October is going to be a good month if you like horror movies

[mJi]

October is going to be a good month if you like horror movies much like myself. Saw III comes out October 26th ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489270/trailers-screenplay-E28713-10-2) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420294/trailers-screenplay-E28708-10-2)

Which movie are you more excited about?

[IMLX]

This is a great topic, cause I'm pumped about a few movies coming out this year.

1. The Prestige - This is going to be just great
2. Idiocracy - it's in limited locations, that's why I want to see it even more
3. Borat - Borat, nuff said
4. Jackass 2 - I got money on who's going to kill himself first. I say Preston.

[mJi]

Yes indeed The Prestige is going to be a very good movie. Who's in Idiocracy? Borat yeah he's a funny guy and Jackass 2 it will be stupid funny.

[brigulon13]

Texas Chainsaw rehash. Saw, "Saw" II times before. How bout something fresh? Did you also think "Hostel" was scary? Or, "The Grudge" deserved a sequel?

I think "Ghost House Pictures" has ruined the future for horror. Just the word horror deserves an "R" rating. Not the PG-13 crapfests we get every Fall and Spring. There once was a time when I too woulda coulda been excited for a "Texas" sequel or a "Fog" remake. But, too many "Ring"s, "Grudges", and "Boogeymen" have ruined the theater going horror experience. All horror films have been currently relegated to DvD status. Due to the fact that R-rated movies brought R-rated crowds and PG-13's have brought mom, dad, granpa, Auntie M, Toto and the whole family. Making the little guy kicking my seat asking mom why the lady don't just turn off the VCR? or get the hell outta the house? unbearable. So I'd rather save my $40 for a couple of months worth of rentals.

I know I just ramble sometimes and my sentences run on but, I think my point is one of the key reasons why theaters are failing today. Don't get me wrong, "Poltergeist" was PG and it still scares me. It is just that I feel Hollywood has lost their "mojo" for horror and rehashing crappy Asian horror flicks, letting Tarantino tell us something is scary, or making sequels to 30 year old movies with the director of the new P. Diddy video is the begining of the end. So is letting Renny Harlin or Wes Craven direct another film. But then again, let the old guys do there stuff again may be a bad idea too. "Land of the Dead"? eh. How many of you saw a great Tobe Hooper film since '86(TCM 2)? What the hell happened to Clive Barker? He had potential(I quess Scott Bakula was his demise). Horror films now seem just an easy way to break into film. Would it not be awesome to see Spielberg direct a true horror flick or Eastwood. Even Vijay Singh(I mean M. Night Shyamalan) left the genre. Horror is dead. It is time to wake the dead.

mJi, if your really going to film school make a change baby, make that change, Shamon.

[mickyboldersmack]

You're absolutely right Brigulon. The horror films are being pumped out like it's a factory. But the reality is that it is exactly like that. Hollywood is making all these horror films, cause there is a market there. They are cheap to make, require little to no talent, and bring in tons of money. On Project Greenlight, the third season, that gave us "Feast," they were going to go with a completely different script, but eventually chose "Feast" because it was cheap and easy to make. The studios know that they will drop about 5 million for a film and get back 20 or 30, sometimes in one weekend. You can't blame the studios for giving us what we are asking for. If they did what you say, they would get Spielberg and Hanks and make a true horror film, that would cost 100 million and would possibly bring in 30 million opening weekend. Why bother? It's a business, and if I were to make a movie which I would put my own money into. I would make Scary Movie 5, Hostel 2, Madea's Family Reunion sequels, plus all the other crap that's being released, including Texas Chainsaw, Young Hannibal, and The Grudge 2. I don't want to lose money, like with Superman, I want to make money like with Blair Witch Project (not that it was crap).

The only real way to combat crap, is to NOT go see it. But as long as there are Lindsay Lohan fans out there, there will always be a market for cheap chick flicks, and terrible horror films.

[spinin]

there's a market for everything, but fast, cheap and easy always work best. We're a fast food nation.