STOP with all the Horror Movies

[Fsiphskilm]

White Noise, AVP,

[Stephen]

Its about time they make more horror movies. The cookie cutter spoon fed candy crap that has been pumped out by Hollywood for the last few years is shameful. If you don't like horror movies, don't watch them. There making just as many as the other films...why stop others from seeing what they enjoy based on your own bias? *kicks soap box away*

[Fsiphskilm]

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[Stephen]

Like I said, if somthing comes out you hate....*cough Uwe Boll* ignore it. There is no harm in them having 50 lousy movies a year. Because behind those 50 there are gonna be a few awesome ones.

[Kat Walker]

Yes, I've been asking myself the same thing. Thanks to my horror-movie loving friend who doesn't like to go to the theater alone, I've gotten free tickets to just about all of the above. Movies work in trends -- whatever genre seems to be cashing in the most at the time will spawn a bandwagon movement. Just look at all the comic book/superhero movies that started coming out after Marvel's success with the X-men and Spiderman franchises. They're probably even bigger this season than the horror movie craze, IMO.

But I think once Chuckie 4 comes out, this whole fervor will die down significantly. Once the blatant sequel cash-ins start to clog the screens, audiences are going to get sick of it and move in a new direction.

[Fsiphskilm]

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[Stephen]

According to you. Not everyone enjoys the same stuff Volt. Personaly, on your list of "ruined" films, quite a few I either have seen in theaters, and own on dvd, or plan on seeing in theaters. Saw was awesome. Re2 was heads and shoulders above Re1. The Village was fun...not really a horror flick..but good. AvP while I was disapointed that it was censored to heck...I still enjoyed it. And I am going to see Boogyman Tuesday. How many of these films have you yourself seen? Because to be blunt, if you have not seen them...you really have no right to bash them. As I said, people have different taste...so if you don't like somthing, don't support it. The way the movie industry goes things will be different in a few weeks. Try not to spend all the time running stuff into the ground...spend that time looking for stuff you like.

[Fsiphskilm]

*sigh*

[Stephen]

Well also take into consideration that about half your list are either sci-fi or suspence. Not all are straight up horror. As for horror films coming out, the only 2 I am intersted in are High Tension, and Devils Rejects. High Tension is already out in Europe and I hear from many people its amazing. So I am excited about that...and with Devils Rejects...its the sequal to House of a thousand corpses. Rob Zombie is an up and coming horror director...House rocked majorly....and all the early sneak preview fanboys who got early showings of Devils Rejects are saying its amazing. Fear not Volt, there are good movies coming this year...

[Arnobius]

The only plus side I see to the horror movie boost is that when they remake the Japanese ones (Ringu, Ju-on etc), they usually release the originals on DVD as a promotion for the remake.

Unfortunately, the typical horror movie just seems to be more gore than horror, with lots of Roman numerals after the title.

Of course, I'm old fashioned and think that the last good horror movie to come out was the original Alien...

[Fsiphskilm]

Almost forg

[Arnobius]

<----------------------------------regarding Alien------------------------->
I never understood why people liked Alien more than Aliens (2), i mean in the original, there was only 1 alien and they never really showed the whole thing, when they did, it looked rather fake, like a guy in a costume sitting on a wheel chair which isn't shown.

They only showed a few parts of the alien, never really the WHOLE thing. The movie consisted of Sigourney Weaver running back and forth in the space ship during the "self distruct Rave" with a cat inside a cage.

When I say Self Destruct Rave, i mean RAVE complete with Steam and fog, sweaty Sigourney Weaver, and SO MUCH strobe light Action it'd make Paul OakenFold have a Ceisure. Not to mension the "Jiggly Panties" scene. Thus the Self Destruct Rave is now complete. All they needed was techno music.

Well, being made in about 1979, it predated raves by a fair amount.
What made the movie work for me was the atmosphere. The people in that movie did a good job in creating plausible reasons for doing the things that are standard horror cliches (Don't go in there!). You think you're seeing a SF movie and see the chara do their typcal sci-fi activity... and get killed because of it.

Given the age of the movie, the costuming and SFX may have seemed cheap compared to more recent movies, but at the time, it was considered pretty good. I know personally this movie was the only horror film to freak out a room full of my fellow college students watching it on a cheap 17" TV in broad daylight.

ALiens (second) was OK, but it was just building ground on an original work, with nothing new to add. Instead of a single undefeatable monster, that you had to outthink to survive, you add a squad of marines and watch what looks like the inspiration for the Doom video game. I personally thought it was more violence than horror. The remaining movies simply were cheapening the original.

There's not much new in the horror film business though, since recently it just seems to be the remakes...

[Street]

there have always been a HUGE number of horror releases. HORROR releases always sell decent. It's just most horror movies go straight to video.

[dragonshimmer]

I like horror movies. In fact, I like horror movies a LOT. Besides anime and a few comedies and operas here and there, horror movies are the only things I like. No, not all of them are incredibly awesome, leaving something to be desired....but I like good scares. ^_^ But then, if everyone were the same with the same tastes, we would all be boring to each other.

[Fsiphskilm]

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[Saint Kevin]

<<Spend time looking for what you like<<
we've always done that, and in the end unless we complain and start a riot in front of a movie studio, these guys aren't going to take a hint.

Nah, I have to agree with Shatterheart here. The bottom line in Hollywood is the bottom line. It's not whether fans/moviegoers complain, it's whether or not they actually patronize the film (especially in theatres). If half of the Star Wars fans that I hear complaining all the time JUST DIDN'T GO to the next movie in the theatre, maybe George Lucas would get a clue. Same goes for horror films. I don't like horror films personally, which is why the last one I saw in theatres (only due to my cousin's pressure) was Halloween H20. So there you go, put your money where your mouth is, and just hope others will do likewise.

[Hitokiri]

ummm...The Village isn't a horror movie but a love story. Maybe a bit of both but more so a love story (I'm a huge M. Night Shylamalan fan).

As for horror movies, I never see them cause I'm a scardy cat (yes I admit it). I found Neverending Story absoutely frightening as a child and Signs made me sleep with my light on, a baseball bat and a glass of water and that was a few years ago. I was terribly scared of Star Wars and was afraid Darth Vador would come into my room and kill me.

I dislike being scarred and therefore...don't like horror movies.

[bigsleepj]

*sigh* James Cameron... where are you!

Currently he's producing the movie "Battle Angel" based on the Manga. Its budgeted for (GASP!!!) 200 000 000 dollars, the same budget at TITANIC!!!!! He's GONE MAD!!! MAD, I TELL YA!!!

Battle Angel is set for a 2007 release.

[ShiroiHikari]

I had kinda noticed the recent horror trend as well. but that's all it really is, a trend. society is, was, and probably always will be trendy. look at fashion for crying out loud. people should remember the saying "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"; in other words, some trends should NOT EVER come back *cough80sfashioncough*

ahem. that was slightly offtopic.

anyway, I haven't been truly sleep-with-the-light-on scared by a movie since I was about 10 or 11 years old. that movie was Poltergeist and it screwed me up pretty bad. I had nightmares for a month and was afraid of turned-off TVs or TVs with snow on them. >_<

but after that, nothing really scares me anymore. The Ring? not scary. Sixth Sense? not scary (but very good). and so on. I'm eventually gonna see some of these recent movies because I want to see if they'll scare me. XD

hey, I liked Alien. that was a good movie. and I didn't think it looked cheap...it's supposed to be scarier if you can't see what the enemy looks like, which I thought they did a pretty good job with. the second movie was pretty good too, not really scary but entertaining (with such classic dialogue as "game over, man! game over!"). after that, bleh. let it rest, already.

[ShiroiHikari]

I had kinda noticed the recent horror trend as well. but that's all it really is, a trend. society is, was, and probably always will be trendy. look at fashion for crying out loud. people should remember the saying "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"; in other words, some trends should NOT EVER come back *cough80sfashioncough*

ahem. that was slightly offtopic.

anyway, I haven't been truly sleep-with-the-light-on scared by a movie since I was about 10 or 11 years old. that movie was Poltergeist and it screwed me up pretty bad. I had nightmares for a month and was afraid of turned-off TVs or TVs with snow on them. >_<

but after that, nothing really scares me anymore. The Ring? not scary. Sixth Sense? not scary (but very good). and so on. I'm eventually gonna see some of these recent movies because I want to see if they'll scare me. XD

hey, I liked Alien. that was a good movie. and I didn't think it looked cheap...it's supposed to be scarier if you can't see what the enemy looks like, which I thought they did a pretty good job with. the second movie was pretty good too, not really scary but entertaining (with such classic dialogue as "game over, man! game over!"). after that, bleh. let it rest, already.

[ShiroiHikari]

I had kinda noticed the recent horror trend as well. but that's all it really is, a trend. society is, was, and probably always will be trendy. look at fashion for crying out loud. people should remember the saying "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"; in other words, some trends should NOT EVER come back *cough80sfashioncough*

ahem. that was slightly offtopic.

anyway, I haven't been truly sleep-with-the-light-on scared by a movie since I was about 10 or 11 years old. that movie was Poltergeist and it screwed me up pretty bad. I had nightmares for a month and was afraid of turned-off TVs or TVs with snow on them. >_<

but after that, nothing really scares me anymore. The Ring? not scary. Sixth Sense? not scary (but very good). and so on. I'm eventually gonna see some of these recent movies because I want to see if they'll scare me. XD

hey, I liked Alien. that was a good movie. and I didn't think it looked cheap...it's supposed to be scarier if you can't see what the enemy looks like, which I thought they did a pretty good job with. the second movie was pretty good too, not really scary but entertaining (with such classic dialogue as "game over, man! game over!"). after that, bleh. let it rest, already.

[indyrocker]

good horor movies rock but the sosological resone why they are making more now is beacuse when in times of war more horor movies are made so that people can live out there fears safly and move on woth their lives.

[The Shadow]

Matthew 18:18 I tell you this: Whatever you prohibit on earth is prohibited in heavein, and whatever you allow on earth is allowed in heaven.

personally i see no point in horror movies for i would not allow horror movies in heaven and im sure that it promotes no christian behaviour or beiliefs. I can not see Jesus supporting horror movies
filled with stanic symbolysm???

but hay then agian the end of the world is near and the eyes of christians are being drawn away from the truth......

rise against me if u want but
but i would challenge you to see if ure doing what Jesus would do
and see Matthew 18:10

love you all

[Stephen]

Christians like you are a trip. Do you know what the term self-righteous means? Look into it. I hope you don't watch secular tv, listen to secular music...or ever ever go to evil secular movies...because as we all know..that sends you to hell too. Whatever happend to personal conviction?

top three have to be......

1 The last samurai
2 Matrix trillogy
3 lord of the rings trillogy

Does that look familar? You wrote that on a movie board a while back. Will there be R-rated Matrix films in heaven? Oh, I see...as long as you like the film..its ok to contain questionable content.

[Mave]

Do horror movies contain satanic symbolism all the time? Seems like a sweeping statement.

Anyway, doesn't horror have subgroups as well, (ex. Sci-fi = Aliens/Predator, Supernatural = The Sixth Sense, 'plain good old gore' <-- ok I couldn't find a better word for it Nightmare in Elm Street?, IT? Chucky?, evil monsters = Anaconda, eh...Lord of the Flies? Critters, Gremlins) ok that's about all I know about horror

I get frightened easily >_<;;; so I skip the horror genre whenever I can. However, I think Aliens and The Sixth Sense were excellent movies. XD;;;; Even if they freaked me out good.

[Fsiphskilm]

I can see [b]The Sh

[Rocketshipper]

I love horror movies and I'm glad that hollywood is trying to make lots more, but I agree that they should work more on quality than quantity. The trend i've seen recently is that hollywood is trying to capatalize on the sucess of "The Ring" by churning out lots of watered down PG-13 horror movies. Darkness, Cursed, and Boogeyman should be released in their original forms, not edited down JUST so hollywood can make more money by increasing the amount of people who can get in. Whatever happened to integrity in the storytelling!?

[Fsiphskilm]

rocketshipper

[Mi-Ru-Me]

Ok every one It deals with convictions and superstitions wether you injoy or are scared of horrer films.

I believe horrer films are boring and wothless. Dont crucify me on this I just do.

Now things that keep me on the edge of my seat are suspence thrillers yet most of those shows are also boring.

Now one last thing I have been anoyed at all the clutter of horrer films out there but let people watch what they want since they are wasting the money to see it. BUT PLEASE QUITE THE 1 TO 2 WORD TITLES WHATS WITH THAT i MEAN REALLY THE RING THE GRUDGE SAW BOOGIEMAN WHITE NOISE DANG IT STOP STEALING CONCEPTS FROM OTHER HORRER FILMS I MEAN I COULD SEE A COUPLE BUT EVERY ONE OF THEM. oh and Resedent evil 2 and alone in the dark wouldnt those go more in the movie based on video game section then horror. And last but not least its not that I really hate horror movies but they use bad language for everyother word sometimes and any movy that throughs enouph f bombs I tend not to enjoy.

[Fsiphskilm]

Well i