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Originally posted by movieman64
I'm not a fan of Shyamalan, and now especially his comment, "the challenge is taking a B-movie subject like ghosts or aliens or monsters in the woods and treating it with absolute respect and sincerity." Who is he to tell "us" what proper horror stories should be. If he means making mainstream films which appeal to mass markets then I'll agree, he's doing pretty good.
Dawn of the Dead, (orginal) is a favorite, (high on the list) of many of us on this forum. Where does it fit in, on the Scary movie scale with regards to this article? Maybe Shyamalan should do another remake, (DOTD) so the movie could finally be treated with "absolute respect and sincerity,"...give me a break.
I don't normally go off on a rant like this, but I believe all movies which fall under the genre Horror/SciFi/Thrillers must have one thing in common, be scary, by however means it accomplishes this, suspense, gore, whatever, it has nothing to do with smart or stupid...Thats just my opinion.
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I don't know if I agree with you on the Shyamalan quote. I think that if you are going to write
anything that is genre-related, you need to have a philosophy on the genre. I think Shyamalan was simply saying that "classic horror" subjects have been so overdone that any new attempts at them come off as stupid or, at best, unintentionally funny. I can understand his point of view. It is hard to make a film with an overdone subject and have people take it sincerely. I don't think that he was saying that the old greats (like the original DOTD) are stupid. They were great, because they were original in their day and the people who made them treated them with "respect and sincerity."