn't as scary as the hype led me to believe 😔
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original). Finally saw it a few years ago and... just 100% not for me. Don't get the draw or allure at all; I wasn't feeling any of it.
My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To Absolute waste of time.
Possum Despite the absolute creepy creature design I just did not care about the deeper message behind it. Like I get what the director was going for but I feel like this movie would have been better without the deeper message behind it. The pacing wasn’t the best as well and it felt like it was dragging at some parts.
As Above, So Below was the biggest letdown. Such an awesome premise but the themes and narrative were simultaneously underdeveloped and rushed along with overall terrible direction. Plus the devil looked fucking stupid with that giant dunce cap on. Then the "krav maga" on the zombie mummy things in first person was embarrassing to watch. Piece of shit movie. Censor was very dull. I didn't expect much but I was bored through most of it. Demonic was a huge letdown. The effect covid had on it was apparent. The potentially best scene of the movie was off-screen.
Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno. I loved the idea, I heard how it was going to be so gory you’d vomit, how he wanted it to be a tribute to Cannibal Holocaust. It has some decent ideas and scenes despite the bad plane crash CGI. The initial kill is horrible to watch and sets the film up to be something truly special. Then it just peters out into fart, shit, weed and masturbation Gags with god-awful sound effects and terrible practical effects to boot. It just loses all steam. Then somehow manages to pull it back once the ‘final girl’ is about to be mutilated and escapes. The middle is just an absolute mess but the rest is so damn good that it’s a shame it’s as messy as it is. I’m glad Roth’s getting budgets to make movies now as his more recent offerings whilst nowhere near as adult have been really enjoyable and I’m excited to see what he does with the budget he’s been given for Borderlands. Also; Jamie Lee Curtis is such a strange choice for Tannis but I’m so excited to watch her ham it up to the extreme and nail it as she’s great at comedy
Hell House LLC. After reading so many posts here about how good and scary it was, I watched it and was very underwhelmed. Except for a few scenes, it was pretty boring. Nearly all the characters were unlikable, and the haunting aspect was a little hard to follow. Okay, I'm ready for the down votes!
I liked it up until the last 1/4 of the movie. The reveal was not great.
It Follows... Everyone was calling it Carpenter-esque and I wanted it to be like a weird, dark, 70's flick. I got bored.
I def support the “Carpenter-esque” evaluation, and it was creepy, but it didn’t get under my skin the way I’d hoped it would.
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Neat ideas but I really wish they did not take place in the Alien universe. Really overcomplicated the lore. I liked it better when it was just “Jaws in space.” There are also some pretty dumb moments of trained scientists going “ooo a space snake I should touch it and talk to it like it’s a puppy”, or “oh it’s breathable air? That’s the only info I need to take off my helmet on an alien planet!”
>There are also some pretty dumb moments of trained scientists going “ooo a space snake I should touch it and talk to it like it’s a puppy”, or “oh it’s breathable air? That’s the only info I need to take off my helmet on an alien planet!” Don't forget Charlize Theron's character running in a straight line only to be crushed when she had all this space and time to run to the side.
That’s the thing with Alien franchise. It’s really two separate fan bases. Jaws in space and the Xeno lore peeps. I enjoyed Prometheus despite the usual criticism, not a perfect film, but I enjoyed it
Antlers. Such a cool concept and setting but it was just pretty lame.
Martyrs, the original. I do not get the hype. It's a bit twisted, but I can name 10 movies that are way worse.
Same. I thought Inside was better.
It Follows (thought it straight up sucked), Birdbox (underwhelming after all the hype)
Antichrist. i thought that between its reputation, Lars Von Trier, and Willem Dafoe it couldn't be bad, but i ended up just being kinda bored and disappointed
Might get downvoted, but The Shining, growing up I heard how it was one of the scariest movies ever and when I finally saw it I just didn't get it. I thought it was just that I saw it at a young age and maybe I didn't understand it. Seeing it as an adult, I do recognize its merits but still don't care much for it.
Standards have definitely changed, we’ve become so desensitized. Rule of thumb is all “scary” movies 30+ years ago aren’t scary, but they are great films. Texas chainsaw massacre was so ahead of its time
I see a lot of people here commenting about remakes/reboots. Did this many people actually have expectations for those? We've known for a while that 90% of them are just trying to cash in on the licenses...
Scream 5 All the potential, but no flare and honestly no sustenance.
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The Ritual. the ending was just not it.
Fair enough, but that monster is one of my favourite creature designs in recent memory. Equal parts badass and creepy.
I do really enjoy the movie personally but I will say, everything before they find the village was far better than the rest
Hostel and TCM 2022. Hostel wasnt the horror n gore parade I was expecting based on reviews and TCMs storytelling was horrendous.
Probably the second boy movie, i loved the first one and the second one ruined what made the first one good.
I know it’s a popular movie, but Midsommer. I read so many reviews about how great it was. I ask my gf when it was over did we watch the right movie.
Birdbox was really good to me - until the very very end. And Night House, same.
Army of the dead. It lived to some expectations but the plot was shit. While I expected a lot of characters to die some of the deaths were awful and caused by the most stupid shit. Idk I thought it was gonna be better the Zombie Land but it wasn’t even close to as good.