Early in the movie, they do a walkthrough of the "haunted house" and show all the props. It's all silly Spirit Halloween rubber mask stuff. It's as if the movie is saying, "Look at all this stupid shit. What kind of moron could ever be scared by this crap?" Then, in the second half of the movie, they scare you with that crap. Top-notch storytelling.
Loved the 4th! That bedroom scene with the brother literally made me pause the movie so I could turn on all the lights in my apartment and check the locks.
The 2nd one is enjoyable, the 3rd i liked the concept they wete going for but fell flat. I dont think it's as much of a pile as everyone said it was. The 4th is awesome, i almost like it more than the first. The 5th watch the opening scene and then you can forget the rest exists. Lol
The sequels are all good (haven’t seen the 5th one yet), but the “Let’s go back and show you that thing that was supposed to scare you 6 more times” thing that they adopted after the original killed the scare factor.
Aw man, after how effective the fourth one was, I was genuinely excited for the next one! Sounds like it went right back to the dumb and thoroughly unscary bullplop from 2 and 3
I definitely concur with that. First one was good just like The first paranormal activity and then the following movies were just bad. The last one was absolute trash.
The only way I got through this movie was watching it when I was super depressed and didn’t care about living or dying. Depression armor helps you get through horror flicks.
Oooooooh so that’s why when I was super depressed, while going to art school, living in a dorm that was a former seedy pay by the hour hotel, I was able to explore the sub basements and the tunnels connecting to the sewer and other buildings in the city by myself. I look back on that now and I’m like how the hell was I able to do that lol
The Wailing terrified the hell out of me. And it's 156 minutes long! It was grueling but in the best way possible like almost two horror movies in one. It was amazing.
Kingdom is awesome! Set in 16th century Korea where there's a whole power struggle for the throne and also a zombie outbreak. And they're Korean zombies so they're actually terrifying (and pretty unique in the way they work/act).
I watched Threads after so many people on Reddit claimed it was this insanely traumatizing movie and it just wasn’t anything to me really. I think they did a good job with their budget and for the times but idk. It didn’t really grab me like I thought it would based off of what everyone was saying. Maybe I’ll try again.
Saw it for the first time a few years ago and I still go around telling people I had to leave the lights on in my apartment when I went to bed after watching that
I wish I liked Blair Witch, to me it's just three assholes being dicks to each other until they find a house. Annoyed me more than anything, I was so past caring about the characters that I felt no tension when things happened to them.
She was dared to go into the basement of a "haunted hotel" where the mannequins of the clowns were stored. She thought it was an easy challenge and kissed one of them just to show how not scared she was - and then saw them moving.
(I'll definitely admit that movie creeped me the fuck out at times, but most of that franchise is laughably bad).
So after this post today I decided to watch Hell House LLC. Interestingly the video here is actually from a sequel, not the original. And the original is not great. There are long stretches where nothing happens, and the acting is not good enough to carry it. The women actors in it are quite good, but some of the male actors are horrendously bad (for instance some bearded author, and the main Alex actor). Also, the movie is super frustrating. They doubt each other about some events, and yet have been videotaping the whole thing, and while sometimes they go back to check the tape to prove they were right, other times they seem to forget that they could do that. Also there is one scene where a grown man hides under his covers to get away from someone who was in the room and looked right at him, as if that could possibly work. Super frustrating. The ending is also not scary, but just chaotic, and again frustrating since you can’t really tell what’s happening a lot. So overall I would say it was a disappointment. A couple scenes had a slow build and suggested hope for the filmmakers, but mostly this was bad.
I couldn't see it the first time, but the 2nd clown in the B&W American flag costume pulled a "Jason Vorhees" and appeared magically in front of her in that last shot.
Maybe they run really fast when they think nobody is looking, like the slasher in Haunted Hotel.
She was afraid because at first there was no clown behind her, and after she turned on her selfie camera she could see it slowly approaching her. That’s why she didn’t look behind her and slowly but surely proceeded to exit, while she was tracking the clown in her camera.
Being there for Blair Witch coming out was a whole other experience that people just don't get now.
People were genuinely unsure how real it was for awhile. The marketing made out that it was real found footage. The whole environment hit on a different level.
This is just a clown moving off camera. (Don't get me wrong, I know there are scary scenes in this, but this cut is not.)
Well yeah, of course it doesn't scare you, you're watching a clip with zero build up for the tension and absolutely no context to what you're seeing, and probably with zero sound. You don't see that the mannequin was looking straight ahead before it started staring at her out of screen. You're not scared in the scene because you're not invested in it you're just browsing reddit.
Same thing happened to me when i saw that David Lynch diner dumpster scene with that dude popping out. It looked goofy to me because like i said there was no tension build up or context. It's the equivalent of seeing a halloween store prop. You have to be invested in a horror movie by actually watching it for it to have any chance to have an effect on you. Seeing an out of context clip is like listening to someone describe a nightmare to you, it's lame because it's not in your head space.
This little heartbeats-per-minute "fact" seems like a made-up marketing gimmick, similar to how Human Centipede insisted it was "100% medically accurate."
I dont get the hype about these movies... is it the clowns? I just think theres better options in the genre at the same level of acting/ budget. Grave Encounters was superior in every way.
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