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Why is metascore so high but users hate it?


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It happens with a lot of movies, look at "Ich Seh, ich Seh", "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night", "It Follows", "The Babadook" etc.

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Not one rating system is totally accurate... movies are all based on opinion. He gets soooo much credit for creating "The Evil Dead" that just his name associated with a horror film will automatically receive high ratings...

Coming from a HUGE horror fan... Drag Me To Hell is Hollywood garbage!! Sam Raimi made 1 good horror film, and 2 decent spoofs of that same idea (of course I'm talking about the Evil Dead trilogy)... then some decent thrillers and superhero films... by the time he wrote and directed "Drag Me To Hell", he had lost his ability to make good horror films a long time before...

P.S. - another pretty good horror thriller that Sam Raimi was a big part of was "Intruder" {1989}... see the director's cut!!

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Hollywood garbage? What was Hollywood about it? It's so Hollywood, that Hollywood virtually never makes pictures like this one. If you don't believe that's true, name 5 other movies that match this movie in terms of tone and style, besides Raimi's own Evil Dead movies.

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I'm sorry... sometimes my emotions get the better of me... I should have said "I THINK it's Hollywood garbage"... because as I said, whether a film is good or not is solely based on opinion...

So I can't really answer your question... I don't know what influences your decision on if you believe 5 other movies match the tone and style of "Drag Me To Hell"...

Not trying to "toot my own horn"... but I have about 600 films with at least "dominant horror elements"... I can send you a list if you really want to know my "tastes"...

what I can recommend you do is go to the IMDB page for "Suspiria" (1977)... go to the "message board" section... and view my list of my Italian horror/thrillers collection... there are about 60-70 films listed that really started the "graphic and bloody" beginning of horror films... and these are just horror films made in Italy... not even getting started on my horror films from France, Asia, Hollywood (when they used to make good horror films, 1970's and 1980's era) and many other countries.... and of course everything before that, including the "silent" horror films of the 1920's such as "Nosferatu" and "The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari".

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Lol....no way you just tooted your own horn, and in such a subtle manner.

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I think that the overall tone and style of the movie is not for everyone. Critics are better able to accept a wider variety of tone and style than average audience members, and this is a film that can really put off anyone who only likes to watch standard Hollywood fare.

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When it came ut I didn´t want it too watch it. I was so hatefull of the horror genre that I didn´t want to give it a chance. Then I watched it like 4 years ago and kind of like it. It was very entertainig. Now I rewatched it the other day and it still holds up well after I reopened again to such genre with movies like Conjuring, Sinister, Insidious.

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In screenings, nervous tension, coupled with the absurd surrealism, resulted in a level of nervous laughter, which became infectious and filled the theater, causing it to be perceived primarily as a comedy by critics.

Alone in living rooms, the lack of the infectious nervous laughter of one's fellows, may mean there is less relief from the feeling of tension or discomfort. This movie seems, for whatever reason, to make people uncomfortable, and even to arouse hostility for the film.

I first saw it alone in an almost-empty theater. I thought it was very creepy, eerie and scary, and (despite a certain irony) not especially funny. But from what I have seen, most people don't seem to appreciate it this way.

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Horror films are very decisive. In terms of modern horror, the only few films that are universally acclaimed are Silence of the Lambs, Halloween, and maybe Suspiria

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