Tired of cliches and redundancy??

[AnotherAsian]

With Cirque du Freak movie coming out, the whole vampire/werewolf cliche is starting to disgust me.
True Blood is all about es ee ex.
Twilight shouldnt even be called a vampire movie. And it was wayyy overhyped and predictable.
Underworld, decent it may be, was basically a goth dream come true.
Vampire Diaries is just....you know what I cant even say how big of a crud thats going to be.
and though I am a fan of cirque du freak, I'm tired of all these vampire movies. I think its time to present our intellectual ideas of non-cilched, original movie ideas. So if anyone has a movie/novel idea, let it out to public (or eGo users) eyes. However, nobody likes a critic so if you have a opinion, keep it nice and clean, but still honest. I'll post some later.

 

[Sexy Beast]

Well for the Vampire genre I have to say that "Let the Right One In" is easily the best to come along since...ehh...Nosferatu?

As for Werewolves, the only good ones I can think of is "The Howling" or "An American Werewolf in London".

 

[WaterSnake]

Well for the Vampire genre I have to say that "Let the Right One In" is easily the best to come along since...ehh...Nosferatu?

As for Werewolves, the only good ones I can think of is "The Howling" or "An American Werewolf in London".

Yeah, man. That's good.

I can't take all this recycling of ideas coming from holywood, and the gaming industry, and books, and music, and uh.

There's nothing original anymore.

 

[AnotherAsian]

I agree with you guys, but the whole idea of this thread was to post YOUR original ideas that can possibly outlast the unoriginal horrors of Hollywood. But again, i agree 100% with you guys.

But I did enjoy 30 Days of Night

 

[Sexy Beast]

I agree with you guys, but the whole idea of this thread was to post YOUR original ideas that can possibly outlast the unoriginal horrors of Hollywood. But again, i agree 100% with you guys.

But I did enjoy 30 Days of Night

Oh...Hollywood horror movies. I think it's time for a rant.

In the last several years...and by that I mean this whole freaken decade. Hollywood has decided in unison that the idea of an original horror movie was passe and it would be far cooler to remake everything.

At the beginning of this decade Hollywood decided that J-Horror and K-Horrors were the way to go. So we were introduced to a long line of dull and terrible Asian horror movie remakes...or those that were inspired by them(Hostel). Though recently this trend has died out. Pretty much due to a long string of movies that were so bad that they were destined to bomb. The last one of these remakes that came out was The Uninvited, a remake of the K-Horror film A Tale of Two Sisters.

Hollywood is also going out of it's way to lose further credibility with horror movie fans by remaking any and every 70s horror film that they can lay their hands on. This is far worse than the Asian thing, because the films that they are remaking are already available to American audiences. Is there really a reason for a Friday the 13th remake or a Hills have Eyes....NO!!!!!!. So far the worst of these was the Last House On the Left remake, which is a remake of a bad film...and they managed to do a worse job then the original.

Unfortunately there really doesn't seem to be much of an end to this remake garbage in sight. Hell "Let the Right On In" is slated for remake as, probably, a teenage girl friendly film.

Despite all of the doom and gloom of the above there is some good. This year Hollywood released a good & for the most part original horror film...that's right you heard my correctly; and guess what....NO ONE SAW IT. The film was Sam "Evil Dead" Raimi's Drag Me to Hell. Also there are some original horror films coming out of the Indie scene and in other parts of the world.

/rant

 

[Poldena2]

Agreed, apparently all horror movies are now are screaming gorefests where the point of the movie is for people to die in the worst ways possible. Give me a break.

 

[Rice_Eater]

I just posted a new vampire movie that is coming out. Search through the forums and you'll find it. Looks like an awesome movie.

 

[Sexy Beast]

I just posted a new vampire movie that is coming out. Search through the forums and you'll find it. Looks like an awesome movie.

All but with the exception of Chan Wook Park's Thirst...i doubt a new vampire film will be good. They've all been tainted by the evil that is Twilight.


*edit* Just remembered: Daybreakers. That looks pretty good.

 

[xosniper]

When in Rome......

 

[AnotherAsian]

I cannot agree more with you Sexy beast. I'm korean and of course grew up favoring films coming from my country, such as Oldboy, Thirst, tales of two Sisiters, The Host(or Gwoemul), and Audition. But with Hollywood bashing and ruining these films just makes me mad at the point of no redemption. I even feel for the Japanese, with films like Grudge and Ringu remade into something awful and beyond hilarious. Drag Me To Hell was a great modern horror flick but certainly not the best of its time. And I fear America will try to remake Oldboy and The Host.

 

[Sexy Beast]

I cannot agree more with you Sexy beast. I'm korean and of course grew up favoring films coming from my country, such as Oldboy, Thirst, tales of two Sisiters, The Host(or Gwoemul), and Audition. But with Hollywood bashing and ruining these films just makes me mad at the point of no redemption. I even feel for the Japanese, with films like Grudge and Ringu remade into something awful and beyond hilarious. Drag Me To Hell was a great modern horror flick but certainly not the best of its time. And I fear America will try to remake Oldboy and The Host.

I seem to remember an Oldboy remake coming down the pipe. Word was that Spielberg was set to direct and Will Smith was staring. Then again I think that project might have died...thankfully.



*Edit*

Scratch that it isn't dead. Though the there is a current battle over rights:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...isher-sues-korean-studio-over-u.s-film-rights

 

[lotus blade]

Well for the Vampire genre I have to say that "Let the Right One In" is easily the best to come along since...ehh...Nosferatu?

As for Werewolves, the only good ones I can think of is "The Howling" or "An American Werewolf in London".

affirmative.