Because we know what is coming? Regardless of how revolutionary the director tries to be with scares the majority guess the scare and thus the "horror" is gone. It's why splatter horror is on the increase as it goes for the rudimentary "if we can't scare them we'll shock them instead". Movies such as SAW and Hostel dropped the primative scare for gore with an underlying sense of fear for those really easy to scare. Horror is a genre easy for fans to shit on as it is one that takes very little talent or skill to produce, because of this even the greats of the genre such as Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter get very little respect, sad really. Makes me feel sorry for the likes of Eli Roth who try and keep the genre going but get shit on all the time for it.

The reason why someone cannot make a good horror movie is because we've become desensitized to it. You can only shock and awe people so much before they just go "meh". It does look awful though. The "artist" should have done an evil dead theme, like the necronomicon. That would have looked cool.

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The reason why someone cannot make a good horror movie is because we've become desensitized to it.

I think horror movies are bad because we've become desensitized to the same old stuff being in them. It doesn't mean that someone can't be more creative and make a movie that actually is scary with new concepts.

Marilyn Manson is supposedly going to create a horror-movie based on Alice in Wonderland. He said, something like, the movie will go back to the roots of horror when what was scary wasn't always on screen. I look forward to that. It probably won't happen, though, considering the fact that it's original release date was something like the middle of '07, and even if it does get made, there's a very large chance that it would suck anyway. I have hope for it, however...

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Horror is a genre easy for fans to shit on as it is one that takes very little talent or skill to produce, because of this even the greats of the genre such as Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter get very little respect, sad really.

And don't forget George Romero!...That is, if you like(d) him. I personally love the original Night of the Living Dead.

I'm honestly not familiar with Tobe Hooper, but I do like John Carpenter's Halloween movies. Y'know, Rob Zombie made a Halloween reboot a couple years ago, and I actually found the movie to be, not so scary, but extremely graphic disturbing (in a good way). Normally, I hate Rob Zombie movies, but I think that the Halloween reboot is his best yet. There's also a sequel coming out soon, if I'm not mistaken.

Lol, sorry for the long post. I sort of got into a bit of a "thing" there...