I don't know; I'd consider Pan's Layrinth more a fantasy, but with horror elements. (I've only seen the film once, and it was a while ago, so take that into consideration.) There's so many cross-genres within the horror/fantasy/sci-fi/speculative genre, that I don't pay attention to hard classifications. Frankenstein is technically sci-fi, but more often than not, it's classified as "horror".
I don't always expect horror movies to scare me because I've seen enough to know that very few achieve that goal. I get more terrified by real-life documentaries on serial killers than I do fictional films. (I couldn't sleep the night I watched something on the BTK killer, and they had already caught the guy. Ditto when I discovered the ID channel on TV.) I don't appreciate horror movies that use gore for shock value, and consider it the cheapest way to try and scare/shock an audience.
For those reasons, that's probably why I enjoy psychological thrillers the best out of the horror umbrella. There's something more terrifying of not knowing what it is that's chasing you or haunting you, than seeing a guy wearing a mask and coming at you with a chainsaw. I also lean towards wanting to understand people motives, which you get more in thrillers than in slashers. Slashers it usually "this guy is psychotic" and thrillers the villain typically has another motive other than "because he has the crazies."
FYI: Final Destination 3 has a female lead and, IMO, it is the best of the FD movies. The actress is a better actress than their other leads and it has more pathos than the other films.
I saw When A Stranger Calls in theaters, and believe me it was the only time I enjoyed a terrible movie in the theaters solely because the audience mocked it the entire time. And The Omen was utter shit; I'm surprised it made that much.
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Date: 2015-02-08 06:33 pm (UTC)I don't always expect horror movies to scare me because I've seen enough to know that very few achieve that goal. I get more terrified by real-life documentaries on serial killers than I do fictional films. (I couldn't sleep the night I watched something on the BTK killer, and they had already caught the guy. Ditto when I discovered the ID channel on TV.) I don't appreciate horror movies that use gore for shock value, and consider it the cheapest way to try and scare/shock an audience.
For those reasons, that's probably why I enjoy psychological thrillers the best out of the horror umbrella. There's something more terrifying of not knowing what it is that's chasing you or haunting you, than seeing a guy wearing a mask and coming at you with a chainsaw. I also lean towards wanting to understand people motives, which you get more in thrillers than in slashers. Slashers it usually "this guy is psychotic" and thrillers the villain typically has another motive other than "because he has the crazies."
FYI: Final Destination 3 has a female lead and, IMO, it is the best of the FD movies. The actress is a better actress than their other leads and it has more pathos than the other films.
I saw When A Stranger Calls in theaters, and believe me it was the only time I enjoyed a terrible movie in the theaters solely because the audience mocked it the entire time. And The Omen was utter shit; I'm surprised it made that much.