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I wanted to start a thread that really has affected all of us, ''the horror fan.'' The rise of the Euro- Horror craze and the disembowling of the american horror film. America has dominated horror movies for a long time but then the Asians invaded and took the crown away..well sorta. We could have taken it back, we are America for gosh sake but we are lazy. Hollywood put out all these PG-13 crap fests and did remakes of much better older movies. But over in Europe, directors were pushing boundaries, and what's happened now is that they're better at horror movies than we are....or are they
Trying to think of really awesome american horror the last year or so that would be remembered 10 years from now, The Strangers, okay, Rob Zombie's Halloween..ummm I liked it. The Mist, Cloverfield, I dunno..you guys probally have your favourites. Check out these though...Inside (France) Rec (Spain) 28 Days Later (UK) Martyrs(France) Frontier(s)(France) Haute Tension (France)The Descent (UK)Let the Right One In (Sweden)The Orphanage (Spain). Those are the ones I have just seen...these are suppose to be awesome too.. Calvaire (Belgium), Nightwatch (Russia)Severance (UK)and Dead Set (UK) I think that sometimes foreign films are more attractive because they take us to a different place and with actors that often are less familiar ....wow shame on us.
"That was pretty good," doesn't make it anymore. To get noticed, you need to be outrageous, insane and completely over the line. We may do the big hollywood movie blockbusters like no other but when it comes to horror..wtf happened! Has our time passed? Have we played the PG-13 card too much and europe swooped in and grabbed the winning pot?
Your thoughts fellow horror lovers....tell us what you think.