Gemini are curious, adaptable, witty, smooth, and observant, and that is just to name a few of their vast characteristics. Falling between Taurus and Cancer, it is a transitional sign, known for bringing about individuals with layered personal intricacies and ionate interests into the world.
horror has something to offer everybody. For every mindless slasher, there is also something a little more intellectual on the table. Here are five horror movies that Gemini will love, and five others they will want nothing to do with.
Love: The Shining
Anything with the name Stanley Kubrick attached to it is bound to pique a Gemini's interest. As deeply attentive people, Gemini love to analyze a scene, and director Kubrick filled every frame with profound meaning and hidden messages.
While The Shining itself might feel a bit claustrophobic for a wanderlust Gemini, it more than makes up for that energy with suspense and subliminal details that require constant rewatching. Plus, for all of its confinement, the movie still sports some breathtaking shots of the Colorado Rockies during its opening, which is bound to draw in any Gemini from the get-go.
Hate: Scream
While Gemini love a good joke, Scream might not quite fit their senses of humor. The parodic elements of Scream could be able to spark intrigue from a theoretical perspective, but the film's unabashed camp qualities overall might distance Gemini a bit too far.
When the film first came out in 1996, its novelty may have had the capacity to entice. For a modern viewer, though, it has come to feel a bit insincere and at times over-the-top with its cheesiness. Obviously, all of the corny instances in Scream are intentional on director Wes Craven's behalf. Nevertheless, they still might fail to resonate with a Gemini.
Love: Funny Games
If Gemini are searching for some humor, they might better appreciate the work of Michael Haneke in his pseudo-comedic psychological thriller, Funny Games. Whether it is the original 1997 Austrian title or the 2007 American shot-for-shot remake, Funny Games is bound to pull in Gemini with its thermal runaway of suspense, which Haneke pulls off in a strikingly original away. The humor is very sarcastic and dark, the exact kind of dry wit that Gemini will appreciate and relate to.
As a home invasion film, Funny Games is once again a little claustrophobic, but its meta-commentary on cinematic language and breaking of form will be more than enough to keep a Gemini from suffocating.
Hate: Buried
Rodrigo Cortés' claustrophobia is simply unavoidable. Focusing on a man getting kidnapped and buried alive in a coffin, the move is a spatial nightmare.
A Gemini's element is air, and in Buried, oxygen is in short supply. The main character's every breath is imperative and to make matters worse, he does not know where he is buried and is only equipped with a dying cell phone and a lighter in his subterranean coffin. It is an exciting and thought-provoking movie, but simply has too much anxiety to offer for a Gemini to appreciate fully.
Love: Us
Gemini will likely appreciate the side-splitting humor of comedian-turned-auteur Jordan Peele. His jokes are fresh and witty and perfectly timed. However, Gemini will stick around through his movies for their layered meanings, complex messages, and weighty commentaries on the human condition.
Peele's debut feature Us. The movie still has the brightest of us scratching our heads and mulling over its twisty significance. It is the exact kind of puzzle that Gemini love to dissect in a film.
Hate: Halloween
Halloween is the textbook definition of a slasher. It practically created the sub-genre upon release. However, slashers as a general rule tend to miss the mark with Gemini.
While there is certainly a hefty dose of charm riddled in the simple concept of a masked killer dicing up sexually active teenagers on October 31st, it is a tad one-dimensional for Gemini. Granted, many of the tropes that Halloween endorses it also created, but for a modern viewer, the movie feels a tad formulaic and highly predictable. Overall, a Gemini will probably just find it boring.
Love: Eraserhead
This debut movie from artistic filmmaker Eraserhead took over five years to complete and to this day, Lynch will not disclose his personal take on the project. Everything in Eraserhead, from its production to narrative meaning, is shrouded in mystery, making it the ultimate film to pick apart and overanalyze.
Because Gemini are a curious group, this surrealist picture will tickle their brains like no other. Gemini appreciate the weirdness in the world, and as far as horror movies go, they do not get much weirder than Eraserhead.
Hate: It
Like Halloween, the far more contemporary Stephen King's terrifying 1986 novel relies heavily on nostalgia, humor, and charm. While all of these attributes are good in and of themselves (and the movie as a whole is definitely worth watching) Gemini tend to keep their eyes fixated on the future and the unknown.
Therefore, It with its 1980s references and childhood wistfulness might feel a little rehashed for Gemini. Muschietti's 2019 followup, It: Chapter 2, would probably not fare any better.
Love: Psycho
When it comes to horror movies, Gemini can perhaps appreciate two things above everything else: suspense and good directing. Thus, Psycho is a match made in heaven. Along with often being considered the greatest director of all time, Hitchcock has earned the nickname "the master of suspense" amongst cinephiles.
Psycho's rising intensity and mystery will keep Gemini on the edge of their seats. Then, its bold statements on consciousness and ahead-of-its-time form will add the extra layers of intrigue, keeping Gemini coming back to the movie that, by some s, invented modern horror for the silver screen.
Hate: Hostel
Gemini are an adventurous group. They enjoy traveling and running off into the ether without much consideration for unlikely or unfortunate consequences. Eli Roth's harrowing 2005 movie Hostel will probably burst that blissful bubble.
The film focuses on a pair of recent college graduates getting kidnapped while backpacking across Europe. What ensues is an unforgettable sequence of torture and trauma that will likely render viewers homebodies for a long time. Gemini need to trust the good in the world to continue their daring antics without living in constant fear. Hostel would definitely not help them keep up this essential outlook.
