The Future of Horror
Over the past 80 plus years in which Horror has been a
popular genre, it has gone through numerous “eras” where specific aspects of
the genre and what make it popular have changed. Like the all the old universal
monster movies or all the slasher movies that came out during the 70s-90s...
One of the most prominent changes is how brutal the gore in movies has become.
The other day I watched Hostel for the first time without
cringing or feeling grossed out even once! I watched a woman’s eyeball getting
severed and yellow puss spewing out of her eye-socket without is bothering me
at all. I know that Hostel is a torture porn movie which isn’t necessarily
supposed to scare you but I can’t help but feel that this says something about
the horror genre as a whole. If you look
at any old movies (say Dracula, Psycho etc.) they were considered to be very
scary when they came out but today most of us can watch them without even flinching
once.
Considering that we have become so desensitized to the
horrors from the past and the present, will we also be to the future horrors?
Maybe future horror movies will become more and more
realistic as technology gets better but what will happen when fake gore isn't
good enough any more? I think that (in a few hundred years of course) if things
get bad enough, socially and politically, we might end up supporting something like the Hunger
Games, it’s not like humans have never used real violence as a form of entertainment…
Please remember this isn’t a completely serious post, but just
something that I find interesting to think about. Please tell me what you guys think and what you
think the future of Horror will look like!
-The Insomniac’s Cinema
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