I was hanging out with Tito, his two sisters, and his soon-to-be brother-in-law. We were at Shakey’s BF when we started talking about horror movies. I mentioned that I love horror movies and that I wanted to see House of Wax for whatever it’s worth (Paris?).

This got me thinking that horror movies these days are nothing like the old stuff. Hollywood seems to revel in the slasher/gore flicks these days that most Americans seem to like more. These films lean towards grossing the viewer out instead of actually messing with their minds.

These days it’s the Asian horror titles that I like such as Ringu (which Hollywood bastardized with their version) and The Eye (similar to the Sixth Sense but scarier). These movies present to you a possibility of the situations happening in real life; that when you leave the theater you have yourself looking over your shoulder all the time. You start to wonder about all the little noises you hear in the middle of the night. This for me makes a good horror movie. Older Hollywood horrors used to be like that.

Let me leave you with a few scary films I recommend you see, preferably alone, and in the dark.

• Ringu
• The Eye
• The Changeling
• Pet Sematary
• The Salem's Lot mini-series from 1979
  

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