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Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly  Do you think the more arty moments in 70s oddball horror are there by design, chance or a reflection of the times? |
It's difficult to say. But there's definitely a whole 'different' feeling to a lot of seventies cinema in general. The more advanced mainstream stuff was co-opting elements of New Wave and home grown psychedelia. What we get with bottom of the barrel horror of the time is probably the result of trickle down, but also there were some genuine surrealists and magicians out there, and on yet another level, there was less consensus about what could feasibly play at the movies so you got some perfectly incompetent shitly-made-to-the-point-of-being-mind-altering stuff simply because it hadn't been stamped out by focus group,