When it comes to horror movies, it's very hard to impress me. I'm not saying that I'm a horror movie snob, but at a certain point, horror just wasn't scary anymore. I wasn't being unsettled by a gruesome monster, or unnerved at a creepy hallway, or dreaded seeing a character walk into an obvious scare. I just became numb to what horror traditionally was.
I grew up watching horror movies like Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead 2, and the classic Hammer horror films. Those movies defined what horror could be for me, but as I got older, I wasn't scared of them. Hell, I wasn't even disturbed by them. I just saw them as good movies with a dark aesthetic that was different from what was popular with my generation. While everyone else watched Disney movies, I was more interested watching Psycho. And let's not even get started at the state of then modern horror movies like The Blair Witch Project, The Ring, and Paranormal Activity.
But a weird thing happened this weekend when I went to go see A Quiet Place. It was a fantastic movie and a part of why it was so good was because it got under my skin in a way that I didn't expect. I wouldn't call it a scary movie, but it presented its concepts in a way that felt different and felt unique. And then I looked back at the past couple of years and realized that there are now plenty of horror movies that I would call modern classics. I can't even begin to count them all, there are just that many of them.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm happy to say that we're in a new golden age of horror movies. An age where creators are willing to take risks on classic horror norms to make something fresh, sometimes scary, but always entertaining.
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