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Berserker 10-16-2013 12:53 PM

I also agree with this, and I get tired of that cue being taken. Too often now you have disheveled schoolgirls having a seizure in horror movies. Evil Dead had it, it's starting to lose its appeal.

Geordie9 10-20-2013 12:47 PM

im tired of unworthy remakes of classic films!!

slaughterhouse753 10-25-2013 04:53 PM

Remakes...

Sicknero 10-26-2013 01:04 AM

I see remakes like I do cover versions in music ... some are great, some are lousy. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Barker's going to do with Hellraiser.

Me, I'm tired of superlatives in marketing ... "This is the most frightening/shocking/unexpected/scary/disturbing/ etc etc blah f'ing blah movie you will ever see!"

shadyJ 10-26-2013 06:18 PM

Once in a blue moon a remake can surpass the original. Some examples in horror:
The Blob, The Fly, The Thing, Dracula, Piranha. But, of course, there are about a dozen failures for every success.

Kandarian Demon 10-27-2013 04:00 AM

I don't mind remakes, some of them are good, and some even better than the originals... what I have a problem with is that almost every single horror movie these days is a remake.

But, to be fair, it's getting pretty hard to come up with a completely original story line. The horror universe has pretty much been explored in any thinkable way, and so any attempt of making an original horror movie will be met with complaints about how it's ripping off the Exorcist or how it's a weak immitation of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre... and definitely the usual "in the OLD days, they knew how make REAL horror movies!". So what do they do instead? They remake the old classics, since there is no competing with them anyway. Us horror fans are hard critics, and maybe in a way, we're actually getting what we asked for.

TheFext 10-28-2013 12:11 PM

I'm tired of Haunted House movies in modern horror. It's been done waaaaay to many times since like 2005. Good slashers are basiclly gone by now. I can't name one slasher that I consider a modern day classic since like 2009.

Also as many have said CGI

ChronoGrl 10-29-2013 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Sicknero (Post 959052)
I see remakes like I do cover versions in music ... some a great, some are lousy. I'm really looking forward to seeing what Barker's going to do with Hellraiser.

Good metaphor. Totally agree.

As for me, I'm a little burned out on the zombie genre.

Sicknero 10-29-2013 11:53 AM

Music ... sure there's some fantastic music in horror movies and it often adds a lot to a film, but I've seen a couple of movies lately where the impact of some potentially nasty and disturbing sequences has been ruined by OTT music and sfx.

horrorwimp 10-29-2013 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by TheFext (Post 959159)
I'm tired of Haunted House movies in modern horror. It's been done waaaaay to many times since like 2005. Good slashers are basiclly gone by now. I can't name one slasher that I consider a modern day classic since like 2009.

Also as many have said CGI

While I agree that Haunted Houses have been played out, I think the problem isn't so much the location, but more of the fact that people think the location is enough to carry an entire film and make it scary.

So many movies think placing a horror story in a quintessentially scary location is enough to make a horror film, but often the place becomes the only thing scary about it. When place/atmosphere is used right, a movie can really scare the shit out of me.

I guess i'd like to see more well-thought out location-horror as opposed to the shitty ones we've been getting for the past decade.


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