| ChronoGrl |
11-11-2013 05:51 PM |
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Originally Posted by shadyJ
(Post 959996)
I think Sinister with Ethan Hawke overused music for some scenes. It drained tension by drawing attention to the music instead of the overall scene.
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HA! Yes. My hubby was trying to fall asleep but the music kept him awake... Didn't get in the way of my enjoyment but I can see where the complaints would come from.
Not horror, but I've heard the same complaints of Black Swan and Punch Drunk Love, two examples where I thought that the intoxicating music helped to set the tone, but again I can see someone finding it overpowering.
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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ
(Post 960003)
Sinister and Insidious basically is a giant example of everything I hate about modern horror films.
Slick hollow and tacky cheap jump scares with some of the most fucking ridiculous looking villains in the history of horror.
I really don't get why they get so much praise when they are just poorly executed messes.
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Hmm - I thought that you actually liked Sinister (with the exception of the super-cheap jump scare at the very end which was SO unnecessary)... I actually thought that it successfully built tension and truly did unnerve me. I thought that I was in the minority, though - Of those two, folks seem to continue to praise Insidious which, honestly, I find the more disappointingly uneven of the two - I thought that the first third of the movie was a successfully creepy film about a haunting... But when the mood shifted, it lost me.
Because I thought that Sinister and [the first third of] Insidious successfully built a mood of disease, I didn't find the scares cheap; I was thoroughly unnerved and thought that the jumps they got from me were earned.
As for the Big Bads in both of those films, I do agree that they were executed poorly, Insidious especially, though I would argue that Sinister did it sparingly enough not for it to be a problem for me.
And now I want to watch both of those again...
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Originally Posted by Sicknero
(Post 960012)
I think I'd just watched Snuff 102 when I posted that (Argentinian art-housey thing with more of a plot than I expected but pretensions to "asking important questions").
It has some very convincing faux-snuff scenes which they obviously put some time and effort into, yet along with most of them went a soundtrack so loud that you couldn't even hear the screaming. With just the "real world" sound those scenes would have been genuinely disturbing and unsettling - the music just ruined it I thought.
I think I agree about Sinister, not a bad film imo despite lots of plot holes lol. But yes music is over-relied on there.
In contrast I watched 7 Days last night - not strictly horror though a bit gruesome in places - which has no score whatsoever throughout and shows how feelings really don't need to be manipulated by music in a good film.
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Haven't seen those, but I think I've experienced something similar when watching Giallo - YES, before folks jump on me, I realize that's part of the genre, but I'm not a huge fan of the genre, so it's not too surprising that I find the music annoying... |
