How would you classify horror like this?
They're definitely not like traditional horror.
scary stuff!
There's only one winner here
>>70838552
I think you may be literally retarded.
>They're definitely not like traditional horror.
the fact that they're like traditional horror is literally the only thing that links all three of them
>>70838598
i wanst to lick the delicious thomasin
That's known as scareshit
"slow horror" or "minimalist horror" come to mind as possible definitions, if we're on the same page of what distinguishes them from other horror movies.
>>70838610
This
The Witch is literally as classic and traditional as horror gets
It Follows is fantasy horror like Nightmare On Elm Street
Babadook is psychological horror
go back watching Rob Zombie flicks OP
>>70838552
Yes they are.
>>70838610
>>70838665
these but less mean
These films are horror in the truest sense. Evocative, perfectly measured. Not cheap net-horror jump scare emptiness.
>>70838634
they all have a fairly slow pace and minimal/sparse aesthetic often with little color and a low, moody soundtrack. as literally every fucking person points out, they focus more on atmosphere than easy scares, though each has one or two big jump scares somewhere in the mid-section.
in terms of actual mechanics, the monster in each is somewhat intangible and unexplained to varying degrees, to the extent that audiences often interpret them as metaphorical figures rather than monsters and doubt their "existence" within the fictional world.
>>70838701
>Evocative, perfectly measured. Not cheap net-horror jump scare emptiness.
>>70838864
another way of phrasing it, these movies all adopt art house and minimalist aesthetics to build atmosphere, but all of this is purposed towards establishing a scary monster as a legitimate threat to the protagonists, which is something horror viewers are not used to since horror has gotten all ass backwards as a genre and people start viewing it in terms of popular and memetic tropes rather than understanding the purpose of a horror film, which is to inspire discomfort.
>>70838874
I meant neo-horror before autocorrect but my point still stands my bulky bearded buddy
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>>70838552
nu-horror
I fucking love The Babadook so much. It gets better and better every time I watch it.
And it's just this stupid thing dressed as the Penguin.
>>70838864
>>70838959
Yeah that's what's called horror film. Just because the most prominent horror movies of recent years have been shitty haunted house rides doesn't change the original definition of the genre.
Flavor of the month trash for imdb drones
>>70839262
this smug motherfucker
Actually I'm leaning more and more towards "minimalist horror" as the definition, not just because of the minimal aesthetic of the films but because of their narrative qualities. Horror films typically provide context for their monsters. Usually world-building, from establishing the futuristic space exploration that discovers "Alien" to the jueo-christian rules governing "The Exorcist" and "The Conjuring", to the ectoplasmic underworld of "Insidious" or "Ghostbusters". In the case of Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th, it's less world-building than providing backstory for the villain as a character. Somebody's killing us, we gotta find out why. But what really differentiates It Follows, The Babadook, and The VVitch, is that they each take the approach of presenting an approximation of our real world, where the rules apply, and dropping in an anomalous evil force that is never exactly explained. In the case of It Follows and The Babadook you get some ground rules for what the evil guy does, but never any explanation of why this thing exists or operates this way. In The Witch you get a general idea that there is evil in the woods, probably along the lines of judeo-christian evil, but it's never laid out in certain terms as with excorcism movies and the characters never acquire the knowledge necessary to fight back. It's left for the audience to accept that there's evil monsters coming to get us, and that's what matters, not where they came from. Sort of a streamlined approach, in keeping with the minimalist aesthetic. The director is basically saying we're gonna spook ya, don't worry about it.
>>70838552
Nu male shit movies is what i call them
>>70839296
deliciously smug, that little fucker
>>70838552
Suspense horror.
>>70839262
Honestly it's just good horror. We've been fed shit through the 90s, so now we're getting actually okay movies.
Except the Conjuring and all that James Wan or whoever shit.
HorrorKino
![tiwest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/a5zfHoZ.jpg "tiwest[1].jpg")
Is the world finally ready to accept mumblegore?
babadook or whatever was trash. fuck you /tv/ for tricking me into watching it, from now on i will never watch horror hypes from /tv/.
i bet it was all aussie shitposters anyway.
>>70838552
"fable horror" specially It follows. It's what happens when Hansel and Gretel fight back
>>70839895
/tv/ has a terrible taste in nu-horror, it's true
vvitch started off strong but what the fuck was that second half, other than trash. tricked me into thinking they knew what they were doing there for a second.
the following was interesting but it wasn't horror
babadook was exceptionally bad. this genre is just so starved of good films that people will praise anything thats only half-decent.
How scary is the Witch really?
Ring-tier?
>>70839565
I believe this is yours.
Also
>pretending you can't remember his name even though you recall it exactly
Shit.
>>70839988
>gif
no
>>70838552
SickDark
They're called Psychological Thrillers, but painted as "Horror" for their themes.
Horrors are just cheesy shit movies with poor jumpscares and screaming just to scare people.
>>70840076
I get James Wan and Ti West confused. Both shit.
What are you top 90s horror films?
Flavor of the month
Indiehorrorshit
They're atmospheric
>>70838552
reddit horror
>>70838552
not all "traditional horror" is a slasher.
It's just above average modern horror. Not really anything new or different, there's just so much shit now days that if we get one good horror movie in a year then every acts like it's the greatest thing ever made.
>>70838552
1. Slow boil horror
2. Non-horror
3, Pretentious rip-off horror.
>>70838552
Spookino
>>70838552
what movies?
