I guess "Birdbox" is the only one of them that I've ever seen. I presume "The Platform" has eluded me because it's Spanish language, and captions don't work well with me anymore, ever since I became a devout multitasker who thereby cannot constantly stare at a screen 100% of the time.
No horror film is truly scary after one reaches a certain age -- or after both 1980s FX and CGI from the 90s onward become overly familiar. So I struggle to find other factors to judge the genre by. Such movies can still be suspenseful and sport the weirdly unexpected, for instance, which isn't really the same thing as inducing fear and terror.
I watched "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" the other night. Though it was favorably reviewed, I didn't really see much original about it, apart from maybe that very setting of everything transpiring in a somewhat rural morgue located beneath a house. TAoJD wasn't one of those that mixes humor with horror, but it wasn't a poorly done serious flick either. Just a matter of "seen all those elements before --nothing new here". The bell on the toe was cute, but if my memory was better, I might recall something similar in one of those old Hammer creature-features that were first released way back in the 1960s and 1970s.
I've never seen Birdbox having only gotten Netflix recently. So I will be watching that this week. Will be checking out the others as long as they aren't just slasher flicks.
Just saw Birdbox. Very suspenseful and the ending was totally tear-jerking for me. Thankfully the plot moved quickly beyond the gratuitous lesbian couple (Sarah Paulson is an actual lesbo!) and got down to the nitty gritty of blood-spuing bodies. We wouldn't want to haunt children's dreams with the not "unseeable" images of girls touching/kissing each other after all.
