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This Halloween season, most of the current horror flicks
are a bore. Some of them are actually (unintentionally) funny.
Maybe the problem is that Americans have too many
real things to be scared
about.
Pop culture guru Rob Weiner says, "The recent slate of horror
movies is pathetic. They aren't scary. There's nothing that
captures the imagination. It's like
Hollywood
ran out of ideas. It's a really sorry state of affairs [and]
audiences deserve better."
How do you convince horror-savvy audiences to continue
jumping at the same old bumps in the night? How much
deeper can scriptwriters dig into their bag of tricks and twists
and gimmicks to surprise viewers? How do you create
another "Exorcist" when horror fans are over demonic
possessions? How do you create another "Dracula" when
vampires are busy vamping in teen romance novels? It’s no
wonder moviemakers have increasingly stooped for the gross-
out, using gore to create horror in audiences rather than
reaching for more
elusive and
complex feelings of terror.
Weiner thinks change will come from abroad. "It will probably
be someone we try to emulate, like we have with the Italians
and Japanese in the past."
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