Dodge_Sniper
Active Member
Get ready for a good, long rant. I wasn't sure if this should go in debate or entertainment, but please move it if needed.
With most movies I've seen come out, I've come to realize that the horror movie genre is beginning to die out. I hate to say it, but it is. Not many good horror movies are coming out these days. I'll refer back and forth to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. A very good example for a horror movie.
TCMTB is the most physically draining movie I have ever seen- I was an emotional wreck by the time it was all said and done. Call me a pussy or whatever you will, but I quivered like a little girl throughout the entire film… my heart was racing at an abnormal rate like I had just drank three Red Bulls. If you challenge me I’ll straight out call you a liar, if you claim the movie was just “funny” then I’d say you have a problem dealing with true terror. I’m a hardcore horror fanatic just like most of you and I think you need to be honest with yourselves when it’s all said and done- embrace the fact that you were actually physically beaten up by a film.
Movies these days are certainly trying to accomplish the horror status, but many are failing, or falling short. Movies like BUG, or SAW III, they did good. But stuff like The Hills Have Eyes 2, or 1408 are just desensitizing people to what horror truely is. When I saw the remake of The Hills Have Eyes in theaters, I seriously was freaking out mentally. I couldn't even begin to describe how nervous I was, before it even started! I was having regrets, and wondering if I should leave. SPOILER: The scene with Dough hiding and Pluto busting through the wall, that terrified me. I didn't expect it, at all. END SPOILER
As I explained, these refined characters added to the intensity of TCMTB, which leads me to the pinnacle of the film. The true test of how effective a horror movie is as a whole is when one of the main characters dies. Spoiler: When Chrissie witnesses first hand the death of her boyfriend Eric, I nearly broke down. As Leatherface plunges the chainsaw into his stomach Eric screams in pain, the chainsaw roars… and even Chrissie shrieks. The potency of the moment was so extreme that I can see people having to leave the theater. Hell, I almost did! End Spoiler
Movies like HOSTEL try to bill themselves off as "the most brutal film in years", but it's not true. In HOSTEL much of the terror was implied with cut away editing and great sound effects, Liebesman doesn’t shy away from anything. We see heads brutally bashed in, legs broken, arms broken, teeth knocked out, flesh peeled off, heads blown off- you name it, it’s all in there. Every scene appears to be shown in its entirety, which only makes me wonder what the hell is going on at the MPAA? TEAM AMERICA has an urination scene and gets an NC-17, a guy gets his face peeled off in TCMTB and it gets an “R”? I’ll never quite get it.
I just think that with each year coming to an end, and each new year beginning, the horror movie genre is slowly but surely dying. This year, we had a good deal of horror movies. Zodiac, Dead Silence, Catacombs, Day of the Dead, The Breed, BUG, Thr3e, Primeval, The Hitcher, The Messengers, Hannibal Rising, Open Water 2: Adrift, The Abandoned, The Number 23, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Memory, The Hills Have Eyes 2(For suspense), Grindhouse, Disturbia, Fracture, Vacancy, The Invisible, 28 Weeks Later, Hostel II, Captivity, Joshua, I Know Who Killed Me, Skinwalkers, THEM(Remake), Rob Zombie's Halloween, Hatchet, Bloodrayne 2, Resident Evil: Extinction, Return To House On Haunted Hill, 30 Days of Night, The Mist, Horrorfest 2007, and Alien vs. Predator 2: Requiem. Last year, I remember many more horror films than this though.
Thoughts? Opinions?
With most movies I've seen come out, I've come to realize that the horror movie genre is beginning to die out. I hate to say it, but it is. Not many good horror movies are coming out these days. I'll refer back and forth to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. A very good example for a horror movie.
TCMTB is the most physically draining movie I have ever seen- I was an emotional wreck by the time it was all said and done. Call me a pussy or whatever you will, but I quivered like a little girl throughout the entire film… my heart was racing at an abnormal rate like I had just drank three Red Bulls. If you challenge me I’ll straight out call you a liar, if you claim the movie was just “funny” then I’d say you have a problem dealing with true terror. I’m a hardcore horror fanatic just like most of you and I think you need to be honest with yourselves when it’s all said and done- embrace the fact that you were actually physically beaten up by a film.
Movies these days are certainly trying to accomplish the horror status, but many are failing, or falling short. Movies like BUG, or SAW III, they did good. But stuff like The Hills Have Eyes 2, or 1408 are just desensitizing people to what horror truely is. When I saw the remake of The Hills Have Eyes in theaters, I seriously was freaking out mentally. I couldn't even begin to describe how nervous I was, before it even started! I was having regrets, and wondering if I should leave. SPOILER: The scene with Dough hiding and Pluto busting through the wall, that terrified me. I didn't expect it, at all. END SPOILER
As I explained, these refined characters added to the intensity of TCMTB, which leads me to the pinnacle of the film. The true test of how effective a horror movie is as a whole is when one of the main characters dies. Spoiler: When Chrissie witnesses first hand the death of her boyfriend Eric, I nearly broke down. As Leatherface plunges the chainsaw into his stomach Eric screams in pain, the chainsaw roars… and even Chrissie shrieks. The potency of the moment was so extreme that I can see people having to leave the theater. Hell, I almost did! End Spoiler
Movies like HOSTEL try to bill themselves off as "the most brutal film in years", but it's not true. In HOSTEL much of the terror was implied with cut away editing and great sound effects, Liebesman doesn’t shy away from anything. We see heads brutally bashed in, legs broken, arms broken, teeth knocked out, flesh peeled off, heads blown off- you name it, it’s all in there. Every scene appears to be shown in its entirety, which only makes me wonder what the hell is going on at the MPAA? TEAM AMERICA has an urination scene and gets an NC-17, a guy gets his face peeled off in TCMTB and it gets an “R”? I’ll never quite get it.
I just think that with each year coming to an end, and each new year beginning, the horror movie genre is slowly but surely dying. This year, we had a good deal of horror movies. Zodiac, Dead Silence, Catacombs, Day of the Dead, The Breed, BUG, Thr3e, Primeval, The Hitcher, The Messengers, Hannibal Rising, Open Water 2: Adrift, The Abandoned, The Number 23, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Memory, The Hills Have Eyes 2(For suspense), Grindhouse, Disturbia, Fracture, Vacancy, The Invisible, 28 Weeks Later, Hostel II, Captivity, Joshua, I Know Who Killed Me, Skinwalkers, THEM(Remake), Rob Zombie's Halloween, Hatchet, Bloodrayne 2, Resident Evil: Extinction, Return To House On Haunted Hill, 30 Days of Night, The Mist, Horrorfest 2007, and Alien vs. Predator 2: Requiem. Last year, I remember many more horror films than this though.
Thoughts? Opinions?
