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RE: Eli (horror film) : A few good jump scares but mostly kinda boring / annoying
Once again something that could have been done in a thirty minute short and not a full ninety minute movie. I don't mind child actors that much, but I am not really a fan of child actors as the center of horror movies. I don't know if it makes it more creepy or what, but it just isn't something I enjoy. I think it is time for something new and ground breaking. Something to shake the genre up like the remakes of the scary Asian horror movies did with The Ring and The Grudge.
you know i was trying to think of something inventive that could be done and well, honestly, what hasn't been done in horror already? I think a lot of it has to do with music and artistic direction. Some of the creepiest horror films i have seen are Japanese or Korean and they have much much much smaller budgets than even this film.
Ghost movies are always a hit but then again, what hasn't been done with that? I'm at a loss and am probably hoping for an impossible miracle when i say i want something new and inventive :)
It will definitely be hard. I just remember how game changing the backwards motion effect was. The problem is, once someone does something ground breaking it then gets over done to death.
yeah, i think that last film that really blew my mind in the horror genre was Scream... just because they took everything that you know about horror films and then completely switched on you.
I loved how they marketed the film as though Drew Barrymore was the star of the thing and then killed her off in the first 3 minutes of the film... epic.
Cabin in the Woods was a bit of a game changer too.