An interesting take on horror films from actor/writer Michael Boatman (In Jeff VanderMeer's blog).
Agree or disagree?
I've been saying this for years.
Agree or disagree?
Die, Lady Hollywood. DIE!
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Good observation. So much of it goes straight to video.
Darn it, Don. You done gone and made me look up something.
Well....ok. I really liked the way they braided the psychological with the gruesome in SAW and SAW II. They could have stopped at II
My daughter really liked that new one with the giant ugly monster in NYC. She said she was scared and her friend tossed her cookies. And to tell the truth, considering the horror movies the child has seen...and laughed at...I guess that means the new one is probably good.
But for the past 7 or 8 years...everything that has been touted as the be-all-end-all has made me drowsey.
Maybe I am just jaded.
My daughter really liked that new one with the giant ugly monster in NYC. She said she was scared and her friend tossed her cookies. And to tell the truth, considering the horror movies the child has seen...and laughed at...I guess that means the new one is probably good.
But for the past 7 or 8 years...everything that has been touted as the be-all-end-all has made me drowsey.
Maybe I am just jaded.
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The chunk you quoted is a good way to put it.
Mostly.
That's the way it is with hollywood horror. But once in a while, when the wind's in the right direction, a Descent or a Severance slips through the net.
Agree.
Mostly.
That's the way it is with hollywood horror. But once in a while, when the wind's in the right direction, a Descent or a Severance slips through the net.
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Define 'horror'. I don't think of slasher flicks as horror movies -- they're murder porn (IMHO).
Then again, to me, "Sweeney Todd" and "I am Legend" fall under my definition of horror.
Unless we're talking about the kind of horror you feel when you see that they've made a 6th "American Pie" movie...
Then again, to me, "Sweeney Todd" and "I am Legend" fall under my definition of horror.
Unless we're talking about the kind of horror you feel when you see that they've made a 6th "American Pie" movie...
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I am an Evildead girl. though i did like the Messengers. I love all kinds of horror--except straight up slasher style. i like unreality in my fiction--there i go making up words again. so i think that means i disagree.
I am an Evildead girl. though i did like the Messengers. I love all kinds of horror--except straight up slasher style. i like unreality in my fiction--there i go making up words again. so i think that means i disagree.
I think it's a horror to butcher the originals: House of Wax redux was gaddawful! I hoped the psycho would kill everyone in the first half an hour to spare me!
It's the usual case of comparing apples to oranges. Alien, the Shinging[/i] are all classics, and no, classics don't get made that much. There was no great golden age of horror. For every Psycho, there were a baker's dozen of The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? or Manos: THe Hands of Fate. Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crud, and some people seem to forget that crud was made in the past, too. The Hollywood business model is geared toward pumping out as many films as possible, regardless of quality. Always has been, always will be.
Seven, the first Ring film both made a real mark on me. But they don't represent the Golden 90's of horror, they were just the good films that rose to the top.
Seven, the first Ring film both made a real mark on me. But they don't represent the Golden 90's of horror, they were just the good films that rose to the top.
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The most profound horror makes you think. If you think, you'll probably want to talk about it to someone. There are plenty of examples of 'thinking' horror, but they're spaced out over fair whacks of time. Frankenstein (the original book), Dracula, The War of the Worlds, The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Stepford Wives, The Children of the Corn, The Shining, Alien...
A lot of horror doesn't make you think though. It's just titillation. A previous poster mentioned 'murder porn', but there's also 'corpse porn', 'dysmorphia porn', 'xenoporn', 'bugporn' etc...
Rather than blame 'The kids these days', perhaps we should be asking what 'The horror writers these days' are writing?
A lot of horror doesn't make you think though. It's just titillation. A previous poster mentioned 'murder porn', but there's also 'corpse porn', 'dysmorphia porn', 'xenoporn', 'bugporn' etc...
Rather than blame 'The kids these days', perhaps we should be asking what 'The horror writers these days' are writing?
I don't even enjoy reading horror anymore because everything I pick up tends to be gore-porn and while I have nothing against that I just don't enjoy reading it. My favorite horror movie of the past few years is The Hills Have Eyes to the extent that I call it "THE Great American Horror Film". I liked The Skeleton Key, The Ring, and Dark Water, which led me to start watching Asian horror films which are soooo much fun but just don't translate well in Hollywood (see Pulse vs. Pulse). To this day I will not forget how high I jumped in my seat when I saw Alien for the first time, and that's been close to 30 years.
I really, REALLY enjoyed Rob Zombie's version of Halloween. I was prepared not to like it, but it proved me wrong. Really enjoyable and still basically what I suppose we're supposed to expect out of a 'horror movie'. I tend to go mainly for style and ambience in a horror film and this one had it in large doses!
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