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Originally Posted by Castlewood
So, with that in mind.... what has been original lately? Hostel, Hostel II, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV... and they all have something in common: They all rely on violence, blood, and gore.
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THANK YOU. I was gonna add precisely this to the discussion, but I'm happy to see I am not alone. Hostel, Saw, etc. are a subgenre called "Torture Porn" that has been gaining popularity recently. These films are popular enough that their impact on the horror film industry is inevitable. The horror film genre IS in trouble if all we get for the next ten years is more Saw-clones. Saw has a cool concept. But plain violence is only plain violence,
not horror in the truest sense.
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WHAT THE FUCK. Think about it. By 2010, all of the icons of horror will have been introduced to new generations with painfully inferior remakes. What the fuck for? All of these films were perfectly fine the first time.
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I fucking hate this. Once in a while, like you said a good one is made, but for every "Dawn of the Dead" remake, there is ten more that should not have been made.
I also heard they are thinking of remaking Hellraiser too. The only possible way this could be good is if they don't overuse CGI and torture scenes, and if Clive Barker has a lot to do with it.
A remake of Child's Play could be good, but it probably won't be. New effects can make an old film better, but CGI is the latest craze now, and it sucks. A CGI chucky doll running around killing people would look fuckin stupid, as well as a Pinhead with CGI pins and torture wounds would look fuckin retarded.
Whatever happened to the old days, when better effects were made with puppets, makeup, prosthetics and good old fashioned elbow grease. If "The Fly", for example, were reremade today (and I have heard that idea might be in the works, god help us all), it would look like ass because everything would be CGI, and CGI looks like shit.
And please, "The Thing" is a horror classic. If Hollywood fucks this up I am going to be livid. Next to an "Alien" remake (which WILL NOT happen, as long as I am alive), this is the worst idea I have heard in a long time. But its all moot I guess. As much as I don't like seeing my beloved movies being turned into moronic remakes, you can simply choose not to see them and just watch the originals, they aren't going anywhere I suppose.
So to sum up, yes the horror film industry may be in trouble if torture porn keeps filling up theatres, crappy remakes of classics keep popping up and shitty CGI keeps being used. There are some classics being released today, someone mentioned "Bug", but there is a lot of shit being made too, a lot of which seems to be pretty influential.