What is considered a good horror film?

What is considered a good horror film?

You didn't post one. BWP is literally only a good movie if you were younger than 16 when you watched it, lived in a rural area, and watched the fake documentary they aired before it came out.

The Grifter.

That is oddly specific. If that were the case why did a lot of people not living out in rural areas enjoy it

Because they're braindead normalfags who bought into the hype and/or pretended to like it because it was the hip new "scary as hell" movie.

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The Exorcist

Just kidding, Problem Child 2

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for me it has to be psychologically taxing, cause me some anxiety or reprehension and it helps if it's immersing enough to make me feel as if I'm in the situation

like a bad dream, not a great example but I can put myself in a 28 days scenario easily

>directed by Mario Bava

bwp is the greatest horror film ever made

Not really "horror" but still

The Exorcist is and always will be the finest horror movie ever made, with two outstanding pieces of Screenwriting and directing from Friedkin and Blatty.

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>faggot who was 3 when this movie came out

>look up trailer
no

The first one is better you pleb

lol dude this was literally me

Cube
The Shining
Alien

nice, cube sequels worth watching my man?

Avoid at all costs

Though some say Hypercube is neat.

Cube itself isn't even that good. Decent ish premise ruined by a cop out ending and le genius autist trope

>cop out ending
>le genius autist trope
>cop out
>trope

Great job fagtron you sure convinced me with those hot opinions

Now that I'm older, I realize that the term "horror" is a Hollywood buzzword for jumpscares for people in their 20's.

I'm starting to realize that "thriller" is the "horror" for people too old for "horror.

The Thing
Dracula (Christopher Lee)
Psycho
The Blair Witch Project
It Follows
The Babadook
The Witch

Basically just movies with either a very good buildup, a good villain or a good theme/feel to it
There has to be a very threatening situation or environment that keeps the action going

Minimal jumpscares, or atleast only creative ones, like the one in It Follows where he pops up behind the girl at the door

A =good= horror film gives you stakes. You become invested in something, typically some character, but often an event or an area.

Then this thing is put in peril in an abnormal situation. A sleepy coastal town where everyone gets cholera has stakes, but it isn't weird ... everyone suddenly getting rabies is strange enough that it's horrifying.

We must want characters to survive and then fear for them as they are menaced by the unusual.

Horror films these days have lost their stakes.

It's just a weak thriller plot that offers no expansion to the mystery of the cube or any reasoning for why the selected characters are present. Instead it indulges itself with trap porn and cliffhanger drama, and in the end it doesn't elucidate any of the Cube's mystery itself. It has a hook that it completely fails to deliver on.