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inane dialogue.
without decent dialogue (writing) you can't invest in the characters.
If you cant invest in the characters you don't care if they live or die.
If you don't care if they live or die there is no suspense - no horror.
The problem with horror since the 70's is this: most available horror films are made by indie guys.
Most indie guys are dullard metalheads that watch nothing but horror films.
They have no idea how to create anything, they just regurgitate the same old shit they've seen a thousand times over and over again.
They write the same way they speak so everything is an attempt to sound bad-ass .. through excessive swearing and name calling - like 'douche-bag' , etc
(Just like on the forums and social media)
They cast their metalhead friends in the films .. so you see cops with tattoos on their frigging heads with a 5 word vocabulary..
They're all self proclaimed Satanists so everything is anti church - every other film .. trying to be soooooo subversive and hard core. boring as hell.
I guess that's a long winded way of saying - i'm sick of seeing horror films made by people who don't understand anything about film and just want to keep remaking the same tired crap over and over again because it's all they know.
as far as commercial films go ..
I'm sick of seeing jump outs .. red herrings, false alarms as a cheap way to build tension.
I've never once seen a cat locked in a closet on the top shelf.
And if it was - it would carefully jump down once it was able to measure it's distance to the floor.
Unless you're making a movie that's mocking bad horror films .. if you have a cat jump out of a closet - you should have your camera taken away from you and made to go back to work at McDonalds on the deep fryer.
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