Generation Y: A Take On Today’s Horror Movies From Younger Fans
It’s always interesting to get the public’s take on horror movies today. We get to do this with sites like DC; our articles’ comments sections are full of opinions and thoughts from our fans. Sometimes, though, it’s fun to sit around with friends and family and get their take on horror movies, one on one, face to face.
I was lucky enough to be able to talk face to face to some of our younger generation (Generation Y – The Millennials – Gen Next) about today’s horror movies and what they like about them and dislike about them. I must say that it was quite the eye-opener.
Being a generation X’er, I figured that they would be more into “torture porn” or the remakes, but this wasn’t the case. They were really longing for more of the “old style” horror; the John Carpenter, Wes Craven style horror movies their parents grew up with.
They weren’t happy with the remakes of the classics, said that the “found footage” movies were getting tired, and torture porn was also not doing it for them. To quote one, he said, “I’m sick of torture porn. I don’t want to pay to see someone tortured; I want to pay to get scared, not nauseous. Horror movies just aren’t scary anymore.”
Another said, “I want something that breaks it down for me, has a strong storyline that doesn’t end suddenly, making the story become weak, has an obvious bad guy, and something I don’t really have to think about that keeps me entertained to the end.”
They all agreed that the classics were the best to them because they were the original horror that their parents introduced them to, but they also loved the style of horror that was made when they were growing up. “Those movies were the kind that kept us up at night, made camping questionable, taught us not to take midnight swim in a lake, remind you that evil is alive and well, and sleeping could be deadly.”
It was an interesting conversation, and I really liked getting their take on this subject. Of course this is just the opinion of a few, and yours may be different, but when all is said and done, the main factor is that this group wants scary again. They admitted that some horror movies today still have that scare factor but found it a rarity.
So here are some of their favorite horror movies, not in any particular order.
Friday the 13th (1980)
The Ring (2002)
https://youtu.be/_PkgRhzq_BQ
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
https://youtu.be/jdb_HSvf2Zk
Darkness Falls (2003)
The Strangers (2008)
https://youtu.be/P8O5Vd2VxDM?t=12s
Halloween (1978)
The Evil Dead (1981)
So there you have just a few favorites of some of our Generation Y’s. We’d love to know what you think about today’s horror movies and also hear about some of your all-time favorites down in the comments section below.
