View Poll Results: Vote for which Horror Classic you think is overrated
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Most Overrated Horror Classic
09-17-08, 06:27 PM
#51
DVD Talk Gold Edition
I'm not too surprised by the poll results. Horror is just as subjective as comedy. I think most of the movies mentioned are atleast well made.
09-17-08, 09:42 PM
#54
DVD Talk Legend
I didn't really like Jaws much, but I haven't seen it in at least 10 years. Maybe if I watched it again, and not hope for the shark around every corner, I would like it more.
09-17-08, 09:56 PM
#55
DVD Talk Legend
09-17-08, 10:20 PM
#57
DVD Talk Legend
If white clown face paint is all it took to pass someone off as a zombie back then, then I guess you're right. Planet of the Apes was made a decade before and it's makeup effects make Dawn's look like a joke.
09-17-08, 10:58 PM
#58
DVD Talk Gold Edition
Friday The 13TH. It shouldn't buy on any list except the worst list of all time. All the films on the list, though I don't like some of them, have some merit. Friday The 13th has no merit at all.
09-17-08, 11:06 PM
#59
DVD Talk Hero
I went with Nightmare on Elm Street.
It's an okay movie (though the franchise soon fell into awful camp), but it never really clicked with me for some reason. Neither did Freddy Krueger. Never saw what the big deal was supposed to be.
It's an okay movie (though the franchise soon fell into awful camp), but it never really clicked with me for some reason. Neither did Freddy Krueger. Never saw what the big deal was supposed to be.
09-18-08, 08:39 AM
#60
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Suspiria is not only one of the most over-rated horror movies of all time, IT ISN'T EVEN REMOTELY SCARY.
I mean it. Not even a little bit.
In fact, it isn't even a GOOD movie. It totally, totally blows in almost every capacity.
People who hold that movie up as a classic are worse than Pol-Pot!
I mean it. Not even a little bit.
In fact, it isn't even a GOOD movie. It totally, totally blows in almost every capacity.
People who hold that movie up as a classic are worse than Pol-Pot!
Originally Posted by Maxflier
If white clown face paint is all it took to pass someone off as a zombie back then, then I guess you're right. Planet of the Apes was made a decade before and it's makeup effects make Dawn's look like a joke.
09-18-08, 10:58 AM
#61
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
No big surprise about Friday the 13th, since most fans will agree the sequels are where it's at, but I am surprised about The Exorcist. I still think it's one of the most effective horror films ever made. The concept of demon possession is one of the few subgenres, like hauntings, that can still be genuinely frightening when done right.
If it really held up over time, it would still be frightening a lot of people. It was scary then because it was the first of it's kind, in a way.
09-18-08, 11:27 AM
#62
Planet of the Apes (1968)......$5,800,000 (adjusted for 1979 = $12,126,734.09. almost 20X the budget of DOTD)
Dawn of the Dead(1979)........$650,000
09-19-08, 01:10 AM
#65
09-19-08, 06:42 AM
#66
DVD Talk Godfather
The movie has little in common with the book. Kubrick used the title and the name of the hotel and characters. That's about it. Oh and it has Jack Nicholson being, well, Jack Nicholson. Yawn.
Huge letdown of a film, when the book is such a masterpiece.
Huge letdown of a film, when the book is such a masterpiece.
