Halloween is almost upon us, which makes now a great time to binge on horror movies. Sadly, some famous horror flicks, even a few considered classics, don’t live up to the hype around them. What popular horror movies let you down when you finally watched them?
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The horror series that annoys me most and I find most stupidly overrated is the ‘Saw<\/a>‘ franchise. Even as a crazed horror fanatic, I can’t stand it. The deaths are not only ridiculously elaborate and over-the-top, but they’re also pointless and lack even a shred of emotion. I love my gore, but I hate the idea of gore just for the sake of grossing out the audience, and that’s all this stupid series is. <\/p>\n The killer is a self-righteous moron who preaches his absurdly twisted brand of motivational demagoguery. Hell, he even looks like a wasted, meth-addict version of Tony Robbins! About the only positive that has come from the franchise is the admittedly awesome puppet on a tricycle. The Jigsaw doll is cool, but the movie is dumb and shouldn’t even be considered horror. <\/p>\n When it hit theaters in 1999, ‘The Blair Witch Project<\/a>‘ had a lot of buzz since the pre-internet spoiler era allowed it to have some mystique behind it. It is really found footage? Or it is just a lightly scripted independent film? The nervous anticipation and its accompanying fear made for an astounding moviegoing experience. The emotional effects of the movie started much earlier than the movie itself. It was magnificent!<\/p>\n Unfortunately, you can only go through that experience once. After seeing the disappointing and lackluster movie itself, that feeling was entirely gone. At the age of 18, I remember asking myself, “That’s what all the hype was about?” I’m absolutely fine with horror movies that do nothing. Rising tension is fantastic, but when it’s strung along by whiny, bitching characters and concludes with a completely anticlimactic scary image, it has all been for naught.<\/p>\n Leading up to the movie, I was enamored by the idea of it. But after that first viewing, when all the buzz and marketing-created suspense was over, all I was left with was a bad movie.<\/p>\n Back in the early days of Netflix, some friends and I sought out several horror classics with a whole range of results. One that just had no horror type effect on us was the original 1973 ‘The Wicker Man<\/a>‘. The reason I’m singling it out is because I hate when I reference the film’s denouement in conversation (say with regards to visiting a remote location) only to have people respond that they never saw the movie. While I think of it as an overrated movie, I wish more people would watch it just to get the joke reference.<\/p>\nLuke Hickman<\/span><\/h3>\n
Brian Hoss<\/span><\/h3>\n
Adam Tyner (DVDTalk<\/a>)<\/span><\/h3>\n