Disco was just ending
The dancing is SOoooo bad! And what's up with Jamue flicking her hair and pointing at the ceiling!! Painful to watch.
shareAgreed. As someone who actually went through the disco era, parts of this film are extremely cringeworthy.
shareIf you were never a fan of disco, I can see how it would be cringeworthy; however, placing the killings to match the disco beats shows a higher level of creativity not typically found in slasher movies. I don't think Wendy's chase scene, for example, would have been so thrilling were it not for the music playing in the background. For that reason, I consider it more praiseworthy than cringeworthy.
shareIf you were never a fan of disco, I can see how it would be cringeworthy; however, placing the killings to match the disco beats shows a higher level of creativity not typically found in slasher movies. I don't think Wendy's chase scene, for example, would have been so thrilling were it not for the music playing in the background. For that reason, I consider it more praiseworthy than cringeworthy.
I totally agree. I loved disco but it was over before I was a teenager. Always felt I missed out on something there. For whatever reason Disco is the brunt of many jokes in the U.S. but abroad people still seem to speak of it fondly unlike here......
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The problem was never really disco; it was the style that came with it. The clothes, the hair, the dance moves, all came across as goofy to a lot of people. But disco never really died; it simply evolved into what we now call dance music, club music, party music and house music. I mean, when you go out to a club to dance, what you're listening to is basically disco. The difference is the style today is a lot better.
shareI was around during the era but never saw this flick till last night. Absolutely hilarious! It's hilarious because it does have an air of authenticity. The Disco Movement proper was really peaking in '79-80. It's all just so 70s! My favorite is the guy in the Chevy van. I was a kid then and we used to go to this roller rink that had one of those light-up Saturday Night Fever dance floors. I used to think that was the coolest thing ever...felt like a total superstar on it. No wonder Jamie Lee Curtis is just absolutely digging herself of that dance floor!
I don't know much about the movie, but from what I can tell, the disco music was all original to the film, although a lot of it sounded like knock-offs of "I Will Survive." I went to bed last night with those thumping bass lines playing on a loop in my head! Too funny.
Most serious rock fans had absolutely had it with disco by this point. Dig up any high school newspaper from the time and you're bound to find numerous student musings about their hatred for the genre. To a degree, the above poster is right; disco never just "went away." That type of disco, however, did seem to die, i.e., the four-on-the-floor drums, the strings, the bass runs, etc. The onset of European New Wave in the early 80s more or less took over the dance scene. While the influence may have been there, that music had very little direct connection to the R&B music scene that disco sprang from, especially Barry White and the Philadelphia soul sound.