Over the last week I decided to binge watch the most popular and iconic horror movies that everyone knows:
Halloween
Nightmare on Elm Street
Poltergeist
Evil Dead 1 and 2
Carrie
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Exorcist
Scream 1 and 2
All the Romero, Day of the Living Dead Movies/Dawn of the Living Dead, etc
The thing is...none of them were actually scary. Sure, they all had their moments of unsettling scenes or disturbing moments you were supposed to find off-putting, but none of it really phased me.
I was especially disappointed with "The Exorcist." I had never seen that movie will recently, and for years I heard it was, "The scariest horror movie ever made." I watch it and outside of maybe that spider-walk scene, it was just a girl possessed by a demon strapped down to her bed for the entire movie. The whole movie was slow as well, and the demon possessed girl came across as more comedic than scary, especially one of her lines to the main guy, "You're a mother-fucking cock-sucker" which actually made me burst out laughing with the "demon voice" they used and given this movie is from 1973. I mean this was the movie that I read had audiences fainting in the movie theaters in the 70's...
I mean I'm well aware many of these movies were, "products of their time" since all of them are from the 70's and 80's, and I know back then there was nothing like them so they felt shocking to audiences, but they feel so tame nowadays. To me one of the scariest movies was, "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis because I saw the movie for the first time when I was 12 and it scared the shit out of me, and I still don't like the ghosts in the movie to this day. But everything else, eh?