RE: I watched the recent IT and A Nightmare on Elm Street - Let's talk about Today's Horror vs 1980s Horror
This is a really good read. For me, I tend to agree with your points on suspense and music. And the practical effects and devices for a good scare.
There’s nothing like how they did it with NOES and Poltergeist etc but that’s, as you say, just nostalgic for us.
And that’s not the case for a lot of other audiences.
For me I’ve learned that what scares me now, are films that talk about families and children being in danger, because that speaks to me deeply as a parent. It preys on my deepest fears.
I can’t take the suspense in say, Bird Box for example, because the young kids are potentially in danger and it makes my stomach churn. It’s not the evil forces, but the innocence.
When I was a kid and alone, what scared me was bumps in the night when I was by myself. Now I’m not interested in that at all.
For me, horror is all in your head space.
The filmic storytelling devices designed to make you jump and your heart beat just add to the spectacle - but it needs to run much much deeper to make the really think ‘what if’
Poltergeist is a classic too. I remember enjoying the trilogy on VHS. In fact, I still have the tapes in my attic. Need to find a way to set up a second hand VCR on a mini movie projector one of these days.
I totally get the 'being scared by films about famliies / children in danger' now. I might not have children, I have three young nephews and a niece and most of my friends have young children now. Our perspective and thus our fears change when we grow older, depending on our situation.
I actually watched Bird Box a couple of days ago. Mainly because I remember reading the novel a couple of years back. What I liked about it, was the fact that the evil is hardly shown ( besides all the car crashes and fires ).
Yes, nowadays it's real ( close to ) life horror that scares me more, but I much rather watch the nostalgic type of scary movie that doesn't leave me with a sick to the stomach / man this was disturbed kind of feeling ( think torture horror ).
Thank you for your elaborate comment :>)
Great comment, and I agree.
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