Too Many Teenagers In Horror Movies

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I think there are far too many teenagers now in horror movies. Their antics of bonking in the wooRAB and superfulus swearing and generally stupid behaviour have really ruined the horror genre.

I long for the days when horror movies were made seriously, with good plots and brilliant actors, like Karloff and Cushing and Lee.

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I agree,and it's an annoying cliche that was so perfectly sent up in Scream,13 years back.But it's been this way for years and obviously falls in line with what the marketing men suggest,because the majority of the cinema audience,are either young or male.

It maybe goes back to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Black Christmas,but If truth be told,it goes back to the B movies of the 1950's.Halloween and Friday the 13th kick started this into the modern era,due to being very popular among teenagers in the late 70's and early 80's.

Either way,it's all fairly irrelevant because out of 100's horror movies,you'll find a gem like The Exorcist or Psycho.Hollywood being run more and more by marketing men,coupled with horror being so cliched,and directors being told more than ever what to do,makes the chance of finding a good horror even more difficult.Especially one that doesn't feature a dozen 25 year olRAB playing 16/17 year olRAB:p

I do find it ironic how the Saw franchise,despite featuring few actors under 30,has become probably the biggest grossing horror series in history,having a huge teen following.It goes against what Hollywood has been doing for decades.
 
You have to remember they may be playing teens, but alot of them are older lol.

There are some good horrors that aren't teen centric like paranormal activity and the saw series as mentioned above. Slasher style pics are really aimed at that audience so have teens in them so the aimed at audiance relates.

I think that if the story, script, acting and direction is good then they can be just as entertaining.
 
That is a ridiculous statement to make! You must be one of these who love teenagers in horrors, and obviously have never seen the true horror classics!
 
Saw a trailer for The Wolfman starring Benicio Del Toro yesterday. I'm not sure whether this will strictly be a horror, but it certainly seemed more old school. Has Anthony Hopkins in as a starring role as well and Emily Blunt, so a pretty credible cast for the genre.
 
well bloody valentine was the best slasher movie in a long while and the characters were all based in there late 20s early 30s.
the main chick was married and had a kid!
 
Teenagers are mostly annoying, teenagers mostly get slaughtered, what's the problem, there's no bad here :confused:

Fake tits do my head in though, if you're going to have a film full of teenagers getting chopped up and shaging about, make sure they don't look like 30 year old porn stars!

Seriously if you can't find horror without teenagers then you're going wrong some place.
 
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