When did gore replace horror?

[Onyx Oblivion]

Lately, horror movies are just gore movies.

Horror games are sometimes just gore filled action games. (Resident Evil 5 being the biggest recent example)

When did gore replace horror?

 

[LeonLethality]

Since slasher flicks started being called "horror"

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Since the first Friday the 13th.

 

[MasterKirov]

Since everyone saw Saw?

 

[GruntOwner]

Since everyone realised how much easier gore is.

 

[Nemu]

Since everyone realised how much easier gore is.

This.

Cheap FX are, well, cheaper than hiring an above-average writer to actually SCARE people.

 

[MetalGenocide]

Gore is called horror, when somebody else does it, to "you", apparently.
When a man guts a monster, the crowd goes: HELL YEAH!, but when a monster guts a man, it's "horror".

 

[achilleas.k]

YES! First thing I said when I saw the thread title was "That is an EXCELLENT question!".
I don't have an answer, I just wanted to voice (text?) my support.

Want to hear a nice little story? My first year flatmates at Uni actually used the word "scary" when watching a gore flick. It wasn't even that gory, it was bloody "Shawn of the Dead" - a horror parody. It seems this trend (hardly a trend, considering it's been done for decades) has managed to convince people that, indeed, gore == horror.

It seems "splatter flick" took over "horror", while it just used to be a subgenre and films just take the excessive blood route every time, even when there's no place for it. Either that, or they throw in a 8 year old girl ghost and somehow tie her to the plot while showing her being innocent and playful in the dark with her doll and ... you know what I'm talking about.

 

[Sephychu]

Since people forgot that horror was more than just physical nastiness. Modern audiences have basically developed a resistance to gore movies now. We need a return to the psychological horror.

 

[Ryuk2]

Since a caveman got attacked by a wolf.
Slashers and movies about killing 10000 zombies ARE horror. People are afraid to be killed, people are afraid of blood = horror.
There are more visual horror now, if that's what you mean.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

Since companies saw Saw(lulz?) and how much it made then thought, "Fuck it, why waste money on a horror film with great writers, special effects and actors when we can pump out this cheap shit with lots of gore, call it "horror" and make even more money?"

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

I classify anything that "You don't see every day...thats kinda fucked up."

 

[Sneaklemming]

What about that movie with the couple in the room and the camera n stuff... I think it was just called paranoid activity.... heh

 

[BabySinclair]

Gore is called horror, when somebody else does it, to "you", apparently.
When a man guts a monster, the crowd goes: HELL YEAH!, but when a monster guts a man, it's "horror".

And I find that racist against monsters. We need to start pushing Affirmative Monster Action to reduce this blatant negative view upon monster-kind. Are you with me? Will you stand the barricades of defiance against the years of oppressive man-led crusades against monsters? Join me, and all of history will know of our names! For the Monster M.A.S.H. (Movement Against Sociopolitical Humanism)

 

[Eatbrainz]

Since a carpenter knocked a can of red paint and it landed on the director of Friday The 13th

 

[Quad08]

Because red food coloring is really cheap nowadays?

 

[BENZOOKA]

That is not the case. I'm not a fan of either one, but I still think they are two different things.

 

[Julianking93]

Since around 1980 when Friday the 13th came out.

They can still make good horror. Just look at the movie REC.

One of the best horror movies ever made and barley any gore.

 

[RussetRanger]

We need a return to the psychological horror.

There is Anti-Christ. So, it is looking good.

I reckon shift started with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then Halloween (which is surprisingly subtle). Psychological horror is definitely the best.

 

[Sephychu]

We need a return to the psychological horror.

There is Anti-Christ. So, it is looking good.

I reckon shift started with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then Halloween (which is surprisingly subtle). Psychological horror is definitely the best.

Best of all is a good combination. The Crazies, perhaps?