Comments on: On horror and happy endings

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:31:37 +0000

I’m tempted to throw a tantrum and say, that’s it. i’m done with horror movies. Watched Stephen King’s THE MIST last night and man….. I was so pissed off at the end! :brickwall: Sick and TIRED of scary flicks that end so depressingly dismal.

By: LesleyW

LesleyW — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:11:57 +0000

I went through a horror phase in my teens and what eventually kicked me out of it was a book which had cannabilism as it’s main thing.

Now to say those bits were yuck would be an understatement – but I was into horror, it was meant to yuck.

What put me off and I think it’s the only time I’ve literally thrown a book at the wall – was the ending. I do like to have a ‘proper’ ending. Instead of which I got the hero and heroine who had somehow managed to survive walking off. The last words were something like – And the mad axeman (paraphrasing here remember) who had been stalking them for months crept out of the shadows and followed.

I just remember my teenage self – after suffering through pages and pages of cannabilistic torture – was not impressed with that.

Bye bye horror. Hello historical romance. LOL:lol:

By: katiebabs

katiebabs — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:36:48 +0000

July 18th is the one day I have been waiting for since the summer movie season has begun! It is all about The Dark Knight! :joker:

By: Charlene Teglia

Charlene Teglia — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:12:42 +0000

The ending sort of determines the whole experience, what it means, so I’m with you. The ending is critical. (I have been known to ask how a movie ended or read the end of a book before watching/reading the whole thing if I think it’s going to be a “I wasted two hours of my life on this?!” experience.)
And oh, don’t even say the ending to X-Files might be a disappointment! I’ll be happy in San Fransisco no matter what, though. See you there!

By: CindyS

CindyS — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:28:56 +0000

I’m not into horror but I do like thrillers. I watched The Mist and almost laughed at the guy for the ending. I mean, how stupid can people be? You save the bullets for when they are absolutely needed! I thought the guy deserved the ending he got – I kept thinking a mother wouldn’t have done something so cavalier.

Then again, I don’t read Stephen King (and after the comment about the guy on the island I continue to believe it’s a good decision for my peace of mind!) so I don’t have the real ending to compare it too.

On that note, I haven’t read the book I Am Legend so I killer loved the movie. Completely and utterly loved the movie. (Could have been the dog Sam and the fact that I have a dog that’s old). What I thought was so sad was that the doctor couldn’t see that the ‘zombies’ for lack of a better word, were more human than he realized.

And maybe it’s just a rumor but I thought The Strangers was based on a real life story.

Aside: I grew up with a father that watched movies where everyone died at the end. I used to get furious when he’d ask me to sit and watch this ‘great’ movie with him and then at the end everyone was dead. Now in his movies the deaths were heroic (except for one where a plane crashed in a desert and everyone was killed by apes – yeah, wasn’t thrilled with that one) so I could see the point but yeah, mad.

Good Luck to your sister and soon to be nephew!!

Cindys

By: Lorelie

Lorelie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:48:56 +0000

Dude.

I just went to TheMovieSpoiler.com and read the spoiler for The Mist. WTF? I woulda been one pissed off cussin’ girl walking out of that theater. Totally with you on needing a payoff.

That being said, I also checked TheMovieSpoiler.com for The Strangers. It kinda means what you think. Not totally.

By: Kerry Allen

Kerry Allen — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:47:29 +0000

I watched 30 Days of Night recently and was bothered by so many things, I didn’t care by the time I got to the ending. Foremost, those were some wasteful frickin’ vampires. Puddles of blood on the ground everywhere. (I still believe they were really zombies, chewing their way to the brains via the neck—that also explains their inexcusable inelegance.) I also thought 30 days was way too long. By the time “Day 7″ flashed on the screen, I thought all those people should have been long dead. Zombies’ inability to coordinate a systematic house-by-house search was all that saved them…

We’re slowly working our way through the Horror section of Netflix, but it’s really hard to find anything halfway intelligent. We’re not exactly highbrow here, but gratuitous blood splatter is no substitute for real suspense. It becomes macabre comedy after about 20 minutes.

By: azteclady

azteclady — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:10:24 +0000

Jill, exactly! They are indoctrinating the innocent children with this crap!

*ahem*

I’m not crazy, really.

Well, not too crazy.

:innocent face here:

By: Lori T

Lori T — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:17:43 +0000

Hi Meljean~

I agree the ending needs to have some meaning to it and the ending definitely plays a part in what I take a way from the movie.

I am not a big horror fan, but there was something about The Strangers that just pulled me to it when it first came out…it may be that I really like Liv Tyler. So, I reluctantly dragged my hubby…very reluctantly…to it. Don’t let my opinion influence you, but I really did not like it. I thought the ending was horrible and the best part of the whole movie happened in the first twenty minutes when they are trying to give you some background on the characters and trying to get you invested in their stories. I left very disappointed.

By: Jill Myles

Jill Myles — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:48:05 +0000

In fact, I’m still scarred by the Disney Pocahontas (“what do you MEAN they don’t get together at the end?”)

(obviously I am affected, I had to post 2x)