Well regarded horror films that you thought were meh

MichaelWinicki · Oct 22, 2021

"The Omen"

Yeah, I know it's considered a very good horror film and did well at the box office when it was released in 1976, but it never moved the needle for me. I'd rather watch "Friday the 13th Part 3" or "Saw Part IV" than watch The Omen again.

Creeper · Oct 22, 2021

MichaelWinicki said:
"The Omen"

Yeah, I know it's considered a very good horror film and did well at the box office when it was released in 1976, but it never moved the needle for me. I'd rather watch "Friday the 13th Part 3" or "Saw Part IV" than watch The Omen again.

All of them! I am not a fan of horror films. But I will say this about the Omen. It started a trend in films where evil defeats good. I hate that.

MichaelWinicki · Oct 22, 2021

Creeper said:
All of them! I am not a fan of horror films. But I will say this about the Omen. It started a trend in films where evil defeats good. I hate that.

Actually you could back up that trend to "Rosemary's Baby" which is basically an evil defeats good kind of movie.

CouchCoach · Oct 22, 2021

One of my favorites is the horror within the horror within the horror of "The Mist". Even King thought they were out there with their ending going beyond his for one more layer.

One of my favorite what?'s in horror movies is "Open Water" based on the true story only they decided instead of the real true life ending to completely reverse it. Why base it on a true story?

Evil winning out or surviving became the new horror with some of the film makers wanting us to feel the antagonist was actually the protagonist like Friday the 13th and Saw. And how we can blame the poor werewolf, he's just not himself.

Jammer · Oct 22, 2021

MichaelWinicki said:
Actually you could back up that trend to "Rosemary's Baby" which is basically an evil defeats good kind of movie.

I remember watching that movie long ago when I was a kid. I was so bored watching it. Maybe as an adult I would get "it", but not as a kid.

MichaelWinicki · Oct 22, 2021

Jammer said:
I remember watching that movie long ago when I was a kid. I was so bored watching it. Maybe as an adult I would get "it", but not as a kid.

Yeah, I could see that.

CyberB0b · Oct 22, 2021

I used to feel this way about The Exorcist. I re-watched it recently and changed my tune.

MichaelWinicki · Oct 22, 2021

CyberB0b said:
I used to feel this way about The Exorcist. I re-watched it recently and changed my tune.

Yeah I could see that about "The Exorcist".

DallasEast · Oct 22, 2021

MichaelWinicki said:
"The Omen"

Yeah, I know it's considered a very good horror film and did well at the box office when it was released in 1976, but it never moved the needle for me. I'd rather watch "Friday the 13th Part 3" or "Saw Part IV" than watch The Omen again.

My opinion is the exact opposite. All Friday the 13th and Saw movies do nothing for me, while I cannot say exactly how many times I have re-watched the original The Omen and its second sequel with Sam Neill (The Final Conflict).

I cannot say the same for Damien: The Omen and Omen IV: The Awakening. Those two are pretty meh for me. One substitute I would watch over those two and the 13th and Saw films is the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Then again, I enjoyed Robert Englund more when he did not have many lines to say either, lol.

MichaelWinicki · Oct 22, 2021

DallasEast said:
My opinion is the exact opposite. All Friday the 13th and Saw movies do nothing for me, while I cannot say exactly how many times I have re-watched the original The Omen and its second sequel with Sam Neill (The Final Conflict).

I cannot say the same for Damien: The Omen and Omen IV: The Awakening. Those two are pretty meh for me. One substitute I would watch over those two and the 13th and Saw films is the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Then again, I enjoyed Robert Englund more when he did not have many lines to say either, lol.

Funny you should mention "Nightmare".

It didn't do a lot for me either and I'm not sure why.

Creeper · Oct 22, 2021

MichaelWinicki said:
Actually you could back up that trend to "Rosemary's Baby" which is basically an evil defeats good kind of movie.

Excellent point. I hate the movie to even though I normally love John Cassavetes.

Runwildboys · Oct 22, 2021

MichaelWinicki said:
Actually you could back up that trend to "Rosemary's Baby" which is basically an evil defeats good kind of movie.

Laughed my butt off through that whole movie.

Runwildboys · Oct 22, 2021

I'm not a fan of horror movies. I find most of them silly and unbelievable. That said, movies with inbred cannibals usually freak me out, even if they're not particularly well done. I watched Wrong Turn by myself one night, and I can say unabashedly that no movie has ever given me the willies like that one did.

Hardline · Oct 22, 2021

Never cared for the Friday the 13th movies or the Nightmare onElm street movies.
I was a kid when most of these came out and I was just excited for the nude scenes.

nobody · Oct 22, 2021

Blair Witch Project. I watched it and while I really liked the last scene, the entire movie was way overhyped in my opinion. It was okay.

I will never forgive it for introducing shaky camera filming, which I think was a gateway drug to shaky camera filming with action so fast, you need slow motion to actually see clearly what's going on. Sometimes it's better to sacrifice a little "realism" for artistic license and entertainment.

Runwildboys · Oct 22, 2021

DeathMonkey said:
Blair Witch Project. I watched it and while I really liked the last scene, the entire movie was way overhyped in my opinion. It was okay.

I will never forgive it for introducing shaky camera filming, which I think was a gateway drug to shaky camera filming with action so fast, you need slow motion to actually see clearly what's going on. Sometimes it's better to sacrifice a little "realism" for artistic license and entertainment.

When it first came out it people were saying it was genuine footage from a camera found in the woods. That made it seem much better than it was.

Hardline · Oct 22, 2021

Runwildboys said:
When it first came out it people were saying it was genuine footage from a camera found in the woods. That made it seem much better than it was.

Mockumentary

nobody · Oct 22, 2021

Runwildboys said:
When it first came out it people were saying it was genuine footage from a camera found in the woods. That made it seem much better than it was.

I didn't believe that. It would have been classified as "evidence" and wouldn't have seen the light of day while there was and investigation into disappearances.

Runwildboys · Oct 22, 2021

DeathMonkey said:
I didn't believe that. It would have been classified as "evidence" and wouldn't have seen the light of day while there was and investigation into disappearances.

Teenagers...People are gullible, especially when it's something they want to believe.

Mannix · Oct 22, 2021

MichaelWinicki said:
Actually you could back up that trend to "Rosemary's Baby" which is basically an evil defeats good kind of movie.

Terrible movie....and NOT scary in the least. I mean Clara Edwards from Andy Griffith was in it.

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