All the classic horrors were disliked upon release - the difference here is, the critics LOVE it. People will appreciate it over time, i'm very confident on that. It perfectly fits into the horror film landscape, through being expertly retro but for a modern audience (who might not fully understand its references).

 

Glad you enjoyed it C-W, highly suspected you would !!

Yeah this for sure is just a case of slight mismarketing or whatever, the ads seem to paint this as very different movie to what it actually is, and I know a few of my friends pretty much wrote it off because of that :/

It's probably a case of too much hype, I mean being called this generation's The Exorcist is quite a lot to live up to, but I sense it won't harm it in the long run. Still, it's annoying that literally any film that gets a lot of hype these days seemingly HAS to get some form of backlash. I wish people would just judge something on it's own merits and not overexaggerate simply because they didn't get the hype. Like it's OK to be underwhelmed, but going as far as hating it purely because of that is pack mentality and too strong, these petty 1 star ratings you see on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes to bring it's score down annoy me a lot.

^ *nods*

 

I hate when something is called ‘this generation’s...’ that kind of status is earned over time. Not after being In the cinema for a week.

 

Going to see this a again next week so I can concentrated more on the finer details.

Marketing for horror films has been so over the top lately - Ghost Stories had 'the best British horror film in years' and (imo) it was shite! Blair Witch had over the top reviews as well and that was terrible also.

 

This was actually good but horror films do tend to get really over hyped and a lot of hyperbole thrown at them to get people to watch them when it isn't really necessary.

It’s true; but there’s so many bad horror films these days I guess they need to stand out in marketing as actually decent so people go see it. It’s backfired somewhat with this one as people are going around saying it’s overhyped. It worked for Get Out and IT though, box of which did really well!

Are these comments a dig/shade at me coz I said it was slow and boring? :lol:

 

To me, it was slow and it was boring for a lot of it and it just felt like a glorified, indie/arty horror. Trust me, it bugs me more than you guys know that I didn't enjoy this as much as you guys did. I HATE being the one not to get the hype. :( But it really didn't grab my interest much at all until

the neck snap

and from that point my interest was in and out a lot. I liked it and didn't dislike it. I feel a similar way about this as I did with 'The VVitch'. I just wish I could have enjoyed it more because I adore the horror genre so much (as y'all should know already lmao) but not that it was particularly hard to grasp, it just wasn't grabbing my attention much throughout.

 

I will say though that the clicking sound goes through me now and Toni's crying and screeching after finding out about that scene was chilling and so wonderfully done/one of my favourite horror moments of the last few years.

Wasn’t a big fan of this, but that might be partly down to thinking it would be something it’s not.

I thought it would be a lot more terrifying (I’d seen things about it being the ‘scariest film in years’...etc, which it’s just not.)

 

Was expecting it to be a lot more unique, I feel like so much of it has been done before so it’s not really that shocking or disturbing any more? Having said that, there were parts I absolutely loved and the quality of the score and cinematography can’t be denied.