horror movies getting better

[Vega Demon Lord]

In the last 7 or so years, horror movies have sucks. Not all of them, but most of them. But for the past year now, they seem to be getting better, no scarrier, but better. Does anyone else agree?

[last bad move]

i do but at the same time i dont. i think latly they have been making movies more mental then scary. i think they have been trying harder to make you think. but i like what they have been doing but i cant say there better because i dont think they are all to bad before.

[Dreaming Girl]

Hmmm... What's been released in theatres in the last year? ... *thinks* 28 Days Later - pretty cool. House of the Dead - unbelievabley, mind-bendingly bad. I think it's a mixed bag. I'm glad things are moving away from the Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, ect trend but I wouldn't say horror movies are getting *better*. There's good and there's bad, as always.

[last bad move]

you cant say movies are better or worse now because allmost every bad movie that comes out there usally is a good one that comes out at the same time, its all about ballence.

[Gore fest gerb]

You will get loads of good and bad horrors don't matter what year it all depends were you look because I have looked at Jap horror and sin some brill films but with the yank films a lot have been crap with all the screamin teens again when will thay learn. I sin house of a 1000 corpes and loved it then i watched the new freddy and jason film and thought it was crap thay just don't have the felling of a good horror. Just look around and you will get good horrors.:)

[sleepaway]

I just think there's just more horror movies getting to the big screen than before - good and bad. I don't things are getting better, it's always been the same - really good movies will always go straight to video and really bad ones will get onto the big screen. The Scream clones were a bad idea but now we have the remake wagon which is bad. But it's all better than the nineties, that was a bad decade for horror in general and of course paled in compariosn to the wonderful eighties and seventies.

[Ritualistic]

I prefer 70`s horror so a lot of new movies dont interest me

[OfTheDead]

I think horror is on un upswing, but the big budget movies are still mostly shit. It's really the underground that's getting better, and foriegn movies from places like Japan, England, and France.

If nothing else, the zombie genre is having a resurgence, with DOTD 04, 28 Days, Shaun of the Dead, and others. And for us zombie freaks, that's a great thing.

Of course there's a House of the Dead for every 28 Days, so there's always bad with the good, I suppose.

[Sam The Egg]

what's the point of the MK pic?

[shiftyc2]

u cant catigorize all horror as getting better but some of the movies do have a bit more plot but heyi like movies from 7 years ago. they are mindless garbage yes but they are classics that will stay close ot my heart :LOL:

[Arioch]

I think horror is on un upswing, but the big budget movies are still mostly shit. It's really the underground that's getting better, and foriegn movies from places like Japan, England, and France.

Agreed. The only decent horror movies ive seen within the past 2 years have been from england or japan. Hollywood has quite simply run out of ideas, thus the remakes.

what's the point of the MK pic?

That confused me as well.:confused:

[sleepaway]

Originally posted by MONSTER DAD
My problem is that your big budget horrors are turning to CGI. Now that's not all bad. But the imagination of greats such as Stan Winston, Jim Henson etc is being put on the back burner. I'd hate to see that happen.

I love Jim Hensen he was amazing. I was only thinking yesterday while watching Labyrith that they just don't make movies like that anymore!!!

[Cult_King]

I think that modern horror movies give more of a sense of hopelessnes and the villians being unstopable.

[Rabidog]

i'm just glad the trend of the teen "horror" flicks ended (ie Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, etc, etc).... glad to see hollywood is starting to show a little more graphic horror.

still, it will always be in the underground where the real horror is made.

[sleepaway]

Originally posted by Rabidog
i'm just glad the trend of the teen "horror" flicks ended (ie Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, etc, etc)....


Well they sorta are still going - Rapid Heart Pictures is still produing the 'teen' type no gore horror movies with those video covers with the young good looking (apparently) cast's faces on.

[Killer Clown#1]

We have had a handful of good ones this year and a few medicore ones, but I think the reason is is because they are going back to the old formula which we all love.

[DarkwingMantis]

I think that ppl will always think things are on a downswing for the fact that for every good horror movie that comes out, hollywood will try to "Recreat the Magic" 30 or 40 times and screw up the genre. Look at Zombies. 28 Days Later. And I know Im gonna get flamed repeatedly for this but I loved the first scream, but they stomped the genre into the ground,set it on fire, Pissed on it, ate it then shit it out and pissed on it again. For every good movie, one hundred bad one will be made! But I guess thats why we hold the good ones in such high regard

[Evisceration]

The only thing that I liked about Scream was that it was something new that actually was somewhat interesting. Then the sequal came out and it made me hate the first with a passion.

And I agree, the movies that came out this year were better than any of the others release in the past 5 years or so. Even though they are remakes.

[Haunted]

I don't know about liking the remakes. I kinda like the old adage: If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I guess maybe that I'm scarred after the 90's version of NOTLD. Of course there was the remake of "The Ring," and I enjoyed that tremendously.

Hopefully this down trend will turn into something incredible. Am crossing my fingers.