>>220474073
Can anyone explain why this movie is supposed to be good without mentioning zoomers or practical effects?

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YO NIGGA LEIK FR FR FR Y DO GUD FLIX GET SHIT ON BAK TEHN BUT SLOP GUT PRAZED N SHIZ LIEK DAT SUS AZ FUK NO RIZ CAP!?!?!?

Dunno about specific #2-#9, as those are down to personal pref too much, especially nowadays with so many movies... but if I were to put forth what is widely considered the best horror movie of each decade it'd look something like
>80s
1. The Thing
>90s
2. Scream
>00s
3. Saw
>2010s
4. Hereditary
>2020s
5. bit harder here because a lot of the contenders could go toe to toe, not to mention the decades not over ... maybe The Substance
Interesting that other than maybe Hereditary and Saw that's probably the order I'd rank them in too... suggesting that the genre is worsening gradually

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>>220474102
John carpenter usually has a strong vision
He just gets horror, and how it is built on doubt and despair/inability to do anything
He also doesn't usually bog down his movies with overly heady themes and has gone on record as a humble entertainer first, and loathes the pretentiousness of heady themes, of which are present, although only vestigially as the source material is a red scare allegory
Also despite ennio morricone being credited with composition the movie still has carpenter's signature simplistic mono-tone musical beats such as the one that shows up in The Fog
Also on the note of practical effects there's so much talent in the people that worked on this film
>>220474073
I think a good premise usually isn't enough to warrant being a good movie, but few movies occupy my head space like Ghost Ship

>>220474129
>suggesting that the genre is worsening gradually
I wasn't there in the 50s-80s but I suspect that inherent costs to filmmaking have priced out the appeal that is cheap, financially easy filmmaking, of which horror films usually excel at
It was/is easy return on investment
And worst of all in 2026 ADD and adderall dependence are cripplingly prolific, and frankly horror movies hit so much more differently in theatre
Theyndont need to build up because people lack attention span so the only requirement for most horror is to develop moment to moment tension and startles
The goals and target audience have changed

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>>220474129
grim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhSyFrxTxoc

>>220474289
what's your point sorry?

>>220474249
people were also more creative... because of limitations most likely. I mean if you hold horror up against the movie industry in general it's doing pretty well. It's just the quality of storytelling has fallen off a cliff the last 15ish years.

>>220474374
I think anon is trying to invalidate hereditary from the running

>>220474396
Probably because we have less
>Clout directors/actors who can say fuck you to studios and cherry pick their entire production staff
I feel like it used to be those people who actually understood how to make a quality product have been phased out in favor of yes men and committees
Or they go too far with overly pretentious artsy horror

>>220474496
People are also just far less informed with life experience. It's a direct effect of social media / the internet / global scale interconnectivity. You'd think we would have advanced as a species because of these things but we've arguably regressed. One of the big trade offs being that we live vicariously through others on a screen more often than not, this is the primary way for people to attain information / experiences, as opposed to you know... actually going out and acquiring these life experiences themselves, thus becoming properly informed. Instead they just regurgitate things that someone or thing has told them. And this ripples down into the very fabric of society, becoming prevalent in things like entertainment... and storytelling. And what we get is this shit that we have to watch and put up with and it's just shit, and now blah blah Helen of Troy is black and blah blah blah did you hear Jonah Hill's movie says the word "faggot" eleven times?? and blah fucking blah Robert Downey Jr got paid 200 million dollars!!! And it's all just so fucking tiresome, because none of this is what made movies or tv interesting. Whilst the actual content itself has devolved into just utter trite... literal fucking krill made for the sole purpose of mass consumption and engagement. And the people writing this shit aren't actually capable of doing anything better because they don't have any of the genuine life experience I mentioned. They don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about. So ofc it's just vapid, poorly executed nonsense the majority of the time. Most of the people working in the industry now are complete window lickers. It's just these kinds used to ride at the back of the bus, they certainly were never allowed to drive.

I mean tl;dr retards nowadays are fathoms and fathoms more retarded than what retards were like 20 years ago

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>>220474073
It's REC and it's not even close.

>>220474129
Brother, are you serious? 80s shit is laughably bad, no one takes that shit even serious anymore. No one is scared of Freddy or the Gremlins, lmao.

>>220474396
>>220474496
right 80s was so creative
lets put a guy in a mask, and he slashes TEEENS IN THE WOODS, and then we make 10 films of that and sometimes theyre in the city and they go to SPACE as well!!!!!

>>220474102
no women

>>220474792
sounds like kino to me

>>220474102
The practical effects are amazing, you zoomoid filth

>>220475025
youre 49 years old

>>220474073
The Shining
Halloween
The Thing
All three timeless masterpieces

>>220474073
the best horror movie ever made is Black Christmas (1974)
The ending still creeps me out today no matter how many times I see it

>>220474289
Refreshing and necessary to have great directors openly speak their mind instead of the boring, algorithmic mutual asskissing of PR interviews

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This is my #1

>>220475132
The Shining is a romcom unironically.

>>220474102
If you can't recognize Good on your own, then you're a soulless npc and it's pointless trying to explain things to you

>>220474792
Simplicity is brevity
And brevity is witty

>>220474249
>this horror movie just ain't scary!
>they type into their phone as they barely pay attention to the movie playing, with the room lights on bright, the sound turned down, going through videos on tiktok, pausing every few minutes, talking to other people, and posting on /tv/

>>220476190
I think of this when I remember that naked gun wasn't considered funny in the TV format
The advent of smart TVs and rewind ability kills rewatch ability and the need to set up
And particularly to naked gun the novelty of what's happening on screen isn't funny if your eyes aren't watching it

>>220474792
You act like you wouldn't be scared if you went camping and some big dude in a hockey mask with machete started chasing you around. You'd shit yourself if a little dog started barking at you, ya wimp. Nothing needs to be complex to be scary.

>>220475086
And you are miserable

>>220477218
You say that every day, grandpa

>>220477473
And you prefer to deflect instead of stopping being miserable, kiddo

Zombies are the best horror

>>220474129
i think these are nice picks, but i suppose it depends how these are ranked? are they based on how scary they are, their overall impact on cinema, cultural relevance, etc.?

in the 80s, you had also The Shining, Possession, Aliens, a bunch of classic slashers, The Fly.
in the 90s, i think Scream is a good pick, but there was also Silence of the Lambs (though it may be more of a thriller).
for the 2000s, Saw is definitely up there. there was a huge surge of Jap horror remakes but i wouldn't count those.
for the 2010's,Hereditary also came to mind. Insidious might be a contender as well.
2020's... yeah there's not a whole lot. The Substance is more of a horror comedy imo. Possessor was the best i saw from those years, but so far it's rather weak

nigga alien is the best #1 horror movie

Scream is #2, it's 30yo this year and still holds up incredibly well, I think we'll see more people start to take it more seriously

>>220475361
This movie is amazing and boring at the same time, I can't explain it