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It’s a fantastic movie but I was really struggling to rank it in the hallowed halls of top tier Horror vs top tier Suspense thriller hence my low ranking.
It's a great movie. It's a horror movie. But it's not a great horror movie IMO, if that makes any sense.
Yeah I think it is perfect suspense thriller. But not a top tier “horror” movie.
Hmm. Could you unpack that a bit?
I think it's a horror movie, but just barely. If I'm going to rate a movie highly in a "horror movie" rating exercise, I want it to be both a good movie and also representative of the genre. I think SoTL nails the first but doesn't fit the genre as well as some of the other heavy-hitters who are coming in up top.
I was told there would be no math.
I did the same, though I must have dinged it more than you did, as it fell into my last 5 out. Outstanding film, regardless of designation.
I only saw the 4th one and thought it was horrible. Does that count?
I read that in a Robin Williams voice in my head.
Not just casting a black guy as the main character but doing so and not making his race part of the story. He just happens to be black. It makes the ending more effective but Romero has said he never imagined the character as black, Duane Jones just had the best audition.
I especially love Ebert’s review of it. He saw it on a weekend matinee, the kind where parents would drop all the kids off for the day to watch cheap movies.
Great description of the experience! I was probably like 8 or 9 when I saw it. My dad made some jokes early on and it was fun. Then as it went on, the jokes stopped, or at least I didn't hear them anymore. Just stunned when it was over, then I had to go to bed. The second night was the really freaky part. The movie was in my head all day. I could just feel it inside me and see it as I closed my eyes, trying to go to sleep and the nightmares started up again. No other movie came close to having that affect on me, obviously because of my age at the time. In fact, I don't remember the last movie that even really scared me, besides jump scares of course.
I get what you are saying, and that very well puts to words what I was struggling with movies that weren't on my list like Se7en, SotL, and two that I imagine coming up, despite a few of those are in my all time favorite movies, one as high as top 5.
I hope you don't ever see the movie Teeth then.
Just imagine if a girl that age had watched it then... and her name was Barbara
I must have first seen this at 6 or 7 when staying at my dads. His place was on 85 acres, no neighbors in sight and the rumor of long buried homesteaders from the early 1900s on the property. Like the stories above, holy Christ did it hit hard. This wasn’t the black cauldron or even Gremlins. It was visceral. Of course, as my dad put me to bed he told me (who still believed the NORAD updates on Santa) they had picked up something unidentified in space that seemed to have come from Venus. I told my kids that’s the movie they have to brave with me before they can wade into PG-13 fate with their friends. So far, no takers.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I saw this movie for the first time at a ten year old birthday sleepover. Watched the movie late at night then we were all ushered outside to sleep in our tents. 5 kids too afraid to sleep but also too afraid of being made fun of to cave first and go inside. My memory is one kid sobbed, but that could be my muddled mind superimposing the first night in jail from Shawshank Redemption.
Insane that adults would let you guys go through all that
It was the 80s. We were all latch-key, raised by television. I left the house in the morning and came home after dark. I guess our former hippie parents thought freedom was the way to raise kids.
Keep in mind that none of us grew up in cars with seatbelts.
I rode around in the rear window ledge of my mom’s car until I was too big to do so. We rode to town in the bed of a pickup truck. All the **** that we would never let our kids do now. Poor bastards are missing out.
This is what I remember of summer vacations. As much luggage as possible in the back seats so the kids could play in the back.
Amber Heard wasn't in it.
I never saw it until I was an adult and I'd love to go back in time and watch it as a 10 year old kid.
This is exactly how I feel about Dawn Of The Dead.
We drank from hoses….were outside all day, social networking and chatting was at the arcade and mall and video stores renting movies and hanging out.
Great visual explanation. Thank you.
I have to talk myself out of watching it and saving for october once a year lol
Carrie would be 45degree line, T2 straight horizontal, and Hellraiser straight vertical. Young Frankenstein would be a dot in the lower left corner.
Mine is still coming.
Such a classic. Watch it and tell us what you think.
