Yeah, I kinda feel this way, too. My love of say Friday the 13th stems from watching it in my early teens (and with no prior exposure really to horror) but I'd hardly expect young adults who grew up on Hostel, Saw and much gorier films to be terrified of Jason as represented in II - IV. Just too tame, relatively poor SFX compared to now and borderline to terrible acting. I think same can be said of Halloween. Myers is a great achetype but the movie is no longer horrifying to new audiences. Just saw the original The Thing for the first time a week or two ago and that to me is an example of a horror movie that has aged better than a lot of the slasher films.
Everytime I get to Annie's death it completely takes me out of the film, way past my supension of disbelief. Especially when pleasence is keeping such a dead serious demeanor the whole time. Halloween set the blue print for the slasher, it needs to be regarded as such, but I can understand why a lot of people wouldn't be able to appreciate it like you would if you had seen it in the theater on opening night.
When you can watch a movie like the Shining then watch Halloween, some of its effect will be lost.
The Thing is a much better film imo.
Prince of Darkness is even creepier to me, and I saw that in my 20's.
But that's the thing. There are movies that are THAT Slow and suspenseful now....
There are movies that are no different than Friday or Halloween, (Obviously they are modern with more special effects) Movies that kids watch and pay for. PG 13 movies that are boring but teens eat them up. I could name a ton of bad movies that are not even as good as Halloween or Friday the 13th.
And those today, make millions back.so I don't get it. Teens are going to watch these stupid horrible cliche crappy movies like:
Prom Night, like When a Stranger Calls, the Strangers, Paranormal Activity, Open Water. I Know what you did Last Summer 2,
I could go on, and on, Movies that can be said to be as slow as Halloween or Friday, Or Jaws... But nowhere Near as good.
Speaking of Jaws... How could someone say Jaws is long and boring but watch Open Water and say it was so scary? that makes no sense for example.
Or make fun of Halloween and say it is boring, but watch every sequel to Paranormal Activity, How does that make ANY Sense????
Honestly I really don't get it, the only thing I could say is that the fact that these movies are old and with actors that they don't recognize is what turns people off. That's it. It's the "old" factor that makes people be this way.
Because I can bet that someone can rip Halloween off with young actors of today, make it PG 13 and kids will eat it up like the morons they are.
