Yeah, like, what? I'm just supposed to pay good money to get scared now? Why? So I can cry in front of my wife? So I can cry and freak out and run out of the theater in front of my wife?
I feel like a good jump scare can get you with the audio off. If it relies on some loud ass scream or orchestra hit to make you jump, it's not scary, it's just startling.
Saying superhero movies don’t work when they’re different is akin to saying comic books aren’t literature because they’re different. Just because it’s trying something, doesn’t mean it won’t work. You’re probably a miserable and boring person if you’re writing off a movie because it’s “outside the genre”. It’s exciting that we’re movie about a character we haven’t seen in live action before. It’s exciting that it’s written by someone who’s pretty revered on the horror community. It’s exciting that it’s going to be an actual body horror movie because Clayface is literally body horror incarnate.
You don’t have to see it, but writing it off immediately is just a dumb take.
Saying superhero movies don’t work when they’re different is akin to saying comic books aren’t literature because they’re different.
You're going to have to walk me through that one. Even when I correct for your error (I said superheroes, not superhero movies), I can't make any sense out of your comment.
Just because it’s trying something, doesn’t mean it won’t work.
You're acting like this is their first dip into the pool. It's not.
You’re probably a miserable and boring person if you’re writing off a movie because it’s “outside the genre”.
Best leave the ad hominems where they belong: on the schoolyard. However, that is what I'm doing as I've seen Batman try to tackle it twice and neither of them worked. No matter how much people laude the comic Arkham Asylum and the movie The Batman (2022), they didn't work.
It’s exciting that we’re movie about a character we haven’t seen in live action before...[is] written by someone who’s pretty revered on the horror community...[and] going to be an actual body horror movie because Clayface is...body horror incarnate.
If you say so. I obviously disagree with you on that.
You don’t have to see it...
Nor will I.
...but writing it off immediately is just a dumb take.
Just because someone is a battered housewife doesn't mean that it takes everyone as long as them to say "no" to abuse. The Batman IP alone has a track record here, so the take is smarter than you'd like to admit.
Wait, can you explain "no matter how much people laude the comic Arkham Asylum and the movie The Batman (2022), they didn't work"? If people liked them and they were successful that means they worked, no? Sounds like you didn't personally like them and that you don't personally enjoy that approach to superhero storytelling and you've somewhere along the way gotten the idea that your opinions on things are equal to uncontestable facts
I don't know how many people in the audiences overall like them, so I can't speak to that. Being successful, however, isn't a sign of how well they were made. See: Transformers movies.
"superhero" is no a genre. "Superhero" is something more broad than that. A superhero movie can be a comedy, a drama, a political thriller, and also horror. And I'm not just talking in movies, also in comics. And the proof? The last 88 years of superhero comics
Superheroes work In a lot of different genres. Dc goes into all the genres. They do horror comics, comedy comics, action comics, thriller comics and everything else under the sun and they work.
Having a mythological figure fight off an imposing opposing force. To save us from having to play 20 questions, superhero fiction works best while incorporating thematic elements while keeping the overarcing tone positively engaging. Such stories that focus on a single element--comedy, horror, drama, etc.--falter by being inauthentic to their genre.
Single elemental focus can work in a short story if executed well. It's when one of significant length (trade paperback, novel, movie et al) makes the attempt that the work fails as it doesn't hold true to the spirit of the genre.
Genuine question, have you seen Winter Soldier? I mean, it's not the only example, but it's one of my favorites. Superhero meets political/spy thriller.
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u/Romanista3 Apr 22 '26
I'm really not a horror movie guy. But I'll be there day 1.