With the caveat that for me, there's no truly least favorite genre, just ones I find mostly uninteresting in the main for various reasons. Those would be Westerns, Military films, Documentaries, and Horror films.
Inevitably, though, some talented people manage to make exceptional efforts in these categories, and when they do, I have no hesitation in saying so.
Horror movies, in particular, rarely interest me, especially the more recently popular "torture porn" types or ones where there is relentless blood-spattering and gore simply for a gross-out effect, a big appeal for some that eludes me.*
A truly good horror movie works because it build suspense, and/or evokes some primal fear common to nearly all humans.
This one is superb at that. Caution-- if you are claustrophobic, or phobic-ally fear things like being buried alive, keep the Youtube window in the smaller mode, or skip it altogether.
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Date: 2020-09-11 11:38 am (UTC)Inevitably, though, some talented people manage to make exceptional efforts in these categories, and when they do, I have no hesitation in saying so.
Horror movies, in particular, rarely interest me, especially the more recently popular "torture porn" types or ones where there is relentless blood-spattering and gore simply for a gross-out effect, a big appeal for some that eludes me.*
A truly good horror movie works because it build suspense, and/or evokes some primal fear common to nearly all humans.
This one is superb at that. Caution-- if you are claustrophobic, or phobic-ally fear things like being buried alive, keep the Youtube window in the smaller mode, or skip it altogether.
The Descent (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw_KYXVNBqo
*Exception to the rule in my case--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTt8cCIvGYI
-- which to be fair is a martial arts / revenge flick, not truly a horror film. Besides... Tarantino is Tarantino, what can you say?