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10/1/2017 7:24:32 PM
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Dude I've never really watched horror movies before, even really well known ones like The Shining and Alien, and I've got over sixty of them on my watchlist.
I did watch Get Out a month or so ago though, and I'd definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it. It was really fantastic, though it wasn't particularly scary. A bit suspenseful maybe, but not exactly horror.
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Just finished Get Out. I think it definitely fits into the horror genre. What makes a horror movie work isn't really the gore or the jump scares, it's creating a sense of vulnerability through the characters and pressing on those anxieties and fears once you feel vulnerable. Get Out does a fantastic job at that.
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Edited by tjustie: 10/3/2017 4:31:56 AM[quote]Just finished Get Out. I think it definitely fits into the horror genre. What makes a horror movie work isn't really the gore or the jump scares, it's creating a sense of vulnerability through the characters and pressing on those anxieties and fears once you feel vulnerable. Get Out does a fantastic job at that.[/quote] Gotcha. As I mentioned earlier, I'm new to the genre, so I'm not exactly a horror aficionado. I just figured that I should feel scared or really tense for something to be "horror". Get Out felt more like a bit of a creepy and suspenseful mystery movie, and a great one at that (I also feel like I should watch it again because there were a lot of little things the characters do throughout that only make sense after the big reveal [spoiler]Like the helper man running through the yard, and the helper woman always adjusting her hair[/spoiler]). Like I said though, I'm not expert. Do you have any recommendations for horror movies in a similar vein to Get Out? Ones that don't really rely at all on the grotesque or jump scares, but instead mostly rely on built up suspense like that? I saw The Birds on TV the other day and it struck me as somewhat similar, and I've had The Silence of the Lambs strongly recommended as something I'd like. Just based on the description, Rosemary's Baby sounds like that kind of movie as well. Anything else?
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The Thing by John Carpenter
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Yeah, check out The Invitation. It was one of my favorites from last year. Also I will always recommend Cabin in the Woods to anyone getting into horror. It's not just one of my favorite horror films, but one of my favorite films of all time. The Shining is also a classic that doesn't really on gore or jump scares and instead focuses more on tone, mood, and visuals.
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Why not? I'm excited for Get Out. We don't watch anything labeled horror all year until October.
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No reason, really. I just wasn't interested in them in the past and none of my family or friends were either, so I wasn't exposed to them by anyone else.
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Ah. I like the genre, it's usually a lot of fun.
