Personally, i'm sick of every horror movie having to be a freakin' SLASHER movie. It's one of the most contrived genres of horror that i've ever seen, and where it has it's gems, it gets stale. That said, i'm sick of seeing zombie movies too. Zombie films seem to the cop-out with most people. Most zombie films are people running away and hiding in an abandoned building, or it's just over the top gore that still doesn't beat the intensity of a Lucio Fulci film. [REC] was phenomenal and is one of my new favorites, as it was original, and it the first-person style really added an extra scare level as you see everything through a narrow point of view. and it wasn't even that violent. It had it's moments, but it didn't rub it in your face, which i appreciated. I'm told Diary Of The Dead is supposed to be really good, and i bought it, but haven't watched it yet. You see, when the film was first announced, i was under the impression that the film was to take place during the events of NOTLD, which i believe it does. But i was under the assumption that it was going to take place in the 60's, which excited it. When i found out it wasn't, i kinda lost my will to watch it. Ill get to it eventually, i guess.
But i think it's time to bring back the more mythical monsters and time to start taking chances with horror again. The Wolfman remake looks AWESOME. Guillermo Del Toro wants to do a Frankenstein film! 30 Days of Night was a step backwards while being a step forward, whether or not you thought the movie was good or bad: It made vampires EVIL. And it had wonderful atmosphere.Unfortunately it didn't catch on and we're going to be plagued with whimpy Twilight vampires for the next decade. "Let The Right One In" was nice and i don't really understand everyone who says it's a love story. Well, it is...kind of. But not like Twilight, and i saw it more as a film about loneliness and friendship. And the fact that it was two kids, and not ******ed teenagers made it all the more touching. BUT I'd like to see some evil vampires that has no souls, are not love sick, savagely kill people and ruin lives. I'd like to see a Dracula movie that actually portrays the Count as the evil sadistic bastard that he is, and not as some love sick wuss.
Doctor Jones made a great point about all these horror films focusing on teenagers and how it's a problem. I agree. Horror films should be aimed at various age groups. I should be able to go see a horror film in a movie theater with my dad and walk out with him agreeing that what we both saw was great. As i said, bring back the mythical monsters: Vampires, werewolves, other folkloric creatures, and make them scary and fascinating all at once.
Guillermo Del Toro wants to make "At The Mountains of Madness", which if he gets it made, i GUARANTEE will be the best horror film ever made in the last 20 years. I'm a huge Lovecraft fan and feel he's got some of the best material to have turned into films. Most that have been made based on his work have really missed the point. I'm looking at you Stuart Gordon. But films that have a Lovecraftian influence on them kick ass: "Alien", "The Thing", "Hellboy", "The Crawling Eye". There's some Robert E. Howard stuff, outside of his Conan work that is just unnerving. "Pigeons From Hell" is perhaps one of the scariest short stories i have ever read. Yea, the title is cheesy, but the story is just intense.
Del Toro has said that the studios were iffy on "At The Mountains of Madness" because there was no love interest or a happy ending. That's the great thing about Lovecraft. No one escapes the reality of the horror the encounter and that's the scariest thing of all. And Lovecraft didn't rely on heavy gore. He managed to build tension and atmosphere and when you least expected it, he scared the crap out of you. Now, i'm all for watching over the top gore-fests, but only when i'm need of a good laugh. But filmmakers really need to learn how to build tension and atmosphere and come up with something new. And by "new", i don't mean a guy wearing a Mr. Spock mask and carrying a battle axe killing horny teens crap.
Sorry for the rant. It's just that i'm sick of crappy new horror films and after seeing the pop ups for "My Bloody Valentine" on every website i go to, and on TV all the time, i kind of lost my mind there for a second.
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