I'm so tired of most all new horror movies about 90 percent of them are demons or ghosts honestly when are they going to come up with something new. Not to let mention ghosts and demons are as believable as big foot. These movies try to scare people with cheap sounds or things magically popping up and I'm just kinda tired of them but somehow all the horror movies that keep coming out either have ghosts or demons which just isn't scary at all.
shareI love this movie, horror can be entertaining wether its ghosts, demons or a crazy man in a mask. The Conjuring gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it.
shareI take no issue with supernatural-themed horror movies. But that's a good point about slasher horror movies since I consider the last great one to have come out so long ago as 20 years (!) -- the first SCREAM (1996). Anyway, I thought the same about horror being dead nowadays until I watched KRAMPUS last December, so I honestly recommend that movie (comes out on DVD soon here in the US by the way). But since that movie includes many elements of other genres, as well, please don't do what a lot of people in the movie theater I watched it in did which is walk out during the first half of the movie; the first half gives no indication of what is to come then things take a 180 degree turn and the movie becomes genuinely VERY FREAKY, honestly, it is a REALLY scary movie. That said, I know a lot of horror fans can't get enough blood and gore, whereas I prefer horror movies where that's kept to a minimum (not that I blame them, I see where they're coming from, I just feel differently myself), and KRAMPUS has minimal blood and gore. I know KRAMPUS made it to #2 at the US box-office for a weekend, which is great, but even so I feel that it would have gotten a lot more success and recognition had it not been released the same time as STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS. It really stands out from the crowd of modern Hollywood releases in many ways in my honest opinion.
The last movie I heard a lot about having been really genuinely scary was INSIDIOUS (2010), which I never saw, but I'd really like to one of these days, been meaning to.
As for ANNABELLE, I actually thought it was creepy and well-done, but I find it strange I'm one of the very few people who think so. It seems universally hated. So I don't know if I count this one as a relatively recent exception also in horror movies or not. Although I have theories as to why people dislike it so strongly -- there's little violence, very little blood or gore, the pace is slower than other modern horror movies, and it brought blatantly Christian religion concepts into the movie's dialogue, which I've honestly noticed turns a lot of American moviegoers off these days, though I know I could be way off on this last point, it's a thought I have.
I cannot speak for demons but ghosts and Bigfoots DO EXIST in the real world. I have first hand experience with both. I do not find them scary but extremely interesting. But you are correct, I think that horror movies have finally died. So much so, they are now making remakes of remakes of remakes of remakes. Apparently, writers have exhausted their knowledge base on the subject and have given up. Hell, I think that Stephen King even gave up on horror!
share2015 and 2016 has given us some of the best horror movies of this decade. They just are not the ones who make 100 million like this one and other major studios cash cows.
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