Best Decade For Horror Films?

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11721

Includes two prime examples for each decade...

PBR Streetgang · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:32 am

great poll. strange choices of "prime examples" but hey I don't mind. Good call on The Descent, though. LOVE that movie.

I'm going to put off voting for a little while but most likely it'll be '80s. That's when the shit got really fucked up. And I like it!

I see why you didn't want to include the '50s and '40s, but imo the '30s definitely ought to be on here, for the Universal run of horror pictures alone...

PBR Streetgang · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:35 am

lol did you just add the '50s to the poll? or am I crazy?

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11721

Yeah just a few minutes ago. I still think the 60's was when horror became "art", but the 50's did have some great ones indeed.

PBR Streetgang · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:02 am

ah fuck it went with 80s because of the spectacular advancements in gore and splatter, both within conventional horror and as their own separate genre. and also because of The Shining and Day of the Dead.

Re-animator, Hellraiser, The Thing, The Fly, Videodrome, The Beyond, ...

pauldrach · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:17 am

Negative Creep wrote:

I started at the 50's because that's when horror was starting to become a work of art, imo...

Ever heard of German expressionism?

godwand · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:15 pm **Posts:** 206

I'd say it goes as far back as the 30s, maybe German Expressionism but I think it's more of an influence of horror than its contemporary.

PBR Streetgang · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:00 pm

the twenties produced some fantastic horror films. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Nosferatu, The Hands of Orlac, ...

wantabodylikeme · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:35 pm

30's for me, all those early sound Universal ones are forever. (not to mention Vampyr!)

Out of these I'll go with the 60's, cuz the ones listed transcend the genre and I probably like those the most more than the plethora of good ones in the 70's

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11721

pauldrach wrote:

Negative Creep wrote:

I started at the 50's because that's when horror was starting to become a work of art, imo...

Ever heard of German expressionism?

No...

Led for your Head · **Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:30 am

Think of film noir lighting and themes:

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PBR Streetgang · **Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2012 6:42 am

wantabodylikeme wrote:

Out of these I'll go with the 60's, cuz the ones listed transcend the genre and I probably like those the most more than the plethora of good ones in the 70's

Plus, the sixties arrived with a bang because of Peeping Tom, which is imo better than Psycho and Night of the Living Dead put together. Best horror film of all time imo. Also don't forget Kwaidan by my man Kobayashi

Quinnsy Lohan · **Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:47 am

Think of the holocaust. German expressionism at its finest.

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 11721

PBR Streetgang wrote:

wantabodylikeme wrote:

Out of these I'll go with the 60's, cuz the ones listed transcend the genre and I probably like those the most more than the plethora of good ones in the 70's

Plus, the sixties arrived with a bang because of Peeping Tom, which is imo better than Psycho and Night of the Living Dead put together. Best horror film of all time imo. Also don't forget Kwaidan by my man Kobayashi

Yeah I still need to see Peeping Tom. Heard nothing but great things about it.

Have you seen the original House On Haunted Hill from 1959? Vincent Price was the man...

Led for your Head · **Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:21 pm

PBR Streetgang wrote:

Also don't forget Kwaidan by my man Kobayashi

Hell yeah.

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