Over the past 40 to 50 year's alot of us have seen quite alot of horror film, iver on the big screen or on the small screen. Clearly from the the 40's horror films we're in decline because of the great recession which didnt help the industry, but then world war 2 happen which further push horror genre out of Hollywood.
This was mainly due to a lot of people saw enough horror in the real world to actually watch the horror on the big screen, but horror film clearly made a big come back from the 60 to 80s in a big way
"For example" : Friday the 13th's Jason vorhees hacking and slashing his way through campers to Freddy Kruger invading the dreams with a nightmares to kill them in their sleep.
This was enough to terrifie young and old viewers across the world for years as most cinema goers have seen in shock and ore, this is because of the director / writers with imagination brought us some of the most terrifying creatures and monster to the screen.
With an honorable mention of "Clive barkers" "Hell Raiser" with Pin head was enough to put chills down you're spine for any audience. These classic went on to be the biggest horror icon's of the generation but since the 90's the Biggest Question in the film industry is why "Horror" films are in decline? Well this is mainly due to a number of factor that are killing the horror - genre.
One is being the certification of the film which seem to have become the normal with (MPAA PG13) - (BBFC-12A) thinking that a teen style horror film is gonna scare the audience. Sadly this is not the case as (PG13- 12A) horror restricts the art form of the film, this tone down concept to the point you can't use true natural horror to frighten the audience is an example of this.
What i mean by this is the fact is most Hollywood director use the jump scare moments like sound or load bangs to make the audience jump at the right moments, this isnt horror; this is an amateur thing to do in a horror film to give cheap scare show that the director has no clue what they are doing.
Although some horror are subject-able like gory horror, this is not scary as this is meant to shock you more than scare, it's the slasher and psychological horror that are meant to scare
"Good example" : House of haunted hill, shutter island, poltergeist, the conjuring etc great examples of psychological horror that dont use jump scares to frighten the audience.
Bad examples: "Mama", "Ouija", "it follows", and many other horror film in this generation that have failed to scare the audience, this is the one of the main reason.
The other Reason stem from wrong timing of the year which yes we can all agree on mainly always having a horror film around the time of the month's January or February, which everyone knows is the two month of the year where the film dumping are for crappy movies goes.
The other will probley piss off the comic book fans but fuck it who cares im gonna say it anyway, the reason why i calling in the comic book genre as well on this is because i have notice over the past few years that comic book movies are staggering other films.
What i mean by this is the fact the comic book genre is taking over cinema which over shadows other film's as well because all people want to see now is comic book film all the time, as most people can't seem to appreciate a movie out side of the comic book genre which i have noticed.
This is other reason why the Horror genre is dying because Hollywood think the 12A- PG13 will bring in more money because they feel a 18 cert film wont make money, yet Dead pool was 18 cert made money proving that audience would watch a 18 cert film if it was made right.
For those that say that not every film has to be an 18 certification sadly horror film do or whats the point in making a horror film, Horror needs the 18 certification so it can go all out in the psychological concept to truly get under the skin of the audience without that you don't have a horror you have a twilight film for teenagers.
Hollywood inst just to blame here it's also from the IPF industry (Independent film) also, two many sub-genres like zombies and found footage adopted by horror film director on a low budget have become over used, which sadly is killing horror genre as well because with there scary camera and lack of imagination really doesn't help.
Simple put Horror in 2017 is simple just not frightening anymore, compared to the horror from the 60's to 80's horror back then horror was horror, now its become this complete washed down industry which sadly is why this horror genre is in decline.
Personally i think the horror genre need to bring back the old school time of horror, forget about the 80s, stop trying to copy whats done before and truly make a dark sinister chill to the bone horror film that the audience will love.
What do you think as an audience do you feel the horror genre should just die out or get a complete make over? Let us know in the comment section what you think.
By Movie Knights
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