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While I wouldn't exactly call it boring, I don't really find it to be that enjoyable of a watch anymore. I attribute this to the difference in film making (and quite possibly my own desensitization and a general desire for bigger, faster, stronger, etc that we're so used to in today's world.) In the past movies tended to have a fair bit of downtime. Lots of scenes that brought the tension down in order to ramp it back up again. Nowadays movies can end up going balls out from start to finish. I don't think that movie goers a couple decades ago were quite ready for a movie to be intense right from the get go and never stop until the credits rolled. For me when it comes to horror especially I don't want downtime. I want intensity from minute one and don't let me calm down and figure things out. Just assault me. I don't need a breather. I don't want time to remember that I'm sitting on my comfy couch watching a movie.
Which is why in some ways I prefer the Zombie remake. It's intense. It's brutal. Michael scares the bejeezus out of me as opposed to just kinda creeping me out in the original. In the original he's a bad ass, but he seems almost human. I get the feeling that he might just be stoppable. In the remake he's like a force of nature. A really nasty, evil force that you just cannot stop no matter what you do.
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