Shutter- What gives?!
Question: I swear. When will Hollywood learn that in order for a horror movie to be scary, you cannot give away all the scary bits in the trailers?
Today's audiences are desensitized as it is & doing that doesn't help.
I've been saying for ages; horror movies simply aren't scary anymore. The next big step ahead in horror will have to come from independent sources w/ a cast of unknowns (ala 'Blair Witch') and/or from foreign countries.
Answers: I swear. When will Hollywood learn that in order for a horror movie to be scary, you cannot give away all the scary bits in the trailers?
Today's audiences are desensitized as it is & doing that doesn't help.
I've been saying for ages; horror movies simply aren't scary anymore. The next big step ahead in horror will have to come from independent sources w/ a cast of unknowns (ala 'Blair Witch') and/or from foreign countries.
For me, scary is mostly psychological ~ when the stupid teenager heads down into the boiler room to see what the noise is.... well, we all know what's going to happen.
They don't seem to know how to build suspense any more. I suggest a college course on Hitchcock :-) M. Night Shyamalan does pretty well, too.
The reason they give away the best parts in the trailers is because those are the ONLY good parts, usually.
I'm a fan of comedies, and I really hate that, too ~ when you see the trailer and think that looks really funny but when you go to see the movie, you've already seen the best parts. Grrrr.
All the worlds indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each anothers audience
Outside the gilded cage
well actually, it is a foreign movie. its just another remake like the eye and the grudge, and the ring. the original shutter was great, dont know about this one though =)
i know, i hate it when they do that
I had a major problem with that and The Village. Going in to see it, I actually expected it to be horror.
I was a tad bit disappointed (but not so much, I hate horror : P ) but I know anyone going in to see a horror movie would have been very angry. The several horror movies I've actually seen and were scared by were all either Chinese or Japanese. And several of the Chinese ones were from the 80's when special effects were far from great, but it's the psychology behind it that as frightening.
EDIT:
Ah... the Chinese ones, I have no name for them! I watched them in the original Chinese format and they didn't have subtitles!