by Vens » 05 Jun 2015, 17:13
prometeheus wrote:I am not a huge fan of horror movies in fact agree that they are much scarier now than before. With horror movies in the past there was a sense of obviousness, as if to say the viewers already knew what was going to happen and when. In some movies, I feel there was also a sense of humor or something of the sorts. As in, everyone laughs when the actress looks behind the door and finds nothing there.
As of now, it's as if horror movies are adhering to peoples' actual fears. For example, the movie "It" may adhere to someone's fear of clowns. It takes this childhood fear in which some may say is ridiculous and warps it into that someone would actually be afraid of. Another thing I noticed is that movies of today serve the purpose of actually scaring the daylights out of people, and not merely entertaining them. They do this by taking the movie and connecting in some way to a form of truth.
Since I am not a fan of horror movies this does not apply to me but I feel many people love it if a horror movie is based upon a true story, it gives a sense of reality to the movie's storyline. Although, I don't know why anyone would want a psychopath to enter their home with machetes swinging and guns blazing.
I disagree. I think the older horror movies were far scarier than the movies today and better. When have you last seen a monster as scary as Xenomorph from Alien (1979)? Movies like The Ring/Ringu, A tale of Two Sisters, Ju-On scared the sh*t out of me back then. Even the first Halloween movie was kinda scary for a slasher film. Blair Witch was creepy as hell when it came out because it was original and there was nothing like that so it was very effective and sort of believable. I still think it's scarier than any of the Paranormal Activities that are coming out today. OK in the last few years we had some awesome horror movies. It Follows was sort of scary. Babbadook was brilliant. Oculus was pretty good psychological horror, The Borderlands was an awesome Lovecraftian horror with a pretty unexpected ending and Under the Skin was a great experimental film. But I wouldn't say any of them were particularly scary and these are mostly the smaller movies that tried to do something different. Modern Hollywood horror was led by Paranormal Activity sequels that are basically the same movie and recently the new wave of horror is taking over with crappy half-assed unscary movies such as Insidious, Sinister and The Conjuring that people like for some strange reason. And of course, the countless remakes of the old horror movies. Take a look at the new Poltergeist, that sh*t shouldn't exist.
[quote="prometeheus"]I am not a huge fan of horror movies in fact agree that they are much scarier now than before. With horror movies in the past there was a sense of obviousness, as if to say the viewers already knew what was going to happen and when. In some movies, I feel there was also a sense of humor or something of the sorts. As in, everyone laughs when the actress looks behind the door and finds nothing there.
As of now, it's as if horror movies are adhering to peoples' actual fears. For example, the movie "It" may adhere to someone's fear of clowns. It takes this childhood fear in which some may say is ridiculous and warps it into that someone would actually be afraid of. Another thing I noticed is that movies of today serve the purpose of actually scaring the daylights out of people, and not merely entertaining them. They do this by taking the movie and connecting in some way to a form of truth.
Since I am not a fan of horror movies this does not apply to me but I feel many people love it if a horror movie is based upon a true story, it gives a sense of reality to the movie's storyline. Although, I don't know why anyone would want a psychopath to enter their home with machetes swinging and guns blazing.[/quote]
I disagree. I think the older horror movies were far scarier than the movies today and better. When have you last seen a monster as scary as Xenomorph from Alien (1979)? Movies like The Ring/Ringu, A tale of Two Sisters, Ju-On scared the sh*t out of me back then. Even the first Halloween movie was kinda scary for a slasher film. Blair Witch was creepy as hell when it came out because it was original and there was nothing like that so it was very effective and sort of believable. I still think it's scarier than any of the Paranormal Activities that are coming out today. OK in the last few years we had some awesome horror movies. It Follows was sort of scary. Babbadook was brilliant. Oculus was pretty good psychological horror, The Borderlands was an awesome Lovecraftian horror with a pretty unexpected ending and Under the Skin was a great experimental film. But I wouldn't say any of them were particularly scary and these are mostly the smaller movies that tried to do something different. Modern Hollywood horror was led by Paranormal Activity sequels that are basically the same movie and recently the new wave of horror is taking over with crappy half-assed unscary movies such as Insidious, Sinister and The Conjuring that people like for some strange reason. And of course, the countless remakes of the old horror movies. Take a look at the new Poltergeist, that sh*t shouldn't exist.
