I agree I thought it was great, and Schreiber/Stiles were also good. Mia Farrow steals the show, of course, but the movie's cinematography are top notch.
Here's something I can't figure out.
Both you and I really like horror movies. I think it's safe to say that the both of us have good taste in movies in all genres.
So let's say we both agree that Interstellar, Clockwork Orange, Inception and the Godfather are all GREAT movies. Like not great as in "I personally really enjoyed it," but rather in a groundbreaking and widely appreciated as high level movies type of way. If you and I rated those movies as 8.5+ on a 10 scale, most people would agree. In fact, that's exactly where these score on IMDB with a very high sample size.
On the other hand, let's say we both agree that some amount of Poltergeist, The Ring, 1408, 28 Days Later and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are all great horror movies. I'm not sure about you, but when I rate horror movies my main factor is whether it's scares me or not. To scare me, a movie needs to (a) have some level of reality to it and it needs to (B) immerse me in the atmosphere. It needs to disturb me and make me feel like shit when I'm done watching because I can't get the idea out of my head that even though the events in the movie couldn't happen to me...maybe they could! My sub-conscious needs to trigger that fight or flight response even though I KNOW in my conscious mind that I'm not going to be pulled into a television set, murdered by a chainsaw wielding ghoul wearing a human skin mask, trapped in a hotel room that can actively drive me insane or get my face mutated by a little girl that crawls out of a television set.
There are horror movies that are also truly great movies like The Shining and Silence of the Lambs but I think it's safe to say that my sample list consists of very scary movies whether they're truly "great" movies or not.
Not sure about you, but by horror movie standards I'd give all of those 8+...EASILY. Those movies all make me react against my will to things like abandoned houses, hotel rooms, television sets, ringing phones, etc etc. Real visceral and instinctive stuff...they're EFFECTIVE. That doesn't mean they're as great as Godfather, Clockwork or Interstellar...but they are all GREAT horror movies.
So with all that said...how the FUCK are these movies getting 6 and low 7 range scores on IMDB.
By what standards are people rating these movies that there's such a disparity between what horror movie buffs and the average viewer think about horror movies?
It's a fucking travesty that 28 Days Later and Poltergeist get 7.4s on IMDB. Those movies are AMAZING.
how in the fuck does pitch perfect 2 outperform mad max by 20 million dollars
Same reason a sub gets off on a bull fucking his hotwife...