[quote name='LeonSKennedy']In terms of movies that are made today (Saw and all the numerous horror movie remakes), this is one of the better ones (I've yet to watch Drag Me To Hell, but have heard good things about it). But it's nowhere near a "classic" in my mind. To me, classics are horror movies like "Halloween", "Night of the Living Dead", and the original "Dawn of the Dead" just to name three.
As I said before, had I saw this "blind", I'd have thought it was much better than it was. I kept waiting for that "wow this is great" moment, and sadly it never happened. Having said that, the movie was very clever, and definitely justified an October release in the theaters. If you're looking for a 9/10 or better film, this isn't it. It's definitely a 7 or 7.5 out of 10 though.[/QUOTE]
Again, I think it just depends on what you're wanting out of it, and what you want from a horror movie. This movie isn't about scares... It's about recreating a sense of Halloween that most have either forgotten or never knew, and making something entertaining out of it. In this sense, it succeeds well beyond any movies that have come out in decades, and personally I think it does a much better job of that than Living Dead or Halloween ever did for me. It's fun, and clever, and entertaining in ways that horror movies simply don't seem to want to be, anymore, which is why you keep hearing about it being a throwback to simpler times, and why people keep calling it a "classic", I think. In ten years, I'll still want to watch this movie over, again, and I think that says a lot about it.