When will horror movies become "scary" again?

[Adrian89]

Who knows... but certainly 90% of the Horror Movies which come out nowadays are cheap ****! I haven't seen 1 GREAT Movie in the past 10 years or so, at least I don't remember. There were some pretty good ones, indeed, but not somewhat.

Dammit, I want a good Vampire Movie for example! I doubt it's gonna happen in the near future, sad but true.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

Yea i'm not saying every horror out there is crap these days.

I just think the SAW films, particulary the last few, the first couple were actually very good IMO, and the Hostel films are the epitome of crap horror. Just throw bucket loads of blood at us because the director hasn't got the talent to build up suspense or anything like that.

Saw I was great. Caught me totally off guard at the time.

Hostel....I actrually enjoyed I and II. Guilty pleasure. I'm game for splatter porn. I grew up on Slumber Party Massacure and Soriety Party Massacure and every other 80's slasher flick. I'm game.

I still wish Eli Roth would have just made a full on Thanksgiving movie. I thought that was the funniest thing I've seen in a long while.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Hmmm yea I suppose. I do like a bit of splatter porn sometimes. But it doesn't actually scare me. I just think it's hilarious and over the top. I can't even remember the last time a film scared me.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I don't know, man. I agree with the whole "this isn't something i want to watch, but i can't turn away" thing. I feel like that when watching The Exorcist. But with that, there's an unsettling atmosphere that helps build the scare factor.

with "Inside", i didn't turn away because i couldn't handle it. I turned away because i didn't think it was scary. What i saw didn't frighten me. It offended me. And horror films shouldn't offend people, atleast not the way this film does. What purpose does a crazy dude beating a pregnant woman in the stomach with a nightstick really serve? To scare someone? I'm sorry, but where i find the basic story of "Inside" to be an interesting one, the extreme gore levels are uncalled for, and isn't scary. It's stupid and ridiculous. I guess it's supposed to be "shocking" or something. But it's not scary.

To make someone unsettled is something missing from horror, i agree. But making films like "Inside" is not the solution to bringing it back.

We're seeing things from two different angle then. We could get a group of pregnate women together and have them watch this and I'm pretty sure they'll be scared to death and have nightmares and possibly miscarry. Is that pushing it? Yeah...but to any woman in general, the whole idea of that story is terrifying. Given, the gore was a bit much.

I watched a film called Havoc. It's not a horror film, but a strange teen film of urban unrealistic realistic reality. I watched that film and I instantly could relate to it. I knew people like that in the film. I have friends who are like that in the film. I've had friends who end up like the two girls in that film and watching the whole thing made me uncomfortable because it was striking a chord with me. And then bad goes to worse and I'm there watching this movie terrified that for some reason, every girl I forever know...my niece..my cousins...that's them. That's going to happen to them because today's society is so screwed up with Miley Cyrus crap and I'm litteraly terrified. Havoc. Scared the s*** out of me. And it's not even a horror film.

And I think that's were the line needs to be crossed. We're looking at horror films for horror, when horror itself has left the building and relocated somewhere else. Know what I mean?

 

[BlackLantern]

^^I saw 'Havoc' and felt the exact same way...I am older (29) but have 2 younger sisters and a younger cousin that are about that age....

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Anyone seen the film "Funny Games". That is unsettling.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

Anyone seen the film "Funny Games". That is unsettling.

Very glad you mentioned that film. Bravo. Brownie points for you. Funny Games is defenity not funny. My ex always use to say I remind her of Michael Pitt and that film....that film really made me fully take that as a complement because at time I can be just like that guy and go off on a deep end.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

i really wanna see Funny Games. The IFC Channel is gonna be playing it soon. They also sowed Diary of the Dead which i finally got to see and very much enjoyed it.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea Funny Games is messed up, in a good way though.

 

[Rac]

There was some Inside talk on the previous page. I just wanna say that I was in heaven for a week after watching it. Every movie I watched after it during that week felt like ****.