/horror/ general megathread - Let's talk about movies and shit.

[Your Starter for 10]

The zombie genre is like some kind of magical or sci-fi creature that won't die and keeps spreading its disease/enchantment. You might think it's gone and you've killed all of them, but them bam! it pops up somewhere else and keeps spreading.

I'm sure there's a term for it, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

The zombie genre is like some kind of magical or sci-fi creature that won't die and keeps spreading its disease/enchantment. You might think it's gone and you've killed all of them, but them bam! it pops up somewhere else and keeps spreading.

I'm sure there's a term for it, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

I know!
herpes!

 

[trent]

I'm very late to the party but i just finished watching Barbarian.

It was shot real nice but the story and script was utter gash. Felt like some random shite you'd stumble across on Shudder but with a decent budget.

 

[Heavy Rainfall2]

I just saw The Backrooms. Enjoyed it for the most part, but the ending felt kinda weak. But thinking more about it, it could've been a lot worse. Like I just know some hack would try to "explain" the Backrooms which would be an exercise in retardation.

 

[Gamer Dan]

Zombie movies never die because they're so cheap and easy to make.

probably not, ROK is still making zombie stuff, there's probably a walking dead spinoff in the wings at any given moment
really in hindsight it seems there's just been some slight lulls in the genre like around the 90s and even then there was action on the global stage

Hope zombie movies come back. They were more fun than a lot of the current horror films.

 

[Quijibo69]

Here's the Backrooms movie again on Youtube,

Spoiler: da movie again

This is the most I've seen a movie get uploaded on to Youtube ever!

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Obsession is a straight 10/10, haven't been so impressed with a total package horror since The Substance and absolutely everything activates the neurons in my monkey brain in the right ways.

Pacing is fantastic, the camerawork is fantastic, the plot is fantastic and has a few tiny subversions without being full blown contrary faggotry, and the actors absolutely nail it in genuine star making ways.

Plus the ending, JESUS... they managed to leave us with the horrifying realisation that Nikki is completely and utterly fucked and even if she didn't kill herself in the film, she's probably going to do so very shortly. Essentially trapped in her own body for the bulk of the film only to end up directly repsonsible for the deaths of her entire fucking friend group? Easily one of the best 'possession' type films I've seen

Because I was still in an adrenaline high I decided I'd check off another film I've been meaning to watch for a while: Weapons. That's how I know Obsession is gonna be my film of the year if an 8/10 'decent' horror film ends up looking absolute dogshit in comparison.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

fun little thing, from 1973, a simpler time of "lol DC amirite" instead of "I hate the other team so goddamn much"
Dean Stockwell is theoretically young and becomes a werewolf in Washington DC
nice enough sensible chuckles to go around

there's a couple of bits that are a little HEY! NIXON! GET IT! and there's one part that's a total slog for a few minutes but it was really enjoyable, a little bit of gore, some tiddy in a thin white top, Dean Stockwell basically always looked weird and old and boney

reminds me of how Stuart Gordon had a pitch for a Re-Animator - Dr West Goes To Washington
Dick Cheney has yet another heart attack and they can't get a replacement in time, so the W administration calls in the only man who can help
unfortunately he couldn't get it floated in time for Bush 2 and he just pussied out about doing with Obama
which sorta shows how it really was "I hate the other team so goddamn much" instead of just the basic shit-writes-itself funny of government functionaries and Re-Animator-ing

 

[Big Miss Steak]

What your mother experiences will impact your time in the womb. Lets say she had a brutal attack so now she's scared of men and is anxious around them. In the womb you're going to be flooded with anxiety hormones in a way someone else isn't. Which is going to impact how you develop. You might not be afraid of men but you might have a higher degree of anxiety. It makes sense that unborn babies are pre-birth prepared for what they're going to come into. Like how famines impact how unborn babies process food differently.

I believe in this 100%. I think what's still up for debate is if this continues on after you're born. I'm not so sure about the latter.

I have a problem with the term icon because it's fag coded as the kids say.

We have to reclaim it, like faggots did with "queer."

Saw Obsession. I thought it was just okay.

Spoiler

I thought it started off decently strong and then kind of fell off. There are too many scenes of Nikki standing still and smiling creepily, screaming and crying, etc. By the eighth time Nikki fell over sobbing and screaming "why don't you love me" or loomed over Bear with a Smile-tier grin, I was over it. I think the premise is great but wasn't fully realized. The movie went for this low-hanging fruit of Nikki turning into some sort of paranormal entity, scuttling around and pissing and shitting herself and feeding Bear his dead cat Evil Dead style. I think if they had gone for a more straightforward, she's completely obsessed with him and will do anything she can to have him, with her like trying to sabotage his life or him trying to escape her, I think it would have been a lot better.

The supernatural elements are also not explained. I don't mean the actual wish mechanism, which is fine remaining mysterious, but is Nikki still herself just with a supernatural fixation on Bear? Is she possessed? Is she some other entity entirely? How is her "real self" able to talk to Bear telepathically once? She does things that shouldn't be physically possible but is this just movie bullshit or is she an actual demon?

Bear reminded me starkly of several men who have been obsessed with me in the past, one of whom turned into an actual stalker, so that was creepy, but idk I feel like Bear is meant to be sympathetic.

Sinners will be a house at HHN Orlando, which I plan to attend this year too. I hate this overhyped-ass movie but I do expect it to make a good house.

 

[oreoless effect]

Backrooms is not the greatest movie as a movie on its own, but as a movie about the backrooms it is a 9/10. It does not have enough setpieces to hold the attention of someone who isn't already invested in the youtube series, but the setpieces it DOES have are world-class, extremely well made cinema.

It manages to have a surprisingly profound script that goes far beyond the typical A24 "everything is a metaphor for trauma" and actually speaks out directly against that idea.

Spoiler

The crux of the movie is that a talk therapist finally faces a real crisis and realizes that her therapyspeak platitudes are all bullshit. Her patient literally repeats her therapyspeak back to her to justify his evil behavior, She gets so fed up with him that gives him on trying to save him via therapy and just tells him to take some personal responsibility for once. If I remember the quote, she says "stop blaming your brain. You are your fucking brain, dipshit!"

Highly recommend it. There is zero race politics or gay shit in the movie. Some people thought the ending was unsatisfying but I think there is an interpretation of it that is extremely satisfying, it just isn't spelled out.

 

[Quijibo69]

Watching Obsession, so far this movie eats! I've seen movies, books and shows do this concept way better. Thank god, I'm not paying anything to watch this. Am I watching the same movie everyone else is?


Tales from the Crypt did it better

 

[JeffreyMaxwell]

Man, I fucking hate modern horror. That Obsession movie is being so blatantly astroturfed. It's just an overacted TikTok skit dragged out to 2 hours.

Modern "horror" is so fucking insufferable. 97% of the movie is just close-ups on theater kids making exaggerated facial expressions. I've noticed this trend in horror as far back as mother. It's like they aren't making movies for theaters anymore...they are making them for social media. Zooming in on exaggerated thumbnail faces ensures the clips they hope go viral will be easy to read on cell phones.

And all these pretentious hacks have the balls to call this trauma dump garbage "elevated." Give me a fucking break. These arthouse thrillers are lacking in everything that makes horror such a fun genre. How can any of these retards call their 2 hour therapy session film elevated when The Thing exists? For fucks sake.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Man, I fucking hate modern horror. That Obsession movie is being so blatantly astroturfed. It's just an overacted TikTok skit dragged out to 2 hours.

Modern "horror" is so fucking insufferable. 97% of the movie is just close-ups on theater kids making exaggerated facial expressions. I've noticed this trend in horror as far back as mother. It's like they aren't making movies for theaters anymore...they are making them for social media. Zooming in on exaggerated thumbnail faces ensures the clips they hope go viral will be easy to read on cell phones.

And all these pretentious hacks have the balls to call this trauma dump garbage "elevated." Give me a fucking break. These arthouse thrillers are lacking in everything that makes horror such a fun genre. How can any of these retards call their 2 hour therapy session film elevated when The Thing exists? For fucks sake.

We're about 15 years removed from the streamer bait horror games getting over reactions. The people who liked it now work in the industry and half the movies come out are youtube memes or based on games which had the same reaction streamers. They're appealing to the audience that grew up with that.

I don't trust any of these "It's 10/10, great movie!" talking about anything modern. It's always artfags hyping up really boring slow horror no one really enjoys but you're supposed to enjoy if you're high class. Horror just isn't fun any more because the fun stuff has no budget and is always full of diversity hires who drag it down. Slasher is peak horror, always has been and always will be. But they're not suitable to watch while on your phone.

I finished the last Hellraiser (I'm not watching a tranny reboot). It's a 2/10. Good idea, bad execution. The auditor is the 2nd best Cenobite but really needed to be part of a TV show not a movie. It's not unwatchable but you're getting to The Asylum levels of quality.

 

[Gamer Dan]

Obsession is a straight 10/10, haven't been so impressed with a total package horror since The Substance and absolutely everything activates the neurons in my monkey brain in the right ways.

I am hoping I am not bored by this movie. A lot of films this decade have been underwhelming or a chore to watch. I tuned off from The Substance in a few minutes.

Slasher is peak horror, always has been and always will be. But they're not suitable to watch while on your phone.

Slashers seem to be a hit or miss. I personally like movies with some action, like the zombie genre. At least it is fun seeing someone bash zombies or monsters up. I guess the closest thing we get are some RE video games.

Also, what about crime thrillers? I remember liking movies such as Identity (2003) and A Perfect Getaway (2009).

I also thought that an actual horror movie like Borderland (2007) was half-decent. It was part of the After Dark Horrorfest festivals.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

I don't trust any of these "It's 10/10, great movie!" talking about anything modern. It's always artfags hyping up really boring slow horror no one really enjoys but you're supposed to enjoy if you're high class. Horror just isn't fun any more because the fun stuff has no budget and is always full of diversity hires who drag it down. Slasher is peak horror, always has been and always will be. But they're not suitable to watch while on your phone.

Right, ignoring that I genuinely believe Obsession IS that good, my biggest problem with modern horrors is the complete inability to get to the credits within 2 hours. The amount of sheer filler in so many fucking horrors just to artificially extend the runtime for no other reason but to 'set the scene' or 'build atmosphere' is fucking ridiculous. Every fucking modern horror feels like it was directed by some faggot who thinks that longer = better.

X is my go to example, that shit could have been trimmed to 90 minutes easily and became a better movie because of it. It still wouldn't have been a great movie because it was a slasher movie with about 10 minutes of slashing, but it might have stood a chance of redeeming itself. The fuckers managed to turn "serial killer on a porno shoot" and make it BORING.

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Right, ignoring that I genuinely believe Obsession IS that good, my biggest problem with modern horrors is the complete inability to get to the credits within 2 hours. The amount of sheer filler in so many fucking horrors just to artificially extend the runtime for no other reason but to 'set the scene' or 'build atmosphere' is fucking ridiculous. Every fucking modern horror feels like it was directed by some faggot who thinks that longer = better.

X is my go to example, that shit could have been trimmed to 90 minutes easily and became a better movie because of it. It still wouldn't have been a great movie because it was a slasher movie with about 10 minutes of slashing, but it might have stood a chance of redeeming itself. The fuckers managed to turn "serial killer on a porno shoot" and make it BORING.

Streaming services want them to be longer as it adds watch time to AFK playback. 90 minutes or 2 hours doom scrolling is the same but watch time metrics care.

The cinema industry used to want shorter movies so they could fit in more viewings in a day. That pressure is gone now so we suffer an hour of filler for a film with 30 minutes content to begin with.

Good horror is hard to claim IMO. Horror is such a shit genre that something bad can be good to you. The Hellraiser films, 1-2 are for the effects nerds, 3-5 for the headfuck crime thriller crowd, 6-10 for the people who want to write essays on youtube crowd. It you're just in it for the effects 3 is a laughing stock, but the best mind fuck. If you're in it for the mind fuck 2 has nothing to offer, but has the best 80's effects. It's really hard to claim any horror film is good unless you know the audience you're recommending to. It's why I find so many movies recommended in this thread to be unwatchable. It's modern horror, I don't like modern horror and so Barbarian, Weapons and Midsommer just bore me and make me wish I was watching a good film instead. Modern horror seems to have 10 minutes of scenes worth watching (which are all in the trailer) and little else.

 

[strumpets exeunt]

Slasher is peak horror, always has been and always will be. But they're not suitable to watch while on your phone.

I like that just about every horror fan seems to have their specific niche of horror. And often, that niche is totally divorced from what they consider to be a "good" movie. Me, while I love atmosphere and metaphor and Silent Hill type shit, what *actually* gets me going is animal attack movies. I'll watch ANY of them and have the time of my life, completely in spite of quality. I hope "Hungry" is the most shameless, retarded dreck in history, because I will watch it a hundred times.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Right, ignoring that I genuinely believe Obsession IS that good, my biggest problem with modern horrors is the complete inability to get to the credits within 2 hours. The amount of sheer filler in so many fucking horrors just to artificially extend the runtime for no other reason but to 'set the scene' or 'build atmosphere' is fucking ridiculous. Every fucking modern horror feels like it was directed by some faggot who thinks that longer = better.

X is my go to example, that shit could have been trimmed to 90 minutes easily and became a better movie because of it. It still wouldn't have been a great movie because it was a slasher movie with about 10 minutes of slashing, but it might have stood a chance of redeeming itself. The fuckers managed to turn "serial killer on a porno shoot" and make it BORING.

I recall hearing chatter that everything going long is really a thing.
Supposedly the internal metrics on streaming platforms gives you better updoots by how long you keep eyes, so twenty views of a 90m movie isn't as valuable as twenty views of a 150m movie
Edit- shit, ninjaed

 

[Kofi Drinka]

Me, while I love atmosphere and metaphor and Silent Hill type shit, what *actually* gets me going is animal attack movies. I'll watch ANY of them and have the time of my life, completely in spite of quality. I hope "Hungry" is the most shameless, retarded dreck in history, because I will watch it a hundred times.

Seriously try Hellraiser 3-5. They are more Silent Hill than any Silent Hill movie has ever come close to.

Good horror is fun horror. If you can enjoy a movie then it's entertained you and what's what movies are for. It's why I can look at some objectively amazing art and go "meh, looks shit". But I can see some sonichu fan film on youtube and call it a 10/10. People mistake social commentary in films for the value in them, especially in horror. When there's no entertainment in WHITE MAN BAD and they know it. Movies like Scream and Night of the living dead aren't good because of the commentary. They're good because they're good. You can watch Scream as a straight slasher movie and it works. If you don't get the references it doesn't matter. It uses what works in the horror tropes to their fullest and they're tried and true classic story telling.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I saw "Passenger", it FUCKING SUCKED. The main characters were boring and I didn't care if they lived or died. The main theme of the movie took forever to go anywhere and it's just "well this shit is happening, deal with it".

I saw this movie too and it sucked ass. The opening scene is the only good part of the movie, and for a movie about the terrors of the road, they didn't even have the gall to use a car as a weapon in any interesting manner. Not helped by the fact that this movie felt like a PG-13 horror flick but it is an R-Rating probably cause of one scene. Not to sperg about movie ratings but if you have a rated R horror movie, you should take more advantage of that, but Passenger instead felt like some cheap haunted house.