I have to admit the impression I have based on the very little that I know makes it seem like a sort of mix between Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Cabin Fever and Saw. I'm not sure how promising that sounds, but the hype I've read in this thread has been considerable .. :)

It's true that horror isn't exactly brimming with top quality entertainment, even to a general fan of the genre, so just "good" horrors stand out from rest. The last horror movie to come out that really satisfied me, I think, was probably The Orphanage. And I was also quite happy with Drag Me to Hell even though it wasn't perfect. I should mention that when it comes to horror, a lot of the movies I watch these days are from previous decades.

I would say it's more like a cross between Evil Dead II and a well-known non-horror movie that I can't tell you the name of because it would probably reveal too much.

I still need to see both of those movies.

I think a problem with the horror genre may be that quality stories/projects like The Changeling (1980), Rosemary's Baby or The Shining are considered risky for the big companies who seem to just churn out follow-up films in franchises like Saw or Paranormal Activity and the like, basic popcorn cinema scare flicks. Independent film makers sometimes make horrors with a little more quality, but there's a lot of ****e coming from that direction too. Overall, I feel like horror movies really lack class these days. They're more likely to contain cheap scares or just be over the top like Human Centipede than actually be moving and engaging with characters you care about.

Definitely worth checking out, I think. :)

Horror is both the easiest and hardest thing to do. It's the easiest thing to do poorly and the hardest thing to do well. The problem with the scene is that we haven't had anything particularly original, or if something original does miraculously descend from on high to take us to the promise land, some Hollywood suit will clip its wings and present us with the same thing a billion times. We either get a quick cash-in on the original's success like with The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity, or just the same movie every goddamn year for seven fucking years in a row. When they're not making making the same movie with increasingly bigger numbers on the end, you've got Michael Bay's guild of evil hiding behind the name Platinum Dune remaking 1970's or '80's horror franchises, or you have some other studio doing shot-for-shot remakes of foreign horror movies like The Ring or Quarantine. It really is an abysmal time to be a horror movie fan.

I just watched the Descendants last night. Pretty good movie. Even though George Clooney's acting is something like "George Clooney is a psychic military guy", "George Clooney is a guy who fires people", or "George Clooney is Batman", I still like that guy's movies. There were some pretty powerful moments in the movie.

I liked it too. It was just a tad off key for me. I can't quite place my finger on it, but I expected more from Payne (and Clooney). The best bit was when they went to the father's house (it was that guy from Jackie Brown).

I'd give it a 7/10

I just watched this...

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But I fell asleep halfway through. Is it worth watching the whole thing? It seems pretty creepy... but it's gotten mostly terrible reviews.

I'm judging from the movie poster you tried to watch the 2006 remake? The 1976 film is a decent enough film that kind of caught the wave of possession movies after The Exorcist.

Yep the 2006 remake! I haven't seen the original, is the 1976 version better?

As is the case with every remake thus far of a horror film, yes. That said though, I've never really considered The Omen to be one of the more important horror films in the history of the genre.