Current horror movies, leave nothing left for the imagination to imagine. Horror movies of days gone by with the hollywood ledgens, such as, Bela Legosi,Lon Chaney senior and Junior, Christofer Lee, and lets not forget Boris Karloff. In there days, their movies did not show any one being drained of blood, ripped apart or any other horrific thing hollywood monsters could do do the unsupecting audience. Our imagination was suffienct to scare the holy crap out of us. There is nothing left to the imagination in today's hollywood movies, because hollywood has already imagined it for us!
People are running out of new ideas and storylines. So to make up for their lack of imagination, and their poor choice of actors without skill...they go to desperate measures by adding more sex scenes for cheap entertainment and more gore and blood to gross us out. Not to mention, remake a classic that should have been left alone! Today's horror flicks aren't horror at all....I don't remember the last time I seen anything that was really worth my $$$ And when I do, I'll let ya know...
Amen to the current comments! They are getting too over the top with some of the gross out gore. Halloween, Friday the 13th, The Shining were all good movies and not crazy with the blood letting and flying body parts. It did leave something yet to the imagination. I found that the original Haunting was very eerie and scary much more so than the remake which I did not like at all. I mean how many gut piles can you see in one movie?? UGH!!! I guess I have always been more of a classic fan of the genre.
I couldn't agree more with the last reply's. todays horror movies SUCK, I think the writers are all on coke or something. And the so called actors can't act, how much talent doe's it take to scream or run away? I'll take the older movies any day. Long Live Universal Studios.
Well a big part of it is the need to create spectacular visuals which are so hyped up that there is no time for decent storylines. These remakes are making me ill, although once in a great while they make a good one, for example the 1990 Night of the Living Dead. I don’t agree that Hollywood is running out of ideas, because the number of rejected scripts floating around is huge. The real problem is what is accepted, the marketplace that decides what to make and what not to make.
I could not possibly disagree with you guys more. While I will certainly admit that many of today's horror movies are dull mundane cliches there have been a number of outstanding movies in the past 10 years or so that would certainly give anything from the 80's 70's or earlier a run for their money in the scare department. One that certainly comes to mind is The Descent which was easily the best horror movie of the past 20 years or more. But I would also give high props to some other honorable mentions such as 28 days later (and weeks for that matter), 30 days of night, The Grudge (which was fantastic for a PG-13 flick), Cabin Fever, High Tension, and Wolf Creek, just to name a few and of course American Psycho which would be one of my all time greatest films of ANY genre, hell I'll even mention the Saw series and Hostel although I'm sure I'll be damned for it. And while the genre has become oversaturated with remakes some of those remakes have done great justice to the movies they pay homage too, like Dawn of the Dead for example, and Halloween which was obviously not as suspenseful as Carpenter's classic but still gave fans some cool insight into the inner workings of Michael Myers, or even The Hills Have Eyes which is one rare case where I would say the remake surpassed the ever so hokey original Wes Craven version tenfold. And just for the record I am not a dumb kid, rather a 30 something adult who has loved horror for the past twenty something years. All I can say is thank god we got past the 90's where all we got was constant crap like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jeepers Creepers, and way too many awful films to mention. Alot of the previous poster are very nostalgic in what they are saying but let's face it: a Bela movie couldn't scare my four year old these days unless it was by the terrifying production values of an Ed Wood film.
No plot, they rely too much on gore and visuals. Every so often one with a decent storyline comes around, but mostly I leave the theater dissapointed. The old movies were better written. Special FX are great, but have a story plot idea first. I have to agree with wolfmantip's comment, "LONG LIVE UNIVERSAL STUDIOS". I'll choose Boris Karloff 's FRANKENSTEIN over anything I've seen yet from the Twenty-first century.
Try modern independent movies. They suck but most the time they strive for a little originality in plot and presentation. Also try international movies.
There is nothing that has hit the main stream that drives fear in to the hearts of the masses for a reason.......we are stuck in the never-ending loop of horrid re-makes and sequels. All we can do is start looking locally and spread the word when anyone finds anything remotely resembling an original idea. We can no longer wait for Hollywood.
All good points to be taken. I think current horror films rely on visual effects to produce fear because of the dumbing down of America. Schools no longer teach people how to think and imagine. Toys are too available and kids no longer have to create their own amusement. Therefore, a film that relies on YOUR imagination, just won't work for the mainstream. Obviously, we are not the mainstream!
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