[Castlewood]

I was talking to my best friend about this, and we've come to this unsettling conclusion: Horror might be in trouble, and I'll tell you why.

Think about the recent horror movies in the past year or so. We've got One Missed Call, The Eye, The Orphanage, 30 Days of Night, and Hostel Part II.

To be honest, The Orphanage is the only one really getting positive criticisms. And it's not even an American movie, lol.

And over the past few years... It seems like America's brilliant idea of making good horror is by remaking Japanese films that were already perfectly fine. The Ring is the exception. But in America, we're getting shitty remakes like The Grudge, One Missed Call, The Eye, etc etc.

So, with that in mind.... what has been original lately? Hostel, Hostel II, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV... and they all have something in common: They all rely on violence, blood, and gore.

I mean, shit, we've got a remake of PROM NIGHT coming out for christ's sakes. Who gives a shit?!?

They remade The Fog, a 1980 classic from John Carpenter, and the remake was completely fucking useless and stupid. They remade Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and we all know it wasn't as scary as the original.

Rob Zombie remade Halloween...

There's a remake of Child's Play coming out in 2009.

There's a remake of Friday the 13th coming out in 2009.

They just announced a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

They're talking about a remake for The Thing.

WHAT THE FUCK. Think about it. By 2010, all of the icons of horror will have been introduced to new generations with painfully inferior remakes. What the fuck for? All of these films were perfectly fine the first time.

... at this rate, we'll have a remake of The Exorcist by 2012. Don't be surprised if that happens. The very thought of it makes me wanna pull my hair out.

Now, there have been some GOOD remakes. I very much enjoyed Dawn of the Dead, The Amityville Horror, and The Hills Have Eyes... I think we can all agree that those were very solid remakes, that perhaps surpassed their originals.

But there is no need to remake every goddamn horror movie. Every fucking one of them is getting remade, and I can't think of one reason other than $$$$$$$.

I realize this is a paranoid thread, and I'm bitching extensively with bold and capitalized words... and I apologize for that. But my point here is this: When is horror going to be GOOD again? When are we going to stop focusing on remakes, and start focusing on ORIGINAL ideas? When are we going to get rid of the tits and gore, and start focusing on THINKING and PSYCHOLOGY? When will we see a movie that will keep us up at night for a month, instead of keeping us from staring at the annoying 13-year old girls who are text-messaging two seats in front of us in the theater? When will we be genuinely frightened, instead of genuinely bored?

Sorry for the length of this thread, but I really needed to vent.