how has horror changed over time?

Answer 1

yes they now apply discusting scenes .. bloody guts and worms..
back in the old days they didnt use that and the movie came out scarier..

Answer 2

I'm sorry this is so long, but I really think about this, so some of it should at least be interesting.

I'm going to list splatter flicks in a totally different category, because eventually I think that they'll be considered that.

The Nosferatu era creations had presence and class, but not a fine medium. Bela Lugosi had unnatural charm, too, but from there on, there was this awful wave of cheesiness: i/e Vincent Price's "Scream and Scream Again", where bionic supermodels haunted discos by dancing badly.

Then for about twenty years, I came along, and I remember the grocery store horror movies with titles like 'spider man' and a phrase like 'he's no superhero' on a black cover with buggy eyes -- but you know the buggy eyes on the cover cost like 1/4 of the whole budget, and there are still hundreds of these things in almost every store. People were so thrilled that they could make a movie about anything that would look kind of like that thing was in it, if you only squinted, and movies like those were totally popular. Some of them are considered classics.

I'm more satisfied with horror film plots now that CGI and decades of experience have stepped into special effects, and I don't think that people are reaching quite so hard to show what they don't have to (except guts, which I think should be called something else).

I've also noticed a return to film elements like significant colors and subjectivity, and in more recent films like 13 Ghosts, House on Haunted Hill (2) or the Grudge, I've been really impressed by what I have to call "morbid action", where instead of just looking unnatural, monsters move in ways and rhythms that the body is pretty specifically not supposed to. I don't think people have paid attention to that since the first guy made a mummy or a zombie hold its hands out in front when it walked, which is nothing compared to what can be done now that the body doesn't really have to do what the script calls for.

Answer 3

Rocky Horror Picture Show was supposed to be scary Now a story about people with different lifestyles just wouldn't come accost like that.

Answer 4

I think most of the changes are due to better special effects - it actually looks like someone is getting their skin ripped off, or their eye drilled into. I've noticed that the horror "style" has changed as well - whereas the villain would just kill his prey, he now tortures them relentlessly. I think it's just wrong, creepy and wrong. Impressive effects and even story lines (Saw, Hostel), but just down right .... I don't know..... shocking......

Answer 5

the effects have gotten to be so good that we have to make our movies a lot more sadistic for them to be shocking...i miss the old movies that were about a getting a rush from being scared rather than how discusting something can look. I still love horror movies though.

Answer 6

that's funny you ask that. last night i was flipping through the channels and found the movie jaws. i was reading the description and the movie was classified a horror movie. these days i don't think of jaws as a horror movie but maybe back then it was.

Answer 7

they suck now. i'll take the exorcist over the grudge anyday. although i do like rob zombies horror films. i loved house of a 1000 corpses and the devils rejects.

Answer 8

i think it's less mysterious now and more trendy. especially some of the junk movies that are actually putting digitally done blood in it. final destination is guilty of all this. just gimme a guy who goes on a killing rampage for no good reason. that's more scary than anything b/c u can't "reason" w/ this guy.

Answer 9

Definately more violent....I used to be a Horror addict at one time and now i can't stand to watch them

Answer 10

it has gotten really bad. except for saw. those movies are good. everything is a teen slasher flick with predictable endings. writers and directors just try to make the most disgusting movie without a story.