"The Mist" imo will be awesome

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You're pretty much forced to that attitude by horror movies anyway. It's incredibly rare that one gets everything right.

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You're pretty much forced to that attitude by horror movies anyway. It's incredibly rare that one gets everything right.

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True. I've been a horror movie fan since I was a kid. It's probably the most difficult genre to get right since there are rules and limits to the style - so you kind of take what you can get. Horror buffs tend to get excited with anything slightly above average. I enjoyed the first half of 1408 before it went over the top and became to big for the story but whatever... I'll take it. You're forced to make allowances in horror films that your probably wouldn't in other genres.

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Yeah, stuff that would destroy other movies is usually just accepted in horror flicks. More than other genres, horror flicks tend to be built around doing just a few key moments well and creating an atmosphere. Do that well and almost anything else can be forgiven.

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Horror remains a genre where the best work is most often done by indies and little studios - in the main, Hollywood wrecks it.

Give me Bad Taste, Dog Soldiers, Evil Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, hell even Frailty over any Hollywood Horror*


(* except The Exorcist, and Psycho)

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"Horror remains a genre where the best work is most often done by indies and little studios"

A big budget is usually a bad sign for a horror movie. Again using 1408 as an example - the movie opens slowly and builds nicely with some genuinely creepy moments. By the end I'm not sure if I'm still watching a movie about a haunted hotel room or if I've accidentally caught the end of Platoon. Everything they worked hard to build was destroyed.

Small films generally invest time in getting you to care about the characters so you feel actual emotion when they are disemboweled [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]