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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs  Generally speaking, I find the low-budget films from the 1970s and '80s more imaginative and less cynical than the ones made now. They tend to have more original ideas and are less reliant to be rehashing an idea from a film with a bigger budget or part of a cycle of films, such as possession found footage.
In general, they are more likely to be interesting. |
I think your being a bit sniffy there Nos.
Once Hitchcock released
Psycho then nothing in the slasher genre for example was original.
The same goes for
Plague of the Zombies, once they climbed out of their graves every other zombie film was suddenly half inching that idea.
It must be terribly difficult to come up with an original horror idea today. The genre's been about since the first Gothic horror novel in 1764.
The Italians churned out so much crap on top of the great films of the era, i think that tends to be forgotten. Take the spaghetti western. For every Django there's forty near worthless, uninspired riffs on the idea.