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Without a doubt, mine would be Zombie Horror. Over the years, I have tried but just can't get into it.

Whenever I see zombies, it reminds me of alcoholics drunk driving, looting, vandalizing, and violating other people and their property.

Re-Animator is the only Zombie Horror film I like.

Found Footage Horror annoys the hell out of me. I didn't bother going to see The Blair Witch Project 20 years ago. Watching the commercials always looked mind-numbingly stupid.

Don't even get me started on that movie, Cloverfield. I watched it on TV years ago. OMG! Talk about having your intelligence being insulted.

Exploitation Horror might be on my least favorite list as well.

After watching Wes Craven's The Last House On The Left last week, I still feel repulsed by it.

So, what about you?

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Just now, Fear of a Blank Planet said:

Found Footage horror. It's just...why? Why in the fucking world would you want to make something that would make your audience vomit before the point you want them to because the camera's too fucking shaky? You're giving them motion sickness! Fucking bastards.

My main gripe about this particular sub-genre is that the writing and dialogues are shitty.

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2 minutes ago, PurgatoryGirl said:

My main gripe about this particular sub-genre is that the writing and dialogues are shitty.

Yeah, that's true as well. But I just...can't...STAND the shaky camera. One of my least favorite episodes of South Park was the two-parter that had the boys try to make money by starting their own Peruvian pan flute band. The b-plot was a parody of Cloverfield, in that Randy got a new camera and he is using it to capture everything he does...and I mean everything. (In all honesty, it's actually real funny except for the whole "shaky camera" thing I mentioned.)

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3 minutes ago, Fear of a Blank Planet said:

Yeah, that's true as well. But I just...can't...STAND the shaky camera. One of my least favorite episodes of South Park was the two-parter that had the boys try to make money by starting their own Peruvian pan flute band. The b-plot was a parody of Cloverfield, in that Randy got a new camera and he is using it to capture everything he does...and I mean everything. (In all honesty, it's actually real funny except for the whole "shaky camera" thing I mentioned.)

It has literally been a dozen years, since I last watched South Park. I'm surprised that Comedy Central still airs it.

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43 minutes ago, PokeNirvash said:

I avoid watching most horror movies on principle, but thanks for the advice anyways.

Slasher Horror has always been my favorite sub-genre. Then again, I was born and raised during the time when Slashers were at their pinnacle.

However, I still have standards regardless of what genre or sub-genre a movie or show is.

Characters in The Last House On The Left are the embodiment of being labeled "basket of deplorables."

That movie was like watching extreme bullying committed by serial killers and rapists both male and female. It's amazing that I didn't vomit during and after watching The Last House On The Left, last week.

That is a Wes Craven film that I NEVER want to watch again. It was just that disgusting and inhumane.

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9 hours ago, PurgatoryGirl said:

OMG! Yes! The Zombie Horror sub-genre is probably 1 of the most overrated sub-genres out of Horror.

I wouldn't necessarily agree to overrated, but it was certainly way overplayed over a several-year period.

Like take "The Walking Dead" - I thought the first season was really well done, it came out towards the tail-end of the boom in zombie-related media, and then continued on for like a million more, less interesting seasons after the fad passed.

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10 hours ago, imchapp.in said:

Gorno or ones where it’s more gross than scary

I'm not too big on Splatterpunk Horror or Torture Porn. Watching Re-Animator is probably the most that I can withstand of Splatterpunk. Even though it's mostly considered SciFi-Horror Comedy, the Splatterpunk elements in that movie works. This is especially when it comes to Dark Humor.

Meanwhile, I fail to see why The Evil Dead is so great. When I wasn't cringing, while watching that movie I rolled my eyes.

Also, what is so great about Bruce Campbell? The man looks like a joke. Now that I think about it, I think I dozed off watching The Evil Dead a few weeks ago and had to keep rewinding on DVR because I couldn't stay awake, when it was on.

As far as Torture Porn goes, I have yet to watch Hostel or the Saw franchise. Every year, there was always a new Saw movie.

Other students on our college campus talked about how scary it was to watch. If people are being tortured, I guess so. However, some Horror films are gratuitous and contrived mostly with the gore.

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8 hours ago, Admin_Raptorpat said:

I wouldn't necessarily agree to overrated, but it was certainly way overplayed over a several-year period.

Like take "The Walking Dead" - I thought the first season was really well done, it came out towards the tail-end of the boom in zombie-related media, and then continued on for like a million more, less interesting seasons after the fad passed.

The Walking Dead never interested me. Then again, since I was never into the whole Zombie craze, that makes sense.

Over the last decade, the media and some friends have been invested in the whole "Zombie Apocalypse." There are some places that even have Zombie Apocalypse Camps and teach people how to supposedly "survive" a Zombie Apocalypse. Like seriously? Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit!

Some people assume that just because I am a Horror fan, that I would automatically embrace zombies with their "Zombie Apocalypse." Nope! It was never my cup of tea.

About 2 weeks ago, I tried REALLY HARD to watch the Classic Zombie Horror film White Zombie (a 1932 Horror film, that Rob Zombie named his band after decades ago). I just couldn't do it.

Trying to watch White Zombie put my mind to sleep. I couldn't stop zoning out. It got to the point that the channel had to be changed. That was before going to wash some dishes. LOL!

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I don't know about sub-genres per se, but I do enjoy movies like the Ring (Japanese version). Gore/torture porn, zombies, found footage bore me. Most monster movies are kind of lame, but I do enjoy a campy Syfy radioactive cyber gator vs sharktopus movie. Slasher movies are generally lame, especially when they are pointless exercises in moral righteousness; yeah, we get it, smoking weed nekkid in a tent by a kid's camp ground is bad, no reason for a towering revenant to hack you up....

 

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31 minutes ago, Ginguy said:

 Most monster movies are kind of lame, but I do enjoy a campy Syfy radioactive cyber gator vs sharktopus movie.

 

Say what? Now, that shit is lame as fuck. Contrived SciFi Horror films like Sharknado is about as lame as Twilight.

Years ago, I watched the J-Horror film Ringu. There's something about watching J-Horror in general, that doesn't resonate with me. I kept waiting to see what was so scary about Ringu and some other J-Horror films and they never delivered.

You could argue that I might be desensitized to Horror, but I'm not. More than 3 decades later, Gremlins still scares me and that movie was originally rated PG.

Along with Indiana Jones (not that  Indiana Jones was a Horror film), media watchdog groups, critics, and parents made a huge stink about Gremlins. They said it was too violent to be PG but not violent enough to be an R in 1984. Those 2 movies are the main reason why the PG-13 rating exists today.

Like I was saying about Gremlins, that movie is technically a Christmas Horror Comedy and Gremlins still scares me. I mostly say it's because they have such hideous-looking eyes.

BTW: Gremlins is somewhat based on Mogwai in Chinese Folklore.

Even though the movie is titled "Gremlins," their physical appearance was supposedly modeled after Mogwai. The water reproduction was incorporated into the film and in the Chinese Folkore, the water reproduction is a part of the Mogwai's mating ritual. It's amazing what you learn.

Anyway, when the writing is done right, monsters can be scary.;)

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13 hours ago, PurgatoryGirl said:

I'm not too big on Splatterpunk Horror or Torture Porn. Watching Re-Animator is probably the most that I can withstand of Splatterpunk. Even though it's mostly considered SciFi-Horror Comedy, the Splatterpunk elements in that movie works. This is especially when it comes to Dark Humor.

Meanwhile, I fail to see why The Evil Dead is so great. When I wasn't cringing, while watching that movie I rolled my eyes.

Also, what is so great about Bruce Campbell? The man looks like a joke. Now that I think about it, I think I dozed off watching The Evil Dead a few weeks ago and had to keep rewinding on DVR because I couldn't stay awake, when it was on.

As far as Torture Porn goes, I have yet to watch Hostel or the Saw franchise. Every year, there was always a new Saw movie.

Other students on our college campus talked about how scary it was to watch. If people are being tortured, I guess so. However, some Horror films are gratuitous and contrived mostly with the gore.

Looking it up, there’s an odd distinction with gorno material. I can get into The Evil Dead movies or Ichi the Killer, but I find that the Saw movies and a lot of Eli Roth’s movies focus too hard on seeing how they can make someone’s death look gross that there aren’t any genuine scares. 

I think that I have a better time accepting gorno if the movie is campy. Like the Evil Dead series and Bruce Campbell are great because of how immersed in the goofy atmosphere it is, so while it’s not scary, the gore highlights more of the cartoonish atmosphere of the universe. Same with Ichi.

Meanwhile, the gore in mid-2000’s horror was just joyless and focused more on trying to see how they can pull someone apart or throw acid on them to emphasize how cringe inducing or gross it could be. 

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49 minutes ago, imchapp.in said:

Looking it up, there’s an odd distinction with gorno material. I can get into The Evil Dead movies or Ichi the Killer, but I find that the Saw movies and a lot of Eli Roth’s movies focus too hard on seeing how they can make someone’s death look gross that there aren’t any genuine scares. 

I think that I have a better time accepting gorno if the movie is campy. Like the Evil Dead series and Bruce Campbell are Rey because of how immersed in the goofy atmosphere it is, so while it’s not scary, the gore highlights more of the cartoonish atmosphere of the universe. Same with Ichi.

Meanwhile, the gore in mid-2000’s horror was just joyless and focused more on trying to see how they can pull someone apart or throw acid on them to emphasize how cringe inducing or gross it could be. 

The Evil Dead franchise was too stupid for anyone to want to watch. At least it was for me, anyway. The whole franchise is too contrived and I felt like my intelligence was being insulted.

As far as Horror films made in the 20st Century goes, most have been remakes and reboots. Otherwise, there are more shitty films. Even the trailers for them aren't scary.

Decades ago, trailers for Horror movies and the billboards for them actually were more convincing about the horror.

Nowadays, there is way too much CGI, the scores don't set a creepy tone, and the movie edits they do specifically for the trailers are nowhere near scary.

Since 2005, I have yet to spend money buying a movie ticket in general, especially for a Horror flick.

BTW: If Hollywood filmmakers remake Stephen King's Carrie 1 more time, they're getting sent a long ass rant. LOL!

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Speaking of trailers, controversy with films released in 1984, and with Christmas creeping around the corner, I thought I would share this trailer here.

This was from the original 1984 Christmas Slasher Horror film, Silent Night, Deadly Night.

This trailer had supposedly aired during Primetime and when families used to sit and watch TV togther. Because it aired when most children were still awake, they were traumatized by it and was soon banned from theaters, as well as sent directly to video.

To make matters worse, there were some dumb ass parents who actually took their kids to go see this movie and were later traumatized by it!

That music and voice over were and still are freaky!

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On 11/3/2018 at 8:54 PM, PurgatoryGirl said:

Without a doubt, mine would be Zombie Horror. Over the years, I have tried but just can't get into it.

Whenever I see zombies, it reminds me of alcoholics drunk driving, looting, vandalizing, and violating other people and their property.

Re-Animator is the only Zombie Horror film I like.

Found Footage Horror annoys the hell out of me. I didn't bother going to see The Blair Witch Project 20 years ago. Watching the commercials always looked mind-numbingly stupid.

Don't even get me started on that movie, Cloverfield. I watched it on TV years ago. OMG! Talk about having your intelligence being insulted.

Exploitation Horror might be on my least favorite list as well.

After watching Wes Craven's The Last House On The Left last week, I still feel repulsed by it.

So, what about you?

I'm joining the hate train on found footage horror. Cloverfield almost made me throw something at the tv because of how stupid it was and how much I had to fucking squint at the screen. Whoever decided to make that shit shaky cam with bad lighting should have sand poured on their eyes.

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2 minutes ago, SorceressPol said:

I'm joining the hate train on found footage horror. Cloverfield almost made me throw something at the tv because of how stupid it was and how much I had to fucking squint at the screen. Whoever decided to make that shit shaky cam with bad lighting should have sand poured on their eyes.

Exactly! If memory serves me right, I think I was screaming at my TV that night, too!

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After getting out the shower, I managed to track down the trailer for the Silent Night, Deadly Night remake. Silent Night released in only "select cities" nationwide in 2012.

Chances are great that it was only reserved for select theaters in select cities because the original from 1984 caused so much controversy. After watching both films 4 years ago, Silent Night doesn't compare to the original.

Silent Night was extremely unrealistic and contrived. The CGI combined with some Splatterpunk made the movie look forced.

Basically it was a tryhard attempt at recreating a notorious Christmas Slasher film, that blew A Nightmare On Elm Street out the water during the same time both movies released in 1984.

The Santa Claus mask was the only part of the remake, that was scary and watching the serial killer literally taze that pill-popping brat was the best part of it. Hell, I laughed watching her ass get zapped. Buzzz! Bwahahahahahaha!!xD

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11 hours ago, PurgatoryGirl said:

The Evil Dead franchise was too stupid for anyone to want to watch. At least it was for me, anyway. The whole franchise is too contrived and I felt like my intelligence was being insulted.

As far as Horror films made in the 20st Century goes, most have been remakes and reboots. Otherwise, there are more shitty films. Even the trailers for them aren't scary.

Decades ago, trailers for Horror movies and the billboards for them actually were more convincing about the horror.

Nowadays, there is way too much CGI, the scores don't set a creepy tone, and the movie edits they do specifically for the trailers are nowhere near scary.

Since 2005, I have yet to spend money buying a movie ticket in general, especially for a Horror flick.

BTW: If Hollywood filmmakers remake Stephen King's Carrie 1 more time, they're getting sent a long ass rant. LOL!

The last remake I saw was the one for Elm Street, but it feels like the creativity or atmospheric creepiness was stripped away in favor of emphasizing how creepy it is that this iteration of Freddy was a child molestor like the original scrapped idea for his character. It seems like the most asymptotic of most remakes save for the new Halloween one where the passion and creativity is stripped in favor of making a rehashed slasher but with the modern conveniences of CGI, the occasional gore, and a story that’s passable enough and PG-13 enough to waste time for teens looking to throw popcorn at other moviegoers during Halloween. 

I still need to see newer films like The Witch, It Follows, and Babadook, but cheap remakes or stuff like Insidious just let me down and discourage me from horror films past the early 2000’s. I like watching horror during October but I found the only horror-themed things I enjoyed this time around were Devilman Crybaby and playing through RE2

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12 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

So I read up on the plot for Last House on the Left last night. It definitely sounds detestable, but I thought it was neat that

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the parents of the one girl exacted vengeance upon her killers at the end.

 

Yeah, The Last House On The Left was quite repulsive but like you said in the spoiler, that was probably the best part about it.

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8 hours ago, imchapp.in said:

The last remake I saw was the one for Elm Street, but it feels like the creativity or atmospheric creepiness was stripped away in favor of emphasizing how creepy it is that this iteration of Freddy was a child molestor like the original scrapped idea for his character. It seems like the most asymptotic of most remakes save for the new Halloween one where the passion and creativity is stripped in favor of making a rehashed slasher but with the modern conveniences of CGI, the occasional gore, and a story that’s passable enough and PG-13 enough to waste time for teens looking to throw popcorn at other moviegoers during Halloween. 

I still need to see newer films like The Witch, It Follows, and Babadook, but cheap remakes or stuff like Insidious just let me down and discourage me from horror films past the early 2000’s. I like watching horror during October but I found the only horror-themed things I enjoyed this time around were Devilman Crybaby and playing through RE2

I watched the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street and wasn't impressed with it. I mean, why? Why do Hollywood filmmakers need to remake and reboot everything?

For the last 15 years, the Horror genre probably has the most Hollywood remakes and reboots. Recycle, recycle, recycle. NEXT!

The writers and filmmakers need to return to the drawing board and start brainstorming better ideas. They need to refocus on actual phobias.

There is a phobia for just about everything and today's filmmakers are too busy recycling the same sub-genres and themes. That's besides writing shitty scripts.

If they tried being more original and innovative and spent less time and money on CGI, they could conduct research on different folklores, phobias, and more.

Also, they need to compose better movie scores, better trailers, and scary voice overs for Horror trailers. Horror trailers should have someone with a creepy voice.

If you ever take the time to YouTube old trailers from the 1970's to '90s, you will see how creepy the trailers looked and sounded. If you watched that Silent Night, Deadly Night trailer from 1984, you should know what I'm saying.

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11 hours ago, Phillies said:

how about anything with excessive sequels?  The Omen never impressed me. 

That has nothing to do with least favorite sub-genre. If anything, it's a major problem with Hollywood. Every genre and sub-genre has excessive sequels, remakes, and reboots, which is really tiresome and annoying. Therefore, I can empathize with what you're saying.

As far as The Omen goes, I liked the original from 1976 and didn't bother going to see the remake with Julia Styles in it. As much as I enjoyed watching her in 10 Things I Hate About You in high school, Hollywood filmmakers should have left The Omen alone.

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