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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop  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, |
It the latter stuff that I find interesting when directors shatter reality by accident and lack of film making skill. I sometimes wonder if these filmmakers have ever even seen a film before stepping behind the camera.