Aug 26th, 2008, 10:26 PM
The purpose of horror movies is hard to define when you consider utter trash like all of these sequels and remakes as horror. I think that the old classification for horror movies included a good story and managed to scare you as well, and that was great, because even if you didn't scare easily, you could at least enjoy the story. Some like Psycho, for instance, isn't all that scary nowadays, but it's still got a compelling story and there's a lot that you can appreciate about it. They used to be, and sometimes still are, treated with respect and care by the filmmakers and they genuinely wanted to put out something good.
That's not to say that schlock didn't exist in the "golden age" of horror movies either, but the vast majority of the movies coming out weren't all sequels, remakes, and rip-offs.
Then you can get into the FUN horror movies, like the evil dead series, dead alive, return of the living dead, etc. Those movies were still made well and again, the filmmakers put forth real effort into making them as enjoyable as possible. They're not the same as the more serious movies, but they're different and enjoyable in another way completely. Buckets of gore is great, but it still needs to be handled effectively and that's something that a lot of new movies fail to do. They just shovel in as much shitty dialogue, jump scares, music video camera effects, and gore as possible and hope to emulate the success of GOOD movies.
At least, that's what I think. Oh yeah, I'd classify Alien as Sci-Fi/Horror, and then everything after and including Aliens is Action/Sci-FI.
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