It's just not scary anymore... (film, drama, horror, serial)
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Keep seeing this trailer for "The Devil inside" movie. It seems holly-woods horror genre moved from Zombies To Vampires and then to spooks/possessed people.
It's really cliche this trailer, With the demon voice coming from the women, The weird twisting of limbs, And her climbing the walls. I think it's overdone. it was scary in the exorcist, And Emily Rose was good but I find this rather silly now. And why 3 parts to "Paranormal Activity?" Im afraid they are going to turn it into a Friday the 13th with over a dozen parts.
i personally find the best horror to be something that is rooted in reality, Something that can happen for real and invokes a feeling of dread*
Any kind of genre can be scary, but directors no longer seem to care to do it. To achieve a good scare, it's more about what you DON'T see, what MIGHT be behind the door, what the noise outside MIGHT be. That is the nature of a good scare. But because of CGI and no boundaries in gore any more, directors no longer seem interested in imagination. Everything is in your face --- and thus not scary anymore.
Any kind of genre can be scary, but directors no longer seem to care to do it. To achieve a good scare, it's more about what you DON'T see, what MIGHT be behind the door, what the noise outside MIGHT be. That is the nature of a good scare. But because of CGI and no boundaries in gore any more, directors no longer seem interested in imagination. Everything is in your face --- and thus not scary anymore.
Yes, They have traded suspense for shock value, Or do i mean schlock value..?
I thought Paranormal Activity had all of those. I am not easily scared nor do I believe in ghosts/phantoms, yet I could not properly sleep for 3 months after seeing that movie.
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Originally Posted by Mark S.
Any kind of genre can be scary, but directors no longer seem to care to do it. To achieve a good scare, it's more about what you DON'T see, what MIGHT be behind the door, what the noise outside MIGHT be. That is the nature of a good scare. But because of CGI and no boundaries in gore any more, directors no longer seem interested in imagination. Everything is in your face --- and thus not scary anymore.
Keep seeing this trailer for "The Devil inside" movie. It seems holly-woods horror genre moved from Zombies To Vampires and then to spooks/possessed people.
It's really cliche this trailer, With the demon voice coming from the women, The weird twisting of limbs, And her climbing the walls. I think it's overdone. it was scary in the exorcist, And Emily Rose was good but I find this rather silly now. And why 3 parts to "Paranormal Activity?" Im afraid they are going to turn it into a Friday the 13th with over a dozen parts.
Yes, these movies really are all the same. The scariest film I ever saw was a docudrama about nuclear war/nuclear winter that was made in Britain sometime in the 80's.
Different strokes for different folks. For me its different - I am not scared by serial killers or cannibal lecters or even zombies or Martians. I can easily tackle them with a Remington shotgun (or a bazooka in the case of aliens) if I were to have an encounter with them, it would be a fair fight. What freaks me out are paranormal/demonic stuff that I cannot resolve with a shotgun fire.....THAT's scare stuff (not that I believe in those, but the thought of anything like that happening is very creepy and scary)!!
Like I said, different things work for different people !!
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Originally Posted by brava4
I have said this forever that the only way I get scared is if it can really happen to me. Zombies, martians, outerspace stuff.... don't fill the bill.
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