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Interest in horror movies is a very interesting thing as it can either go up or down depending on the times and how good the story is. Back in the past, the horror movies had some sort of bloodthirsty and/or flesh hungry monster stalking a forest, old house, mansion, or so forth. But when you look at those movies now, you can see how fake they are because of the changes in technology.

In the past, I thought the John Carpenter remake of "The Thing" was one of the scariest movies because of this alien virus that causes you to mutate. Everything was done with animatronics because movie technology wasn't advanced. And now, we have computer graphic imagine or CGI effects that very much replaces animatronics. The last time that I had watched The Thing was back in 2004. Now that I see those old movies under a different life taking into consideration of the advancements of movie technology, I couldn't help but crack up. When I look at these horror movies of the eighties and nineties, I don't find them to be scary anymore.

A friend of mine who's in the Marine reserves several years back explained that horror movies tend to be great for soldiers who have returned from deployment. I guess there is some logic to what he said. One could say that what we see in the horror movies do not compare to what the soldiers have faced while fighting out in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Because of what's been going on with the open display of dead bodies on the news, it looks as if we've become desensitized to whatever we see in those horror movies. As a result, we tend to lose interest in the horror genre.

What also hurt interest in the horror genre was that many concepts have been overdone as they become clich. As a result, most horror movies aren't appealing unless there's an original storyline. The right in your face horror movies aren't that appealing anymore. Instead of being scary as they makers intended the movies to be, they have become downright tacky, cheesy, and very retarded. However, the studios have taken a turn towards more of the psychological horror. If there are freaks involved, we only see glimpses of them.

"Saw," "Saw II," and "Saw III" was a fresh direction for the horror genre. These movies were highly original and it wasn't in your face. Instead, it had captives doing all sorts of tasks in a certain amount of time. However, the victims ended up dying as a process. The Jigsaw Killer set it up where the victims had killed themselves. In the first Saw movie, one

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