how come scary moves are dumb now?

Question

i just saw the move silent hill it was a bit scary in the begining but at the end it was so retarded and so fake.

Answer 1

There are only so many ways you can exploit things that are truly scary to people. And everybody has seen all the standards of horror so much that there is no surprise, no shock value left. It's really a shame too, because I love to be really surprised by a good horror flick, but the scariest movies anymore are the ones about true events going on in the world today. Made-up horror pales by comparison.

I have always thought that psychological thrillers with cops hunting down serial killers were a lot scarier than any physical blood-and-guts in your face horror. "Silence of the Lambs" is my favorite in that genre. But the visual/special effects horror flicks ended for me after the first couple of "Halloween" movies, or maybe the original "Nightmare on Elm Street". Those were pretty original when they first came out. But there's just nothing left for the imagination after that.

Actually, something does come to mind. I thought the first "Saw" movie had a pretty unique and original concept. But it is probably the only recent horror flick that I really enjoyed. Maybe because it had the strong cop aspect too? And the remakes of the old horror movies - "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" for one - can be pretty good, but only because the originals were such classics that it's good to see them again in a new light. But they still aren't SCARY any more, you already know what's gonna happen.

The thrill is GONE, baby...

Answer 2

Horror films are no longer scary because the emphasis is now strictly on sadistic torture, blood and gore, and visual effects. None of which are the least bit frightning (only sick, and dumb).

The greatest horror films of all time were made in the 1960's and 1970's, by directors like Hitchcock, Polanski, Friedkin, Romero, Ridley Scott, and many others.
Stanley Kubricks "The Shining" in 1980 was the last truly terrifying film ever made in my opinion.

As far as more recent films, I did like Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later" (2002), as well as a foreign film called "The Devil's Backbone" (2001).

I don't really consider "The Silence of the Lambs" (1990), "Se7en" (1995), and the foreign film "The Vanishing" (1988) to be horror films in the traditional sense, but they were all very disturbing, creditable, and extremely unpleasant (without having to resort to large amounts of blood and gore, and special effects).

Answer 3

because nowadays they use special effects to try to create a scary feeling and dont concentrate enough on the storyline. In the past they didnt have the technology for very good special effects so to really scare people, they needed a story that would affect people psychologically, rather than visually.
People have seen so many horror/ murder/ gore fests on tv they become immune, but if something get to you psychologically, you think about it and cant get it out of your head and thats what scares you.
For some good films that do that in my opinion, i would say have a look at Rosemarys baby, the wicker man, the omen (original version), hills have eyes original version is pretty good too i thought.

Answer 4

I honestly think that that the producers are running out of ideas. Honestly, how many times can Jason, Freddy, and Micheal Meyers come back to life after being Shot, drowned, hung, burned, blown up etc. I think that is why they are remaking some of the older scary movies like the Omen



I have not seen many of the newer scary movies, the last scary movie I saw was The Ring (I think that is what it is called). So, I just think that the producers are running out of ideas.

Answer 5

Because most movies that are made from games are so much like them that they leave almost nothing to the imagination. If you want a really scary movie watch the old black and white movies with Vincent Price in them or the 1968 version of The Night of the Living Dead

Answer 6

We are more sophisticated now.

When the movie King Kong first came out ('39?) they had a scene with Giant Spiders! that so freaked out the audience they'd not shut up and watch the rest of the movie.
The scene had to be cut.

Today, we'd enjoy some Giant Spiders, I think.

Answer 7

Majority of movies suck...but I agree scary movies have gotten especially bad. I didn't get scared at Hills have Eyes tho.

Answer 8

It's cus the movie industry set normal standards for horror flicks that they must follow certain things to get tthe rating the big wigs want so they can show it to kids. That way they can get the maxium money for what they put up for the movie being made.They have to dumb it down for kids.

Check out Hostel for a really gory kick azz movie.

Answer 9

ok, your first hint should have been, that silent hill, is based on a game...and unless you have played it, and beaten the game, you wouldn't quite get the point to the movie,....or perhaps you should have seen it with your boyfriend....

Answer 10

I think it's because they keep repeating storylines or combining them in ways they think will scare us, but it either just leaves us confused, or amuses us.