excelsiorlef
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Yes but Scream came in 96, horror was basically toothless by then and it's no coincidence that those films are essentially self aware and tied to the 80s.
The 80s was the best decade for Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Horror, and cult films.
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Yes but Scream came in 96, horror was basically toothless by then and it's no coincidence that those films are essentially self aware and tied to the 80s.
MrCunningham
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Yup. Wes Craven's: A New Nightmare was really the prerequisite to Scream. That one brought the self aware aspect to horror movies. But yeah, horror movies were indeed toothless in the '90's.
Extra Sauce
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Yeah Scream gets a bad rap. Love the series despite the wave of garbage teen movies it helped spawned.
Eh..,maybe if you only think of horror in narrow terms or slasher films, all the 90's did was foster an environment where the underground and foreign markets pushed back against the mainstream American formula. Lots of good horror in that decade, it was just mostly independent or Asian/European or a mix of the two.
Disagree, though in Scream's wake it certainly took a beating.
Early 90s had Candyman, NOTLD remake, Tremors, Brain Dead/Dead Alive, Jacob's Ladder, Arachnophobia, and others. Then you had Scream, the J-Horror explosion, Ravenous, From Dusk til Dawn to name a few, in the later half. Sure two of those lead to a lot of terrible tripe, but that can be said of any decade's knockoffs/sequels
uncredited male
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I always enjoy the ending credits to that one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJ3iGBdOo
Trying to explain the plot to someone who has not seen it might get you committed though.
Flash Gordon was cool too. Thank you Queen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBe1hwg7V-M
excelsiorlef
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And frankly New Nightmare was a total bore.
industrian
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I have the 25th Anniversary Blu-ray of Blade Runner (the one that came in the briefcase) and I remember watching it thinking that it could have been made yesterday. It holds up incredibly well.
PhoncipleBone
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Scream is a great send up of slasher films that happens to be one of the most perfectly constructed and directed slasher films. Truly one of the greats.
excelsiorlef
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Fusion Pizza
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>_>
TheKaeptain
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Not even close.
Fusion Pizza
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Extra Sauce
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I love New Nightmare. It's not really scary but it works as a wonderfully meta fantasy film.
CadetMahoney
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Remember when R-rated films where legit and directors having a vision and putting it to film being unrestricted without meddling studios being a thing. . .
then the 90's onwards when everything had to be a PG-13.
That's what happened.
then the 90's onwards when everything had to be a PG-13.
That's what happened.
God tier movies. most of my favorite movies are 80s films.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
I loved watching cheap sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies when I was growing up in the 90s. Stuff like Digital Man and A.P.E.X. were always good to watch on the Sci-Fi Channel. They were extremely cheap movies that I think existed solely to recycle sets and props, but at least they had something "substantial" to them - something that today's cheap movies lack completely due to their reliance on clean, generic, cheap CGI.
Commander Jameson
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I really liked Runaway when I was growing up.
Magnum PI vs robots!
The bullet cam was pretty inventive too for the time.
Magnum PI vs robots!
The bullet cam was pretty inventive too for the time.
Lord_Balkan
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I agree, it is really beautiful in that sense. I thought Scream was really great too. Horror I think is a bad term. I think a better term is fantastical. I don't think horror needs to scare, since scares are subjective. They just need to provide this fantastical creepy atmosphere.
Pilgrimzero
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Man, do I miss the 80s.
Movies, cartoons, and video games.
Great time to be a kid
Movies, cartoons, and video games.
Great time to be a kid
excelsiorlef
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The best thing about 80s horror movies is that except for the ones that were boring the bad ones were almost always hilarious, that is not true about horror in any other era. Not consistently anyway
teruterubozu
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Only in the 80s can a band like W.A.S.P. appear in a film like The DungeonMaster.
PhoncipleBone
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80s had that weird genre of where it was a comedy and a horror movie.
Critters was great. I remember being so excited to go to the theater to see Critters 2. Sadly, Critters 3 was not as good.
excelsiorlef
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Sleepaway camp was something else.
Slashers in the 80s were just the best.
Stiflers Mom
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I never understood that "fashion was so terrible in the 80ies"-bias.
Current fashion is so ridiculously close to what people were wearing back then..
And not everybody in the 80ies wore these extreme outfits you can see in some of the music videos of that time.
Current fashion is so ridiculously close to what people were wearing back then..
And not everybody in the 80ies wore these extreme outfits you can see in some of the music videos of that time.
You really need to add IMO to some of the statements you are making, because your stating this as truth and a lot of people including myself do not agree with you, my opinon is most 80's mainstream horror was bad, not so bad it's good, just bad.
I also feel the slasher subgenre was a redundant repetitive genre all trying to recreate Halloween which is still the pinnacle of the genre. Most of the 90's horror you seem to hate was just applying on a mass level the things they learned about the public through their consumption of those very same 80's slasher films.
True Savior
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I was born in the 80's
Hokuto no Ken was made in the 80's
80s's > Every other time combined.
Hokuto no Ken was made in the 80's
80s's > Every other time combined.
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