Horror

My perfect evening: lots of food, lots of drinks and a terrifying horror movie. But it's hard these days to satisfy me as a passionate horror watcher. Most movies just don't scare me anymore. Maybe I'm too critical: "Oh wait now something scary is going to happen..." "Oh in a minute she is going to die..." "Oh I've seen this concept already, she dies, he becomes a ghost and actually he was never alive in the first place" "Oh dude come on! A corpse that has been laying there for nine months could never be that color, in fact you wouldn't even be able to enter the room!" "Oh come on man, that was SO obvious..." I know I'm mostly spoiling my own fun, but I have to say these days horror movies aren't what they used to be. You can smell plot changes from about a mile far and some movies are just cheap and different-named remakes of an earlier, but better, movie. Sometimes movie-makers think we're get scared by about anything that is covered in blood or looks a bit deformed. Let me tell you a blood-covered corpse whose eyes have been removed and has been totally gutted is less scary than a dead looking corpse that at the same time looks slightly alive. Horror movies these days are simply more gory and vomitifying than scary. They just make me laugh sometimes. Just take "13 Ghosts" for example, I absolutely laughed through the whole movie. Same thing goes for "Saw", I mean, most of the time I just went "Eww" and "Oh Gross" in stead of "Aaaaaaaargh, that fucking scared me!"
I think Hollywood has the whole thing messed up. According to me, torn off limbs, gutted people and bodiless heads on a flagpole aren't scary, they are just gross. Unsuspected ghosts, clever plots (The Others, The Sixth Sense), psychological scares (The Blair Witch Project, Rosemary's Baby), regular people gone absolutely insane and possessed (The Exorcist, The Shining), haunted houses with a long history and preferably Victorian (The Amityville Horror House, Rose Red), scary secrets being uncovered bit by bit, things that look and feel real, situations that make you go: "Oh well that could happen to me..." "What is that noise, oh my God! Could it be? The movie plot started out with that noise...". Situations that build up to a climax, not movies throwing you out there in between zombies (which you know don't exist) and a plot to complicated to get (Death Tunnel, Ghost Lake), those are just not scary.
I feel that no proper horror movies are being made anymore, maybe I should make it my mission to think some out. Although I have to say that Stephen King is doing a damn good job to try and keep things going. All of his books and movies make me go: "Ok, so everything is fine, right? Right?! What was that noise? O_O Maybe I shouldn't sleep alone tonight"
I will try and watch as many horror movies as I can to report on them later, I will let you guys know when and which one. I'll conclude this by giving some movies that ARE worth while seeing and I promise you, horror friends, I will make it my personal mission to report on the hardest corest horror!

• All movies based on Stephen King novels or scripts written by him.
• The Nightmare On Elm Street Series, not Freddie vs. Jason though and not the last one with Kelly Rowland.
• The Exorcist
• The Others
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Sixth Sense
• I know I'm repeating myself but you guys have to watch "The Shining" it is absolutely insane!
• The Grudge
• The Ring
• Poltergeist
• Amityville Horror
• The Haunting

Those are pretty much the only ones I can think of now, that are actually worth putting everything aside for. There are more good and somewhat okay horror flicks but I can't post them all so I will be posting more later on. Please note that I do mean the original movies, just like some wines it is true that older is better. Also watch out with sequels and more-quels, they tend to be a little pulled by the hair sometimes (Poltergeist 2 & 3). Otherwise: lights out, scares on, friends by the hand and make sure to check under your bed tonight!

Make my bed the grave and shovel dirt onto my sheets...
XO-reos
Monco