Overrated horror movies

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Invasion of the body snatchers

jesus christ raimi

Evil Dead?

No man Evil Dead was good wym

name a better one then fag

>movies children of Sup Forums are too immature to comprehend

My Bloody Valentine

There's literally no depth to it. It's based on fucking Stephen King drivel (a hack writer).

boring piece of shit with a million plot-holes

deaf gimmick isn't even used

Burnt Offerings

Damn, I just saw that yesterday.

wat did u think?

>There's literally no depth to it. It's based on fucking Stephen King drivel (a hack writer)
It shares very little narrative overlap with the novel. And seriously? Just because you don't pick up any subtext doesn't mean there isn't any.

When I was young I thought directors made the stories too and I was mesmerized by Kubrick
How could one man made so many diferent and great movies.
Then I strarted reading how all his movies were adaptations of novels.
Why do we we rate directors so high then
He didnt write even one movie, all adaptations
I felt cheated

Sorry but I've always wondered this, what the fuck is that image in the 'T' on the shining poster?
Looks like a fucking alien, not once is that image ever shown in the movie, nor has any relation to it in any way.

I'm pretty sure it's based off of the silhouette of the black man's face when the little boy called him in his room filled with pornographic posters.

> horror needs to make sense
> putting the monster from your movie in the poster..

Most of his films are better than the novels they're derived from, though. Not all but most.

Rosemary's Baby. Aged like shit, looks and feels super dated.

All horror movies are overrated. The entire genre is thoughtless pleb-bait, that's why so many women love it.

I was only thinking this last night strangely enough. Very odd, like it's troubling or whatever but maybe it's an artist's interpretation of Danny when he see's the twins in the hallway?

>He didnt write even one movie, all adaptations

Eyes Wide Shut is only an adaption in the absolute loosest sense

>hurr durr look at me a contrarian

give me one good reason why it was bad

2001 isn't an adaptation, he hired a writer to write a book based on his script and some scenes during production

That scene on the stairs with the baseball bat is too long and the acting is awful

Pretty much any horror movie where someone says something good about it. Same goes for the entire comedy genre.

Yeah could possible be that.

It's not a monster it's a person, just wondering why they are not in the movie.

its tony

The Shining isn't overrated, but the fucking stupid "analysis" of it is.

I didn't know Stephen King posted on Sup Forums!!! "Lalalala!!! I hate The Shining!! I hate The Shining! Lalalalala!!!!!" Give it up, poor Stevie. Kubrick outdid you.

Jaws is pure unadulterated kino my friend.

Almost all Stephen King movies are better than their books except the ones he was directly invovled in

Biggest BS of 2016

It's not actually contrarian since most people view it positively now due to peer pressure. It wasn't quite as well received on release. It's just one huge meme because of shit like Simpsons parodying it.

Beyond Jack Nicholson's acting, it was mostly shit.

Oh. Maybe it is.

Really made me think.

>Beyond Jack Nicholson's acting, it was mostly shit.

Please elaborate what exactly was shit in the execution, the cinematography? Production design? The script? Other performances? Editing? Blocking?
Tell me what do you specifically think is "shit"

The Thing

Has some nice special effects, but that's all that's good about it.

> implying raimi is not /ourdirector/

>My Bloody Valentine
That's just an average slasher though, hardly any better than friday the 13th

oh fuck
this triggered me

Literally anything that has come out in the last decade and been reviewed positively is overrated

The only genuinely good horror film from this century is Jeepers Creepers

oh shit son

>My Bloody Valentine
lol
I like My Bloody Valentine for what it is, but it's not better than The Shining under any criteria.
And I'm not a big fan of The Shining either.

>Why do we we rate directors so high then
Because they're the ones that make the fucking movie. Haven't you seen different adaptations of the same work, one being shit and one being good?

The plot and the script and the complete lack of "horror". The actual things that matter in a horror movie.

Yeah, man! War movies are the only patrician genre 'cause no women allowed!

In all of your opinions, what would constitute a good horror movie to come out in the near future?

Describe it roughly.

>It's just one huge meme
You sound like a really smart person with interesting ideas.

The Shining is more of a "spooky tale" than a genuine horror movie. I remember not liking it when I first saw it because I had a totally different expectation from what the film actually is. My opinion of it improved after seeing it years later with a different sort of lens.

I know.

not enough "spooks" got it

Actually jump scares were literally the only kind of "horror" it had. Pretty pathetic.

If that horror movie is overrated can I please have a list of your top 5?

There really aren't that many great horror movies so I would be interested in your opinion.

>My Bloody Valentine

hahahahahahahaahahaaahahahaha

It's the Starchild from 2001

The shining is not horror, more like comedy

T H I S

Some people believe that torturing animals is comedy.

people only rate the shining cause it's kubrik

We have had alot of great horror movies in last couple of years

I agree, but I'd like to know what the people that disagree with that actually want from a horror movie.

If you want to get faggy about it, everything is an adaptation, nothing exists outside of collective consciousness, everything is influenced by everything else etc
'Originality' is meme, it's all about what you do with what you've got

The thing is that horror as a genre has come to such shit that it is considered as a separate thing from film by the general audience.

Like when you go to see a horror, the majority of the audience judges the movies completely different from an action/thriller/drama with hard preconcieved expectations of what it should be.. It's like all the movie elements dissapear and the only measurement of quality of the movie is how many times you got "spooked". It's almost like a rollercoaster ride, not a movie for them.
Same thing happens with every movie that get's the "horror" tag but isn't the usual jumpscare fest. For example, the studio had to market The Witch as a "scare" horror movie so more people would see it, and when they actually watch it they don't care about the family relations and character development and the production design etc, they just want to get some loud noises after a few seconds of silence every now and then and go home happy "hehe that was spooky"

It's quite sad really.

If you can even call it horror.

I knew it was gonna be shit the moment he took off his mask

In the book, Tony is an adult manlet version of Danny.

Just finished the book yesterday and the ending sucks balls.

Bait

I wouldn't. I would call it a black comedy

I've never finished that movie and I've tried like a dozen times.

I always fall asleep

>implying it doesnt look and feel dated

it doesn't

This, only it's scared Starchild.
Again, 2001 & The Shining takes place in the same universe: Kubrickverse.

No, it's more of a psychological thriller

Too bad it lacked any kind of thrills then.

The Thing is literally a perfect movie

What the fuck are you on about

>action/thriller/drama
Audience judges those three by different standards as well, you retard.

Fuck this pretentious shit

#1 The Thing

Followed by a huge power gap and t hen in alphabetical order:

28 Days Later
Alien
Army of Darkness
Cube
Event Horizon
In the Mouth of Madness
It Follows
Jacob's Ladder
Necronomicon
Nightmare on Elm Street
Pandorum
Psycho
REC
The Babadook
The Changeling
The Evil Dead
The Fly
The Haunting (1963)
Videodrome

So there, a top 20 even, I guess. Some of the movies on this list have obvious faults (acting in example) that make them worse overall in terms of cinematography than "The Shining", but I found all of these were better horror movies with actually memorable horror moments.

no there's more people than the director
there's the budget too

My nigga. I watched it at least a dozen times.

His point is still valid because at least people judge the other genres based on the quality of the plot, character development and storytelling, but for horror - most people just expect cheap jump scares, which is the reason why big budget horror has become so watered down.

>hired a writer
see?

>the babadook

Opinion discarded, that is one of the worst films i have ever seen period.

However in the mouth of madness is one of he best, your a strange guy user

Hmmm.. this is a pretty solid list of horr-
>the babadook

I knew that The Babadook would be a controversial choice, but I felt a personal connection to the protagonist and I could emphasize with him.

>bu-bu-but there's no jumpscares

>this thrillers doesn't have enough thrills so it's a BAD movie

yeah it happens everytime

>cube
>pandorum
>babapoop
>army of darkness

kill yourself faggot

But there are jump scares in The Shining. That's all of its horror elements.

You think people judge action movies by quality of the plot, character development and storytelling?
No, they just judge it by the action set pieces. See: Michael Bay.

People judge thrillers by the twists and unexpected turns they take. See: Shyamalan.

I like how you clearly added Army of Darkness last just to really make it obvious you're trolling.

Well come to think of it, most big budget films from non-auteur directors has become watered down

Check this out

It has a fucking jumpscare when the screen goes black and just says "tuesday" or something.

Name a scarier film

Isn't even considered horror for some reason yet I've ever seen anything come close to this mindfuck

What about the atmosphere? What about Nicholsons performance? What about the symetrical framing of hallways? What about the old lady in the room? What about the two girls? What about the river of blood coming down an elevator? What about the soundtrack? What about the use of sound editing?
All jumpscares?

army of darkness is not a horror film.

>What about Nicholsons performance?
The only saving grace.