by Dagon » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:01 pm
- Motto: "Ain't nobody got time fo dat....."
- Weapon: Null-Ray Rifle
I love horror movies, and I am a big fan of gore movies, but I agree with the dominant opinion of this thread. Lately gore has taken the place of actually horror in horror movies as well as taking the place of acting and story line. The more recent movies are all maniac by the side of the road or wandering psychopath or the SAW variety. PErsonally, SAW was brilliant because of its ending but SAW 2 was a wear ripoff and I didn't see SAW 3.
I also agree we need more monster movies. My favorite genre of film is the 50s/60s atom age drive in B movies, and nothing can beat aliens from a flying saucer suspended by string or radioactive monsters that are just spiders superimposed on the film. 'Monster' movies these days are just cruddy vehicles to showcase 30 seconds of CGI monster. For some reason THE CAVE is popping into my mind. Then, the monsters aren't even very good.
The psycho killer genre still has mileage left in its tank, but it is horribly overdone and underdone as well. All the inclusion of gore has cheapened the effect that goriness actually has on an audience, and the gore has become the star of the feature while rapidly losing its star power. In the 70s we had terribly horror movies becuase everyone stole from the Texas Chainsaw MAssacre which was itself a classic. But then we got a bunch of horror movies that spent the whole budget on red kayo syrup and powertools (TOOLBOX MURDERS anyone?) and eliminated anything that would have helped the movie along. The monsters we get are way overdone (more zombies???? Ugh.) and the stories just suck.
I saw JEEPERS CREEPERS II years ago, and towards the end when all the surviving kids run off the school bus and into the cornfield, there were like 7 or 8 people. In the final scene there's like 2 or 3 of them left. What happened to the others? There's no explaination, they were just gone. HOSTEL was inexcusably bad, just bad, an unwatchable movie not becuase of the gore but becuase it was a piss poor story with assinine characters. Wow, some college kids go to Europe and act like dicks, then they die! My favorite part of the movie was that I watched it at home, and my DVD remote features a stop button. Horror movies work becuase you develop an interest in compelling characters; you don't want that guy to get killed becuase you like the character. Todays' movies are just a list of poopy young actors who are fodder for the knife of the maniac. Lame.
Again, I'm a fan of the gory stuff. I've got Traces of Death and all that stuff. The Italian directors who are the 'gor masters' like Argento and Feluci used some gore, but their films had good stories. The gore was an accent to the film itself. That has been lost someplace.
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