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Let me preface by saying I am a big Stephen King fan, with The Mist one of my favorites. It is a novella a little over 100 pages.

Now if yo have seen previews, and dont know the story I expect "great, another The Fog movie" crossed your mind. Though I havent seen either "Fog", I can assure The Mist will be a truly terrifying movie. The read was so well written, it actually gave me nightmares. Most SK fans rank the Mist as one of their favorites.

Yes, I know that SK stories usually fall short on the screen, but Frank (shawshank, green mile) Darabont is directing, and I believe he would not take on the task if he wasnt confident he could do a good job.

Great story + very good director = disappointment? Maybe, but I still think this movie will rock.

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I just saw it at a CAA screening..my review is in OOT but...its good then drives off a cliff at the end.

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Hopefully the way the book ends.

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Uh no...lol
The ending is almost enough to completly ruin the entire movie.

Its one of the most awful creative descions of all time.

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Uh no...lol
The ending is almost enough to completly ruin the entire movie.

Its one of the most awful creative descions of all time.

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Can you post in white how it ends? I have no intention of seeing it.

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Uh no...lol
The ending is almost enough to completly ruin the entire movie.

Its one of the most awful creative descions of all time.

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Can you post in white how it ends? I have no intention of seeing it.

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<font color="white"> they drive and drive until the car runs out of gas while they are still in the mist. They realize they are screwed and TJane pulls out the gun but it only has 4 bullets left. So Jane says he will figure out something to do given there is no 5th bullet. So they kidn of all agree to let Jane kill them/commit suicide. His son wakes up and looks at his dad in horror and then you hear 4 shots and cut to Jane in car crying and screaming and banging [censored]...they are all dead obv. He then gets out of car screaming at mist..come and get me u bastards etc. You hear groans etc that the monsters make in the mist...he keeps yelling..etc but nothing kills him. then out of the mist comes the monster to kill him...cept he realizes its an army tank with soldiers behind it. Then like in a split second the mist is gone and he see the dudes flamethrowing [censored] like the spiders n stuff..and he falls to his knees screaming at the sky as two soldiers look on in gas masks like "why is the dude screaming at the sky". the end. Also as all this is happeneing he sees a car go by and in it is the woman who in the beginning of the movie is the first person to go out in the mist cuz she left her daughter at home and sometimes the babysitter forgets to look after her blah blah blah. The one no one has the guts to escort home.

It actually wouldnt have been as awful and ending if it just ended with Jane walking and disapearing into the mist...but the whole Army showing up right after he assistants in the suicide of everyone including his son..plus the mist just vanishes when the army shows up....very very very dumb. </font>

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Uh no...lol
The ending is almost enough to completly ruin the entire movie.

Its one of the most awful creative descions of all time.

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Can you post in white how it ends? I have no intention of seeing it.

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<font color="white"> they drive and drive until the car runs out of gas while they are still in the mist. They realize they are screwed and TJane pulls out the gun but it only has 4 bullets left. So Jane says he will figure out something to do given there is no 5th bullet. So they kidn of all agree to let Jane kill them/commit suicide. His son wakes up and looks at his dad in horror and then you hear 4 shots and cut to Jane in car crying and screaming and banging [censored]...they are all dead obv. He then gets out of car screaming at mist..come and get me u bastards etc. You hear groans etc that the monsters make in the mist...he keeps yelling..etc but nothing kills him. then out of the mist comes the monster to kill him...cept he realizes its an army tank with soldiers behind it. Then like in a split second the mist is gone and he see the dudes flamethrowing [censored] like the spiders n stuff..and he falls to his knees screaming at the sky as two soldiers look on in gas masks like "why is the dude screaming at the sky". the end. Also as all this is happeneing he sees a car go by and in it is the woman who in the beginning of the movie is the first person to go out in the mist cuz she left her daughter at home and sometimes the babysitter forgets to look after her blah blah blah. The one no one has the guts to escort home.

It actually wouldnt have been as awful and ending if it just ended with Jane walking and disapearing into the mist...but the whole Army showing up right after he assistants in the suicide of everyone including his son..plus the mist just vanishes when the army shows up....very very very dumb. </font>

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wow...you say it's bad, so I'm going to have to go with you on that, as I trust your aesthetic. But it doesn't really sound that bad unless it was waaaaaay over-the-top.

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I hate O'henry.

I hate non-linear stories, that sounds so cheap.

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Uh no...lol
The ending is almost enough to completly ruin the entire movie.

Its one of the most awful creative descions of all time.

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Can you post in white how it ends? I have no intention of seeing it.

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<font color="white"> they drive and drive until the car runs out of gas while they are still in the mist. They realize they are screwed and TJane pulls out the gun but it only has 4 bullets left. So Jane says he will figure out something to do given there is no 5th bullet. So they kidn of all agree to let Jane kill them/commit suicide. His son wakes up and looks at his dad in horror and then you hear 4 shots and cut to Jane in car crying and screaming and banging [censored]...they are all dead obv. He then gets out of car screaming at mist..come and get me u bastards etc. You hear groans etc that the monsters make in the mist...he keeps yelling..etc but nothing kills him. then out of the mist comes the monster to kill him...cept he realizes its an army tank with soldiers behind it. Then like in a split second the mist is gone and he see the dudes flamethrowing [censored] like the spiders n stuff..and he falls to his knees screaming at the sky as two soldiers look on in gas masks like "why is the dude screaming at the sky". the end. Also as all this is happeneing he sees a car go by and in it is the woman who in the beginning of the movie is the first person to go out in the mist cuz she left her daughter at home and sometimes the babysitter forgets to look after her blah blah blah. The one no one has the guts to escort home.

It actually wouldnt have been as awful and ending if it just ended with Jane walking and disapearing into the mist...but the whole Army showing up right after he assistants in the suicide of everyone including his son..plus the mist just vanishes when the army shows up....very very very dumb. </font>

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wow...you say it's bad, so I'm going to have to go with you on that, as I trust your aesthetic. But it doesn't really sound that bad unless it was waaaaaay over-the-top.

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uhhhh
<font color="white"> the whole movie is about them fighting to stay alive n for TJane to keep his son alive. n when they run out of gas they immediatly decide to commit suicide and TJane blows his sons brains out and everyone elses then he challenges the monsters in the mist to kill him n then a tank shows up and everyone is saved and he screams at the sky knowing if he had just waited 5 minutes before killing his son they woulda been saved.
lets not get into the fact that mist suddenlly vanishes for no reason n the girl who left the supermarket is somehow alive and like 90 miles away from town. </font>

u think that doesnt sound bad esp given how perfect the original book ending was?

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lol @ that being a bad ending

it's basically the ending 28 Days Later should have had, and sounds awesome.

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lol @ that being a bad ending

it's basically the ending 28 Days Later should have had, and sounds awesome.

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man some of u guys have such bad taste in film and no concept of how to construct a good story.

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<font color="white"> it doesnt end with Jane killing them all then dying or walking into the mist to most certainly his death. it ends with Thomas Jane being rescued 5 minutes after he kills everyone in the car. And the mist which was as far as the eye could see suddenly vanishes and he can see all the way to the horizon. plus the chick that left the supermarket is ALIVE eventhough thats impossible given how the story unfolded, and she is now 90-100 miles south of the supermaket she left. So 4 things happen in a row which make no sense what so ever...and then Thomas Jane does a laughable bad acting job or screaming at himself/god/whoever as two dudes i gasmasks watch him. </font>


imagine 28 days later if
<font color="white">at the end Cillian n the girls are in in the cabin with zombies outside knocking on the door and they all agree to commit suicide, but Cillian only has two bullets so he kills both of them then opens the door to let the zombies kill him, but its not zombies it a couple of police officers who saw their sos sign and are there in their helicopter to fly them home. then Cillian drops to his knees and goes ahhhhhhh.....ahhhhhhhhh.....ahhhhhhhh....ahhhhhhh. all the while the pilots looks at him like " why does this guy keep going ahhhhhhhh?" </font>

thats how u thought 28 days later should?

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Next time you wonder why Hollywood films aren't what they could be, remember they produce what they know will sell.

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this wont sell that well because it already getting bad word of mouth thru reviews n industry talk. but it should do ok.
there is no way the studio pushed for this ending. Darabont just decided to do something incredibly dumb on his own

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u think that doesnt sound bad esp given how perfect the original book ending was?

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lol...I'm not saying it sounds great or anything, but if I'm trying to market a horror movie I certainly don't want an ending like that in the book - it's very anti-climactic and decidedly un-cinematic. Don't get me wrong, the novella is perfect - with that ending - but I have no problem with a change when it's adapted IF it makes sense and works.

But from what you're saying it doesn't work at all. The whole suicide/Army guys could've worked but you're right, the woman showing up at the end is just wrong. Too bad, I was looking forward to it.

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I am hearing from some smart people that the ending is great. In another thread, CDS quoted Edgar Wright saying that he loved it. I didn't read the spoilers, and I have no idea what I'll think, but I just hate how we have CDS unilaterally poisoning everyone's expectations (intentionally, apparently).

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I am hearing from some smart people that the ending is great. In another thread, CDS quoted Edgar Wright saying that he loved it. I didn't read the spoilers, and I have no idea what I'll think, but I just hate how we have CDS unilaterally poisoning everyone's expectations (intentionally, apparently).

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ya..trust me..based off of Wright's quote I have to totally re-evaluate him in terms of how he views a succesful ending.

i did a informal survey after seeing the film to see if it was just me...cuz everything else was good and up until that last point i was really into the flick. the guy i saw it with was like man that ending was really strange? and i told him how the novella ends n he was like [censored] that was have been an amazing ending to this flick.

emailed n imed a bunch of people. some didnt like it as a whole, a couple said it reminded them of a lame version of The Host, but most were like yeah it was pretty cool but the ending was awful. so its not just me.
and the reviews so far have been lukewarm to bad.

really bums me out cuz the first 3 acts work overall for me as a fan of the book...but god that ending.

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and kimbell..im not trying to make u not go see it or kill yr expectations. im just pissed cuz it had me up until those last 5 minutes.

also Dom..i disagree..in a skilled screenwriter/directors hands that original ending could have been done perfectly and would have been fantastic. but the majority of directors today wouldn't be able to pull it off without [censored] it up somehow.


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and kimbell..im not trying to make u not go see it or kill yr expectations. im just pissed cuz it had me up until those last 5 minutes.

also Dom..i disagree..in a skilled screenwriter/directors hands that original ending could have been done perfectly and would have been fantastic. but the majority of directors today wouldn't be able to pull it off without [censored] it up somehow.


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I agree...I just hate to bash on a film i haven't seen yet...a good horror film is tough to get right.

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Harry Knowles at Aintitcoolnews.com gave it a big thumbs up - and given the reviewer, that's a hell of a compliment.

I haven't read the book, but based on Harry's review and the trailer it looks like a Stephen King take of "Night of the Living Dead" - innerestin.

since I have about 5 copies of that movie, I'll have to go catch this one [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Very. I think most horror film fans just accept that, and just go hoping for the few seconds that might make the whole mess worthwhile. Deciding to watch a horror film takes some optimism.

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what's the book's ending?

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download the novella - it'll take you about an hour to read the whole thing. Worth every minute. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Harry Knowles at Aintitcoolnews.com gave it a big thumbs up - and given the reviewer, that's a hell of a compliment.

I haven't read the book, but based on Harry's review and the trailer it looks like a Stephen King take of "Night of the Living Dead" - innerestin.

since I have about 5 copies of that movie, I'll have to go catch this one [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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nothing personal Whiskey but the fact that Harry loved it and called the endings one of the best of all time helps my view if anything else. Knowles is a complete joke. This is the guy who was so moved by Armegedon that he cried multiple times in it. He also thought the Hostel movies were works of genius.

I actually think overall the Mist is awesome..especially the look...looks really good. But why couldnt they have just ended it with a bit of skill instead of the Steven Speilberg type ending of "we have to know what happens to everyone who left the store".

Plus I hate it when the script does a 180 at the end of a movie and characters act totally out of character and [censored] happens that makes no sense...even within the confines of a horror movie.

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Yeah, if Knowles says a movie is bad, that might mean something, but if he loves it, it has equal chances of being awful or brilliant or anything in-between.

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Wonder if it's a case of "Oh well, I guess it's time to wrap it up now" that hits so many movies and makes them seem to just give up on their own endings.

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i'd agree with this more if he weren't so damned influential, and in a completely negative way

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i'd agree with this more if he weren't so damned influential, and in a completely negative way

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yeah i meant as a reviewer..not as a PR/marketing outlet.

and his major influence on film/studios is so 5 years ago. He does not have much if any impact on a film unless it is in a given subset of genres(horror/comic book/fantasy/sci fi) and even then with the proliferation of online fan geek sites the site isn't what it used to be in terms of power or influence in the industry.

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And again..I would def recommend people see The Mist..esp with a date etc. But if you've read the book just be prepared to not like the ending(in my eyes anyways). But everything else is cool.

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i'd agree with this more if he weren't so damned influential, and in a completely negative way

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yeah i meant as a reviewer..not as a PR/marketing outlet.

and his major influence on film/studios is so 5 years ago. He does not have much if any impact on a film unless it is in a given subset of genres(horror/comic book/fantasy/sci fi) and even then with the proliferation of online fan geek sites the site isn't what it used to be in terms of power or influence in the industry.

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of course, the type of movies that he's big into are all over the place now, whereas before they really weren't. so, if you wanted to find a guy who's influence has affected the types of movies studios make (and are able to make $$), he's a pretty good choice.

so, while his influence is so 5 years ago in some ways, he's hugely responsible for the fanboy mentality that's taken over Hollywood.

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i'd agree with this more if he weren't so damned influential, and in a completely negative way

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yeah i meant as a reviewer..not as a PR/marketing outlet.

and his major influence on film/studios is so 5 years ago. He does not have much if any impact on a film unless it is in a given subset of genres(horror/comic book/fantasy/sci fi) and even then with the proliferation of online fan geek sites the site isn't what it used to be in terms of power or influence in the industry.

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of course, the type of movies that he's big into are all over the place now, whereas before they really weren't. so, if you wanted to find a guy who's influence has affected the types of movies studios make (and are able to make $$), he's a pretty good choice.

so, while his influence is so 5 years ago in some ways, he's hugely responsible for the fanboy mentality that's taken over Hollywood.

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yeah but I would argue that has way less to do with Knowles and more to do with studios only wanting to make movies with a built in dedicated fan base...regardless of what it is comics, graphic novels, tv shows, novels, etc. Add that with the evolution of CGI and that is the main reason u see so many types of movie the geeks love.

In the studios eyes its far more low risk than making an original work. And studios were always trying to make comic book movies...AICN simply showed them how they could use the internet to market them and make them much more profitable.

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Wow, they made a film of The Mist? Never even heard it was coming. Great novella for sure, hope the film lives up to it.

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CDS, that ending sounds terrible. I won't be seeing this movie. I'm so disappointed because I loved the story and it sounds like the movie came close to being amazing.

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Uh no...lol
The ending is almost enough to completly ruin the entire movie.

Its one of the most awful creative descions of all time.

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Can you post in white how it ends? I have no intention of seeing it.

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<font color="white"> they drive and drive until the car runs out of gas while they are still in the mist. They realize they are screwed and TJane pulls out the gun but it only has 4 bullets left. So Jane says he will figure out something to do given there is no 5th bullet. So they kidn of all agree to let Jane kill them/commit suicide. His son wakes up and looks at his dad in horror and then you hear 4 shots and cut to Jane in car crying and screaming and banging [censored]...they are all dead obv. He then gets out of car screaming at mist..come and get me u bastards etc. You hear groans etc that the monsters make in the mist...he keeps yelling..etc but nothing kills him. then out of the mist comes the monster to kill him...cept he realizes its an army tank with soldiers behind it. Then like in a split second the mist is gone and he see the dudes flamethrowing [censored] like the spiders n stuff..and he falls to his knees screaming at the sky as two soldiers look on in gas masks like "why is the dude screaming at the sky". the end. Also as all this is happeneing he sees a car go by and in it is the woman who in the beginning of the movie is the first person to go out in the mist cuz she left her daughter at home and sometimes the babysitter forgets to look after her blah blah blah. The one no one has the guts to escort home.

It actually wouldnt have been as awful and ending if it just ended with Jane walking and disapearing into the mist...but the whole Army showing up right after he assistants in the suicide of everyone including his son..plus the mist just vanishes when the army shows up....very very very dumb. </font>

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I heard about this ending when they started shooting and I was incredibly pissed he choose to do this, and I know I will love the movie as I loved the novella, but I know this ending is just going to [censored] all over that good feeling the movie will build up.

Funny thing is, Stephen King loved the ending Darabont chose to go with and was saying if he thought of it before he would have ended the novella version that way. Sigh. I hate major story issues like this that come to pass when all it hinges on is waiting 5 minutes, especially when the short story ended about as well as it could have.

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Harry Knowles at Aintitcoolnews.com gave it a big thumbs up - and given the reviewer, that's a hell of a compliment.

I haven't read the book, but based on Harry's review and the trailer it looks like a Stephen King take of "Night of the Living Dead" - innerestin.


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Take his reviews with a grain of salt. Seriously.

And yeah Stephen King was essentially trying to come up with his own version of Night of the Living dead when he was writing the story (his words).

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Can someone please refresh my memory as to how the book ends? I haven't read it in years and have totally blanked out on it.

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CDS, that ending sounds terrible. I won't be seeing this movie. I'm so disappointed because I loved the story and it sounds like the movie came close to being amazing.

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Then why wouldn't you go see it? "Close to amazing" sounds pretty good to me. At times I can even work with "decidedly mediocre". I guess if you only see 2 or 3 films a year you can wait around for amazing but if you've been geared up for this one why wouldn't you go and make up your own mind.

Even the questionable CDS states the movie is pretty damn good until the last 5.

I'll definitely check it out. It sucks when a lame ending takes you out of the movie but if the rest of the film was strong I can usually, in time, look back with some reverence.

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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)