Board 8 > Board 8 Ranks 2010s Horror Movies - Chapter 2 - *THE RANKINGS*

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Snake5555555555 posted...

Lightning Strikes - Youll float too!

It is very much a fantasy as well as a horror, and plays the two parts of the film together well. This film can be summed up as What if The Goonies fought the Thing? which is a pretty enticing idea on its own.

I love this take so much.

Nobody got IT right this time. House wins.

Vegas Odds on #16:
+700: You're Next (2011)
+700: Happy Death Day (2017)
+700: Ready or Not (2019)
+800: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
+800: It Follows (2014)
+1000: Train to Busan (2016)
+1000: Us (2019)
+1500: The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
+1500: Green Room (2015)
+2000: Any other movie (+4000 if you guess the exact movie correctly)

Leaderboard:

1. BetrayedTangy $3250 (Insidious 300, Sinister 200, Don't Breathe 2000, Split 750)
2. Inviso/Espeon $2250 (Creep 250, Don't Breathe 2000)
3. jcgamer107 $2200 (Halloween 2000, Sinister 200)
4. wallmasterz $2000 (Don't Breathe 2000)
5. Suprak $2000 (Don't Breathe 2000)

Current wagers as of 8:52pm EST on 5/20/22:
jcggamer - You're Next (post #95)
Inviso - The Lighthouse (post #103)

Fuck it, gonna guess Lighthouse, since apparently anything can get eliminated at this point.

Inviso posted...

Fuck it, gonna guess Lighthouse, since apparently anything can get eliminated at this point.

Right? I thought Halloween, The Conjuring, and IT were locks for the Top 15.

Happy Death Day will probably be next.

Sticking with Train to Busan

rockus posted...

I have not seen The Happening, Lady in the Water

I envy you

Inviso posted...

apparently anything can get eliminated at this point.

maybe but I'm going to say that 5 movies are 100% going to make the top half: the Ari Aster movies, Get Out, Train to Busan and The Babadook

Happy Death Day and You're Next do feel like the next ones on the chopping block

jcgamer107 posted...

I envy you

Well, I had to see Bird Box and Terrifier for this so pain eventually finds us all.

damn, I meant to guess It again like I did in post 44 but got too busy today. Well, I was on to something there at least.

plasmabeam posted...

Right? I thought Halloween, The Conjuring, and IT were locks for the Top 15.

Nah

Mainstream popularity doesn't necessarily win rankings unless it's like animated movies, and even then Spider-Verse lost to Wolfwalkers

rockus posted...

Happy Death Day will probably be next.

Also going to guess this

Yeah, It was a good movie but it falls just out of the range of movies I really liked (starts at 12 or so).

A couple of people brought it up in their write-ups, but the biggest issue here for me was that Pennywise is seemingly incompetent at this job when the script calls for it. He kills Georgie and sewer gang member, but spends the rest of the movie just going BOOGITY BOOGITY BOO and that's it. Like you get to a scene, that scene starts turning weird, Pennywise jump scares one of the kids, and then the kid just runs away from him. You know what can kill a group of ten-year-olds? A guy with a knife. It gets kind of boring after a while, honestly. The movie starts off great but when you get to this rotating series of jump scares I was losing interest. Like I had a nagging sense of "oh man not this again" but not because I was scared but just because I didn't want to see him jumping out as a bat or a gorilla with a baseball bat or test someone hadn't studied for or whatever weirdly specific fear the kid had.

Still, very good movie. Just really could've been better. Still haven't seen the 80's version, but I have read the book and honestly I don't have much of a desire to see the original because I can't imagine its much better.

red13n: 7

Red13n - Evil clown does the most generic villain thing ever by feasting on intangible fear. Or it actually feasts on kids. Or actually it just drags them down into the sewers and makes them float. It isn't entirely clear. But these kids live in a terrible town where everyone is abusive or a pedophile and none of their parents give them any supervision whatsoever. I think this made way more sense in the timeframe of the original, but in this more modern take, not so much. As usual, don't think about it. Unfortunately not all the kids are as fleshed out as they should have been, and by the 100th time the clown has the opportunity to kill the kids but stalls by talking or whatever you are going to realize he always makes the most common villain mistake. It only grows a little tiring by the end. But eventually you'll get to the point the kids realize it really is just a dumb clown and they can very satisfyingly beat the shit out of it.

Sheep007 posted...

I feel like Red may not like horror movies much.

Haha I somehow didn't notice this until just now. I had been reading his reviews and I was like "wow I wonder when we'll get to a movie he likes" but didn't realize we just got all the way to seven with a pretty resounding "MEH".

BetrayedTangy - Bill Skarsgard really just went and carried this movie up to my number 10 spot, didnt he

I was thinking of who my favorite male performance was from this list. I think you have a shortlist of the leads from the Lighthouse, one mystery actor from a movie I don't want to mention yet, James McAvoy, and Skarsgard and for me it is really a coin flip between those final two. Couple of other honorable mentions from some of my other higher ranked films, but this was a pretty definitive top four for me.

Plasmabeam - Better than the book its based on. No, really. I read the Stephen King novel in 2015 and found it to be a slog because it opens by showing the main characters as adults before flashing back to their childhood. I knew the kids couldnt die, so whenever they faced a deadly situation, I never truly feared for them.

I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but I 100% agree with this. The book was an absolute slog to get through partially for the reason you mentioned and partially because it felt like it desperately needed an editor to try and trim some of the more insane parts of King's coke fueled ramblings. It might not even be in my top ten of King novels, honestly. The movie does a much better job with things imho.

Thesmark - Its weird that the weakest parts of this horror film are mostly the horror elements, when it gets the coming of age story and the performances down as well as it does.

This is another take I agree with 100%. I loved how weird and creepy Derry itself was and I thought the segments focusing on the kids and their lives was fantastic. But beyond the opening scare which was great, everything else felt cheap. BOO I'M SCARY ok man we get it are you gonna kill these kids or not?

Oh I feel like I should do these for every movie now.

"Happy Death Day must go"
"What must go?"
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"Happy Death Day must go"
"What must go?"
https://giphy.com/gifs/rlYpGrksVrJiU

I'm hoping we get some sort of miracle run from Happy Death Day and You're Next somehow just so we can watch Lightning and jc slowly circle the drain into insanity at this point. But it really feels like their time might be up soon so alas.

Ready or Not is definitely next.

After just finishing You're Next. It is next.

At the 57 minute mark, I literally paused it to see how much was left because at this point it was an atrocious movie and dumb as hell. I knew a twist of some sort had to be coming at this point, and it was quite obvious, but I just wanted to mark down how terrible it was to this point.

The twist slightly betters the movie, and the ending itself is the only actually good part of it. However, it is still very bad. Ready or Not takes this type of movie to much better levels across the board. I have no idea how I heard You're Next was good by people. It isn't.

I'm actually going to switch my guess to Ready or Not

As far as You're Next vs. Ready or Not

I personally enjoy RoN more, since it's overall a lot more fun, but I can absolutely understand the grittier appeal of YN.

Oh I'm pretty immune to feeling a sense of fear or anything while watching movies, so horror in general is definitely pretty meh to me. There is a whole lot of "just get on with it" that I feel when watching these. Very little here would have a chance of finishing high on a larger list of movies for me. So you'll see a lot of "fun" movies finish high for me with little exception.

I will just keep predicting Happy Death Day.

Maybe stop predicting three interesting and unique movies and start predicting the super boring and unique movies.

>_>

I agree with Inviso tbqh

I mean I'd be happy to guess Midsommar and The VVitch if I didn't expect them to make it farther.

I'm not too surprised but still a little disappointed at It placing this low. I feel like the only bad thing the first film was responsible for are the subpar remakes of Pet Sematary and Firestarter. So much else about that film was just so well executed. As many times as I have watched the original miniseries on VHS, if you find that a superior "film" then yeah, I just don't have words for that. From the horrible acting, the goofy special effects and the lack of a cohesive flow there's no way the miniseries could be deemed better. It exists as one of those things to evoke fun memories like "Kiss me fat boy!" and that's about it.

Corrik7 posted...

Ready or Not takes this type of movie to much better levels across the board

Pretty harsh, but I agree with this part

16. You're Next (221 points)

Why I Chose It:You're Next was director Adam Wingard's first film to hit some big time success - at least, for this type of film. Its low budget made it an easy sleeper hit at the box office, and its subversive tone and atypical lead female hero set a benchmark and template for a whole decade of smaller and bigger horror films alike with similar ideas and ambitions - films from The VVitch to Ready or Not.

Snake: 3
Inviso: 5
FFDragon: 7
red13n: 8
Johnbobb: 9
Suprak: 10
Tom Nook: 14
Lightning Strikes: 17
Plasmabeam: 17
Fortybelowsummer: 18
thesmark: 18
BetrayedTangy: 20
Jcgamer107: 24
PrinceKaro: 24
Rockus: 27

Snake - This is one of my favorite films ever made. Youre Next is endlessly clever and surprising, but simple at the same time - it takes the slasher genre and deconstructs it, but not in so much like a Scream humorous satire sense, but in a way that puts the usual final girl victim on the same level of the killer or killers right from the start of the film. Erin is already a trained survivalist - she doesnt need to transform into an unrealistic badass over the course of the film, shes already as much of a threat to the home invaders as they are to her. The best part is - they dont even know it. I like to imagine the animal masks as a fable-like metaphor - you have the obvious predators - a fox and tiger; but then you have a mask thats a lamb - representing prey. The prey Erin takes surprising advantage of, and the lambs the animal masks on the other hand thought they would easily deal with. Its a nice little bit of psychological symbolism that goes a long way towards establishing some nice thematic ground for the film. For example - Erin wears no mask but still hid that more violent part of her because she wanted to be normal.

Besides that though, it is just hilarious and cathartic to see Erin completely dismantle this group of ex-military guys and the secret dirty aspirations of the family she was so desperate to be a part of - the normalcy she wanted becomes shattered, and all masks off. The start of the night is chaotic and a total bloodbath; these are still dangerous killers after all, but to see them get so frustrated and practically abandon the whole mask thing cracks me up - imagine if Jason just got fed up and threw his hockey mask off midway through the film - thats his most iconic feature, he could never! What made films like Scream or Behind the Mask so amazing is because they understood the silliness inherent with the genre but could play it seriously when they needed to and honored the parts that still made slashers relevant & meaningful to audiences everywhere. Youre Next is able to enter that fabled pantheon because Wingard and Barrett knew and understood the same facts, but made it gorier, arguably funnier because of how straight and realistic it's actually played, and remembered that at the end of the day, these are all just people doing their best to escape past trauma but getting dragged back into the same repeated cycle they were always trapped in and so desperate to escape from.

Inviso - Home invasion horror movies have the potential to be very hit-or-miss, but they usually fall into the same trappings of a group of masked killers breaking into a house and terrorizing some hapless victims who are just in the right place at the wrong time. Theres a reason why the first Purge movie didnt make this list, because having not seen it before, even I know its largely just a generic-ass home invasion film. Youre Next is different though, for a variety of reasons. Its got SOME comedy, but not in a forced way. No, instead the comedy is built from the characters and their natural personalities (which is made better by the fact that theyre all family, so the interpersonal relationships have established reasons for being what they are.)

Additionally, I appreciate the fact that, though it starts out as your bog-standard psychos invade storyline, theres a twist, and it turns out to have been a complete ruse by members of the family to get their inheritance. Suddenly, the killers have motivations, and the brutality and psychopathy of the kills (of which theyre all largely different, despite sharing the same general variety of weapons) has some added flavor. But none of that would matter without an amazing Final Girl in Erin, who turns into a complete badass very early on in the movie. If everyone just listened to her, they wouldve all survived (except Tariq and the neighbors, who were dead before Erin even knew there was a problem). Its just such a unique and interesting take on the genre, and its actually fun to watch, unlike similar films sharing the home invasion pedigree.

FFDragon - The Blender. THE BLENDER.

Red13n - Don't think about the fact that being the only survivors of an overcomplicated murderplot that reuslts in collecting wholly on their family inheritatnce is more than a little suspicious. Even if somehow the plan did work, when you are the only survivors of this there is no way this ends in anything but jail. It just isn't fucking happening. But don't worry because they inadvertently were going out with and brought along the ultimate survivalist so their murder plan is going to get screwed up and they are all going to die. Nevermind that these two should know these things about each other, at least a little bit, they don't. At one point we get a setup like the tables are going to get turned and turn into a home alone scenario, but nope we stick with the generic chase, fail, and murder. Then a cop comes in is dumb and falls for the trap oops.

Johnbobb - I was never a big fan of home invasion horror movies, and I never knew why. The concept seems solid enough, but the BIG ones of the time like Funny Games, The Strangers, The Purge, The Collector... none of them really clicked with me. Then I saw You're Next. The invader wasn't some mysterious big bad, it was more like a mysterious whodunnit that bordered on comedic at times due to how incompetent many of the people involved were. The final girl wasn't the lovable virgin who lucked her way to the end, she was a real goddamn survivor. There's a lot of Scream inspiration here I think, and anyone who participated in the 90s horror ranking doesn't need to hear me rant about THAT movie all day again.

So the top half of our list is:

The Babadook
The Cabin in the Woods
Get Out
Green Room
Happy Death Day
Hereditary
It Follows
The Lighthouse
Midsommar
A Quiet Place
Ready or Not
Train to Busan
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Us
The Witch

Somehow, 13 of my top 15 are still alive and my entire top 11

Outlier
Tom Nook: 146
red13n: 111
Snake: 102
Plasmabeam: 95
Suprak: 92
PrinceKaro: 92
Inviso: 90
FFDragon: 89
jcgamer107: 83
fortybelowsummer: 73
BetrayedTangy: 63
rockus: 58
thesmark: 54
Johnbobb: 49
Lightning Strikes: 46

Red's next.

Should be able to get to another one tonight!

Aw man this is a shame, I really wanted to see this in the top half

You're Next is like my favorite Home Alone sequel. Everything is Chekhov's something in this thing, including THE BLENDER.

Me too, though I'm still pretty satisfied with its mid-placement honestly.

Can we talk about how, in a slasher film with a relatively high body count...I don't think there are really ANY duplicate kills, are there? The movie is extremely creative with just how they kill off their cast, beyond your standard "stab, stab, stab" concept.

That's what I'm talking about. Everything used for the kills is highlighted in the background earlier in the movie. It makes the whole scavenger feel to the film really feel like it pays off and keeps everything fresh

After reading these writeups, I wish I had ranked YN a couple slots higher.

Though the characters and the story's 2nd half left me feeling underwhelmed, there's no denying how fun and intense YN is. The cherry on top is how it toys around with various slasher tropes--some of which I didn't pick up on until now.

Red ranking YN 8th and proceeding to shit all over it in his writeup made my afternoon.

I can't imagine participating in a ranking of I know I'm not a fan of the genre.

I mean, horror is my absolute favorite and I barely eked in... After missing two other decades worth apparently!

Next no more! jcgamer finally cashes in, and Corrik joins the leaderboard with $700.

Vegas Odds on #15:
+500: Happy Death Day (2017)
+500: Ready or Not (2019)
+800: Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
+800: It Follows (2014)
+1000: Train to Busan (2016)
+1000: Us (2019)
+1500: The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)
+1500: Green Room (2015)
+2000: Any other movie (+4000 if you guess the exact movie correctly)

Leaderboard:

1. BetrayedTangy $3250 (Insidious 300, Sinister 200, Don't Breathe 2000, Split 750)
2. jcgamer107 $2900 (Halloween 2000, Sinister 200, You're Next 700)
3. Inviso/Espeon $2250 (Creep 250, Don't Breathe 2000)
4. wallmasterz $2000 (Don't Breathe 2000)
5. Suprak $2000 (Don't Breathe 2000)
6. Corrik $700 (You're Next 700)

FFDragon posted...

I can't imagine participating in a ranking of I know I'm not a fan of the genre.

I mean, horror is my absolute favorite and I barely eked in... After missing two other decades worth apparently!

I know what you mean, but it might be fun to throw out opinions on something you're indifferent to. Like if I had to rank Rom-Coms or SoulsBorne games or something.

Red's such a wild card, though. I legit can't wait to see if he bashes something in his Top 3.

Shaun is the best Rom-Com fight me

thesmark posted...

So the top half of our list is:

The Babadook
The Cabin in the Woods
Get Out
Green Room
Happy Death Day
Hereditary
It Follows
The Lighthouse
Midsommar
A Quiet Place
Ready or Not
Train to Busan
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Us
The Witch

Somehow, 13 of my top 15 are still alive and my entire top 11

8 of my Top 12 are alive. Same with my 13, 14, 16, 20, 24, and 26. And then there's my #30 (c'mon, just fucking die already)

FFDragon posted...

Shaun is the best Rom-Com fight me

Groundhog Day. We're taking this outside.

Oof that's a solid 1b I don't know if I feel I can fight that

After how early The Conjuring and It dropped, going to guess a surprise elimination next

Ill take any other movie, cabin in the woods

I think it'd be pretty poetic for Ready or Not to go out next, so that gets my pick again.

Someone said in their Split writeup that the only Shyamalan film they like is Unbreakable. I'm wondering what their problem with The Sixth Sense was since I loved it when I first saw it in 2017 and felt Bruce Willis delivered a powerful career-best performance.

Spoilers but I think Ready or Not is a standard deviation lower than You're Next, and I like Ready or Not.

Dang. I was hoping You're Next could make the top half. I thought it was fantastic and loved that it was basically "Home Alone but with murder". Sure, the rest of the cast is mostly trash but that's part of the fun. It was just a really fun movie and basically everything that comes after the invasion starts was great.

Pretty big gap between this one and number 15 too, interestingly enough.

Good news for you then, Ready or Not did make the top 15!

30) Terrifier
29) Creep
28) The Purge: Anarchy
27)
26) Bird Box
25) Don't Breathe
24)
23)
22) Insidious
21) V/H/S
20) The Curse of Chucky
19) The Conjuring
18)
17)
16)
15) Sinister
14) Split
13) It
12)
11) A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
10) You're Next
9)
8)
7) Halloween
6)
5)
4)
3)
2)
1)

My 15-10 has been brutalized, but my top 9 is still holding mostly strong. A handful of pretty big outliers on my part (27 and 23 are probably destined for the top ten but I'm a little surprised 24 hasn't dropped yet). My 17 is likely a top 3, too, and was sort of a victim on my list of me liking a lot of these movies because everything 17 and below was a movie I quite liked.

So three left in my bottom ten, four left in my middle ten, and 8 left in my top ten. Could be worse!