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Don't sell your movie as something it's not
posted by mram16STAFFMOD on June 12, 2017 at 3:30 PM
Failed at the box office, and has a cinemascore of "D". Don't nake people think their getting a horror with a misleading title, trailers and promotion.
Reply by Columbusbuck
on June 13, 2017 at 2:28 PM
People are entirely too stupid to appreciate good movies I guess. Probably the same people that put hundreds of millions of dollars into Michael Bay's coffers for the Transformers series.
Reply by thebarnman
on June 21, 2017 at 4:07 AM
In many ways this is a horror film to me. It also depends what someone may or may not consider to be horror.
Reply by Geff
on June 21, 2017 at 8:02 AM
This seems to be something that people are consistently failing to understand. The quality of a movie is NOT correlated with how much money it makes. I've had this conversation maybe 3 or 4 times already on these forums. Still more and more people come out of the woodwork and shout "Look at the box office!" I've already cited countless instances of the evidence of lack of correlation.
I don't have the patience to repeat myself.
Reply by thebarnman
on June 21, 2017 at 7:37 PM
I agree there can't be a correlation between how good or bad a movie is based on box office. I actually liked the movie, and the ending was not typical Hollywood. It was dark, and in it's own way was able to say "this is not the end of the story" without something stupid happening at the very end to give you that obvious indication.
Reply by Tyler-A-Arse
on February 19, 2018 at 6:21 PM
You always have a few, OP.
Reply by Purplehearts
on February 20, 2018 at 3:33 AM
I think you’re right. Either people didn’t get it or they just didn’t appreciate the psychological horror aspect of the movie. This movie made me think. At first I didn’t understand what made it a horror film because I was expecting your standard horror flick about a virus outbreak apocalyptse. At first I was disappointed.
But after it ended. I thought about the movie as a whole and what it all meant. Basically the movie is about living in fear and not knowing who to trust. That family let the other family in against their better judgement and they died as a result. It just goes to show you that no matter how much you think you have a situation under control, or how far you have manipulated the situation and have placed every precaution in place, there will always be something that is beyond your control and the consequence is death. THAT right there is the horror of it all.Their son was much too altruistic and his parents were too needy. They didn’t need to have those chickens from that other family. So I thought this was a pretty good movie despite the misleading advertisement.