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Post by novastar6 on Jan 19, 2022 18:39:51 GMT
The crappy dark/dreary/gray digital coloring. Give it a rest already, give us the living color we had in the 70s/80s originals, that actually looks like real life because it WAS real life.
What's with all these TVs having snow static on them before the ghosts pop up on them? When was the last time you even saw static on a TV screen? Me I think that was about 1999 when we still 'had' those adult channels you had to try watching a porno through all the lines and snow. These days all you'd get is a blue/black screen and a notice that the signal is interrupted.
What's with every single demon/ghost/evil entity feeding on your pain? Always got to be somebody with a tragic backstory. How about just rounding up random strangers to pick off again like House on haunted Hill?
Tired of the summary involving everybody who's tried to bury painful memories stemming back to unsolved mysteries from their childhood home. Gotta go back and face what you ran away from 10-20 years ago, why? Just why? Clearly today's horror movie ghosts don't follow the rule of unfinished business, so what's the point?
For that matter, are there any movies where a ghost is actually defeated? I know it's a very popular thing in horror movies but I'm really sick to death of you think the evil is defeated, it's over, everybody can breathe, and then the same old shit just starts up again. It's not even like the Freddy-mobile or Jason popping up out of the water, just the exact same shit that's already been going on for 90 minutes starting all over again.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 19, 2022 18:43:55 GMT
Houses built on old burial grounds / cemeteries with bodies fresh enough to get up and attack when disturbed.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 19, 2022 20:22:40 GMT
Anything involving a medicine cabinet. There's the obvious jump scare where something is behind them in the mirror when they close it, but even the "subversion" where they shut it and nothing is behind them is tired. Just ban medicine cabinets from horror movies.
Also, movie-within-movie and dream-within-dream fakeouts haven't been very surprising in about 30 years.
The absolute biggest is the "protagonist was just crazy the whole time" twist. I like Fight Club as much as the next guy, but please stop shoving it into horror movies. When it's not making the entire movie pointless (Identity, The Ward) it's plain unnecessary (Haute Tension).
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 19, 2022 20:47:56 GMT
Slow tracking shots in tight quarters.
The thing in the shadow not being there when you turn the light on.
'Ramped up' and 'strobey' editing.
Quiet, quiet, LOUD sound design.
I guess what I'm saying is: Everything James Wan does.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Jan 19, 2022 21:50:28 GMT
They need to realize that NOT actually showing the gore is often more scary than bathing the screen with it.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 20, 2022 4:12:41 GMT
They need to realize that NOT actually showing the gore is often more scary than bathing the screen with it.
Agreed but at the same time I'm sick to death of these vague figures that skitter across the screen only faintly visible.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 23, 2022 14:27:36 GMT
I'm also sick of the 'let's take a break from being chased and terrorized to talk about our relationship and how much we still love each other' bullshit.
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Post by phantomparticle on Jan 26, 2022 22:54:45 GMT
Endless repetition of scenes that build tension without a payoff every ten minutes for the entire movie.
They are nothing but time fillers until we get to end that isn't an end because we know the monster/madman/whatever is coming back in the next repetitious installment.
The entire zombie/vampire cycle; an endless soap opera of the undead that turns the glassy-eyed audience into the undead.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 27, 2022 17:54:41 GMT
Endless repetition of scenes that build tension without a payoff every ten minutes for the entire movie.They are nothing but time fillers until we get to end that isn't an end because we know the monster/madman/whatever is coming back in the next repetitious installment. The entire zombie/vampire cycle; an endless soap opera of the undead that turns the glassy-eyed audience into the undead.
I think I get what you're talking about but just to be clear, how about an example?
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Post by phantomparticle on Jan 27, 2022 19:39:34 GMT
about an hour ago novastar6 said:
Most of the teenage movies and holiday horror films employ the technique. The Halloween cycle, for example, when Michael moves in for the kill, suddenly stops and goes away, then returns after a brief scene between other characters to repeat the action once more. Once or twice is frightening. To repeat it throughout the movie is tedious because the writer is creating stick figures whose only function is to look scared and get slaughtered every 20 minutes.
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 27, 2022 20:06:07 GMT
about an hour ago novastar6 said: Most of the teenage movies and holiday horror films employ the technique. The Halloween cycle, for example, when Michael moves in for the kill, suddenly stops and goes away, then returns after a brief scene between other characters to repeat the action once more. Once or twice is frightening. To repeat it throughout the movie is tedious because the writer is creating stick figures whose only function is to look scared and get slaughtered every 20 minutes.
I was thinking of something else, like the remake of When a Stranger Calls, HOW many times did the stupid babysitter go lurking through the 3 mile long creepy house and you THINK there's gonna be something around every corner? Original did it one time, and it was the icemaker. Then the calls start coming in, which we KNOW mean there's trouble.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Jan 28, 2022 2:04:20 GMT
I feel like the claim "based on a true story" has been made a thousand times by modern horror movies.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 2, 2022 14:33:07 GMT
Bone cracking sounds and body twisting scenes, it's not shocking anymore, it's expected.
Oh, and when the fuck did Amityville become a generic word to slap on ANYTHING horror? Amityville Scarecrow, Amityville Uprising, all of which have NOTHING to do with the house with a face, what the hell?
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Post by nicktatler76 on Feb 3, 2022 13:28:40 GMT
Not specifically a horror thing, but the insistence on calling everything a 'universe', even if there are only two tenuously connected films.
Halloween 3 wasn't classed as part of the 'Myersverse'
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Post by forca84 on Feb 5, 2022 3:42:40 GMT
Killing Pets... Often very graphically. Many times it's just put in for easy shock value and does nothing for the plot... 90% of the time an adorable Cat etc. shows up it's probably toast. It's my pet peeve. (No pun intended.)
Don't get me started on those crappy vintage Cannibal movies where they killed or threw a live animal to a Predator to be shocking for a damn movie...
And while we're at it... Kids often being untouchable in horror movies... Oh no! Not Suzy Gumdrop or Petey! Don't worry... The annoying Cherubic kid will live. Often leading to the awful deaths of Friends or Family.
But once in awhile a movie will have the balls to kill a kid off...
I'm just saying! Raise the stakes...
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Post by forca84 on Feb 7, 2022 17:57:44 GMT
Bone cracking sounds and body twisting scenes, it's not shocking anymore, it's expected. Oh, and when the fuck did Amityville become a generic word to slap on ANYTHING horror? Amityville Scarecrow, Amityville Uprising, all of which have NOTHING to do with the house with a face, what the hell? Just an easy title to Piggyback off of and use... There has to be a ton of "Amityville" titles that have nothing to do with the original movie now... |
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 7, 2022 18:37:26 GMT
Killing Pets... Often very graphically. Many times it's just put in for easy shock value and does nothing for the plot... 90% of the time an adorable Cat etc. shows up it's probably toast. It's my pet peeve. (No pun intended.) Don't get me started on those crappy vintage Cannibal movies where they killed or threw a live animal to a Predator to be shocking for a damn movie...
And while we're at it... Kids often being untouchable in horror movies... Oh no! Not Suzy Gumdrop or Petey! Don't worry... The annoying Cherubic kid will live. Often leading to the awful deaths of Friends or Family. But once in awhile a movie will have the balls to kill a kid off... I'm just saying! Raise the stakes...
Innocent kids are one thing, but evil killer kids ALWAYS survive, Damien, Rosemary's Baby, that's why I was surprised by the ending of It's Alive. You just KNOW for 90 minutes of the dad saying he wants to be the one to kill it, in the end he won't have the guts.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 22, 2023 13:43:42 GMT
The much over-used cat jump scare!   |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 22, 2023 14:24:11 GMT
Toxic waste and/or meteorites turning animals into monstrous killers.
At least they've changed it to cocaine nowadays, but of course that idea will get tiresome soon if it hasn't already.
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Post by theravenking on Oct 23, 2023 10:35:53 GMT
Characters ending up in an insane asylum in the sequel, because they're either traumatised by the events of the first movie or no one believes them when they talk about the monsters, ghosts etc they've encountered.
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