If you're a horror fan, then you know that it might be the most pozzed of all genres. Seemingly every other big new horror movie is a retarded allegory for sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. It's to the point where any horror movie getting any buzz whatsoever is almost certainly woke as shit.
Obsession is the current big deal in horror, so of course it's very overtly about male entitlement, misogyny, etc. Because we can't have horror that is character and plot driven with maybe a little sprinkling of social commentary on top. Nah, it's all gotta be subtle as a trainwreck.
Anyways, good horror suggestions:
- The Empty Man
- The Void
- Terrified
- When Evil Lurks
- Bone Tomahawk
The two best horror movies I've ever seen are The Thing, and Event Horizon. The latter is critically underrated, although The Thing rightly is considered a top tier classic.
The Thing sits right next to the original Alien for me as a film that I can return to periodically and enjoy even though I've seen it several times before. It's part comfort media, part unreasonably high standard that I wish had more peers. It just nails pacing and tension so well. Most horror movies these days are tripping over themselves to reveal the monster and give no thought to actually building up the characters enough to let the audience connect with them and become invested.
The Thing is in my opinion the apex of practical effects in film. The only movie that even comes close in comparison is Jurassic Park.
I think Alien is in the running and the fact that it is has a lot to do with why it was so effective. I really wish there were more films on the level of The Thing though. It's a film that scratches an itch that no other film does.
Not just an itch, people have been arguing about which of them if any at the end are The Thing since I was in diapers. It's more than a cult classic, it set a standard that has only rarely ever been met since.
It showed, it didn't tell. It let you make up your own mind. It challenged you to think and it surprised you even when you did. There is nothing like the first watch of The Thing. It's marvelous to watch it with newbies and not tell them anything, just watch them pause and speculate repeatedly.
I'm partial to the notion that they're both human at the end. Not because of any evidence based reasoning, but because it makes for a more compelling ending.
Here you have two men sacrificing everything at the far flung end of the world. They have ensured their own deaths in order to defend a whole world that will never know them or what they did for it. There will be no statues, no heroic tales of their deeds, their bodies probably won't even be retrieved and buried for months, if at all. No, they go to their graves as nameless heroes that the world will never know or appreciate. They did the right thing and it cost them absolutely everything. And then, even at the end as they slowly freeze to death, they don't even get to have the consolation of knowing whether or not their deaths even bought a victory. It's utterly tragic and mirrors the fate of so many men throughout history.
Event Horizon has my favorite line in any horror movie out there.
Lawrence Fishburne reviews the recordings of what went on and immediately says "We're leaving." Everyone in a horror movie sticks around for all the wrong reasons. Fishburne (Captain Miller) does the sensible thing and wants to leave.
Event Horizon is still top of my list!
Well worth it.
Sounds exactly like the shlock called "Men" that was out less than a year ago.
Empty Man was very basic though, there was a French one that was better.
And perhaps even more dire than the horror genre is the state of monster movies specifically. Nothing is made anymore.
French movie like empty man?
The Empty Man blew my fucking mind. I've always been a fan of cosmic type horror, and that 20 minute cold open was fucking amazing.
Last Shift was pretty good too.
I think Empty Man is one of the most underrated horror films ever made.
"Wait, is that... Nyarlathotep?!"
If you like thrillers, there is an excellent one called Side Effects that might be one of the most based movies I've ever seen.
Recently watched those and enjoyed them. The Dark Valley is that rare German film that's well-shot, excellently staged and occupies a slot in the very small sub-genre of western-horror-thriller.
As for Obsession -- hilariously someone had a short spoiling the ending but I had no idea what it was I watched. It looked like it was the wench who was the villain? Or was it one of those situations where the guy was some kind of manipulative sexist/etc?
I have seen Obsession pop up on my feed occasionally, but other than the spoiler, I've soundly ignored it because it looked similar to another recent feminist horror film whose name I can't remember.
It's a Monkey's Paw movie. A guy makes a wish for a woman to love him. She falls in love with him, but there's a part of her fighting back against the wish. So something is controlling her to make her obsessed with the guy.
You could view the male lead as the villain, as he made a selfish wish and isn't considered about the condition of the woman he supposedly loves is in.
Ah okay, thanks for explaining that.
All of his problems are a result of him being effeminate. I'm not sure how OP sees this as feminism when the problems in the movie would have not happened or been solved by him being a "toxic" male. Hell if he'd not been a butter soft bitch and just told the girl how he felt then none of it would have occured
Yeah, I believe you are right. You can't even blame the willow because most of the people who made wishes were okay.
"Men"
This seems like projection on your part. The protagonist is a selfish effeminate piece of shit. He's literally the feminist wet dream of what they think a man should be. Nothing about it can be extrapolated to all men. He acts like a woman in the worst possible ways. He's indecisive, emotional, selfish, delusional and is obsessed with the idea of things instead of living in reality.
Frailty is a great one, very much an underrated movie. 2001 Bill Paxton and Matthew McConaughey.
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."