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Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly  B_E have you not considered sticking pins in your eyes rather than watch all these films...just as painful but shorter lasting.
These reviews do however bring up the point that the 70s and 80s weren't the golden age people believe them to be. There is so much shit out there as with today's direct to dvd market, it is no wonder that often mediocre films are given a lofty status. I will refrain from naming them for fear of offending pretty much everyone on the forum.  |
The thing is though, shit or not, I find the shit from the '70s and '80s to be more endearing than the shit of today, generally speaking. Sure, they were hokey no budget affairs with wonky sets, poster paint blood and rubber monsters, but today, even the so called 'big-budget' horrors seem to be extremely poor in terms of CGI, crappy jump scares and dumbing down to achieve the converted money making PG-13 rating. What passes for low budget independent horror today tends to sway more towards the darker, gore-driven torture porn side of cinema whilst the '70s and '80s were all about cheese and silly monsters. Both have their merits and obviously you have to take things on a film by film basis, but I think the relative ease (both technology wise and financially) in making a film nowadays in comparison to the '70s has diluted the gene pool a little in terms of overall quality when scything through the cesspool of independent horror cinema.
I guess it comes down to whatever floats your boat though but I'd rather watch someone marauding around in the woods wearing a rubber monster outfit than the vast majority of straight to video cash-ins that are made today.