A favorite horror movie

Rating: 10/10 (7 July 2018)

So in all honesty, I'm picky about my horror. If the film implies there's a monster it had darn well better be a monster, I don't care of it's Godzilla or something more paranormal. Seems to me these days 'horror' is less about those things and more about the scary thing being the product of mental illness or just some creepy but ultimately human thing. Or on a Saw level just blood and gore and guts and not anything else that's actually scary.
This is where I wish there were more movies like Mama. It's a perfect balance of yes, there is actually a monster combined with the perfect amount of jump scares in just the right places. Not so many as to make them less effective over the course of the movie, but enough to keep you on edge as to where the next one might be.
On top of that it involves children being the creepy ones in addition to the monster, and children being creepy always just seems to add to the scary factor of a movie.
This has become one of my favorite horror movies over the years, one I keep turning to as a prime example of what the horror genre should be.