Modern horrors about ghosts: the total crisis of the genre

As you know, the best way to tickle the spectator's nerves is to make him afraid of the unknown and unknown. This is the main focus of the creators of horror films, where the main provocateur of fear are the vindictive spirits of the deceased. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in that the horrors about ghosts are gaining popularity and are removed in every manner, and stories of cruel adolescents and crazy maniacs slowly fade into the background. This trend is well traced in the film premiers of recent years: the appearance of "Astral", "Moms", "Enchantments" and the next part of the "Paranormal phenomenon" forced many fans to be afraid almost to squeal with delight. But the quantity rarely means quality, so really terrible horrors about ghosts 2010-2013 can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Inspired by the success of the creators of the "Astral" hurried to remove the whirlwind sequel, the script of which is terrible in a bad way. But the creators of the "Paranormal phenomenon", happily rubbing their hands, actually showed the same story from five different perspectives, while not forgetting about the quality.

We muffled the crunch of popcorn, we crack the fake bones!

In social networks, you can often meet requests in the spirit of "advise horror about ghosts," a list of which can easily be found on the Internet. However, in this list a good half are films of the 80s and 90s, when it was not possible to make such special effects as in modern cinema. But the plot there is not "sagging," and timing does not make yawn and glance sideways at the clock. On the part of the effects, the recent Spanish-Canadian film "Mama" is good. A slightly clumsy painted evil, accompanying its appearance with disgusting sounds, gets up such that when viewing you want to climb up on the sofa with your feet. What sort of popcorn is here! But, shuddering from the sharp sounds and predictable "bugbirds" from around the corner, towards the middle of the movie I was already bored, and even it became ridiculous. The idea crept into my head that today quality horrors - about ghosts or about maniacs - are just worth their weight in gold. Maybe it's in my acquired immunity after watching hundreds of movies of this genre, but the trend in any case can hardly be called favorable.

And I photographed, and frightened, and earned

Because of the deplorable crisis of ideas, it has become very fashionable to make remakes of horrors about ghosts and other universal evil of many years ago. Here a good example is the film "The Evil Dead": The Black Book, critically criticized by the fans of the franchise. It's unclear why it's bad to retake a good movie? The answer, however, arises by itself - how? For box office, of course! True, the sample of 2013 unfamiliar with the original "Dead" viewers may come to taste. There is everything: blood, shouts, potentially good plot and charismatic evil. However, it is difficult to name yet one even slightly good modern cinema in the genre - atmospheric and qualitative horrors about ghosts die, and fans of the genre can only sigh sorrowfully and wait for a new part of the "Paranormal phenomenon." By the way, in the "Fatal mark", all the same evil ghost entities will take special zeal to terrorize new victims.