Another note on horror movies- MOST of them ARE terrible films.
I feel fully qualified to call myself a horror aficionado. I love everything from no-budget scrappers to big-budget spectaculars, and I can tell you than most horror flicks are cynical productions made on the cheap for a quick return with no redeeming value if you aren’t an investor. I’ve had to trudge through WEEKS worth of total crap to find just one interesting flick, much less a truly well made piece of art. But there are plenty of filmmakers that have gave the genre masterwork pieces of cinema. A list of what I’d call truly well made horror films would take up pages.
But, also, art is subjective. One mans trash is another mans garbage.
Well to be honest most everything is terrible or at least meh but in retrospect I probably should have said “Slasher films” instead of “Horror”.
EDIT:
I haven’t seen many horror films, but the ones that I have seen have been pretty good to great. Here is a list of what the IMDb says are horror films I’ve seen and what I give them out of ten:
The Evil Dead (1981) - 8/10
Evil Dead II (1987) - 9/10
Evil Dead got a 7.6/10 and Evil Dead II got a 7.8/10. Still good scores. Also I always thought these were action/horror films but okay.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - 7/10
This actually got a 7.5/10.
The Shining (1980) - 9/10
I’m going to watch this one this weekend as well. I don’t even remember it to be honest.
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) - 8/10
This got a 7.0/10 on imdb. Still a good score though
Drag Me to Hell (2009) - 8/10
Actually it got a 6.6/10
Evil Dead (2013) - 6/10
Alien (1979) - 9/10
Sci-fi/Horror = not a true horror movie. Also it got a 8.5
Where did you get these scores from? lol
I went to my ratings, then filtered them down to what IMDb considers to be “horror” films. The ratings I specified are what I give them, not the general consensus.
Gotcha. That threw me for a loop.