Is horror the only good genre in movies right now?

[HUGHPHUG]

As a horror fan I struggle to watch many new releases, they just don't appeal to me as full movies. I've lost count how many movies are good for the first half or two-thirds but they all seem to struggle with the final act. It's like nobody can write an ending anymore

Absentia is one that is rarely mentioned from more recent years

You can add me to the list of people that didn't enjoy The Conjuring, though I would to watch it again to see if I just wasn't in the mood at the time. It came across as one of those movies that replaces atmosphere and build up for sudden loud noises to get the desired effect

 

[Madmick]

What are some newer horror movies I can watch on Disney, Netflix or Amazon Prime right now?

I recommend this website to all. It's one of the few free services out there worth registering an account. Because once you tell it which streaming services you have access to then it will pre-filter movies you can watch, if you desire. You can also filter by individual service. Or just look up a movie/show and see every streaming service that it is currently showing on. Here's the link to their horror section:

Best Horror Movies to Watch Now | Reelgood - Top 50

Discover the best Horror Movies of all time with our comprehensive list. From classic favorites to new releases. Watch the best Horror Movies ever on streaming services, add them to your watchlist now.

reelgood.com

 

[Madmick]

@tank666 and @THEfightsAREfixed, care to make a case in defense of your votes for Comedy post-2010?

What are all these great comedies you guys have been seeing that the rest of us are oblivious to?

 

[Plissken]

There's a lot of shit horror too, it's just that even mediocre horror can be entertaining while a mediocre comedy, drama, or fantasy movie is usually a chore to watch.

 

[Madmick]

There's a lot of shit horror too, it's just that even mediocre horror can be entertaining while a mediocre comedy, drama, or fantasy movie is usually a chore to watch.

Sure, it's the cheapest genre that consistently brings big returns, so that attracts a lot of low budget schlock. Yet I still think other genres are more consistently putting out a higher ratio of crap despite that.

I think this is one of the reasons horror is thriving while the other genres flail. Because the budgeting requirements aren't as large, you get a lot more types who are able to make movies that have the DGAF attitude to filmmaking. They're the real rebels that George Lucas has always romantically described from back in the 60's and 70's as some "you guy with long hair" with a rock star attitude that the studio suits don't get, but whom he ignores, anyway. They're not marching to the corporate drum. The focus is on story, not politics. Additionally, without the studio pantsuits ruining everything, and perhaps in thanks to the micro-budget model that Blumenthal pioneered, they aren't as afraid to experiment and take risks. If you fail, you didn't blow $100m dollars, and there is a support network in place that is ready to take another chance.

Because, honestly, whenever I'm watching anything, and I'm introduced to the villain, and he/she (usually he) is a superrich (usually white male) hypercontrolling CEO...I just sigh in exasperation. I'm going to be told the same mindless, cookie-cutter yawnfest I've been told a billion times before. There is nothing more establishment than this narrative. You couldn't possibly be more of a company man than by slinging that story. Immediate stamp of approval from all the ironically wealthy pantsuits upstairs who control all of this. Every time I encounter this villain's archetype I find my mind drifting to that infamous Huffington Post photo of the staff at that newspaper that incessantly decried a racist, sexist lack of equal representation in our society...while huddled around an enormous rectangular table, and every face you see is a white girl.

This is one of things plaguing Sci-Fi despite the wealth of votes I see going to that genre.

 

[tank666]

@tank666 and @THEfightsAREfixed, care to make a case in defense of your votes for Comedy post-2010?

What are all these great comedies you guys have been seeing that the rest of us are oblivious to?

Ok I'm cheating a bit as I have kids so movies like Despicable Me, Paddington, Zootopia, Secret Life of Pets etc.

Adult comedies I agree not so great!

 

[Madmick]

Ok I'm cheating a bit as I have kids so movies like Despicable Me, Paddington, Zootopia, Secret Life of Pets etc.

Adult comedies I agree not so great!

Aha. Yeah, I think of those as Animations or Family, not Comedy, since they're usually equal parts sap and comic relief, but I suppose that's fair. Why wouldn't you vote for Animation, then? You were allowed multiple votes.

Animations and Westerns are definitely doing alright. Comedy and Sports are at an all-time low.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Comedy is always available in the form of Tito Ortiz movies and stuff like War Of The Worlds. Watch them with the right people and they are some of the best comedies around

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Actually I'll offer up romance as well, I don't really get exposed to a great deal of it but my wife has always been addicted to what I assumed were woeful inoffensive Hallmark movies. But you know what, they're actually not too bad. the Christmas and fall movies that come out each year, they're decent enough, kind of sweet, certainly inoffensive, but I would say better than big budget romance that reach cinema's or streaming platforms, if there even is any anymore

 

[Tito Tapped]

You said since 2010 but then only listed movies from 2019 on.

Horror movies aren't "popular" so much as they are cheap to produce and bring in enough crowd to make profit with little to no marketing. They bring in a young crowd that studios are begging for.

But what you're seeing now is every horror franchise crank out obnoxious sequels and everything gets greenlit. Like who the fuck was calling for an expanded M3gan universe? You've got 11 Saws, 6 Screams, and brand new entries just this year for both long running franchises like Final Destination, IKWYDLS, The Conjuring and new sequels like 28 years, black phone 2, strangers 2, FNAF 2.

 

[Madmick]

You said since 2010 but then only listed movies from 2019 on.

You missed the spoiler tag. I'd already created a list of standout horrors back in 2021 in a thread where a few posters grumbled that there hadn't been any good horror in the past 25-30 years. So I came up with a list that ran from 1995-2019. I later added a few more films to it. The portion of that running from 2010-2019 is in the spoiler tag in the OP.

There was no point in listing that range again, so I just added some top horrors that came out in the years since to continue the list.

 

[THEfightsAREfixed]

@tank666 and @THEfightsAREfixed, care to make a case in defense of your votes for Comedy post-2010?

What are all these great comedies you guys have been seeing that the rest of us are oblivious to?

i was drunk when i did that

 

[Madmick]

i was drunk when i did that

Gotcha. Well you can change your vote FYI, I left that option up in the poll.

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

I recommend this website to all. It's one of the few free services out there worth registering an account. Because once you tell it which streaming services you have access to then it will pre-filter movies you can watch, if you desire. You can also filter by individual service. Or just look up a movie/show and see every streaming service that it is currently showing on. Here's the link to their horror section:

Best Horror Movies to Watch Now | Reelgood - Top 50

Discover the best Horror Movies of all time with our comprehensive list. From classic favorites to new releases. Watch the best Horror Movies ever on streaming services, add them to your watchlist now.

reelgood.com

Very good link, thanks!

 

[tank666]

Aha. Yeah, I think of those as Animations or Family, not Comedy, since they're usually equal parts sap and comic relief, but I suppose that's fair. Why wouldn't you vote for Animation, then? You were allowed multiple votes.

Animations and Westerns are definitely doing alright. Comedy and Sports are at an all-time low.

Sorry I completely missed that - vote changed!

 

[Roids]

Yet you like the Poltergeist which was never scary lol

I have no idea how you can say that, while believing the Conjuring was scary. It's mind blowing. It's just jump scares and copying tropes from 50 better movies of the genre.

What sort of crap horror movies are on your top 10 out of curiosity?

Have you seen Oddity? It's one of the few horror movies from recent years that impressed me. Also 'Men', 'The Descent'. My top 10 would be the old school classics like texas chain saw massacre, the thing, rosemarys baby, alien, Omen, exorcist, The Evil Dead, also Jacobs Ladder, which is rarely mentioned but its a masterpiece. The Ring, The Fly, Session 9 (creepy as hell set in mental asylum) , there are so many. They are a different class to stuff like conjuring, insidious ,etc.

I also love Amityville 2, the possession as I mentioned before, its quite brutal and disturbing, one of the very best haunted house movies imo. Conjuring is sooooo cookie cutter. Watch more horror movies and you will see that.

Another stand out gem would be Terrified (2017). Its Argentinean i think. Not a unique plot but its done so damn well and full of original scary scenes. Really strong horror movie. These days foreign horror is way better. Much nastier and grittier.

The Void (2016) was also a great 80s throw back horror movie.

 

[ufcfan4]

I have no idea how you can say that, while believing the Conjuring was scary. It's mind blowing. It's just jump scares and copying tropes from 50 better movies of the genre.


Have you seen Oddity? It's one of the few horror movies from recent years that impressed me. Also Men, The Descent. My top 10 would be the old school classics like texas chain saw massacre, the thing, rosemarys baby, alien, Omen, exorcist, The Evil Dead, also Jacobs Ladder, which is rarely mentioned but its a masterpiece. The Ring, The Fly, Session 9 (creepy as hell set in mental asylum) , there are so many. They are a different class to stuff like conjuring, insidious ,etc.

I also love Amityville 2, the possession as I mentioned before, its quite brutal and disturbing, one of the very best haunted house movies imo. Conjuring is sooooo cookie cutter. Watch more horror movies and you will see that.

Another stand out gem would be Terrified (2017). Its Argentinean i think. Not a unique plot but its done so damn well and full of original scary scenes. Really strong horror movie. These days foreign horror is way better. Much nastier and grittier.

The Void (2016) was also a great 80s throw back horror movie.

Strong list. Glad to see Rosemary’s Baby on there. Might be me favorite horror film, honestly. True classic and one of the most chilling aspects of it is the way it mines horror from the situation of someone being surrounded by her ostensible loved ones who are actually deceiving and exploiting her.

Hell, Cassavetes in that movie is one of the more deplorable horror villains I can think of.

Alien, The Fly, Jacob’s Ladder, Exorcist all classics and all pretty terrifying. The Fly particularly creeped me out in my youth.

Omen is good but I don’t think necessarily on the level of the others.

I’d include Psycho as well. I guess some could say it’s more thriller than horror but i think it’s pretty clearly a precursor to the slasher subgenre. And it’s a great, memorable movie to boot.

Carpenter Halloween is also up there on my list.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Its all been hot garbage.

 

[Madmick]

@TheNinja, @HUGHPHUG, please share with the rest of class these great comedies from 2010 and later you've been watching.

 

[TheNinja]

@TheNinja, @HUGHPHUG, please share with the rest of class these great comedies from 2010 and later you've been watching.

ummmmm. Happy Gilmore 2??