Author Topic: The current state of Horror movies... (Read 1297 times)

Jumpman · « **on:** June 06, 2005, 11:41:45 AM »

What happened! I never realized that I\'ve never been truly frightened by a movie made in the last 20 years or so. I saw Night Of The Living Dead recently in black and white and it was infinitely scarier than these god awful recent attempts at "horror"(House Of Wax, Scream, the one with Sarah Michelle Gellar, *insert any horror movie made in god knows how long here*).

28 Days Later and the remake of Dawn Of The Dead were ok but honestly, what happened to the genre?

« **Reply #1 on:** June 06, 2005, 11:55:54 AM »

Damn right.Back then the director because he didnt have the technology, special effects crap etc tried to create the horror feel through psychological "tricks", music and atmosphere.
Now its all BS

Evi · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2005, 11:57:02 AM »

There\'s a new horror movie every month now, and they all blow.

clips · « **Reply #3 on:** June 06, 2005, 12:12:26 PM »

tru no doubt...all of the recent horror joints are just terrible. i mean they don\'t even show the killings anymore! when somebody gets killed they show a cutscene of blood being splashed on the wall..:rolleyes:..and all horror flicks today are pure action horror. the scenes that are supposed to be frightning are filled with heavy metal music or some type of lame ass techno...

back in the day horror joints showed the killings...even if they were made up clay props, back then they went the extra mile to create those special effects that look waaaay better than this computer generated crap we get now....don\'t even get me started on these "matrix" effect fight scenes in horror joints either..pathetic..:rolleyes:

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #4 on:** June 06, 2005, 12:18:24 PM »

desensitization......

videoholic · « **Reply #5 on:** June 06, 2005, 01:15:43 PM »

Well I don\'t know if it was because of what was going on in Gainesville at the time, but Exorcist III was pretty damn creepy.

« **Reply #6 on:** June 06, 2005, 01:27:12 PM »

Netflix has put me on to a couple of those Japanese horror flicks. If you can get past the subtitles they have some of the creepiest shit made in the past 10 years.

« **Reply #7 on:** June 06, 2005, 01:30:34 PM »

Movies back then couldn\'t rely on gore tactics and special effects, etc. Honestly, older movies don\'t do much for me. Exorcist is always a good scare tho. Can\'t go wrong with the crazy girl running down the stares, crab-style.

Viper_Fujax · « **Reply #8 on:** June 06, 2005, 01:39:18 PM »

it seems like all "horror" movies today scare u by having loud sounds pop up at silent times.

Rarely any mental scary movies come out anymore

Living-In-Clip · « **Reply #9 on:** June 06, 2005, 02:02:00 PM »

Japanese horror films are the latest rage, but honestly, I think they are subpar at best. Yes, they are better than what we American\'s are use to see\'ing, but still, they aren\'t that great. The best thing about them is the directors don\'t have to explain everything. The horror aspect lies within the vagueness. Where as American films try to explain every detail and beat the audience in the head with it.

« **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2005, 02:02:37 PM »

i\'ll agree that 28 days later had it\'s moments... one of the better "horror" movies to come out recently. Other than that it\'s been pretty bad.

I saw a trailer for "Land of the Dead" on tv the other night, dunno how good it\'ll be though

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2005, 02:04:20 PM »

Only movie that even slightly put some fear into me was darkness falls... Mainly because i researched the history of the tooth fairy to find she was a aussie living in port fairy. :/

Living-In-Clip · « **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2005, 02:21:25 PM »

Land of the Dead has potenial to be great. It\'s a Romero zombie film.

clips · « **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2005, 02:28:51 PM »

how was dawn of the dead? *new version*....i came in on the middle of it and didn\'t bother to watch it...but y\'know how cable shows the name of the movie, and then rates it by how many stars it has by it? well it was rated 3 stars...is it that good? anything 3 stars and up i tend to think it\'s halfway decent...

Evi · « **Reply #14 on:** June 06, 2005, 02:30:59 PM »

I don\'t use the star ratings to watch movies. I\'ve seen movies that had 1 star that I thought were awesome. Ratings nowadays are totally f*cked up.

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Author Topic: The current state of Horror movies... (Read 1297 times)