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i'm sure this topic has been done to death but i'm too lazy to search for it.

what horror film that was panned or little seen do you think deserves better? i have 2:

dust devil, a 1992 african film by richard stanley. the studio hacked it to pieces and released a version into theaters that was only 40% of the original film. richard stanley has released a video version of the complete film.

ravenous, a 1999 film starring guy pearce. cannibalism in the old west... the nyt complained that the film played the horror for laughs and the laughs for horror and that it tried too hard to be 'outrageous'. i loved it.
 
Hereditary
Conjuring
Antebellum
The Nun
The Fear Street Trilogy was fun

The first season of AHS, Murder House.
 
rae121452 said:
i'm sure this topic has been done to death but i'm too lazy to search for it.

what horror film that was panned or little seen do you think deserves better? i have 2:

dust devil, a 1992 african film by richard stanley. the studio hacked it to pieces and released a version into theaters that was only 40% of the original film. richard stanley has released a video version of the complete film.

ravenous, a 1999 film starring guy pearce. cannibalism in the old west... the nyt complained that the film played the horror for laughs and the laughs for horror and that it tried too hard to be 'outrageous'. i loved it.
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Ravenous is awesome. Great movie.

The Autopsy of Jane Doe got to me. Gave me the heebie jeebies.
 
I enjoyed the movie "It Follows" and I feel that it was very underrated. It's about a woman who after sleeping her new boyfriend is given a curse that is passed on from victim to victim in which a demon will stalk and kill you unless you pass on that curse to another person, and if that person is killed by the demon then it goes back after you so you have to keep having to pass on that curse knowing that you will condemn people to death.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


It may not sound as good as I write a short description of it, but trust me it's very good. The IMDB link to the film is above, check out the trailer to get a better idea of it.



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It isn't really horror maybe, but The Changeling with George C. Scott is a great scary ghost story. Five years ago it would've qualified for "underappreciated", but I've even heard some animators recently say it was one of their favorites, so that cat is apparently out of the bag for the newer generation.

Can we talk about overappreciated horror films too? Like:

Get Out. Fantastic start, great middle...and then Jordan Peele - whom I admire a lot - seems to get himself a little stuck, and shit gets weird. It's admittedly hard to have a horror concept like this one without painting oneself into a corner.

The Babadook. First 30 minutes are great, and fairly original as well...and then the rest of the film devolves into an art student's worship of The Sixth Sense, plus a thud of an ending.

In Fear. Watch the first hour of this; it's neat. A couple is trying to drive to a party and then realizes they keep returning to the same spot - it's filmed very well. The end, though, is the most pedestrian ending possible and a major let-down.

Bad Times at the El Royale (technically a thriller). Drew Goddard: I enjoyed Cloverfield and I loved Cabin In The Woods, but you needed to edit a good half hour out of this film. The characters ultimately weren't as strong because they had too much runway - it dragggggged.
 
Bubba Ho-Tep from 2002. Elvis (still alive, it was an impersonator that died) and JFK (still alive, having had his skin dyed black after the assassination attempt failed and was abandoned by Lyndon Johnson) are both in a nursing home, and have to face off against a re-animated Egyptian mummy that escaped from a circus sideshow in Texas. Scary/funny, and at times even poignant (Elvis contemplates his age and his failures as a husband and father)
 
RoryN said:
It isn't really horror maybe, but The Changeling with George C. Scott is a great scary ghost story. Five years ago it would've qualified for "underappreciated", but I've even heard some animators recently say it was one of their favorites, so that cat is apparently out of the bag for the newer generation.

Can we talk about overappreciated horror films too? Like:

Get Out. Fantastic start, great middle...and then Jordan Peele - whom I admire a lot - seems to get himself a little stuck, and shit gets weird. It's admittedly hard to have a horror concept like this one without painting oneself into a corner.

The Babadook. First 30 minutes are great, and fairly original as well...and then the rest of the film devolves into an art student's worship of The Sixth Sense, plus a thud of an ending.

In Fear. Watch the first hour of this; it's neat. A couple is trying to drive to a party and then realizes they keep returning to the same spot - it's filmed very well. The end, though, is the most pedestrian ending possible and a major let-down.

Bad Times at the El Royale (technically a thriller). Drew Goddard: I enjoyed Cloverfield and I loved Cabin In The Woods, but you needed to edit a good half hour out of this film. The characters ultimately weren't as strong because they had too much runway - it dragggggged.
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LOVED Changeling!
 
NewOldGuy77 said:
Bubba Ho-Tep from 2002. Elvis (still alive, it was an impersonator that died) and JFK (still alive, having had his skin dyed black after the assassination attempt failed and was abandoned by Lyndon Johnson) are both in a nursing home, and have to face off against a re-animated Egyptian mummy that escaped from a circus sideshow in Texas. Scary/funny, and at times even poignant (Elvis contemplates his age and his failures as a husband and father)
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You didn't even mention Bruce Campbell as Elvis.
 
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