Reply #86: The problem with "modern" horror movies ...

[kweerwolf]

is that they seem to come in only two varieties.

First, there are the "splatter-fests" who are more concerned with who can get the goriest deaths and dismemberments on the screen (which we don't get a lot of anymore now that Hollywood is producing kindler, gentler horror movies that qualify for PG-13 ratings).

Then, we have the ironic/post-modern horror films that are more concerned with being preceived as "hip" instead of scary. Think of Bruce Campbell in "Army of Darkness" or movies like "American Werewolf in London" or "The Howling" that could be scary in places, but were more intent on delivering "ironic" humor or social commentary.

Personally, some of the most unsettling horror movies are some of the Gernman films like "Nosferatu" with Klaus Kinksi or "The Tenderness of Wolves" (which was a fictionalized version of "the vampire of Hanover" who murdered and canibalized young men and sort the left-over meat in a butcher shop after World War I).