A bad influence on the genre

Rating: 1/10 (19 October 2019)

I think that at this point in time we can all agree that the whole torture fad was an embarrassing period in horror history, right down there with cgi-heavy remakes and pg-13 teen-oriented garbage. During the era, directors thought that merely being unpleasant was enough to make their films scary. Unfortunately for them, that wasn't the case. The films lacked suspense and originality, and they didn't even have the trashiness that provides entertainment value to all but the worst of older horror films. Instead, we got plodding, idiotic, clinically directed films without scares or even unintentional humor. And for everyone who thought that they were original, note that everything they did was done better in the 60s and 70s by movies like The Wizard Of Gore. What the genre needs is to abandon CGI effects, and try to return to proper horror like that represented by directors like Romero, Carpenter, or Cronenberg (or Roger Corman, Herschel Gordon Lewis, and Ed Wood, to go a different route).