Help needed: History of Horror

[massacre man]

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
Definetly mention Suspiria, for which it is one of Dario Argento's best. Zombie(79') would be another good one because it has some good gore scenes.

You could do a remake section with like The new Dawn of the Dead and Texas Chainsaw

Or you could do a crappy movie section with Leprechaun:Back to the Hood or They.....or Darkness Falls........:mad:

its BACK 2 THA HOOD

haha look at my avatar

[Stingy Jack]

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
Definetly mention Suspiria, for which it is one of Dario Argento's best. Zombie(79') would be another good one because it has some good gore scenes.

You could do a remake section with like The new Dawn of the Dead and Texas Chainsaw

Or you could do a crappy movie section with Leprechaun:Back to the Hood or They.....or Darkness Falls........:mad:

I was thinking about mentioning "formula" horror, and throwing in a few shitty titles for examples. But I'm not so sure. I need to write the thing first, and see what I can do with it.

[Stingy Jack]

How about today's horror? At one point do you think we finally got away from the slasher film, and started producing more heady horror? Was it with "The Sixth Sense"? (and I know I'm going to get flamed for saying that), or "The Blair Witch Project"? (for which I will also get flamed.) Maybe it was "Se7en"? (which I don't think I'll get flamed for.)

[Hate_Breeder]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack
How about today's horror? At one point do you think we finally got away from the slasher film, and started producing more heady horror? Was it with "The Sixth Sense"? (and I know I'm going to get flamed for saying that), or "The Blair Witch Project"? (for which I will also get flamed.) Maybe it was "Se7en"? (which I don't think I'll get flamed for.)

Hmm you might want to mention the Ring. That kinda creeped me out....but Stir of Echoes was pretty good in my opinion..

[Dark_Hero]

Se7en definatly was a turning point. Brought us out into more.....inteligent horror. Not saying that there wasnt any before, god no....but it brought us back to the light, so to say.

Dead trillogy, definatly. Shock value, plus a "biting" (Bad pun, sorry) social commentary. Even with the zombies, it was more real than most reality shows....

Depending on your opinion, TCM or Halloween, both are kinda credited with beginning slasher...

I guess thats all for me

[zwoti]

if i might throw in some names...

early german horrors (cabinet of dr caligari, nosferatu, der golem)

then came the universal era (dracula, frankenstein etc..)
then some rko magical films (cat people, i walked with a zombie etc..)
the emergence of hammer in the 50's
era of atomic horrors in the us
low budget american indepedant films (roger corman)
italian giallo films
the bloody movies of the 70's and early 80's
mainstream studios taking over and diluting
asian extreme.

[MichaelMyers]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack
I was going to mention the cabinet, and I was going to also mention the original TCM in a paragraph about 70's horror, culminating in Halloween which launched the shit-ass mess of slasher films in the 80's (I won't use the words "shit-ass mess" though).

I think you should.

[Hate_Breeder]

If you need some more films do a Black Comedy section with such titles as:

Shaun of the Dead
Dead Alive (Brain Dead)
Bad Taste
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness

and so fourth..

[newb]

As usual zwoti stole some of my thunder.
I also was going to mention the classics, i.e. Frankenstein, Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein. A little nugget I also picked up , the first silent horror movie was a 1896 two minute vampire movie from director Georges Melies called "Le Manoir du Diable".
From the 40s we have The Cat People, The Wolfman.
50s brought us horror/sci-fi The Thing from Another Planet as well as Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The Haunting in the 60s, Rosemarys Baby.
The 70s gave us Jaws and the start of the slashers, Halloween, Friday the 13th , Nightmare on Elm Street.

[zwoti]

i occasionally feel the need to flex my mental muscles


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