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Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs  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. |
I salute you sir. Give me something good or bad from that era and chances are it'll be infinitely more interesting than anything of recent times. The movies might not hit the mark of what they were aiming for but they were most always thinking outside of the box. I watched "The Devil's Kiss" the other day and although it's not "good" by any standard I wouldn't hesitate recommending it to anyone as an enjoyable 80 odd minutes of random insanity that simply would not be made now and the Arrow book (written by Mr. Nightmare USA if I remember right) is an essential follow up to how that film came to exist.
I find the whole 70's to 80's era facinating myself and enjoy seeking out it's gems and trash.
