as you all know, i'm a horror connoisseur and a fun lil meme that goes around the horror community is "unpopular opinions on (insert horror media type here)"! i think it's a great lil meme that ppl can participate in, and since the latter half of 2024 seems to be horror movies on top of horror movies for me, i figure i'd finally join in.
(also a lot of these are from a very american-centric pov but it's mostly to highlight my frustrations with hollywood especially because of the successes of international movies with american audiences in recent years. we loved Lake Mungo, Raw, Train To Busan, Audition, The Wailing, Speak No Evil, etc. like man! cmon!)
without further ado... here they are!
vague endings/plots are the best:
i literally do not understand why ppl bitch and moan abt vague endings or monsters that never get revealed. y'all ever watch Room 1408? or Final Prayer? that shit is terrifying. i was deadass disappointed when the monster was revealed in Quiet Place and The Ritual. mad disappointed. no movie can ever create a monster so terrifying as the imagination can. "where there is no imagination there is no horror" -sir arthur conan doyle. true story
what it says on the tin. i LOVE seeing movies where having a disability isn't demonized, and even better-- i love a movie where the disability is actually HELPFUL! like the blind kids in Bird Box, the deaf protag in Hush, and also the deaf girl in Quiet Place. yes, i ragged on Quiet Place a lil bit but i truly do love that movie aside from that one complaint! doesn't even only have to be physical disabilities either; the protag in Longlegs arguably had "psychic powers" bc of her childhood trauma and the main characters in They Look Like People were bonded for life thanks to schizophrenia. we need more movies like this!
scariest horror out there by far, bar none, argue with the wall. when i realized what was happening in Get Out when those characters "sunk", my whole body seized up, no lie. IMAGINE having your body taken over by... something. either mentally or physically. you can't control your actions, nor your transformation... NO MATTER WHAT! *scary musical sting plays* nah but fr holy shit, complete disrespect to other ppl's autonomy is. mnyeah 😬i think this is kind of a semi-popular opinion but it's here bc i truly do think that not many ppl think abt it immediately when they're asked what's the scariest kind of horror for them. but they'd change their minds real quick when they learn the inspiration behind The Last Of Us' clickers...
we still have so much ground to cover! i saw somewhere on the internet that it doesn't make sense why america's tired of zombie movies; they've never watched one. har har har, but actually kinda valid! usians version of a zombie is almost nothing like the origins whatsoever and i for one agree. i feel like body horror from a zombie's perspective would hit a LOT of right notes for a lot of ppl and that concept alone has SO much potential. i'm sure other countries have fantastic (actual) zombie stories but it's a shame the entire united states of america can never think outside of the box when it comes to the undead u_ubest we could do is Warm Bodies. hollywood has still so much to explore...
on that last note... we need more horror movies from other countries to start blowing up again like Parasite and Train To Busan did. like fr. i wanna see more international movies and not just from japan or europe. i wanna see middle eastern monsters and plots! or jewish ones! i watched The Wailing and Disappear Completely and those were BANGERS. we need more of those in american theatres goddamnit! (disclaimer: i know why those stories aren't told much here in this country LOL dw, i'm perfectly aware. i just needed to address the elephant in the room)
like. yes. i know this is a shamelessly Biased opinion bc i'm aro but. well. hear me out, guys!! we need movies where ROMANCE itself is the evil entity killing ppl. no, i'm not talkin abt Misery or The Roommate. that wasn't romance. i'm talking abt like the episode in Twilight Zone where a lady wakes up to a random man in her bed who she doesn't recognize. the horror in that ep was that the man was forgotten abt completely out of nowhere with no explanation, and that woman was his wife... but he was erased from the timeline.but i got to thinking... what if we got an episode from that woman's pov? 🤔 like Invisible Man but maybe less abt domestic abuse idk
all i know is that horror about fantastical and paranormal stuff only does so much to ppl. horror set in everyday life with everyday objects that we use often, in situations anyone could find themselves in are so much more effective, and that's a fact!
give a group of youtubers a giant budget and let them be freeeeeee! that's what happened for Talk To Me and look at how they ate that! if we actually got a good writer on set for a few of them, i bet internet ARGs would be a smash hit. i hate ppl who roll their eyes at it just bc they watched some b-rated Unfriended clone and denounced tech horror altogether. like c'mon y'all! it doesn't even have to center around tech! so many ARGs and internet lore can be taken and spun into MAGIC. can you imagine a found footage-type horror about The Sun Vanished? or an actual good SCP movie? there's a reason why Marble Hornets captivated thousands for as long as it did (and i would know cuz i was there LOL)grrrr i'm so mad that ppl think of Unfriended when they think modern tech horror bc there's so many hidden gems out there like Cam, Lake Mungo, Gonjiam Haunted Asylum, Host, Pulse, and Possessor
and not just animated pg-13 films but like, actual animated horror films for adults. complete with the guts and gore and all that good stuff. The closest that i was able to find was some little hidden gem on netflix years ago called The House, about stop-motion-animated characters going thru some Horrors all centered around one home, which isn't quite as gory as i'd have wanted it to be but it still hit that creep factor for me several times thru that second story. yeesh. we're getting somewhere around there with the Junji Ito Collection now, which is good. i lowkey wish there was a competent studio out there that could turn The Cat Lady into a movie...
idk if this is an unpopular opinion but like fr. wtf is up with that shit bruh? i watched that movie so many times and til this day i STILL do not get the hype? WHAT was so scary abt that movie, they still didn't get to the real horror behind that case. which is a mystery that i feel like Sady Doyle's book Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers gets to the bottom of pretty quickly (great book btw for feminist horror lovers)i just feel like there are SO many other horror movies that deserved that kind of 5-star marketing. not saying they all needed a series but i meaannnnnn coughAnnihilationcough cough
anyways yeah that's all of my unpopular opinions that i don't think many other ppl share. i also hope i provided some ppl with some horror movie recs, i tried to sprinkle in a few of my favorites :3
thx for reading!
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