I love 80's horror!
 

Hey everyone, I am new and am a huge fan of 80's horror! I just checked out a movie at a film festival recently and it was great! It is called Hallows Point and it is a total homage to the movies I love so much! It is still in the film festival route but they have a sweet website. www.hallowspoint.com

Just spreading the joy!

The 80's were lame... psych! They were totally awesome. Stick around.
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Fucking Spammer:mad:

That is an amazing photo! Ha! Thanks for giving me a chuckle! Now off to listen to some Cheap Trick!

I love your graphic! What is your favorite 80's movie?

You want me to click on the link, don't you!

I double dare you!

....oooo, and a cleaver spammer ;)
Gotta respect that:cool:

Physical Challenge....

Sorry, I was too busy off being clever :) Which horror movie has your favorite theme song?

Bet this spammer never posts again.

What exactly makes me a spammer? Can someone not just answer my question?

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Welcome, your link sucks. :rolleyes:

I bet you're more into Scream 1 2 and 3?

If you're speaking to me.... what the fuck would give you that idea???
I grew up in the 80's. You dumb ass nOOb!!!!
You and your link can get fucked!!! :)

Reasons why I hate 80s horror films:

Videodrome
The Hidden
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Hellraiser
Child's Play
Deadly Friend
Halloween III: Season of the Witch


Sooooooo... what's so great about 80s horror?

What's so great about 80's horror? Well to start, at least 4 out of the 7 in your list. ;)

tee hee... I knew that was coming. :D


Soooooo, Des, which ones? :)

Videodrome - I've always been a fan of Cronenburg's disturbing and surreal situations. He didn't dissapoint with this one.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 - Sure it's not the original but this one is a funny, bloody romp and no horror fan should miss it. I shouldn't have to say much more than "chainsaw duel".

Hellraiser - Twisted creatures from Barker make this one sick and fun.

Child's Play - The first one isn't too bad, scares anybody under 15 and makes us older folk laugh.

Halloween III: Season of the Witch - Forget it calls itself Halloween III, if you can do that you can enjoy this one.


You left out Lost Boys, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Dawn of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, Poltergiest, The Shining, Friday the 13th, Ghostbusters, Day of the Dead, Gremlins, C.H.U.D., and soooo many more.

With Videodrome, I definitely appreciate the concept, however I feel as though the execution was ultimately poorly done. I thought that Blondie's character could have and should have been developed more in the beginning and that her suddenly sadistic urges seemed to come out of nowhere (though this could be due to bad writing).

Hellraiser: Yes, the twisted Cenobites were absolutely fantastic. They fulfilled the veritable monster-movie geekasm that I pursue time and time again... However, the original film is not about the Cenobites. It's a terrible painful tale of human degradation and corruption (the plot was just so incredibly abysmal). The thing is, I totally agree with you: The Cenobites are fantastic. Most horror fans will site Hellraiser as being incredible because of the presence of The Cenobites... If there were more of them, I would concede and embrace. But any scene sans-Cenobite (which is most of the movie) is just... awful.

Child's Play - But I'm not under 15. :p

Halloween III: True, I can embrace this movie for the camp factor. I actually gripped onto it into the wee hours of the morning, waiting for Michael Myers to emerge... I like explaining it to my friends, though as a movie about... Irish robots from Munich stealing part of the Stone Henge so as to create a chip to put in a Halloween mask to melt kids' brains and turn them into crickets. bwahahahaha.

TCM: But... The costumes... are... just... so... bad... *envisions leatherface dancing on a truck holding a dead body and a chainsaw* ... *shudder*


Oh, and the omissions are purposeful. I definitely acknowledge their powerful presence in horror movie fame.
GREAT 80s horror films (pulled from your list)
Poltergeist
Killer Klowns (SUCH an underrated film)
Lost Boys
The Shining
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
What about:
Sleepaway Camp
Aliens


The thing is, there are good and bad movies for every decade... But the 80s are so easy to pick on! I really hate the awful hairstyles and the clothing... The overarching cliched, repeated, eventually parodied and homaged teenage debauchery themes... The bad special effects... The REALLY bad writing...

Not so much.

Come on, anything from 1995 and up is easier to pick on. MTV horror movies with teens that can't act and buckets of bad CGI. Obviously there are some good films from that period too because, like you said, every period has its good films, but all these remakes of good Asian films and just... bleh. That's all I can manage, a word of disgust.

Oh, I definitely agree hands down! It's like bad horror history repeating itself.

But this thread is about the 80s. :p





And, good call: Bad CGI brings a whoooooooole new meaning to terrible special effects.

Yeah it is about the 80s, and the 80s had better horror films than the 90s. :p

I think the 70s have the 80s beat though.

Definitely - Halloween and the exorcist. Need we say more?

You're right. SO much better than those sucky 80s. :p

You owe a lot to the 80's
 

My first post and I'm already getting too involved.
Here goes... Any of you turds disregarding the 80's (or indeed any other decade) as lacking on the horror front don't deserve to call yourselves horror fans. Every decade has had it's highs and lows but in this particular case you couldn't be more wrong. If you speak to anyone who grew up in that era they'll tell you the same. The late 70's through late 80's instigated some of the most provocative and controvertial cinema we are ever likely to see. There isn't a single film produced today which is not influenced (usually for the worse) by this period in cinema's history. In addition (and I speak for all those 30+ year olds like myself, who were able to rent out 18 cert films at the age of 8/9 from their local 'Ritz' video shop without any hassle), we also had to deal with the BBFC's introduction of certificates and the subsequent loss of many films we held dear because of their so-called 'disturbing' nature. In retrospect many of these films are remembered through rose tinted glasses by fans (myself included) but as a source of original and disturbing material the 80's as a whole should be respected for giving us the precursers to many of the films we enjoy today.
Skip to the end...
How can you slag off a decade that gave us:

The evil dead 1 + 2
Reanimator
Return of the living dead
Day of the dead
American werewolf
The fly
The fog
The thing
Fright night
House
Nightmare on Elm street
Near dark

And that's just the mainstream stuff we were allowed to watch

Welcome to horror.com. Where horror comes to relax.

Lol point taken

What - ?! The modern being influenced by the OLD?!

NO - YOU DON'T SAY.

:p

Of COURSE you can't write off an entire DECADE... Just as much as you can't EXTOL an entire decade (because every decade has its strengths and its flaws)... It would be incredibly ignorant to completely disregard all that the 80s has done for horror, including innovative archetypes and the birth of recurring themes that manifest in horror today.

But it would be JUST as ignorant to consider the 80s to be the end all be all of horror.

And if you actually READ this thread, the highlights of the 80s have already been nodded to, so it's clear that they're not being shrugged off.


Anyway. It's freezing raining out. I'm cranky. DON'T call me a TURD...

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ASS. :p


Oh, and BTW... Welcome. I think that you actually have something INTELLIGENT to say and look forward to your posts... Just stay away from the name calling.

*pours morning cup of coffee*