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Old 08-12-2005, 08:14 PM
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Originally posted by Zero
I think this is dead-on. I just finished reading a book about the history of horror films and one of the points it made is how all the "classic" horror films (like Dracula, Psycho, Halloween, etc.) were unconventional. Of course, nowadays, we think they are the "standards" - but when they came out they were startling and new. I though it was really interesting to read about how audiences totally freaked out at films like the 1931 Dracula or Psycho. Whether its "fun" I don't exactly know.
Yep, you have to wonder how much fun the people that lost it so completely during the first showings of The Exorcist were actually having. :p It is so rare to see something different and truly effective that audiences just aren't responding. We've seen it all before, absolutely nothing is really shocking anymore.

I still have a lot of fun with horror films, but it is very rare when a horror film has an actual effect on me. Meaning they don't stick with me anymore. There is nothing that will stay with me quite like Night of the Living Dead or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, for example, because when I saw them for the first time, I had never seen anything like them before.
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