So called horror films. Contains spoilers

[dodge50]

Hi everyone

I have become really fed up recently with movies that advertise themselves in trailers and clips as "horror" or "supernatural" and then turn out to be nothing of the kind. I love horror films, but advertisers of movies seem to be able to mislead us and totally get away with it. Here are some examples.

I shelled out my hard earned cash buying "The Village" on DVD which displayed itself as a scary monster in the woods tale and those of us who have seen it know it was nothing of the kind. What we got was villagers dressing up to scare the kids into staying put. What a LETDOWN. The trouble is you have to see it for yourself to make your mind up (would the sixth sense have been as good if you knew the end before hand?). The least we should expect is fair accurate advertising.

Then there was "Hide and Seek" advertised as a creepy invisible friend tale with people starting to die, OOooooooo, and what did we get, a run of the mill split personality thriller. I paid to go to the cinema to see that rubbish expecting horror, but getting ripped off instead.

Next "The Grudge", not Sarah Michell Gellers finest hour. Yes this is a horror movie I agree, but the description on the back of the DVD is nothing like the film at all. It describes itself as a spirit that consumes souls and has to jump from body to body to survive, but the film gave no relevance to that. I willl hold my hands up again and say, yes, it was a horror film though.

In any other form of advertising you simply could not get away with this, it would be "false advertising" end of story. However we spend out our dosh wether it be in the cinema or on dvd/video and deserve value for it, we deserve to get what we think we are paying for. I do know that one persons horror film is another persons comedy, what is horror to one may not be to another, but at least we should not be mislead into thinking we are going to see a horror when the film is obviously not (thank you Hide and Seek).

Well this is my first post here, but it is something that has annoyed me recently (can you tell). I would love to hear others points of view wether they agree or disagree.

Thanks for your time.

Keep it real :cool:

dodge50

[Angra]

Originally posted by dodge50
Hi everyone

I have become really fed up recently with movies that advertise themselves in trailers and clips as "horror" or "supernatural" and then turn out to be nothing of the kind. I love horror films, but advertisers of movies seem to be able to mislead us and totally get away with it. Here are some examples.

I shelled out my hard earned cash buying "The Village" on DVD which displayed itself as a scary monster in the woods tale and those of us who have seen it know it was nothing of the kind. What we got was villagers dressing up to scare the kids into staying put. What a LETDOWN. The trouble is you have to see it for yourself to make your mind up (would the sixth sense have been as good if you knew the end before hand?). The least we should expect is fair accurate advertising.

Then there was "Hide and Seek" advertised as a creepy invisible friend tale with people starting to die, OOooooooo, and what did we get, a run of the mill split personality thriller. I paid to go to the cinema to see that rubbish expecting horror, but getting ripped off instead.

Next "The Grudge", not Sarah Michell Gellers finest hour. Yes this is a horror movie I agree, but the description on the back of the DVD is nothing like the film at all. It describes itself as a spirit that consumes souls and has to jump from body to body to survive, but the film gave no relevance to that. I willl hold my hands up again and say, yes, it was a horror film though.

In any other form of advertising you simply could not get away with this, it would be "false advertising" end of story. However we spend out our dosh wether it be in the cinema or on dvd/video and deserve value for it, we deserve to get what we think we are paying for. I do know that one persons horror film is another persons comedy, what is horror to one may not be to another, but at least we should not be mislead into thinking we are going to see a horror when the film is obviously not (thank you Hide and Seek).

Well this is my first post here, but it is something that has annoyed me recently (can you tell). I would love to hear others points of view wether they agree or disagree.

Thanks for your time.

Keep it real :cool:

dodge50




Did i just see you trash "The Grudge"???:eek: ........ HEATHEN!!!!

[dodge50]

Come on man, As Jap horror remakes go The Grude isn't what I would call a great horror film. Although it is worth watching for Sarah :D

Also The Ring 2............not good.

[Angra]

Originally posted by dodge50
Come on man, As Jap horror remakes go The Grude isn't what I would call a great horror film. Although it is worth watching for Sarah :D

Also The Ring 2............not good.


Grrrrrr......

[urgeok]

Originally posted by dodge50

I shelled out my hard earned cash buying "The Village" on DVD which displayed itself as a scary monster in the woods tale and those of us who have seen it know it was nothing of the kind. What we got was villagers dressing up to scare the kids into staying put. What a LETDOWN. The trouble is you have to see it for yourself to make your mind up (would the sixth sense have been as good if you knew the end before hand?). The least we should expect is fair accurate advertising.


10 seconds of research could have told you what a piece of shit this was .. 9 out of 10 reviews trashed it,, its been trashed on this forum on about 20 threads ..

i have no sympathy...

i saw it opening night in the theatre - thats my excuse ..

[Hate_Breeder]

Its made by M NIGHT SHAMALAMADING DONG!

How much evidence did you need to find out this movie was crap?

[Angra]

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
Its made by M NIGHT SHAMALAMADING DONG!





That seriously made me laugh out loud, dude. HAIL!!:p

[Hate_Breeder]

Originally posted by Angra
That seriously made me laugh out loud, dude. HAIL!!:p

I MADE ANGRA LAUGH!

HAIL SATAN!

HIGHPRIESTWISE

[massacre man]

Originally posted by urgeok
10 seconds of research could have told you what a piece of shit this was .. 9 out of 10 reviews trashed it,, its been trashed on this forum on about 20 threads ..

i have no sympathy...

i saw it opening night in the theatre - thats my excuse .. that movie was so bad i cried :p :( :mad:

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
Its made by M NIGHT SHAMALAMADING DONG!

How much evidence did you need to find out this movie was crap?


the guy i know who writes for Rue Morgue and does a radio movie review segment called him shamalamadingdong on the radio ...


but to be fair, 6th Sense and Unbreakable were excellent films.

[massacre man]

Originally posted by urgeok
the guy i know who writes for Rue Morgue and does a radio movie review segment called him shamalamadingdong on the radio ...


but to be fair, 6th Sense and Unbreakable were excellent films. Signs was... um how can i say this... meh

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Originally posted by urgeok
the guy i know who writes for Rue Morgue and does a radio movie review segment called him shamalamadingdong on the radio ...


but to be fair, 6th Sense and Unbreakable were excellent films.

I haven't seen unbreakable, but sixth sense was awesome.

[Rufus]

No, it was not.

[barbra]

Originally posted by Rufus
No, it was not. yeah, I thought the 6th sense was lame also

[urgeok]

Originally posted by X¤MurderDoll¤X
I haven't seen unbreakable, but sixth sense was awesome.


it was - a terrific movie - which is saying a lot because i never liked Bruce Willis.

Not just the big suprise ending - which was the icing on the cake, but the execution of the film was pretty much flawless.

finally a ghost story with class and origionality - it rejuvinated the genre.

Not sure if you'd like unbreakable - a lot of people didnt - but i thought it was ballsy and brilliant.

[dodge50]

Originally posted by urgeok
10 seconds of research could have told you what a piece of shit this was .. 9 out of 10 reviews trashed it,, its been trashed on this forum on about 20 threads ..

i have no sympathy...

i saw it opening night in the theatre - thats my excuse ..

You may think that is a fair comment but my complaint was about misleading advertising not later reviews. I want to see a film advertised in context with the content of the movie, not blatently potraiting a film as something it is not. I get to see a lot of advertising first hand at the cinema and like a lot of people I decide what films I want to see from that.

As for it being trashed in 20 threads on this forum......10 seconds of research could have told you I only joined on the 1st April 05 and this was my first post. That's my excuse.

:p