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Post by d3M0n on Jun 11, 2011 13:29:29 GMT -5
You can select up to 2 choices
Well as for me.... I grew tired of F13th movies many years ago. Dont get me wrong. I always go through my phases to watch them maybe once a year. But I dont even watch all of them anymore.
When I first really got into modern horror in 2000 I watched them what seems like every month. I just couldnt sustain an interest for very long I guess. I dont do that with anything though. So its not just F13th. My mind needs a break to refresh interest. Technically the answer is yes, I grew tired of watching them on a basis a huge fan would. I grew tired in 2006.
Halloween's... I only watch them in Sept -October time frame. I used to kill those as well like every month. I started watching them around Halloween only, in prob 2006 as well.
NOES I never really cared for. I only really like Part 2 and some of Part 3. I never really killed either. So the answer by default is, I never liked them enough to get sick of watching them. I didnt watch them that much as it is.
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Post by jlaw on Jun 11, 2011 19:07:19 GMT -5
Maybe I'm tired of new bad entries in each franchise, but on the whole, no I'm not tired of them. I watch much, much more horror than just the big three, and with my childhood ties to them, I doubt I'll ever get tired of my favorites from each franchise.
But I agree that I don't bother watching them all anymore. For Friday the 13th, I typically watch 1-4 maybe once a year now and that's about it. I haven't watched 5-rest of them for a few years now. A Nightmare on Elm Street 1 and 2 get the most play and as for Halloween, always the first, and I'll occasionally watch the others once every couple of years.
Too much horror in this rich and storied genre to just watch this trio over and over.
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Post by Leatherface on Jun 11, 2011 19:29:04 GMT -5
Actually I don't mind them at all. The way i look at them is those are the big 3. Back in the 40's and 50's it was Frankenstein, Dracula and Wolfman. I enjoy the movies when they are on but i would be annoyed if they were the only films in horror now.
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jun 11, 2011 20:51:26 GMT -5
All of them have worn out their welcome at this point as far as I am concerned. I wouldn't be let down if all of the franchises stayed dormant for several years.
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Post by Leatherface on Jun 11, 2011 21:02:05 GMT -5
^Same. I'm fien with no new installments. I think there's enough installments in each franchise to hold us over.
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Post by d3M0n on Jun 11, 2011 21:07:13 GMT -5
Jer I think you misread the question. It's not really about new ones. My real question is about the RE-Watching of the movies as a whole. Not whether or not more should be made. So how do you feel about pulling those out for rewatches on a monthly or yearly basis?Too much horror in this rich and storied genre to just watch this trio over and over.
My fav franchise is PSYCHO. I learned through killing my other fav franchises, NOT to kill this one. Yes I pretty much memorized all of them... but I have seen each PSYCHO movie less than 10 times. I havent watched any of them in a year. The mood will prob hit me to go through all 4 this summer.
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Post by Leatherface on Jun 11, 2011 21:19:34 GMT -5
I ahven't watched any of them in a while actually. I think the last two i saw were NOES 2010 and I think Friday 6? The last hallwoeen I remember watching was RZH2 and that was like a year ago. I do get burned out on them here and there but i'll watch one or two here and there but bas fore evryday I think I'd go insane
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Post by FireStar on Jun 11, 2011 21:55:07 GMT -5
I wouldn't say I'm burned out on any of them but I definetly don't watch them as often as I used to. I still watch all the Fridays at least 2 to 3 times over the course of a year. Probably about the same for the Halloweens, mostly because they are on tv often especially during the fall. As for NOES, it was always my least favorite of the three series and as such never really watched it much so I probably watch them maybe once a year if that.
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Post by jlaw on Jun 12, 2011 0:34:53 GMT -5
Well said! The mood strikes all fans to watch any movie they love time after time. But for horror fans it's tuff. We get really attached to some favs. Therefore we really run the rewatch aspect into the ground. Honestly if I had to watch ANY F13th every month of the year for the last 11 years I woulda killed my self by now or started using heroin.
My fav franchise is PSYCHO. I learned through killing my other fav franchises, NOT to kill this one. Yes I pretty much memorized all of them... but I have seen each PSYCHO movie less than 10 times. I havent watched any of them in a year. The mood will prob hit me to go through all 4 this summer.
I agree what with you said. I'm not sure why, but when a horror fan loves a film, they do seem to watch and become addicted to it more than the average non-horror movie goer. Like when I finally saw Drag Me To Hell this past Thanksgiving, I watched it like 5 times in less than 2 months, which is a lot for me. Psycho is a very summer like movie isn't it? I seem to watch those films, especially the first, when it is summer. Must be that hot opening shot of the city in the first movie. |
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Post by d3M0n on Jun 12, 2011 9:10:08 GMT -5
I know for a fact I first watched all the sequels to PSYCHO in August 0f 2008. So I guess those will always be summer movies to me. I really have no idea when I watched Part 1 for the first time.
The summer air just makes things seem less like a chore and more like fun. Sometimes I put a movie and and feel like I have a long 90mins ahead of me. But in the summer I feel like its just good fun. I know thats an odd way to view things but its just how I do it.
Drag me to Hell was great. Yet I find myself watching horror made in the 00's only one time. I rarely rewatch new horror movies. They dont feel like the 80s stuff where I wanna keep getting lost in that little time machine the 80s brings you in. They are just good movies and then I move forward. Its really weird.
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Post by jlaw on Jun 12, 2011 14:57:05 GMT -5
I feel you on the whole rewatching thing. Though I love quite a few from the 2000's, and consider stuff like A Tale of Two Sisters and Inside classics, and among my favorites, I've seen them only like two times. Other things I like I may have seen only once, like Kairo. For some reason, I also get the urge to revisit the newer films less frequently as well. So when I watched something like Drag Me to Hell five times in a such a short time span, I think it's an easy choice to make as my favorite of the 2000's. It has something all the others don't for me and that's rewatchability, which is a very important thing.
The 90's was extremely weak for this as well. Scream, The Blair Witch Project, and....I can't remember anything I've seen more than twice from that decade.
For me, there's just something about the 30's-80's. I think about 80% of my favorites must come from that time span and I can rewatch any of these over and over. The Universals, the Val Lewtons, Vincent Price films, Psycho, TCM, Halloween, slashers, etc etc etc. Now it's not completely like this, in this decade or in the past, but it just seems like more of the filmmaker's heart and soul was put into horror in the past, compared to these days. Where are the icons of horror? Who are this periods' Boris Karloff, Price, Robert Englund....
I don't know, there's just something about today that makes it different. So maybe our reasons are different, but I can relate.
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jun 12, 2011 15:54:25 GMT -5
I haven't watched a slasher film in a long time, although that doesn't mean that I don't like them anymore. To be fair though, I haven't sat down and watched a movie in a while.
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Post by Rebel on Jun 12, 2011 16:18:30 GMT -5
I never get tired. I watch Machete and Hellraiser Inferno when I am shredding papers at night sometimes  I am pre-occupied catching up on epicness from the 70s and 80s using my VHS cover catelog. I watch all that along with the big three. I don't watch Halloween that much. I do watch Season of the Witch a lot though |
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Post by jlaw on Jun 13, 2011 18:56:12 GMT -5
That film is a masterpiece Ive found Japanese horror to be a breath of fresh air, its like being a new horror fan from the 80s once again, much of it is so original and different then American made films. You really come to appreciate film making watching some of these films. Yeah, Asian cinema has its gems, and 4 or 5 years ago, I was on a big Asian horror kick, but it ran out of steam because like any other country, it gets redundant. It's easy to champion stuff like A Tale of Two Sisters because it's phenomenal and I think the very best of American horror of the past 20 years or so just doesn't match up to the very best of foreign countries during the same time frame. That being said, it's also very easy to raise hold foreign horror so high because we're usually only privy to the very best a certain country has to offer. We hear about and seek after the very best of the best, so when you're watching the gems one right after another, and avoiding the drek, the quality is going to be otherworldly. Only when you run out of the masterpieces and you want more is when you realize that just like any other area of the world, the basic idea is to rip off and mimic. But I agree that in terms of quality, American horror has been very low, maybe for even so long as the past 25 years and counting. Foreign films just seem to be more skillfully made, in virtually every aspect of making a movie. |
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Post by Rebel on Jun 14, 2011 17:33:06 GMT -5
I haven't seen that much Asian based horror but I have seen a good bit of Italian based horror. Those folks KNOW their gore. I have seen several Lucio Fulci and those folks know their mojo. Very different than most movies of the 70s and 80s here.
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Post by Zombified Jeremy on Jun 14, 2011 18:02:28 GMT -5
That film is a masterpiece Ive found Japanese horror to be a breath of fresh air, its like being a new horror fan from the 80s once again, much of it is so original and different then American made films. You really come to appreciate film making watching some of these films. Yeah, Asian cinema has its gems, and 4 or 5 years ago, I was on a big Asian horror kick, but it ran out of steam because like any other country, it gets redundant. It's easy to champion stuff like A Tale of Two Sisters because it's phenomenal and I think the very best of American horror of the past 20 years or so just doesn't match up to the very best of foreign countries during the same time frame. That being said, it's also very easy to raise hold foreign horror so high because we're usually only privy to the very best a certain country has to offer. We hear about and seek after the very best of the best, so when you're watching the gems one right after another, and avoiding the drek, the quality is going to be otherworldly. Only when you run out of the masterpieces and you want more is when you realize that just like any other area of the world, the basic idea is to rip off and mimic. But I agree that in terms of quality, American horror has been very low, maybe for even so long as the past 25 years and counting. Foreign films just seem to be more skillfully made, in virtually every aspect of making a movie. Yeah, for every Ichi The Killer, there are a few stinkers. Just look up Tokyo Gore Police. |
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Post by The Darkness on Jun 14, 2011 19:09:32 GMT -5
I don't watch any of those very frequently anymore....hell, TBH, I barely watch them at all now-a-days. But one of them that for some reason I cannot stand lately is NOE...it just gets so old with the later ones sucking and the original ones being so similar.
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Post by d3M0n on Jun 14, 2011 19:29:27 GMT -5
Undoubtedly there will come a time when we just cant sit through any of these films anymore. That is if we watch them too often. When that day comes, I really hope there is a stockpile of great horror movies for us to move onto.
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Post by Xч on Jun 17, 2011 21:54:15 GMT -5
You know its funny.
But i'm tired of horror right now (even horror related forums).Its probably just a phase though.
Last horror movie i watched was like maybe a month or 2 ago.
The only thing i'm slightly looking forward to is the BD release of Insidious and Season 4 of true blood.Thats about it.
As far as the big 3 goes,yeah i'm tired.I don't even remember the last time i saw an elm street movie.The Elm street remake kinda Tarnished the whole original franchise for me,Just not in the mood for it.I did watch the original Halloween last year, never that Rob zombie shit,for the same reason that i don't want to Tarnish a great movie like the original Halloween with zombies fantasy.Last Friday movie i saw was the remake last year.Like Demon I'm pretty sure i'll get into some kind of horror mood this summer and run a Classics horror marathon like i did last year.Black Sunday,wolfman,Lugosi Dracula etc etc.
I find that watching those movies ignites the horror flame in me to watch other things horror related,what ever that may be 80's 00's whatever.
But you know what,i think we've seen everything that horror has to offer.There's nothing else more to see.
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Post by jlaw on Jun 18, 2011 0:13:00 GMT -5
Interesting thoughts as always. That sucks that these newer installments/remakes kind of took the wind out of the sails of the originals for you, for now at least. People always say the originals are still there, but I can see why you might think that they have been or could be ruined because of the usual abominations that these remakes are.
Actually watching the older entries definitely rekindles the love though. Personally, I actually enjoyed the Elm Street remake, but seeing Jackie Earl's take actually made me appreciate Robert Englund even more now. I have this affection for even the worst sequels in that series that I didn't quite have before because it's just so good to see Englund doing his thing.
As disenchanted as I can get sometimes with the current state of horror, the classics always remind me why I am a fan and have such great love for the genre. Your last sentence is extremely cynical, but something I usually wonder myself. It seems ridiculous sometimes, but maybe we already have seen the best horror has had to offer.
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