*clears throat* okay, so the deal with imported horror movies vs. american horror movies, is many different countries have different standards for what is scary, but what we all fear most, is losing our humanity, England, for example has many horror movies take place in the city, because that's familiar, but the industrial revolution changed all that, orphans having to work their childhoods away, men and women thrown into debters prison, etc., but on our side of the world, we did all of our filthy immoral stuff on the outskirts of society, killing the native Americans, the horrors of slavery. werewolves, vampires, zombies, we fear them because they take our humanity. but movies today have sort of, trampled on those fears, what we fear now, is still inhumane beings, but we place those fears, with aliens, because in the back of our minds we fear that one day, everything, all of our technological progress will be stamped out by a force that is superior to us, it happened to the civilizations of south america, why not us? but that is fairly irrelevant for the conversation currently, the point I am trying to make is that while we may have the same standards for fear, we do not have the same ways of showing it, which is why without really, being in that country, it's not like judging, say the last James Bond movie, we have to look into the cultural background of the movie to see if by the standards of fear in their country, would it be scary? if we look there, it could be, or not. who knows.
but going into like, a french horror movie with my personal knowledge, I would have to say, yeah, it's still pretty scary.
I'm going to say, that imported movies are still dang good.