I agree with you, but I'm curious why you think that.

I don't think you have to be religious to be frightened by The Exorcist, but if you're not, it helps the scare factor if you're a parent.

This seems a little… frantic.

Actually kids are fine and you should chill out.

Predator is one of the few places where a humanoid alien works perfectly for me. I feel the movie wouldn't make much of a point without that, especially the creature's expressive eyes when it removes its mask.

Because the people writing, directing, producing, etc. movies were a bunch of frightened bigwigs looking at Oakland in sheer terror.

It was all right as an action movie, but a lot of it sums up how dumb an "evolution of the franchise" can be. For instance, the super-Predators that are, like, more Predator-y, so the regular Predator and the humans have to bury the hatchet… if I never see that idiot idea again in a sequel to a monster movie, it'll be…

Chill

What I rarely see mentioned is how effectively those old Windows PC AvP games used voice acting in the Marine segments to build tension.

I've been thinking lately about the reasons why we remember PS2-era visuals being better than they actually look when we revisit those old games today.

A game where I want to say "at least it was ambitious", but can't, because they screwed the "ambitious" part so thoroughly by making the reveals happen at set checkpoints. If that was the only way to do it, they were too ambitious, which many people think is a virtue nowadays, for some reason, but it just plain isn't.

I prefer all of the ideas they didn't end up using for the theatrical cut's ending to the one that they did.

Agreed. The only point of that scene seemed to be to tell us the husband was gonna die, and who didn't know that?

Sounds like a personal problem of yours.

I'd add a warning that [REC] is yet another zombie movie, because I was by turns bored and irritated by that.

The third movie has some jump scares but it's almost completely about parents' fear of external threats to their kids that they can't control. One of the movie's more effective chilling moments is just a shot of the kids' empty beds at around 3:30 AM.

And the ghosts wouldn't even have to be real for that to be an asshole move! The movie seems to be angling to make his inevitable death feel okay to the audience.

The first movie is about the tension in a new marriage. The second movie tries to be about the tension of a new child, but we get exactly two scenes about that (when the possessed mother confronts her daughter and son and we never see what happens, and the scene where the son is screaming in his crib while the mother…

It's a deadly accurate prophecy of the ten years of "horror" games to follow, like how the game mentioned above shows the monster and it turns out to be Mr. Snuffleupagus.

There's been nothing that comes close to Silent Hill 2 since, no. On the other hand, if you're into cheap jump scares, cheap Lovecraft rip-offs and zombies, your cup overfloweth. Alien: Isolation isn't bad, but that's because it has exactly one trick and does it well.