I talk about horror movies I've seen

Ben4 · 2018-04-25T01:04:10-04:00

Hello everyone who may be reading! I have recently discovered that I actually really like horror movies. I grew up in a religious, so I didn't see very many as a child, but recently I have been watching and enjoying them, so this is my outlet where I will talk about them, since my girlfriend doesn't like them. I do not claim to be an expert on them by any means, as there are many classics of the genre that I haven't seen. Hopefully someday I will be able to consider myself a horror film buff, but until that day, I'll just talk about the ones I have seen. In this entry I will be talking about The Conjuring (2013). Why start with this movie you ask? Well, because it is the one I have watched most recently. My thoughts on it? Well, I didn't like it all that much. I am reluctant regarding modern horror, I prefer older ones for the most part, but I had heard from somewhere that this one was a cut above most modern horror movies. Now don't get me wrong, it certainly isn't terrible, but it I personally didn't think it was anything special. It seemed like mostly just cheap jump scares. I am not the type of person who gets scared by movies easily, but I had pretty much lost interest in this movie by the time the ending came around, and I wasn't really invested in what was happening. I found the pacing of this movie to be strange. It was weird to me that the main characters were the Warrens, but they don't even go to the house for like the first half of the movie. So while things are slowly getting spookier in the house, the main characters of the movie are pretty much doing nothing. I feel like we could have just had a few short scenes that show the stuff that was happening in the house, and then have the Warrens come to the house still in the first act of the movie, and maybe they could have been present for the escalation of spookiness. While I do think the movie has an interesting visual style, I didn't find any of the visuals striking in the way I would want them to be in a horror movie. This is of course a matter of personal taste, but I found a lot of the stuff with the demons to be very bland and generic. Oh look, there's a thing there, but then when we look back it isn't actually there! This happens over and over again, and it makes the amount of danger the family is in unclear. I also thought it looked cheesy as hell when the girl was being dragged across the floor by her hair. Some things I think the movie did well. I like that it was a period piece, and I liked the 70's look of it. It was competently directed, and there were some interesting shots in the movie, like the one long take moving throught the house in the beginning when they first move in, or the long take of the guy setting up all the cameras in around the house. Probably the biggest fault of this movie was that I found the characters to be underdeveloped, and not particularly interesting. There are five girls, and it is almost impossible to get all of their names straight. I also feel like we didn't get enough time with Ed and Lorraine, and what we did get seemed like the screenwriter was phoning it in. The whole subplot of how something bad happened during a past exorcism so Ed didn't want Lorraine to go with him seemed half baked, and I'm not sure if the movie is better for it being in there. I mean I guess it's better than nothing, but when he said "I don't want to lose you" I was reminded of The Incredibles, and how much better of a movie that is, and how I would rather be watching that. So overall, this is a competent, but not very memorable horror movie. There are some jump scares that will startle you, the plot isn't too stupid, and the performances are all solid, but nothing in this movie will really stick with you afterwards. So if you are looking for a horror movie to watch on Netflix, you could do a lot worse than this one. But you could also do a lot better. Of course this is all my opinion. If you loved this movie and thought it was scary, then that's great. I just personally didn't find what I was looking for in this movie. Side note, the whole movie, I found it distracting how much Ed Warren looked liked Saul from breaking bad. I also thought that Lorraine looked like the actress who plays Scarlett Witch in Avengers.

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Cool thread. I'm a huge film buff, so if you accept recommendations I'll be glad to give you some ideas.

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