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1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Evil Bong - 08-14-2011
[SIZE="3"]The 1980s has to be the best decade for horror, I guess you could throw in 1978 as well to the era of great horror movies with great classics like Dawn of the Dead 1978, Halloween, and Friday the 13th. How would you compare that great decade the 1980s to all other decades in horror? It seemed like in the 1980s every weekend a new horror movie was comming out in the theater. Even the bad horror movies back then were good in the days before CGI. Zombie head removals should allways be done Tom Savini old school latex, foam, and fake blood style. Will we ever have another great horror villian like Jason, Michael Myers, Freddy, Chucky, and Pinhead again?[/SIZE]
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Oldman - 08-14-2011
You are right about it being the best decade. I don't know if they will ever be a new Icon. If they can get off this remake kick and do some real thinking and use their imaginations they might do it.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Scarecrow - 08-14-2011
We do need a new horror icon. Especially a slasher icon.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - LolliePop - 08-14-2011
Late 70s to late 80s for me was a really golden age for horror. I don't think I'm looking back with rose tinted glasses either. The 90s was pretty poor overall. After the Millenium it picked up but the onslaught of remakes has tarnished things in terms of originality and what we can expect for the future. If its not a remake its still often a story we have seen churned over a dozen times before. Not often does a film seem as fresh as watching through 80s eyes, unfortunately.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Oldman - 08-14-2011
LolliePop Wrote:Late 70s to late 80s for me was a really golden age for horror. I don't think I'm looking back with rose tinted glasses either. The 90s was pretty poor overall. After the Millenium it picked up but the onslaught of remakes has tarnished things in terms of originality and what we can expect for the future. If its not a remake its still often a story we have seen churned over a dozen times before. Not often does a film seem as fresh as watching through 80s eyes, unfortunately.
So True, So True
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Evil Bong - 08-14-2011
[SIZE="3"]To bad there are not drive ins around anymore, most of them went under in the late 80s - 90s. Nothing like watching Freddy at the Drive in. Midnight horror movies at the theater were popular back in the 1980s. :nopity: I guess Im just getting old[/SIZE]
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - LolliePop - 08-15-2011
Evil Bong Wrote:[SIZE="3"]To bad there are not drive ins around anymore, most of them went under in the late 80s - 90s. Nothing like watching Freddy at the Drive in. Midnight horror movies at the theater were popular back in the 1980s. :nopity: I guess Im just getting old[/SIZE]
Being English I missed out on all of that. I don't think it would be the same here though - freezing your backside off with the heater blasting lol.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - FreddysFingers - 08-15-2011
While I would agree with you Evil Bong, that the 80's had some of the best horror movies, lets really look at why those movies were so great. If this were a competition about horror movie special effects, nothing will ever beat the practical effects of the 1980's but to say that the decade had a lot of good movies is saying a bit much. The 80's produced a lot of shitty movies the amount of good 80's flicks can easily total as many good horror flicks of the 70's and 60's. Honestly, I don't really think there is a good decade for horror but the 80's was perfect for grotesque absurdity, which is what the 80's pop culture was known for.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - meezookeewee - 08-15-2011
Looking at what each decade had to offer, I would personally say that the 80s were no better than any other decade. While you certainly had some top-notch horror films in the 80s, just about as much crap films were released at the same time, and the 80s also introduced for horror movies, sequels. There may have been sequels to horror movies in the decades prior to 1980, but it was in the 80s that the sequel became prevalent. Look at Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday The 13. Unfortunately, the quality of said sequels were....random at best. You had some good sequels, and you had some really bad ones. I think what was most important about the 80s for horror movies, were special effects. Take John Carpenter's The Thing for example: Completely practical special effects that still stand up today. Same thing with Street Trash. The visual effects still work, even though it's a cheesy-ass film. Looking back, to me, I wouldn't necessarily say the 80s was the best decade for horror, but more in terms how those movies were made. John Carpenter's The Thing raised the bar for visual effects, and no other horror movie has come close to matching what Rob Bottin did for that film. But in terms of storytelling, it's basically been a roller coaster ride for the past 20 years. You have some movies that manage to actually tell a decent story, while not skimping out on the gore. Saw comes to mind, and while they went overboard with six sequels, the first film did a good job telling a decent story while delivering the red stuff. Most of the horror films during the 80s, didn't really care for that, it was more about who was going to die next and how. For me, there is NO definitive decade for horror. Each decade has it's fair share of treasure as well as trash. To say that one decade was better than another, for me, it's not very accurate. The 80s was The decade of the Slasher and monster movies. The 90s: The supernatural, with films like In The Mouth of Madness, Sleepy Hollow, and Night of the Demons. 00s: Torture/Re-make films. Each decade seems to have a particular theme, and that's not always a bad thing. But for some, like me, a decade doesn't necessarily mean all of the 80s or 90s, but rather a ten-year period between two decades. For me, some of the best horror films were made between 1985 and 1995, like Aliens, Evil Dead II, Near Dark, Tremors, Bram Stoker's Dracula and In The Mouth of Madness. That's my two cents.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - mytee - 09-15-2011
harepopcorn:harepopcorn
ersonally I enjoy movies from all eras-from the 70's drive-in/eco-nightmares to the preslasher movies. Now that my 15 year old daughter has embraced her inner gorehound and also figured out how to add to Netflix we have been watching many movies from the 50's 60's and early 70's all are excellent. I also enjoy the 80's splatstick. But the 90's as far as horror was not great. Although that was when Charles Band and Full Moon Entertainment were making Puppetmaster, Demonic Toys Seedpeople, Netherworld and other gems. It seemed to me in the 90's horror was a dirty word or something
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Oldman - 09-16-2011
mytee Wrote:
The Scream movie is the only thing that saved the 90's from being a total loss IMHO.:evilangel:
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - FreddysFingers - 09-16-2011
Oldman, I'd agree to a point although 90's slashers were original to some degree, they seemed to be heavily influenced from 80's slashers. Hot girls, a menacing slasher and a "survivor girl" trying to save herself and others. As far as I know, there weren't that many memorable slashers post-Scream.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Oldman - 09-16-2011
You could count on at least 1 survivor in every film. But starting in the 2000's it seems no one survives.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - mytee - 09-16-2011
not necessarily: in Pranks (1981) aka The Dorm that Dripped Blood only the killer survived-sometimes nobody does survive even if they did survive in some of these movies (were the incidents actually taking place) do you really think they'd just be able to go on with their lives? I doubt it
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Oldman - 09-16-2011
I think it was around 2006 or 2007 had a rash of films that everyone died you thought they would make it but got it at the very end.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - mytee - 09-16-2011
It's more real that way I think not following a formula you know?
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Oldman - 09-16-2011
They have to hit a happy medium. They swing to far in ether direction.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - Dr. Briggs - 09-17-2011
The 90s were bad, but not all bad. Misery, Candyman, Blair Witch Project, Event Horizon, and In the Mouth of Madness were all good horror films.
I'd say despite not being responsible for that many of the best horror films, the 80s had some very good consistency, offering at least one or even two classics every year.
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - FreddysFingers - 09-17-2011
The 90's had originality still. It all seemed recycled but they were still original to a point. I believe the 90's was sort of a "limbo" stage in horror where there wasn't a specific concentration (meaning, 80's is known for slasher, 70's for demonic possession, ect.).
1980s vrs All Other Decades for Horror - mytee - 09-18-2011
in the 90's they didnt even want to USE the word "horror" it was "supernatural thriller"