Horrors, which are the best, ones from the 80's or modern ones?

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EmmyEms

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I've not watched many horror movies since the late 80's. I've just recently watched a cheesy 80's low budget horror movie (well, you couldn't exactly call it horror), called The Chopping Mall, which I loved.

Now I'd like to start watching horrors again, I feel drawn to checking out the old ones from the 80's, but for some reason I don't find the thought of trying to get into some modern ones that appealing, but maybe I'd change my mind if I watched a few.

So what do you guys think, should I not bother with the modern stuff, or should I just leave all that 80's stuff behind and concentrate on the latest ones, or at least ones after say, I dunno, 2000?

When do you think horror movies were best, in the 80's with classics like the Nightmare On Elmstreets and whatever, or the latest ones? Please give your reasons as to why.

Thanks.
 
Too difficult a question, if you want to see horror's that are 'new'ish, try Haute Tension (aka Switchblade Romance UK title), SAW 1.

Two of best Horror's from the last 5 years. :)
 
Amazing horror and bad from both times. No best for me out of the two.



Of course you should bother with modern horror, always good horror, if you don't bother, you will miss out on The Descent for example, very good horror that came out a few years ago. Have you seen it yet?

Definitely check out Haute Tension like Hern mentioned, also the same director made the remake of The Hills Have Eyes, one of the good remakes to come out and I actually liked it more than the original.

The Spanish are ones to look at right now too, so look into Spanish horror films.

Don't choose, just watch films from the 80s AND more modern stuff...


As for The Chopping Mall, always wanted to see that :)
 
Silly me forgot about that one. :o


This film made me jump! lol.

And I may have let out a little sound too, but I don't want to talk about that. lol.
 
Oh yep that was exactly the same as me. :o

I thought it was just a claustrophobic horror, then from no where! :eek:

When they see the monsters on the night vision camera :eek: Oh i nearly died. :D
 
That part was great, apparently they had not met
the guys who played the creatures in full blown creature mode and that was the first time the actresses saw them!

There is a sequel on the way taking off from the American version's ending...
 
I'd say the 80's was the best time for horror movies,but in reality it was the 60's and 70's when they were at their most creative.problem with this decade is that it's 90% remakes or sequels in which most lack much tension or creativity.

These are good in my opinion:-

80's horror movies
Nightmare On Elm Street 1 & 3
Hellraiser
Child's Play
Poltergeist
Near Dark
Hellraiser 1 & 2
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
FT13th 1,4,6 & 7
The Shining
The Fly
The Thing
American Werewolf In London
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer
Fright Night
Evil Dead 1 & 2

00's horror movies
Saw 1 & 2
The Descent
Haute Tension
Rec
Grindhouse
Inside
Dawn Of The Dead
Hills Have Eyes
Texas Chainsaw The Beginning
 
I agree about the first Halloween and the Descent. A problem i have with horrors is that i prefer suspense type films rather than gore, which a lot of recent ones focus on.
 
80s horror is to me
friday 13th
halloween
nightmares

early 90s was very dull time for horror with all the series dying out and the odd gem poping up like
candyman and new nightmare

then in 97 i dont think i need to say but SCREAM CAME and reinvented it with a host of new lesser knockoff slashers with only one being decent( i know wydls)
those lesser knockoff slashers finally died out in 2003 with the ring being really popular in 2002

2003 a remake of TCM opened up a whole new host off remakes being brought into development and the lost in middle of nowere movies being open up( wrong turn,house of wax etc..)

2004 rings 1st copy was the grudge which was really good but opened up a whole lot of crap knockoRAB which dont need to be named.

2004 also seen saw pop up from nowere to become the next big thing its 1st knockoff was hostel which was also good but after that the rest sucked which again dont need to be named

so since then we have been getting boring pg13 ghost movies and boring goreshot/tourcher movies with a dash of boring remake splashed inbetween them

i say boring alot because the majority of the movies have let me down ireally tried to like the halloween remake but it wast gelling with me

this year thou a LITTLE MOVIE CALLED CLOVERFIELD has opened up a whole new can of worms

now of course there were lots of gems inbetween all the money grabbing shameless studio knockoRAB of the jap ghost+tourching genres
like
descent
high tension
hills have eyes remake
and manny more
NOTICE THOSE above movies have a lot of non american things invovled hills have eyes was done by the french director i think of high tenison

so imo there is no best DECADE OF HORROR
 
Know they're not really horrors (more fantasy) but I much prefer to old Universals of the 1930s and 1940s, plus the Hammers of the late 1950s and 1960s.
 
You've got to turn to Europe nowadays for great horror movies,it was that way in the 60's and it's like it again now.

I can't remember the Russian movie/directors name :o but there was one movie lately I saw that was one of the most weird,strange and intriguing movies I've see in ages,sort of like Hellraiser on acid.:eek:
 
Actually the 70s have informed the horror flicks of the 80s, 90s and noughties and I'm not just talking about the fact that they're remaking them now. The Descent had a very nihilistic feel about it much like 70s flicks which made it exceptional.
The 80s US movies had some gems (Elm Street for example) but took the B movie horror greats of the 70s like Halloween and made them blockbuster events. That sort of marketing over content has continued to this day with about 90 per cent of 'horrors'.
So at the risk of sounding like Rocky Balboa, the 70s were modern horror's golden age but if I had to choose between the two decades mentioned it's the 80s. Most of what comes out from the States just now is rehashing the slasher formulas of that era partly as the teens that watched them then are running the studios now.
 
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