reddit ask: What's your "I did not care for the Godfather" of horror related media?
reddit user @Swag_Paladin21 asked "What's your "I did not care for the Godfather" of horror related media?" and here are some of the answers, you can read the whole thing at the source
- I think I just plain old saw The Exorcist too late. I've seen it parodied so many times that by the time I actually saw it, it just didn't hit right. The scene editing bewildered me and the inclusion of elements that never came back again. Definitely I was more invested by the time that act three rolled around, but it's never going to be a favorite of mine.
- I did not care for The Babadook. Highly important for the shift in the 2010's? Sure?
One of the early "elevated horror"? Absolutely. Still did not care for it.
- Personally I’m bored to tears by “elevated” horror. I fell in love with the horror of the 70s and 80s made by people who had no idea what they were doing but were having fun doing it. To me, horror is fun. When you take the fun out of it, well…it stops uh…being fun. Whatever. I’m not a wordsmith. I just like record-breaking gallons of blood, gross custard scenes and weird Sumatran rat-monkey zombie creatures. I’m a simple man
- I do not care for Jason Voorhees, nor do I like any of his films.
- House of a 1000 Corpses was nothing but disappointing. Which is how I feel about most of Rob Zombie's directing.
- Most 80s horror slasher movies are just straight up not scary like at all. If anything most of them just come off as nearly straight up comedies. I know they were supposed to be kind of corny even at the time but most of them didn’t age well enough for me to even appreciate them for the cheese factor.
If anything I prefer 60s/70s horror like Rosemarys Baby, Psycho, Sisters, Don’t Look Now, Omen, Exorcist, Carrie much more. Those movies seem to actually take themselves much more seriously and as a result are more effective in their scares imo. I appreciate the 80s for their influence in FX and introducing popular horror franchises (some of which are still producing quality movies today) but don’t actually care for most of the movies themselves.
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- I think I just plain old saw The Exorcist too late. I've seen it parodied so many times that by the time I actually saw it, it just didn't hit right. The scene editing bewildered me and the inclusion of elements that never came back again. Definitely I was more invested by the time that act three rolled around, but it's never going to be a favorite of mine.
- I did not care for The Babadook. Highly important for the shift in the 2010's? Sure?
One of the early "elevated horror"? Absolutely. Still did not care for it.
- Personally I’m bored to tears by “elevated” horror. I fell in love with the horror of the 70s and 80s made by people who had no idea what they were doing but were having fun doing it. To me, horror is fun. When you take the fun out of it, well…it stops uh…being fun. Whatever. I’m not a wordsmith. I just like record-breaking gallons of blood, gross custard scenes and weird Sumatran rat-monkey zombie creatures. I’m a simple man
- I do not care for Jason Voorhees, nor do I like any of his films.
- House of a 1000 Corpses was nothing but disappointing. Which is how I feel about most of Rob Zombie's directing.
- Most 80s horror slasher movies are just straight up not scary like at all. If anything most of them just come off as nearly straight up comedies. I know they were supposed to be kind of corny even at the time but most of them didn’t age well enough for me to even appreciate them for the cheese factor.
If anything I prefer 60s/70s horror like Rosemarys Baby, Psycho, Sisters, Don’t Look Now, Omen, Exorcist, Carrie much more. Those movies seem to actually take themselves much more seriously and as a result are more effective in their scares imo. I appreciate the 80s for their influence in FX and introducing popular horror franchises (some of which are still producing quality movies today) but don’t actually care for most of the movies themselves.
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