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Seeing alot of great older horror this week...makes me hate modern horror
Thanks to Halloween coming up, I have seen ALOT of great horror recently on television. Seems like all the networks and premium channels are showing some of the best horror films. Some of the really GREAT films I've seen in the past 3 or 4 days are:
Psycho (1960)
The Exorcist (1973)
Alien (1979)
Halloween (1978)
The Omen (1976)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Watching these masterpieces really makes me sad when I compare them to modern day horror with its cheap jump scenes and cliche moments. The movies listed above all shared some common characteristics that make them real gems: great directing, great acting, great cinematography, great plots, great music, and genuinely scary (as opposed to cheesy scary).
The 60's/70's was really the Golden Age for horror in my opinion. It is so hard to watch these classic films and then watch modern movies like the Saw films or Hostel or all those God-awful remakes and think them anything other than second-rate flicks.
Anyone else yearn for the day Hollywood takes horror seriously again?
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