Time for those horrible Halloween horrors, folks!

So, let’s ask ourselves, why are today’s horror movies so horrible now?

Have they finally reached the ghastly pinnacle of ghastly perfection that they sought for all those decades? And what happened to those nostalgic horror classics of yesteryear that were pretty benign in comparison? And are people happy, angry or sad that graphic horror scenes enhanced with high-tech special effects are so incredibly realistic now?

Over the past seventy years or more, horror movies have changed dramatically and horribly. This spooky genre has literally evolved from low-budget B-movies and cheesy special effects (though they are considered memorable classics) to hideously graphic and hideous CGI-enhanced masterpieces of hideous proportions. If you’ve ever seen the old classic movies about Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula, the Werewolf, the Mummy, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, even the Invisible Man, etc. Do not classify them as what we now know as Horror, considering the extreme changes that have been evolving.

Today’s horror movies involve enough blood to fill several bathtubs, enough carnage and blood to make a weak man vomit all his guts, and truly realistic CGI special effects to make you think what you’re really seeing, and those graphic scenes can induce horrible nightmares in your sleeping hours.

We have a host of serial killer and serial killer movies, armies of flesh and brain devouring zombies, blood sucking vampires, gruesome cannibals and other grotesque creatures beyond your imagination that are just the tip of the iceberg.

As if that wasn’t enough, the element of gruesome torture and violence has crept onto the spectrum, especially with the SAW movie franchise. Forcing victims to inflict psychological or physical torture to free themselves (such as shackling their leg to escape) has become very popular. Let’s not forget Strange landand the three lodging house films. Then we have cannibalism movies, like Silence of inocents, The Hills Have Eyes, Voracious, Cannibal holocaustetc.

Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, the Werewolf, the Mummy, the Creature from the Black Lagoon and all the others have been replaced by characters like Michael Myers, Jason, Freddy Krueger, Leatherface, Pinhead, Hannibal Lecter and others. And, of course, legions of hideous zombies walk the Earth. There are so many zombie movies, dating back to the 1930s, that you would go crazy trying to count them all! I almost do it! (I found them all on Wikipedia) And they have become so graphically hideous that I suspect they are actually real! In fact, I’ve heard people (mostly conspiracy theorists and crazies) declare that a zombie-like virus could indeed become a reality (perhaps because diabolical genetic engineers play God – or the Devil! !) And a large scale. The zombie pandemic now seems realistic and possible in our world! Oh!

We must ask ourselves the psychological questions: why do people want to be afraid? Why do we want to be exposed to violence and graphic horror scenes? Being your typical carnival rides wimp, I was always wary of roller coasters and those heartbreaking thrill rides, thinking that I was going to fall and plummet to my death, even though I was tightly tied. At such crazy rides, I would sometimes see loose change or purses or purses and other things flying out of people secured in their seats. If I lost something, it would normally be my lunch. Although many people have stronger stomachs than me, who can more easily enjoy thrills and chills, I admit I was not one of them. At first I even avoided horror movies, although as a child I liked the old classics, I guess because they used to be devoid of large amounts of blood and gore and other gruesome scenes, which has become the hallmark of current horror movies. . But in the last few years I’ve grown numb and I don’t mind seeing such hideous shit. I even learned to like those adorable zombies as they mindlessly stumble and groan and groan all the time and tend to like to eat brains, which are actually putrid, disgusting creatures that would disgust me as a child.

But do we want to be afraid because we hope to become numb to horror? Are we hiding from our own internal horrors by facing manufactured external horrors? Or because we think we deserve to be victims of some kind of element of horror in our lives? Do we think we deserve bad karma, and therefore exposing ourselves to tons of horror movies will help us achieve self-inflicted retribution? Or is it just a way to escape our otherwise boring lives? I don’t know, but I’m still looking for the answer, or answers. So far, all I know is that I find certain types of horror movies just fascinating, like those stupid, dumb zombies. I particularly like the comic versions, as described in Shawn of the dead, Fido, Zombieland, Y Aaah! Zombies! and others.

Alright, why are zombies all the rage right now? Vampires have been all the rage for a long time, least of all Frankenstein’s monster, and while some werewolves still run around, the return of the latest Wolf Man movie is making a futile attempt to get werewolves out of the closet. We’ve seen a few Mummy movies, starring Brendan Fraser, but these would fall more into the Adventure genre. But most of today’s horrors are extremely intense in blood and gore and violence and torture and those nightmarish elements that are not for the faint of heart or stomach. Some viewers may view these films as visual pollution, horrible things, or horrible nightmares, while others view them as emotionally and psychologically stimulating. As if they deserve to be scared with their fucking skulls!

I wonder if anyone will resort to creating horror movies that revisit the style and melodrama of the old classics, where a lot is left to the imagination. Or are those days gone forever?

We’ll see …

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