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WTF! This is a COMEDY film, not a single bit of horror in it

posted 10 years ago by sagan900
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they sell this to me as a HORROR film, no matter how many excuses of clever twist you wanna throw at this, this is a comedic movie! not a single time in the whole movie was i scared
how can i be? everything is extremely telegraphed for laughs and so we can say "ohhh yeah dumb horror movies are like this hahaha so clever"
this is in the same league as scary movie, i really think this needs a re-clasification
one of the worst movies i've seen, even a bad horror movie (the ones that this mocks) is more honest, they try to scare you with an attempt at horror and fail but this is not that, this is outright comedy

TERRIBLE MOVIE

[–] blade025 10 years ago

of course it's a comedy

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[–] stefa_flame 10 years ago

It was meant to lure you, and get suprised. :D I think it was pretty clever marketing :P

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[–] tbonesays 10 years ago

I thought it tried to be Scream. Mostly a critique of making horror flics but with it's own story. While Scream was about 2:1 in story:commentary, the majority of CITW was spoofing horror and republicans.

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[–] ScorpionTDC 10 years ago

Jules' death

Death Awaits (Horror forum)
http://w11.zetaboards.com/Death_Awaits/index/

[–] nadaht 10 years ago

It's a satirical declaration of love to the genre. And bloody brilliant.

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[–] packfanaj-916-6 10 years ago

Best way to describe the film yet!

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[–] jimmyjameson8 10 years ago

You are right it is not a horror movie. Nor was it meant to be. It is more sci-fi thriller while poking fun at the horror genre.

It was poorly marketed as horror, I think because execs thought it would make more money at the box office (either I made this up or I read this somewhere).

What I don't understand is how this kept you from enjoying it. Do you only like horror movies? I think most viewers realized it was not a true horror in the first 2 minutes and adjusted their expectations as such. Personally I love these kinds of movies (similar: Cube, The Maze Runner).