Midnight Movie House

Horror Movie Survey Results! Part 15

Question 15. What changes would you like to see in future horror movies?

ZUZI W. (Illinois): New plots. I don't like predictable movies.

JASON B. (Ohio): More adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft stories.

MISSY B. (Texas): be more creative, quit re-doing every classic horror movies

KRISTOPHER B. (North Carolina): Kill the ugly chicks first

REBECCA G. (Illinois): more originality and wider use of effects

BRENNA C. (Florida): Going from an angry killer to a truly insane killer like back in the old days. That’s the difference with the original versions and the remakes. In the original versions the killers were truly crazy. These new guys are just dark and angry. I always use the Texas Chainsaw Massacre example. In the original, the family was nuts. They all laughed hysterically and one of them poked that girl with a stick (in the truck scene when she was in a gunnysack) and they were basically just out of their minds. To me, that’s scary as hell. In the new one, the family is just mean. Anyone can be mean. It’s the true crazies that are really scary. It’s the same way with the old and new versions of, When A Stranger Calls. The original killer was a creepy little British guy who hissed and made other weird noises. The new guy had a deep voice and a scar and was dark and angry. Not the same.

SAM W. (Florida): Please stop with gore = horror. Give us amazing, unique story lines. More Halloweens!

GEORGIA A. (Illinois): American horror movies as opposed to other nation's horror movies are incredibly weak. I think America should loosen up when it comes to what kind of content is allowed. Censorship laws take away from the artistic qualities of good films. Japan, for example, allows much more in its horror movies which makes them more interesting. Also, "the descent" was released in America with a shorter and happier ending than the original version released in Europe because producers thought that Americans couldn't handle it. I think that's ridiculous.

MYKEL D. (Michigan): Black Christmas

SEAN A. (Illinois): A remake of Rocky Horror Picture Show, and a good remake of Psycho.

OBERON (Iowa): Return to the use of the imagination and avoid trying to do it all in realism.

FELIPE S. (Arkansas): more new ways to scare people

KEVIN P. (Illinois): To integrate the special effects revolution of the present to the psychological techniques of storytelling used in the past.

Posted by Vampira at January 20, 2007 09:50 PM