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Horror_Homage
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 Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:22 am Post subject: Horror Movie Questionnaire |
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Hi guys i'm carrying out some primary research for a project and would really appreciate it if you could answer these questions. Thanks!!!
1. What is your favourite Horror film?
2. Do you feel that today’s audience are more desensitized as opposed to a 1950s audience and why?
3. Do you feel Horror films are as popular now as they were in the 70s and 80s?
4. Do you feel that documentary style films such as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Cloverfield (2008), are more effective at scaring the audiences as opposed to Studio lit Films such as Saw (2004).
5. Do you feel that the lighting in the original 1974 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was more effective at scaring the audience as opposed to the 2003 remake?
6. Do you feel that Horror films in the 70s and 80s were more explicit than today?
7. Do you feel that Horror films still have their place in modern-day society?
8. Do you agree that 90s saw the death of the Horror film and why?
9. Psycho (1960) is one of the most famous Horror films ever made; does it still have an impact on the modern day Horror film?
10. Do you think that the Horror film will ever be revived? |
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Horror_Homage
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Killer Klown
Joined: 11 Feb 2008
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Location: Salem, MA
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 2:09 pm Post subject: Answers :) |
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Hi everyone~!
Horror, I'd be glad to help out. Anything for research. My brain is available for donation too.
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1. My favorite horror film (personally) is "Curtains" from 1983. A great slasher film that my colleagues here at this site have heard about ad nauseum from me. 
2. Yes, i believe that they are. Mostly because horror was not as much in the mainstream back then, but something that was in the movies. Besides, i dont know too much about that because i wasnt around in the 50's. The other reason is that in contrast to the 1950's there are a lot more violent films made than back then. and the frequency to which movies were made was probably a lot slower than today. so it seems like they saw less violence. Also, the depiction of violence in the past was nothing like it is today. The graphic nature of the violent act was not as brutal as it is today. You never saw Burt Lancaster go in and tear someone's heart out with his bare hands and then eat it. Today, there are no holds barred. And we disregard it as "Special FX". So i think today we are totally desensitized as evidenced by how many people have watched movies and acted out the scenes on people in real-life because they thought it would be cool (Basketball Diaries).
3. I think that maybe they are just as popular as they were back then, but maybe a little more. Mainly because they are more in the mainstream and we have made pop icons out of some of them like Jigsaw, and a few others. The other reason is that there is a lot more access to horror now than there was then. We have DVD's, internet, the movie theatre, even your cellphone. Horror is a lot more abundant today than in the 80's. Though the quality sucks.
4. Actually, i feel that they are monumental disasters. I saw Blair Witch and i needed dramamine after it was over. It has to be something really special to work if it is a real-time film, like Quarantine. That was the best one i ever saw, and it worked pretty good. Other than that, there isnt that much there to scare me. It is a good premise, and a new idea, but so far, badly executed. I feel that Saw was far superior. Studios are still the best way.
5. Lighting is everything, but i dont think it helped the remake at all. I hated the remake just for the sake of it being a remake. I thought that it went for shock value, a lot more gore, and an attempt to stand out. It was awful.'74 all the way. Go Aeros!
6. As stated earlier, I feel that the older films werent as graphic as they are today, although there are exceptions (Dawn of the Dead, other zombie films, help me out). Most of the films at the tail end of the 80's were starting to get really gory, but that was also because technology was changing too. It's actually why Curtains is one of my favorite films is because there was little if any blood, and some of the characters were killed off-screen (something that never happens today).
7. Definitely, maybe more so today.
8. Absolutely! Why? Because they lost their creativity. There are no more ideas left for them to write a film on so they remake the films that are already made. Brilliant!! Now its all about "Let's remake films from a period of time when we actually were creative." Very few people left with a great imagination for horror. We dont want to talk about what scares us anymore, and then we dont want to make movies about it. Oh, well. What they need to do is to make movies out of the 1.2 million great books out there that need to be made into a movie. That's creative.
9. Beyond a doubt. It had an impact when they re-made it, albeit a minute one. It is still the blueprint that a slasher film is made with even today the formula holds up.
10. That's something i have a great hope for, and i think will never go away. As long as we have a fear of something, or go somewhere that scares us, or see things that we cant explain, then there will always be a horror story or movie. We just need less idiots to put it on film.
Hope this helped and good luck !
-Killer Klown
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