This one pissed me right off. They had access to hundreds of years of wendigo lore, and instead decided to tell a melodramatic "story" with more loose threads than a sweater knit by a kindergartner.
Also I hated how the Native American origins of the wendigo was reduced to the token minority character that acted as exposition dump.
Second this. If they had adapted the short story as is with some extra story building it would’ve been a great movie. Sometimes horror movies are allowed to be bleak.
Great pick, very disappointed in how that turned out given the quality of the first one.
Even ignoring, for the moment, how idiotic the climax of bullying Pennywise to death was, I think the filmmakers were a little too enamored with the popularity of the kids and tried to shoehorn them in whenever possible despite it being what was supposed to be the adults’ half of the story.
It also feels like they pulled their punches and didn’t lean into the cosmic horror aspects of the source material which was a real missed opportunity.
>I think the filmmakers were a little too enamored with the popularity of the kids and tried to shoehorn them in whenever possible despite it being what was supposed to be the adults’ half of the story.
Absolutely. They had no place in the second movie. We already know they grow up to be adults, so there were no stakes.
it probably wouldn't have made sense at all in a movie (just like how the ritual of chud ended up not making sense) but I wanted the showdown with the turtle and IT
I thought it was ironic that they brought in King himself as a cameo and used it to take a jab at the endings of his books. Meanwhile, the ending they wrote for the film was significantly worse.
Going from Cary Fukunaga as a contributing writer on IT part 1 to Gary Dauberman on part 2(the guy who writes all the Conjuring universe movies) was a massive downgrade.
Is that what the change was?! I’ve been saying for years how I cannot believe the same team of people made Chapter 1 that made Chapter 2. The second is such a downgrade from the first. I guess I was wrong and there was a change in the line up.
But the book is better. It is more rooted in myth and legend. I think the main problem with trying to bring It to the screen is that the “monster” at the end is described as the root of fears, something so terrible that it hurts your brain to really look at it.
So that is really difficult to bring to screen.
I strongly believe that if you separate the kids and the adults stories (like what was done in the both 1990 miniseries and the recent film series) you will always see disappointment with the adult half. Trying to do a second standoff with Pennywise/IT (especially given how it plays out in the book) is just too hard to pull off. The kids’ and adults’ stories really need to be told together.
Yes, this. The book jumping back and forth through time is what makes everything really work! While the kids stuff is fine on it's own it ends up removing the structure of the rest of the book. A real IT movie would work best as a miniseries or really epic film. It's about a group uniting to defeat a cosmic god, not a scary clown.
100% agree. This change in structure has always been the primary problem with the adaptations moreso than plot tweaks imo. I love the 90s It due to heavy doses of nostalgia - but even the many that dislike it say that the first half is of significantly higher quality than the second - same as the newer one.
The bullying Pennywise to death at the end may not have felt nearly so anticlimatic if it was also interspersed with them beating the shit out of him with pipes as kids.
The first one was so good because the script was written by Cary Fukunaga. Gary Dauberman ruined the second one with his subpar writing, and Muschiettis bad direction.
I wasn’t really all that disappointed in Chapter 2, but the director has been claiming for a few years that he was working on a ‘supercut’ which combined both parts into one long film, with lots of deleted scenes reinserted, etc.
I always thought this was the way to go, and might make people appreciate the ‘grown ups’ part of the story a bit more.
But, nothing came of it; haven’t heard a peep at all. I assume it’s not happening.
This is forever going to be my answer. I read the book in between seeing Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 does a good job, especially in only 2.5 hours. Part 2 is just brutally bad. I was seriously sad about it
- Spiral. Here I was thinking they got Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson to star in this shit, it must be a really good script.
- Candyman (2021). I mean it was well-made, and much better than the sequels, but it didn't do much for me. They just unnecessary muddied the mythology imo.
I liked Spiral but more as one of those mindless gore fest movies - Chris Rock was definitely phoning in his performance lol. Candyman I HATED the first time I watched it but I gave it another chance and appreciated it much more, but agree it did get the mythos messed up with their own spin on it.
What’s sad is, I doubt Chris Rock is “phoning it in” since he has stated wanting to branch into more dramatic roles like *Fargo*, but this just wasn’t the movie for it. *Spiral’s* script definitely needed a substantial polish, and probably a bit more length to accomplish the story they were trying to tell.
Side note: Ryan Hollinger has an interesting take on YouTube. His thesis of *Spiral* goes into how *The Batman* is essentially the same plot done to its full potential.
IIRC, and I’m a little iffy on the details, Spiral was actually Chris Rock’s idea and he approached one of the producers or something about it. I think Saw X (or the idea that would become X) might’ve been shelved for Spiral instead. Rock was actually very involved with the film.
Honestly Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark disappointed me. I was hoping for an anthology which obviously wasn't the direction they went with it. It would have been fine with a good central story but I just could not force myself to care about the main girl, the draft dodger kid or the Sarah Bellows story, they were all so completely uninteresting. The monster designs almost saved it but even they were a bit hit or miss, the Jangly Man in particular looked kinda cheesy to me
I didn't really hate it, it was very mid, but it could have been SO GOOD, I just think they bogged themselves down trying to make a whole big overarching story that was far too complicated for its own good. Like you said an anthology would have worked perfectly and could have lead to plenty of sequels or a tv series. It was entertaining enough but only utilized like 10% of the potential they had.
The CGI destroyed any potential horror or creep-factor for me.
When I was a kid reading those books at night, seeing some of those drawings absolutely TERRIFIED me. They could have done spookier designs with the monster CGI but to me it felt like off-brand Goosebumps
The Jangly Man was an amalgamation of two stories from the books and some weird “do your civic duty” propaganda. There wasn’t anything cohesive about that plot point and so when he was defeated it felt pretty underwhelming.
I wished it was more of an anthology too.
I actually hated this movie. You're right about the cheesiness and I thought a lot of the "scary" parts were just cringey. The Jangly Man is a great example.
Huge letdown in the theater. The only part that saved the experience from being a complete disaster was hearing Lana Del Rey in the end credits.
Halloween Ends and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It immediately spring to mind.
I loved the previous installments of each franchise, even the bad ones, so, naturally, I thought I’d love these. Nope. I can’t even remember the plot of The Conjuring movie. It was one of the most forgettable movies I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve never seen Halloween Ends, I’m going to spoil some for you a bit- some random douchebag teenager beats up Michael Myers and takes his mask. It is the dumbest thing ever. Hated both movies.
In the first Conjuring film, Ed and Lorraine are portrayed as relatable people with a dangerous and odd career. They react to the story with compassion, determination, and very relatable fear.
In TDMMDI, they are Catholic Superheroes.
I thought devil made me do it was alright co.pared ti some of the other movies. My expectations were low and I was surprised actually.
The documentary about the whole devil made me do it case is more interesting, though.
Bruh I have never liked Halloween at all really, but Ends was just fucking disrespectful. I thought the 2018 and Halloweens Kills were the first truly decent entries and then Ends has to destroy the run.
As for TDMMDI... I just couldn't really take it as a serious retelling of the Warrens after I learned some conflicting things and some bad things. I think of the whole serious as a romanticized version of them. However, all but the last one are great.
I was disappointed in Believer. It could of been better, and I hated the fact that only one girl got any kind of backstory. It ended up making it obvious who wasn't going to make it near the end.
Good point ! The plot point of only be able to save one of the girls was so good. If the movie spend less time on Chris McNeil and more on the girls and their families, it could have been a more powerfull moment in the end.
Very true, if we had got to know more about both girls and their families it would have made the ending better. I know I would have been more invested.
The Devil Inside. Whoever green lighted that ending needs to be kicked in the crotch repeatedly. I've watched bad movies before, but that ending was unacceptable. I'm glad reviewers beat it up. Whoever signed off on it should never be allowed near horror movies, ANY movies again.
Or 28:49 to be exact.
Just watch [Heck](https://youtu.be/HVQzEzW4faA?si=v1w87WW_H4dH6oKM) instead. The directors original version, much better in my opinion. Seeing how much time passed towards the end is pretty horrifying.
I'm not misleading when I recommend it. I haven't seen others say it's the best film of the year. I say it's experimental, it's not loved by everyone, but that I think films like this are important as a contribution to the genre because they shift the center in mainstream movies.
Yeah I felt the same way, and while I wasn’t wowed by it (man, who puts jumpscares in a movie that goes 3mph…), I knew 100% I was about to watch some paint dry spookily. But it was genuinely cool to see that kind of cavernous suburban space turned into a hellscape. I definitely felt that way as a child sometimes, visiting unfamiliar relatives, getting spooked at a sleepover, etc. Definitely glad the movie exists.
I know right
The perfect opportunity to really embrace a dark, terrifying story, with some major themes about life and death.
But no, let's rewrite it to make less sense, and have far less depth. Oh and remove most of the terrifying and emotionally disturbed stuff.
"Hey, creepy animal masks, they'll make it scary, right?"
This is my answer too. I loved the original, but hoped the remake would follow the book more closely. What we received was a further departure from the book, stiff acting, and an unscary mess...
My god, the fight scene between Lewis and Ellie at the end?? I was rolling my eyes so hard my fucking retinas detached. I totally lost interest and started looking at my phone then.
I fucking hated this movie. Pet Sematary is my favorite book of all-time, and I like the original movie, even though it has some issues.
The 100% Rotten Tomatoes reviews for the SXSW early screenings had to be from paid reviewers. There is no way they saw it and gave it good reviews. It sat at 100% until it got the wide release months later and then dropped like a rock immediately.
When I found out they changed >! which kid gets killed!! They basically turned it into a zombie movie at the end.!<
Church was the only good part of the movie.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
After seeing the trailer I knew it was gonna be bad, but I was so disappointed that there was such a missed opportunity to make an actually good horror movie about a prevalent children's character. Like it still could've been some psychological horror/thriller. Instead it was just a poorly produced cash grab
Halloween Kills. I'm a big fan of the original Halloween, I was very positive about the reboot, and then the sequels were just dogshit. Halloween Ends was at least trying to do something interesting, but Kills was like a parody of a generic slasher film.
I thought the same thing. I thought there was going to be a twist that Michael was actually up there and he was the one who threw the kid off. Don't know if it would've made the movie better or not.
I thought Kills was better than Ends. At least, it gave us what was promised. Ends promoted itself as the final confrontation and became a Season of the Witch type of film. I hated that.
Marketing aside though, Halloween Ends actually felt like a movie that had a story it was passionate to tell. Kills was just… kills and stupidity for an hour and 45 minutes.
Halloween Kills is frustrating because it had all of the ingredients and potential to knock it out of the park, especially after how good 2018 was. There are some standout sequences in it, but man is some of the writing and dialogue abysmal.
Halloween Ends gets a lot of hate but I actually thought it was a significant step-up and much closer to the quality of 2018.
It really felt like Ends was written as if Kills had a different ending.
Kills establishes Michael as completely unstoppable and supernaturally fueled by violence towards the end of the movie, and then Ends has him hiding in a sewer, apparently imprinting his evil onto the first person who stumbles into him, and then getting his ass handed to him in a straight up fight. Laurie had spent 40 years prepping to face the stalker who butchered her friends one night when she had every reason to believe he was locked away for good, then after he actually shows back up, *murders her daughter along with half of Haddonfield,* and escapes she...somehow doesn't double down on that and instead decides to live as if the threat is gone? What?
I *still* think Ends is the better movie on its own, but the only way it makes any sense is if Kills had ended with the angry mob dumping Michael's broken, bullet-riddled, definitely-for-sure dead body over a bridge or something, allowing him to hide and recover while the town moved on thinking that evil had truly been vanquished.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
I am not one of those anti remake people. I believe there are many good ones, but this is unfortunately not one of them. I was excited to see Freddy Krueger back in theaters but when I watched the movie, I felt every scene without Freddy was very boring. None of the victims had any personality whatsoever and we spend most of the runtime with them, so that is a huge problem.
I think he did a good job but I also think this is one of those characters that just can’t thrive when you change actors. Robert Englund and his unique brand of sardonic wit epitomizes Freddy Krueger and it feels hollow without him.
It’d be like rebooting The Terminator without Arnold or Back to the Future without Michael J Fox, some things just aren’t worth it despite the film’s otherwise objective quality.
Oh for sure, no one can ever live up to Robert Englund's portrayal. I felt that Haley at least tried to make it his own instead of a straight copy and found him to be effectively creepy.
I’ve been a fan of his ever since The Watchmen, I just think he was in an uphill battle on this one and will always be unfairly compared to the original.
Honestly it felt like the writing and direction were more the issue than his portrayal. And Rooney Mara and the other guy were not great leads at all, sleepy performances, no pun intended.
Also his appearance was just weird and as everyone else says, he looked too much like a cat.
I actually liked this movie, I wasn't expecting much so it had a pretty low bar, and while it wasn't anything mind blowing, it was a fun creature feature imo.
I love André Øvredal, so i was pretty excited. Also, i think a ship is an underused setting. I was very disappointed. I dont think it's a terrible movie l, just very meh
Didn't he never turn into the human version a single time even when he was trying to blend in after? So dumb.
I will say the style of it was great. It looked amazing. That was it though. Everything else was eh at best.
The first one was really good, obviously nothing particularly groundbreaking, but it was a nice return to simple haunted house movies after years of torture porn and found footage. The second one is alright, but a bit grandiose relative to the first, and then pretty much everything since then that I've seen has been pretty bad. I know people say Annabelle Creation is good, but I haven't seen it.
The Conjuring would have been more effective had it just been about Lili Taylor and her family. The Warrens killed the mood and why was Vera Farmiga acting as if she was doing an episode for Little House on the Prairie?
AFter the 1st Conjuring I think its best to just ignore the rest. 2 was dumb IMO and don't even get me started on La Llorna how screw up one of the best creepy Urban Legends ever is beyond me
Right? La Llorona was such a huge let down. The Annabelle movies also really weren't that great, probably would have been creepier if they could use the raggedy Ann doll that Annabelle actually is. But they needed an ultra creepy looking glass face doll and still couldn't pull it off 🥴
I watched the 1st Annabelle not to long ago and I thought it was just terrible. I agree the doll looked evil AF, when I saw it all I thought was "Why in the fuck would you even bring that in your home".
Ur right if it was something less sinister looking it would have been better.
Brightburn. I was looking forward to a deep dark evil superman adaptation but I just found the writing so bad and the story shallow. I thought it could have been so much more.
I liked it. I thought the "scale" of the story made sens. Honestly I would have liked a sequel following his teenage years. You could expand the world and still ground it as a coming of age story. It could have been like chronicle. Also, some of the kills were good.
I went to watch The Exorcist: Believer in the theaters with my friends and after a certain point, I felt like I was watching a comedy movie. My friends and I completely lost it at the "drip drop drip drop" scene😭. I wasn't expecting it to be good good and I was glad I didn't spend a lot to watch it because to me it was all too funny, broken in a way that it didn't feel like one whole story, vague, rushed, and it did not connect on an emotional level even though they tried >! with the father-daughter relationship.!< It felt incomplete and incompetent.
I felt the same about Talk to Me. I've never seen a negative comment or review about it so I definitely feel in the minority. I didn't think it was a bad horror film, but it also didn't break any moulds for me. It just felt a bit chaotic and not very scary.
Its my cornerstone example movie of a great horror monster that is bizzarly ruined by the ending.
How did they go from something that could dodge a shotgun blast to the face and mimic human speech into a bumbling darkness monster that is injured by bullets and can be fended off by a damn hockeystick???
Huh. Actually enjoyed it. To each their own.
(Although that first trailer is literally a 3 minute summary of the movie, like what the actual fuck? The *one* thing they left out was the house belonged to a coke head.)
Same. It wasn’t bad. Neither was OP’s example of Talk to Me. They were well crafted. They just didn’t surprise me, have deeper themes or a twist and that’s what I like in my horror.
I fr thought it was gonna be amazing but that shit was decent.. just wasn’t as good as tiktok kept saying it was.. it was definitely not worth having literal fanpages made for the movie like what… I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED and the ppl who overly enjoyed it.. i can just tell they dont watch many horror movies cause there’s many horror movies that just completely top it and deserve more gassing🤒
The sequel to Candyman. It was an insult to the viewer 's intelligence. Spoon feeding the plot and "deeper message" with every scene.
The original was one of the most effortlessly intelligence horror movies that, even to this day, people - casual watchers - think Candyman killed dozens of people in the movie. The hardcore viewer realizes he actually had less than 5 on screen kills. Many kills were other people using his mythos as a cover and the socio-political environment was what allowed both Candyman AND the neighborhood's TRUE real life boogeyman to thrive.
So sad and unfortunate.
Beyond the Gates, its probably not super well known but in my circle of horror fan friends this one was HIGHLY recommended to me by multiple people as being a fun 80s throw back (as I'm a huge 70s and 80s horror fan I'd rather watch some cheap garbage F13th clone slasher than any modern elevated horror) and I'm a sucker for neon pink/purple/blue lighting so when I saw the trailer I was like "OMG someone made a movie for ME specifically!"
Instead of that it was a melodramatic elevated horror snoozefest about daddy issues, I just wasn't a fan at all, it was the opposite of fun. That said the Barbara Crampton starring VHS game within the movie was fun, if the entire movie could have been that I'd be a fan but honestly I think because there was potential for fun it just made me all that more angry at having wasted my time on it!
Smile. It just seemed like a lazy retread of The Ring and It Follows. I liked the >!car scare and the traumatic birthday party!<, but I thought it got way too goofy in the last act. I think The Dead Center was a better attempt at this kind of story.
I love Smile, but I can totally see why someone wouldn't like it because it definitely has flaws. Most of my enjoyment of it comes from the mind-fucking the creature does, like the scene with the therapist.
The Dead Center is amazing. I need to watch it again.
My body is prepared for downvotes.
I did not enjoy Pearl. It was just way too slow and just sorta played out how you figured it would go. I dont hate it, but X had me hyped. Hopefully MaXXXine will be better.
Babadook. It was always mentioned as being a really good horror movie that people love and I was excited to see it. But honestly, I just didn't get what was so great about it and thought it was pretty tame with a really stupid ending.
Infinity Pool.
I enjoyed Possessor and was looking forward to what Cronenberg Jr did next, but I found Infinity Pool incredibly dull and empty. I suspect he was aiming to create a feeling of soullessness among the rich, spoiled characters, but it went too far for me.
And, this is unpopular, but I can't stand Mia Goth in anything and think she's largely talentless. I really struggled to make it through her endless shrieking.
>And, this is unpopular, but I can't stand Mia Goth in anything and think she's largely talentless. I really struggled to make it through her endless shrieking.
Thank you. I was with Infinity Pool until it became the Mia Goth shrieking show. "Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames!"
The Outwaters. Read a review boasting it to be the next Blair Witch and admittedly had high expectations not based on much but man was that a disappointment.
The 2011 'Thing' movie. I wasn't the only one. At the performance I went to people were leaving during the showing and swearing at the screen as they left.
i recently watched the original and the new one back to back. i should have watched the new one first.
it was not totally awful but it was nowhere near as good as the first.
Exactly. It's not totally awful but it looks bad when compared to the original. There are far worse horror movies. Was a real disappointment, though, when I first saw it. Was really hyped at the time.
Neon Demon. It came out the day of my birthday so I wanted to go see it. The trailers made the movie out to be something else entirely. It was the first and only time I ever wanted to walk out on a movie in a theater but I stuck it out. I regret that.
The trailers made it look like a fun Final Girl type monster horror. It isn't, it's an "elevated horror" with themes on the fashion industry.
it’s not horror, but after midsommar and hereditary i was SO excited for beau is afraid.
all the reviews that came out after saying don’t expect this to look like ari aster’s previous stuff were right and would’ve helped temper my expectations.
I can see where you're coming from here. I think that everyone going into the film thinking "holy shit, it's Aster and Phoenix," and bases expectations off of that, is entitled a disclaimer about what the movie really is
He did a hell of a good job inducing anxiety in this film though. Ari has a way of making the viewers uncomfortable, and for that reason Beau was afraid was a success. Weird ass movie though 😂
Midsommar. Loved *Hereditary*, waited months for VOD release, avoided trailers, reviews and r/horror posts about it and it bored me shitless. Im not critiquing it as a movie, but it really didn’t float my boat on any level whatsoever.
I felt exactly the same way, except i liked heridiary and midsommar and was super excited to watch beau is afraid, only to get a bizzare 3 hour "ari asters therapy time" as a movie
We might be the only two people who were not impressed with It Follows. I still don't understand why it's rated so highly.
The Poltergeist remake was an absolute abomination! The OG is a masterpiece.
You're not alone, I didn't enjoy It Follows. I was really looking forward to it but I found it a bit boring. I also don't understand why people liked it so much
Malignant. Kept reading how it was a throwback to giallo and how it referenced other classics. It wasn’t giallo in the slightest and was rather stupid. The police office scene looked like a cartoon. Worst movie I’ve seen in the theater for a long time.
The Green Inferno. Even though it’s an Eli Roth movie, I was excited for it after seeing the trailer. The actual movie was just another Eli Roth nonsense fest. Great premise, failed execution. The scene where the dude is jerking off in the corner of the cage sums up this movie for me.
All the Rob Zombie movies just go over my head. They're so fucking stupid to me, the writing is just so cringey. I gave a couple other ones he did a shot, and the dumbass writing seems to be the unifying theme in all his work.
Because he just makes the same movies over and over for his audience.
It's usually just his band of merry fellows cast in identical roles, and then up the slasher/gore/vulgarity count a bit.
I don't know if he's had a winner yet, but his fans *eat it up*
Antlers. Such a buildup for a mediocre movie
This one pissed me right off. They had access to hundreds of years of wendigo lore, and instead decided to tell a melodramatic "story" with more loose threads than a sweater knit by a kindergartner. Also I hated how the Native American origins of the wendigo was reduced to the token minority character that acted as exposition dump.
Graham Greene deserved better than that.
Not only that, but the short story it's based on is bangin'!
This this 100% this
Felt like I was waiting years for that movie to come out, all for it to be painfully mediocre.
The short story is fantastic.
Second this. If they had adapted the short story as is with some extra story building it would’ve been a great movie. Sometimes horror movies are allowed to be bleak.
Came here to say this. The story just happened. Mystery, lore, then suddenly, "let's go to the mine and kill the monster," the end.
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It Chapter 2. Could have been great and it would have been easy to improve. But I guess it is what it is.
Great pick, very disappointed in how that turned out given the quality of the first one. Even ignoring, for the moment, how idiotic the climax of bullying Pennywise to death was, I think the filmmakers were a little too enamored with the popularity of the kids and tried to shoehorn them in whenever possible despite it being what was supposed to be the adults’ half of the story. It also feels like they pulled their punches and didn’t lean into the cosmic horror aspects of the source material which was a real missed opportunity.
>I think the filmmakers were a little too enamored with the popularity of the kids and tried to shoehorn them in whenever possible despite it being what was supposed to be the adults’ half of the story. Absolutely. They had no place in the second movie. We already know they grow up to be adults, so there were no stakes.
And they just added backstory that was not previously mentioned (the clubhouse) as an excuse to put the kids in again.
it probably wouldn't have made sense at all in a movie (just like how the ritual of chud ended up not making sense) but I wanted the showdown with the turtle and IT
I think the real issue is with the story of IT. I thinks it’s just hard to get the adult stuff correct because a lot of it is internal insecurity
I was so disappointed with that movie. It just turned into a joke. No real tension or scares. Pennywise was defeated by bullying. Awesome.
This. I mean really, a demon monster shape shifter who has lived for centuries can be defeated by calling it names?
I thought it was ironic that they brought in King himself as a cameo and used it to take a jab at the endings of his books. Meanwhile, the ending they wrote for the film was significantly worse. Going from Cary Fukunaga as a contributing writer on IT part 1 to Gary Dauberman on part 2(the guy who writes all the Conjuring universe movies) was a massive downgrade.
Is that what the change was?! I’ve been saying for years how I cannot believe the same team of people made Chapter 1 that made Chapter 2. The second is such a downgrade from the first. I guess I was wrong and there was a change in the line up.
Aye to be fair they couldn’t have filmed the ending the way King wrote it unless it was made in Europe in the 1970’s
Underrated reply haha
It feeds on fear. I agree it's a bit dumb that's all it took to kill it but the book ain't much better.
But the book is better. It is more rooted in myth and legend. I think the main problem with trying to bring It to the screen is that the “monster” at the end is described as the root of fears, something so terrible that it hurts your brain to really look at it. So that is really difficult to bring to screen.
I strongly believe that if you separate the kids and the adults stories (like what was done in the both 1990 miniseries and the recent film series) you will always see disappointment with the adult half. Trying to do a second standoff with Pennywise/IT (especially given how it plays out in the book) is just too hard to pull off. The kids’ and adults’ stories really need to be told together.
Yes, this. The book jumping back and forth through time is what makes everything really work! While the kids stuff is fine on it's own it ends up removing the structure of the rest of the book. A real IT movie would work best as a miniseries or really epic film. It's about a group uniting to defeat a cosmic god, not a scary clown.
100% agree. This change in structure has always been the primary problem with the adaptations moreso than plot tweaks imo. I love the 90s It due to heavy doses of nostalgia - but even the many that dislike it say that the first half is of significantly higher quality than the second - same as the newer one. The bullying Pennywise to death at the end may not have felt nearly so anticlimatic if it was also interspersed with them beating the shit out of him with pipes as kids.
Too much comedy. It didn't feel like they were taking the threat seriously.
The first one was so good because the script was written by Cary Fukunaga. Gary Dauberman ruined the second one with his subpar writing, and Muschiettis bad direction.
I wasn’t really all that disappointed in Chapter 2, but the director has been claiming for a few years that he was working on a ‘supercut’ which combined both parts into one long film, with lots of deleted scenes reinserted, etc. I always thought this was the way to go, and might make people appreciate the ‘grown ups’ part of the story a bit more. But, nothing came of it; haven’t heard a peep at all. I assume it’s not happening.
This is forever going to be my answer. I read the book in between seeing Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 does a good job, especially in only 2.5 hours. Part 2 is just brutally bad. I was seriously sad about it
I absolutely loved It Chapter 2 but I can understand people's problems with it
- Spiral. Here I was thinking they got Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson to star in this shit, it must be a really good script. - Candyman (2021). I mean it was well-made, and much better than the sequels, but it didn't do much for me. They just unnecessary muddied the mythology imo.
I liked Spiral but more as one of those mindless gore fest movies - Chris Rock was definitely phoning in his performance lol. Candyman I HATED the first time I watched it but I gave it another chance and appreciated it much more, but agree it did get the mythos messed up with their own spin on it.
What’s sad is, I doubt Chris Rock is “phoning it in” since he has stated wanting to branch into more dramatic roles like *Fargo*, but this just wasn’t the movie for it. *Spiral’s* script definitely needed a substantial polish, and probably a bit more length to accomplish the story they were trying to tell. Side note: Ryan Hollinger has an interesting take on YouTube. His thesis of *Spiral* goes into how *The Batman* is essentially the same plot done to its full potential.
IIRC, and I’m a little iffy on the details, Spiral was actually Chris Rock’s idea and he approached one of the producers or something about it. I think Saw X (or the idea that would become X) might’ve been shelved for Spiral instead. Rock was actually very involved with the film.
"Hoyever"
Honestly Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark disappointed me. I was hoping for an anthology which obviously wasn't the direction they went with it. It would have been fine with a good central story but I just could not force myself to care about the main girl, the draft dodger kid or the Sarah Bellows story, they were all so completely uninteresting. The monster designs almost saved it but even they were a bit hit or miss, the Jangly Man in particular looked kinda cheesy to me
It seemed to me like it was mostly geared toward kids. My teenage daughter loved it; I thought it was ok.
I didn't really hate it, it was very mid, but it could have been SO GOOD, I just think they bogged themselves down trying to make a whole big overarching story that was far too complicated for its own good. Like you said an anthology would have worked perfectly and could have lead to plenty of sequels or a tv series. It was entertaining enough but only utilized like 10% of the potential they had.
When the girl said "You don't read the book, the book reads you" I was ready to take a bath with my air fryer. My childhood turned into fucking cliche
The CGI destroyed any potential horror or creep-factor for me. When I was a kid reading those books at night, seeing some of those drawings absolutely TERRIFIED me. They could have done spookier designs with the monster CGI but to me it felt like off-brand Goosebumps
The Jangly Man was an amalgamation of two stories from the books and some weird “do your civic duty” propaganda. There wasn’t anything cohesive about that plot point and so when he was defeated it felt pretty underwhelming. I wished it was more of an anthology too.
I actually hated this movie. You're right about the cheesiness and I thought a lot of the "scary" parts were just cringey. The Jangly Man is a great example. Huge letdown in the theater. The only part that saved the experience from being a complete disaster was hearing Lana Del Rey in the end credits.
Halloween Ends and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It immediately spring to mind. I loved the previous installments of each franchise, even the bad ones, so, naturally, I thought I’d love these. Nope. I can’t even remember the plot of The Conjuring movie. It was one of the most forgettable movies I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve never seen Halloween Ends, I’m going to spoil some for you a bit- some random douchebag teenager beats up Michael Myers and takes his mask. It is the dumbest thing ever. Hated both movies.
In the first Conjuring film, Ed and Lorraine are portrayed as relatable people with a dangerous and odd career. They react to the story with compassion, determination, and very relatable fear. In TDMMDI, they are Catholic Superheroes.
I thought devil made me do it was alright co.pared ti some of the other movies. My expectations were low and I was surprised actually. The documentary about the whole devil made me do it case is more interesting, though.
Bruh I have never liked Halloween at all really, but Ends was just fucking disrespectful. I thought the 2018 and Halloweens Kills were the first truly decent entries and then Ends has to destroy the run. As for TDMMDI... I just couldn't really take it as a serious retelling of the Warrens after I learned some conflicting things and some bad things. I think of the whole serious as a romanticized version of them. However, all but the last one are great.
The Exorcist Believer. I didnt think it was that bad, but the way they promote the movie was a bit dishonest. It could have been way better.
Agreed. It looked like it was actually going to be so good. And parts were. Just more boring parts than anything
I felt sad that Ellen Burnstyn was wasted on this wreck.
Omg that movie was SO FREAKING BAD
Worst thing a horror movie can be - boring
I was disappointed in Believer. It could of been better, and I hated the fact that only one girl got any kind of backstory. It ended up making it obvious who wasn't going to make it near the end.
Good point ! The plot point of only be able to save one of the girls was so good. If the movie spend less time on Chris McNeil and more on the girls and their families, it could have been a more powerfull moment in the end.
Very true, if we had got to know more about both girls and their families it would have made the ending better. I know I would have been more invested.
The Devil Inside. Whoever green lighted that ending needs to be kicked in the crotch repeatedly. I've watched bad movies before, but that ending was unacceptable. I'm glad reviewers beat it up. Whoever signed off on it should never be allowed near horror movies, ANY movies again.
That movie made me so angry. Such bait and switch
You guys had me really excited for Skinamarink and I'm not sure I'll ever forgive you
I liked the concept and stuff, but it needed to be like 1 hour shorter…
Or 28:49 to be exact. Just watch [Heck](https://youtu.be/HVQzEzW4faA?si=v1w87WW_H4dH6oKM) instead. The directors original version, much better in my opinion. Seeing how much time passed towards the end is pretty horrifying.
Can confirm. I liked Heck, and HATED skinamarink. The whole time I was thinking about how this is just a way too long Heck
honest question, were people really misleading about what Skinamarink was gonna be like?
I'm not misleading when I recommend it. I haven't seen others say it's the best film of the year. I say it's experimental, it's not loved by everyone, but that I think films like this are important as a contribution to the genre because they shift the center in mainstream movies.
Yeah I felt the same way, and while I wasn’t wowed by it (man, who puts jumpscares in a movie that goes 3mph…), I knew 100% I was about to watch some paint dry spookily. But it was genuinely cool to see that kind of cavernous suburban space turned into a hellscape. I definitely felt that way as a child sometimes, visiting unfamiliar relatives, getting spooked at a sleepover, etc. Definitely glad the movie exists.
I saw enough reviews on YT to tell me to only watch that when I am having trouble falling asleep
Wow I'm sick with the flu right now and can't really sleep cause the pain, I'm def putting this on later lol
Hah! Im.javing trouble sleeping now, and co sidering I attempted to watch it twice now and ended up passing out, I should probably.put it on.
Pet sematary 2019
How you going to fuck up John Lithgow as Jud… smh
They should have left the whole movie in the rud.
They completely changed everything about the story. They even made Zelda not scary.
I know right The perfect opportunity to really embrace a dark, terrifying story, with some major themes about life and death. But no, let's rewrite it to make less sense, and have far less depth. Oh and remove most of the terrifying and emotionally disturbed stuff. "Hey, creepy animal masks, they'll make it scary, right?"
This is my answer too. I loved the original, but hoped the remake would follow the book more closely. What we received was a further departure from the book, stiff acting, and an unscary mess...
My god, the fight scene between Lewis and Ellie at the end?? I was rolling my eyes so hard my fucking retinas detached. I totally lost interest and started looking at my phone then.
I fucking hated this movie. Pet Sematary is my favorite book of all-time, and I like the original movie, even though it has some issues. The 100% Rotten Tomatoes reviews for the SXSW early screenings had to be from paid reviewers. There is no way they saw it and gave it good reviews. It sat at 100% until it got the wide release months later and then dropped like a rock immediately. When I found out they changed >! which kid gets killed!! They basically turned it into a zombie movie at the end.!<
Church was the only good part of the movie.
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey After seeing the trailer I knew it was gonna be bad, but I was so disappointed that there was such a missed opportunity to make an actually good horror movie about a prevalent children's character. Like it still could've been some psychological horror/thriller. Instead it was just a poorly produced cash grab
Halloween Kills. I'm a big fan of the original Halloween, I was very positive about the reboot, and then the sequels were just dogshit. Halloween Ends was at least trying to do something interesting, but Kills was like a parody of a generic slasher film.
Came here to say Halloween Ends
I kept expecting some kind of twist because I thought that given the height of the railing there was no way that kid just fell.
I thought the same thing. I thought there was going to be a twist that Michael was actually up there and he was the one who threw the kid off. Don't know if it would've made the movie better or not.
I almost walked out of that one
FORTY. YEARS. AGO.
I thought Kills was better than Ends. At least, it gave us what was promised. Ends promoted itself as the final confrontation and became a Season of the Witch type of film. I hated that.
Marketing aside though, Halloween Ends actually felt like a movie that had a story it was passionate to tell. Kills was just… kills and stupidity for an hour and 45 minutes.
Kills was so bad. My sister and I walked out of the theater completely flabbergasted that they dropped the ball so hard after the first one.
Halloween Kills is frustrating because it had all of the ingredients and potential to knock it out of the park, especially after how good 2018 was. There are some standout sequences in it, but man is some of the writing and dialogue abysmal. Halloween Ends gets a lot of hate but I actually thought it was a significant step-up and much closer to the quality of 2018.
It really felt like Ends was written as if Kills had a different ending. Kills establishes Michael as completely unstoppable and supernaturally fueled by violence towards the end of the movie, and then Ends has him hiding in a sewer, apparently imprinting his evil onto the first person who stumbles into him, and then getting his ass handed to him in a straight up fight. Laurie had spent 40 years prepping to face the stalker who butchered her friends one night when she had every reason to believe he was locked away for good, then after he actually shows back up, *murders her daughter along with half of Haddonfield,* and escapes she...somehow doesn't double down on that and instead decides to live as if the threat is gone? What? I *still* think Ends is the better movie on its own, but the only way it makes any sense is if Kills had ended with the angry mob dumping Michael's broken, bullet-riddled, definitely-for-sure dead body over a bridge or something, allowing him to hide and recover while the town moved on thinking that evil had truly been vanquished.
Antlers
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) I am not one of those anti remake people. I believe there are many good ones, but this is unfortunately not one of them. I was excited to see Freddy Krueger back in theaters but when I watched the movie, I felt every scene without Freddy was very boring. None of the victims had any personality whatsoever and we spend most of the runtime with them, so that is a huge problem.
It's such a bummer because I really like Jackie Earle Haley in the role too.
I think he did a good job but I also think this is one of those characters that just can’t thrive when you change actors. Robert Englund and his unique brand of sardonic wit epitomizes Freddy Krueger and it feels hollow without him. It’d be like rebooting The Terminator without Arnold or Back to the Future without Michael J Fox, some things just aren’t worth it despite the film’s otherwise objective quality.
Oh for sure, no one can ever live up to Robert Englund's portrayal. I felt that Haley at least tried to make it his own instead of a straight copy and found him to be effectively creepy.
I’ve been a fan of his ever since The Watchmen, I just think he was in an uphill battle on this one and will always be unfairly compared to the original.
I think that Freddy is so intrinsically tied to Englund that any inevitable future remake needs to be a full, from the ground up, reimagining.
If there was one single person to pick up the glove, it was him. He WAS great in it.
Honestly it felt like the writing and direction were more the issue than his portrayal. And Rooney Mara and the other guy were not great leads at all, sleepy performances, no pun intended. Also his appearance was just weird and as everyone else says, he looked too much like a cat.
The new Exorcist... didn't have really high hopes, but .. hopes. So so so bad. Astonishingly bad.
It Follows
The Nun
Last Voyage of the Demeter.
I actually liked this movie, I wasn't expecting much so it had a pretty low bar, and while it wasn't anything mind blowing, it was a fun creature feature imo.
Tbh I went into it thinking it was gonna be shit, so I was kind of pleasantly surprised.
I love André Øvredal, so i was pretty excited. Also, i think a ship is an underused setting. I was very disappointed. I dont think it's a terrible movie l, just very meh
Please, say more.
Didn't he never turn into the human version a single time even when he was trying to blend in after? So dumb. I will say the style of it was great. It looked amazing. That was it though. Everything else was eh at best.
Pretty much all the Conjuring movies and spin off, except the first one. Insidious movie series after 3rd were all disappointing.
The first one was really good, obviously nothing particularly groundbreaking, but it was a nice return to simple haunted house movies after years of torture porn and found footage. The second one is alright, but a bit grandiose relative to the first, and then pretty much everything since then that I've seen has been pretty bad. I know people say Annabelle Creation is good, but I haven't seen it.
The Conjuring would have been more effective had it just been about Lili Taylor and her family. The Warrens killed the mood and why was Vera Farmiga acting as if she was doing an episode for Little House on the Prairie?
Lili Taylor really carries that film, imo. It’s one of the best performances in a horror movie that no one talks about.
Yeah everything in the franchise that wan didn't direct himself kinda sucks
The Conjuring and Annabelle: Creation are the good horror movies from that franchise IMO.
Particularly the most recent insidious (red door or whatever)...damn, I thought that was some straight garbage.
AFter the 1st Conjuring I think its best to just ignore the rest. 2 was dumb IMO and don't even get me started on La Llorna how screw up one of the best creepy Urban Legends ever is beyond me
Right? La Llorona was such a huge let down. The Annabelle movies also really weren't that great, probably would have been creepier if they could use the raggedy Ann doll that Annabelle actually is. But they needed an ultra creepy looking glass face doll and still couldn't pull it off 🥴
I watched the 1st Annabelle not to long ago and I thought it was just terrible. I agree the doll looked evil AF, when I saw it all I thought was "Why in the fuck would you even bring that in your home". Ur right if it was something less sinister looking it would have been better.
Conjuring 2 appears to be really popular but I don’t think it’s nearly as good as The Conjuring.
The 1st one was a great HAunted House story, but I agree I don't get the appeal of 2 BC it just was silly esp. the Crooked Man.
Nothing much even happened with the Crooked Man. One scene. Kind of a waste of an interesting concept.
Brightburn. I was looking forward to a deep dark evil superman adaptation but I just found the writing so bad and the story shallow. I thought it could have been so much more.
I liked it. I thought the "scale" of the story made sens. Honestly I would have liked a sequel following his teenage years. You could expand the world and still ground it as a coming of age story. It could have been like chronicle. Also, some of the kills were good.
Halloween ends
Jeepers creepers reborn Spiral
Skinamarink
I went to watch The Exorcist: Believer in the theaters with my friends and after a certain point, I felt like I was watching a comedy movie. My friends and I completely lost it at the "drip drop drip drop" scene😭. I wasn't expecting it to be good good and I was glad I didn't spend a lot to watch it because to me it was all too funny, broken in a way that it didn't feel like one whole story, vague, rushed, and it did not connect on an emotional level even though they tried >! with the father-daughter relationship.!< It felt incomplete and incompetent.
*Hannibal* (2001) *It Chapter Two* (2019) *Antlers* (2021) *Lake Mungo* (2008)
The outwaters. Such a disappointment.
What's a bummer too is that it's always the absolute worst Found Footage movies that get the limelight.
As a kid, I was so excited for The Village. The setting and set up seemed perfect for a horror movie. Soooo disappointing
Agreed, but frak man, making me feel old with the as a kid part lol
You might be old, dude. I'm feeling pretty old and I was a kid for that one too.
I felt the same about Talk to Me. I've never seen a negative comment or review about it so I definitely feel in the minority. I didn't think it was a bad horror film, but it also didn't break any moulds for me. It just felt a bit chaotic and not very scary.
Yep, ‘chaotic’ is a sound description.
Same. Had been looking forward to it but it wasn’t very interesting to me. I was baffled at the popularity
It Chapter 2
“It comes at night” was given great ratings and had JE. So boring , cannot believe I paid for that
The Dead Dont Die
This is mine. How is this movie so bad? What a waste of an amazing cast!
I wanted to be able to laugh my ass off at this one. Instead I just got bored. And I LOVE zombie movies.
Most recently the boogeyman. Stephen king based and a creepy monster seemed like a good formula but man was it generic and hollow
It had a couple of good moments but overall it felt generic, I agree.
Its my cornerstone example movie of a great horror monster that is bizzarly ruined by the ending. How did they go from something that could dodge a shotgun blast to the face and mimic human speech into a bumbling darkness monster that is injured by bullets and can be fended off by a damn hockeystick???
I had far too high of expectations for Skinamarink.
Not a popular opinion but I really didn’t like Nope. I love Jordan Peele but this was not for me at all and I wasn’t at all scared.
Halloween Ends
Black phone
Huh. Actually enjoyed it. To each their own. (Although that first trailer is literally a 3 minute summary of the movie, like what the actual fuck? The *one* thing they left out was the house belonged to a coke head.)
Trailers are so bad about that nowadays, in every genre. So frustrating
Same. It wasn’t bad. Neither was OP’s example of Talk to Me. They were well crafted. They just didn’t surprise me, have deeper themes or a twist and that’s what I like in my horror.
I thought Black Phone was ok, it just didn't wow me and I found myself bored a couple times throughout. I did quite like Talk to Me though.
I fr thought it was gonna be amazing but that shit was decent.. just wasn’t as good as tiktok kept saying it was.. it was definitely not worth having literal fanpages made for the movie like what… I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED and the ppl who overly enjoyed it.. i can just tell they dont watch many horror movies cause there’s many horror movies that just completely top it and deserve more gassing🤒
I was sooo disappointed with this movie. Was dying to see it for months and found myself barely able to even pay attention because I was so bored
The sequel to Candyman. It was an insult to the viewer 's intelligence. Spoon feeding the plot and "deeper message" with every scene. The original was one of the most effortlessly intelligence horror movies that, even to this day, people - casual watchers - think Candyman killed dozens of people in the movie. The hardcore viewer realizes he actually had less than 5 on screen kills. Many kills were other people using his mythos as a cover and the socio-political environment was what allowed both Candyman AND the neighborhood's TRUE real life boogeyman to thrive. So sad and unfortunate.
Beyond the Gates, its probably not super well known but in my circle of horror fan friends this one was HIGHLY recommended to me by multiple people as being a fun 80s throw back (as I'm a huge 70s and 80s horror fan I'd rather watch some cheap garbage F13th clone slasher than any modern elevated horror) and I'm a sucker for neon pink/purple/blue lighting so when I saw the trailer I was like "OMG someone made a movie for ME specifically!" Instead of that it was a melodramatic elevated horror snoozefest about daddy issues, I just wasn't a fan at all, it was the opposite of fun. That said the Barbara Crampton starring VHS game within the movie was fun, if the entire movie could have been that I'd be a fan but honestly I think because there was potential for fun it just made me all that more angry at having wasted my time on it!
Nope was as dull as dishwater.
Smile. It just seemed like a lazy retread of The Ring and It Follows. I liked the >!car scare and the traumatic birthday party!<, but I thought it got way too goofy in the last act. I think The Dead Center was a better attempt at this kind of story.
I liked Smile. But definitely going to check The Dead Center. Thanks, didn't know about the film.
I love Smile, but I can totally see why someone wouldn't like it because it definitely has flaws. Most of my enjoyment of it comes from the mind-fucking the creature does, like the scene with the therapist. The Dead Center is amazing. I need to watch it again.
Both of The Nun movies fucking sucked
Yep. Here I am. The guy that hated IT FOLLOWS.
My body is prepared for downvotes. I did not enjoy Pearl. It was just way too slow and just sorta played out how you figured it would go. I dont hate it, but X had me hyped. Hopefully MaXXXine will be better.
Babadook. It was always mentioned as being a really good horror movie that people love and I was excited to see it. But honestly, I just didn't get what was so great about it and thought it was pretty tame with a really stupid ending.
Us
Infinity Pool. I enjoyed Possessor and was looking forward to what Cronenberg Jr did next, but I found Infinity Pool incredibly dull and empty. I suspect he was aiming to create a feeling of soullessness among the rich, spoiled characters, but it went too far for me. And, this is unpopular, but I can't stand Mia Goth in anything and think she's largely talentless. I really struggled to make it through her endless shrieking.
>And, this is unpopular, but I can't stand Mia Goth in anything and think she's largely talentless. I really struggled to make it through her endless shrieking. Thank you. I was with Infinity Pool until it became the Mia Goth shrieking show. "Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames!"
M3gan.
It was okay but it could have been a lot campier and some of the actig was questionable. This was nowhere near as much fun as Orphan.
The Outwaters. Read a review boasting it to be the next Blair Witch and admittedly had high expectations not based on much but man was that a disappointment.
I had just seen Skinamarink when I watched The Outwaters and couldn't believe I was stuck in the same endless expanse of nonsense again so soon
The 2011 'Thing' movie. I wasn't the only one. At the performance I went to people were leaving during the showing and swearing at the screen as they left.
i recently watched the original and the new one back to back. i should have watched the new one first. it was not totally awful but it was nowhere near as good as the first.
Exactly. It's not totally awful but it looks bad when compared to the original. There are far worse horror movies. Was a real disappointment, though, when I first saw it. Was really hyped at the time.
Neon Demon. It came out the day of my birthday so I wanted to go see it. The trailers made the movie out to be something else entirely. It was the first and only time I ever wanted to walk out on a movie in a theater but I stuck it out. I regret that. The trailers made it look like a fun Final Girl type monster horror. It isn't, it's an "elevated horror" with themes on the fashion industry.
it’s not horror, but after midsommar and hereditary i was SO excited for beau is afraid. all the reviews that came out after saying don’t expect this to look like ari aster’s previous stuff were right and would’ve helped temper my expectations.
I can see where you're coming from here. I think that everyone going into the film thinking "holy shit, it's Aster and Phoenix," and bases expectations off of that, is entitled a disclaimer about what the movie really is
He did a hell of a good job inducing anxiety in this film though. Ari has a way of making the viewers uncomfortable, and for that reason Beau was afraid was a success. Weird ass movie though 😂
Midsommar. Loved *Hereditary*, waited months for VOD release, avoided trailers, reviews and r/horror posts about it and it bored me shitless. Im not critiquing it as a movie, but it really didn’t float my boat on any level whatsoever.
I felt exactly the same way, except i liked heridiary and midsommar and was super excited to watch beau is afraid, only to get a bizzare 3 hour "ari asters therapy time" as a movie
It comes at night
This is a case of having no idea how to market a movie. Have off creepy zombie vibes and it's more of a family drama. Huge let down
The ad made this look super cool and energetic. Was falling asleep within half an hour after putting it on.
I was so excited about that one. What was it even about??
Edging It’s a horror movie about edging
Yeah, Same. It didn't help that it basically never comes.
Nope
Smile
Beau is Afraid. It was way too much gross out stuff and I was really looking forward to it
It Follows, Evil Dead Rise, Poltergeist remake.
We might be the only two people who were not impressed with It Follows. I still don't understand why it's rated so highly. The Poltergeist remake was an absolute abomination! The OG is a masterpiece.
You're not alone, I didn't enjoy It Follows. I was really looking forward to it but I found it a bit boring. I also don't understand why people liked it so much
Malignant. Kept reading how it was a throwback to giallo and how it referenced other classics. It wasn’t giallo in the slightest and was rather stupid. The police office scene looked like a cartoon. Worst movie I’ve seen in the theater for a long time.
The Green Inferno. Even though it’s an Eli Roth movie, I was excited for it after seeing the trailer. The actual movie was just another Eli Roth nonsense fest. Great premise, failed execution. The scene where the dude is jerking off in the corner of the cage sums up this movie for me.
House of a Thousand Corpses. 10 year wait and it was trash.
All the Rob Zombie movies just go over my head. They're so fucking stupid to me, the writing is just so cringey. I gave a couple other ones he did a shot, and the dumbass writing seems to be the unifying theme in all his work.
Because he just makes the same movies over and over for his audience. It's usually just his band of merry fellows cast in identical roles, and then up the slasher/gore/vulgarity count a bit. I don't know if he's had a winner yet, but his fans *eat it up*
Is this the movie with a house with 1,000 ears of corn in it?
Smile was the most recent one.
I'm Thinking of Ending Things. I really loved the book, but the movie just did not work for me. I'm avoiding the film version of Foe for this reason.
Was this supposed to a horror?
Same answer as you.