What?! japanise horor movies are the scariest!

A lot of movie makers confuse blood and gore for scary and suspense.

The major reason for this is that people get desensitized as they get older from seeing so many movies. It takes more to be scary for you with each picture. And once you get to just plain outdoing each movie, all you are left with is tons of gore and violence and it doesn't affect you anymore. Just look at the really old horror films in black and white, even the silent ones. People were really horrified! Some people fainted from fear. More recent was the outcry for Rosemary's Baby. People were running out of the theater and getting sick over the horror of it. But people get used to it and jaded after a time.

A part of it, I imagine, is because a lot of horror movies now want to show you all their tricks, rather than leave it to your imagination. If you take a look at some of the classic horror films, the horror is done 'off camera', leaving your imagination to fill in what happens. And usually, your imagination is a lot more vivid than what anyone can see on the screen. This is also mentioned about comic books -- if one panel shows the silhouette of someone with a knife, and a terrified woman looking up at them, and the next panel is an 'away view' of the city scape and a blood curdling scream, what happens in between? We know the woman's died, but how? Well, your imagination can come up with a thousand scenarios, much more graphic and brutal than what could be drawn. Of course, in the modern age, they want to show you what happens, and that takes away a good chunk of the horror. The studios like flexing their special effects budget, when they could focus instead on the storytelling and on the feel of their movies. Sometimes, having a low budget helps more -- remember the Blair Witch Project? That horrified a number of people, but... you didn't really see anything, and that not-seeing did a lot to help the movie. That's my two cents.

Yes, and it bugs the hell out of me. I have also noticed the increase in the number of PG-13 rated horror movies, which I think is pointless. What's the point of making a horror movie with barely any blood? The same with action movies. If it's PG-13, I won't watch it.

especially remake...

Yes...its just good fun except for the Exorcism of Emily Rose......Those possessed movies gives me the creeps.

I know!!! I hate remakes, and the last good scary movie I have seen was the sixth sense and ring jap version

No movie has ever scared me.

I think scary movies were bad up until the late 1990's. Through the late 1990's until the mid 2000's they were good and then they became lame again. Like Orphan, that was a horrible movie!

Watching 30 year old actors portray horny teenagers who are summarily hacked to death by a masked villain is extremely boring.

I think it has to do with becoming an adult and Friday the 13th is mindless?

I have noticed that more torture porn is passing itself off as horror. Maybe it's the technology we have now to depict things; what really scares you ought to be what's in your head, not what you see on screen. A good horror movie should make you think of something terrifying instead of just showing you.

Maybe. If you watch a lot, none of them are scary anymore, because unfortunately for some, the experience is soon forgotten by beaten formulas. It also depends on your preferences, and what was popular at the time that your imagination drew it in, because a lot of horror is about imagination, and using the surreal and dramatic in a realsitic setting... People say that modern horror isn't scary, so I go and watch old horror movies and I just have a laughing fit because in many of them everything is so old and bad, I can't imagine it being anywhere near scary. Perception plays it's part. So does opinion. Fear is universal, and cannot be summarized by one person's opinion or experiences alone, no matter how primal. Atmosphere and plot is what makes something scary for me, however these are two aspects in horror films which are often neglected and replaced by mechanical Hollywood death or exaggerated blood and guts. It's a complex genre though, more so than many realize, and its entirety cannot be judged on crap like the Prom Night remake or Americanized Japanese horror.

Yes. They are all about gore now. Occasionally some good ones pop up like Quarantine but most suck.

No, I think they are still scary