Where Does The Conjuring rank among all-time horror franchises, now?

[Madmick]

Hey @Madmick, I believe you forgot "The Nun"...like everyone else did after it's release.

I haven't seen it.

Holy shit, there's 8 films in the franchise and 2 possibly on the way?

"Timeline
1 The Conjuring (2013)
1 Annabelle (2014)
3 The Conjuring 2 (2016)
4 Annabelle: Creation (2017)
5 The Nun (2018)
6 The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
7 Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
8 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Future films
-The Crooked Man (TBA)
-Untitled The Nun film (TBA)"

I don't believe the other Annabelle films involved the Warrens. They're the heart of The Conjuring franchise.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Has the best Megadeth riff of all time (timestamped)

 

[moreorless87]

Really fucking low, just like all the other shit that has come out in the last 25-30 years

Sadly pretty much this, after being disapointed so many times I'v mostly given up on modern mainstream horror, its just all so generic.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

Sadly pretty much this, after being disapointed so many times I'v pretty much given up on modern mainstream horror, its just all so generic.

Luckily we have 30 odd years of gems to revisit time and again

 

[moreorless87]

Luckily we have 30 odd years of gems to revisit time and again

There is good horror "ish" stuff around I would say but the mainstream horror market like the comedy market(endless sub SNL fratboy films) just seems to have ghettoised into catering to the lowest common denominator, endless films that exist on doing nearly the same thing, as if jump scares and gore is all therer is.

 

[Madmick]

So are you gents saying you'd rank the Scream franchise higher?

 

[moreorless87]

When you un ironically call an entry in your franchise "The Devil Made Me Do It"....

 

[Gambit MMA]

@Madmick if you havent seen annabelle check out annabelle: creation first. its def the best out of the 3 films, and its also the prequel origin story. so you're not watching the films out of order.

 

[Holic]

Legitimately nearly spit out my drink in laughter at “Annabelle was a cabbage patch doll.” Kudos.

I'm only half joking. It was a raggedy ann doll
www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/annabelle/

 

[Hidden_Hand]

What James Wan, Leigh Whannel and Gary Dauberman and the Hayes Brothers have done for horror in the last 15 years is amazing. Love them or hate them they have done everything they can to bring new life to the horror world from Saw to the Conjuring and Insidious.

Conjuring 1 & 2 are two of the best horror movies from the 2010s for me. My issue comes from the spin offs.

Annabelle was horrendous.
The Nun was horrendous
Annabell comes Home was horrendous.

The only hidden gem is Annabelle Creation.

They took the mystery and cool concepts and just raped them for money and it worked because they've made billions but ruined the franchise, for me.

Not seen Conjuring 3 yet but I have heard it's not that great.

 

[x__stylez__x]

Not sure about tanking the entire franchise, but The Conjuring is legit in my opinion.

 

[Madmick]

Really fucking low, just like all the other shit that has come out in the last 25-30 years

Sadly pretty much this, after being disapointed so many times I'v mostly given up on modern mainstream horror, its just all so generic.

Luckily we have 30 odd years of gems to revisit time and again

There is good horror "ish" stuff around I would say but the mainstream horror market like the comedy market(endless sub SNL fratboy films) just seems to have ghettoised into catering to the lowest common denominator, endless films that exist on doing nearly the same thing, as if jump scares and gore is all their is.

The last 25-30 years? Oh, fuck off, that's absurd.

Horror isn't as commercially booming, despite the higher ROIs, so I don't think it has suffered as much under Hollywood's partisan stray. I think this has more to do with Blumhouse's production model which has revolutionized the genre. That was supposed to bring more experimentation, though, not less. Maybe you guys aren't going as deep as you need to. I'm not a lunatic for the genre, so I don't know.

• 2019's Parasite was terrific.
• 2019's Doctor Sleep was a worthy successor to what many believe is the greatest horror ever made.
• 2019's Ready or Not was surprising fun.
• 2018's A Quiet Place was magnificent. What a tremendous conceit for a horror movie.
• 2018's Annihilation was one of the most interesting films of that year.
• 2018's Bird Box was a damn good movie. Sorry your Mom liked it, too. That doesn't mean it wasn't a good horror.
• 2018's Hereditary is a Sherdog favorite. Did you guys not see it?
• 2017's Life was a classic, pure space horror. Anyone who hasn't seen it is missing out.
• 2017's Get Out may not have deserved a Best Picture nomination, but I don't care what anyone says, it was amazing.
• 2017's Ravenous brings the French sensibility to zombie survival horror. It's weird, and nobody can complain it isn't thought-provoking.
• 2017's It and the sequel It: Chapter 2 easily surpassed the first iteration with Tim Curry. King's magnum opus finally got its due.
• 2016's Split was Shyamalan in peak form.
• 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane had me gripped and guessing most of the way.
• 2015's The Visit is M. Night Shyamalan's scariest movie. Hands down.
• 2015's The Witch was a refreshing departure from most period pieces of any genre. I felt like I was on an elementary school field trip to one of those small cultural preservations of early American life.
• 2015's Bone Tomahawk was brutal western horror.
• 2014's Ex Machina I found to be one of the more fascinating thinking-man's horrors made.
• 2014's Babadook offers one of the most astonishing performances in horror history by Essie Davis.
• 2014's The Maze Runner was goddamn spectacular up to the ending. It's still worth it for everything before that Hindenburg finale.
• 2013's Odd Thomas is the primary reason I was gut-punched when Anton Yelchin died. Now we'll never get the sequels. Awesome movie.
• 2013's The Conjuring is a classic, and its 2016 follow-up is also great. Spare me the 'by-the-numbers' criticism. Sometimes it's about execution, and these films execute.
• 2013's The Purge was a brilliant study of America's growing internal strife derived from wealth stratification, how this is often a matter of petty envy between first-world-problemers, as if they lived in an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians, and how the increasingly unhinged younger generation's most privileged is cannibalizing the very generation that nurtures & suckles it.
• 2012's The Woman in Black is underrated. That movie was terrifying. Give it a fair chance. Watch it alone at night in the dark.
• 2012's Sinister was creepy as hell. The lawnmower. The fucking lawnmower. The sequel was good, too.
• 2011's Kill List is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. You can accuse it of a litany of flaws, but you can't say it caters to the lowest denominator, or that it doesn't take risks.
• 2010's The Crazies improved on the original. Anyone with a pulse loves Timothy Olyphant.
• 2010's Insidious was spectacular. The Further was terrifying.
• 2010's The Human Centipede was too decadent and unapologetic for culture to ignore.
• 2010's Monsters is a hidden gem. It's a story carrying commentary on the immigration crisis without a heavy-handed political sermon. It's almost impossible to imagine that's possible.
• 2010's Stake Land was a very cool, very different spin on the post-apocalyptic subgenre. Worth it.
• 2010's Troll Hunter came out of nowhere, and surprised everyone by delighting them.
• 2009's The House of the Devil was a fantastic homage to classic late 70's & early 80's horror.
• 2009's Drag Me to Hell took Stephen King's willingness to shirk self-conscious censorship when he wrote the culturally chauvinistic Thinner, but put that into a movie that was entertaining to watch. Fookin' gypsies.
• 2008's Cloverfield was a good monster movie. If you're annoyed by the style, I don't care.
• 2008's Let the Right One In, the original Swedish version, is one of the greatest horrors ever made, bar none.
• 2008's French torture porn Martyrs was also fantastic, and especially so if you went into the movie blind. I didn't even know if I was watching French indie arthouse drama the first time I watched it. I'd read nothing about it except that it was generating good press. So it was a shocking descent for me.
• 2007's The Mist is arguably a top three horror film adapted from a King novel.
• 2007's The Orphanage is one of the greatest horrors almost nobody has seen.
• 2007's Paranormal Activity gets too much hate because of the sequels. It was well done. I love that it can be alternatively interpreted as the study of the reconstructed lie of an elaborate mariticide.
• 2007's Rec was a solid in-one-building horror like The Raid for the horror genre instead of the martial arts subgenre. The English-language remake with Dexter's sister was a crime.
• 2007's Trick R' Treat was a great collection of vignettes.
• 2007's 1408 is underrated.
• 2007's 30 Days of Night was damn entertaining cinema.
• 2006's South Korean film The Host had such subtle sociopolitical commentary that few viewers ever grasp it. They only notice the internal critique of Korean socioeconomics. Few pick up on the fact the object of the filmmaker's greatest ire isn't domestic at all.
• 2005's The Descent was a masterpiece with the original, intended ending. A masterpiece. I'm not sure I've ever seen the dynamic of youthful, tightly knit all-female social groups, which are often more complex than their corresponding male social circles, and how passive-aggressively antagonistic these can be via laden resentment, studied through a horror lens.
• 2005's The Call of Cthulhu brought Lovecraft to the 21st century.
• 2005's Wolf Creek starts slow, but once done, it doesn't leave you. Because it's not just some story.
  
• 2005's The Devil's Rejects was Rob Zombie finally pulling off his love letter to 70's slashers.
• 2004's Open Water receives way too much hate for the pacing. I thought it did as good a job as Phone Booth did as a thriller with the minimalist set philosophy. Better than Awake or Buried.
• 2004's Saw is a horror classic. Spare me logistical nitpicking. It was magnificent.
• I maintain that the segment "Cut" from 2004's Three Extremes is one of the more disturbing pieces of horror I've seen. It really got to me. I wasn't able to emotionally disconnect.
• 2002's Irreversible fucks everyone up. Don't pretend it didn't fuck you up. It fucked you up.
• 2002's 28 Days Later made zombies scary. However great Romero's movies were, his zombies were never frightening. The only reason The Walking Dead happened was because of this movie. It's sequel 28 Weeks Later was also very good.
• 2002's Ju-On (The Grudge) and The Ring are irrefutably horror classics. The latter is a rare example where I'll take the western remake over the original.
• 2001's The Others has grown on me over time. It offers a textbook lesson on slow builds.
• 2001's Wendigo was another one like The Maze Runner that was so damn strong for the first two Acts, but fell apart. Still worth watching for those early acts.
• 2000's Baise Moi was so over-the-top they wouldn't even release it in most arthouse theaters. It's garbage, but it's undeniably ahead of its time, and incredibly influential. It kicked off the entire French extreme horror wave. Additionally, movies like Hardy Candy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Elle, and above all the recent Promising Young Woman owe it a debt. It was raw, exploitative, and uncompromisingly brutal. It was the feminist generation's appropriation of The Last House on the Left where the female victims assume agency over their revenge.
• 2000's Shadow of the Vampire is veritable porn for arthouse porn buffs.
• 1999's Stir of Echoes was a movie that caught me off guard. I expected to roll my eyes throughout the film. Not what happened.
• 1999's Audition is the East's Misery.
• 1999's Blair Witch Project, love it or hate it, pioneered the found footage trope. This has expanded beyond horror.
• 1998's The Faculty was a fun movie that-- like so many other movies from the 90's-- had a lot more under the surface to appreciate than first meets the eye.
• 1997's The Cube is a cult classic that is about to be shamelessly copied by the upcoming Netflix film Escape Room.
• 1997 was the year Event Horizon was made. Yeah.
• 1997's Funny Games is the modern spiritual father to The Purge, Them, The Strangers, Us, Vacancy, etc. It's Straw Dogs minus the emphasis on the Lord-of-the-Flies effect of male nature's drive to possess the female. It's about random, nihilistic terror.
• 1996's Scream is a hall-of-fame horror. This is from the past 25 years, ya' know, you doofs.
• 1996's Fear made Mark Wahlberg's career. It was fantastic.
• 1996's Frighteners is a cult classic. Nobody went in expecting anything, but it was a rollercoaster ride.
• 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn needs neither an introduction nor a synopsis.
• 1995's Tale from the Crypt: Demon Knight was delicious fun.
• 1995's Hideaway is a hidden gem.

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch, too.

And I'm not touching horror comedies like American Psycho, What We Do in the Shadows, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, The Cabin in the Woods, Dog Soldiers, Grindhouse, Slither, etc.

I'm also not touching TV when, for example, The Haunting of Hill House is the greatest ghost story ever told.

Have you guys been watching anything?

 

[Kal-El]

I really enjoyed both of the first two. Feel I've had my fill now though, not too interested in any more.

 

[moreorless87]

The last 25-30 years? Oh, fuck off, that's absurd.

Horror isn't as commercially booming, despite the higher ROIs, so I don't think it has suffered as much under Hollywood's partisan stray. I think this has more to do with Blumhouse's production model which has revolutionized the genre. That was supposed to bring more experimentation, though, not less. Maybe you guys aren't going as deep as you need to. I'm not a lunatic for the genre, so I don't know.

• 2019's Parasite was terrific.
• 2019's Doctor Sleep was a worthy successor to what many believe is the greatest horror ever made.
• 2019's Ready or Not was surprising fun.
• 2018's A Quiet Place was magnificent. What a tremendous conceit for a horror movie.
• 2018's Annihilation was one of the most interesting films of that year.
• 2018's Bird Box was a damn good movie. Sorry your Mom liked it, too. That doesn't mean it wasn't a good horror.
• 2018's Hereditary is a Sherdog favorite. Did you guys not see it?
• 2017's Life was a classic, pure space horror. Anyone who hasn't seen it is missing out.
• 2017's Get Out may not have deserved a Best Picture nomination, but I don't care what anyone says, it was amazing.
• 2017's Ravenous brings the French sensibility to zombie survival horror. It's weird, and nobody can complain it isn't thought-provoking.
• 2017's It and the sequel It: Chapter 2 easily surpassed the first iteration with Tim Curry. King's magnum opus finally got its due.
• 2016's Split was Shyamalan in peak form.
• 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane had me gripped and guessing most of the way.
• 2015's The Visit is M. Night Shyamalan's scariest movie. Hands down.
• 2015's The Witch was a refreshing departure from most period pieces of any genre. I felt like I was on an elementary school field trip to one of those small cultural preservations of early American life.
• 2015's Bone Tomahawk was brutal western horror.
• 2014's Ex Machina I found to be one of the more fascinating thinking-man's horrors made.
• 2014's Babadook offers one of the most astonishing performances in horror history by Essie Davis.
• 2014's The Maze Runner was goddamn spectacular up to the ending. It's still worth it for everything before that Hindenburg finale.
• 2013's Odd Thomas is the primary reason I was gut-punched when Anton Yelchin died. Now we'll never get the sequels. Awesome movie.
• 2013's The Conjuring is a classic, and its 2016 follow-up is also great. Spare me the 'by-the-numbers' criticism. Sometimes it's about execution, and these films execute.
• 2013's The Purge was a brilliant study of America's growing internal strife derived from wealth stratification, how this is often a matter of petty envy between first-world-problemers, as if they lived in an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians, and how the increasingly unhinged younger generation's most privileged is cannibalizing the very generation that nurtures & suckles it.
• 2012's The Woman in Black is underrated. That movie was terrifying. Give it a fair chance. Watch it alone at night in the dark.
• 2012's Sinister was creepy as hell. The lawnmower. The fucking lawnmower. The sequel was good, too.
• 2011's Kill List is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. You can accuse it of a litany of flaws, but you can't say it caters to the lowest denominator, or that it doesn't take risks.
• 2010's The Crazies improved on the original.
• 2010's Insidious was spectacular. The Further was terrifying.
• 2010's The Human Centipede was too decadent and unapologetic for culture to ignore.
• 2010's Monsters is a hidden gem. It's a story carrying commentary on the immigration crisis without a heavy-handed political sermon. It's almost impossible to imagine that's possible.
• 2010's Stake Land was a very cool, very different spin on the post-apocalyptic subgenre. Worth it.
• 2010's Troll Hunter came out of nowhere, and surprised everyone by delighting them.
• 2009's The House of the Devil was a fantastic homage to classic late 70's & early 80's horror.
• 2009's Drag Me to Hell took Stephen King's willingness to shirk self-conscious censorship when he wrote the culturally chauvinistic Thinner, but put that into a movie that was entertaining to watch. Fookin' gypsies.
• 2008's Cloverfield was a good monster movie. If you're annoyed by the style, I don't care.
• 2008's Let the Right One In, the original Swedish version, is one of the greatest horrors ever made, bar none.
• 2008's French torture porn Martyrs was also fantastic, and especially so if you went into the movie blind. I didn't even know if I was watching French indie arthouse drama the first time I watched it. I'd read nothing about it except that it was generating good press. So it was a shocking descent for me.
• 2007's The Mist is arguably a top three horror film adapted from a King novel.
• 2007's The Orphanage is one of the greatest horrors almost nobody has seen.
• 2007's Paranormal Activity gets too much hate because of the sequels. It was well done. I love that it can be alternatively interpreted as the study of the reconstructed lie of an elaborate mariticide.
• 2007's Rec was a solid in-one-building horror like The Raid for the horror genre instead of the martial arts subgenre. The English-language remake with Dexter's sister was a crime.
• 2007's Trick R' Treat was a great collection of vignettes.
• 2007's 1408 is underrated.
• 2007's 30 Days of Night was damn entertaining cinema.
• 2006's South Korean film The Host had such subtle sociopolitical commentary that few viewers ever grasp it. They only notice the internal critique of Korean socioeconomics. Few pick up on the fact the object of the filmmaker's greatest ire isn't domestic at all.
• 2005's The Descent was a masterpiece with the original, intended ending. A masterpiece. I'm not sure I've ever seen the often more complex dynamic of young all-female social groups, and how passive-aggressively antagonistic they can be via laden resent, studied through a horror lens.
• 2005's The Call of Cthulhu brought Lovecraft to the 21st century.
• 2005's Wolf Creek starts slow, but once done, it doesn't leave you. Because it's not just some story.
  
• 2005's The Devil's Rejects was Rob Zombie finally pulling off his love letter to 70's slashers.
• 2004's Open Water receives way too much hate for the pacing. I thought it did as good a job as Phone Booth did as a thriller with the minimalist set philosophy. Better than Awake or Buried.
• 2004's Saw is a horror classic. Spare me logistical nitpicking. It was magnificent.
• I maintain that the segment "Cut" from 2004's Three Extremes is one of the more disturbing pieces of horror I've seen. It really got to me. I wasn't able to emotionally disconnect.
• 2002's Irreversible fucks everyone up. Don't pretend it didn't fuck you up. It fucked you up.
• 2002's 28 Days Later made zombies scary. However great Romero's movies were, his zombies were never frightening. The only reason The Walking Dead happened was because of this movie. It's sequel 28 Weeks Later was also very good.
• 2002's Ju-On (The Grudge) and The Ring are irrefutably horror classics. The latter is a rare example where I'll take the western remake over the original.
• 2001's The Others has grown on me over time. It offers a textbook lesson on slow builds.
• 2001's Wendigo was another one like The Maze Runner that was so damn strong for the first two Acts, but fell apart. Still worth watching for those early acts.
• 2000's Baise Moi was so over-the-top they wouldn't even release it in most arthouse theaters. It's garbage, but it's undeniably ahead of its time, and incredibly influential. It kicked off the entire French extreme horror wave. Additionally, movies like Hardy Candy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Elle, and above all the recent Promising Young Woman owe it a debt. It was the raw, exploitative, and uncompromisingly brutal. It was the feminist generation's appropriation of The Last House on the Left where the female victims assume agency over their revenge.
• 2000's Shadow of the Vampire is veritable porn for arthouse porn buffs.
• 1999's Stir of Echoes was a movie that caught me off guard. I expected to roll my eyes throughout the film. Not what happened.
• 1999's Audition is the East's Misery.
• 1999's Blair Witch Project, love it or hate it, pioneered the found footage trope. This has expanded beyond horror.
• 1998's The Faculty was a fun movie that like so many other movies from the 90's had a lot more under the surface to appreciate than first meets the eye.
• 1997's The Cube is a cult classic that is about to be shamelessly copied by the upcoming Netflix film Escape Room.
• 1997 was the year Event Horizon was made. Yeah.
• 1997's Funny Games is the modern spiritual father to The Purge, Them, The Strangers, Us, Vacancy, etc. It's Straw Dogs minus the emphasis on the Lord-of-the-Flies effect of male nature's drive to possess the female. It's about random, nihilistic terror.
• 1996's Scream is a hall-of-fame horror. This is from the past 25 years, ya' know, you doofs.
• 1996's Fear made Mark Wahlberg's career. It was fantastic.
• 1996's Frighteners is a cult classic. Nobody went in expecting anything, but it was a rollercoaster ride.
• 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn needs neither an introduction nor a synopsis.
• 1995's Tale from the Crypt: Demon Knight was delicious fun.
• 1995's Hideaway is a hidden gem.

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch, too.

And I'm not touching horror comedies like American Psycho, What We Do in the Shadows, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, The Cabin in the Woods, Dog Soldiers, Grindhouse, Slither, etc.

I'm also not touching TV when, for example, The Haunting of Hill House is the greatest ghost story ever told.

Have you guys been watching anything?

Honestly Mick I tend to think a lot of what you list falls between the two camps I mentioned.

There has been plenty of good cinema that has horror elements to it, I'd add Under The Skin, Berberian Sound Studio, Bliss, Personal Shopper, etc from recent years as good examples of that.

What I have more issue with is that whats sold to the "Horror market", I think those films have just become very narrow in their ambition and focus almost entirely on building up to their scares in a very repetitive fashion, they might be "scary" but honestly scaring people is the easiest thing to do and its not what makes something like Alien, The Shining or The Thing so effective.

Again i think the issue is that Hollywood has tended to ghettoise genre cinema, comedy is the same were its a more stardanised narrower version thats sold to a smaller market with far less creativity.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

The last 25-30 years?


Have you guys been watching anything?

• 2019's Parasite was terrific. no it wasn't
  
• 2019's Doctor Sleep was a worthy successor to what many believe is the greatest horror ever made. no it fucking wasn't
  
• 2019's Ready or Not was surprising fun. it was a comedy, not horror
  
• 2018's A Quiet Place was magnificent. What a tremendous conceit for a horror movie. it was OK
  
• 2018's Annihilation was one of the most interesting films of that year. not seen
  
• 2018's Bird Box was a damn good movie. Sorry your Mom liked it, too. That doesn't mean it wasn't a good horror. awful movie and premise
  
• 2018's Hereditary is a Sherdog favorite. Did you guys not see it? it's OK, one of those movies we're told we HAVE to like, shit ending
  
• 2017's Life was a classic, pure space horror. Anyone who hasn't seen it is missing out. absolute dog shit
  
• 2017's Get Out may not have deserved a Best Picture nomination, but I don't care what anyone says, it was amazing. dull as fuck
  
• 2017's Ravenous brings the French sensibility to zombie survival horror. It's weird, and nobody can complain it isn't thought-provoking. not seen
  
• 2017's It and the sequel It: Chapter 2 easily surpassed the first iteration with Tim Curry. King's magnum opus finally got its due.It was good, chapter 2 was awful
  
• 2016's Split was Shyamalan in peak form. dog shit
  
• 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane had me gripped and guessing most of the way. utter let down
  
• 2015's The Visit is M. Night Shyamalan's scariest movie. Hands down. woeful
  
• 2015's The Witch was a refreshing departure from most period pieces of any genre. I felt like I was on an elementary school field trip to one of those small cultural preservations of early American life. not seen
  
• 2015's Bone Tomahawk was brutal western horror. barely OK
  
• 2014's Ex Machina I found to be one of the more fascinating thinking-man's horrors made. gay movie
  
• 2014's Babadook offers one of the most astonishing performances in horror history by Essie Davis. I'll give you this, great movie
  
• 2014's The Maze Runner was goddamn spectacular up to the ending. It's still worth it for everything before that Hindenburg finale. wasn't this a gay kids film?
  
• 2013's Odd Thomas is the primary reason I was gut-punched when Anton Yelchin died. Now we'll never get the sequels. Awesome movie. great book
  
• 2013's The Conjuring is a classic, and its 2016 follow-up is also great. Spare me the 'by-the-numbers' criticism. Sometimes it's about execution, and these films execute. sudden loud moises ooooooh scary dog shit for the ADD generation
  
• 2013's The Purge was a brilliant study of America's growing internal strife derived from wealth stratification, how this is often a matter of petty envy between first-world-problemers, as if they lived in an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians, and how the increasingly unhinged younger generation's most privileged is cannibalizing the very generation that nurtures & suckles it.it was OK, not horror
  
• 2012's The Woman in Black is underrated. That movie was terrifying. Give it a fair chance. Watch it alone at night in the dark. didn't watch OG is better
  
• 2012's Sinister was creepy as hell. The lawnmower. The fucking lawnmower. The sequel was good, too. I like this one
  
• 2011's Kill List is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. You can accuse it of a litany of flaws, but you can't say it caters to the lowest denominator, or that it doesn't take risks. it's OK
  
• 2010's The Crazies improved on the original. yeah not bad
  
• 2010's Insidious was spectacular. The Further was terrifying. gay as fuck bad
  
• 2010's The Human Centipede was too decadent and unapologetic for culture to ignore. hated it
  
• 2010's Monsters is a hidden gem. It's a story carrying commentary on the immigration crisis without a heavy-handed political sermon. It's almost impossible to imagine that's possible. sci fi but great movie
  
• 2010's Stake Land was a very cool, very different spin on the post-apocalyptic subgenre. Worth it.very good movie
  
• 2010's Troll Hunter came out of nowhere, and surprised everyone by delighting them.very good movie
  
• 2009's The House of the Devil was a fantastic homage to classic late 70's & early 80's horror. not seen
  
• 2009's Drag Me to Hell took Stephen King's willingness to shirk self-conscious censorship when he wrote the culturally chauvinistic Thinner, but put that into a movie that was entertaining to watch. Fookin' gypsies.barely OK
  
• 2008's Cloverfield was a good monster movie. If you're annoyed by the style, I don't care. not horror but loved it
  
• 2008's Let the Right One In, the original Swedish version, is one of the greatest horrors ever made, bar none. OG is great
  
• 2008's French torture porn Martyrs was also fantastic, and especially so if you went into the movie blind. I didn't even know if I was watching French indie arthouse drama the first time I watched it. I'd read nothing about it except that it was generating good press. So it was a shocking descent for me. not seen
  
• 2007's The Mist is arguably a top three horror film adapted from a King novel. yup love it
  
• 2007's The Orphanage is one of the greatest horrors almost nobody has seen. boring kids film
  
• 2007's Paranormal Activity gets too much hate because of the sequels. It was well done. I love that it can be alternatively interpreted as the study of the reconstructed lie of an elaborate mariticide. good film
  
• 2007's Rec was a solid in-one-building horror like The Raid for the horror genre instead of the martial arts subgenre. The English-language remake with Dexter's sister was a crime. I like the US version, Spanish was annoying screamy shite
  
• 2007's Trick R' Treat was a great collection of vignettes. not seen
  
• 2007's 1408 is underrated. sok
  
• 2007's 30 Days of Night was damn entertaining cinema. barely OK
  
• 2006's South Korean film The Host had such subtle sociopolitical commentary that few viewers ever grasp it. They only notice the internal critique of Korean socioeconomics. Few pick up on the fact the object of the filmmaker's greatest ire isn't domestic at all. very good
  
• 2005's The Descent was a masterpiece with the original, intended ending. A masterpiece. I'm not sure I've ever seen the often more complex dynamic of young all-female social groups, and how passive-aggressively antagonistic they can be via laden resent, studied through a horror lens. Yup good movie
  
• 2005's The Call of Cthulhu brought Lovecraft to the 21st century.wot?
• 2005's Wolf Creek starts slow, but once done, it doesn't leave you. Because it's not just some story. good film
  
• 2005's The Devil's Rejects was Rob Zombie finally pulling off his love letter to 70's slashers. SHITE
  
• 2004's Open Water receives way too much hate for the pacing. I thought it did as good a job as Phone Booth did as a thriller with the minimalist set philosophy. Better than Awake or Buried. boring
  
• 2004's Saw is a horror classic. Spare me logistical nitpicking. It was magnificent. good eno8ugh
  
• I maintain that the segment "Cut" from 2004's Three Extremes is one of the more disturbing pieces of horror I've seen. It really got to me. I wasn't able to emotionally disconnect. wut
  
• 2002's Irreversible fucks everyone up. Don't pretend it didn't fuck you up. It fucked you up. it's OK
  
• 2002's 28 Days Later made zombies scary. However great Romero's movies were, his zombies were never frightening. The only reason The Walking Dead happened was because of this movie. It's sequel 28 Weeks Later was also very good. yup good film
  
• 2002's Ju-On (The Grudge) and The Ring are irrefutably horror classics. The latter is a rare example where I'll take the western remake over the original. hated it
  
• 2001's The Others has grown on me over time. It offers a textbook lesson on slow builds. terrible
  
• 2001's Wendigo was another one like The Maze Runner that was so damn strong for the first two Acts, but fell apart. Still worth watching for those early acts. yeah it's decent but goes nowhere
  
• 2000's Baise Moi was so over-the-top they wouldn't even release it in most arthouse theaters. It's garbage, but it's undeniably ahead of its time, and incredibly influential. It kicked off the entire French extreme horror wave. Additionally, movies like Hardy Candy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Elle, and above all the recent Promising Young Woman owe it a debt. It was the raw, exploitative, and uncompromisingly brutal. It was the feminist generation's appropriation of The Last House on the Left where the female victims assume agency over their revenge. horror?
  
• 2000's Shadow of the Vampire is veritable porn for arthouse porn buffs. arty wank

Not going into 90's movies as there are some gems, most of which you omitted

hope you appreciate my indepth review of each movie

 

[moreorless87]

SUDDEN LOUD NOISE!

 

[SKYNET]

My old lady dragged me to see the new one. It was trash.

They need to quit milking that series

 

[Mondo Freaks]

They are like the Fast and Furious movies. Pure garbage but they still keep making them.

 

[Throwin Bombs]

Probably the best ghost, haunted house and possession series there is. The first Conjuring is great with the rest falling in somewhere around good or better. I have enjoyed the intertwining elements of the movies and am waiting for an all out installment where multiple possessed items from their vault are set loose.

The Nun is the worst installment despite having visually the creepiest villain of the series.

 

[Madmick]

Really fucking low, just like all the other shit that has come out in the last 25-30 years

Not going into 90's movies as there are some gems, most of which you omitted

hope you appreciate my indepth review of each movie

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