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I've been catching up on all my friday the 13ths lately and I've realized why so many horror movies have been all crap lately(especially the japanese ones). The music. Horror movie makers have been relying mostly on graphics and deaths lately and I think too much concentration on that and the other high tech stuff that has come out lately has left them clueless to a major contributing factor for a good horror movie. The scary ace music. Part 4 actually had me on the edge of my seat(well couch anyways) for quite a bit of the movie. If anybody else thinks this true then please post. if not then still post. But I've seen plenty of horrors lately and some have been great but wheres the music. I can't wait until they ruin these classics. Hollywood I hate you sometimes. Leave Jason, Freddy, and Micheal alone.

It's not just the music. Dumbing the movies down to get a PG-13 rating and try to draw the teen crowd has not helped. Plus there are way too many cheap thrills (loud bangs or shrieking violins just to startle the audience). That being said though, I remain a huge horror movie fan and I can't wait for Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween, if anyone can pull it off well he can.

Great point. The music is a great part of any movie, really, not just horror ones. Haha, anyone else think the 80s song during The Hills Have Eyes 2 credits was pure cheese?

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I too like horror flics. The music plays a good part for building up the atmosphere etc. I do think some Japense horror films have been better than there remade American versions i.e. The Grudge, The Ring.

I remember the days when i wouldnt touch a film because of subtitles. Now it doesnt bother me as much. Waiting on Daywatch to come out in the Uk.

I'd blame uninspired and/or poor directing for a lot of the current horror genre woes. PG-13 is a cynical move designed to bring in box office but in itself shouldn't prevent a movie from being an effective and scary film. The problem is the tendency to rely almost exclusively on doing the easy thing (rapid fire 'boo' scares, i.e., a cat jumps out of a shadow or something else you forget about seconds after it has happened) instead of doing the hard thing. The hard thing is to relentlessly build tension from scene to scene. Let's use Hitchcock as an example:

His example was of a scene where four guys are playing cards at a table. Table suddenly blows up and all four are killed. Suprising, shocking even but a cheap payoff. Now suppose you see a scene before the explosion. You see a guy come into the room, place a bomb under the table and leave. The same four guys from above come into the room, sit down, and start playing cards. The audience knows the bomb is there and the tension is elevated because the guys at the table need to get out of there. You could cut to the timer and see it ticking down, whatever, but the important thing is the tension it builds.

Like I said above though, it's a lot easier to just set off the bomb than it is to set up setting off the bomb. Throw in over-reliance on cgi (which presents monsters that are nowhere near as scary as the unseen ones lurking in my imagination) and genre saturation and you start to see why things aren't delivering the bang that they should. It will be interesting to see if Hostel 2 can be successful this weekend. The advantage of the first one was the audience not knowing what would happen in those small gray cellblocks. The advantage of the second should be in the audience knowing (and dreading) what will happen in those small gray cellblocks!

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

The best horror film I have seen in ages has to be Wolf Creek. An Australian film that's filled with all the hectic tension and freak-out scares. Find it somewhere and watch it. Here in South Africa it has been on dvd for quite a while now but I have no idea where that film is in the States. Anyways, FIND WOLF CREEK AND WATCH IT!

rpalland wrote:

The best horror film I have seen in ages has to be Wolf Creek. An Australian film that's filled with all the hectic tension and freak-out scares. Find it somewhere and watch it. Here in South Africa it has been on dvd for quite a while now but I have no idea where that film is in the States. Anyways, FIND WOLF CREEK AND WATCH IT!

Wolf Creek is one of the worst horror films in recent memory. It came out wide on Christmas Day 05 it was awful repetive and stupid bland as hell terrible acting BAD BAD FILM.

tuan69 wrote:

There's a penis-cutting scene.

Tuan god damn it that's a spoiler i am seeing it this weekend now i won't be as excited shit next alert me before you drop a spoiler like that.

Please to god tell me you're joking. How the Hell is that movie scary. That was the worst eight bucks I've ever spent. I even paid for my friend and brother to go watch that one which was even worse because we all hated it. If I ever bought that movie it would be so I could burn it or blow it up. Even Better
Hows this for a horror movie.
Guy kidnaps girl. Guy takes girl to unknown location. Guy Duct tapes girl to wooden seat filled with splinters. Intrested. Guy forces girl to watch Wolf Creek until she starves to death. Now that would be a scary movie

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

the last horror movie seen was a thai one : "Shutter" (2004) . Pretty good movie ( i rated it 8/10

. I usually laugh at horror movies but i didn't laugh at this one

Ok tuan thanks is the scene gross/gory?

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

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