It’s a failure of imagination on your part in some cases. In others the studio produced a confusing mess that might be scary if anyone could understand it.
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Hard disagree about horror films and 'scary movies' needing to be 'scary'. That's an extremely subjective measure that just starts useless arguments.
Just like any other film, what it actually needs is good writing, good acting, and good cinematography, parts which are more concrete that whether something's scary. The horror part is essentially just an aesthetic which a movie can sit within.
Also, quite often the view that 'scary movies should be scary' just leads to directors creating films that are hard to watch, period - full of vapid jumpscares, scenes made to just gross out the audience, and often just torture fetish content. It's a terrible metric to aspire to that generally degrades the entire genre imo.
House isn't scary at all, though it is scary that the director thought Hugh Laurie was more American than most Americans.
Old not scary movies are also not scary → old not scary movies are bad. So are new scary and new not scary movies. Hence, movies are bad.
You do you. Alien aren't scary but it's intense and well made, and i only watched it recently. The Thing too. They both excel without relying on cheap jumpscare.
Counterpoint: cinematography and story is more important to whether a movie is good than if it makes you jump
The shining is not a particularly scary film by modern standards, it's still rightly regarded as one of the best films of all time despite that
People conflate being startled with being scared
God I fucking hate jump scares. It's such a cheap/lame way to do it. A good horror movie has 0 jump scares.
Seven has 1 jump scare, and it is brilliant. But yes, a whole movie of them is just lazy.
They're cinematic Cup O' Noodles
You can just say that some horror movie simply isn't your cup of tea.
It's not enviable if you can only enjoy horror movies if you're surprised, but it's valid to have that kind of taste.
But Psycho and Alien are masterworks of tension in filmmaking (although Psycho is technically speaking a Thriller). And Evil Dead 2 is simply the perfect movie, so, this is my verdict on the meme:
no movies are scary, wdym?
House is good, I prefer the sequel though.
Upvote for mentioning House. House and House II deserve better than being forgotten.
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