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babadook wasn’t very good
Lots more than 5
No, this is a bad take. This is my point. You think bad movies are good. It has to be an actual good movie, not a 'good horror movie'
bad take.
Tons of really good recent horror movies:
Get Out - medium ok this is the classic 'good horror movie'
The Witch -No no no
Babadook - F no
Let Me In - Let the Right One In is Good. Let Me In is garbage. This is very revealing.
You're Next - F no
Hush - No
Gerald's Game - This was still not good the first time when it was Misery
Annihilation -- no and this is shitty sci fi
Mandy -- Jesus
The Invitation -- I havent seen this bc its the big brother from the OC also looks like a thriller not horror
The Ritual
It - this is a classic overrated horror movie, starts out with some actual scary scenes then is just a writing mess with jump scares every 12 minutes
the first Conjuring and first Insidious - no
First Sinister - no
It Follows - It follows everything except its own internal logic
TAB spot on (and funny) with his “Wake Forest hot” comparison. Not a lot of horror movies out there that stand on their own as good films. I wouldn’t have Scream or Texas Chainsaw on my list though. The Thing and maybe the original Halloween instead, John Carpenter at his best.
But even “horror movie good” is watered down now since the output from Hollywood is so crummy overall. Horror is kind of played out and has been for a while. I’ll still go see something like the It sequel (TAB’s assessment of the first one is correct too), but won’t expect much. Midsommer is a curiosity, but it seems to me that if you aren’t making horror movies with jump scares, the alternative is just to make them so fucking weird that people will talk about them. There probably hasn’t been something genuinely new to the genre since the whole found footage thing got played out.
All good, well done, well acted movies -- you just apparently don't like the genre. And don't seem to have good taste.