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Originally posted by billbundix
i believe there are several reasons why horror movies arent scary anymore. i will try to list some of them in no particular order. first, we arent kids anymore. in this day and age of technilogocal advances, we have lost our ability to suspend our disbelief. we know whats on mars, for heavens sake, why would we be afraid of whats under our bed. second, we have been pounded repeatedly with endless gore, redundant movie plots, and sequels. i mean after a while you start to catch on. the same goes for fx. some of them are so good that they show too much. i start watching them. finally i think we have confused shock with horror.let me explain. lets say you take your family to the texas chainsaw massacre. three quarters of the way through the movie a man with a mask and a chainsaw comes busting through the door. it would shock the devil out of you but if you didnt run out you would soon relize that it was just a jerk with a mask. on the other hand if you go into the same movie with your family and 3/4 of the way through it it became pitch black and when the lights come back up your family is gone. that would be horror. and its hard to get that kind of effect while spending millions of dollars on fx.
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I have to disagree with this to a point. I know most of us on this forum are not really scared of horror movies(just certain things freak us out) BUT I have meet people that are deathly scared of horror movies and refuse not to watch them, and all of them are aduts. So there is people out there that are scared of them.