And sadly that is what the majority of people do and where more people are heading.
I need to start reading more film stuff, can you point me in the range of something decent?
Bookwise or internet sites? I can give you a current rundown of the stuff either currently on my reading list, finished with or stuff I want to start at some point, if you want a sprawling mess.
I've never liked Horrors. I appreciate that there are some brilliant pieces of cinema in the genre but they're just not for me
Yeah, they're not a genre that I really follow, but I do feel sad that I've missed out on being able to experience films such as The Exorcist while they were showing at the cinema. Now it's just all remakes or bloody paranormal films. I guess it's just like every genre in cinema where it goes through a period of being awful before rising again.
Yeah, they're not a genre that I really follow, but I do feel sad that I've missed out on being able to experience films such as The Exorcist while they were showing at the cinema. Now it's just all remakes or bloody paranormal films. I guess it's just like every genre in cinema where it goes through a period of being awful before rising again.
Good stuff still exists, you just need to look in different places. Spanish horror has been growing in strength for a good few years now.
Bookwise or internet sites? I can give you a current rundown of the stuff either currently on my reading list, finished with or stuff I want to start at some point, if you want a sprawling mess.
Good stuff still exists, you just need to look in different places. Spanish horror has been growing in strength for a good few years now.
Yeah, as I said, I'm glad we have people like Juan Antonio Bayona and Del Toro (who is actually Mexican). I guess it's my overall lack of interest in the genre that makes me overlook areas where horror is growing and is still creative and genuinely scary.
Horror movies have been in an awful decline for years, IMO. Paranormal Activity gave me hope, but I watched the first one and it was just more making you jump than really being horror. At least we have directors such as Guillermo Del Toro who are interested in directing good horror (it's a real shame that At the Mountains of Madness is not happening) as well as producing good horror movies. He produced The Orphanage which is excellent. The Japanese version of The Grudge was terrifying.
I also find it interesting that John Carpenter has expressed some regret in being responsible for creating the slasher movie genre. It's a shame that horror has gone this way, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street and the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (before they became obsessed with being a franchise) were excellent films. However they've created so many copycats and ****ing remakes.
I also think Roman Polanski should make another horror film, Rosemary's Baby is brilliant. David Lynch has also produced some genuinely scary moments.
I agree that horror movies just aren't as good anymore, they've been a lot better in the past, a lot of the demo / house possession films recently are just so cheap imo, with jump at you moments, gore and twisted reality (from disfigurement, climbing on walls, weird visions) but none of it is really that scary (to me anyway)
I think that the demon possession 'genre' has been way overused in the past couple years, it's quite tired now, about as original as a new thriller about some people getting kidnapped then tortured for no reason
all that being said there still are some great horror films coming out, just that people probably won't hear about them as much if at all. Shocktillyoudrop helps a lot with scoping out some of the gems so yeah
I don't have the energy to debate in the MHoC after a day of politics revision, I've unwatched the Doctor Who thread before cause some serious brain damage with the amount of facedesking needed and the Shoutbox has turned to absolute hell over the past week.
I don't have the energy to debate in the MHoC after a day of politics revision, I've unwatched the Doctor Who thread before cause some serious brain damage with the amount of facedesking needed and the Shoutbox has turned to absolute hell over the past week.