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This could be commonly used plot points/tropes, illogical stuff, anything that instantly ruins a film for you.

I have a couple, but a big one I’ve noticed since I started watching more murder mystery movies and TV shows is the excessive use of rat poison as a subtle way to kill a character. In the real world, rat poison only works because rodents don’t have a gag reflex and thus can’t vomit up the poison. In a human, while still dangerous, it cannot instantly kill and would most likely induce vomiting or bleeding at worst (and that’s only the more deadly kind). Yet in movies and TV it’s treated like cyanide.

Another trope that’s been done to death and instantly takes me out of a story is a “big misunderstanding” or “liar revealed” plot line. Basically, it’s when a film’s entire plot hinges on a character lying about themself or another person hearing something they said out of context, and creating a big lie to cover their ass. The whole movie you’re just waiting for the lie to eventually be revealed, and it’s just so done to death. You know the others character is gonna do a dramatic “you LIED to me!!” speech, the lead is gonna have to redeem themself, etc., it’s just not that interesting.

EDIT: forgot to add this one, but I hate when women in a period piece are wearing their hair down and flowing even in a time period where women of their stature would exclusively wear their hair up or covered in some way. Tells me the costume team cared more about making the actress “pretty” than historical accuracy.

For example, you have the original The Purge (2013). I was WAY more interested in the whole Purge situation as a whole, rather than the goings on with one particular family. I'm glad they expanded things in the later films, but often I don't necessarily care aboit the one group of survivors that get focused on.

Another good example is The History of Evil. You're following a small group who are in a US that's similar to what's going on in the Civil War movie (another film that focuses on the exploits of one small group). The History of Evil protagonists end up in what they think is a safe house, which turns out to be haunted...because somehow their current situation wasn't bad enough. It's sorta like No Way Up, where the survivors of an underwater plane crash also have to deal with hungry sharks. Either way, with History of Evil I wanted to know more about the problem as a whole.

Same with When Evil Lurks. There's obviously some MASSIVE otherworldly problem going on, yet we have to focus on the brothers and their blundering. It made more sense in Terrified when they focused on a small area of events (granted the movies aren't technically related, yet they kinda spiritually connect lol). I honestly hope that the sequel to When Evil Lurks expands on everything.

My final mention is the World War Z film. What made the book so fascinating is that it was more like an anthology with a wraparound story. I wanted to see the best survivor tales brought to life on film. Instead we got to watch a plot armored one man army go around the world getting everyone he came in contact with killed. It was the different experiences that made the original story so compelling.

Note that I don't feel this way about movies where you didn't know from the beginning that the problem was much wider reaching than the viewer is led to believe. A couple examples of this are 1BR and Await Further Instructions. I still would like to know about the widespread effects of the situation, but that would be left for a sequel.

So anyhow, what movies have you all watched where you cared way more about the overall story than the actual group of survivors?

Tonight I was rewatching one of my favorite shark movies, Deep Blue Sea, and every time I always cheered at the fact that my favorite character, Preacher (LL Cool J), survived till the very end, and even killed the last big shark.

The first time I ever watched the film, although I really liked Preacher, I always had this sinking feeling that he was inevitably going to die at some point near or at the climax. Despite my expectations, he narrowly evades death multiple times and is one of the last survivors of the film, which has always been one of the reasons I’ve so much enjoyed rewatching this film over the years.

So, now it makes me wonder what other horror movie characters were expected to die, but, thankfully, never did. What other characters out there did you have no doubt when watching the film for the first would not survive but were pleasantly proven wrong?

I have a lot of free time nowadays and I really want to start watching alot more movies. Comment your favorite movies or just any movie in general and I will make a list of them by tommarow. I don't care what genre or how old or new it is, I'm just looking for movies to watch, hell I might make a list with rankings and post that a year from now.

In my personal opinion, The Exorcist and Kubrick's The Shining are the scariest movies, however, they both have sequels now. I am wondering what stand alone horror movie you find incredibly scary that does not have a sequel, because it seems like they are a rare breed?

I want to find the scariest, creepiest horror film possible that contains absolutely none of those cheap "jump scares" with loud sound and some creature or person suddenly showing up (I HATE those!). It must be scary on its own merit, without this cheap trick.

Any recommendations?

Like I hear people screaming at the screen "Just do this, Just do that" constantly, but for some reason I find it very easy to suspend my disbelief, unless its just...unbelievably absurd.

But like evil dead rise. Sure I could constantly complain about the fact the kid is just wandering inside a chamber underneath the parking lot for no good reason. Why he would even start playing the recording in the first place. But who cares really. I am just so entertained.

In all the movies I've seen, vampires are turned between the ages of 20 and 40 and live forever at the most universal age. I want to find a movie where a person is turned at some unfortunate age, like childhood or old age

For me it was a movie called 'The Silence' with Stanley Tucci. I genuinely watched that movie and only when I recognised some set designs and started predicting stuff in one of the final scenes did I go 'oh, I've seen this before.'. Something about the concept being a quite generic birdbox/a quiet place gimmick and the movie just being overall forgettable meant that I watched most of it without recognising that I'd seen it before. I couldn't tell you much about it now, even though I've seen it twice.

For the love of god do yourself a favour and go watch this stunning beautiful movie. It has the greatest and most creative soundtrack of any movie anime or otherwise I’ve ever seen, I’m not sure if this is something the entire anime community knows about but I’d never heard of it and was STUNNED at how amazing it was. I laughed, I cried, I watched with my mouth hanging open. Please if you’re like me and love anime but have never heard of this movie; fix that mistake as soon as possible and get this incredible dreamy drug trip into your brain. It’s so rare for something to grip me completely right away until I feel obsessed but this movie has earned every ounce of my love.

Edit: originally posted in an anime sub, hence the anime references, but I just want to gush about this movie to everyone that will listen

There's nothing that comes to my mind before Thor Love and Thunder. The movie is undoubtedly the worst of the MCU but Gorr was a terrifying and sympathetic villain. He remains one of the most wasted characters in a film but Christian Bale does the best he could with the little he was given. He was genuinely perfect in every scene, especially when he said "Now I understand. My daughter is the lucky one." It just blows my mind that they used Bale, who is a phenomenal actor and they used him for Gorr, who is possibly Thor's best villain and he didn't butcher a single God. Well...that and they killed him off.So what other instances can you guys think of where the movie is garbage but the villain is phenomenal?

We all wanted an update on what was goong on with the the Toxic Avenger remake and here it is. The films been deemed unreleasable and probably won't see theatrical release. Very dissapointing news when comments are coming from the films producer. I will say this does feel very Troma though so atleast it's on brand haha.

We're all familiar with the phrases "Based on a True story". But Mark twain once said: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” That being said what real life event would make a great horror film?

Mine would be Mr Cruel. "Mr. Cruel" is the nickname assigned to an unidentified serial child rapist responsible for assaulting three girls in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, during the late 1980s and early 1990s. a, his attacks were highly organized; he surveilled the victims and their families, left no forensic evidence, always covered his face to protect his identity, and planted misleading clues to mislead families and police. He spoke softly and acted calmly, even pausing to eat a meal during one attack. He also threatened his victims and their relatives with a knife or handgun. Despite extensive investigations, Mr. Cruel remains unidentified, and his three confirmed assaults, along with a suspected murder, are still unresolved cold cases.

You should read about his crimes, they're not for the faint of heart however, and is horrifyingly creepy.