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WHY CAN'T INFECTED MOVIES BE SCARY LIKE REC OR 28 DAYS LATER????

posted 9 years ago by juliuscesar-78271
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"The Crazies" is a boring movie where nothing ever happens.

I spent the last five years of my life trying to find an infected or "fast zombie" movie that scares the s**t out of me the same way Rec 1, Rec 2 and 28 Days/Weeks Later did.

But every infected/"fast zombie" movie I stumle upon is either a complete borefest or so unrealistic you can't even expect suspension of disbelief without suspension of rationality. ("I Am Legend", I am looking at you! You had one of the BEST first halfs in movie history and you managed to ruin it with CGI and a bad ending!)

How hard is it to write and make a goddamn scary movie with the premise "Rabid cannibals / zombies are running around town/building killing everybody on sight and you can't leave town/building because reasons outside your control"???

I WANT TO FEEL AFRAID OF THE MONSTERS ON THE SCREEN!!! Does anyone understand where I'm coming from?

I'm sick of feeling safe and coddled and protected while watching horror movies! I want my senses to be raped like when I saw Inside or the first half of Descent!

Get your priorities straight, people who write and make infected movies! I don't care if the monsters look ugly or have an evil grin or an evil laugh or make weird screeching noises or whatever the *beep* you pussies find scary....

I WANT THE MONSTERS TO BE DANGEROUS AND SAVAGE AND UNPREDICTABLE AND SCARY!!!

I don't understand this... I honestly don't... Even the dudes who came up with the Horror masterpieces Rec 1 and Rec 2 managed to completely and utterly s**t on the franchise with Rec 3 and Rec 4. What were they thinking?!

The only other infected / zombie movie I found exhilarating is this little french gem called "La Horde". Then there's the first half of the french movie "As Above, So Below", which had some great moments. World War Z and Pontypool are movies I'd recommend, for completely different reasons. I think I enjoyed "Mutants" when I saw it but I can't really recall. Pretty sure there are other infected / "fast zombie" movies I found scary but I can't recall them now.

And what the hell was Cabin Fever!? How can a movie with such great premise be so bad? Are horror movie directors afraid we might feel scared? What's going on with the world?

/rant

[–] Peeka789 9 years ago

Sadly, you've seen the best of the "crazy fast zombie/crazy people' movies. The Crazies was probably the next best thing to 28 weeks/days later, and REC 1 & 2.

The Crazies wasnt THAT bad. It could have used more 'craziness' though. Would have been cool if the virus didnt kill them so quick and the town was populated by crazy people months later.

'IMDB message boards' = 'A hundred reasons why you're wrong'

[–] dayvit78 8 years ago

OP's rant is spot on, though I agree with Peeka about the Crazies. It was enjoyable, but the crazies weren't crazy enough. In actuality we didn't see very many crazy people because the quarantine started too soon. Both before and after the quarantine, the crazies came sporadically - basically one at a time, not a huge horde like in 28 days later.

Given that I've seen all the ones mentioned here, it's sad to think there's no more hidden gems out there waiting to scare us. Anybody else have any recommendations?

[–] joel_zombie 9 years ago

Did you like the dawn of the dead remake? I thought that was really good.

[–] Brctt 8 years ago

The DOTD remake was fantastic!

[–] starfishpat 8 years ago

The Crazies was fairly good.

Cabin Fever though...GARBAGE!

[–] lorddeseiz 7 years ago

not that it matter much since forums are going down soon
but this is not scary because they always avoid to implement the REAL scary stuff, the loss of people you care about
Already knew in first few minutes both boyfriend and girlfriend where going to die, so what i dont care about them, they dont give reason to
Already knew the deputy was going to die first time he appeared, so what i dont care about him, they dont give reason to
Already knew wife of the sheriff thats more badass then an army soldier on a covert mission would survive, even though tagged as being infected, they give enough reason to like her including a self sacrifice almost which already gave away she was going to be saved at the last second

Now how can you make this scary?

MAKE THE WIFE GO SICK AND MURDER EVERYONE

but they never do this, well, let me tell you, i wouldnt have that one seen coming and it would have scared the crap out of me
simply because ... it goes against all rules of hollywood movie making
scary movie here, scary movie there, and none of em are scary because yuo can tell from a mile away whats going to happen
whos the first to throw everything overboard and actually SCARE people with things that are very much plausible and not yet another creppy face popping allover the screen with a loud BWAAAAANG
Not to mention that the scary BWAAAAAANG face is announced half an hour before it appears ...

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