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| 5 Simple Ways To Make Horror Movies Stop Sucking; From Cracked.com | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 19 2015, 11:28 AM (187 Views) | |
| Kevin R. | Jun 19 2015, 11:28 AM Post #1 |
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Another day, another rant about the state of horror movies today, this one from David Christopher Bell at Cracked. And like most of them, it's a lot of truth mixed with a lot of bullshit. Going down the list...
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| Repo | Jun 19 2015, 11:37 AM Post #2 |
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I really don't have too many positive things to say about the article, beyond the fact that I agree music is key. Fitting in subtext isn't bad either if done well, but it isn't key to making a great horror film (Suspiria, anyone?) |
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| Smeagollum | Jun 19 2015, 11:56 AM Post #3 |
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I haven't really been back to Cracked after the article that said it was sexist to refer to women's vaginas as flowery and delicate and that it would be better to instead refer to them as iron boxes. One thing I'd definitely agree with is the point about non-horror directors. Case in point, Kubrick and The Shining. And, as always, fuck "real horror" fans and their undying Scream hate. I used to skip the opening because of how messed up it was. And An American Werewolf in London is one of my scariest films. Whether there's bits of humor or whether your film is relentlessly bleak and humorless (ie his boner fodder, The Babadook and It Follows), the actual horror scenes will speak for themselves. |
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| Repo | Jun 19 2015, 12:01 PM Post #4 |
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Speaking of, how the hell does he use It Follows as a characterization template? That movie's characters were so underwritten that the only interesting one is a side character who's main purpose is to trigger the plot (Jay's BF) |
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| Smeagollum | Jun 19 2015, 12:08 PM Post #5 |
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You don't think having a cool seashell tablet is 100% legit character development?! Jay must look pretty spectacular to those that didn't see the actress tear the roof down in The Guest. Like people who drink Sam's Cola and haven't tasted Coke. |
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| Repo | Jun 19 2015, 12:10 PM Post #6 |
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Quriks like that can be fun side things to further distinguish a developed character, but... they don't make up for nothing being there in the first place Yeah. I did like her because of the actress, but so disappointing after her way better role in The Guest. |
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| CaineDidIt | Jun 19 2015, 12:42 PM Post #7 |
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#1: "Seriously, Found-Footage Films Are The Worst" I am sorry but I won't ever agree with this. I enjoy a large amount of found footage films and they were never the death of horror. They weren't even the worst phase of the past 20 years. |
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| shiley740 | Jun 19 2015, 06:18 PM Post #8 |
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It's funny how this person thinks they know what they're talking about with a trailer for The Thing On A Ship embedded in the article.
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| Kevin R. | Jun 19 2015, 07:06 PM Post #9 |
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And as much I love both It Follows and The Babadook, it's fans like the writer of this article that give both those movies, and indie horror in general, a bad name. Seriously, there's room for many different kinds of scary stories, not just the "dark and gritty" ones with grisly practical effects!!! (which neither of those films had much of, BTW) and no horny teenagers!!! (even though the whole plot of It Follows couldn't happen without teen sex). It's like the inverse of the creatively-bankrupt studio executives they love to complain about, the people who have a formula for making a hit horror movie that produces nothing but formulaic pap that gets asses in seats on opening weekend. They have in their heads a formula for what not to do, and it keeps them from enjoying legitimately good movies because they have surface-level elements that automatically set off their overloaded "cookie-cutter studio bullshit" alarms. (Teenagers? CGI? Found footage? IN MY MOVIE!?!? Does not compute!!!) |
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| Repo | Jun 22 2015, 12:10 PM Post #10 |
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I forgot to mention, but with this, I think a lot of it comes down to them being great directors. Period. There really aren't any exclusively horror directors who can touch someone like Kubrick or Fincher (Se7en) As for Scream, most of the hate is for satiring horror more than anything else. "Real horror fans" hate it when something dates to poke fun at the apparently perfect genre or criticize it. |
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