How come in most movies... seems like since the Ring came out, all these demonicly possessed people arch their back and u hear bones cracking and they're crab walking and their arm is going over their head, etc, etc etc. I think that's so overused and totally not scarey. What do you guys think?
shareThey're all copying the spider walk from The Exorcist.
share^^^Which was actually cut from the original 1973 cut of the film. Personally I always found the scene where she's being flung on the bed uncontrollably more terrifying then the spider walk. Contortions are creepy and all, but they need to find a newer more subtle way to use them.
I'm always dragging that horse around...
I actually quite like the reverse back-bending stuff, but ONLY if there are lots of cracking noises & the back actually bends the wrong way a lot further than it should.
shareUnfortunately, it is because they do not have originality. That is why all we see in movies today are: found footage, vampires/zombies/werewolves, YA trash, superheroes from Marvel comics, remakes/reboots/sequels, possession via technology, films adapted from some other crap as a star vanity project.
Loved the American version of The Ring and a couple of other ones but I will go with old style zombies and devils - I do like how some movies are trying to go for a slow burn that leads up to something and requires your imagination and also those that try to portray that "70s" feel. Those have been fun. I wish horror would move away from PG-13 and trying to pander to the mainstream. Plus stop remaking every movie known to man. Geez!Screws fall out all the time; the world's an imperfect place.
Creeps me the heck out.
Its not human I tells ya!