DVD SinBin: 2001 Maniacs August 16, 2008
Posted by ghostof82 in : Film General , trackbackOkay, thats it. I’ve had it with horror films. I mean, life is just too short. There’s plenty of great films out there for me to discover, or great, favourite films for me to watch again, but really, I’ve had it with horror films. The genre has been on a slippery slope for years, but it seems its now crashed and burned. I’m just sick to death of lazy excuses for film-making. I imagine modern horror film-makers work with the same bloody checklist- a) a bunch of horny teenagers/college students go to a b)town stuck in nowheresville/abandoned hospital/asylum and c) get preyed upon by ghosts/cannibals/madmen and d) suffer incredibly stupid gorey deaths before or after e) an obligatory sex scene and wrap the film up with f) a so-dumb-it-fools no-one ‘twist’ ending.
I just give up. 2001 MANIACS has just finished me off. It’s just so stupid and NOT REMOTELY SCARY. It’s stupid, lazy, pointless, utterly devoid of any redeeming feature. And it’s NOT REMOTELY SCARY. Can anyone remember when a horror film was actually scary? Can anybody actually direct a proper horror film these days? Can anyone actually write an original horror film? Is the genre really utterly dead and buried? I saw SHROOMS the other week, it was so dire and NOT REMOTELY SCARY I couldn’t bring myself to write anything about it on this blog, and then I saw the dismal Rob Zombie remake of HALLOWEEN that was utterly appalling and NOT REMOTELY SCARY but now, with 2001 MANIACS… well, thats it.
Finished. No more horror films. No more new horror films anyway. Life is too short and there’s far better films to watch. How can anyone waste their time watching all this ‘horror’ tripe?
If ever I want to watch a proper horror film I’ll watch THE SHINING or THE EXORCIST or ALIEN or PSYCHO or THE HAUNTING or Carpenters original HALLOWEEN… I’ll give the modern variant a wide berth. Whatever happened to decent horror films?
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I couldn’t agree more. It was only the rise of Asian horror a few years back, that gave me any hope for new original horror. But now, thanks to the excruciatingly bland American remakes (I will forever hold a grudge against the grudge remake), even those have lost their novelty. I’ll stick to the old black & white Universal Horrors, and my new-found obsession with Mr Tod Slaughter.