What Does it Take To Make Horror Scary Again?!

What Does it Take To Make Horror Scary Again?

Seems most recent (roughly last 10-15 years) horror films aren't as scary anymore.

Plenty of *gore*, yes. Actually *scary*, suspenseful & creepy- Not as much. Gore is easy. Any writer or director can do bloody.

I think a few things need to change:

-Stop using well known faces in them. When we see someone like Halle Berry or J-Lo up there pretending to be frightened, we tend to think- "Hey. it's Halle Berry!" Not someone we might know.

-Get Hollywood out of the picture. I think truly scary horror would be better coming from indie film makers. If it's too big budget, it'll be chockful of bad CGI & larger than life special FX. All boils down to unbelievable.

These are among the reasons why I thought the Blair Witch Project was pretty damn original.

Also, enough zombie flicks. We get it. The only recent ones that had a great, original spin on the old zombie thing was '28 Days' & the sequel. (Remake of Dawn of the dead wasn't bad either)
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Your thoughts?

1 day ago
Vampire movies need to swing the other way now too. Ever since "Interview" (which was AMAZING!), we've been seeing "Vampire as sympathetic character" movies. Vampires need to go back to being the freakin bad guys & SCARY. Not romantic & "goth".

I agree with mianjo things that happened or could happen in the real life are more scary to think. My favorite horror movie will be the one that contains scientific, religious, philosophical or historical facts and mysteries that could be relate somehow to the real life…. a movie that stimulate me to think about exciting and scary questions and answers ! I think, it is good to get some ideas from other cultures Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. I believe there are many interesting new ideas personally I read and hear of some frightening and huge stocks of horror and masteries stories From different places.