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Horror movies have long been a
favorite with the movie-going
public. People like to be scared.
Unfortunately, I don't think the
public has been getting its money's
worth recently. Horror movies
have been relying more on gore
and less on actual terror.
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gore, mind you. Some of my favorite
horror movies are also the goriest,
such as George Romero's Living
Dead series. But many times,
film-makers lose sight of the purpose
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Instead of scaring an audience,
they make movies that are nothing
more than a showcase for specialeffects.
Two prime examples are
the Poltergeist sequels. While the
first movie was a heart-stopping
classic, the sequels degenerated
into "haw many different ways can
this family get screwed up?"
The son's braces grow out and
try to kill him. The father brings
new meaning to eating the worm
in a Tequila bottle when the worm
turns into a bie monster that the
father pukes out in a most unattractive
way.
These are nifty things to watch,
but they aren't really scary. For
me, I just sit there and wonder
how the effects guys did that.
Many movie-goers probably enjoy
graphic scenes of violence, but
they would probably like some
substance too.
Perhaps "substance" isn't the
word. Roving bands of flesh-eating
zombies aren't exactly an element
of fine cinema. Yet movies that
truly make the audience terrified
have more depth than the run-ofthe-mill
slasher flick.
Terror to me is not comprised of
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a psychopath with a pole-digg<
jumping out of the woods and di;
emboweling someone. That is ju
startling, not terrifying.
If you see the psychopath cree]
ing through the woods and you sc
the unsuspecting fodder standir
around oblivious to the danger f<
a long time, that is scary.
As the master of horror Alfre
Hitchcock once said, seeing th
danger and knowing it is coming
much scarier than the danger ju;
happening.
In Psycho, Norman Bate
doesn't just stab Janet Leigh ? I
holds the knife up for what seen
like forever. She screams foreve
Then he kills her. The blood rui
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graphic sign of the murder.
Directors should take heed froi
his example. The blood-and- gu
guys should only be called i
when the suspense has been put ii
Good examples of scary films ai
the original Halloween, The Omei
The Shining, Body Double, an
more recently Aliens and Pt
Sematary.
Some of these films are gon
some aren't. But if film-makei
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