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Originally posted by Haunted
I don't think our beloved genre is dead, but we do need something fresh... a new twist on a long buried theme... a new type of phantom. Shit, pull out the mythology books from around the world. There's entities in the nightmares of bygone days that could really be implemented into a great horror film(s). [/B]
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I agree with you there Haunted. I don't think the genre is dead, but the current springing up of remakes of horror films is discrediting the originals for those who haven't discovered them before. On one hand a remake is a way of alerting someone to a text that has been lost in the sands of text and so the original could gain a new appreciation. However this could also work the other way and people might not bother with the classic in favour of the more modern offering. Classic horror films that have stood the test time have often been films that pushed boundaries of the time, not just technologically but socially and this is what is needed to keep things fresh and test the boundaries of the genre.