Scary movies are way beyond laughable, exaggerated murder scences, obvious fake blood, hocus pocus ghost stories, or even moderatly tolerable for that matter. In the seventies Exorcist hit the scene becoming a mile marker for this type of horror. Being based on a true story it naturally made it that much more real for its viewers. The Exorcist was a very graphic and controversial film then. Today's horror is becoming harder and harder to stomach. It's putting even Stephen King to shame and that's saying something! I remember when "Misery" came out. That crazy women put that man thru hell, or at least thats what we thought. Movies are diving deeper and deeper into the psychotic and occult satanic arena in ways never presented before. Sane minds find these types of images very disturbing or at the least mind boggling. Do you think movies like Saw and/or Silent Hill are brutally sadistic and over the top (watching ppl realistically burned alive and mangled)?
2007-03-05 22:01:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The point is to cross the line. People won't be scared with the same old stuff. Scary movies needs to keep changing so that people stay scared. And when it comes to something scary, you need to keep getting bigger and crossing that line and then make a new line and then cross that one, etc.
2007-03-05 22:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by The Stig 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that scary movies crossed the line years ago. I recently worked for a movie theater and I can tell you this much. Even their primary source of earning the late teens to early 20's crowd are quitting.
I think mostly because not only are we getting bored with the same old same old. Nothing is really new about them any more. Critics have said movies like Hostel and House of a Thousand Corpses series were the scariest.
From working at a movie theater that gets an average of 2000 people a day coming through. I can tell you this was not true, because we had people walking out of those movies stating that they were extremely lame. I even tried watching them and found them dull or way to predictable.
I think that is why the horror genre is turning to the Japaneseas our animated genre did. Because they don't focus on the aspects of visuality as they to mentality. Grudge and the RIng are prime examples. Both did way better then Hostel or House of 1000 corpses in theater and in video retail.
When Bravo and A&E did their 100 scariest movies of all time 3 of the top 10 were Japanese! 2 of which were in the top 5!
I think what is happening is Hollywood is getting desperate, because people are no longer watching their films. But going to foreign films for the thrills and hence they have been the crossing the line to try and bring people back these last few years so that they can have the prestige they once lost.
2007-03-09 17:48:55 · answer #2 · answered by ladydragonstar26 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is from my favourite horror movie The Strangers. Dollface: [status at front door] hi. James Hoyt: hi. [James tries to coach on the front easy whether it won't artwork] Dollface: Is Tamara here? James Hoyt: No, you purchased the incorrect domicile. Dollface: You specific? James Hoyt: Yeah. i'm sorry. Dollface: [after an prolonged pause] so long. that is creepy because of the fact that is 4 am and he or she says so long which might make me sense a splash creeped out and that is in basic terms strange to circulate to someones domicile and ask for somebody that doesn't stay there. My favourite horror movie topic woud be Halloween 1978 movie topic and in the domicile, In A Heartbeat performed on the tip of 28 Days Later. i admire that music and it makes me decide to kill zombies, it particularly is an incredible music and that i hear to it any time i'm able to. happy Halloween!
2016-09-30 06:41:00 · answer #3 · answered by barile 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saw was entertaining, not for the blood and gore or anything, but purely for the suspense. It was a wonderful movie in that respect. Sadly, in the case of Saw 2 and 3, they just decided to focus on the blood and gore. In Saw 3, they attempted to recreate the kind of suspense that was in the first movie but in my opinion it was a very weak attempt. I wouldn't recommend that movie.
And yeah, I agree with you completely, horror movies are becoming fluff.
2007-03-05 22:15:43 · answer #4 · answered by Skitch_™ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I totally agree, they are not even entertaining, just sick, morbid and gruesom, I don't even watch them. And we wonder why there is so much sick crime going on around us, these films fill up peoples heads with sick ideas that they think is acceptable.
2007-03-05 22:06:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋