#people have told me i should write horror because im so good at critiquing horror movies and stories

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Weird that people treat amateur writing as inherently bad and absolutely worse than published stuff because in my experience if you want good horror amateur horror is actually way better than anything published be it movies or books. Not that there's zero good horror writers, I'm no Stephen king fan but his work is undeniably popular for a reason and I enjoy the movie adaptations of a lot of his stuff. But most horror is 5 tropes in a trenchcoat with half a plot and zero characters that are memorable or likable- a symptom of the genre killing off most of the characters in the story I think but my guys I still need to like them before they get brutally murdered.

Still, amateur writing isn't inherently bad just because Jeff the Killer exists when that amateur writing also has stories like The Russian Sleep Experiment. And god knows just because someone gave a horror flick a budget of 15 million dollars (not go mention marketing budget, which usually costs about as much as the movie) doesn't mean it's good.

#winters ramblings #guys horror is such a Genre its god so much crap in it because horror is REALLY hard to write #people have told me i should write horror because im so good at critiquing horror movies and stories #but im not that good at plot and horror is plot dependant and im no good at tension either. not that kind anyway #so like mad respect for horror writers but despite being dogshit at writing horror #im very confident i could write a horror flick better than Truth or Dare. sure itd end up being a horror comedy #but itd still be better lmao #regardless amateur writing=/= bad writing. horror is one of the few where you find stuff consistently better work than published stuff #but its a great show of how structure and trope expectations in horror movie making especially leads to trite overtired crap ass stories #and amatures arent usually so restricted by capitalism demanding you make the 10 000th exorcist movie instead of an original story #about posession. and its always christian recruitment propaganda too 🙄🙄. still though if you watch the exorcist #every other posession movie is that exactly minus sort of the exorcism of emily rose but thats because they were usuing an actual story #as the basis for that movie and no poor analisa michelle was not actually posessed