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[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's annoying because horror movies have allegories already, but they could be about bigger things than the trauma of them. I read someone trying to defend modern horror movies like this by saying Night Of The Living Dead is about the trauma of racism. No, it's about racism itself, not the black character's trauma from it. The fact that so much modern horror is filtered through a single person's emotional response to bigger topics every time really homogenizes things to a degree I don't appreciate.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah I think you're into something with the individualistic aspect of a lot of modern horror — it's all become quite solipsistic when there used to be something more social about it? But then you could say that e.g. Get Out fits into either category I guess.

The other thing I'm not a huge fan of is the way some movies will use trauma to 'elevate' the horror, when the whole point of the genre imho is to diminish trauma/general badness into something we can laugh at or get a thrill out of. It's the difference between making entertainment for traumatized people and making traumatainment for sheltered people.

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago

My favorite horror movie about trauma is Terrifier 3 i-do

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Just add in 30 year old hooking up with an 18 year old and copious amounts of alcohol, then HBO will publish your show

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They Look Like People is good though.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh there are lots of great movies under the 'elevated horror' umbrella dgmw. It's just that many of them really really insist on their own brilliance while explaining their conceit to you again over and over again as if you were too stupid to grasp it the first eight times.

[–] TheSovietOnion@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

If we're talking 'elevated horror' that still delivers the goods without getting too patronizing or up itself...

  • It Follows
  • The Babadook
  • 'Us' leans a little heavily on the convoluted allegory, but Jordan Peele's movies are otherwise actually pretty great
  • Many people would accuse Ari Aster of exactly what I've been complaining about, but I really like his work lol. I think because he never really hammers a central thesis; his films are more just kaleidoscopic head fucks
[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

May, Fresh, The Fan, American Horror Story S1, Super Dark Times, The Witch, Thoroughbreds, Haunting of Hill House S1, Pans Labrynth

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The Haunting of Hill House was such a great bit of telly. I enjoy most of Mike Flanagan's work, but that one is in another league entirely.

Edit - it occurs to me that The Haunting... is very very much about trauma, but it's about the trauma of living in a haunted house, and the impact that has on a family. Obviously you can read things into it, but it doesn't feel like straight allegory

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was just listing stuff that had themes of trauma I guess, but also you just made me realize that Mike Flan basically did the same theme with The Haunting and Oculus

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Oh yeah Oculus comes across as kind of a dry run in hindsight. Very good though, as is most of his stuff. The only Flanagan production I hated was Doctor Sleep

[–] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At first glace, I read the title as "elevator horror" and was intrigued...

Devil?

That movie was bad.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

Watch The Shaft. It's kind of amazingly bad

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Also no joke people said that exact shit in this post when defending Serbian Film on the horror sub haha

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Dawn of the Dead is about mindless consumerism"

Yeah, but it's also about a bunch of dicks hiding in a shopping mall where zombified people are bound to be, which is a shitty strategy if you're trying to avoid people.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

That it seems like the ideal place to be both to them and to the zombies is such a great gag imo

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope it's better than Longlegs

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That was so fucking bad. It was shot like Mr Robot where the main character in a scene isn’t centered in the frame. The story made no sense. Absolute shit

[–] ClassIsOver@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

As soon as you need "psychic connection" to handwave away plot holes, you've made a bad movie.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

The Monkey was fun though, and The Blackcoat's Daughter was alright