What's wrong with the horror genre?

Topic: What's wrong with the horror genre?

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Posted at July 30, 2011, 12:00 pm:

How come no one can make a decent horror movie anymore? The rancid waste passing as "brilliant" horror these days (brilliant being a term used by certain critics to describe some of the more recent offerings) is nothing more than cheap and easy crap.

Poor writing has always been a trademark of lower quality films (especially horror it seems), but the recent glut of fright films is only frightful in terms of their utter lack of coherence. These movies feebly attempt to mask poor writing and sometimes special effects with scenes of over-the-top "terror" and psychological horror. It's as if the cheap slasher flicks of the 80's and 90's that bathed themselves in gore have given way to the cheap visceral flicks of the 00's that envelope themselves in unimaginitive menace and confrontation.

The result is something I call the "ugly" movie. These movies are not scary, nor are they creatively disturbing. They are just ugly and gratuitous, elevating the "grind-house" flick to mainstream status. And they are usually quite silly.

High Tension (Haute Tension) Implausible plot.

The Devil's Rejects Started off surprisingly entertaining but got mired in its own ugliness.

Saw II Ridiculous.

Wolf Creek Had promise and could have been done better.

Hostel The worst of the bunch. Pure crap. Even unintentionally funny at times. Eli Roth sucks (including his terribly overrated Cabin Fever) and Quentin Tarantino has never been an endorsement for quality.

In addition to the sub-genre of flicks above, we have also become bombarded with remakes of horror movies that sucked in the first place: The Fog, The Hills Have Eyes, When A Stranger Calls.

And then we have just plain awful and boring offerings that many critics endorse as entertaining such as Boogeyman, and the unwatchable indie Undead.

It really makes you appreciate the very, very few and far between high quality horror movies of recent years. 28 Days Later is not only a great horror movie but a great film in general.

Nothing else I can think of recently I would call truly special.

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