When will monsters be scary again?

Unfortunately, we live in a place in horror fiction where vampires are brooding and love sick, werewolves look like...wolves, not grotesque human/wolf hybrids. we've gotten to a place when teenage girls want to fall in love with these things when originally they would tear you to shreds if you turned your back on them. when was the last time you were scared sh*tless by a classic monster in a movie or t.v. show. I'm just disappointed their are little to no original monster movies made anymore, anyone agree with this or is it just me?  

Dammit double post. will a mod lock one please?

zombies still terrify the sh!t out of me

The messed up thing is in real life a wolf the size of a rhino would scare the sh*t out of people but put him in CGI next to a sparkle fairy and girls swoon, it's just weird

I was surprised how the original Frankenstien creeped me out and how I would choose that classic over any modern day horror film.

The trick to a successful monster franchise is that it generally needs to incorporate the zeitgeist (the spirit of the times). Monsters are generally the embodiment of some manner of deep-seated cultural psychological fear.

@GiantsizeManThing said:

Unfortunately, we live in a place in horror fiction where vampires are brooding and love sick, werewolves look like...wolves, not grotesque human/wolf hybrids. we've gotten to a place when teenage girls want to fall in love with these things when originally they would tear you to shreds if you turned your back on them. when was the last time you were scared sh*tless by a classic monster in a movie or t.v. show. I'm just disappointed their are little to no original monster movies made anymore, anyone agree with this or is it just me?

Scared sh****** is almost impossible to do unless the person watching the film is pretty young. To answer your question about recent great horror films showing classic monsters vampires, werewolves, ghosts, etc. 30 days of night was good so was Trick R Treat and they were pretty original. I'm hoping one day marvel will use their MAX imprint to make classic horror stories that are actually good and somewhat original. I could see Satana having her own book in MAX and it actually being good same thing with other monsters running around in the current marvel universe that are done god awful. Anyway I do agree with your sentiment though.

I still say that Batman and Robin was the most goddamned frightening movie I've ever seen, I still have nightmares of batnipples and latex cod pieces 

I just finished "Alan Wake" the video game. It scared the crap out of me.

I've never found supernatural creatures all that scary, body horror freaks me out. 
 
Aside from that, the deranged humans in Black Christmas (1974), the Shining (1980), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), etc.. were far scarier than any werewolf, no matter how well done it is. At least, in my opinion, of course.

i hate CGI, i mean the monsters should actually be there for me to be scared, i mean i watch "The Thing" and i was scared sh***less because it was actually real instead of all the CGI sh** that for some reason looks more fake and less scary.

Fright Night did a good job at having some frightening scenes. Specifically the house scenes. 

The trick to a successful monster franchise is that it generally needs to incorporate the zeitgeist (the spirit of the times). Monsters are generally the embodiment of some manner of deep-seated cultural psychological fear.

I actually liked "The Wolfman" remake (That;s an understatement. It's my all time fav movie) but it wasn;t at all scary. Same with Underworld, minus the fav thing. And rec is the scariest thing ever made since the Olsen Twins.

 
Scary Meter:
Ghost >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Monsters

 
 Hulk is supposed to be a scary monster.
 

Once you reach a certain age: never.

last "scary" thing I saw was Insidious.

Insidious was scary but it wasn't the Darth Maul Demon. It was the old lady ghost.

Havent been scared in a long time!

I blame the Saw franchise for making horror only grotesque and not really scary

I blame the Saw franchise for making horror only grotesque and not really scary

I blame Twilight.

I blame Human Centipede. Wow, I;m the first one to say that. Give it up for SpideyIvyDaredevilFan26!!!!

I've never seen Human Centipede That p there is serious posing,

@RazzaTazz:

Agreed. Disgusting, unlovable anus of a mindless torture porn film. And I HATE torture porn films.

Funny thing is I have never seen it because my mommy would ground me!

Zombies are my favorite "hate to love" monsters of all time, but as far as recent monsters that have scared me? The Mutants from "The Hills Have Eyes" remake; ugly on the outside, grotesque and evil on the inside.

One of my favorite monsters from yore is Hyde in the 1932 film, for aside from cannibalism, he's almost as bad as the Mutants.

Zombies are never not scary. I love zombie flicks