The Friday the 13th movies and presumably 80's slasher flicks in general. They all basically follow the same formula; parties, drinking, teenagers having sex, murder, mayhem, people running around like idiots...
Least scary horror movies
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I'm not very much affected by horror movies as it happens, not saying I'm a badass or anything, just got desensitized to the horror genre due to watching too many in my childhood. So my opinion counts for little I guess. But still here goes:
Exorcist : I got so bored i slept through the middle third of the movie...and I was 12 when I watched this. Maybe it was because of THAT, or maybe it was due to my comprehension of the english accent not being as good at that time as it is now.
Exorcist : I got so bored i slept through the middle third of the movie...and I was 12 when I watched this. Maybe it was because of THAT, or maybe it was due to my comprehension of the english accent not being as good at that time as it is now.
Sorority Row.
It's just awful all round...
All the killings are basically stabbing people in the head, I actually hate the characters even more so than the cast of your average slasher flick and it has no scares at all. Seriously not even attempted scares of people jumping out closets or shit. It has set ups to jump out scares but it never has any of them and it ends with the 3 (fucking 3 whole living people) walking away from a burning building in slow motion with a look on their faces that can't be described. The killer isn't even scary, he's just a bloke with a hood...
It's just awful all round...
All the killings are basically stabbing people in the head, I actually hate the characters even more so than the cast of your average slasher flick and it has no scares at all. Seriously not even attempted scares of people jumping out closets or shit. It has set ups to jump out scares but it never has any of them and it ends with the 3 (fucking 3 whole living people) walking away from a burning building in slow motion with a look on their faces that can't be described. The killer isn't even scary, he's just a bloke with a hood...
I didn't think the first Paranormal activity was scary. I didn't even bother with the second one.
I know right I couldn't stop laughing. The first one was funny too.razor343 said:
Especially imagining the demon swinging from the chandelier who the hell thought that would be scary lol. I just imagined it as Errol Flynn from then on.
While I don't think the film Sunshine count as a horror movie but that part of the film was just silly-
Seriously? The main threat to the crew was just a super sunburnt guy??? I read that the orginal threat was something else but due to budget retrait we got that instead.
The Blair Witch Project, and likewise, Paranormal Activity.
I'll use someone else's words from page 1:
"It's the most realistic ghost movie ever, because nothing happens for 90 minutes."
I'll use someone else's words from page 1:
"It's the most realistic ghost movie ever, because nothing happens for 90 minutes."
Okay, I'll bite.Savo said:
Maybe it wasn't your cup of tea and didn't make you jump. If that's the case, fine. However, Alien built the house that a lot of the genre lives in. It's pretty much the standard bearer of sci-fi horror for the "Seinfeld isn't funny" phenomenon (link).
Sure, it's not as gornish as a lot of modern horror. IMHO, a lot of modern "horror" is a terrible excuse for torture porn. There's some good stuff (The Descent was brilliant), but the tendency is to equate bizarre, spectacular and horrible killings with "good" horror. Alien, though, relies on suspense rather than effects and splatter shots because it's over 30 years old. The killer is barely seen until the end of the film. Its capabilities are unknown. It can't be negotiated with or understood, and it sure as hell can't be faced down without weapons. Worse, it's smart.The most exposition about it that the audience gets is from Ash. What's scarier - the monster you know, the one you don't, or the one you thought you did? Especially after you learn that Ash, and therefore the Company, knew all about the damn thing, probably before the crew even set off on their mission.
I'm not sure what qualifies as scary for you. However, I would bet that if you'd walked into that movie theatre in 1979 not knowing what was coming, you'd have gotten a few good scares out of Alien.
Sure, it's not as gornish as a lot of modern horror. IMHO, a lot of modern "horror" is a terrible excuse for torture porn. There's some good stuff (The Descent was brilliant), but the tendency is to equate bizarre, spectacular and horrible killings with "good" horror. Alien, though, relies on suspense rather than effects and splatter shots because it's over 30 years old. The killer is barely seen until the end of the film. Its capabilities are unknown. It can't be negotiated with or understood, and it sure as hell can't be faced down without weapons. Worse, it's smart.The most exposition about it that the audience gets is from Ash. What's scarier - the monster you know, the one you don't, or the one you thought you did? Especially after you learn that Ash, and therefore the Company, knew all about the damn thing, probably before the crew even set off on their mission.
I'm not sure what qualifies as scary for you. However, I would bet that if you'd walked into that movie theatre in 1979 not knowing what was coming, you'd have gotten a few good scares out of Alien.
I think the opposite is much rarer. So few horror films are actually scary in any way. Jumpy and gory =/= scary. Jumpy just means it surprises you a lot, like a jack-in-the-box or some shit and most gorntastic films are so over the top that they're no longer disturbing.
To be fair, I don't think most are aiming for "scary" per se, but you get a lot that are, like Paranormal Activity or whatever and even they usually fail. I dunno what gives.
To be fair, I don't think most are aiming for "scary" per se, but you get a lot that are, like Paranormal Activity or whatever and even they usually fail. I dunno what gives.
Well that smiley movie is going to be a contender for a while but for now id say the saw movies. Its an original complaint but I'm just not one of those people scared by gore and get turned off by it