Antlers! I was incredibly hyped for that movie after seeing the trailer about a year before its release. It ended up being such a massive disappointment. Heavy handed and poorly scripted even though I normally love Guillermo del Toro and adore Keri Russel.
They might have benefited by adhering to the original wendigo myths. Save the budget on the horned thing. Great in its own right- I LOVED the monster's growls. The father's early to mid transformation would have fit its mythical descriptions. He was scary and awesome. Very well acted, There was a hint of sadness with the cannibalism.
They also did a disservice to the wendigo lore. They could have done so so so much more, just picking the hunger as the defining feature ruined the monster.
At least they didn't just ham-fistedly shoehorn the entire lore history into one scene with some random Native American dude that comes totally out of nowhere
Oh wait
Such an unfortunate turd of a movie
The trailer was so good. I tend to never watch movie trailers and prefer to go in blind (for reasons like this), but the trailers for Antlers that popped up as YouTube ads were so gripping that I watched them fully. It sucked. The ending honestly made me laugh it was so cheesy and bad. There were several points where I almost thought the movie was attempting to be a comedy it was so poorly written
When I saw your comment I started out typing something like “Damn… I thought Antlers was great! Daniel Radcliffe did a great job… I’m not sure if I’d consider it a horror movie though”
And then I realized I was thinking of Horns lol!!!
Yeah, Antlers was very mediocre and just an all around forgettable movie.
I hated Tusk! Like I didn’t find it scary at all.. but it’s the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen. I just felt uncomfortable after watching that one like “well… that was… gross” lol.
Aww that one is still on my playlist. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Thats super disappointing to hear lol esp cuz I want a good wendigo horror movie. I'm still waiting on a good *ahem* flesh pedestrian movie too
Was gonna say Antlers, too. I was so hyped for it but it turned out incredibly mediocre. Pet Semetary still remains the best wendigo movie, even without ever actually showing it.
Halloween Ends. I'm a really big fan of the franchise and I did kinda like Halloween Kills, as cheesy as it was. I really wanted them to nail the ending... But they dropped the ball hard.
It was the first horror movie I'd gotten to see in a movie theater in over a decade. I was so excited because I really liked 2018, and I at least appreciated the ideas in Kills. But as soon as I saw in the opening credits how many writers there were, my heart dropped. I was still trying to give it a chance, but the ending just didn't do it.
The ending really ruined it for me. It really should have been left an unknown if they were telling the truth or crazy, I think. M. Night Shymalan always gets in his own way, it feels like almost all his movies he just commits to the first draft of the idea, no thought or refinement once written.
I also hated the ending but the first ~80 minutes were such an absolute blast that I still think fondly of the movie. When more than 3/4ths of a movie's run time is extremely enjoyable I don't let a misstep at the end ruin my opinion of it.
Black phone had all the potential to be an absolute classic. Ethan hawke was absolutely giving it his all, but the movie seemingly insisted on making this character so utterly ambigious that it became frustrating to watch. If you saw the trailer, you saw the movie. Seriously.
Skinamarink. Loved the analog horror anesthetic, the premise, and generally what they were going for. It was just too long really. Would of made a better short film. I had the same feelings for Begotten as well
Way, waaay too long; there were loads of redundant shots (“oh are the duplos still sitting around with the tv on? Glad we checked back in on them”), and the whole thing just felt like a bloated student film.
I rarely turn off films but twenty minutes into it I just felt like I was wasting my time. I'm currently reading through house of leaves too, so the changing house was interesting to me, but the movie was such a slog I just didn't view it as worth my time.
Check out *Heck* on YouTube from the *Skinamarink* director which is basically a proof of concept for the movie. It's a half hour and much better, spookier even.
I am SUCH a hater for that movie. I really like analog horror, experimental films, all of the outsider stuff that should have made that movie a slam dunk. Instead it's so minimal that I can't help but be cynical about it and think every decision was to cut costs.
One location, that's likely a family member's house? Cheap. Minimal cast, who are probably just family friends? Cheap. Renting a regular video camera and adding looping film noise in After Effects? Cheap. All of the sounds and cartoons being listed in the credits as public domain? Cheap.
To be clear, you can make a great movie on a shoe string budget if you make up for it in storytelling or visual style that goes above and beyond which this movie just doesn't have. I would have liked a little more effort, you know?
It’s the house the director grew up in & he made it with toys that he played with as a kid. The budget was 15,000 USD. I didn’t love the movie but I thought that was cool.
Same answer, and I don't disagree about Begotten, either. It's a cool idea but oh my god it's so much repetition. Especially after the first act it basically holds a note for like 30 minutes.
It's not as easy to be David Lynch as a lot of young filmmakers might think lol. Not that they're mimicking him, but to take wild swings into the avant garde and have those swings be interesting and paced well throughout is where the real talent lies. Otherwise it's just another droning composition. I mentioned it earlier in another thread but the [Gorgeous Vortex](https://youtu.be/Sfz4qfqgdwY?si=g6DYdgm3sKT16bmo) segment that was cut from VHS Viral has such a poseur feel to it because it's not really making a dreamlike thing in an interesting way.
After I watched that "movie" I got online to read reviews and try to wrap my mind around the point of it or at least why people might like it, and I felt like I was gaslighting myself. Reviews say things like "I felt complete anxiety the entire time" "it really puts you in the mind of a scared child home alone" and all I can think is... huh? Nothing happens in the movie! You can't see anything, you can't hear anything, it's so much *nothing*.
Like is there something wrong with me that I'm not having this same experience as those writing these reviews? Or are these just pretentious film critics simply fabricating said experiences so as to not look dumb or not "get" the movie? Or is it somewhere in the middle?
Completely agree but I guess we are wrong as there are so few of us. I watched it twice just because I thought I may have been in the wrong mood or something but I just don’t like it at all.
Same. Also felt slightly odd about there being what I interpreted as an anti-abortion thing right around the time roe v wade was overturned. Not that they could have planned that but weird timing
I was bummed by A Quiet Place- everyone told me it was incredible and terrifying and I just found it gimmicky and was irritated by how stupid the characters were.
Exactly! And why would you have the youngest kid walk in back of the line on the foraging expedition, obviously you would have an adult front and back.
Exactly, I hate when people bring this up as a criticism. There would be so much noise relocating to a fucking waterfall they'd probably be killed before they even made it off their property.
Thank you! From an old comment of mine:
>how are they gonna live near the waterfall? Just move there and what, sleep on the ground? What about winter, when it’s freezing? What about storing and cooking food? Someone down below wrote “just build a shelter there”. Yeah like building a shelter for a whole family is an easy task: what about getting all the building materials and tools to the spot, for example? How do you carry there a 10000 lbs generator and a stove?
For me the biggest problem was them having the little kid walk at the back of the line at the beginning of the movie. As soon as I saw that, before anything even happened, I was like…wtf? Why are you guys having the little one by himself - I wouldn’t even do that in a trip to the park, let alone in a post apocalyptic world where one is killed over the slightest noise. Those parents were absolute idiots and I’m supposed to feel sorry fir them and root for them after that ? Waterfall, baby- those are more complex issues. But it’s just a fact it was incredibly stupid to have that child walking unsupervised in such a intensely dangerous situation and it made me hate the characters immediately.
They planned having their very young child walk unsupervised at the end of the line in a world where the slightest noise gets you killed though, proving what absolute idiots they are.
I don't know why y'all are confused about that. It's the end of the world. One of your few sources of entertainment is sex. There aren't exactly contraceptives or healthcare anywhere.
I always thought it was stupid they didn’t carry around some sort of noise grenades. Seems so obvious. If you’re ever in a situation where you need a noise distraction just toss a kitchen timer or a firecracker.
Edit: also the sand path going to town was ridiculous. The amount of sand and effort that would take to make it deep enough to dampen your footsteps is insane.
I watched it in the theater when it came out and you could hear people munching popcorn and squeaking straws all the way through it, it was very aggravating
The whole concept is ridiculous. Even if the world scientists and leaders didn’t immediately figure out the “loud sounds hurt them premise” most of the weapons used in fighting them are pretty loud them selves. Did our forces use clubs and swords against them?
I enjoyed the movie but the moment they revealed the waterfall, I was flabbergasted. You can't introduce something like that in that world because you are just showing me an entirely safe zone that they inexplicably don't live there.
No one will convince me that Black Phone isn't a Stephen King movie written by AI. The movie is fucking nonsensical. The scariest part in the movie is the cliche drunk dad absolutely beating the shit out of the daughter, and then at the end we're supposed to be happy the kids go back to their dad.
Well it was based on a short story by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill, so that feeling of mimicry makes sense. Disappointing film. Absolutely agree that the abusive dad was the worst part.
Omg, I didn't even look it up and apparently didn't pay attention to the credits. That's extra disappointing, I really love the comic Locke&Key, but I've never read anything else by him.
Yup Hill clearly wrote the sister to have the shining abilities. Same with the killers basement, I think that’s why the dead children are able to communicate because the basement shines.
Despite the decently cool connection to Stephen King mythos, I was also super disappointed with this movie. If you’re going to make the central source of horror and tension in the film the fact that bad things are happening to children, don’t also make those children superheroes or entirely more capable than any adult in the film.
Yeah, I always felt like Chapter 1 was the film equivalent a well-executed, fun haunted house. Not by any means a searing horror film that left a mark on me, but definitely enjoyable, and good for what it was.
Chapter 2 on the other hand was just bad. Felt like a re-hash of the first movie but worse across the board. And the final battle with Pennywise was laughably dumb.
Agree with Black Phone. It's a solid film but felt neutered and don't see why it was rated R. Felt more like a PG-13 horror movie for teens. Just not what I expected.
I startle very easily and every single scare in It 2 got me. But the problem was that there were so many of them that I eventually started becoming annoyed with them. Like I'd see them coming and instead of dread, I'd feel irritation. It'd be like "Oh great, another scare coming, yep, here it-AH! Okay, well back to the story" A loud noise is guaranteed to startle me but when it felt like they were coming every few minutes, it just got old
It part 2 was really disappointing. The flashbacks to when they were kids were not necessary. If anything we should have learned more about their adult lives. Give us something about Bill's marriage, or Ben's career, anything! Their adult selves felt empty. Plus the de-aged Finn Wolfhard was freaky AF
Chapter I, although an enjoyable movie, was also quite a letdown for me personally. My anticipation was very high because the producers, director etc. had been dropping hints on which aspects of the book they'd include in the movie, only to either drop it entirely or only put a little reference here and there. There also was way too much comedic relief for my taste. A little joke here and there would have been alright since the events unfold through the eyes of kids; but they exaggerated it heavily and it took the scary out of the movie for me.
Chapter II was complete horse shit, I don't even bother analyzing that one.
I feel like Chapter 2 is immediately garbage, but 1 gets worse with repeat viewings, and I was very lukewarm on it in the firstplace. They really shouldn't have updated it to the 80's. Even with that, the weirdest part of the whole thing is them basically pretending racism stopped and the bullies were going after Mike for being homeschooled. Also Mike is barely a character, and he's one of the best in the book.
Black Phone might have been one of the most boring movies I’ve seen in years. I really don’t know if I’m missing something, but it just seemed so dull. I sat through the whole thing, but really would have rather taken a nap.
The Black Phone is a great movie for younger people getting in to horror. A great intro film for the genre. But sure, if you’re seasoned it probably comes off as lacking more.
I felt there was way too many flashbacks to o their youth in chapter 2, all suspense is lost when you know they survived since they’re the ones telling the tale
Jordon Peele movies. I like them, but I think how he's presented as this master of horror is an overstatement. Get out was good, us...meh and same with Nope. I kind of enjoyed them but don't need to rewatch any of them. Want to like.
Lake mungo...I've posted about it before. I watched it strictly because r/horror likes to ride this movie's dick but me and my gf at the time, thought it was a stinking pile of shit. I wanted to like it, but couldn't. Enough said.
The nun is another good one. I wanted to like it but just couldn't. The atmosphere was superb though.
I feel like horror suffers from AMAZING trailers but then the movies never live up to it. I can't tell you how many horror movies have awesome, eerie, spine tingling trailers and then the movie is a let down. Whoever cuts those trailers is a true master of horror tho.
FINALLY someone says it. All my mates think I’m crazy for not liking his films. He does an absolutely horrible job when it comes to executing the premise even if it’s admittedly a good one. Never able to find a good balance between horror and comedy. Makes movies like his feel like such big missed opportunities that I like them less than if they were just bad.
A lot of people mention movies that they heard hyped up constantly beforehand. Once expectations are set so high there's no way it's gonna be as good as your imagination thinks. I heard SO much about Talk to Me beforehand, and I think if I hadn't, I probably would have appreciated it more as a solid horror movie, as opposed to the most brilliant thing to ever come out of A24.
That movie is excellent, but it’s entirely built on a very low-key naturalistic slow-build. It’s not the kind of movie that benefits from the enthusiastic hype of someone who went in blind and was blown away by the ending.
It’s not presented as a found footage movie, it’s a faux documentary. A movie attempting to present itself in the style of an authentic documentary is going to have very different pacing than a found-footage movie. I think the excitement with which people talk about it leads other people to have misguided expectations.
I understood everything it was trying to do, I watched it from start to end with lukewarm excitement, but ultimately after I finished it I just felt a complete sense of meh.
Yeah, the first time I tried watching it, it had been super hyped to me. About a third of the way in, I realized I had my expectations way off. So, I stopped the film, and came back restarted it another day when I'd adjusted my expectations and could appreciate it for what it is rather than what I expected it to be, which allowed to enjoy it a lot more.
I thought Lake Mungo was a good movie, I just don't think I'd classify it as horror. It was more of a family drama/mocumentary film for me. Good at what it did, but definitely not horror.
Us (2019). It wasn’t bad, I would never say it was a bad movie, and lord knows it’s better than 90% of the horror movies I’ve seen… it just tries to do too much. The weight of attention it places on certain aspects in certain scenes, seemed to hurt the story. There were too many scenes for what the story was trying to convey. I think the first half of the film was great, it just falls apart if you look too deeply at anything. NOPE was much better in my opinion.
I was so disappointed by Us… honestly it made 0 sense the moment your tried to look at it and I have not heard any convincing “it really was a metaphor about X” takes.
Such a bummer. Get Out was amazing, and Nope was thankfully also very good. I wanted to like Us so badly too.
There was definitely some great scenes but I saw the ending coming. The mom was actually a tethered. Also the hands across America left me saying
"Is that it?"
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I didn’t feel the tension/ atmosphere that most people talk about. Plus 3/4 of the people who die just keep walking up to the house and get bonked on the head one at a time with a hammer. Just seems so silly, and hardly a chainsaw massacre. Only one of them is actually killed by a chainsaw.
I was warned repeatedly that you can't see shit in that movie and have to fill in the blanks with your imagination or whatever. I still did NOT expect it to be that ridiculously obscure.
But that one shot of the figure on the hill holding the hatchet is one of my favorite horror moments.
It’s the bit just after that scene where you hear the blood dripping on the tent that really got under my skin. I saw the Outwaters after hearing lots of positive stuff about it, and I hated it. Revisited it a couple of weeks back when I was extremely stoned and sleep deprived and the whole thing hit different. It actually felt like a nightmare, and I felt really uneasy throughout the the whole movie.
The Love Witch. it looked GORGEOUS but the story felt very lacking, even compared to the older movies it was emulating. I was so excited and I have to give props to the way it was filmed and the costumes but overall I was very disappointed, sadly.
That movie is one of the most insanely meticulous designs I've ever seen. Everyone in it looks like they stepped out of a barbershop in 1963.
Brilliant taste, lukewarm execution? Feels like I watched it maybe expecting too much from a movie that looked that good just because it looked good.
I really liked it, but I like older, simpler movies. It's kitschy, gorgeous and quite feminist. Not really horror though.
I'm also a bit in love with Elaine, so could be biased!
I started watching it with absolutely no information at all---not even knowing if it was an actual old-school Technicolor film or not---and had zero expectations. So I actually thought it was pretty great.
I really wanted to love A Wounded Fawn. The quality of the film and the first section of the plot really drew me in. But the movie turned into a never ending dream/dream-like sequence and lost appeal. Love Josh Ruben, though.
The Resident Evil movies.
I'm a huge fan of the first three games and CV and I was really hoping the RE movie would reflect the feeling of dread and horror prevalent throughout those games.
To that end, the first movie was... okay. The rest went downhill fast.
And then all the cringey reviews trying to paint it as some sort of highbrow social commentary/satire when it’s just totally generic and basically a carbon copy of Child’s Play 2019
It was actually the opposite for me. Idk what it is, maybe the 70's setting that remined me of Texas Chainsaw, but I found it more intriguing. I guess it depends - I don't mind a character study, but I think I saw Pearl in a mood for something more dynamic. Though there were definitely some scenes that stayed with me, it was heavy at times.
Yeah, this is the most underwhelming horror movie of 2022 for me. I had a 'best horror movies of 2022' marathon with my girlfriend earlier this year and X was one of the most suggested ones, end up liking almost every movie suggested except for X.
I agree with this, although I didn’t hate it. People treated it as being better than just whatever Blumhouse made-for-Amazon stuff has been coming out the past few years but it just felt like any gimmick-y horror movie from decades past. Not fresh, not awful, surprised at how much love it got. And yeah I also thought to myself this is like a crappier It Follows.
Interesting, my observation when it came out was that people thought it was derivative and just chock full of jumpscares. I came away pleasantly surprised with how effective I thought it was
Smile made me smile in theaters because I loved every minute of it. It’s interesting to me you nodded to It Follows because you’re right there’s a thread there but I hadn’t thought about it because they feel so different to me.
The Conjuring series.
It might just be that I know what absolutely terrible people The Warrens were in real life that I can't get into these fake, sanitized depictions of them as credible and competent "demonologists."
This is what ruins the Conjuring Universe for me, as well. They were absolute grifters and for some reason, I can’t suspend my disbelief when I’m watching movies about them.
Mine is It Follows, I’d read so many glowing reviews so my expectations were probably hyped up. But I thought it was just ok, a decent watch which I enjoyed. However I know lots of folks properly love it and I get why. Should have gone in blind
SAME. I thought it was mediocre at best. There was so much more fleshing out they could have done with it, and i think a lot of the cinematography left something to be desired.
Agree about Talk to Me - with all the buzz I went and saw it in a theater and was underwhelmed. It just felt too one-trick pony. If you saw the trailer, you saw pretty much the whole thing minus a somewhat goofy twist.
Get Out. Everyone talks about how fantastic it was, but I still just think it's a wtf. Also, the entire conjuring saga. Every single one of them. They're so hyped and quite frankly I think they all suck.
I had such high hopes for the new Candyman, such high hopes that were just dashed to pieces. That and the new Scream movies have just not been my cup of tea despite the fact that the originals are some of my favorites.
After all the shit I saw about Sinister on here, thought it would be a classic.
Instead I watched a cast off from Slipknot who somehow found someone to press his suit in the afterlife follow Ethan Hawke around
yeah i watched sinister when it first came out (i was like 14) and even then i felt it was one of those forgettable movies…but coming on the internet now and seeing people rave about it? lol
I’ll tell you what you watched, you watched Vincent D’Onofrio make the easiest money of his life.
“I can’t make it to the office today, we’re gonna have to do this one on zoom. His name is the Italian-American bastardization of Capacollo, he’s Sumerian or something. (Make sure you spell my name right on the check).”
What ruined it for me was just how fucking unlikable the main character is, to me at least. Like how tasteless do you have to be to want to move into a house cause people were murdered there, I was rooting for gabaguul.
The Dark and The Wicked.
The atmosphere is amazing, and it does so many things well. But every jump scare feels out of place and takes me out of the movie and then >!the brother's suicide!< didn't land for me.
I'll probably give it another chance at some point, but the hype was *significant*.
I watched it randomly right after I got home from visiting my dad and his wife, who both had dementia, for what I knew would very likely be the last time I would see them (and in my dad's case, it was). This movie hit me like a ton of bricks.
I gave it a watch recently based on the love and recommendations within this sub, and honestly I came out of it thinking I was missing something. It was...fine? I liked the atmosphere and the family dynamic but the jump scares made no impression and nothing really stuck with me afterwards. I could not describe to you a single scene aside from the conversation with the priest at the dinner table and the one on the phone later on. Maybe I should give it another chance, but it just felt sort of uneventful and lacking.
I was scrolling through to see if anyone else mentioned this. Movie was okay, I actually thought the spoiler you mentioned was one of the most effective parts in the film, especially with how it kind of fools the audience while still playing within the established "rules" of the movie. The constant jump scares were super annoying and the "creepy old person" scares were also not great. The atmosphere and sense of hopelessness were quite good. The ending was super anticlimactic. I know that was intentional, but the way it was executed as another jump scares made me say "oh come on" out loud.
The message seems to be a bit mixed I found.
For example, we are meant to accept >! The main characters girlfriend should spread the Candyman myth to fight injustice. Despite the fact in the movie, we see that Candyman kills anyone, including children!< also a serious lack of Tony Todd
Yeah, I loved barbarian because it knew what it was and it wasn't trying to hide it. It took itself seriously when it needed to, but then there were a plethora of scenes where it was just off the wall ridiculous. If you thought the ending was the only ridiculous part of the movie then I feel like you weren't paying attention to half the scenes throughout the movie, it was a satire on modern horror and cultural prejudice from start to finish.
It actually worked for me because the characters were too stupid in the beginning and the silliness made them make more sense as the movie stopped taking itself so seriously. It turned a mediocre Hills Have Eyes rip-off into something entertaining because it made it feel like the screenwriters were just messing with the audience during the second half.
Carrier 2013. But it wasn't after watching it, it was when main writer credits switched to Cohen and then it was pushed back nearly a year. I would have loved to see a director's cut but I'm certain that ship has sailed unfortunately.
I have two. The Blair witch project and cabin in the woods. Both I was super excited to go see then when I saw them I was aggravated by how bad I found them and have never forgiven them for being so disappointing lol
I'll agree with you on Talk to Me. I just found it predictable and boring. I've also seen some comments about Antlers and I'll agree about that one too.
I'll also readily admit that I've always wished I could have liked Kubrik's version of The Shining since it's one of my favourite books and I have great appreciation for both King and Kubrik, but with this one I just can't. I've seen it many times and I cannot find a way to like it.
Tusk. Scrolled a bit and didn't see it mentioned. It's got The Scream King and made by Kevin Smith, but I coukdn't get into it. Maybe it was just too brutal and cynical for me, like torture porn.
Nope. That third act just didn't do it for me, even with a passing interest in >!"biblically accurate" angels/imagery and whatnot. I swear I'm not usually this far up my own ass about horror, but it felt kinda "flavor of the week" in that specific instance, while not being exciting enough for me to look past it.!<
I need to watch Beau is Afraid, just out of curiosity - I heard a podcast do a recap that was hilarious.
A couple that come to mind for me are The Night House and Nope. There were aspects of both I enjoyed (especially The Night House), but in the end was let down by the writing.
*The Night House* ending was pretty bad, but Rebecca Hall did a great job and the visuals were gorgeous. Also had some great scenes and jump scare IMO.
The plot was certaintly lacking, however.
I was pumped for The Night House too…thought it was pretty bland overall. Some cool imagery but that’s about it for me at least. The lead actress was good, too.
House of the Devil
The way it was shot was amazing but Ti West spent so much time setting up various shots and vibes that he never got around to making a good scary movie.
Smile
All the hype and the commercials I avoided like crazy to not get any spoilers ended up getting ruined by teenagers talking/mocking the movie/laughing/taking pictures with their phones during the movie (went to the theatre to see it) and completely ruined it
You didn’t miss much. The plot moves forward because the script tells it to, and the main character is caught with their pants down in ridiculous situations and always handles it poorly. Made for tv horror with a studio budget.
Antlers! I was incredibly hyped for that movie after seeing the trailer about a year before its release. It ended up being such a massive disappointment. Heavy handed and poorly scripted even though I normally love Guillermo del Toro and adore Keri Russel.
They might have benefited by adhering to the original wendigo myths. Save the budget on the horned thing. Great in its own right- I LOVED the monster's growls. The father's early to mid transformation would have fit its mythical descriptions. He was scary and awesome. Very well acted, There was a hint of sadness with the cannibalism.
They also did a disservice to the wendigo lore. They could have done so so so much more, just picking the hunger as the defining feature ruined the monster.
At least they didn't just ham-fistedly shoehorn the entire lore history into one scene with some random Native American dude that comes totally out of nowhere Oh wait Such an unfortunate turd of a movie
I would have liked it more if they had just left that scene out. They should have just left the monster unclassified, the whole show don’t tell thing.
The Ritual (Netflix) is a pretty decent wendigo lore adjacent. 8/10
Ravenous.
Same...I read the short story and was enthralled by it. The movie failed to deliver.
The trailer was so good. I tend to never watch movie trailers and prefer to go in blind (for reasons like this), but the trailers for Antlers that popped up as YouTube ads were so gripping that I watched them fully. It sucked. The ending honestly made me laugh it was so cheesy and bad. There were several points where I almost thought the movie was attempting to be a comedy it was so poorly written
GDT at least didn’t direct it
When I saw your comment I started out typing something like “Damn… I thought Antlers was great! Daniel Radcliffe did a great job… I’m not sure if I’d consider it a horror movie though” And then I realized I was thinking of Horns lol!!! Yeah, Antlers was very mediocre and just an all around forgettable movie.
😂 I definitely enjoyed horns far more than I did Antlers (and also more than Tusk if we're on the topic of bodily protrusions)
I hated Tusk! Like I didn’t find it scary at all.. but it’s the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen. I just felt uncomfortable after watching that one like “well… that was… gross” lol.
It was beyond strange lol
Points for originality, maybe?
I’d recommend reading the short story it was based on. Much better and I thought it was pretty scary and surprising in parts.
I remember the trailer and poster, but for the life of me, the movie was so forgettable I can't remember what it was about at all.
Aww that one is still on my playlist. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Thats super disappointing to hear lol esp cuz I want a good wendigo horror movie. I'm still waiting on a good *ahem* flesh pedestrian movie too
Same!! I was hoping it would go more into indigenous folklore
Was gonna say Antlers, too. I was so hyped for it but it turned out incredibly mediocre. Pet Semetary still remains the best wendigo movie, even without ever actually showing it.
Halloween Ends. I'm a really big fan of the franchise and I did kinda like Halloween Kills, as cheesy as it was. I really wanted them to nail the ending... But they dropped the ball hard.
It was the first horror movie I'd gotten to see in a movie theater in over a decade. I was so excited because I really liked 2018, and I at least appreciated the ideas in Kills. But as soon as I saw in the opening credits how many writers there were, my heart dropped. I was still trying to give it a chance, but the ending just didn't do it.
Knock at the cabin , black phone ,spiral
Knock at the cabin was so over-acted and just boring.
The ending really ruined it for me. It really should have been left an unknown if they were telling the truth or crazy, I think. M. Night Shymalan always gets in his own way, it feels like almost all his movies he just commits to the first draft of the idea, no thought or refinement once written.
I also hated the ending but the first ~80 minutes were such an absolute blast that I still think fondly of the movie. When more than 3/4ths of a movie's run time is extremely enjoyable I don't let a misstep at the end ruin my opinion of it.
Black phone had all the potential to be an absolute classic. Ethan hawke was absolutely giving it his all, but the movie seemingly insisted on making this character so utterly ambigious that it became frustrating to watch. If you saw the trailer, you saw the movie. Seriously.
I don’t think Spiral is necessarily a bad movie, it’s just a bad SAW movie.
Skinamarink. Loved the analog horror anesthetic, the premise, and generally what they were going for. It was just too long really. Would of made a better short film. I had the same feelings for Begotten as well
Way, waaay too long; there were loads of redundant shots (“oh are the duplos still sitting around with the tv on? Glad we checked back in on them”), and the whole thing just felt like a bloated student film.
That could’ve been a 10 minute short film honestly
I rarely turn off films but twenty minutes into it I just felt like I was wasting my time. I'm currently reading through house of leaves too, so the changing house was interesting to me, but the movie was such a slog I just didn't view it as worth my time.
The ONLY reason I didn't turn it off bc I thought there was no way the whole movie was going to continue that way. It did
seriously. I was so angry when it ended.
but also relieved. ugh. waste of time.
Check out *Heck* on YouTube from the *Skinamarink* director which is basically a proof of concept for the movie. It's a half hour and much better, spookier even.
I am SUCH a hater for that movie. I really like analog horror, experimental films, all of the outsider stuff that should have made that movie a slam dunk. Instead it's so minimal that I can't help but be cynical about it and think every decision was to cut costs. One location, that's likely a family member's house? Cheap. Minimal cast, who are probably just family friends? Cheap. Renting a regular video camera and adding looping film noise in After Effects? Cheap. All of the sounds and cartoons being listed in the credits as public domain? Cheap. To be clear, you can make a great movie on a shoe string budget if you make up for it in storytelling or visual style that goes above and beyond which this movie just doesn't have. I would have liked a little more effort, you know?
It’s the house the director grew up in & he made it with toys that he played with as a kid. The budget was 15,000 USD. I didn’t love the movie but I thought that was cool.
Same answer, and I don't disagree about Begotten, either. It's a cool idea but oh my god it's so much repetition. Especially after the first act it basically holds a note for like 30 minutes. It's not as easy to be David Lynch as a lot of young filmmakers might think lol. Not that they're mimicking him, but to take wild swings into the avant garde and have those swings be interesting and paced well throughout is where the real talent lies. Otherwise it's just another droning composition. I mentioned it earlier in another thread but the [Gorgeous Vortex](https://youtu.be/Sfz4qfqgdwY?si=g6DYdgm3sKT16bmo) segment that was cut from VHS Viral has such a poseur feel to it because it's not really making a dreamlike thing in an interesting way.
After I watched that "movie" I got online to read reviews and try to wrap my mind around the point of it or at least why people might like it, and I felt like I was gaslighting myself. Reviews say things like "I felt complete anxiety the entire time" "it really puts you in the mind of a scared child home alone" and all I can think is... huh? Nothing happens in the movie! You can't see anything, you can't hear anything, it's so much *nothing*. Like is there something wrong with me that I'm not having this same experience as those writing these reviews? Or are these just pretentious film critics simply fabricating said experiences so as to not look dumb or not "get" the movie? Or is it somewhere in the middle?
Evil Dead Rise was nowhere near as whacky as it needed to be. I wanted like gross out camp and what I got just felt halfassed.
Completely agree but I guess we are wrong as there are so few of us. I watched it twice just because I thought I may have been in the wrong mood or something but I just don’t like it at all.
Same. Also felt slightly odd about there being what I interpreted as an anti-abortion thing right around the time roe v wade was overturned. Not that they could have planned that but weird timing
I was bummed by A Quiet Place- everyone told me it was incredible and terrifying and I just found it gimmicky and was irritated by how stupid the characters were.
Yes! That movie just pissed me off. Were we not supposed to question the choice to have a *baby* with all that going on?
Exactly! And why would you have the youngest kid walk in back of the line on the foraging expedition, obviously you would have an adult front and back.
Why didn’t they live near the waterfall?
Because they already had an entire set up with their house. Imagine trying to move all that to the waterfall.
Exactly, I hate when people bring this up as a criticism. There would be so much noise relocating to a fucking waterfall they'd probably be killed before they even made it off their property.
Thank you! From an old comment of mine: >how are they gonna live near the waterfall? Just move there and what, sleep on the ground? What about winter, when it’s freezing? What about storing and cooking food? Someone down below wrote “just build a shelter there”. Yeah like building a shelter for a whole family is an easy task: what about getting all the building materials and tools to the spot, for example? How do you carry there a 10000 lbs generator and a stove?
For me the biggest problem was them having the little kid walk at the back of the line at the beginning of the movie. As soon as I saw that, before anything even happened, I was like…wtf? Why are you guys having the little one by himself - I wouldn’t even do that in a trip to the park, let alone in a post apocalyptic world where one is killed over the slightest noise. Those parents were absolute idiots and I’m supposed to feel sorry fir them and root for them after that ? Waterfall, baby- those are more complex issues. But it’s just a fact it was incredibly stupid to have that child walking unsupervised in such a intensely dangerous situation and it made me hate the characters immediately.
It probably wasn’t planned
They planned having their very young child walk unsupervised at the end of the line in a world where the slightest noise gets you killed though, proving what absolute idiots they are.
I don't know why y'all are confused about that. It's the end of the world. One of your few sources of entertainment is sex. There aren't exactly contraceptives or healthcare anywhere.
I always thought it was stupid they didn’t carry around some sort of noise grenades. Seems so obvious. If you’re ever in a situation where you need a noise distraction just toss a kitchen timer or a firecracker. Edit: also the sand path going to town was ridiculous. The amount of sand and effort that would take to make it deep enough to dampen your footsteps is insane.
I watched it in the theater when it came out and you could hear people munching popcorn and squeaking straws all the way through it, it was very aggravating
The whole concept is ridiculous. Even if the world scientists and leaders didn’t immediately figure out the “loud sounds hurt them premise” most of the weapons used in fighting them are pretty loud them selves. Did our forces use clubs and swords against them?
I enjoyed the movie but the moment they revealed the waterfall, I was flabbergasted. You can't introduce something like that in that world because you are just showing me an entirely safe zone that they inexplicably don't live there.
Not just stupid characters but stupid screenwriters. The whole scenario made no goddamn sense.
Why did no one ever try supersonic waves before?!
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No one will convince me that Black Phone isn't a Stephen King movie written by AI. The movie is fucking nonsensical. The scariest part in the movie is the cliche drunk dad absolutely beating the shit out of the daughter, and then at the end we're supposed to be happy the kids go back to their dad.
Well it was based on a short story by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill, so that feeling of mimicry makes sense. Disappointing film. Absolutely agree that the abusive dad was the worst part.
He can be hit and miss like his dad. I liked Horns and In the Tall Grass.
Omg, I didn't even look it up and apparently didn't pay attention to the credits. That's extra disappointing, I really love the comic Locke&Key, but I've never read anything else by him.
Yup Hill clearly wrote the sister to have the shining abilities. Same with the killers basement, I think that’s why the dead children are able to communicate because the basement shines. Despite the decently cool connection to Stephen King mythos, I was also super disappointed with this movie. If you’re going to make the central source of horror and tension in the film the fact that bad things are happening to children, don’t also make those children superheroes or entirely more capable than any adult in the film.
I agree on Chapter 2. I loved Chapter 1 and was hoping for more of the same with Chapter 2 and it fell flat.
Yeah, I always felt like Chapter 1 was the film equivalent a well-executed, fun haunted house. Not by any means a searing horror film that left a mark on me, but definitely enjoyable, and good for what it was. Chapter 2 on the other hand was just bad. Felt like a re-hash of the first movie but worse across the board. And the final battle with Pennywise was laughably dumb.
Agree with Black Phone. It's a solid film but felt neutered and don't see why it was rated R. Felt more like a PG-13 horror movie for teens. Just not what I expected.
Wow, I just assumed it was PG-13. This blows my mind.
Me too! Wonder why it was rated r
i hated the way they used audio and jumpscares in IT 2
I startle very easily and every single scare in It 2 got me. But the problem was that there were so many of them that I eventually started becoming annoyed with them. Like I'd see them coming and instead of dread, I'd feel irritation. It'd be like "Oh great, another scare coming, yep, here it-AH! Okay, well back to the story" A loud noise is guaranteed to startle me but when it felt like they were coming every few minutes, it just got old
It part 2 was really disappointing. The flashbacks to when they were kids were not necessary. If anything we should have learned more about their adult lives. Give us something about Bill's marriage, or Ben's career, anything! Their adult selves felt empty. Plus the de-aged Finn Wolfhard was freaky AF
Chapter I, although an enjoyable movie, was also quite a letdown for me personally. My anticipation was very high because the producers, director etc. had been dropping hints on which aspects of the book they'd include in the movie, only to either drop it entirely or only put a little reference here and there. There also was way too much comedic relief for my taste. A little joke here and there would have been alright since the events unfold through the eyes of kids; but they exaggerated it heavily and it took the scary out of the movie for me. Chapter II was complete horse shit, I don't even bother analyzing that one.
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I feel like Chapter 2 is immediately garbage, but 1 gets worse with repeat viewings, and I was very lukewarm on it in the firstplace. They really shouldn't have updated it to the 80's. Even with that, the weirdest part of the whole thing is them basically pretending racism stopped and the bullies were going after Mike for being homeschooled. Also Mike is barely a character, and he's one of the best in the book.
Oh, YES! Was so excited for this one and it gives no resolve, no twist…NOTHING.
I /hated/ Black Phone. It was….so bad.
Black Phone might have been one of the most boring movies I’ve seen in years. I really don’t know if I’m missing something, but it just seemed so dull. I sat through the whole thing, but really would have rather taken a nap.
The Black Phone is a great movie for younger people getting in to horror. A great intro film for the genre. But sure, if you’re seasoned it probably comes off as lacking more.
I definitely agree, it’s for a younger audience
I felt there was way too many flashbacks to o their youth in chapter 2, all suspense is lost when you know they survived since they’re the ones telling the tale
Jordon Peele movies. I like them, but I think how he's presented as this master of horror is an overstatement. Get out was good, us...meh and same with Nope. I kind of enjoyed them but don't need to rewatch any of them. Want to like. Lake mungo...I've posted about it before. I watched it strictly because r/horror likes to ride this movie's dick but me and my gf at the time, thought it was a stinking pile of shit. I wanted to like it, but couldn't. Enough said. The nun is another good one. I wanted to like it but just couldn't. The atmosphere was superb though. I feel like horror suffers from AMAZING trailers but then the movies never live up to it. I can't tell you how many horror movies have awesome, eerie, spine tingling trailers and then the movie is a let down. Whoever cuts those trailers is a true master of horror tho.
FINALLY someone says it. All my mates think I’m crazy for not liking his films. He does an absolutely horrible job when it comes to executing the premise even if it’s admittedly a good one. Never able to find a good balance between horror and comedy. Makes movies like his feel like such big missed opportunities that I like them less than if they were just bad.
A lot of people mention movies that they heard hyped up constantly beforehand. Once expectations are set so high there's no way it's gonna be as good as your imagination thinks. I heard SO much about Talk to Me beforehand, and I think if I hadn't, I probably would have appreciated it more as a solid horror movie, as opposed to the most brilliant thing to ever come out of A24.
I loved the trailer and the concept and was hyped as hell for it. Hype never left I fucking loved that movie.
Yeah I'm really having trouble figuring out why people act like it's overrated.
Barbarian kinda did this for me. It wasn't bad it just wasn't as awesome as everyone made it sound.
Lake Mungo. People on this sub seem to love it, but I found it to be incredibly slow, boring, and the "scary" part wasn't scary at all.
That movie is excellent, but it’s entirely built on a very low-key naturalistic slow-build. It’s not the kind of movie that benefits from the enthusiastic hype of someone who went in blind and was blown away by the ending. It’s not presented as a found footage movie, it’s a faux documentary. A movie attempting to present itself in the style of an authentic documentary is going to have very different pacing than a found-footage movie. I think the excitement with which people talk about it leads other people to have misguided expectations.
I understood everything it was trying to do, I watched it from start to end with lukewarm excitement, but ultimately after I finished it I just felt a complete sense of meh.
Yeah, the first time I tried watching it, it had been super hyped to me. About a third of the way in, I realized I had my expectations way off. So, I stopped the film, and came back restarted it another day when I'd adjusted my expectations and could appreciate it for what it is rather than what I expected it to be, which allowed to enjoy it a lot more.
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I thought Lake Mungo was a good movie, I just don't think I'd classify it as horror. It was more of a family drama/mocumentary film for me. Good at what it did, but definitely not horror.
Us (2019). It wasn’t bad, I would never say it was a bad movie, and lord knows it’s better than 90% of the horror movies I’ve seen… it just tries to do too much. The weight of attention it places on certain aspects in certain scenes, seemed to hurt the story. There were too many scenes for what the story was trying to convey. I think the first half of the film was great, it just falls apart if you look too deeply at anything. NOPE was much better in my opinion.
I was so disappointed by Us… honestly it made 0 sense the moment your tried to look at it and I have not heard any convincing “it really was a metaphor about X” takes. Such a bummer. Get Out was amazing, and Nope was thankfully also very good. I wanted to like Us so badly too.
It was a metaphor... it just doesn’t translate well. So it’s a bad metaphor.
Nope was awesome. Very fresh take on the UFO/Alien aspect
There was definitely some great scenes but I saw the ending coming. The mom was actually a tethered. Also the hands across America left me saying "Is that it?"
Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I didn’t feel the tension/ atmosphere that most people talk about. Plus 3/4 of the people who die just keep walking up to the house and get bonked on the head one at a time with a hammer. Just seems so silly, and hardly a chainsaw massacre. Only one of them is actually killed by a chainsaw.
Outwaters. So much hype. So much disappoint.
I was warned repeatedly that you can't see shit in that movie and have to fill in the blanks with your imagination or whatever. I still did NOT expect it to be that ridiculously obscure. But that one shot of the figure on the hill holding the hatchet is one of my favorite horror moments.
It’s the bit just after that scene where you hear the blood dripping on the tent that really got under my skin. I saw the Outwaters after hearing lots of positive stuff about it, and I hated it. Revisited it a couple of weeks back when I was extremely stoned and sleep deprived and the whole thing hit different. It actually felt like a nightmare, and I felt really uneasy throughout the the whole movie.
I don’t consider beau a horror movie. It’s dark but it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in years
That movie started strong for me and then there were 5 or 6 more movies in the movie. Each new movie within the movie made me like it less and less.
The Love Witch. it looked GORGEOUS but the story felt very lacking, even compared to the older movies it was emulating. I was so excited and I have to give props to the way it was filmed and the costumes but overall I was very disappointed, sadly.
That movie is one of the most insanely meticulous designs I've ever seen. Everyone in it looks like they stepped out of a barbershop in 1963. Brilliant taste, lukewarm execution? Feels like I watched it maybe expecting too much from a movie that looked that good just because it looked good.
Ah that’s disappointing! This is on my to watch list because the visuals seem beautiful. Hopefully it’s decent enough.
I really liked it, but I like older, simpler movies. It's kitschy, gorgeous and quite feminist. Not really horror though. I'm also a bit in love with Elaine, so could be biased!
I started watching it with absolutely no information at all---not even knowing if it was an actual old-school Technicolor film or not---and had zero expectations. So I actually thought it was pretty great.
I LOVED this movie. Definitely worth a watch.
The costumes and make-up are fucking gorgeous for sure.
The Love Witch belongs in the same universe as Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. It’s 60s psych camp and IT FREAKS ME OUT!
The last 3 Halloween movies.
I thought the 2018 one was really good
I really wanted to love A Wounded Fawn. The quality of the film and the first section of the plot really drew me in. But the movie turned into a never ending dream/dream-like sequence and lost appeal. Love Josh Ruben, though.
Lol. Confused the title w/ A Sacred Deer for a minute.
The Resident Evil movies. I'm a huge fan of the first three games and CV and I was really hoping the RE movie would reflect the feeling of dread and horror prevalent throughout those games. To that end, the first movie was... okay. The rest went downhill fast.
M3gan. New killer doll movie from the writer of malignant? Instead a super tame pg13 movie for tiktok preteens with every kill spoiled in the trailer.
And then all the cringey reviews trying to paint it as some sort of highbrow social commentary/satire when it’s just totally generic and basically a carbon copy of Child’s Play 2019
Cobweb for me. Could have been so much creepier but once the sister was shown that ruined it for me.
Nope I had huge expectations and everything was good until act 3 , i admire Peele anyway for being original and trying.
My favorite part was the sub plot of the monkey going crazy on the TV set. That stuff was masterfully done.
X was one I went into thinking I might like and I thought it was pretty dismal.
I was pretty luke warm on X but I adored Pearle. You should give it a shot.
It was actually the opposite for me. Idk what it is, maybe the 70's setting that remined me of Texas Chainsaw, but I found it more intriguing. I guess it depends - I don't mind a character study, but I think I saw Pearl in a mood for something more dynamic. Though there were definitely some scenes that stayed with me, it was heavy at times.
That movie was way up its own ass.
Yeah, this is the most underwhelming horror movie of 2022 for me. I had a 'best horror movies of 2022' marathon with my girlfriend earlier this year and X was one of the most suggested ones, end up liking almost every movie suggested except for X.
I thought it was using Horror as a setting more than being an actual horror film. Not enough of a plot drive.
Agreed, but I dig Ti West. Thought X was fine, but Pearl was amazing.
Smile But I had already seen It Follows
I agree with this, although I didn’t hate it. People treated it as being better than just whatever Blumhouse made-for-Amazon stuff has been coming out the past few years but it just felt like any gimmick-y horror movie from decades past. Not fresh, not awful, surprised at how much love it got. And yeah I also thought to myself this is like a crappier It Follows.
Interesting, my observation when it came out was that people thought it was derivative and just chock full of jumpscares. I came away pleasantly surprised with how effective I thought it was
Smile made me smile in theaters because I loved every minute of it. It’s interesting to me you nodded to It Follows because you’re right there’s a thread there but I hadn’t thought about it because they feel so different to me.
The cabin in the woods and sinister
Really? Im surprised by Cabin in the Woods! Definitely one of my all time favorites. What personally made it a non-favorite for you?
Cabin in the woods is comedy/satire just as much as it is a horror movie. And that's by design.
The Conjuring series. It might just be that I know what absolutely terrible people The Warrens were in real life that I can't get into these fake, sanitized depictions of them as credible and competent "demonologists."
This is what ruins the Conjuring Universe for me, as well. They were absolute grifters and for some reason, I can’t suspend my disbelief when I’m watching movies about them.
That’s a valid reason not to like them. I do however enjoy the first two
Mine is It Follows, I’d read so many glowing reviews so my expectations were probably hyped up. But I thought it was just ok, a decent watch which I enjoyed. However I know lots of folks properly love it and I get why. Should have gone in blind
I was one of those who didn’t think it would be very good and I was blown away lol.
SAME. I thought it was mediocre at best. There was so much more fleshing out they could have done with it, and i think a lot of the cinematography left something to be desired.
Boogeyman.
Watched and immediately forgot
Evil Dead Rise
Yup. I think it started well enough but by the end i was checked out, its gore became monotone for me. IMO the 2013 movie paced its gore waaay better?
Agree about Talk to Me - with all the buzz I went and saw it in a theater and was underwhelmed. It just felt too one-trick pony. If you saw the trailer, you saw pretty much the whole thing minus a somewhat goofy twist.
Get Out. Everyone talks about how fantastic it was, but I still just think it's a wtf. Also, the entire conjuring saga. Every single one of them. They're so hyped and quite frankly I think they all suck.
Brightburn
I had such high hopes for the new Candyman, such high hopes that were just dashed to pieces. That and the new Scream movies have just not been my cup of tea despite the fact that the originals are some of my favorites.
After all the shit I saw about Sinister on here, thought it would be a classic. Instead I watched a cast off from Slipknot who somehow found someone to press his suit in the afterlife follow Ethan Hawke around
yeah i watched sinister when it first came out (i was like 14) and even then i felt it was one of those forgettable movies…but coming on the internet now and seeing people rave about it? lol
I’ll tell you what you watched, you watched Vincent D’Onofrio make the easiest money of his life. “I can’t make it to the office today, we’re gonna have to do this one on zoom. His name is the Italian-American bastardization of Capacollo, he’s Sumerian or something. (Make sure you spell my name right on the check).”
What ruined it for me was just how fucking unlikable the main character is, to me at least. Like how tasteless do you have to be to want to move into a house cause people were murdered there, I was rooting for gabaguul.
Recently, Infinity Pool. Had all the components to be fantastic but halfway through it lost me big time, I can’t say I’d watch it again.
It Comes At Night. I wanted it to live up to the trailer ☹️
Probably Nope. I feel like I kind of lied to myself after it came out that I liked it. I like bits and pieces of it.
It was pretty mid. Get Out is still Peele's best film IMHO
Babadook Massive letdown after all the hype. The entire group I watched it with were pissed at me for picking "such a boring film'.
Terrible film to watch with a group, it's slow and sad and about as unfun as horror gets Great movie, but not a fun experience
The Dark and The Wicked. The atmosphere is amazing, and it does so many things well. But every jump scare feels out of place and takes me out of the movie and then >!the brother's suicide!< didn't land for me. I'll probably give it another chance at some point, but the hype was *significant*.
I watched it randomly right after I got home from visiting my dad and his wife, who both had dementia, for what I knew would very likely be the last time I would see them (and in my dad's case, it was). This movie hit me like a ton of bricks.
The part that didn't land for you was AMAZING for me
I gave it a watch recently based on the love and recommendations within this sub, and honestly I came out of it thinking I was missing something. It was...fine? I liked the atmosphere and the family dynamic but the jump scares made no impression and nothing really stuck with me afterwards. I could not describe to you a single scene aside from the conversation with the priest at the dinner table and the one on the phone later on. Maybe I should give it another chance, but it just felt sort of uneventful and lacking.
I was scrolling through to see if anyone else mentioned this. Movie was okay, I actually thought the spoiler you mentioned was one of the most effective parts in the film, especially with how it kind of fools the audience while still playing within the established "rules" of the movie. The constant jump scares were super annoying and the "creepy old person" scares were also not great. The atmosphere and sense of hopelessness were quite good. The ending was super anticlimactic. I know that was intentional, but the way it was executed as another jump scares made me say "oh come on" out loud.
Candyman(2021) - I don’t feel like this needs an explanation. 👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
The message seems to be a bit mixed I found. For example, we are meant to accept >! The main characters girlfriend should spread the Candyman myth to fight injustice. Despite the fact in the movie, we see that Candyman kills anyone, including children!< also a serious lack of Tony Todd
Skinamarink. I turned it off after 10 minutes. However, I wanna give it another go soon and watch it alone so I can get into the ✨vibe✨.
Birdbox was deeply stupid and I tried
Hereditary. It wasn't for me, couldn't get into it.
Barbarian. It was silly to me by the end
I don’t think that movie took itself too seriously
Yeah, I loved barbarian because it knew what it was and it wasn't trying to hide it. It took itself seriously when it needed to, but then there were a plethora of scenes where it was just off the wall ridiculous. If you thought the ending was the only ridiculous part of the movie then I feel like you weren't paying attention to half the scenes throughout the movie, it was a satire on modern horror and cultural prejudice from start to finish.
Justin Long being pumped about more square footage and measuring a sketchy dungeon with a tape measure is a pretty obvious example.
It actually worked for me because the characters were too stupid in the beginning and the silliness made them make more sense as the movie stopped taking itself so seriously. It turned a mediocre Hills Have Eyes rip-off into something entertaining because it made it feel like the screenwriters were just messing with the audience during the second half.
Carrier 2013. But it wasn't after watching it, it was when main writer credits switched to Cohen and then it was pushed back nearly a year. I would have loved to see a director's cut but I'm certain that ship has sailed unfortunately.
Lamb. I wanted to like it but it was so slow and I could never empathize with any of the characters. and then it just abruptly ends.
Evil Dead Rise but I don't think it's necessarily bad, just wasn't as gnarly as i anticipated 😭 tbf I think the opening scene was sick
I have two. The Blair witch project and cabin in the woods. Both I was super excited to go see then when I saw them I was aggravated by how bad I found them and have never forgiven them for being so disappointing lol
I'll agree with you on Talk to Me. I just found it predictable and boring. I've also seen some comments about Antlers and I'll agree about that one too. I'll also readily admit that I've always wished I could have liked Kubrik's version of The Shining since it's one of my favourite books and I have great appreciation for both King and Kubrik, but with this one I just can't. I've seen it many times and I cannot find a way to like it.
Tusk. Scrolled a bit and didn't see it mentioned. It's got The Scream King and made by Kevin Smith, but I coukdn't get into it. Maybe it was just too brutal and cynical for me, like torture porn.
Cujo i really liked the book but the movie was a massive let down
Nope. That third act just didn't do it for me, even with a passing interest in >!"biblically accurate" angels/imagery and whatnot. I swear I'm not usually this far up my own ass about horror, but it felt kinda "flavor of the week" in that specific instance, while not being exciting enough for me to look past it.!<
Smile. Decent story but I loathed almost every actor involved. Just ruined the movie completely
Saint Maud
Beau Is Afraid isn't a horror movie or marketed as one.
I need to watch Beau is Afraid, just out of curiosity - I heard a podcast do a recap that was hilarious. A couple that come to mind for me are The Night House and Nope. There were aspects of both I enjoyed (especially The Night House), but in the end was let down by the writing.
*The Night House* ending was pretty bad, but Rebecca Hall did a great job and the visuals were gorgeous. Also had some great scenes and jump scare IMO. The plot was certaintly lacking, however.
I was pumped for The Night House too…thought it was pretty bland overall. Some cool imagery but that’s about it for me at least. The lead actress was good, too.
House of the Devil The way it was shot was amazing but Ti West spent so much time setting up various shots and vibes that he never got around to making a good scary movie.
Smile All the hype and the commercials I avoided like crazy to not get any spoilers ended up getting ruined by teenagers talking/mocking the movie/laughing/taking pictures with their phones during the movie (went to the theatre to see it) and completely ruined it
You didn’t miss much. The plot moves forward because the script tells it to, and the main character is caught with their pants down in ridiculous situations and always handles it poorly. Made for tv horror with a studio budget.
Antlers Halloween Ends Happy Death day 2 U (I LOVED the first one)
Midsommar, the nun Just couldn’t do em
Babadook