tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post1785181952981796182..comments2023-11-05T02:57:06.922-05:00Comments on The Vault of Horror: Hump-Day Harangue: Where Have All the Horror Movies Gone?B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-7066243652133249222009-07-15T07:10:39.128-04:002009-07-15T07:10:39.128-04:00Hummm amazing work....very good one..
Thank you ...Hummm amazing work....very good one..<br /><br /><br />Thank you very much...<br /><br />___________________<br />Andrew<br /><a href="http://www.directstartv.com/jump.html?referID=oa-0-173189" rel="nofollow">#1 Satellite Television Service Provider</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-29545782628004442612009-07-10T15:02:36.087-04:002009-07-10T15:02:36.087-04:00You know what? This might be worthy of an entire p...You know what? This might be worthy of an entire post down the road, maybe even a Round Table: Do the '90s Get a Bad Rap?<br /><br />Might be a topic worth exploring...B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-90437766709058913382009-07-10T14:55:35.074-04:002009-07-10T14:55:35.074-04:00Please, just call me C.
This is, of course, just ...Please, just call me C.<br /><br />This is, of course, just a matter of taste, but I still think the '80s love and '90s hate is bass ackwards.<br /><br />I don't remember the 1980s being a particularly great time for horror. I remember it mostly as sequel bubble, with cheaply made, subpar slashers and their derivatives flooding the marketplace. There were a handful of classics, but precious few compared to the 1970s or 1990s.<br /><br />Seriously, in the 1990s, we had horror flicks winning Academy Awards. People like Coppola, Scorcese, Fincher, and Demme making horror films. The decade opened with <i>Jacob's Ladder</i> and ended with <i>Blair Witch</i>. I don't think you're giving the era credit for the quality it produced. <br /><br />The entire decade cranked out at least one lasting classic every year, which is a great rate in any genre and is truly remarkable considering that, just a decade before, drek like the slashers ran the roost.CRwMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07896615209770501945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-76484596720979016302009-07-09T18:17:12.576-04:002009-07-09T18:17:12.576-04:00YES! The Wolf Man and ...of the Dead are two I'...YES! The Wolf Man and ...of the Dead are two I'm looking forward to big time! The second half of 2009 is very possibly looking up...B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-91051654820954921512009-07-09T17:18:48.259-04:002009-07-09T17:18:48.259-04:00Ok Here is a list(Some have pending distribution/r...Ok Here is a list(Some have pending distribution/release dates):<br /><br /><br />Daybreakers<br /><br />Creek<br /><br />The Box<br /><br />Trick 'r Treat<br /><br />The Lovely Bones<br /><br />Paranormal Activity<br /><br />Carriers<br /><br />The Road<br /><br />The Wolfman<br /><br />Cell<br /><br />Splice <br /><br />Long Weekend<br /><br />Jennifer's Body<br /><br />Pandorum<br /><br />House of the Devil<br /><br />George A. Romero's ...of the Dead<br /><br />Sauna<br /><br />The Devil's Tomb<br /><br />The Devil's Commandos<br /><br />[REC]2<br /><br />Viy<br /><br />Mutants<br /><br />The Horde<br /><br />Livid<br /><br />Cotton<br /><br />And Soon The Darkness<br /><br />The Crazies<br /><br />No-Do<br /><br />Moon<br /><br />GraceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-769808814780285062009-07-09T15:14:56.757-04:002009-07-09T15:14:56.757-04:00CR (may I call you CR?), you've managed to men...CR (may I call you CR?), you've managed to mention a bunch of great horror flicks from the 1990s, granted, but I contend that there were far fewer than, say, in the 1970s or 1980s. Listing the gems from those decades would give you far more to choose from. In general, I think the '90s suffered from the oversaturation of the '80s, and a growing conservatism in Hollywood.B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-9204628124744519062009-07-09T15:06:16.945-04:002009-07-09T15:06:16.945-04:00I don't remember this vast wasteland of the la...I don't remember this vast wasteland of the late 1990s you guys lived in. Restricting yourself just to American productions, you had <i>Dusk Till Dawn</i>, <i>Flatliners</i>, <i>Misery</i>, <i>Bram Stoker's Dracula</i>, <i>Silence of the Lambs</i>, <i>The Frighteners</i>, <i>Habit</i>, <i>The Sixth Sense</i>, <i>The Blair Witch Project</i>, <i>Sleepy Hollow</i>, <i>Ravenous</i>, <i>The Addiction</i> and <i>Seven</i>. Add into that the foreign releases and you add <i>Funny Games</i>, <i>Cronos</i>, <i>Ringu</i>, <i>Audition</i>, <i>Riget I and II</i>, <i>Thesis</i>, and <i>Cemetery Man</i>. We could go on, but you get the idea.<br /><br />Really the only thing that sucked about 1990s horror was the direction the already failing 1980s franchises were taking in their long and pathetic decline towards crap self-parody. If that's all you really watched, then yeah, you saw a lot of crap. But who's fault was that. The filmmakers were cranking out good stuff. You just had to put down <i>Troll 2</i> and try something different.CRwMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07896615209770501945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-39884507106942328042009-07-09T11:37:19.682-04:002009-07-09T11:37:19.682-04:00The creative juices are just not flowing for horro...The creative juices are just not flowing for horror as of recently. I did enjoy The Last House, and Haunting in CT. Drag me to Hell, not a fav of mine. I have NEVER been a fan of Sam Raimi's work. But, I always still watch them and give them a try.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-67919321678552084542009-07-09T10:42:26.867-04:002009-07-09T10:42:26.867-04:00Cupcake, carefulness has never been one of my virt...Cupcake, carefulness has never been one of my virtues, and you are absolutely correct--I now see your cautionary warning regarding the 90s and the horrors of the horror genre at that time (the two "horrors" canceling one another out, mathematically speaking). I am suffering from post-traumatic stress--clearly!--and as a result I am just happy for what I get when it comes to creepy-flavored entertainment ;)Tenebrous Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032561062849200919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-25859514976646548362009-07-09T10:31:18.621-04:002009-07-09T10:31:18.621-04:00Kate darling, I think you need to go back and re-r...Kate darling, I think you need to go back and re-read my post carefully. Because I completely agree with you! <br /><br />Hopefully, I have not failed in communicating my point that this decade has been excellent with the exception of this year, and that the '90s were indeed a horror wasteland which I don't care to return to. <br /><br />Perhaps my rants are descending from the vitriolic into the incomprehensible...B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-80329135173676830672009-07-09T09:59:44.134-04:002009-07-09T09:59:44.134-04:00You know I love you and everything, B-Sol, but I&#...You know I love you and everything, B-Sol, but I've got to confess--all of the talk about the death of the horror movie has me perplexed. I mean... dude, I REMEMBER the 90s. It was pretty much a wasteland of "Leprechaun" movies and lousy Stephen King adaptations. For every genuine classic like "Dellamorte Dellamore," there were a score or more of films that made me say something like "HOLY SHIT--they made FIVE sequels to 'Children of the Corn?'" or "Mother of mercy, save us all from the milquetoast screen presence of Jennifer Love Hewitt" or "'Scanner Cop?' F'reals?" At least now, with DVD distribution and internet buzz being what they are, the foreign and modest-budget films that are out there are getting plentiful attention (positive *and* negative) and the "reboot" phenomenon is nothing more than today's marketing parlance used to describe what was formerly the endless sequels of the 80s and 90s. <br /><br />If anything, I think the *percentage* of entertaining horror films released recently is significantly higher than what it was in the 90s. Hell--there were *years* that went by where I wasn't jazzed about anything being released, and for the past several years there have been multiple releases annually that have caught my attention (granted, they didn't always *deliver* on my expectations, but that's a whole 'nother "Oprah").<br /><br />It's entirely likely that I'm spoiled by where I live--it's easy for me to catch the limited-run flicks on the big screen--so I might not be feeling the same lack of entertainment as other folks are experiencing. But believe me, it could be--and HAS been--a helluva lot worse than this...!Tenebrous Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032561062849200919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-90667307506569781652009-07-09T03:50:53.273-04:002009-07-09T03:50:53.273-04:00This has been a horrid cycle. Hopefully, the next ...This has been a horrid cycle. Hopefully, the next one won't be even worse but it's hard to picture it trending far in the other direction. The mainstreaming of torture-porn is the worst thing to happen to the genre.Steve Ringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05701916717122040015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-11411106347818656652009-07-09T03:28:37.998-04:002009-07-09T03:28:37.998-04:00Alas, I wish I wasn't!Alas, I wish I wasn't!B-Solhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470604276410220159.post-52229502901671666272009-07-09T03:24:51.316-04:002009-07-09T03:24:51.316-04:00i tilt my head down. you're right. dead on.i tilt my head down. you're right. dead on.BJ Colangelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03794586844789183140noreply@blogger.com