You know what is wrong with new horror

Heck Yeah,Someone who finally gets it your totally right dude, clear and cold exactly, the older ones looked more raw and realistic but today they thing more realistic is a 50,000,000 dollar budget. I wish more people understood this bro.

Interesting thoughts... I think you've got something there. In general horror films don't work as well for me when they're overly slick and expensive looking.
I really love the way stuff looked in the 70's films. Though, if I was going to make a horror movie and had total control I would go all the way back to black and white.
When they made The Mist the director really saw it as a black and white movie and on the DVD there is a black and white version of it that he considers to be the 'director's cut'.

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I honestly don't agree with this at all. It's a different technique from gritty to clear, but they both can be done very well, it's just that attention to script and directing and music are not done well these days. The love of the craft has been replaced by the love of easy money.



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The problem with today's horror movies is they're just that, gruesome and gory. It's up to the director what he/she wants to do, but we're all numb to ultra violence, blood and death. The answer? Give people what they want and actually scare them. It's all in the technique, for example: if you want said villain to commit a gruesome crime here's the right way and then the wrong way:

1. Right way: the killer walks up towards the house. You don't see his face. Show his big dirty boots (truncated images). Show his big Weimar Republic, grey woollen trench coat. Show the woman inside the house, typing away on her Facebook account. Then you hear the creaking and buckling of the wood where the killer is breaking down the door. Zoom in on his big gloves and a crowbar for breaking open the door. Show him enter the house and fade to black.
-No loud screams
-No killer jumping into the room
-No psychological torture porn where he rips her apart and rapes her repeated
-You have the cops talk about the crime a few days later and no crime scene photos.
-Allow the audience to imagine the horror themselves. They usually turn towards their own fears instead of you showing a version of horror
-Lastly, don't reveal the serial killer at all. Often times they aren't caught and nobody know what they're looking for. Even let him walk away from the crime.
-That's just one scene, but the idea is there. This kind of scene was done well in "No Country" when Sugar is in the room with the woman near the end of the movie. You know he's going to kill her, you just don't know how. It's unsettling.

good point!

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

Yea, digital is cold. That's because it's synthetic. You can look at film with the naked eye. When it's digital, you need a machine to decipher the zeroes and ones. It's the same with music, too.

Now, digital has it's advantages. No time wasted developing film and it costs a lot less. And it can be very clean. Too clean if one is not careful.

The solution? Shoot with digital at highest quality and edit. Render at a much lower quality and it will give it more on an analog look. Not the same as film, but closer.

By the way, I have not seen this movie. My thoughts are for modern day films in general.

Check out "Run, Bitch, Run." It looks and sounds just like a 70's exploitation/grindhouse film. I don't know if they used digital cameras but it certainly doesn't look like it was just made.

It's pretty funny you should say that, because I feel that way with alot of movies. Doesn't even have to be from that long ago - even dating back to the nineteens, quality was a lot different. It just makes for a better movie, in many aspects.

I been saying for awhile ever since they started "remastering" old films that it was ruining alot of horror movies. I miss the dark blurry grainy film of crap cameras.

Now adays they use fancy cameras and try to recreate the grainy film look which doesn't work either.