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Do you guys wanna see more shorter horror movies?

posted 8 years ago by dprudisail
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I actually liked the length, not because the movie was bad but that it was fully contained and didn't drag for a second.

[–] ADBruns 8 years ago

I agree that shorter lengths are preferable for horrors. Too many try to drag it out nowadays in order to flesh out characters more and hit that two-hour mark. Sometimes when I'm watching an older movie, especially of the horror genre, I'll find myself thinking "That one-minute bit would turn into a twenty-minute flashback if it were remade today."

[–] dprudisail 8 years ago

Exactly, it's all about quality when fleshing out character much more than quantitiy.

[–] bishop-69757 8 years ago

Same thing with comedies. This is 40 had no business being around 2 in half hours long. That was insane. Somewhere in there was probably a solid 95 minute comedy.

[–] treguard1 8 years ago

Agree. It felt like just the right length to be honest.

[–] mechajutaro 8 years ago

Do you guys wanna see more shorter horror movies?

No; I'd like to see more that are skillfully executed and rich in content. Stay Alive was equipped with a concise runtime and yet it was lousy.

[–] shard7613 8 years ago

IMO one of the best things about the movie was it's refreshingly short run-time compared to other full-length horror movies which can seem to drag-on after awhile. For example, the horror movie Hush definately suffers from being needslessly stretched-out to full-length when it would have been much better as a shorter movie, possibly even shorter than Lights Outs.

Anyhow, definately think more horror movies should be shorter (and tighter) rather than an interesting concept or story being stretched-out and bloated with filler just to make it full-length.

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