I'm so tired of most all new horror movies about 90 percent of them are demons or ghosts honestly when are they going to come up with something new. Not to let mention ghosts and demons are as believable as big foot. These movies try to scare people with cheap sounds or things magically popping up and I'm just kinda tired of them but somehow all the horror movies that keep coming out either have ghosts or demons which just isn't scary at all.
shareI'm so tired of most all new horror movies about 90 percent of them are demons or ghosts honestly
Not to let mention ghosts and demons are as believable as big foot.
It's just that studios only care for money, and since ghost and demon horror movies bring money regardless of critic reception, they will continue doing this...
shareexactly...horror movies make a 500% return on investment opening weekend consistently...even the terrible ones.
shareMan, you're not joking! At a $6.5 million budget and $166.1 million gross, that's a 2,555% return!! I know very few movies with that type of return except, like, Paranormal Activity 1, clocking in at 1,289,039% return on investment (most profitable movie *ever* by *far*), although I MuCH prefer PA over this crap. I rate Annabelle as a 3/10. Gone Girl deserves *so* much more money. In fact, I left Annabelle in the middle to go see Gone Girl and then watched GG 3x total in theaters.
shareya dis movie is HORRIBLE. Nothing with it was good.
shareYea but the slashers were actually good as witnessed by the 8 or 9 sequels they got not to mention horror does 5 times better when the make a iconic character like a Jason, Michael Meyers, jigsaw, leatherface, chucky, and Freddy most of those gold multiple movies and are a lot better than ghosts and demons it's very possible for some sick person to get a chainsaw and start chain sawing people up which makes it more scarier cuz it can actually happen same thing with saw some sick person could really put you in those type of traps. I'm just saying I think the demon and ghost movies have just been beaten to death and aren't scary at all. If sounds and things popping out randomly scare you then these movies would work. But the studios need to stop with them and come up with something else.
shareYea but the slashers were actually good as witnessed by the 8 or 9 sequels
it's very possible for some sick person to get a chainsaw and start chain sawing people up which makes it more scarier cuz it can actually happen same thing with saw some sick person could really put you in those type of traps.
If sounds and things popping out randomly scare you then these movies would work.
Obviously everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I do have to point out that you said:
<quote>Not to let mention ghosts and demons are as believable as big foot</quote>
followed by:
<quote>horror does 5 times better when the make a iconic character like a Jason, Michael Meyers, jigsaw, leatherface, CHUCKY, and FREDDY</quote>
Is that not slightly contradictory or do you genuinely believe that doll possession and a dead guy killing people in their dreams is 'believable'?
Slasher fans arguing that their favorite types of movies are "realistic" are one of the things that never fail to crack me up about them, especially since 9 times out of 10 they'll label something like Carrie, Evil Dead, Hellraiser or Leprechaun a slasher film just because they like it.
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I don't think the OP is that bright.
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Some people think ghosts and demons are real. Slasher movies are boring. Here's a plot. Guess which movie it is? Psycho kills a bunch of people. One of them thinks he/she kills the psycho, but 'He's Back" Rinse and repeat.! There done. Boring.
But yes there is room for more variety in horror movies. Seek and ye shall find.
Yea but the slashers were actually good as witnessed by the 8 or 9 sequels they got not to mention horror does 5 times better when the make a iconic character...
The best horror films were made in the 1930s, 1960s and 1970s.
And the true "iconic characters" of horror are Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, etc. The Jasons, Freddies, and Pinheads are definitely "2nd Tier" -- and always will be.
I am not sure if you have ever seen Freddy movies or the Chucky ones or if you did you did not understand them. Both movies were very supernatural. Chucky was a doll with a killer's soul in him and Freddy could only come after you in your dreams.
shareHeaven forbid horror movies be about the supernatural.
The horror genre wasn't created with slashers, you know.
Everybody is a book of blood; whenever we're opened, we're red.
I know but demons and ghosts are no longer scary they haven't been for awhile. The last time demons were scary were in the original excorsists.i think horror directors should stick to making a character that people can hate like the above names I mentioned it would be so much better and slasher are better cuz depending on which one you watch they kinda have a mystery involved like who is the killer. I think with all these ghosts and demon movies are very cliche my girlfriend was actually knowing what was going to happen before it even did because most ghost/possession movies use the same cheap noises or someone popping out of the corner to get a scare but it doesn't work cuz audiences are so used to it now I would rather see people getting killed not something that's imaginative or not really there.
shareI have to agree man.It seemed to start with the Paranormal Activity movies. Gradually, the type of horror films that gave me nightmares as a kid have been put in cold storage.
The evil spirit/found footage sub-genre is now THE horror genre. Often low budget, PG-13, light on gore, and made to appeal to a mainstream market. Paranormal Activity's reign died down, giving me hope for a return to real horror, but the James Wan Insidious/Conjuring/Annabell franchise quickly took its place.
I dunno...I dont find these movies the least bit scary. They're slightly upgraded amusement park Halloween haunted house attractions :). Wan's films will eventually decline too, then hopefully they get back to putting out some true horror.
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It sucks to cuz the horror genre used to be my fav with comedy but now it's just letting me down it sucks. I'm hoping they will get back to making good horror movies again I can't even remember the last good one I seen one I seen that was decent was VHS it wasn't great but wasn't bad either there was death and that's the thing I think that's missing now barley any characters die in these ghost/demon movies they maybe have 1 or 2 people did but normally not many. I hope you're right though that they get back to making good horror movies again. I was excited for October to cuz I thought for sure that something decent was coming out but only thing I'm seeing is this and oujia.
shareJust because you don't find those movies scary doesn't mean they're not real horror or something.
shareI think with all these ghosts and demon movies are very cliche my girlfriend was actually knowing what was going to happen before it even did because most ghost/possession movies use the same cheap noises or someone popping out of the corner to get a scare but it doesn't work cuz audiences are so used to it now I would rather see people getting killed not something that's imaginative or not really there.
I think you're mixing different concepts here. It's not the particular type of creature, but the work of the movie staff that makes them scary. I've seen scary movies featuring ghosts, demons, dolls, kids, humans, aliens.....and boring movies featuring the same thing. IT's not the amount of blood, the amount of deaths or the amount of scares, it's how much does the movie catch your interest until the ending credits.
What I agree with is the overuse of the very loud sounds, the cgi, to make up for the lack of writing, rhythm or tension. Lately they just make boring movies with very loud peaks of sound here and there.
But then again, same thing happened over and over again in the horror genre: there's a first wave of really good movies and then come the cash grabs. Horror's not dead, it's just a cycle.
Ummm ghosts and demons are very believable if you are spiritual at all and actually believe there is more to this world than what we can see. These kind of movies are more psychological and deeper than a slasher.
You're more scared of a sicko with a knife, but I'm more scared of things I can't see and have way less control over... like demon spirits.
To each his own, if you don't believe it... maybe you won't ever have an encounter that makes you believe.
Oh and OUIJA just came out. I gotta see that, it looks good too and will tie right in with Insidious, Conjuring, Annabelle etc..
I think slashers have been done way more than ghost/demon movies so I say keep them coming!!
I think slashers are a little more original depending on which ones you watch because a lot of them rely on creating a character like a pumpkin head like the above comment or a Freddy so I think that would be more original when you're creating your own character and Freddy still scares me because I have nightmares all the time and I can always feel in my nightmare so it makes it even worse if I have a nightmare and Freddy is in it.
shareYou know what movies are scary? Michael Bay films! TMNT scariest thing I ever saw. The other night I had a nightmare where he rebooted The Mummy series and I about pissed my pants.
shareDemons are no laughing matter. I have a friend whose house is afflicted with a demonic haunting. Things got so bad that he called in a priest to perform an exorcism, but the rite was only partially successful and the house was subsequently repossessed.
I sleep now.
Sounds like hysteria and the placebo effect. There is no scientific evidence supporting anything rated to supernatural garbage. Belief in ghosts or any other type of magical thinking not named in reality is similar to religious ideals.
shareahahaha, great point xD
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