[ravenus]

I like B/W as a way of shooting films, but there's no general truth that it makes for better (as in even better looking) horror films. Check out most of Romero's film other than Night of the Living Dead, and you'll find great horror in color. Check out any of Cronenberg's horror films. Dario Argento uses color with terrific results, even if his stories and characters are meh.


I'd say the classic horror archetype films do sometimes benefit from a B/W treatment (films like The Innocents are best in B/W), but then again, I rate Mario Bava's Kill, Baby, Kill as highly in atmosphere as its B/W cousin Black Sunday so it's really a moot point. I think it all depends on the visual ideas that the makers have.