10 Not-So-Scary Horror Movies for Those Easing Into the Genre
Not so sure how I feel about this list…
https://collider.com/horror-movies-for-those-easing-into-the-genre/
@Myana Wow, no kidding? Well, fair enough then! I kinda thought The Witch and Midsommar were pretty scary…
@Apocryphiliac Those two did not bother him in the least! He loved Army of Darkness (of course!). Annihilation and Cloverfield too.
@Myana My other issues are that I don’t know that I’d consider Annihilation or Cloverfield as horror, Midsommar is quite long, so I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it for someone starting out (though I really like the film) and Blair Witch Project, I just don’t think is a good enough film to warrant a spot on the list. My list would definitely have at least one John Carpenter and one George Romero flick on it, but I guess those are pretty obvious. I might go in for more horror/comedy stuff, too.
@Apocryphiliac In college I minored in the history of the witchcraft trials. I adored The Witch. It was a perfect example of what people believed.
And I think that's one way that horror movies can help people understand history. Modern people find it hard to understand witch accusers because we know they were wrong. Horror removes that surety; in a horror movie anything can happen. Films like The Witch and The Bell Witch let you actually get into our ancestors' heads, I think.
@Myana I 100% agree with you. Have you ever seen Witchfinder General? A classic Vincent Price film…
@Apocryphiliac I have not! A big hole in my classic horror list!
@Myana It’s excellent. And there are some good analogues for it in Italian and Czech cinema— Lucio Fulci’s The Conspiracy of Torture, aka. Beatrice Cenci, and Otakar Vávra’s Witchhammer. Someday I will work out a way to stream my blu rays and I’ll have them all in a triple-feature…
@Apocryphiliac My husband who hates horror has seen 5 of those and loved them all. So I think yeah, it's a good way to ease into horror!