Basically, horror was once all about suspense and they used to be more psychologically scary, now it's more about how gory the producers can make a film and how many effects can be used to make someone scared. Horror is a genre that is based around terror, blood and men in scary costumes, now its based around gore, guts and ghosts, which is always good. Who's complaining?
Horror is my favourite genre, they're the only films I watch. I strive for the nightmares and the sleeping with the light on the night after.
Halloween (1978)Halloween is a genuinely scary, stylistic and tasteful, extremely well-crafted slasher/horror classic. This film is is based on a young boy that murders his older sister with a knife. Fifteen years later, hehe escapes from a psychiatric hospital and stalks a group of girls. This 40 year-old film teriffied its audience with its cheesy storyline, scary costumes and creates alot of tension with the use of the constantly-moving camera.
The film contains little graphic violence and gore.
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horror. Basically, it's heavier on the suspense and lighter on the gore.
Saw 3D (2010)
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror. Saw 3D had to be edited six times because of how gory it was. The Saw franchise are, and always have been, my favourite films, oosingly gory and brilliantly thrilling.
Horror has changed over time through the introduction and increase of gore and more suspense.
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