{"id":2390,"date":"2011-10-31T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/open-letter-to-the-horror-movie-industry\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:29:50","slug":"open-letter-to-the-horror-movie-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2011\/10\/open-letter-to-the-horror-movie-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to the Horror Movie Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0154368a5d99970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"POSTER - HELL NIGHT\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef0154368a5d99970c\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef0154368a5d99970c-200wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"POSTER - HELL NIGHT\" \/><\/a>Happy Halloween. My favorite holiday. And since I&#39;m on a rant-roll, I thought I&#39;d make a few complaints about the state of the American Horror Movie Industry.<\/p>\n<p>I love horror movies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apeculture.com\/movies\/horrorflicks.htm\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">My favorites<\/a> tend to be really creative ghost stories. But I have plenty of sci-fi horror flicks on the list, even some classic slashers. I even appreciate many things about Italian and Japanese horror.<\/p>\n<p>Like the &quot;American Western&quot; or closed poetry forms (ex: metric verse, sonnets), there&#39;s an architecture of rules made to be followed or, for the more gifted artist, rules made to be broken.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the mid 1990s, I feel like I&#39;ve been avoiding more horror movies than I\u2019ve been watching: the formulaic slasher has evolved into the &quot;apocalyptic masochistic slasher.&quot; I see this as the result of a decade of Gen-X irony. But as iconic writer David Foster Wallace said when I saw him at a reading in Los Angeles (a year or so before he killed himself), haven&#39;t we taken irony as far as we can? Essentially irony implies we don&#39;t really care. And how long can we not really care? Isn&#39;t it time to return to a little sincerity?<\/p>\n<p>As much as I love the mose recent Japanese films, which are artful and scary, they are ultimately dissatisfying. Sure, it may be a cultural thing: American like happy endings. Europeans and Asians find those to be drippy and unsatisfying. Why should our hero always survive?<\/p>\n<p>Due to irony and Japanese influence, no one has survived a horror movie in about 20 years. The movie <em>Insidious<\/em> was highly recommended to me recently as a very creepy ghost story. My last straw broke in the final scene where the whole cast will likely die at the hands of our hero, suddenly possessed\u2026after all that freakin work to persevere.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Zombie movies&#8230;so awesome looking, but again with the message that all the work one might do to survive is for naught. It this any more realistic than the hero always succeeding?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m depressed by these movies.<br \/>I\u2019m bored by these movies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m bored with the storyline of a parent who has lost a child and can\u2019t go on (and doesn\u2019t have the will or energy to fight the monster). Of course losing a child is THE worst storyline. But people did used to be able to survive it. Give them some hope of survival for chrissake.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m bored by the storyline of the ingenue who is smart and brave but will be undone by evil forces much larger than she is\u2026just because. Just because what? 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