The same kids who don't want to see Nosfaratu are the same ones who tell me Grandma's Boy and waiting are the best movies ever. Of all those films however, I see American Psycho as being the most accepted by the "general public".

Zombie Fisters

Well if you show Evil Dead to a lot of non-horror fans they would say they don't know what all the fuss is about. I know a lot of people who've said that to me.

Horror appeals to its group, and has a certain amount of wide appeal, otherwise horror films wouldn't be made. I don't think there's any genre that appeals to "everyone" widely. It takes all kinds!

The average watcher of films wants what he expects, and the films you mentioned largely go against the grain, and are challenging.

Put simply, some people are just plain thick and dull with little or no imagination nor independent thought.

Of course, it is very easy to offend people when genre fans suddenly find themselves caught up in the 'multiplex crowd' because they happened to like some of the blockbusters shown there. But you have to generalise to some extent, and the braindead among us know who they are.

Or maybe they don't - ignorance is bliss after all.

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no - they dont..

I wanted to bump this two year old thread for a few reasons.

1. Now that we've been overly bombarded with remakes (which was going on at the time as well) the general public is obviously the target for horror. The watered down PG-13 theater release and luke-warm uncut directors cut for most movies has become stale. Anyone, regardless of the old answers, have any new thoughts on the subject?

2. It's getting close to Halloween, the forum is being flooded as usual, and we could use some real horror discussion on here.

3. All the n00bs need to get the chance to see urges old avatar in its full glory.

I've been thru 10000 pages of threads in the past few weeks with those directories. Been there, done that.

Blair Witch in the OP is one of the most successful indies ever made, so I'm guessing it was popular with the public too.

I love that little guy.

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I feel as though the horror genre in general is not appreciated by the general public. I think that a lot of the Hollywood Horrors or bad serial horrors give the genre a bad name. When I tell people that I'm a "horror fan," their initial reaction is to laugh (then, of course, I stab them in the throat... WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!?!?!)

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Anyway.

Horror movies that I've always thought were incredibly underrated...

• Black Christmas (1974) - I honestly feel as though this film is ahead of its time; aside from the serial murders, there were (*GASP*) talk of abortion and women's liberation... The direction was creepy and crisp and an obvious inspiration for the famed Halloween that would come out four years later (and would earn the role of being the iconic film that Black Christmas should have been).
• Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Lady Vengeance - While I think that Oldboy is a brilliant film, I feel as though it unjustly overshadows the other two volumes of the collection (I think that Sympathy, in particular, is the superior film).
• There are countless foreign films that I could name here, which belong because, unfortunately, the general audience has a problem processing foreign languages and subtitles. To name a few: Audition, Ils, Inside, The Devil's Backbone (Pan's Labyrinth was the hot one, but I think Devil's Backbone was the superior one).
• The Grudge (remake) - I would actually make the argument that The Grudge remake was incredibly under appreciated. I have seen both versions of the film and I honestly feel as though Takashi Shimizu too this remake as an opportunity to apply some much-needed editing to his original fright fest. I thought that The Grudge was incredibly well-crafted, atmospheric, and genuinely creepy. I think that its timing is what was working against it as it followed the far inferior remake of The Ring and audiences were just not impressed (The perception, I believe, was that it was just another Ring knock-off).
• Blair Witch Project - I agree with your original post, Flayed; Blair Witch wasn't appreciated by the general audience (I think) because of its unprecedented filmmaking and style (I had friends who thought that it was funny). In terms of the horror community, I think that the elite began to turn their nose up at the film as soon as it started to bank (because that means you're a sellout). I thought that Blair Witch Project was a brilliant piece of work that unfortunately goes unappreciated.

I don't think that was the case at all. Blair Witch got so much shit because it was a gimmick trying to pull off being more scary than it actually was. It paved the way for countless overhyped lightweight screamteen flicks that pissed all over the genre and almost buried it during the late 90s early 2000s.