Do you think horror movies kinda suck mostly?

[Lil Ghork]

What's the point of a horror movie if a whole 20 minutes of it has any action, and it's 2 hours long?

Some horror movies are cool and keep it level creepy all the time which I like, but I feel like ALL horror movies, ESPECIALLY those with jumpscares would make good use of a 20 minute runtime. I mean, if you don't depend on a creepy atmosphere instead of basic jumpscares that are more annoying than scary and always an ear smashing 150+ dB, what's the point?

Make me care about the world, keep the atmosphere terrible, that's it. I've NEVER been immersed in a horror movie because they just DRAG ON and are SO BORING.

I've played third person shooters that are much gorier than a modern horror, even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Mafia 3 has more gore and fun action than basically all horror movies I've seen combined.

28 Days Later was A LOT OF FUN TO WATCH but for the life of me I can't imagine why you'd watch those boring as heck, predictable, cliche modern ones. Every movie should try to be like that and make me give half a crap.

[Shiro♌]

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The THING ( 80s) and ALIEN are probably my favourite. its a mix of my fav two genres, sci fi and horror.

Yeah. Xenomorph.
I like that too.. But, is gonna space genre really fit?

I'd say, it could fit very well - We already got Hawkins National Laboratory, so..
But, the biggie is, what gender is our Xenomorph gonna be? She or he?
Well, not really.

The issue is his or her power - Like, what?
Mori is easy, but should be voted by the community - If we want the babies to take care of it, or if we wanna have his or her tail get through survivors' head.

The Queen, as we can see in the end, could be either a part of her or his power, or just a skin.
Naturally, the skin couldn't make the hitbox's bigger, as it may be seen as a P2W skin, or P2L skin. Dependable on whether the survivors find themselves easily escaping the chases.

Another thing could be jumping to the top and traversing upside down to get to the second floors. It could save a tons of minutes during the matches of Coldwind Farm's Thompson's House, but would a major role during every single match in Gideon's Meat Plant, The Game.

Then again, it could be too much work for too small reward - From the Developers' point of view.
It's a pity, to be honest.
Teenagers nowadays don't know about Ripley's adventures and Xenomorphs. They know about Five Nights At Freddy's, as it isn't really such a horror (No blood, or is there? Well, in comparison with the other options... There really isn't any, I guess.), so the parents do approve it, whereas they disagree with buying some real horror slashers with tons of blood, including violence, drugs, and tons of such stuff.

So, yeah.
Despite the fact, a lot of adulthoods have a great and nice memories from watching Ripley's adventures, the majority probably doesn't, and won't share the same interest, which leads to a failure and a following disagreement of getting Xenomorph into Dead by Dayilght.

[Badman]

One movie slasher about killers like dbd is "the furies" no is bad, normal, the kilers custom is nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwNFNNNTC0

[Lord Cyphre]

Początkowo opublikowane przez 𝓖⛤𝓻𝓮:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Lord Cyphre:

So there can never be anything excessive in entertainment media because they're just that, entertainhment?
I'm not quite sure what you want to say.

I'd say things can be overused in movies. Gore can. And it may reach a point where it is a little excessive

it's just a movie, everything is fake. all the blood , the guts and the murders it's all fake so how can it ever be excessive? a movie can have a lot of gore and still have a good story and atmosphere. of course if it's a movie with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ story then it's a ♥♥♥♥ movie nobody cares about. if you think (for example) that saw is too excessive in terms of gore for your tastes that's fine, but that doesn't mean that saw is a bad movie for overusing gore as long it has a good story behind it. what's "excessive" for you it's not excessive for everybody else.

So by that logic nothing can ever be overused and we can't criticize entertainment media because they're jzust sntertainment and our oppinions are different? This argument alsl just seems very nonsensical to me. If you like gore in a movie that'S fine, I do too, I just don't get why you're so defensive about it.

I think the first SAW movie is great but the sequelks are very meh, because the story isn't really all that good and stupid and they're just padded with needless violence. Like I said I don't mind gory movies at all, "Inside/À l'interieur" is one of my alltime favourite horror movie. It is one of the goriest movies I've seen and truly effed up.
But back to SAW. take away the groe from the sequels and they're pretty boring and bland. Look at movies such as Halloween, Let the right one in, Sleep tight or Alien , take away anything that might classifgy as gore and you still have a thrilling experience.

[Capn J]

Check this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOU3m_tHtQ

[TheMetalCorpser]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ozone:

Maybe. I mean I wouldn't say horror isnt exactly my thing, I'm just picky, desensitized and easily bored. I wanna get scared and feel unnerved, but a lot of these movies just come off as silly or boring.

Dont get me wrong I liked Saw, just not for the horror/terror aspect. I mean the shaking camera and pig jumping out and roaring at the camera was more annoying than anything else. It hit an OK mark with being gross, like when Lawrence cut off his own foot, the needle pit or that ring trap from Saw 3, but overall I found myself entertained by the drama over any attempt at being scary.

The thing is almost every type of horror design has been done by now. I prefer to enjoy horror films by the characters, setting, and story. Fear and being scared ain't a thing I'm looking for in movies since nothing really scares/frightens me.

Yeah but those moments were few and far between. Saw is a torture/gore porn franchise over horror.

[Enk Patana]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Lord Cyphre:

Początkowo opublikowane przez 𝓖⛤𝓻𝓮:

it's just a movie, everything is fake. all the blood , the guts and the murders it's all fake so how can it ever be excessive? a movie can have a lot of gore and still have a good story and atmosphere. of course if it's a movie with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ story then it's a ♥♥♥♥ movie nobody cares about. if you think (for example) that saw is too excessive in terms of gore for your tastes that's fine, but that doesn't mean that saw is a bad movie for overusing gore as long it has a good story behind it. what's "excessive" for you it's not excessive for everybody else.

So by that logic nothing can ever be overused and we can't criticize entertainment media because they're jzust sntertainment and our oppinions are different? This argument alsl just seems very nonsensical to me. If you like gore in a movie that'S fine, I do too, I just don't get why you're so defensive about it.

I think the first SAW movie is great but the sequelks are very meh, because the story isn't really all that good and stupid and they're just padded with needless violence. Like I said I don't mind gory movies at all, "Inside/À l'interieur" is one of my alltime favourite horror movie. It is one of the goriest movies I've seen and truly effed up.
But back to SAW. take away the groe from the sequels and they're pretty boring and bland. Look at movies such as Halloween, Let the right one in, Sleep tight or Alien , take away anything that might classifgy as gore and you still have a thrilling experience.

as i said a good horror movie is a combination of things. you can't take in consideration only one part of it, it makes no sense. an horror movie can have less gore but if it has an incredible story then it's still a good movie. also about the saw series, there is a timeline connections between the events and they all have pretty good stories, then you might prefer saw 1 but i prefer saw 2. that's subjective. i do believe that gore is an important part for an horror movie, it doesn't make the movie good by itself but it's an additional component that makes it better, that's all.

[Ozone]

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Początkowo opublikowane przez Ozone:

Maybe. I mean I wouldn't say horror isnt exactly my thing, I'm just picky, desensitized and easily bored. I wanna get scared and feel unnerved, but a lot of these movies just come off as silly or boring.

Dont get me wrong I liked Saw, just not for the horror/terror aspect. I mean the shaking camera and pig jumping out and roaring at the camera was more annoying than anything else. It hit an OK mark with being gross, like when Lawrence cut off his own foot, the needle pit or that ring trap from Saw 3, but overall I found myself entertained by the drama over any attempt at being scary.

The thing is almost every type of horror design has been done by now. I prefer to enjoy horror films by the characters, setting, and story. Fear and being scared ain't a thing I'm looking for in movies since nothing really scares/frightens me.

Yeah but those moments were few and far between. Saw is a torture/gore porn franchise over horror.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't gore/torture fall under the "horror" category? Bit of a broad term.

[Lord Cyphre]

Początkowo opublikowane przez 𝓖⛤𝓻𝓮:

as i said a good horror movie is a combination of things. you can't take in consideration only one part of it, it makes no sense. an horror movie can have less gore but if it has an incredible story then it's still a good movie. also about the saw series, there is a timeline connections between the events and they all have pretty good stories, then you might prefer saw 1 but i prefer saw 2. that's subjective. i do believe that gore is an important part for an horror movie, it doesn't make the movie good by itself but it's an additional component that makes it better, that's all.

A good horror movie dowsn't need gore. Case in point: Halloween.
Too many horror movies just focus on shock value throughe excessive use of gore and forget to have any good story and characters is what I'm saying. That's just what I'm thinking. These movies are pretty dull and bad.

Overall I think we do agree that a good horror movie needs mopre than just gore, a combination of things as you put it but that a bit of gore can spice up things.

[Medusahead]

The only horror film I ever found scary as an adult was The Thing. If you watch it you'll understand why. Really you need to look for some good horror movies without the trashy elements and overly used jumpscares you find these days. Stuff like The Shining or Silence of The Lambs are just a couple of examples that come to mind of great films even without the horror elements. If you're in it just to have a laugh there's stuff like Evil Dead or Shaun of The Dead.

[Shiro♌]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Medusahead:

The only horror film I ever found scary as an adult was The Thing. If you watch it you'll understand why.

Have you seen They? A horror from 2002 USA.
I've found that one to be a bit more focused towards psychology, but it was still scary.

I may give it a try, thanks for the tip!

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One movie slasher about killers like dbd is "the furies" no is bad, normal, the kilers custom is nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwNFNNNTC0

Thanks! I'll make sure to check this one out!

[Medusahead]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Shiro♌:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Medusahead:

The only horror film I ever found scary as an adult was The Thing. If you watch it you'll understand why.

Have you seen They? A horror from 2002 USA.
I've found that one to be a bit more focused towards psychology, but it was still scary.

I may give it a try, thanks for the tip!

Początkowo opublikowane przez Ritual:

One movie slasher about killers like dbd is "the furies" no is bad, normal, the kilers custom is nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwNFNNNTC0

Thanks! I'll make sure to check this one out!

Oh yeah, if you like psychological horror films check the babadook. It was something I watched for the hell of it but turned out to be really good.

[Lord Cyphre]

Talking about psychological horror movies?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKGPMne0IZ0

Check that one out, it's such a gem.

[GUY]

i think your momma does

[Spinostafrikanotosuchuonymimus]

Not at all. Summer of '84, The Invisible Man, and Hush are recent horror movies and they're all amazing. People just like saying stuff like this because of some weird "born in the wrong generation" complex many have. And let's be honest, many(not all) horror movies up until the 90s were pretty hokey and cheesy.

[Ozone]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Spinostafrikanotosuchuonymimus:

Not at all. Summer of '84, The Invisible Man, and Hush are recent horror movies and they're all amazing. People just like saying stuff like this because of some weird "born in the wrong generation" complex many have. And let's be honest, many(not all) horror movies up until the 90s were pretty hokey and cheesy.

I mean we see em as hokey and cheesy now due to dated special effects and themes. Back then we didn't have anything to compare them to so they were cool. They just didn't age well.

I agree though. Like it may have been popular but Halloween for example was just a ♥♥♥♥ movie imo, even for it's time. There were some real stinkers if you can just take off the nostalgia glasses