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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 8, 2023 1:04:18 GMT
We need more History of the Occult in the world, and less A24. I'm not saying A24 horror movies, just A24 in general
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Post by countjohn on Nov 8, 2023 4:47:20 GMT
We need more History of the Occult in the world, and less A24. I'm not saying A24 horror movies, just A24 in general A24 is the millennial and zoomer equivalent of middlebrow boomer Oscar bait.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Nov 8, 2023 14:24:01 GMT
Because, for the most part, it is shit! Believe me, I'm trying everything in the English language that even seems remotely interesting! I truly mean everything. My little notepad app you would have to scroll for a good minute to get from first to last of the horror films I've seen in the past two-ish years.
My absolute biggest gripe with modern horror is that it isn't scary. It tells you it's scary, it wants you to believe it's scary, it'll add some word-of-the-moment catch phrase to try and be relevant and scary... but it's not scary! We've come to a situation where we are to fear what the killer represents, as opposed to what the killer is RIGHT FUCKING NOW ABOUT TO DO TO THE CHARACTERS! I mean, horror film characters in general are a bunch of walking cliches and have about 30 brain cells combined, but lately that number has decreased. What once was me rolling my eyes to a characters' actions has devolved into me cradling my forehead thinking how anyone can be this absolutely stupid. It's not even like I'm trying to envision a horror movie filled with John Wicks, but some sort of situational awareness would be nice!
"We have to help him/her/them!" immediately makes me sink in my chair and go "ughhhhh" because I know whoever uttered it will live, but the person helping the utterer will die... and at least half the time the person being helped will be a bad guy (this is nothing new, but I see it a lot more now). I could go on and on and on and on and on, but I don't want to be an A24 horror film...
BUT THERE ARE GOOD RECENT HORRORS! I would never have seen Coherence, Triangle, Spontaneous (wait a minute, I TOLD YOU ALL TO WATCH THAT ONE!) without doing what I do and endlessly watch this crappy genre.
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