ThrobbingHood
“I’m Sorry for 2025”
To me, they’re the fast good genre of movies: a cheap way to reach its goal (via violence). And that goal is to illicit a strong emotion from you.
Let me explain. A comedy film has to be funny to reach its goal of getting laughter out of you. A drama requires you to have empathy with the characters for you to feel/root for them. A thriller builds suspense, fear and in some cases mystery.
Either one requires a level of emotional intelligence in its writing and directing to order to connect with the audience, which is why so many fail or rarely does such films get universal acclaim.
Slasher movies when done right can be great (Scream, Candyman, A Nightmare On Elm Street etc). But the majority of them follow the same formula slavishly; build up some tension, make most characters unlikeable, misdirect (jump scare) when you think someone is going to get murdered then WHAM! Pick off the characters one by one.
I get the appeal of them when you’re young, but maybe because I’m getting
, they really don’t appeal to me anymore. The fact they can make 10/20 movies of Friday/Halloween/Saw proves my fast food theory right: a simple formula that’s easy to package and sell, but not nourishing in the end.
Let me explain. A comedy film has to be funny to reach its goal of getting laughter out of you. A drama requires you to have empathy with the characters for you to feel/root for them. A thriller builds suspense, fear and in some cases mystery.
Either one requires a level of emotional intelligence in its writing and directing to order to connect with the audience, which is why so many fail or rarely does such films get universal acclaim.
Slasher movies when done right can be great (Scream, Candyman, A Nightmare On Elm Street etc). But the majority of them follow the same formula slavishly; build up some tension, make most characters unlikeable, misdirect (jump scare) when you think someone is going to get murdered then WHAM! Pick off the characters one by one.
I get the appeal of them when you’re young, but maybe because I’m getting
, they really don’t appeal to me anymore. The fact they can make 10/20 movies of Friday/Halloween/Saw proves my fast food theory right: a simple formula that’s easy to package and sell, but not nourishing in the end.
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