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I guess this must be a problem in America, since Horror has been thriving in Europe for these past few years. I find it pretty funny that USA needs to have remakes even from european horror flicks which got released just recently, like Let The Right One in. Its just stupid, since swedish culture really isnt that much different from America's.
One other thing is that perhaps american horror film-makers are concentrating on slashers too much? Dont get me wrong, there are many actually good slashers nowadays, but for every 1 good modern slasher flick, theres ton of bad ones. I guess that ironically resembles 80's a lot.
I'd say its a cultural difference too. In USA huge companies are too scared to make horror movies of their own. In Europe young and/or independent filmmaker's first movie project is usually a horror film.
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Well, that's not entirley true. Horror has been proven time and again to be one of the most profitable film genres. For example, back in the 50's there'd always be some group of schmucks parading out to Bronson Canyon to make a quick and cheap monster movie for a small cost. Usually no matter the films quality, they'd almost always turn in a few quick bucks. And let's not forget about the straight-to-video horror boom that started in the 80's. Much of these films were also made for cheap as well, and costed just enough to suck in some extra bucks after relase. And horror must be going strong because every copy of "Sorority Row" was taken from the shelves of my local Blockbuster the other day.
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dude i agree, but revenue in theaters from horror movies isn't that high, and i suppose that's what i should of said. Every studio wants to make as much money as possible and horror movies just don't tend to be extremely profitable movies, so studios tend to shy away from making them. They're not willing to take a huge risk so they make movies that have a fan base such as saw and remaking pretty much all the cult horror movies back in the day. With that being said horror nowadays is hardly original, i'm not saying it's all ripped off, but alot of it is. And me personally haven't seen one remake ive liked more than the original in this faze of remakes in the past few years. What i'm getting at now it's not originally so it's not as appealing as it once way, but that's just my opinion.
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Yeah, I see what you're saying. The Friday the 13th remake, for example, a remake/another addition to a tried and true series. In it's first week it made more $ than any other film in the series in it's opening weekend, including Freddy vs Jason. But business dropped substantially the next week, lowering the movie from #1 in the box office to something like 3 or 4. Such is the folly of American horror.
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I agree with what everyone else is saying on this board. While Hollywood studios are cowards and afraid to try something new, there are still films made that aren't remakes - they just don't hit theaters, and many of them are also terrible. However, at least there was an attempt to be original. Mainstream, Hollywood horror also likes to amp up the nudity and gore, and drop any common sense the characters may have had. They employ recognizable faces, especially those from the WB and other teen networks, and don't pay attention to the writing whatsoever. It's irritating to try and watch a movie with completely CGI effects, idiotic characters played by talentless teeny-bopper heart-throbs, and a watered-down script.
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I feel this is probably closest to the truth, if there is such a thing in this discussion. I'm sure there are segments of the populations that skewer rather young, who don't frequent boards like this that are awash in the number of horror films they have to see on a regular basis and love them all. They might be 'wrong' in our eyes, but that's a question of taste.
This however I don't see as the answer. Shock value being continually driven into the audience for its own sake is not going to move any genre forward. It will just become stale and boring like any other trend.
Besides, gore films are a small subgenre of horror anyway, and we've seen that, outside of Saw (which for whatever reason still makes profit) have rather short shelf life.
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