Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for October 28, 2013

“Here’s Johnny!”

The new horror movies are mostly special effects with ‘homages’ (rip off) from the old ones. Which means that when the kids see the old ones they have this feeling of ‘déja vu’ and just ask where is the blood.

The old ones involves acting. The new ones, as cabalonrye said, are all special effects.

Read the book. Much scarier than the movie.

The Shining was a great movie. As good as the book. There isn’t enough gore in it to appease today’s desensitized kids.

Having watched the B&W version of The Haunting with Julie Harris and the updated version in colour & showing the CGI “monsters”- .The original B&W was way scarier. Throughly believed the lines at the end & the beginning that whatever walked those halls walked alone.

If you want to see good horror movies, where the acting and dialog were more important than the CGI or effects, watch the old B&W Universal monster movies; Dracula, the various Frankenstein movies and, of course, the Wolfman. BTW, there have been many werewolves in movies, but Chaney was the only person ever to play a wolfman. (Unless you count the completely unrelated film of that name from 1979, and I don’t.)

“REDRUM!”

I wouldn’t count Deliverance or Cuckoo’s Nest as horror. Classics, maybe, but horror they ain’t.