Horror movies and Scary Tv making a comeback?
POSTED BY: JAYNEZTOWN
UPDATED: Monday, August 10, 2026 16:55
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FRANKENSTEIN, a film by Guillermo del Toro
https://x.com/netflix/status/1957442361677561889
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The tier list because everyone is doing it, a concept originating in video game culture, it might be Japanese culture origin, where Super or Supa Gray-do would rank above 'A grade' and B grade you have 'S' tier above all others
Movie Villains Ranked! (TIER LIST)
Every Batman Villian - A Tier List
RANKING EVERY HORROR VILLAIN | TIER LIST
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S-Tier has been around for quite a while now, but I don't recall the first time I saw it. I know the first time I paid attention to it and saw it more often was when I played From Software's Dark Souls and Demon Souls. It was used in the statistics systems for weapons under the hood, and how your attack power grew along with your weapons and stats like Strength and Dexterity as you leveled up. A rank of "---" meant that the weapon doesn't gain any power, while D-A tier saw better increases per rank, all the way up to S-Tier at the top for the best scaling increases.
From what I've read online, this actually originated from the Japanese grade school system where they do put "S" above "A" to give somebody special recognition for an exemplary job. I've seen that it simply means "Super", but I'm not sure how true that is. Seems unlikely that's what it actually means to me, although they do happen to use a mix of their own languages and English in a lot of pop culture in Asian countries, from anything to video games to KPOP, so it's possible it actually does just mean "Super" or "Superior".
I'll bet that for most people in the West that use it now, it's because of social media and places like YouTube where it seems like everybody makes ranking lists for everything these days. My guess is that 99% of those people making those videos today either learned about S-Tier from From Soft games in the SoulsBorne series or from other people who made videos on them that played them.
Watching stuff like this play out slowly over time is really interesting to me. When I first played Dark Souls and Demon Souls, they were already "old" games... at least 5 or 6 years old. I believe the 3rd Dark Souls had actually come out on the PS4 right when I was playing the first Dark Souls game and the Demon's Souls that came before it. So by that time, my brother and anybody who played these games when they were had already been exposed to the concept of S-Tier long before I would have seen them in those games.
Ten more years or so go by and the concept has become so widespread that Jaynez, who doesn't come of to me as much of a "gamer" knows what it is now. Probably won't be too long before I hear my old man use the term S-Tier when talking about something. 
Though it's happening slower, it's like watching the word "Woke" proliferate from some stupid anti-White MTV video made for New Years 2016 telling us not to use a word that nobody outside of Liberal colleges of the time ever used that way before, to being something that all the normies were using by Election Day of 2024 only 8 years later.
Then I think back to the day when I first saw Fran Drescher on an Old Navy commercial in the early 2000's talking to somebody on the phone and saying "Fo Shizzle my Nizzle" (Translate: For sure, my nigga), and I knew right then and there that Snoop Dogg would never say that phrase again now that every white suburbanite soccer mom Karen was going to be saying it.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Australia young soldiers, fresh out of boot camp, find themselves in a Ship Wreck with Sharks or a Giant Shark? somewhat based on the deaths of USS Indianapolis a quarter went down with her, Tiger sharks and oceanic whitetip sharks killed the surviving crew in the biggest attack on humans ever recorded
300 went down with the ship. The remaining 890 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while stranded in the open ocean, with few lifeboats and almost no food or water.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/23/596360408/navy-admi
ts-70-year-crew-list-error-in-uss-indianapolis-disaster
they say the US Navy covered it up maybe for morale propaganda reasons not to give the Germans or Japanese 'a win'
in the 1975 movie Jaws, one of the main characters, Quint, who is a survivor of Indianapolis, recounts the sinking and shark attacks. This scene brought Indianapolis, and her sinking, into a much wider public spotlight 30 years after the events occurred.
The 2016 film USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage, directed by Mario Van Peebles and starring Nicolas Cage, is based on the sinking
the Jaws story within the movie now made into a war drama
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Diés Iraé day of wrath an upcoming Indian Malayalam-language horror thriller film, also backed by Indian Hindi studio money?
I was waiting for that creepy Dorian descending melody that is in so many Hollywood movies and spooky Classical Era music scores
Return to Silent Hill 2025
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10 Best ‘80s Horror TV Shows (And Where to Stream Them)
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/best-80s-horror-tv-shows-where-to-
stream-elvira-monsters-tales-from-the-crypt/
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I was going to say that's a pretty bad list, but then I remembered we're talking about the 80's here and not the 90's.
I guess if you don't consider War of the Worlds horror at all and you throw that into pure sci-fi than it's probably pretty accurate for the decade since I can't really think of any more off hand from the 80's. At least not that I'd seen or remember without doing some digging and remembering things I may have forgotten. The did mention Tales from the Darkside, although that's not streaming so it's not on their list at all.
Putting Tales from the Crypt at number 10 is just silly though. That's just some Zoomer trying to be edgy, not putting that at number one or at least a tie with Tales from the Darkside by not precluding that from the list just because it isn't currently streaming.
That makes me suspicious that this list was simply generated by AI, with both Tales from the Darkside and Tales from the Crypt at the top, but then they added the streaming rule to bump Darkside off the list, dropped Tales from the Crypt to the bottom of the list and asked Google AI to give them the top 11 Horror TV shows from the 80's.
Voila! Almost instantaneous article written with near-zero work and no reason to do anything so brash as to actually watch any of those ancient TV shows that came out more than 20 years before I was born.
Maybe I should go into business doing something myself. Especially with all this AI shit out there. With all the dummies we've seen out there tripping up the stairs and fucking everything up while still being rewarded for it, how hard could it actually be?
ETA: Some more thoughts...
As much as I loved Tales growing up, I've tried re-watching it from the beginning and I got bored with the camp and cheese almost instantly (Which I'm sure I'd do with nearly every show on this list, TBH). I'm sure I could go back and watch a good "best of list" of Crypt, but I could never re-watch the entire show again today. I don't think that would be true of Darkside though. There were some truly great episodes of that show that were genuinely scary. I don't have any memories of a single episode of Tales from the Crypt scaring me when I was a kid.
I feel the same way about most episodes of the 80's version of The Twilight Zone as I do about Tales from the Crypt. There were 3 episodes that terrified me as a kid though. The first was called Special Service about a guy who's entire life was a lie and on camera 24/7. It was The Truman show a decade before Truman Show was made, but it was not a happy story and scared the crap out of me. For weeks I was still going around checking behind wall hangings and anywhere else I thought a camera might be set up recording me. But full disclaimer: I rewatched that episode twice now, with the first time being about 30 years after the first time I'd seen it and it was so cheesy that I had to laugh at how scared I was after seeing it... so I couldn't really say the two below are actually scary in 2025 without watching them again too.
I don't remember the name of the other two episodes, but one was about a boy who was taking a Government test and was really worried about passing it but his family was very supportive and told him that he was going to do fine. But the twist was that he was actually extremely intelligent and he did great on the test, but in this world that meant the Government executed you because it only wanted stupid people to survive to adulthood.
The last one was of a woman who had a psychiatric break and ended up in a mental institution with a case worker. She kept telling everyone that when it got dark and she was lying in bed, she could see people behind the walls, pressing their faces and hands into them and hearing them whisper things to her like "join us" or something along those lines. But they only would show up on decorated walls (like wallpaper) or if there w
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chats that a movie comes?
but gossip said fans of the game were giving very negative feedback?
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - Overview Trailer
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A very strange year for 'Horror' genre
Successful Hit, Medium Earnings and Total Flop
Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025) vs. The Long Walk (2025) vs. Sinners (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Final-D
estination-Bloodlines-(2025)/Long-Walk-The-(2025)/Sinners-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison
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Meet “Good Boy” Actor Indy: He's a Movie Star, but His 'True Favorite Pastime Is Napping' (Exclusive)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/meet-good-boy-acto
r-indy-201206657.html
a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Ben Leonberg in his feature directorial debut, co-written by Leonberg and Alex Cannon. Starring Shane Jensen, Arielle Friedman, Larry Fessenden, and Leonberg's real-life dog Indy in the title role
Laurence T. Fessenden has a lot of movie credits
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275244/
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