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Post by captain master talbot on Apr 8, 2008 14:05:37 GMT -5
Classic: It's around 8'o clock at night, in 1941. Your girlfriend is snugly tied to your arm, as you walk her to your nearest matinée theater to view the latest Universal Studios movie. You walk into the theater, and watch, the frights (for the time) getting increasingly scarier as Bela Lugosi's Dracula opens his coffin, or Lon Chaney's Wolf Man stalks an unwary victim in the woods. You're scared to death of these monsters, because they're simply unknown, and what you don't see frightens you.
Modern: You walk into AMC, a bunch of your friends laughing and goofing off. You buy some expensive food (costing more then the tickets), and ramble off into Theater 14 for the premiere of Saw or Hostel. As you sit down and watch various pornstars getting their faces cut off, or the random preppy dude getting castrated, you grimace at the sight of the buckets of blood and gore. You think to yourself, how bad this would be if you were said pornstar or preppy guy.
I tried to give descriptions of the times, to kind of even it off. What do you guys think?
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Post by bad guy™ on Apr 8, 2008 14:11:32 GMT -5
Wow, your very impartial.  Some modern horror movies are very good, but I would take the classics anyday. |
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Post by Quanthor on Apr 8, 2008 14:13:04 GMT -5
Frankenstein is one of my favorite horror films of all time and I love a lot of the classics, but it's not my favorite era of horror pictures.
Personally I like the 60's and 70's, it was more creative and daring than anything else that proceeded and followed it.
Today's simply sucks, every once in a while there will be a decent horror picture, but that's hard to come by.
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Post by captain master talbot on Apr 8, 2008 14:34:27 GMT -5
Wow, your very impartial. Some modern horror movies are very good, but I would take the classics anyday. It's not like I've voted, even though I would take classic movies over modern horror. |
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Post by Deano on Apr 8, 2008 15:10:20 GMT -5
Yeah, but you have put a negative slant on the 'modern horror' paragraph and a postive slant on the 'classic horror' one.
For me, it would be neither. I prefer the 70s/80s, because those were the eras of the zombie films and the slashers.
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Post by Codesters on Apr 8, 2008 15:30:19 GMT -5
BIASED.
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Post by chumped on Apr 8, 2008 15:32:44 GMT -5
Modern. I prefer Saw over any other horror film/series.
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Post by Suckasays on Apr 8, 2008 16:53:18 GMT -5
70-80's horror for me. I could watch 10 different slashers with the exact same idea over and over again and be perfectly content as opposed to everything else.
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Post by Calcifer Boheme on Apr 8, 2008 19:09:12 GMT -5
Every now and then now, you'll get a really good one... But most of todays movies go for starling rather than scary.
The classicwere all about atmosphere and tension.
Veincent Price is king
On a side note, my friend does a great impression of Vincent Price as Forrest Gump. It's great.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2008 19:17:02 GMT -5
Classic, obviously. Today it's all PG-13 remakes.
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Post by c14rock on Apr 8, 2008 20:50:47 GMT -5
The older films were all about atmosphere, which is great, and they were much more original than a lot of today's films.
But, I think your views are a little one sided. I've watched tons of documentries and read enough books to know that back then the older films were viewed as violent and excessive, only today the standards of violence are a lot different.
And honestly, if you think the only modern horror revolves around Hostel and Saw, you're wrong.
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Post by Reasoning through Questioning on Apr 9, 2008 11:27:39 GMT -5
Well Hostel was a joke of a film. Saw has entertained me so far. The older films are classic. I love to watch a Vincent Price film or Dracula and Wolfman. Not because It's scary but because of the nolstalgic purpose. Today we are more numb to what used to be scary. We can watch videos of horrible things happening to people right here on our computer or the news. So horror movies now are forced to push the shock factor. Scary isn't scary anymore. With games like Resident Evil,Silent Hill,Condemned,and The Suffering our generation as seen it all already. It is just hard to shock anybody or to make people jump.
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Post by 500DaysofNight on Apr 9, 2008 12:51:56 GMT -5
Modern. I prefer Saw over any other horror film/series. |
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Post by Edgeman05 on Apr 9, 2008 15:17:25 GMT -5
Classic. 80s rocked!
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Post by Goldust on Apr 9, 2008 16:03:45 GMT -5
Besides the Saw series modern horror is practically dead, no pun intended. Hostel was big but the second was a box office flop. Saw is the only horror franchise that still draws big money and are pretty good films.
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Post by RBW on Apr 9, 2008 17:32:14 GMT -5
well I voted for classic, but after reading your take on Modern, I'd have to agree with that now
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Post by Doomrider on Apr 10, 2008 1:52:32 GMT -5
I'll stick to classic...you'll find me on 42nd street.
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Post by c14rock on Apr 10, 2008 2:16:16 GMT -5
I don't know about you guys, but I don't consider anything from the last 3 decades or so "classic." 30 years ago isn't that long ago honestly. When I think of classics I think of stuff that came pre mid 60s.
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Post by Kliquid on Apr 10, 2008 10:08:03 GMT -5
Modern Horror  ing sucks. Seriously, it's god awful. I'm not much of a horror movie fan to begin with, but I'd much rather watch classic horror than "Hostel." Hostel isn't even scary. It's just gross and stupid. |
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