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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
When I want to see them , I put on the original. I probably watch HALLOWEEN (JC's not RZ's) at least once a month.
But Freddy, Jason, Micheal, etc. are far from the foundations of horror. They aren't even the founding fathers of horror film - that's for Nosferatu, Frankenstein's, Der Golem etc.
Horror goes back to the cave dwellers. Fear is the most primal emotion. Horror tales are as old as written language. The Ballad of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, The Odyssey - all packed with monsters and murderers.
Horror goes back a little further than 1980. I understand liking these guys, but man has more things to fear than these four or five boogeymen and I'd like to hear some new stories.
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I am impressed with the allusion to Gilgamesh... It's not too often that we see him cited with the other legendary and classical heroes...
But anyway.
I'm here with Rod. I'm not a huge fan of horror sequels... The only horror sequels that I actually enjoyed were "28 Weeks Later" and "Aliens," and they certainly diverge from the kind of serial memisis that these Boogeymen Big Bad flicks seem to fall into. I think that to make a successful sequel, you have to BUILD from the original (Aliens, for example, built from the first by adding the Queen and the alien nesting ground... 28 Weeks Later takes place in quarantined London), but most of the above simply just take the Boogeyman and give them new stomping grounds and victims.
I love Halloween. It's my favorite scary movie. But I haven't seen a successful sequel to it. I chose, if I had to "To Choose a New Sequel Path." I might consider remaking the second film (I thought it was a BIG mistake to make it more gory and less suspenseful... and I'm not sure if we REALLY needed the Strode backstory). I honestly like the concept of the victim waking up and being in danger immediately. Too often do we see victims swept away and then we never follow their fate... I like that concept, but I would make it
better. I love Mike Myers. I could do with another
good film. So I would remake #2 (a decision I have made and stuck with over YEARS now).
But Rod's right. I'd LOVE to see new Boogeyman.
Honestly, I thought that Jeepers Creepers was incredibly underrated and successful.
Scream was well-constructed for what it was (a DEconstructionist film that functioned as a decent slasher).
I wasn't as big a fan of BEHIND THE MASK and HATCHET as Rod was, though... I feel as though they could have been so, SO much better (Mask was so incredibly smart - VERY smart... but it ultimately failed as a horror film and Hatchet was good gore, but not much else).
BUT
I recognize them for trying to create new stories and mythos. I would like to see more. HOLLYWOOD - STOP CHURNING OUT BAD ASIAN HORROR REMAKES.