06-14-2010, 03:55 AM
Hey guys,I am sure, by far, that I am not the only one incredibly sick of these fast pace, "gory", horror tit-flicks! What ever happened to suspense in the horror genre? They over-complicate things now, simplicity would be bliss for me in the genre now. The film that had me thinking a lot about this was The Strangers. It features 2 people being terrorized over the period of a night. The realism, lack of score (yet playful very experimental score) made that movie really something worth checking out.My question is, why does more = scarier? I say if there was a zombie movie that tracked 2-3 people through the course of a day and their encounters with maybe 3-4 zombies the entire film would be fantastically amusing. With long drawn out shots, paranoia inflicting footage. I say REALISM will always win in a horror film for me. Even with situations such as the original Hellraiser, I'd still say it came off very realistic, at least until the cenobites got involved, but that's not the point.When NOTHING is done for shock value. When the score doesn't produce a string hit when the killer appears. My favorite example from the Strangers would be the first time you see the sack-face killer. Also, things like the record player skipping, things that would really terrorize you in reality.Opinions welcome, negative or positive.-Jon