Why keep making horror films?

[Sane Man]

Because of one industry:

The Man Can Act Brave With No Repercussions To Girl Who Exaggerates Her Fear Of The Movie

I mean this is an incredibly important industry, as we must be able to put guys into the positions of saying "Oh, I'd totally just kill that guy, what's the big deal?" or "I guarantee you I wouldn't of been killed THAT easily".

But on a serious note, horror movies are few and far between nowadays. I feel the need to call them something else because it seems the point isn't to elicit fear, but revulsion. The Saw movies for instance, there is no horror involved in those movies. Anyone who actually liked it may want to ask their sexual partner if they'd be willing to try BDSM, because that is all those movies are.

Real horror movies actually take fear with you out of the theater, and the only ones that have been doing that lately are psychological horror movies.

Although I am biased, and love psychological horror movies, but that is my take. I am just tired of the blood and guts formula. More Blood + More Guts = More Scary just isn't true.

Examples I would say are The Machinist, Jacob's Ladder, The Jacket, American Psycho to just name a few of what I mean.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

If we are discussing formulaic movies, you could ask why people bother to make any movies at all.

 

[Kiutu]

Why keep making anything if thats how you view it?

 

[dalek sec]

A group of psychotic clowns that kill people using lawn mowers and gardening tools? You bet your ass

This needs to be made just for the hell of it.

 

[icey141]

Because people get a rush from being scared

 

[sms_117b]

Understand that one perfectly- they have pretty much abused every single way someone can die (without going into X-rated stuff). Horror films have pretty much abused every which way an evil sentient spirit can close out a life.

I beg to differ on one point, Event Horizons original crew death scenes were likened to a "giant blood filled orgy" admittedly they were only flashes, but they were there. Although it left most of the cast feeling rather ill and stressed.

Although horror films nowadays tend to be how much blood and shock can we throw at you, occasionally there is a gem which genuinely scares you half to death.

I am not sure what you mean by "original"...was the scene edited in the director's cut?
I thought Event Horizon was a great concept...but not enough solid delivery on the whole- I thought that the ship driving people mad should have been just a little more subtle (subtle in this instance did not mean "tasteful"). I would have wished that there had been more time between when they arrive and the freaky shit starts, and when they actually see and hear what happened to the crew (the ship could have hidden it better).

Original being the crew that was on the event horizon as the passed through the first (test) wormhole. The scene was extended slightly in the directors cut, lots of flashes of stills interlaced into a video of a crew sized blood filled orgy, I think it was a ship induced vision by one of the salvagers. I can't remember fully, but I think the black boxed also played back part of the scene as well.

My opinion this is still one of the scariest films I've seen, at 13 my family slept in the living room after wards, at 21 i had to turn the lights on

 

[Micah Weil]

Eh...depends on what your definition of horror really is. I don't count many "horror" movies as such anymore; they're closer to suspense and thrillers or monster movies akin to Godzilla with bigger budgets.

Huh...perhaps I'm just a freak, but I find nothing more terrifying than the effect that Twilight has had on the local population and how much I really want a shotgun right now...

 

[toastmaster2k8]

I do like the middle parts of horror films(sometimes) but I was more on the endings of horror films. Because the endings are what make me walk out of the movie theater before it even ends.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I want to make a horror movie where the main character is a serial-killer who murders serial-killers.

It'd have all the victims trying to carry out all of the cliches of every other horror film and dying before they can finish them.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

I want to make a horror movie where the main character is a serial-killer who murders serial-killers.

it's a book and tv series called Dexter

as for the topic, as was said before all movies are rather predictable. as for good horror, i'd say actually stay out of the mainstream or at least got a bit under it's radar. there is some awesome horror films out there

 

[nolph fooz]

because we keep enjoying the way people get eaten by other people

Long live Saw

 

[CapnGod]

CapnGod... Arlington Road isn't horror, it's suspense. Great movie, not a horror film.
[small]Also, if you liked Arlington Road, you might like the following mind-fucks:
The Boiler Room
American History X
Blown Away
The Usual Suspects
Falling Down
The Game (Michael Douglas's one, not that rapper shit)
LA Confidential
and Apt Pupil[/small]

I disagree. Well, I'll agree with the suspense, but I'd say there's an element of horror to it. Better than any horror film I've ever seen. Stuck with me longer and made me think harder about things than any horror film. Boiler Room was enjoyable, but weak in that respect. I did enjoy me some American History X, for sure. The Usual Suspects is a classic, too. Gotta love that. I also enjoyed The Game (what rapper shit?) and L.A. Confidential. Falling Down was ok, but not all that suspenseful, really.

I'm talking about the horror of having everything you think about life possibly being bullshit. Likely? No, not really. But Arlington Road, well, you kind of have to admit that it'll fuck with your head.

 

[Shycte]

I'm going to say it has somthing to do with $$$

/thread

If people watch them, they won't stop making them. DUH!

 

[The Shade]

As my friend always says, "There's no such thing as a PG-13 horror film."

Dunno how that fits in, but he makes a good point. A horror film should never be rated lower than R. Otherwise it's just nonsense, pushing no envelopes.

Some people don't like their envelopes pushed, I guess. Maybe that's why my envelopes always end up all over the floor.