Giving up HORROR movies for a while...

My recent trip to the Amityville Horror remake has really got me considering putting horror movies on hiatus for a while! Lemme 'splain...

I think perhaps I've become somewhat desensitized to horror movies as of late...they don't give me the VA VOOM they used to. I was MAJORLY disappointed by the likes of Amityville, Ring 2, Cursed Boogeyman & so many others that have come out recently and I thought it was just a matter of it taking A LOT to impress me, but maybe I'm just "maxxed out" on my horror input. Some even have/had good reviews by critics...so what's wrong with me?

I'm forever compaing sh*t I see now to the original, foreign movies made better or 80's movies I grew up watching (my fav decade) and, though a part of me feels the comparison seems unfair...its THERE! I feel like I've seen it all before. Only movie that left a lasting impression on me recently was Saw, but even that had its scenes that reminded me of other films (Texas Chainsaw, Se7en, etc). Has anyone ever felt like this? Maybe I just need a 6-month to 1-year hiatus on watching horror, that way when I come back to it I might love it that much more.

Maybe its just part of getting older! I'm hittin 31 in June (Gosh damn, it never evened dawned on me 'til I wrote it)...maybe soon all I'll be watching is those serious adult dramas...nah!!!

Whatchu guys think?

[Mok]

I know what ou mean man. But I just saw Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things this past Halloween and it really freaked me out. Maybe you should just lay-off the newer stuff

Rent or buy a Japanese film called Old Boy - absolutely brilliant/inspirational non-horror film.

[indiephantom]

time to switch to porn for awhile, dude.

[maskull]

I think your problem is that the movies you're going to see lately aren't great movies. look around this board. most of the movies you just mentioned got a lot of negative reviews.I think it's more that Horror movie fans are just a little more picky than the average person and therefore you're fine.

I'm 32 now and I haven't started to watch serious adult dramas. (DAMN! I'm 32!!!)

[Shannafey]

I actually find myself venturing more and more back into Scifi, which was my first love!! With the new Battlestar series, new Star Wars film coming out and a new Dr. Who series, I'm more and more interested in revisiting the stuff I loved as a kid. I am presently watching the cheesy 80s Buck Rogers series. With Scifi, there have been some good recent offerings, but with horror, like you said, there hasn't been much to make me love the genre!

[MrKateB]

I think you're going through the same thing I went through twice already...The first time was around the mid-late 80's, when horror films started to disappear from theaters, producers and directors of horror films in production started referring to them as "thrillers", and really lame horror movies were going direct-to-video at a very fast pace. I had rented so many lame ones that I got sick of them and just stopped. at some point in the mid 90's, I got reinterested again, and would pick them up here and there, but can't remember too many good ones.

I think "Scream" was the first one in awhile that had really reinvigorated my love of horror films, and again, after seeing too many cheaply done, lame, straight-to-video crap (no offense, but many of them "star" Brinke Stevens--what the fuck?) I have again started to fade on horror films. I am still way into the older ones I've loved growing up etc., and there is the oddball release of one that has never been available etc., but many of these new titles just suck.

Maybe you SHOULD take a break for a little while, almost guarantee you'll come back with a renewed interest.

[Ash28M]

I think that way every once and a while, but then I always end up watching one out of nowhere that gets me excited about it again. I think you need to stop look in at the main stream stuff for entertainment. There few and far between.

[indiephantom]

Originally Posted by Shannafey

I actually find myself venturing more and more back into Scifi, which was my first love!! With the new Battlestar series, new Star Wars film coming out and a new Dr. Who series, I'm more and more interested in revisiting the stuff I loved as a kid. I am presently watching the cheesy 80s Buck Rogers series. With Scifi, there have been some good recent offerings, but with horror, like you said, there hasn't been much to make me love the genre!

SF was my first love, too. Funny thing is I haven't kept up with it as much...but when I do, I really really enjoy it. I'm even considering getting into reading more science fiction. But I'm such a horror nut. Although I love lots of everything, except overly manipulative saccharince crap.

Eh, you'll be fine. You're just jaded by all the horse shit that's come out lately. And I don't blame you one bit. But giving up horror? You're nuts, lol.

[Stige]

I assume this is true for lots of us. I see a lot of the new stuff and think "whatever................" and it pains me to buy new stuff unseen. BUT I have no problem upgrading or maybe buying two or three copies of the same glorious 70's or 80's flicks I love. The problem isnt horror, it's just the watered down, copied, "re-inventions" stuff that has been showing up lately. I remembered the 80'2 and before, loving almost anything i rented /saw, these days it's a question of being pleasantly surprised by enjoying new stuff when on rare occasion it happens.

[evildeadfan123]

I just turned 36 in February, and I have been mostly turned off by the some of the recent Direct-To-Video horror films. They are pretty much shot on Digital Video.

[Paff]

Well, for one thing, stop watching the damn remakes!

Then, I'm not sure if it's what you're doing already, but try filtering in OTHER genres as well. A steady diet of one type of film, no matter how good, will desensitize anyone.

Finally, like everyone else has said, watch more quality films instead of just anything horror. Be more discriminating in your choices. Mok mentioned Oldboy (which is South Korean, not Japanese). I'd say check out A Tale of Two Sisters. Two Sisters is not just a great horror movie, it's a great MOVIE. As in, mainstream quality acting, cinematography, writing, direction, the works. If you watch that movie and still feel that horror is not worth your time, then you can give up the genre for a while.

[Mok]

Originally Posted by Paff

Mok mentioned Oldboy (which is South Korean, not Japanese).

Damn I knew that too. I remember realizing it by the subtitle options.

[speanroc]

i stay away from new horror for that very reason besides there's plenty of old stuff i havent seen yet............

[Jimbo]

I am always taking breaks.I like to flip around genres all the time.If I am getting a little burned out on horror I tend to watch westerns or classic dramas for a while.Hell I even watch an occasional musical from time to time.It puts things in their prospective and it is always a treat to go back and rediscover my first love (horror).I also get on kicks were i will just watch certain directors films.That is always fun as well.Or for me at least.Just take a break and look outside of the box for a while and try something new.