Nostalgia

[Daemonia]

Nostalgia. Just how much does it play a part in what we love and appreciate? What are you nostalgic for? 50's sci-fi? The Universal monsters? Or did you miss the marvellous 70's and wish for it again?

Post your thoughts and feelings here....

[Make Them Die Slowly]

I have a real yearning for the late 60s/early70s, be it music, films, pop culture etc. I was born in 1966 and have vague memories of these times.

That said, it's more of a mythic past I'm in love with where hippies and witches walked the hills and forests, music is freaky,magick is real, pubes are big and sex is free and easy!

[VicDakin]

hippies and witches walked the hills and forests, music is freaky,magick is real, pubes are big and sex is free and easy!

Sounds like the manifesto of the Manson family

[VicDakin]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

Nostalgia. Just how much does it play a part in what we love and appreciate? What are you nostalgic for? 50's sci-fi? The Universal monsters? Or did you miss the marvellous 70's and wish for it again?

Post your thoughts and feelings here....

I pretty much prefer older movies wether there from the 30's,50's or 70's,I hardly take much notice of any of the newer releases anymore,mind you at my age I have trouble remembering what day of the week it is.

[it'smebilly]

I'm struggling to get on with many of the old slashers I used to love such as some of the Friday's etc. Hope it's just a phase but I'm finding them a bit of a chore to sit through lately. However I am gravitating more to films and TV from before my time, strange really.

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

That said, it's more of a mythic past I'm in love with where hippies and witches walked the hills and forests, music is freaky,magick is real, pubes are big and sex is free and easy!

Sounds like my misspent youth, where I really did encounter all the above. Or maybe it was just the hallucinogenics...?

I'm quite nostalgic of the late 70's and early 80's, having grown up in that period. Late nights as a youngster sneakily catching horror on TV and in the 80's the revelation of videotapes!

But also, having grown up in that period, I can relate to the films of that era. I understand the sensibility of the times and the whole vibe. I guess that may be lost on younger viewers. Then again, I can't quite get into the new wave of horror like the young'uns can. Saw, Hostel and the like just don't do it for me. They seem vacuous and soulless to me. Maybe I'm just turning into an old fart.

[the blob]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

Sounds like my misspent youth, where I really did encounter all the above. Or maybe it was just the hallucinogenics...?

I'm quite nostalgic of the late 70's and early 80's, having grown up in that period. Late nights as a youngster sneakily catching horror on TV and in the 80's the revelation of videotapes!

But also, having grown up in that period, I can relate to the films of that era. I understand the sensibility of the times and the whole vibe. I guess that may be lost on younger viewers. Then again, I can't quite get into the new wave of horror like the young'uns can. Saw, Hostel and the like just don't do it for me. They seem vacuous and soulless to me. Maybe I'm just turning into an old fart.

That pretty much sums me up as well. These are strange words to use when talking about horror films but one thing I find about this modern crop is a distinct lack of charm or style. Difficult to explain and there's certainly little charm in TCM or Last House On The Left or others of that ilk but they were more groundbreaking and less frequent so worked better in shock value. It seems that a lot of modern horror is put together with the subtlety of a sledgehammer as well.

I need to get a good rental program to catch up on more modern stuff to find the exceptions, of which I'm sure there are some but I tend to find myself liking ones which actually have more of a story to tell, whereas I'm still quite happy to go back to the 70's and 80's and watch some slicing and dicing. Even the better slashers have that 'charm' factor. There's humour and moodswings, not just an hour and a half of straight-laced 'which grotesque method can we think of to kill the next perpetually scared and serious victim'.

Before someone suggests that it's because of desensitisation in more violent modern times, we had the Khmer Rouge, Idi Amin, the IRA, Baader-Meinhof, the Yorkshire Ripper and the black cloud of potential nuclear armageddon. Maybe modern news reporting and technology has brought it more vividly into our homes but we had no shortage of ruthless madmen and murderers.

I could probably rant and rant...

[Vampix]

I was born in 1968, so from about the mid-70s throughout the 80s was when my love of the horror genre was formed.I remember going to the cinema to see Jaws with my parents on its first release, and being allowed to stay up late to to watch the BBC's horror double bills and ITV's 'Appointment With Fear' horror movie seasons.I remember my family buying our first VCR - a Ferguson Videostar - and renting out all the AA and X rated films I'd only read about, mainly from newspaper reviews.So, yes, I am very nostalgic about those times and the movies from them.I haven't bought a newly made film for ages, I just keep going back to the old ones I know and love.I'll also buy older films I haven't seen before a new film just because I prefer horror from the 70s and 80s.

[Demoncrat]

What i remember most was going round to mates houses and watching any of the following titles.... How Sleep The Brave/Exterminator/CH/Holy Grail/The Burning/ZFE.

Or any amount of "porn" they had acquired

The curse of knowledge often replaces the sense of discovery when you "get into" anything whether it's Phillipino Sci Fi or football cards i find. Wandering into various grottos and dens as a novice did mean i passed over titles i now crave, but as i've said before, with my crippling vinyl addiction it's a mindset i was well prepared for.....

[Vampix]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

What i remember most was going round to mates houses and watching any of the following titles.... How Sleep The Brave/Exterminator/CH/Holy Grail/The Burning/ZFE.

Or any amount of "porn" they had acquired

I remember doing the same thing, usually during the school summer holiday.I can recall I invited a couple of mates round mine to watch Zombie Flesh Eaters and one of them having a real problem with the eyeball skewering scene.I was also invited to a mate's house to watch Cannibal Ferox after he told me it contained a scene where a guy has his dick hacked off and eaten by a cannibal.I didn't believe that such an outrageous scene could exist in a film, how wrong was I.