Monster Madness 2007 Recap

The originality problem doesn't just plague the horror genre, it plagues the entertainment industry as a whole. There are too many movies that are unoriginal remakes, too many artists that just do uninspired, unoriginal covers of songs, popular music in general is completely uninspired, there are too many "reality" based television shows which require almost ZERO writing behind it, too many talent shows/variety shows, and the list goes on and on. There are far too many people in the entertainment industry making way too much money for the teeny bit of work and thought they put into their medium. And the biggest problem is that the stupid consumers, us the viewers, keep taking big fat bites out that shit sandwich they keep cramming down our throats. We keep tuning in, we keep buying their music, keep buying the DVDs, keep paying the box office for a ticket to see and listen to this GARBAGE. There are a VERY small minority of inspired artists out there that make quality work, and I pay for their stuff, but everything else out there I skip completely. I don't watch TV anymore, I haven't watched TV in over 3 years. And its only going to get worse until people wise up and stop paying for this crap. This is why I get all my entertainment from the internet. Sure, there's a lot of STUPID shit, but a lot of it is original, and that's a helluva lot more than I can say about umm.. oh say the whorish kardashians or jersey douchebags, or american buttplug idols. Fuck.

Okay. I'm getting off my soap box. I'm going to give myself a fucking aneurysm.

This one was my favorite.

If you like japanese horror, you should check out Reincarnation, a film that like Ringu, terrified me on a primal level. Horror movies made here are just fun to me :P

You rock James.

pleaseeee
some one tell me what is tha scene from the cabin

I love what you do bro, and I'm sure you get requests all the time, but there are 3 films I'm suprised I didn't see on any of your lists.

-"Black Christmas" (1974) just an amazing horror film, really laid the groundwork for Halloween.

-"Phanatsm" (1979) Angus Scrimm is incredible and The Tall Man is one of the best villians ever.

-"Scanners" (1981) , really this is the film that sent gore into the mainstream. Michael Ironside is the shit, and that head explosion is one of the greatest horror film scenes ever.

"Slither" ripped off "Night of the Creeps" (1986)

Anyway, AWESOME fucking job bro. I look forward to more Monster Madness in the future

i have a problem with remakes in general (horror or not). Ringu and Juon prove that there are ideas out there yet to be explored. However after going through all these Monster Madness marathons I'm beginning to wonder if the horror genre really has hit a point where each film is simply remixing what has already been done before. I wonder what original horror stories are left, when as has been said in this video, the things to be really afraid of are now what we see on the news. I'd love to see a new horror fantasy - I'd love to write a new one too - but I'm worried it would just fall back into that remix pattern. Will be thinking long and hard on what is both scary and original.

I love the first two saw films but when saw 3 came i thought it was awesome until jigsaw or john i think i don't know if thats his real name but i hate saw 3 personally but when saw 4 came i thought it was a bad idea until later i figured out that he was still alive so saw 3 and 4 are like puzzle pieces they connect together so i still have mixed opinions about saw 4 but saw 5 and 6 well they were okay until the end at saw 6 when the guys organs come out of his body i ran to the bathroom and i puked for an hour which is why i skip saw 6 not that it's bad just each time i see the end i puke.

you know that slither is like a new version of night of the creeps, they both have slugs that take over peoples minds and both movies are really good

I wanna see a Monster Madness month that's just based only on remakes of horror films, like the Michael Bay remakes, or any other remakes that have been made recently, or if not, James should review the Silence of the Lambs, some Stephen King horror movies, Predator (even if it's more action that horror), the I Am Legend movies and The Invisible Ray with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

The main problem with the "Saw" movies is that the characters are supposed to be smarter than in most other movies, but in the end they're making idiotic mistakes that just makes you facepalm. Combine that with unfair, annoying, cheap and unpredictable endings (in a bad way) and you have a load of crap.

SAW is okay. Not good, not bad, just okay. Cary Elwes over-acts at the end.
SAW 2 never gets exciting, the victims act like complete idiots, it sucks.
SAW 3 has some really nasty scenes, but the main character is stupid and annoying and nothing makes any sense!
SAW 4 starts off pretty good but quickly slides down the pissdrain.
SAW 5 is just... amazingly bad.
SAW 6 was an overall decent movie and if they would have hired more talented actors it could have been good. Unfortunately, they didn't.

Niiice, kinda like getting a very general history lesson in Horror films

Thank you James.

I really enjoy yours Monster Madness series, keep up the good work and I hope we'll see some more this year.

Great work, James!

I'm off to check out '08 next..

To me, I have no problem with horror remakes as long as they're both scary and entertaining which is why some are better than others.

I also love both the Saw and Hostel series! As ridiculous as they are, they're always a bloody fun time.