Any good current horror movies or books/comic? It seems horror has been infected with wokeness. I saw an article about Jordan Peele doing Candyman. Sad thing is he could probably write a good story but he is obsessed with race. The fawning articles about him and Ava Duvernay are absurd
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Yeah I don’t know what it is but Horror seems uniquely open to being infected with wokeness for some reason, you have all of Jordan Peele’s overrated race-baiting bullshit, stuff like Lovecraft Country, IDK.
As far as recommendations the newest horror movie I can really remember enjoying was probably Hereditary or maybe Mandy if you count that as horror. And apparently they’re making an Evil Dead 4, hopefully they don’t fuck that up, I think Bruce Campbell going woke would pretty much end me.
If it’s horror comics you’re interested in I read one a few months ago that was pretty good, it was an anthology collection of some Richard Matheson stories. The art style was really good and they made the main character in I Am Legend look like Charleston Heston. I also read another decent one called Growth, it was a pretty cool lovecraftian apocalypse sort of story, but way more fun and not too nihilistic and depressing.
I don’t know if you’re interested in manga but I’ll always recommend Berserk and Goblin Slayer, some real good dark fantasy horror there. As for books I really loved Larry Correa’s Monster Hunter series, very cool and modern take on classic horror monsters and tropes.
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I watched the first season of the Evil Dead series. It was like it was written by someone who hated the Ash character.
He never does anything useful. Ever. He gets tossed around like a ragdoll and has his ass kicked by the Diverse Cop Chick. He has no redemption scenes. He has no scenes where he is rewarded for anything he does.
Near the end of the series, I knew that the Ash that the Diverse Cop Chick was showing affection for was the fake Ash. How did I know this? Were there story cues or foreshadowing or anything to indicate this? Nope. I just knew that the writers hated Ash and that he'd never get anything. To their credit, I was a bit surprised when they killed off the Diverse Cop Chick, because I didn't think they'd actually kill off one of their Diverse characters.
I can't remember a single one-liner that he delivered. Evil Dead 2 was full of them and for most of the movie he didn't even have any other characters to talk with!
I honestly wasn't interested in episode 2. Even the pilot was awful. We leave from the canon ending of Army of Darkness with Ash returning to his correct time, kicking some more deadite ass, and then getting a girl. We pick up the pilot with Ash being a pathetic loser who doesn't even have a friend to hang out with on his birthday. Well that's quite a transition. Maybe even an interesting one. What happened in between these events? Why is our hero now a failure? Maybe this could be explored by a competent writer ... but nah. He's just a big loser.
Every white male character was some combination of stupid, incompetent, or evil. Ash. The book guy. The militia guys. The hiker guy with the chicks at the end.
Every competent character is a woman or ethnic minority. The cute waitress chick that Ash hits on a bit? The one who tells us she has a boyfriend? Oh yeah, they show him to us and he's black. So our hero doesn't get the girl because some black guy already has her.
Maybe I'm just paranoid from seeing all this crap so frequently in nearly every bit of media I've seen in the last decade, but god it was awful.
Oh, and the best part? Bruce thinks it's the best portrayal of Ash ever.
I have zero hopes for seeing another movie with Ash that's worth watching. At this point I just assume that Bruce Campbell is another preachy Hollywood regressive.
That’s pretty much how I felt about it, it seems like somewhere along the line Ash got this reputation as a dumbass who occasionally does the right thing that was never there in the movies. He’s very competent in Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness. I think that scene where he fucks up getting the Necronomicon in AoD really negatively effected the perception of him, and the video games/comics kind of ram with it.
Ehhhh. Evil Dead 2 was played straight but his character was essentially spooky Mr. Bean. Army of Darkness was a comedy all the way down though. You’re forgetting the like 3-stooges bit with the miniature guys or
Seconding Junji Ito. Uzumaki and The Enigma of Amigara Fault are highly regarded, and probably his most well-known stories. Amigara is nice and short for a quick taste of his style.
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Thanks! I need to get into manga. I love old horror anthologies and loved Tales from the Darkside back in the day but I’m sure it would offend someone.
I’ll check out Mathewson. I recently got a collection of his works because I love Steven King and he said Mathewson was his favorite author.