There are downsides I can think of to horror movie watching. When you watch too many and suddenly the movies mix together somewhere down the the line. I watched a movie the other day and kept waiting for these people to be trapped in a farmhouse.
They never went near a farmhouse. Sometimes you confuse name titles or just plain forget. And don't get me started on remakes. Do you realize how many Turn of the Screw versions there are? I think like 8.
I hate to say there is absolutely no originality left in movies. But some movies are just too alike. While I love asian horror movies, my mother is beginning to think all asian ghosts have long hair. And I won't even get started on slashers. The only slasher movie I ever saw that I couldn't figure out the end was Cutting Class and that was because it kept switching suspicious people back and forth.
Various tastes of horror all have a formula. Which is probably where originality ran to. I'm waitng for a revolutionary director to kill the cliches. I mean in real life does your car stop working, cell phone battery die, flash light die, leg break, and I won't even begin on pointless sex scenes taking up a half hour of screen time.
Which bring us to movie sex. In certain aspects, doses, and situations, go ahead. In movies like Bad Biology, sex is a given and doesn't come off as too much because it's too much to start with. And the places they have sex. . . I'm a virgin, but I know I'll never get it on in a cave or abandoned hospital or after someone is killing off most of my friends. At least not in the context they put it in. I won't go into the pointlessly long shower scenes. (Except for where's the naked guys? Not that I care, but guys need to shower too.)
Mythology isn't properly represented in horror movies usually. I mean the Sci Fi Channel (not SyFy) really helps out with that kind of stuff, but mainstream hollywood should have a better grasp on that. I mean if you're just vomitting out remakes and 3-Ding everything, branch out.
Anyway I saw a decent ghost story recently. The Awakening (2011) And I'm liking the demon Azazel. He pops up a lot.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Fear
Horror movies are meant to inspire fear, but now a days it's getting harder to do. I mean some movies don't bring immediate fear. Sometimes (for me) you're walking along and something reminds you of a movie and you realize you're scared.
I remember watching the Exorcist. I heard about how it was so scary and yadda yadda. I wasn't too scared. I found the movie more so vulgar then scary, but I guess it was creepy because when I left the room a sense of unease followed me. It went away after watching the parody, but while it was there, it was there.
The cheapest horrors are more of the jump scares. I mean you know it's coming and sometimes directors play it off as 'not really scary but it shows the characters unease therefore by association' bit. Half the time the jump scare gives surprise (either at the event or the loud music suddenly played) and if it is fear it does follow you (me) it's just gone.
If the storyline isn't that good to begin with, effects make the movie even crappier. (Pardon the language) Don't use frickin' CGI for everything or if you do make it look good. Slasher films have suffered the worst with this. I mean I don't expect you to use a real axe on somebody's head, but make it look more realistic! I mean some 70s/80s movies did cooler jobs. I'm not against CGI but if they use that as there only effect then yeah, it'll suck.
Effects can make a movie or show scary, but don't go overboard. I mean like with Underworld or Supernatural. Underworld was a good movie, but the vampires tend to bare their fangs too much in unnecessary situations. Not too mention when the lycan hybrid guy was transforming, his fingers snapped around way too often. I mean how many joints did he grow or relocate?
Supernatural is still my favorite horror tv show on right now, but it has gone downhill on certain aspects. While before it only scared me on select few episodes, now it doesn't. At all. The plot to what is happening now seems sloppier then before the 5th season. The focuses have turned a bit more to comedy. There aren't a lot of new monsters (I always hope to learn new things) and again they are emphasizing the effects a bit too much.
Horror that can scare people I suppose has to be more relatable. Like, in the movie theatre when I went to see The Grudge, I ended up screaming out loud. Oddly enough my fear was based on the fact that I have long hair and sometimes passing by the mirror or window I think I see someone else. And I have choked on my hair before. And almost killed myself while swimming in a pool. My hair tangled my arms and . . .
Anyway they should stop making high school horror movies. Because no one is relating to thirty year olds pretending to be high schoolers. Why are they using thirty year olds? Because if they used real teenagers, they would go to jail for child pornography. Half the time sex is overrated in a horror movie but, that is for a different rant. Any opinions/arguments welcome.
I remember watching the Exorcist. I heard about how it was so scary and yadda yadda. I wasn't too scared. I found the movie more so vulgar then scary, but I guess it was creepy because when I left the room a sense of unease followed me. It went away after watching the parody, but while it was there, it was there.
The cheapest horrors are more of the jump scares. I mean you know it's coming and sometimes directors play it off as 'not really scary but it shows the characters unease therefore by association' bit. Half the time the jump scare gives surprise (either at the event or the loud music suddenly played) and if it is fear it does follow you (me) it's just gone.
If the storyline isn't that good to begin with, effects make the movie even crappier. (Pardon the language) Don't use frickin' CGI for everything or if you do make it look good. Slasher films have suffered the worst with this. I mean I don't expect you to use a real axe on somebody's head, but make it look more realistic! I mean some 70s/80s movies did cooler jobs. I'm not against CGI but if they use that as there only effect then yeah, it'll suck.
Effects can make a movie or show scary, but don't go overboard. I mean like with Underworld or Supernatural. Underworld was a good movie, but the vampires tend to bare their fangs too much in unnecessary situations. Not too mention when the lycan hybrid guy was transforming, his fingers snapped around way too often. I mean how many joints did he grow or relocate?
Supernatural is still my favorite horror tv show on right now, but it has gone downhill on certain aspects. While before it only scared me on select few episodes, now it doesn't. At all. The plot to what is happening now seems sloppier then before the 5th season. The focuses have turned a bit more to comedy. There aren't a lot of new monsters (I always hope to learn new things) and again they are emphasizing the effects a bit too much.
Horror that can scare people I suppose has to be more relatable. Like, in the movie theatre when I went to see The Grudge, I ended up screaming out loud. Oddly enough my fear was based on the fact that I have long hair and sometimes passing by the mirror or window I think I see someone else. And I have choked on my hair before. And almost killed myself while swimming in a pool. My hair tangled my arms and . . .
Anyway they should stop making high school horror movies. Because no one is relating to thirty year olds pretending to be high schoolers. Why are they using thirty year olds? Because if they used real teenagers, they would go to jail for child pornography. Half the time sex is overrated in a horror movie but, that is for a different rant. Any opinions/arguments welcome.
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