[ SECRET POST #3591 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3591 ⌋

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Comments

[purpleseas]

Recent horror remakes don't allow humor, or horror, or anything else that makes a movie fun or memorable. I like to think of them as elaborate practical jokes intended to remind people to give the real versions another spin now and then.

[(Anonymous)]

But Shaun of the Dead.

[purpleseas]

Not a remake. It references a lot of other zombie movies, but it's an original story. "Remake" gets misused a lot. Like the new It isn't a remake of the miniseries but is adapted from the same book.

[kallanda_lee]

Yes, you're spot on.

[(Anonymous)]

Every recent remake has been an attempt to bootstrap a copycat movie from Saw, or one of the other gore franchises, by slapping an existing franchise name onto the script.

Plus the current trend towards seriousness of ultimate seriousnessness in case anyone finds something at all even slightly less than a pure artistic vision of artistic visionness.

[purpleseas]

Ugggh, the enforced seriousness, the blandness, the incredibly boring rejection of anything that's remotely over the top. Horror IS over the top. People are having extreme reactions in extreme circumstances. You can have your serious moments and your subtlety, you can get into real drama and even deal with serious issues through horror, but if you're too chickenshit to embrace the madness when you need to and too tedious to let us have our comic relief, don't bother. Go make a "realistic" prestige drama nobody wants to watch, please. There are so many to choose from, but since Poltergeist is my favorite horror movie and I'm biased, I'd say Poltergeist 2015 is the worst of these endless, doomed remakes. It's like they watched the original and decided the trouble with it is that it's scary, funny, touching, well-characterized (with prominent and offbeat female characters, even), and utilizes lighting. They sure fixed all that, lolol.

[(Anonymous)]

It is the nerd cringe. They like a genre, but they want the genre to be taken as seriously as the non-genre stuff (ignoring that a lot of genre works already are, but the nerds don't believe that), so everything they do in that genre is an OTT attempt to prove the genre has nothing genre-ish about it that might detract from it being taken as seriously as possible. Seen it a lot in the SF genre, where anything fun and campy has been getting stripped out for years.