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The 60's for the works of Roger Corman. Do note, of course, his kind of work did spill over some into the 70's.
One probably ought to define what they want to see in a horror flick. For me, at the very impressionable age I was back then, it was the sexuality and the decadence (probably unacceptable in the modern era). This makes these movies, to me, rewatchable, time after time, even though all the surprises are known.
Today it seems that the movies are all about blood and oodles and oodles of gore, like Saw, and I have absolute no interest in watching those at all.
As to what movies?
The Shuttered Room
Pit and the Pendulum
Tales of Terror
Comedy of Terrors
Dr. Phibes
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers from a secret experiment during WWII
starring Peter Cushing as a former Nazi living on a deserted island, also John Carradine as the boat captain that gets stranded on the island with his passengers.
Baron Blood Bay of Blood Blacula Blood on Satan's Claw, The Burnt Offerings Count Yorga, Vampire Dawn of the Dead Dunwich Horror, The Exorcist, The Last House on the Left Legend of Hell House, The Omen, The Phantasm Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) Prophecy (not the movie with Christopher Walken!) Pyx, The Race with the Devil Schock Suspiria Zombie (dir. Lucio Fulci, not the alias of Dawn of the Dead)
Anything before the 70s. Why? Because most, if not all horror movies from those eras, were more psychological thrillers/Suspenseful movies. Any horror movie past 1970 doesn't interest me
Kind of suprised no ones voted for the 90s or later yet. I myself voted for the 70s because of movies like The Exorcist, TCM, and Dawn of the Dead. But I know many people that are my age (29) and younger that won't even watch movies earlier than the mid 90s because they have "bad" special effects. I'm a non traditional college student and I can't believe some of the great classics that many of the other students in my classes have never seen or even heard of for that matter.
Kind of suprised no ones voted for the 90s or later yet. I myself voted for the 70s because of movies like The Exorcist, TCM, and Dawn of the Dead. But I know many people that are my age (29) and younger that won't even watch movies earlier than the mid 90s because they have "bad" special effects. I'm a non traditional college student and I can't believe some of the great classics that many of the other students in my classes have never seen or even heard of for that matter.
Hmmmmm, well, that may be it, too! (having just done "Movies of our fathers" thread of the students of today not knowing of the classics, like Bond, of the 60s.)
When I think of a good horror flick of the 90s, it's "The Haunting". Great cast, great sets, lots of mild decadence to inspire one's imagination.
The Addiction which again falls into decadence inspiring imagination. Add to that the drive for immortal youth to which Full Eclipse can be added. These qualities are not necessarily horror but they do draw one into the flick and enable one to watch it again and again even though all the secrets are known.
Others include The Craft, Darkman, Innocent Blood, Scanners II & III, Strange Days, Ultraviolet, & Wolf (there are some other flicks in that list that I've seen, liked, but they don't really fall into this view).
Basically, it's being able to look into the flick, find someone there that you want to be, and you are not the evil one. What makes it great is that you are not the ordinary person off the street by the end of the flick.
If the point of the movie is only to scare, then it is only good for one look.
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