
This may be a controversial cunting but i think it’s a long-held opinion of mine.
Horror films are cunts. They aren’t scary.
Most are laughable compared to the horror to be found in the real world.
I don’t understand the appeal of them. Slasher films sre populated by idiots you care nothing for. The gore fests ate silly and gratuitous, and you get much worse, real imagery in documentaries about medical procedures and trauma. Creature features are puppets with a bit of ketchup smeared on them or CGI patterns with a bad actor trying to react to them.
Suspense and that lingering chill are usually delivered far more adeptly by the psychological thriller with its slow build and more realistic characters.
Many of the ‘classic’ horror films of yesteryear look daft or are unmemorable. The Exorcist is the best example. Not a bad start, but by the time the pea soup is being shot out it really resembles a b-movie.
Modern horrors all use a very limited repetoire: weird kids, limbs with unnatural joints (dear God), the jump scare (usually no scarier than the flapping pigeons of John Glen’s Bond films), silly ‘diabolical’ screeching and the security cam/found footage gimmick. ‘Oh look it’s an unconvincing CGI spectre/creature/alien. Yes sorry my screams of terror just sound a lot like laughter. it’s really terrifying, honest’.
Return to Oz was more unsettling than most horror films of the past 50 years, and it was made for children.
Horror films. Largely shite.
Nominated by Cuntamus Prime.



