Horror Is Dead

I was listening to Fangoria Radio tonight on Sirius when Dee Snider interviewed Eli Roth.

Horror is dead my friends.

Hostel 2 is being made.

Eli Roth was in Prague doing location scouting recently which pretty much seals the deal that someone has given him enough money to ruin more film.

I don't get it. You probably remember my rant on Hostel being not much more than torture porn but to do it again? What in the world is wrong with these people?!?!?!

He is going to make Stephen King's Cell. Now Stephen King books have a horrible track record when adapted to film.

Horrible. They just don't translate well when it comes to making a movie. So what happens? The writers try to rewrite it and then the Director makes his vision out of King's vision. The result?
Exactly what you have seen. Lackluster movies with the exception of The Shawshank Redemption which was stellar.

I can hear some people now yelling at their monitors in unison, "The Shining!" Kubrick was as overrated a Director as it comes. I think Tim Burton took lessons from Kubrick on how to be overrated. Stanley Kubrick had his moments, even a broken clock is right twice a day but The Shining, Barry Lyndon, and that dreck Eyes Wide Shut, well they suck.

Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Clockwork Orange, and Spartacus were excellent but not enough to call Kubrick a master filmmaker.

2001? PLEASE! What happened with that movie is that a ton of critics saw it, they couldn't figure it out but they didn't want to look like idiots in front of their other critic buddies so they found deep profound meaning in it just to save face and show others how smart they really were.

Well back on topic. Horror is a dead genre if it is left to the likes of Eli Roth. I can repeat it until my last day on Earth.

Gore does not make a horror movie.
Gore does not make a horror movie.
Gore does not make a horror movie.

Until that breakthrough idea from a breakthrough filmmaker happens then I declare that horror movies are dead.