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hey there gang! the 80's were probably the greatest years for Horror movies and I don't mean just the endless FREDDY, JASON and MICHAEL sequels (though they were cool also) here are a few of my favourites - back when FANGORIA magazine was such a vital part of young raggedyman's life! EVIL DEAD II, TRICK OR TREAT, RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND, TORSO, BRAIN DAMAGE, THE THING, DEMONS, STAGE FRIGHT. anyone remember these cool classics?
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the kewl thing about the 80s movies were they were scary without having to have such huge special effects and it just seemed scarier or maybe its just me still freaked me out
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quote:Originally posted by Rainbowbrite22: the kewl thing about the 80s movies were they were scary without having to have such huge special effects and it just seemed scarier or maybe its just me still freaked me out
I know what u mean! I think the effects were still cool though! it was the old-school animatronics and prosthetics that outdo all the crappy CGI that is so overused these days. and besides all that, how can people seriously refer to films like SCREAM as horror movies??
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That's exactly how I feel. I thought the effects in An American Werewolf in London were so cool, they would never do all that now in a movie, they do it on a computer, and that just looses the coolness of the movie experience, I said before it is like watching a video game.
I think the beginning Friday the 13th movies are much more scary than the end ones, and I didn't get too far down the line in those movies, when they started to get too hokey, or not even scary anymore, because you can only kill a person so many times, and then it just has no effect.
Like when Michael Meyers came back to life in the first Halloween, that scared the heck out of me, and I never forgot that...but then when they over do it, you don't even care any more.
The Shining...scared me to death, and it had such an awesome set, I mean the maze and the Inn itself, that scared me so bad, I couldn't even watch the previews to it.
They came up with so many scary movies that were so different from each other, all the horror type movies that are out now are the same.
But when I think of The Amityville Horror, and The Fog and Prom Night to Fright Night...those are all so different , just like The Omen is so different than Carrie.
They were scary, but the people that were in them also were good actors, and even the scenes that weren't scary were really cool pieces of the movie.
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Too true that special effects have ruined horror movies. I mean...VAN HELSING...need I say more? I think the 80s had the scariest horror flicks, then the 70s...and thats it. The new stuff really stinks. Maybe one or two exceptions.
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I agree that the old school effects are much better than CGI, although I think CGI is appropriate in some movies--Jurassic Park looked stunning; still does. But they also used animatronics, which I think was a smart thing to do.
Isis, the minute I started to read your post I knew it was going to be the same stuff you type over and over and over again. I continued reading anyway and found I was right.
But of course Cursed, White Noise, and The Grudge are the same. Oh wait . . . no they're not. They just have a lot of slick style, which I can agree by saying it's tedious to watch sometimes. I did like Cursed, though, but it's because I like horror and comedy. I don't really much care for pure horror, other than the first Evil Dead (love the sequels, but you can't call those pure horror movies or you're missing something).
And I'm sure you can come up with examples of horror movies from the 80's that were complete rip-offs of others. I wouldn't know which ones as I don't watch many horror movies, but I'm sure there were some that existed.
Cursed aside (and, well, it's not really a horror movie anyway), I think it's smart to cast unknowns in your films. I mean, someone likeable, but not well-known. If you see Bruce Campbell fighting off zombies, you're gonna think, "That's Ash fighting off his possessed friends." but if you see someone like, say, Jim Carrey, fighting off vampires (in a comical manner, of course), you're gonna think, "That's Jim Carrey in a movie about vampires." (Although I like Jim Carrey, but you get the gist.)
I think the "jump out and scare you" tactic is being used a lot lately, which is fine for me as long as it isn't littered throughout the whole movie (It gets tedious.), but I can see where it disappoints folks looking for a real scare. White Noise did a few "jump out" moments, but for the most part, I thought it did a good job of producing something scary (mostly due to the real phenomena it's based on). The ending was really what was disappointing, but then again, there are very few horror movies that I can say I was satisfied with the ending.
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Lupa, why would I change what I say now? That is what I like. That was a new person mentioning liking 80's horror movies. Of course I have said the same thing before, there only are so many topics you can talk about, and if I like a certain thing, why would my view point change now?
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I really liked the first Nightmare on Elm Street. I thought it had a cool atmosphere. Halloween 1 and 2 were scary to me. They were stories that could actually happen. Then after all the sequels, it went from "that could happen" to "that could never happen". The first two were very logical. A boy kills his sister because he has severe mental problems. He then grows up and escapes a mental hospital. He returns to his old neighborhood and kills people. That was scary because that could happen. But after you shoot him 50 times, blow him up, stab him etc... and he still comes after you, it loses that disturbing freakiness because that could never happen.
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that is so true Brandon, thats why the first few movies of halloween and frday the 13th were so spooky and scary b/c it had a very real type feelling oit Posts: 1270 | From: GA the peachie state :) | Registered: Jan 2004 | Site Updates: 0
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The Shining...scared me to death, and it had such an awesome set, I mean the maze and the Inn itself, that scared me so bad, I couldn't even watch the previews to it.
The two twin girls in The Shining freaked me out the most. I remember when I first saw the movie. I was really young. I went to bed that night and had trouble sleeping because I would imagine those twin girls standing there staring at me Yikes!!!
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Isis- What I was trying to say was that you sound like a broken record. I don't think you'll change your viewpoint and I don't really want you to . . . but I could predict everything you were going to say and all your negative posts (or pieces of posts of yours that are negative) are blending together.
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Heh heh! Same old fast-rewind bickering. I missed you guys & girls.
I was thinking about how cool Poltergeist was the first time I saw it. Man, I just about pooped my pants when the ghosts stacked those chairs. I thought the Gate was freaky too. I was just a pup when I saw those two.
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The Shining...scared me to death, and it had such an awesome set, I mean the maze and the Inn itself, that scared me so bad, I couldn't even watch the previews to it.
The two twin girls in The Shining freaked me out the most. I remember when I first saw the movie. I was really young. I went to bed that night and had trouble sleeping because I would imagine those twin girls standing there staring at me Yikes!!!
Yeah those girls did weird me out.
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actually I must mention this - the 80's movie that absolutely scares the life outta me because it's so damn creepy, atmospheric is Lynch's THE ELEPHANT MAN...
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Last scary movie I saw in the theater was Pet Semetary. I remember even being scared of the first part of IT when it was on television. I also happen to think that knowing what is happening in a movie makes it not that scary. It's what happens when you get older.
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Yeah CGI sucks compared with the "Ol skool"way of doing it.I'm so glad that someone agrees with me.I hate it when people just rely on special effects for a film!Look at "Robocop","The Thing","The Howling"which is Rob Bottin in the hotseat for special effects.They are the coolest of "Ol Skool".You can't beat the eighties.
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I agree Gav - I also think that along with the almighty Bottin, STAN WINSTON and the KNB team created some supercool FX!
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oh! I forgot to mention RICK BAKER and CHRIS WALAS - they were cool FX maestros also.
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Halloween is still to this day one of the best scary movies ever made. It wasn't the special effects that made it scary either, it was the tone of the movie and the fact that something like that could actually happen. Well, except for the flesh wound Michael got when Loomis shot him out the window. That ending was awesome though!
Cue the scary music.
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classic valley the pic is a great edition to the post
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Halloween to me will always be considered one of the measuring sticks in which horror movies should be judged in my opinion. At least as far as the slasher genre goes. Freddy and Jason are just pretenders to Michaels throne.
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HALLOWEEN - yep it's horror in it's purest form. it STILL scares the **** outta me and I'm a grown man!
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'80s HORROR MOVIES are the B E S T!!!....If it were'nt for all the great horror movies that came out of the '80s. HORROR WOULD BE DEAD!
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