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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2020 5:58:43 GMT
Like Poltergeist or The Shining, or Psycho before it. Or the classic ones like Dracula and Frankenstein before that. Of course those are all very different movies but you know what I mean. I don't think there's been a good "must see" horror movie made since before I was born. Not that they were ever abundant necessarily. But seems like there should've been a few since then. Now it seems to all be super demented ultra-violent stuff made for hardcore genre fans.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Oct 9, 2020 6:04:57 GMT
Have you seen The Babadook?
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Post by kolchak92 on Oct 9, 2020 6:06:36 GMT
Have you seen The Babadook? That was such a good movie.
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Post by onethreetwo on Oct 9, 2020 6:39:38 GMT
Blumhouse is making high production value non offensive popcorn horror and I really love it. You really should jump on the bandwagon. Truth or Dare, Happy Death Day, Black Christmas, and Fantasy Island. All totally watchable, formulatic but fun, horror movies.
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Post by sostie on Oct 9, 2020 9:56:30 GMT
I don't think there's been a good "must see" horror movie made since before I was born. Not that they were ever abundant necessarily. But seems like there should've been a few since then. Now it seems to all be super demented ultra-violent stuff made for hardcore genre fans. Well assuming you were born before 1999, The Sixth Sense springs to mind, which was both a mainstream picture and one which really grabbed the public's attention. Over the last few decades there have been many, many must see horror films - they may not be wide release, high profile or even in the English language but it's out there.
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Post by janntosh on Oct 9, 2020 10:40:45 GMT
Blumhouse is making high production value non offensive popcorn horror and I really love it. You really should jump on the bandwagon. Truth or Dare, Happy Death Day, Black Christmas, and Fantasy Island. All totally watchable, formulatic but fun, horror movies. Blumhouse movies tend to be everything wrong with horror movies today |
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Post by sostie on Oct 9, 2020 10:57:58 GMT
Blumhouse is making high production value non offensive popcorn horror and I really love it. You really should jump on the bandwagon. Truth or Dare, Happy Death Day, Black Christmas, and Fantasy Island. All totally watchable, formulatic but fun, horror movies. Blumhouse movies tend to be everything wrong with horror movies today Out of interest, what would that be exactly.
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Post by Vits on Oct 9, 2020 14:49:13 GMT
Did you see THE INVISIBLE MAN? Even if you personally didn't like it, most critics and moviegoers considered it to be good. Have you seen The Babadook? That's not mainstream, though. |
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Post by spooner5020 on Oct 9, 2020 17:09:53 GMT
Blumhouse is making high production value non offensive popcorn horror and I really love it. You really should jump on the bandwagon. Truth or Dare, Happy Death Day, Black Christmas, and Fantasy Island. All totally watchable, formulatic but fun, horror movies. You’re kidding about Black Christmas right? Fantasy Island I can understand, but Black Christmas ruined the name. |
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Post by kolchak92 on Oct 9, 2020 17:16:48 GMT
Blumhouse is making high production value non offensive popcorn horror and I really love it. You really should jump on the bandwagon. Truth or Dare, Happy Death Day, Black Christmas, and Fantasy Island. All totally watchable, formulatic but fun, horror movies. You’re kidding about Black Christmas right? Fantasy Island I can understand, but Black Christmas ruined the name. Just to be clear, you're not talking about the 2006 Black Christmas, correct?
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Post by shannondegroot on Oct 9, 2020 17:40:22 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Oct 9, 2020 17:52:41 GMT
They still exist. I loved the Conjuring 1 and 2. And the Invisible Man was far better than it had any right to be.
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Post by johnspartan on Oct 9, 2020 18:01:16 GMT
Like Poltergeist or The Shining, or Psycho before it. Or the classic ones like Dracula and Frankenstein before that. Of course those are all very different movies but you know what I mean. I don't think there's been a good "must see" horror movie made since before I was born. Not that they were ever abundant necessarily. But seems like there should've been a few since then. Now it seems to all be super demented ultra-violent stuff made for hardcore genre fans. This is a great question. The last big one I recall was the Grudge movies, which is Eastern influenced. All the ones you mentioned are geared toward Western society. It seems Hollyweird doesn't make big Western society influenced horror anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2020 18:09:29 GMT
Have you seen The Babadook? Never heard of it. |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 9, 2020 18:15:09 GMT
Well there was "It" (2017) which became the highest grossing rated R film.
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Post by spooner5020 on Oct 9, 2020 18:19:02 GMT
You’re kidding about Black Christmas right? Fantasy Island I can understand, but Black Christmas ruined the name. Just to be clear, you're not talking about the 2006 Black Christmas, correct? The 2019 Black Christmas. The 2006 remake was fun, but the recent remake sucked ass!!! |
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Post by Marv on Oct 9, 2020 18:44:49 GMT
James Wan has been putting out good mainstream horror movies for a decade now.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 9, 2020 18:51:36 GMT
It's the same with horror books. What happened to horror as a best-selling genre? It is now considered the least marketable one.
That's why there's no new writers after Stephen King--and the vampires sparkle and attend prom dances.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Oct 9, 2020 19:01:49 GMT
It's the same with horror books. What happened to horror as a best-selling genre? It is now considered the least marketable one. That's why there's no new writers after Stephen King--and the vampires sparkle and attend prom dances. I was gonna say Dean Koontz, but actually he debuted before King. I suppose you could argue RL Stine, but his stuff was mostly aimed towards kids/teens.
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Post by Reynard on Oct 9, 2020 19:25:22 GMT
The Ring, Signs, Paranormal Activity and Insidious were all big hits. Also the "torture porn" genre already went out of fashion years ago while supernatural horror has made a big comeback. Horror is definitely doing much better now than it did in the 90s.
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