Back in the day, scary movies we're scary. Even with new technologies, the new movies just don't make you feel scared. What's going on?
2006-09-20 14:30:18 · 24 answers · asked by rosepassions 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
lol, dang i'm not that old, i'm only 20!
2006-09-20 14:53:09 · update #1
I like a good scary movie but you're right many recent horror films over the last two decades or so have not been that scary save for a few.
Target Market - many horror movies are targeted at the high school crowd so the movies go for the quick BOO! to make them jump. There's not much in suspense build-up. It's usually just your idiot teen magazine model types wandering around the movie getting chopped up.
Special Effects - movies try to outdo each other presenting horrifyingly gory monsters and ghost which look more comic book-like and really aren't that scary. Less is More is a principle they have forgotten.
The Haunting vs The Haunting. I think any horror fan or film student worth his salt should watch the original and the remake to see what went horribly wrong with the remake. In the original, there was a brooding tense atmosphere of shadows, suggestively moving statues, unseen things moving about, etc... In the remake we actually see statues move - they jump up and attack people. We see the house come alive thru the (boring)miracle of CGI. We see the big bad ghost of the house who for some reason had the means of its destruction built into its house.
The original left alot up to your imagination which made it far more scarier. The remake showed you everything thus leaving nothing to your imagination.
Japanese Horror films play more with creepy atmosphere and brooding suspense punctuated with intense moments of fear. And their ghostly antagonists are ghastly but they're not covered in latex like freddy kruger (did anyone ever find those films truly scary?).
Bottomline - Hollywood has gone too much in formulaic, speciall-effects laden trite and has forgotten (or doesn't care) that the audience's imagination and the fear of the unknown/unseen is far more powerful than some latex ghoul accompanied by CGI
2006-09-20 15:01:11 · answer #1 · answered by samurai_dave 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love the best is the original one, Scary Movie 1... It's so funny as hell... But the worst would absolutely be Scary Movie 3, the movie was 1 hour 20 minutes but then I felt so soon that it's just like 40 minutes of filming...
2016-03-26 23:47:30 · answer #2 · answered by Kristina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a "good Christian" that loves horror movies, especially the old ones, I have to say it's a flaw in Hollywood. They never look back to what worked unless they're trying to remake something. It always has to be computer generated or big budget. The best scary movies are done on a shoe string with rubber, fake blood, and latex. Mainstream movie companies steer clear of anything shocking or graphic which leaves us with PG-13 melodramatic crap. Universal paid Rob Zombie to make House of 1,000 corpses and then refused to release it.
If you want good, modern scary movies, look for the independent movie companies. Lions Gate is a reasonably good company. Also, look for directors you don't know. I'd recommend such films as Dog Soldiers, May, and The Descent. Also look for directors that are also fans like Del Toro or George Romero. Not much scares me anymore but Romero's zombies still creep me out.
Boycott the Hollywood fluff. Rent the good stuff.
God Bless.
2006-09-20 14:55:39 · answer #3 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They try too hard, I think. Some of the best scary movies ever, like A Nightmare on Elm Street (the first one) were surprising in their time and well made for the money they had. Now everything has been done as far as Hollywood is concerned and now it's all remakes that are either so far off- base they suck or are so true to the original that it's not exciting enough as you know what's going to happen.
2006-09-20 14:40:39 · answer #4 · answered by Rome2Milan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because with special effects, many new artists take advantage of all of these tools to try to impress upon viewers their best in horror. The point they miss is that we do not fear what we can see and understand. The less we know about our fear, the more "fearful" it stays. What is left to the imagination is far more frightening than anything we can imagine and bring to illustration. Therefore, movies will become less and less "scary" as our abilities for special effects reach new heights. That is also why scary movies have better beginnings than endings...send this dialog to Hollywood...maybe someone will catch on and we might see one or two really good ones! :)
2006-09-20 14:36:48 · answer #5 · answered by navigate100 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I know, Ive commented about this many times.
Movies, Media, TV have gotten so accustomed to showing us anything and everything that society just does not hold the same values as say we did back in the 70s.
Back then a Movie about a RAT would make you afraid to go in the kitchen at night. People were so afraid to go swimming after Jaws came out. But these days all you would get is a Laff out of these old movies. People have gotten so desensitized these days by the one upman ship of the media that hardly anyone cares anymore when they hear on the news that somebody in a neighboring town was killed last week.
I'd say that its a Sad Comment on our Society as a Whole :-s
2006-09-20 14:31:29 · answer #6 · answered by D B 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
because all of the scary movies now a days are just remakes of older scary movies nothing is original anymore. Plue you could say that the public is just expecting more.
2006-09-20 14:50:36 · answer #7 · answered by thekorean2000 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because movie makers are throwing blood & gore at the audience for shock value & we eat it up and pack the theaters hoping its going to be the one...the scary mecca of movies but alas we are always disappointed. Less blood, gore & predictable plots and more focus on story, acting and setting and we might get a truly disturbing horror movie but would it sell tickets?
2006-09-20 19:23:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it,s because the real world today is scarier than anything Hollywood can create. But I know what your saying I can,t remember the last movie that really gave me a good scare.
2006-09-20 14:40:31 · answer #9 · answered by Iknowthisone 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think that it is b/c of all the new tech. their trying so hard 2 scare u that they over do it and not in a good way. movies back in da day didn't have all that they had people with creative minds coming up with the ideas from their heads not from what other people put out.
2006-09-20 14:33:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋