Why isn't there any more movies made that have some sort of crazy serial killer, like Halloween?

Question

Most of the movies that are made now a days have to do with ghosts or spirits, like Boogeyman, The Grudge, The Ring, Pulse and so on. Saw isn't exactly a serial killer movie, but yeah at least it's actually a person playing the games and not a ghost. I think the last serial killer movie was Scream,...correct me if i'm wrong though, and Scream was a hit.

Answer 1

O.K., for what its worth Halloween is being remade, rebooted so to speak (like the new Bond movie) and being directed by Rob Zombie.

I do feel you've got a point . . . there haven't been alot recently.

And lets face it, right now, Japan and manga/japanimation are hotter than ever and those influences of that culture is what hollywood is buying and claiming what we want.

Also its all cyclical, we've had radioactive beastie phases, classic monster phases, ghost phases, vampire phases ect.

Its whatever fits the time, each decade gets scarier and scarier in real life as we slowly crawl to a made made armegeddon snuffing out all of human life, so its that much harder finding ways to scare ourselves ON PURPOSE to forget about the real horrors we're committing.

The 50s were can do, theyre monsters mere shambling classics and rather stiff and easily defeatable cuz that generation "could defeat anythin, we defeated Hitler after all"

The 60s were the golden age of nuclear paranoia and the birth of American civil unrest, therefore our monsters were nuclear driven and slowly went into the bloodthirsty mass murderers of the 70s and 80s

The 70s and 80s, why did they have Jason, Freddy, Mike, the people in the hills and last houses on the left?

hell, look at those decades, we all wanted everyone dead in 'em!

Answer 2

I don't know..I found Boogeyman to be stupid...The Grudge...I had one at Walmart for selling me that piece of trash..The Ring...special effects were okay..BUT stupid story line...THey just don't make great slasher movies like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and Halloween~ Rose Red was a good movie..but not a serial killer one...

Answer 3

Well the movie Wolf Creek is about a serial killer and is based on a true story. If you do a search on the Austrailian Hitch Hiker murders you can read the story.
House of Wax is also about serial killers as lame as it is.

Answer 4

I actual desire the psychological, sensible thrillers. I do exactly like the classic slashers (Halloween, TCM, no longer lots Friday the thirteenth), yet those days the innovations are so lame and recycled. My well-liked sensible secret action picture must be Silence of the Lambs. Ah, specific. Spacey is definitely one of my well-liked actors and he became into super as a serial killer. Seven became right into a brilliant action picture usual too.

Answer 5

Halloween, the first, - the killer, Michael Meyers, was killed in the end - but they continued to make more movies with him. I know what you mean, though. "Kalifornia" with Brad Pitt as the bad guy is very good and disturbing, "Clay Pigeons" with Joaquin Pheonix and Vince Vaughn (as the bad guy), "Seven" with Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey (as one of the creepiest bad guys). There are many out there, keep looking and don't go by what "Hollywood" tells you.

Answer 6

Good question! I prefer the serial killer movies to the supernatural movies. They are scarrier because serial killers really do exist.

Answer 7

Probably because they played it to death.
Although, I really liked Freddy vs Jason...
but was that Friday the 13th part 10, or Nightmare on Elm Street 8?

Answer 8

I'm not sure. But I read today, that there is going to be a remake of the original Halloween. If it's done right, it could be a really big hit.

Answer 9

Honestly I think they exhausted the bad guys at the moment.
But there was a Scream 2.

Answer 10

What's a goofball in a mask compared to the horror we see every day? The stakes go up constantly...