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Originally Posted by lu.  well ill agree to disagree with you! i think that a lot of modern day horror does the opposite whereas it has a really loud string section that increases and increases so that you know something is going to happen and that this was different. i felt it was very remanisant of Korean horror where you dont see a lot of the scares coming. Thats my opinion anyway! |
A lot of modern day horror is just torture porn. Or a remake of a film from the 70's/80's which has been turned into torture porn. You see a lassie's eyeball being blow-torched and snipped off at the stem once, you've seen it a dozen times.
I liked my Korean/Japanese/Chinese terror films when they were fresh, ie no one knew what to expect from them (before they started copying "The Grudge")*, as opposed to American films where you know who's going to die by the first words that they utter because you've seen the same film over and over again, albeit with different names. Slasher films were dependant on this fore-knowledge, to the extent that you can even tell
how characters are going to die; almost always in an ironic sense, depending on what they've said/done/do for a living, with the serial killer offering a witty one-liner as a eulogy.
At least Sam Raimi tried, I'll give him that. He just can't do scares. Comedy, yes. Horror, yes. Terror...no. Anyone can scare their mate by making a sudden loud noise, you don't need to spend seven quid at the cinema for that.
* "A Tale of Two Sisters" is a rare exception to the rule.
