by Senor Hugo » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:47 am
the horror genre is dead. As much as I like Rob Zombie, I can't really consider his films horror movies, they attempt to be something that horror was.
It's the same with movies like Cloverfield, they make an attempt to get into a genre, but somewhere along the way fail miserably. Whether it be the script, how it's shot, effects used etc.
Rob Zombie's films never had a problem with script, they were pretty decent. But how the movies followed the same dark and grainy filter that every horror movie has to use since Saw came out, makes them fail.
Of course SAW is just another whole smorgasbord of horror fail. It's just Manhunt without any interactivity.
And yet people complain about their kids playing manhunt, when most of those people probably took their kids to see SAW.
The horror genre is dead.
It died right as Jason X came out, which is, if you really look at the movie, the last true horror movie(Jeepers Creepers one of the last horror movies as well, came out just before Jason X).
Corny, decent jump points, basic plot, unstoppable killing machine, boobs.
It was a movie that made fun of itself, and rightfully so.
Most "horror" movies today consist of a few things used ridiculously too many times.
- Pale Dead Asians
- Grainy film filter
- Over use of the color brown
- Making the killer 'human'
- Retardedly Realistic
Lets face it, if any of us had a ghost of a dead Asian haunting us, would that be scary? Hell no.
You know what it would be? Fun. Why? Asians love practical jokes, look at 90% of their tv shows. You talk your Asian ghost into playing a bunch of jokes on your friends and family, you know how awesome that would be? It would be awesome, to the max.
Grainy film filter - enough with it, nobody cares that the film looked like it was dragged through gravel.
Brown - Real does not equal brown
Making the killer human - Why the hell would anyone want to know that the killer feels and gets sad like the rest of us? Dude kills people in a hockey mask, Kirk Mask, or kills people with his peg-leg. He should seem as inhuman as possible, not that he's dying of cancer and he just wants to make people enjoy their lives by strapping bear-traps to their face and genitals and give them a choice, lose their balls and live, or die then lose your balls.
THe only other "horror" movies are remakes, and lets face it, since when has there ever been a remake of a movie that has been better than the original?
As for AVP:R, it was a good movie, a lot better than the first one, and a lot more accurate to the comics(which is where we get the Predator/Alien hybrid, well the comics and the video games, though lord knows why they gave it a retarded name like Predalien)
I did enjoy how they made the aliens seem like ruthless killing machines, but then made the predalien smarter than your average alien, with his stealing of picanick baskets, and the whole killing children part. The predalien making use of the pregnant lady was a bit much, but it worked, showed how the alien used it's limited resources.
Also, they never did show the babies get eaten, but if an alien invasion like that did happen, the baby-buffet would be used to feed the newly born alien troops.
Now, while I don't like realism in my horror movies, I take a different stance when it comes to Sci-fi.
If a horror movie is set on earth, normal every-day earth, with normal-everyday people, why should the killer be your normal-everyday person as well? This is why Jeepers Creepers worked, realistic up until the alien steals your body parts and opens a can of whoop-ass on a police precinct.
But with sci-fi, it's already set in an abnormal time, abnormal circumstances, so bringing as much realism to it as one can allow helps the movie attain that status of "awesome movie"
