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Horror movies are as popular as ever. Slasher/torture flicks (Saw, the Hostel), tales about evil kids (the Ring, the Orphan etc), those documentary style films - Paranormal etc. Whether these new films are as scary as the old films, now that's another matter.
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Originally Posted by Pawporri
Blood & Gore have replaced a good suspense/horror story. It is repugnant to me what is being peddled as horror is just sadism on steroids. One exception is the Paranormal Activity anthologies. Where is Stephen King when you need him ?
I find black and white horror movies the most chilling. Maybe simply being black and white added an element of horror to them. Many had a more ghostly-supernatural theme to them. Even cheesy flicks like Frankenstein have their chilling moments, or those sci-fi horror films from the 50s.
CGI is easier to create monsters so you have many really crappy brain drain horror movies. The SY FY Sci Fi( whatever) channel is full of them. Giant snakes, giant alligators, that kind of crap.
CGI is easier to create monsters so you have many really crappy brain drain horror movies. The SY FY Sci Fi( whatever) channel is full of them. Giant snakes, giant alligators, that kind of crap.
I saw one that had a Shark/Octopus hybrid attacking spring breakers. It's always spring breakers. I think there films are public service messages..Don't party or drink at the beach, Or a mutant animal hybrid/Bigfoot robot/zombie seagull will get you!
I saw one that had a Shark/Octopus hybrid attacking spring breakers.
Hey, we're talking about movies here, not those silly SyFy TV things, which are supposed to be bad on purpose.
The reason you get more or less of a particular genre of movie is due to the box office for such films. If people would pay to see Westerns, Hollywood will make more Westerns. Or horror, war stories, scifi, historical costume dramas, or whatever. It always comes down to the money.
Today's horror movies involve blood & guts, a few topless girls, some pointsless jump scares, and a mindless story.
There was plenty of this in the 80s and 90s but then the ideas just seemed so fresh. I watched Nightmare on Elm Street and the remake back to back and compared the two. The new one to me just wasn't good. Although I was biased in the first place since the new one didn't have Robert Englund.
I wasn't a fan of the Paranormal Activity movies, but I was glad to see something that wasn't a remake make such success with a simple idea and remind everyone that scary movies can still be made without being riddled with over the top CGI, nudity, and jump scares.
There are still some good ones (such as Case 39) but the moviemakers don't get as much bang for the buck making them now as they did in the 70s and 80s. Plus the ones from then are of better quality.
I think it's precisely BECAUSE there were so many of them made in the 80's. It's just harder nowadays to find a story that hasn't been done before, in one variation or another. Sooner or later, that seems to happen to every genre. That's why there are so many remakes and sequels out there.
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