Horror General

more like horror casual

nah

I agree, I never understood why the shitty one is so overrated and the actual good one is so underrated.

PoD is basically just a ripoff of Nigel Kneale’s (superior) The Stone Tape

I want to argue with you but it's honestly kinda difficult

I'll third PoD being underrated, also shouldn't They Live count as an apocalypse movie, as much as The Thing anyway?

It's tough to narrow down and you have to apply some common sense as to what your taste/interest is. You could break it down by era, nation, different sub genres etc.

70s > 80s

Thanks for the recommendation. I liked it, but I wouldn't say Prince of Darkness is inferior or a rip-off. The premises are only similar in that both involve people using modern scientific equipment to investigate supposedly supernatural phenomena in an old building. The movies are structurally very different. The Stone Tape is more of a paranomal themed old style sci-fi, mostly about people in a laboratory talking about the thing they are researching, while Prince of Darkness is straight up horror movie through and through, with lab talk only as quick means to deliver exposition between atmosphere building and action. The Stone Tape shows anxious and terrified people, but doesn't really use any horror movie methods to unease the audience. Now, many of these methods are tricks, blatant cheats, so I will accept the opinion that movie not using those is superior, but I don't agree in the case of these two films.

Because it's existentialist and spiritual horror with the alien being a stand in for the devil. Alien relied too much on mystery and the unkown which didn't hold up when it both got famously iconic and had sequels and prequels. Aliens was a cheap action flick.

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I honest to God haven't watched a horror movie that's made me feel afraid or think in a long time. I wonder if its just me being desensitized?

It was honestly meh, which makes me sad. Cryptid horrors always seem like they could be great, but always end up being b movie tier borefests like pic related. Which makes me sad, cause I used to love reading about cryptozoology.