I personaly cannot stand it when people say that "The movie may have been good for the time, but it isn't by today's standards". I have no idea where people are getting this conclusion from. I laugh at most of movies made now, and find movies from the 70s and 80s to be much, much more violent and brutal. Anyone agree?
Chris "Pillsberry" Gottschalk
I agree with you. I must say (god forbid) that by 'today's standards' some of the gore in this isn't AMAZINGLY realistic. But that's all. The quality is way the hell better than some recent horror films (all you need to do is read the reviews and critically bashing of newer films to figure that out), even though this movie has very little in the way of plot. I agree that the best time for horror was the 60's to the late 80's....
With some exceptions:
Dead Alive (1992)
The Silence of the Lambs (1990)
Red Dragon (2001)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
28 Days Later (2003)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Maybe a few more....
Yet there seems to be a new genre of horror movies now, that seems to be almost all of the current horror movies: The new genre that can be simply stated as the Gore genre. Wheres the damn quality that there used to be? God help the modern horror film....
'Your mother ate my dog!'-Dead Alive/Braindead
There's something called 'The spirit of the time'. Some things that work in the seventies and eighties will not work with todays audiences, the issues in the world and the state of modern conscious has moved onward from the ideals that led to the old school horror films. In terms of special effects, acting, or cinematography I agree with you, though in many cases the argument for the time in which the film is made, I think, is still valid.
...And with the Devil's strength, he twists
nup. watch eden lake. you will see what today standards are all about
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