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i personally saw the 80s as the death of good horror movies.
(and yes there are always exceptions)
as i mentioned in another thread long ago - the 80s saw the beginings of the widespread home video phenomenon ...
the market was hungry for product - paving the way for these no name studios to crawl out of the woodwork with direct to video shit ... and a large part of that was horror ..
catering to the teen market that was happy with any piece of shit as long as there were a pair of tits on display they could giggle and beat off to in the privacy of their own homes when mom and dad went out to one of their wife swapping parties.
there was no real incentive to make good films ... people were renting anything they could get their hands on... as long as the cover looked cool.
This wasnt happening in the 70's where most films were made to be shown in theatres.
There were exceptions there too - experimental films ... shock and 'art films' ... but for the most part horror films were made by big studios with big directors and big stars. And they were way fucking better than any shit full moon or their contemporaries pumped out.
If you like the stuff - fine ... people do tend to identify more with the films they grew up on ... and i got into them myself for a spell
but in retrospect - looking back now - i find them mostly unwatchble due to the lack of budget, talent, and creativity.
i think horror is starting to creep back now .. in part because of CGI which allows for cheaper better looking effects (not many self professed 'true horror fans' like it though) and in part because of films like Xmen, Spiderman, Harry Potter and LOTR which brought fantasy and creatures back to the mainstream (profitable)
another factor is - ironically - due to home video which threatened to kill the theatre market but instead renewed interest in cinema - so adults are slowly getting back into the theatres - and - thank god - not all of them want to see The Bridges of Madison County and the Horse Whisperer.
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