Horror movies or just Gore?

How many times have you expected to enter the cinemas to get yourself scared witless only to get your stomach rebel at you during the half-time as you close your eyes while another Bad Spirit / Zombies splat the hero's member to pieces.

Nowadays Horror Movies are engulfed in gore and you can even see the details of it as the entrails and particles of brain cells fly around the screen. What happen to the old Scary Movie like Freddy Cooger and Ju-On and those classic Cantonese ghost movies? These movies are becoming more and more depleted while the new Gore Movies take over.

I really miss the times where I really had to cover my eyes with the cushion/ pillow when the jumping Chinese Vampire wakes up from the coffin and chase after the sputtering priests for his meal.

Ju-on also was another quite recent horror movies that doesn't involve too much violent but they sure have a great storyline and sound effects. Until now I would still get shaken while I watch Ju-On at midnight.

So why the high violent content? Does high violent content means we get more scared? I thought it was suppose to be a Horror Movie whereby evil spirits wonder around and scare everyone witless. Instead we get zombies with teeth that really needs dental check ups ripping up all the meat they can get their crumpling hands on.

But the funny one was I saw a particular movie that made my stomach turned bonkers. Sheep turned zombies and munching on human flesh for grass. Come on! A Sheep?? There are reasons why they are vegetarians, herbivores; They have blunt teeth! Not sharp canines! So Little Lamb Chop cannot be Big Bad Wolf. Totally wrong!

Movie makers and especially script writers need to get their mental check. If this is the type of movies they are marketing these days, I wonder what the future may hold for Hollywood.