biggest selling horror movies you hated

[The Villain]

Originally Posted by Bluequiet

Well, which would you rather debate, my presentation of the movies I made comments about or the movies themselves? Honestly, the reason I act with hurt indignation before anything is said is I suppose I'm trying to skip the "you're an idiot" part of the interaction by admitting that I fear I am an idiot so that we can go right to the real discussion. Apparently my maneuver failed.

Like, for example, how do people honestly consider The Reflecting Skin a horror film. I think it's an intriguing and beautiful film, but if I'm judging it from a horror perspective I think it's kind of terrible.

No one's going to call you an idiot on here and if they do, believe me everyone would probably jump all over them. This forum is really good with that and with the exception of one incident, I've only had great conversations on here and that's why it's good to just say to each their own right off because we all just want to have friendly debates and conversations here.

[TheWickerFan]

I think Bluequiet will be okay if he stops being so self-deprecating, and (most important) quits spamming.

[neverending]

I don't mind spam as long as it's on topic and the person also contributes, which this person is doing...

[KaydenTheron92]

Zombieland - i know its not really a horror, but it became too much of a p**stake

[TheWickerFan]

Originally Posted by neverending

I don't mind spam as long as it's on topic and the person also contributes, which this person is doing...

I guess V felt differently.

[ZombieDrone]

Okay...start with a controversial one.

Nightmare On Elm Street - Not the remake (though don't get me started on that...) I've never been a huge fan of slashers as it happens. Halloween is good, but I could never quite get into Friday The 13th. I always thought the sequels shouldn't have dealt with Jason but with people acting "through" Jason, similar to Barbara in the first film, although she may just have been nuts...

Anyway, I digress...

I appreciate the dream logic that was used (I've always had a soft spot for surrealism in horror) but I wasn't that impressed. I didn't find it scary and although I can appreciate Freddie Krueger, he's not my favourite horror character.

Saw - Again, I just never found it terrifying, maybe because I knew how it would end.

Piranha 3D - Tried to sit through this, but it just played like almost softcore porn with a little bit of horror/comedy (which again, I enjoy) thrown in. I found it dumb in an almost insluting way.

The Amityville Horror - So much potential but it never quite gets that exciting for me. I quite liked Amityville II though. Same with The Omen (which I like, but I always felt the sequels were underrated, except Omen IV *shudder*)

[Fearonsarms]

I completely agree about The Amityville Horror-I thought Amityville 2 was far scarier, more foreboding and unsettling. An excellent example of a sequal superceding the original I thought.

[Bluequiet]

I understand some peoples contention that Nightmare on Elm Street is overrated/hyped. I am not a member of that club, though, I'm a pretty big fan of it, but for me some of its stature in the horror community has a lot to do with the "right place, right time concept". It's a cultural thing at this point, the movies good but it's assent into horror classic status is not just due to the movie, it's about the myth and it's place within the 80s horror boom.

I'm also pretty down on the Amityville Horror movies. I've only seen the original and the remake, not any of the original sequels, but both movies greatly disappointed me. I seem to remember another, more lower budget, movie based more closely on what the family actually claims to have happened that I was more impressed with. Or maybe I'm confusing it with the dramatization sequences of a history channel show on the subject that also included the real interviews of the family. I don't know. Either way, the Amityville franchise is a big bomb for me in the horror movie sense (though I admit I should try to see some of the sequels)

[Sistinas666]

I wouldn't bother...the sequels make the original look like a masterpiece...

[Fearonsarms]

I'd agree with the films after part two but I do think part two was better than the first.