Not So Scary...

I am a horror movie addict and many years ago Vincen Price movies could scare the hell out of me. I loved House on Haunted Hill and their still making them but more up to date versions. You're right....now there is really no movie that can actually scare me. I'm so used to watching blood, gore and people being stabbed or having their body parts cut off..lol....doesn't phase me in the least.

If you've ever seen the remake of House on Haunted Hill, the man who played Price in the remake looked eerily like Vincent Price in the first version.

The houses were similar as well. The remake is pretty good as far as remakes go.

I would say it would be by Wes Craven proberly. I haven't really seen any movies by Stephen King that scare me to bad. Maybe "It" when I was younger other then that I have enjoyed watching his movies.

I don't think movies could ever achieve that level of scary these days.

People have become far too immune having seen so many over the years.

If you notice the modern horror movies, they are increasingly filled with dark humor in order to make them more interesting.

That is the reason behind the realistic and grand specials effects as well.... along with the "we do it because we can" reasoning too.

Even Steven King and Wes Cravens have resorted to using humor in their work.

I think that the recent movie that was based on a Stephen King short story, "1408" could have used doctors standing by, not so much because of the scary but because it seems like all of the flashing lights and weird camera angles could make people have seizures (I thought I my have one, and I have no history of that sort of thing!).

I think we have become immune to being scared. The news is scary enough now.
I remember being frightened by Vincent Price films when I was younger and especially by Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds. I would still be terrified by any film with rats in, but that's because I'm terrified of rats.

wasn't it kind of that way when 'the exorcist' came out like that back in the day? where it freaked people out SOOO bad? they actually took pieces out cuz it freaked people out so bad...kinda funny, but for us it's more of a creepy-factor, not a stop your heart kind of scare! haha!

i love vincent price, hee, talk about creepy!

but man, i don't know what it would take these days to scare someone like that. society has changed SO much!

"House of Wax" scared the beejeezus out of me. This day and age though, people are exposed to so much more graphic stuff on TV and video that the old time horror movies are so tame. We see dead bodies nightly on the news that it's no big deal. We are just so immune to all that stuff now.

The only thing I can think of with that kind of effect was The Blair Witch Project. The shakey camra being held by one of the victims put the audience in the perspective of the victim. In the theater the anxiety level of the audience was noticible even without the blood & gore. It loses the effect when viewed on a small screen. Most of the group I went with spent the night trembeling while I went home & proceded to destroy my punching bag ( I don't take the victims perspective well, I lash out ). While I enjoy most horror movies, I hated that one.

Yes, twoey, I remember that old gimmick of having doctors standing by whenever some horror movies came out. It was a great gimmick-guaranteed to draw an overflow crowd. I agree that those movies were relatively tame compared to the stuff that is out there now. Along with Wes Craven and Stephen King, I would add Dean Koontz. I do love Vincent Price movies. He was simply the best. He had all of the qualities of a true "movie star."