Why aren't Horror Movies scary anymore...?

That's the subject of today's talking points memo-

Take a comparatively low budget film like "Alien". $10 mil and Ridley Scott managed to scare the parts off of people using a beachball and tubes from vaccum cleaners. Or Alfred Hitchcock, a couple of bags of birdseed and an actress who's good at screaming and you have the paranoia inducing film about flesh-eating birds.

"Ahhhhh!"

"**** off! Shoo! Shoo! "

In theory, a hollywood director with millions of dollars to work with and decades to make a remake of an oldie could do a better job. Alas, nay. I fail to be moved into a corner by any of these modern horrors from Hollywood. I fail to see how the "Saw" series is deemed as horror. It's more a collection of undesirable scenarios. "Sure I don't want to saw off my own leg, but you know i'd do it if I would die otherwise. Surely you're just watching me saw my own leg you sick freak. And that jigsaw guy isn't even scary, MJ looks scarier than him."

"Oh, Hai!"

The last thing to scare me was the Spannish El Orphanato or The Orphanage, and I pretty much laid a brick when

[spolier]they were playing the knock knock game - *shudder* [/spolier]

"Burn it! Burn it with fire!"

Is hollywood loosing it's touch all-together? Has there been a good horror film from Tinsel-town recently?

The Orphanage was excellent.

[spoiler] You're right about the knock knock scene. Best scene in the film. [/spoiler]

[REC] got me a few times, too.

I haven't watched too many scary movies, but one scary movie that really horrifies me till this day is the Excorsist. I think it's because it's so realistic and stuff like that does happen in real life. So I can never watch this movie, not even with family and friends. It's the ONLY scary movie that I can't watch because it scared the living daylights out of me. I didn't even go to the re-release in the theathers when my family went to watch it. That's how much I avoided it.

But all the other scary movies are too ridiculous to be scary and I don't even budge with them.

But The Grudge did make me jump out of my seat a few times. But it's not as frightening like Excorsist where I avoid the movie at all cost. I can watch the Grudge again and it wouldn't scare me anymore.

maybe because they focus more on having young hot babes get down rather than invest in making a scary backround and atmosphere?

house of wax is case in point, and not even the exorcist scared me

But The Grudge did make me jump out of my seat a few times. But it's not as frightening like Excorsist where I avoid the movie at all cost. I can watch the Grudge again and it wouldn't scare me anymore.

ASK_Story

I simply can't watch the original, it's too scary. I literally freeze in my chair like this:

*shudder*

CGI lacks substance, and it's used too much in supernatural horror films. I think the last Horror to give me that lovley creeped out feeling was Sam Ramey's version of The Grudge. I know it used some CGI, and I was put off by the first appearance of the ghost when it was flying in the air. But afterwards, that pale face, unearthly stare combined with the croaked, gargling sound was pretty effective.

CGI is ok for doing tricks, but we keep having movies create whole creatures, people or rooms which just don't look right.

[QUOTE="ASK_Story"]

But The Grudge did make me jump out of my seat a few times. But it's not as frightening like Excorsist where I avoid the movie at all cost. I can watch the Grudge again and it wouldn't scare me anymore.clembo1990

Here what i think, i know you guys are say that there not enough gore, or directors not doing as a good job anyone, and other rants.

Don't forget people that we are still creatures, highly evolve beings from the animal world. even though we don't have to really think that life is that hard anymore, we are always be tune to our surrounding.

Movies that are scary are the ones you will not be-expecting an scare over and over, mainly because people now smart enough to inorge certain moment's in the movies. If you did get scare from a movie, you take that learning moment into your next movie, and if something that going to happen that your now capable of-knowing so, it won't be as scary.

You also have to count the movie it self, yea sure you went to see it in theatres, but the movie is only projected on that screen of white frabit. your not really the people in the movie, just viewers, so you know you will be all-ways safe and not fear for your own life.

I can get scare a couple of-time, there was that great moment near the end of Qurtaitain that made me jump a little. But like a lot of other people, we just watch the movie for the sure fun of watching people getting killed of rater by getting scared of it, that because we are-not that really afraid anymore. we know so many tricks now that it getting very hard for movie makers to make-any real good scary movies anymore.

Horror movies, unless some one(Probably someone Japanese dude like that one post said LOL) fine-some ways to fool anyone with an new type of scare, those movies will only be view as bloody and violent, not scary.

Remember people, were animals, we can learn from our experience.

Here what i think, i know you guys are say that there not enough gore, or directors not doing as a good job anyone, and other rants.

Don't forget people that we are still creatures, highly evolve beings from the animal world. even though we don't have to really think that life is that hard anymore, we are always be tune to our surrounding.

Movies that are scary are the ones you will not be-expecting an scare over and over, mainly because people now smart enough to inorge certain moment's in the movies. If you did get scare from a movie, you take that learning moment into your next movie, and if something that going to happen that your now capable of-knowing so, it won't be as scary.

You also have to count the movie it self, yea sure you went to see it in theatres, but the movie is only projected on that screen of white frabit. your not really the people in the movie, just viewers, so you know you will be all-ways safe and not fear for your own life.

I can get scare a couple of-time, there was that great moment near the end of Qurtaitain that made me jump a little. But like a lot of other people, we just watch the movie for the sure fun of watching people getting killed of rater by getting scared of it, that because we are-not that really afraid anymore. we know so many tricks now that it getting very hard for movie makers to make-any real good scary movies anymore.

Horror movies, unless some one(Probably someone Japanese dude like that one post said LOL) fine-some ways to fool anyone with an new type of scare, those movies will only be view as bloody and violent, not scary.

Remember people, were animals, we can learn from our experience.

shemrom

Here what i think, i know you guys are say that there not enough gore, or directors not doing as a good job anyone, and other rants.

Don't forget people that we are still creatures, highly evolve beings from the animal world. even though we don't have to really think that life is that hard anymore, we are always be tune to our surrounding.

Movies that are scary are the ones you will not be-expecting an scare over and over, mainly because people now smart enough to inorge certain moment's in the movies. If you did get scare from a movie, you take that learning moment into your next movie, and if something that going to happen that your now capable of-knowing so, it won't be as scary.

You also have to count the movie it self, yea sure you went to see it in theatres, but the movie is only projected on that screen of white frabit. your not really the people in the movie, just viewers, so you know you will be all-ways safe and not fear for your own life.

I can get scare a couple of-time, there was that great moment near the end of Qurtaitain that made me jump a little. But like a lot of other people, we just watch the movie for the sure fun of watching people getting killed of rater by getting scared of it, that because we are-not that really afraid anymore. we know so many tricks now that it getting very hard for movie makers to make-any real good scary movies anymore.

Horror movies, unless some one(Probably someone Japanese dude like that one post said LOL) fine-some ways to fool anyone with an new type of scare, those movies will only be view as bloody and violent, not scary.

Remember people, were animals, we can learn from our experience.

shemrom

I use The Descent with friends when they want a "scary" movie. None of them were expecting me to bring a movie that scary...I think I slightly traumatized them.Rockclmbr6

I haven't watched too many scary movies, but one scary movie that really horrifies me till this day is the Excorsist. I think it's because it's so realistic and stuff like that does happen in real life.

ASK_Story

One more point "why" horror movies aren't scary anymore. I think it's because the filmmakers focus more on gore and bloodiness rather than trying to genuinely scare you. They think having more violence is scary. But that's not true. It's gross, but not scary, two different things, just like disturbing is not the same thing as being scary.ASK_Story

Horror movies have always been stupid. Some are scary, but regardless, they're always sooooooo dumb. don't deny it, you all agree with me.BiafraBeliever

correction : horror movies were never scary before, horror movies today are.

correction : horror movies were never scary before, horror movies today are.

x_Martyr_x

[QUOTE="Rockclmbr6"]I use The Descent with friends when they want a "scary" movie. None of them were expecting me to bring a movie that scary...I think I slightly traumatized them.super_mario_128

maybe back in the days of alfred hitchcock, but ever since the 80s Horror movies were sadistic pornography rather than horror.

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"][QUOTE="Rockclmbr6"]I use The Descent with friends when they want a "scary" movie. None of them were expecting me to bring a movie that scary...I think I slightly traumatized them.musicaz70

[QUOTE="x_Martyr_x"]

correction : horror movies were never scary before, horror movies today are.

super_mario_128

A few good horror movies make it out these days, but usually get overlooked because they lack the softcore porn element.

Horror films these days have lost their horror element. Most of them these days are all about unnecessary gore and tasteless nudity. If their is one genre of movies that needs an overhaul it's the horror genre, they have lost their way.ragek1ll589

Idk what went wrong with that post I tried.

But i said that The Birds, Psycho, and The Shining aren't scary at all. The Shining is so horrible to me and I don't understand why its reviewed so well.

The only movie that made me completely frightened throughout was Quarantine. I was really surprised how scared I was.

I think Hollywood horror movies are getting more and more lame. Asian horror, on the other hand, still manages to scare the **** out of me.kingdre

asian horror films are awful.