Day #11 of the 30 Day Film Meme

[shadowkat]

Day #11 of the 30 Day Film Meme - A Film You Like From Your Least Favorite Genre

Also easy...since I like very few films in this specific genre.

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I saw this on the plane from NY to Seattle in 2018 and I was crying halfway through. It's thoroughly charming and held my interest - which is hard to do on a plane flight. There's so many distractions.

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[shadowkat]

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.*

Same.

I can't watch 65% of horror films. Mainly for that reason. I don't like gore. There's a reason I sucked at biology and avoided anything that involved blood and guts.

A truly good horror movie works because it build suspense, and/or evokes some primal fear common to nearly all humans.

Also builds on characters or is character driven. If you don't "care" about the characters - how can you be afraid for them, or feel "horror" at what happens to them?

Psychological horror I can watch for the most part, along with most films by Guillermo Del Torro - although it depends on the film. I don't watch horror at all right now - mainly because why bother - I feel as if I'm trapped inside a horror film.

I have a love/hate relationship with horror. One of my favorite horror films is Robert Wise's The Haunting of Hill House, and Andromeda Strain. He was a master at minimalism and psychological. I also like Jaws - because it's more psychological build up, than real gore. And Jurassic Park.

I couldn't watch The Descent. I tried. Too scary for me - it's a trope I struggle with, within the horror genre. (I'm claustrophobic.) But, I have seen The Vanishing,the Danish version - which is...scary as all get out and probably worse.

Like I said, love/hate relationship.

Oh, I adore "Kill Bill". Tarantino did about three really good films - Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, and Resevoir Dogs. Everything else...felt kind of redundant.

[atpo_onm]

Here's one of my solid picks for a top 10 of the last decade, supposedly just a science fiction film, but one that hasw many elements of horror mixed in perfectly to great effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGzRB4Pnq8

You know a story has really played with your head when it ends and you feel both afraid because of what has just been unleashed into the world, and yet feel this enormous empathy for that possible future cause of humanity's destruction.

[shadowkat]

You're the second person who has rec'd this film to me. The first was Breaking Bad coworker (who got me to watch Breaking Bad) and is a frustrated screenwriter and Yoko Ono fan.

So I may have to check out Ex Machina at some point. Thanks.

ETA: Oh by Alex Garland...he's an interesting writer and filmmaker. I watched Annihilation which is a fascinating sci-fi horror film. Creepy, plays with your head, and beautiful all at the same time.