I totally agree with you on this one. horror movies are my favorite, but they just don't make them like they used to. and yes, finally someone agrees with me about "the abandoned" I thought it was horrible and I had had such high hopes for it.
the only movies that ever scared me, even as a child. were
the changeling
burnt offerings
the shining
pet semetary
carrie
don't go to sleep
witchboard
I've seen all of these somewhat recently. and the only one that still holds up, to this day, is "the changeling". that's my favorite horror movie. I highly recommend it to you, but it's from the 80s , so not recent for you. but give it a chance
oh, 3 that I liked that were somewhat decent from the past decade.......
the descent
high tension
the messengers
2007-09-10 12:12:35
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answered by mama2yanna 4
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1st person is right.
While you get older, you realize that ALL horror movies are unrealistic. Now, you answered on the last question I answered on, so you know i'm 17. Even I don't really like the new horror movies. They are ALOT more comical than they are scary. The first Saw was pretty good, but not scary, just a little suspensful. Also, why do these movies not have ANY plot to them?! I mean really, Halloween (the original), was very scary and had a plot to it. I also think it's just because the world does so much stuff on it's own, that it's hard to scare ourselves anymore. People have seen SO much, it's damn near impossible to be scared.
70's-80's era horror is the best
Halloween
Friday The 13th
Nightmare On Elm Street
The Shining <--- That is my FAVORITE!
That is where the horror is at!
2007-09-10 10:27:07
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answered by chelsea.lane 3
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every scary thing has already been done. Plus directors seem to think that if gore is in your face that's scary, but the real scare come from having it off camera and letting you imagine the scary part. There is also the aspect that movies confuse violence and graphic with scary. After seeing a thousand bloody arm stumps, its pretty hard to get scared by number 1001. In Mad Max there is a scene where the little kid gets run over. The shots go back and forth between the biker and the kid, getting closer and shorter with each shot, suddenly there is the motorcycle zooming away and the kids ball bouncing down the road. You never see the kid got hit, never see any blood, but you know he got it. That is more intense than any Wes Craven or Rob Zombie scene ever.
2007-09-10 10:30:13
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answered by Jumpin' Catfish 2
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It became too easy to just use special effects and gore to fill the 90 or so minutes of movie time. Not many movies are made with care what is in the script. It takes skill to write a script that is actually suspensful and frightening.
One movie that I watched that was pretty good was "Mute Witness". Well, the first 30 minutes of it was pretty good. It had a real Hitchcock feel about it. A woman who is mute is trapped inside a movie studio with two men who she accidentally saw making a snuff film. They don't know she is there and she is trying to find a way out before they do find her. Later the movie turns pretty bad but the first part was very good. I was disappointed in how the story turned.
I know some people think that "Blair Witch Project" was scary. It gave me motion sickness first of all and second it was just plain stupid. All of the holes in the plot were horrible and the actions of the characters were idiotic and even with all of that it was still not even close to scary (except for the thought of what I paid to see it). I remember one critic came and said that by the end he was rooting for the witch.
2007-09-10 10:23:02
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answered by A.Mercer 7
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A lot of the best ideas have already been used so script writers are probably having a hard time coming up with something scary, which is probably why there have been such a slew of non-scary remakes. The Descent was supposed to be terrifying, but my friends and I thought it was dumb. I guess with the more horror you see, the more desensitized to it you become. Oh how I long for the time when I first watched Hellraiser, The Evil Dead, Halloween...
The best I've seen from the 2000s is probably High Tension. It is pretty gory, and the soundtrack is downright chilling.
2007-09-10 10:23:07
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answered by braveswin13 2
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high quality recent horror movies? Those do not exist (personally I still think the Exorcist ,Rosemary's Baby, and the Shining are the scariest movies I have ever seen) but, some VERY good thrillers have been made. I would recommend checking out recent film called Hard Candy (dealing with the horror of this generation; pedophilia)...
Modern horror movie makers seem to think that a Snuff movie is scary...It is just perverted.
2007-09-10 10:23:23
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answered by Anonymous
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It's because now a days no one is original anymore. Either they want to remake a movie or do a movie with the same plot/storyline that has been done many times. Plus movies now a days are more about CGI effects, blood/gore compared to movies from the past. Example: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) has very minimal blood to achieve freight. It's the combination of the acting, atmosphere and storyline that is scary. I mean, HELLO? A chainsaw weilding maniac hacking your boyfriend to death in front of you, while you hang around on a meat hook and watch? You would probably die from a heartattack before leatherface got a chance to use the chainsaw on you. Also, Compare John Carpenter's Halloween and Rob Zombie's Halloween. Same scenario, two totally different movies. John Carpenter achieved freight by relying on the acting and a story about a young kid, raised in the suburbs, who decides one day to hack his sister death. The motive? NONE. Blood/Gore? Minimal/Non Existent. Scary? Yes. Now, Rob took the same storyline, instead this young kid, is raised in a hostile environment full of abuse, ridiculed by his sister and step dad. He slaughter's animals in his spare time and is a victim of school bullying. Motive? I think it's clear. Blood/Gore? A 20 on a scale of 1 to 10. Cliche? Most definitely and completely unoriginal. Movies now a days, people use blood/gore/torture/cgi to make up for the horrible acting and bad storyline.
2016-04-04 00:47:39
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answered by ? 4
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I think this happens if you have already watched too many horror movies, after that you feel that the movies are just a like, the same idea, same mistakes, most of the horror movies have the same plot of events, for example: most people get killed while they are having sex, or if they heard some weird noise and kept following it foolishly without any backup plan or weapon ....
Try to watch "Silent hill" though, it's based on the game Silent Hill which is really nice to play ... and the movie is really well directed and plotted ... and there is an old movie, it's called " Ginger Snaps 1" .. it's really nice ... try downloading it or renting it ... it's really interesting
2007-09-10 10:25:42
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answered by Luay14 6
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Agreed. These days horror is going for gorey porno than for scares. I thought Saw 1 and Hostel 2 was good but otherwise I haven't seen any recent horror flicks worth watching.
2007-09-10 10:53:00
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answered by bethany7519 4
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Because producers and directors are makeing remakes and useing the same old stuff over and over. When truly good and original idea surfaces it gets ruined by being commercialized. Dead Silence is has a very original and cool premise as far as everything going silent when the action happens, but it was ruined by to much plot and to many twists.
2007-09-10 10:24:54
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answered by Anonymous
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