So, how many of you actually get scared at modern horror movies?
By silvernutbar
@silvernutbar (904)
United States
September 21, 2009 9:18pm CST
I've often found that the older ones, even black and white ones, tended to be scarier since they built suspense better. The modern movies tend to focus more on gore and sudden surprise scare tactics.
Don't get me wrong, I do find these to be interesting vehicles for a story but they seem over done to me.
Let's take zombie movies for instance. The modern ones are generally only scary when the zombie's run. whereas the older ones, the zombies could take a week to cross the street but the fact that there were so many of them and so horribly hungry made for great scare tactics.
They were like some great rotting tide that no one could survive.
The same can be said of the modern slasher flicks. The suspense used to be where it was at, but now it's all about sudden death and screaming, possibly with lots of heaving boosums.
So, what do you think. Are the modern horror movies scary compared to the classics?
4 responses
@silvernutbar (904)
• United States
27 Nov 09
I watched the zombie diaries in a cold room at midnight with the lights out, in a creepy house. I not only wasn't scared I wanted my money back.
That might not have much to do with what you just said, but I definitely think I was easier to scare as a child too. This is epecially true with the movies that are out nowadays.
I like supernatural and suspense horror, but where's the suspense nowadays?
@Killabyte (65)
• South Korea
22 Sep 09
I've noticed that too, I really think that the older movies are better than the new ones. Today's horrors concentrate on gore too much. Its hard to find a horror movie without really sick violence. I tend to be more scared by suspense than gore =P
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@silvernutbar (904)
• United States
27 Nov 09
I know what you mean. Gore can be scary, but only if it's added onto the suspense portions. By itself gore is something that only effects people that aren't used to seeing anything violent.
I guess i'm jaded but the idea of a zombie gnawing on my leg doesn't worry me as much as the idea of zombies lurking just outside my field of vision at night as I jog along a dark country road with a flashlight.
Maybe in real life that would be a different situation. In movies though.. meh.
@slaveofsensation (348)
• United States
22 Sep 09
When I was a kid nothing scared me I could watch anything even at a young age I would watch Reddy or Jason and I never flinched. Now that I am older I cringe and hide my eyes and every loud noise makes me jump. I still like to see horror movies just as much but I have just noticed recently that I acctually get scared
@silvernutbar (904)
• United States
22 Sep 09
Yeah, think you have issues with fear.. I still check all the exists when I go to a new place to see if it would survive a zombie invasion. lol. I'm actually serious.
@maezee (41988)
• United States
22 Sep 09
ALL of the modern "horror" movies are truly just.. ZOMBIE movies. The only way they can scare us is usually by including so much gore that we get nauseated, or by having zombies jump out at us and surprise us. I was never really a fan of horror to begin with, and this speaks for both classics & modern ones - but I would imagine that at some point in time, horror movies were actually.. more like psychological thrillers that were scary AND made you think. I would imagine that they've gone down-hill over time, like a lot of things.
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