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
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.