Hollywood needs to revamp the horror genre

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punk*rocker*chick

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I don't know about you, but I am tired of the Horror films that are made nowadays. If its not about zombies or vampires, its a gore shock film like Saw 17!

They need some originality to wake the genre up. We need them to create another Freddy Kruger. Even Candyman should be praised for being an original monster.

I hope someone can create a new horror character soon.

Chris Cunningham should arise from his stupor and make something. Watch his Come to Daddy music video..... terrifying.
 
Jigsaw is a great movie villain.
In fact,it's actually tricky to work out whether he's the monster or the hero! He's certainly complex,but is he evil?

However,I do know what you mean.The majority of the great horror movies from the past 40 years were usually made by indie film makers,often influenced by european directors.The only things influencing these modern horror directors is money.

It comes a sad day,when Eli Roth and Rob Zombie are the two most noted horror movie directors in Hollywood!
 
Just look outside of Hollywood, and explore other countries, they are making some very good horror films. The Orphanage for example, from Spain. Oh, it's getting an American remake. And Let The Right One In, from Sweden, its American remake currently in production.
 
But creating another killer/slasher/onster isn't revamping the genre it's just redoing what has been done over and over again.
It was Saw and the films like that which actually revitalised the genre as ir wasn't the standard being chased by bad guy, posessed by something evil etc.

Eather than create anoer Freddy-esqe creation it would be more refreshing if they went back to less blood and gore and a lot more suspense and psychological horror.
When you look at a film like The Exorcist very little actually happens. Revolving head, vomiting, levitation, flickering lights and fog/mist.
In Psycho nothing really happens. Less is actually more, the fear you have is in your head. IMO the reason people lose interest in horror films is boredom of seeing the same thing over and over again. A person's flesh getting torn all looks the same. A head getting decapitated looks the same.
Nothing happens in The Blair Witch Project. It worked for so many as their mind let them imagine what was causing it. Add that to making people jump and you have a hit film.
 
'Ultraviolet' you took the worRAB right out of my mouth. If you want decent horror these days look to Spain, France, Sweden and Asia.

I cant even remember the last time I watched a decent horror flik from the US. IMO the end of the 1970's meant the end of 'Hollywood Horror'.
 
I always laugh at these threaRAB. People harking back to the past and acting like horror was so much better then, when in reality the genre has never really changed that much, endless amounts of crap (which when it comes to horror can be quite entertaining in itself) with a small percentage of good movies and the odd classic.

Horror fans have never had it so good, it's a great time to be a fan, if you can't find it in Hollywood and they still do produce some decent stuff then look elsewhere, tonnes of good horror is coming out of Europe, Asia and Australia.
 
i belive no time was the best

theres a lot of crap back then
just as much as there is noadays

and there was a good few classics just as there is nowadays.

halloween78---and begins a slew of similer BRILLIENT/ALRIGHT/OK/CRAP movies
scream 96------and begins a slew of similer BRILLIENT/ALRIGHT/OK/CRAP movies
ring(US)02------and begins a slew of similer BRILLIENT/ALRIGHT/OK/CRAP movies
saw 2004-------and begins a slew of similer BRILLIENT/ALRIGHT/OK/CRAP movies

i loved alot of horrors from the mid 00s
hills have eyes
descent
high tension
TCM remake
silent hill
saw


i think the remake of the TEXAS was the 1st major horror to receive a big budgeted remake and that was received so well and that started the trend for all the remakes of the ones were getting now IMO
 
I think it's not so much down to a decade or style as to when the best ones were made. It's more down to how much we as people have changed. It takes a lot to scare or shock us now. The more you see the more immune or desensitised to it you get.

If you were to take the audiences that were going to see Bela Lugosi as Dracula and found that frightning and showed them Saw they would completely lose it seeing that.
There was a time when vampires were scary, now they're "kinda cool" so someone getting bitten by one is nothing.
People weren't happy with the latest version of The Wolf Man. Is it because it's a really bad movie? Or is it that we've now seen so many films of people getting savaged by various things it's lost it's impact? The story doesn't interest us, the scary bits dont scare us. The result is.... that's crap!
 
I really crave a good psychological horror. I can't remember the last one I watched. Seeing people get carved up really doesn't scare me; it's just sort of disgusting and ultimately boring.
 
I agree with rawr, they need to make more psychological horror films, rather than films made to get the occasional jump out of the audience.

Saw is a complete joke... always has, always will be (they'll release Saw 7 next... in 3D :rolleyes: )

However, Hollywood on a whole is just re-making the same old stuff time after time now. I can't remember when I seen a film of any genre which has had a single element of originality. They all follow the same old "tried and tested" formula. I am not a pretentious person, but I have recently turned to international cinema because it's a break from the norm and there's some very good films from around the world.
 
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