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Too Difficult to Scare?
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Not for me!!
I am proud to be a member who scares easily. This ability of mine allows me to enjoy movies and not have the impossible standards of some of todays youth. I find it difficult to tolerate the afore-mentioned standards and I have often wondered why. So in this short discussion I will give what I believe is the best explination. I invite you to refute and give your own reasoning as well and I guarantee I will give you my full attention. The main issue I see here is desensitization of the youth today. (I would like to take this moment to say that I am in no way against today's generations, just merely something I have noticed) I think the biggest issue is that some of Hollywood has run out of things to say and do. As such, they figure the best answer is to turn the volume up so to speak. We've become so enamured with TV and movies and the makers of our shows and films seemed to consistently try to outdo each other. They slam pictures in our face at break neck speeds and don't seem to recognize the need for story and character development. Some examples; Halloween was made in the late 1970's in some of the best years of horror. John Carpenter managed to load a good amount of fright while still focusing on just who Micheal Meyers was. They showed good backstory and gave him human moments (i.e. removing the mask). Meanwhile movies like Turistas plants you smack-dab into the pain and torture without adding much to go off of. We get little time to make friends with these characters. The second issue I have is the buildup. In today's Hollywood, the hype is almost worth more than the product so when a maker can't deliver as promised the movie is left sour in our brains. Hostel was touted as a big time horror flick loaded with intense gore. While I do admit the scenes including the gore were deliciously wonderful, there a bare minimum. I believe there was a good 5 minutes in which the intense torture of our young female took place. Looking back at a movie such as Night of the Living Dead, there was little buildup and the intensity started slow but kept up throughout. Finally comes the shock value. It seems to me that many movies want to just shock the audience and end up making us yawn. Again, with Hostel, was I watching a horror flick or a porn video? Now we may enjoy sex but that isn't what I can here to watch. I loved the idea of Hostel turning the notch up with the gore but I really ended up angry and jaded because I wasn't there to watch a bunch of breasts. Now you may think I only turn to the classics for good examples so let me freshen up a bit. The Devil's Rejects was fabulous and has easily made it onto my top 5 of all time. It did shock the audience but it also held back from trying to aim for 'movie of the century'. They set a reasonable goal of fright and psychology, then achieved it and went a touch further. Kudos to you Rob. So that is my little essay on the horror movies of today and why some seem to fail. That being said, I still love some of the newer movies. |
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I like older movies aswell, Psycho is one of my favourite movies but films like Poltergeist are really hard to scare me, the effects of the things flying around a room are terrible.
I supppose you're right, children are a lot less frightened than before, I'm one of the people who are not easily scared but my mam is really easily scared.
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