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Originally Posted by Sistinas666
The only movie I've seen on that entire list is Carnival Of Souls which I found boring. I don't think I was even born before any of those movies. I grew up on horror icons like Freddy, Jason, Pinhead, Michael Myers, Leatherface, The Blob(remake), and The Fly(remake).
Now don't get me wrong, I in no way think my icons are any better than the older ones. I just think its a generation thing. I have a couple of classic horror channels on my Roku player I should start watching and stop being a movie snob.
This looks like a great list to get started on!:)
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Carnival was very slow IMO.
You don't sound much younger than I am (here I'm assuming again) as I also grew up with Freddy, Jason and Myers as my high school age horror movies. Many of the Hammer classics came out before I was even born, to say nothing of the Universal classics which came out before my father was born.
My appreciation is obviously a nostalgia thing as those are the films I grew up on. As a result they are the most fun. Most of the Japanese Godzilla, Rodan and other Toho/Daiei monster films were actually pretty terrible but I still love them because I grew up watching them as a kid.
I honestly never cared much for the slasher movies of the 80s except for things like PJ Soles moments. But all these years later I'm starting to warm up to them for nostalgia reasons. The remakes of The Blob, The Fly and The Thing were always great IMO however.