Horror.

[bruce_pullen]

Is Horror respectable any longer? That is the question. From Frankenstein (1931) to Saw 5 (2008)? Is horror a viable genre? Is it nothing more than pornography? Does hack and slash equate itself as art?

[Crim122]

Is anything respectable that comes out of hollywood? I think 1/4 is and the rest is made solely to make money and entertain.

But still as with music, if you actually look for it you will find some good shit.

[mikejet]

Someone hasn't seen .rec or Inside....

[assydingo]

For me personally... being scared as always been secondary. Horror movies appeal to me based on the dark characters and stories.

Few recent horror movies have iconic characters or interesting stories. Saw had that but lost it, especially with V.

[Lacit170]

Originally Posted by assydingo

For me personally... being scared as always been secondary. Horror movies appeal to me based on the dark characters and stories.

Few recent horror movies have iconic characters or interesting stories. Saw had that but lost it, especially with V.

yea i agree with you on that... but as for Saw... i still like em... saw 5 is setting up for saw6 and tied all the movies together... but again, im a huge fan, so i can obviously see why people dont like it etc.

[MrFilmFanatic]

Last year had some really good horror movies:

[REC]/Quarantine
The Strangers
Teeth
Inside
Frontier(s)

[Tadji Malik]

Horror is and will always be viable. As our thoughts and fears change so will horror films.

Todays horror isn't respectable because it deals with with topics that arn't politically correct. It will take decades for us to overcome our current fears and modern horror to become classics the way the 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Dracula' did. When they become respectable the horror films of the future will be called trashy and pornographic.


Three early examples:

'Frankenstien' worked because of society's fear of science and the removal of gods from our understanding of the universe. Both 'Dracula' and 'The Wolfman' dealt with ancient curses that hurt modern man like the Ameican Civil War and slavery.

'Dracula' continues to have a place in our minds because it deals with sexual predators. It's also a fight against male dominate sexual relations and calls for a sexual revolution.

'The Wolfman' comes back time to time to deal with dual personality/insanity issues, though modern shrinks have a better understanding of the mind's workings. As such I don't think there will be many werewolf horror films. Just action films.

Today people are disgusted by 'Hostel' and 'Saw', but they don't realize it stems from our fears from Abu Ghraib prison. That Americans could torture someone is so foreign to our beliefs that it weighed heavily on us. Heance soon afterwards grungy rooms with deadly instruments came on our horror screens.

The same could be said for zombie films, cannibal films, ghosts, exorcism films, space alien attack films, and atomic mutation films. All preyed on something subconsious at the time and were disdained, yet they have been retired to the classics section. And many are highly reguarded.

[HKMOVIESAREBEST]

Originally Posted by mikejet

Someone hasn't seen Inside....

I heart you..

Inside blew my mind when I saw it. Amazing film, I really need it on blu.

[opterasis]

Originally Posted by HKMOVIESAREBEST

I heart you..

Inside blew my mind when I saw it. Amazing film, I really need it on blu.

A shame that the import bluray doesn't have english subs or dub.

[PH3AR]

for me the latest best horror movie is...


The Descent...


been not so good ones since

[HKMOVIESAREBEST]

Originally Posted by opterasis

A shame that the import bluray doesn't have english subs or dub.

Tell me about it.