Comments on: Horror Cinema’s New Frontier http://www.flamesrising.com/horror-cinemas-new-frontier/ Horror and Dark Fantasy Webzine Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:03:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason http://www.flamesrising.com/horror-cinemas-new-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-56536 Jason Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:21:30 +0000 http://www.flamesrising.com/?p=2784#comment-56536 I agree. I liked Drag me to Hell a great deal. But it took a pro from a bygone era armed with an original story to please me. Honestly, I think the public is the culpable variable in the equation. American horror will improve once these worthless and poorly made remakes stop being lucrative. That will happen as soon as people stop paying to see them. In the meantime foreign horror and indie horror is where it's at. I agree. I liked Drag me to Hell a great deal. But it took a pro from a bygone era armed with an original story to please me. Honestly, I think the public is the culpable variable in the equation. American horror will improve once these worthless and poorly made remakes stop being lucrative. That will happen as soon as people stop paying to see them. In the meantime foreign horror and indie horror is where it’s at.

]]> By: ihecubus http://www.flamesrising.com/horror-cinemas-new-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-56519 ihecubus Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:05:01 +0000 http://www.flamesrising.com/?p=2784#comment-56519 I could not agree more with Thorson. The once great American horror genre has become sadly anemic. I'm not just talking film here I'm also talking about print. In what reality did I ever consider that Steven King would be a columnist for Entertainment Weekly magazine?!? Was I in a car accident and am now living in a fevered coma reality? The last American horror filmed that I truly enjoyed was "Drag me to hell." Other than that I have been getting my fix almost 100% outside the US. "Let the right one in" was 500 times better than "Twilight" could ever hope to be. "Dead Snow" though not truly horror was great fun and gore. (How can you go wrong with Nazi Zombies?) "Ponty Pool" was fresh and new and oddly compelling. I'm positive US horror will make a comeback. I just do not know when. I could not agree more with Thorson. The once great American horror genre has become sadly anemic. I’m not just talking film here I’m also talking about print. In what reality did I ever consider that Steven King would be a columnist for Entertainment Weekly magazine?!? Was I in a car accident and am now living in a fevered coma reality?

The last American horror filmed that I truly enjoyed was “Drag me to hell.” Other than that I have been getting my fix almost 100% outside the US. “Let the right one in” was 500 times better than “Twilight” could ever hope to be. “Dead Snow” though not truly horror was great fun and gore. (How can you go wrong with Nazi Zombies?) “Ponty Pool” was fresh and new and oddly compelling.

I’m positive US horror will make a comeback. I just do not know when.

]]> By: Billy Mays' Beard http://www.flamesrising.com/horror-cinemas-new-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-56162 Billy Mays' Beard Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:56:35 +0000 http://www.flamesrising.com/?p=2784#comment-56162 Hostel will forever be the most disturbing bad-ass horror movie of al time... PERIOD! Hot chicks and gore, what more do you need? All this underlying, artsy fartsy, make me think, bullshit needs to be left out of the horror genre. I'm just waiting for Ben Affleck to make his horror debut .. the horror genre will be re-written ... awe hell yeah, Affleck 3:16 brother! Hostel will forever be the most disturbing bad-ass horror movie of al time… PERIOD! Hot chicks and gore, what more do you need? All this underlying, artsy fartsy, make me think, bullshit needs to be left out of the horror genre. I’m just waiting for Ben Affleck to make his horror debut .. the horror genre will be re-written … awe hell yeah, Affleck 3:16 brother!

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