New HorrorS? getting more jumpy than scary?

[massacre]

Ive noticed that the scaryer films r the older 1s like texaschain saw massacre and Friday the 13th.

New 1s like boogey man and the grudge and so on there not scary just..... jumpy in some parts and most of them are phycological!
Who agrees?

[alkytrio666]

Nice observations, Einstein.

[The_Return]

Well...


You gotta say it's probably the most intelligent thing he's said 'round here, if nothing else:rolleyes:

[EXTR3MIST]

Good point -

Modern (Hollywood) horror is tripping over itself to be "clever" - not in the knowing sense of Scream and all that other 90's shit, but manipulative instead: the makers are trying to get inside our minds...! (aargh!)

In these cynical times, it seems good old fashioned bogeymen and chainsaws are out of the window - possibly because these themes have been done to death, of course.

[massacre]

yer i see wot u meen

[horror_master]

That is ture

[ItsAlive75]

Originally posted by massacre
yer i see wot u meen

...Yer.. wot?

Are you Scandanavian?:D

[Shade]

Damn Scandanavians, coming into our forums taking over our... vowels...Anyway, it's a bit obvious it's easier to make people jump than really be terrfied. In my opinion a scary movie is a movie that FORCES you to make that running leap after turning the lights off rather than just climbing into bed like a sane person >.>;;... ::cough:: Not that I've done that...I totally haven't done that.

[ItsAlive75]

Nowadays its looking like only the indie films are the ones that have that creepy vibe all the way through. Like "Shallow Ground", not mainstream in the slightest but I thought it was damn good.

[crippler666]

The problem is...

We are no longer scared by the simple things, no longer does the vampire, werewolf or slasher scare us we have seen too many movies to scare us

The film makers have come up with the idea of using situations where we feel unsafe

When we are alone, unable to get help, responsable for others, someone has escaped from an assylum etc

Why do they make people jump rather than scare them, simple...

Throw a cat through a window... someone jumps

Now without the situation of helplessness... try and think of the last time you was really scared by the monster or killer

I look forward to a time when something does scare me... the last time i was 7, it was Michael Myers

[The_Return]

Originally posted by crippler666
The problem is...

We are no longer scared by the simple things, no longer does the vampire, werewolf or slasher scare us we have seen too many movies to scare us

The film makers have come up with the idea of using situations where we feel unsafe

When we are alone, unable to get help, responsable for others, someone has escaped from an assylum etc

Why do they make people jump rather than scare them, simple...

Throw a cat through a window... someone jumps

Now without the situation of helplessness... try and think of the last time you was really scared by the monster or killer

I look forward to a time when something does scare me... the last time i was 7, it was Michael Myers

Strangely enough, the only 2 movies that actually scared me are fairly recent. One of them is even a very good movie [and on second viewing, I laughed at myself for being scared], but the other is certainly one of the greatest horror films in a long time. In that oreder, Signs and The Blair Witch Project.

[horror_master]

There is any horror flims that can scare now or days.

[The STE]

rule of thumb, one that came to me during the trailer to They. If a critic blurb refers to it as "scarier than" something, chances are it'll (at least attempt to be) more of a tension-based psychological horror. If it says "more scares than" then it will be a jumpy, startling-based horror. So just pay more attention to what the critics say in the trailers, the wording, not the opinion.

[alkytrio666]

Originally posted by horror_master
There is any horror flims that can scare now or days.

Man, I'm sorry, I've tried but I can't understand any of your posts. None of them make sense.