Development

Develop on the clip of Costas explaining how he believes Saw was a hit because it was 'clever'.

Horror flicks turned from a masked villains slaughtering teenagers to masked villains slaughtering their friends (Scream). Films started having more 'twists' and shock endings rather than just the typical endings like in Halloween; the killer is dead and then at the end it is revealed oh no hang on he's still alive so we can make 5 more movies!!.

More of a threat of the killer being someone the victims knew towards the 1990s, (even shown in New Nightmare, part of the Elm Street franchise which stuck to the 'masked' villain slaughtering teenagers section of the horror genre).

This developed onto a combination of there being a mixture of masked psychos killing teenagers but along side the friend killing murderers. However films like Saw and Hostel warped this by adding a lot more gore to the picture, audiences were getting slightly bored of the same old story line coming out of the horror flicks and so with a society obsessed with violence and disgust, these types of films began a 'new wave' of 'torture porn' as it was dubbed.

Films became less of just some crazy guy hiding behind a mask, killing drunken teenagers and more twisted and warped. They began to mess with the audiences heads a lot more, just like in the ending to Saw, audiences were finding themselves more gripped into the films as film makers became more inventive. It wasn't just about seeing someone killed on screen anymore, that may have terrified the audience during 'The Exorcist' 's era but times are changing and the audiences interests were flaunting to more gruesome and gorey likings yet they don't just want to see loads of blood on screen, they want to be captivated.

But then again soon this changed as towards 2006, with a 3rd installment to the Saw series, it was clear that it wasn't going to be the last. A similar thing had happened to the Elm Street, audiences showed such a high interest in the first film, so to make more money the studio release a sequel, and then, they don't stop making them. A lot of audience members claim this ruins the films, and so films like began to lose the 'creativity' that they were created on and became more about just making money and throwing as much gore as they can at the script and hope that the audience will take to it.