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It Follows
*Insert STD joke that everybody seems to be making here* |
Confused. Where is the STD joke? Is it from a trailer or something? Cause I haven't watched actual TV in weeks or months.
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Originally Posted by Exo_
I feel the need in every horror review I write to point out that modern horror movies are hard to do correctly. First off, studios have trouble greenlighting a lot of horror films because the great ones almost HAVE to be rated R and rated R films hurt box office sales. If your film does get on its feet, then it’s got to be pretty unique or else it’s going to come off redundant and stale.
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Honestly, I think my biggest gripe with modern horror movies is just the general atmosphere. I'm not a film buff, so originality isn't something I'm as concerned with as some other nerds on this site I won't name, but there's just something about the atmosphere of seventies and eighties horror movies -- even the trashiest slashers -- that gives off a creepy vibe that modern production techniques just kill.
That old, fuzzy, kind of lo-fi camera look from way back when just made everything look slightly surreal and claustrophobic, but these days a lot of horror movies seem to want to make everything look grey and white and cold and sterile, I guess to make the atmosphere inhuman or something. Just reminds me I'm watching a movie that's been edited.
More than anything else, it's what ruined the remake of
The Omen for me. The entire movie felt like a hospital or something, and it just made it so, so boring to look at. I don't think it's as bad as it was in the early '00s, but I still miss the way the first
Halloween looked.