I have this bone to pick with Hollywood: What ever happened to great horror films? You know the ones that you watch and can’t sleep for days, or months, after. Heck, even just shielding your eyes from a scene would suffice.

I hear my parents talk about how movies like The Exorcist and how for days they slept with a nightlight – multiple nightlights – or in their parents’ bed.

Step up your game, Hollywood, start putting the scary back in to America.

We haven’t had any of those movies lately. I watch scary movies now and all I can think about is how all the characters are idiots.

NO! NO! DON’T GO IN THAT ROOM! ARE YOU STUPID?!

SHOOT HIM! SHOOT HIM! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!

Just a few random yells made at the T.V. when I’m watching a “horror” movie.

Horror movies these days just don’t cut it. With all the advances we have in technology, and all that can be done in cinematography, shouldn’t scary movies be a bit more … scary?

It seems they all follow the one of two scripts:

Script 1: Cute newlywed/broken couple out on their honeymoon/weekend retreat to save their marriage, when they take a shortcut/their car breaks down, and they run into an abandoned/nice building that turns out to be more than they bargained for.

Script 2: Nice, All-American family is staying at home when a crazy psychopath invades their home and kills almost everyone in the family.

Sound familiar?

The horror movie genre has gone soft and horror movies these days are terrible; even boring. The last scary movie that even remotely scared me was The Ring, and that’s only because my phone rang as soon as I turned the DVD player off – no joke, one of the scariest moments of my life.

Hollywood and all the film writers out there need to step up their game and start putting the scary back in to America.

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