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Originally Posted by HorrorHomage
Questionnaire for Forum
1. What is your favourite Horror film?
2. Do you feel that today’s audience are more desensitized as opposed to a 1950s audience and why?
3. Do you feel Horror films are as popular now as they were in the 70s and 80s?
4. Do you feel that documentary style films such as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Cloverfield (2008), are more effective at scaring the audiences as opposed to Studio lit Films such as Saw (2004).
5. Do you feel that the lighting in the original 1974 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was more effective at scaring the audience as opposed to the 2003 remake?
6. Do you feel that Horror films in the 70s and 80s were more explicit than today?
7. Do you feel that Horror films still have their place in modern-day society?
8. Do you agree that 90s saw the death of the Horror film and why?
9. Psycho (1960) is one of the most famous Horror films ever made; does it still have an impact on the modern day Horror film?
10. Do you think that the Horror film will ever be revived?
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1. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
2. I think they are. There has been so much crap done over and over, people just eventually get used to it and it doesnt bother them. It was still relatively new in th 50's.
3. I feel that horror is just popular now as in the 70's and 80's. With so many different subgenres of horror nowadays its hard to argue otherwise.
4. I'm not a huge fan of the documentary style films, but it appears to me as if they get the job done (Paranormal Activity).
5. I do agree. The original TCM is one of my favorite horror flicks because of that.
6. Its hard to tell. They were more explicit for their time, but I dont know about more explicit as compared to today. Theres lots of crazy stuff out there.
7. I definitely do. There is still an unbelievable fan base for horror films. They are just as important to culture today as any other films in my opinion. But its biased ;)
8. I don't believe it was the death of the horror film per se, but it was a decline. I just believe that thw quality of films being put out was low. Too many people trying to do new things that sucked. You can't forget your roots.
9. I believe any time a writer/director does a slasher film, he plays the shower scene from Psycho in his head.
10. I don't believe the horror film is dead, but I believe a revolution in horror films is more than possible.