Old horror movies!

[teddyv]

Recently Creature from the Black Lagoon was on tv. My kids thought it was hilarious (from 9 to 13 years old) and could not believe that it was considered scary. I'd never seen it before outside of some clips but it was remarkable how slow the pace of the movie was (I did not watch the whole thing).

 

 

[Henry_iain]

Without the kind of technology we have today, most scary movies would be unlikely to scare modern audiences. That is if they rely on action sequences. A cleverly designed plot and good acting can do wonders. 

[teddyv]

Of course there are different genre's within horror. Slashers are not my thing really. I like those more that build with tension and creepy atmosphere. Movies like The Thing and Alien & Aliens did that very well (Aliens may not be a true horror as it's essentially Jaws on a another planet). Speaking of which, Jaws has to be one of my all-time favourites.

[BeauJangles]

55 minutes ago, teddyv said:

Recently Creature from the Black Lagoon was on tv. My kids thought it was hilarious (from 9 to 13 years old) and could not believe that it was considered scary. I'd never seen it before outside of some clips but it was remarkable how slow the pace of the movie was (I did not watch the whole thing).

Admittedly, both horror and also sci-fi movies back then went through much dialogging before anything "scary" started happening. There was the aspect of main theme build up with the story and the cheesier ones seemed to take a lot of time just trying to attempt quality. A lot of them were purposely meant to be bombs just to sell tickets at the box office. Audiences went for it hook, line, and sinker. But yes, some of the sci-fi flicks were really bad! 

[Henry_iain]

There was a 1997 movie called Cube. It was scary but gripping and exciting. I really enjoyed it (I think I still have it on VCR) 

[BeauJangles]

5 minutes ago, teddyv said:

Of course there are different genre's within horror. Slashers are not my thing really. I like those more that build with tension and creepy atmosphere. Movies like The Thing and Alien & Aliens did that very well (Aliens may not be a true horror as it's essentially Jaws on a another planet). Speaking of which, Jaws has to be one of my all-time favourites.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a "slasher" and at the time very shocking. Cheesy as all get out, but it did have a lot of suspense. These sorts of films are not really what I enjoy as horror movies. Jaws was also pretty good for it's time. I also saw Jaws II, Jaws 3D, and there was one more bad follow up Jaws movie that was pretty bad. I'm not sure if it was an official "Jaws" flick, but had the name. 

The technology of today's scary movies are very impressive and have that "in-the-face" effect to them. That ups the frightening aspect of them. I'll go for pretty much the gambut on them if they aren't deeply into the satanic. That's where I have to draw the line. Some of the classic horror movies did do some, but were subtle and discreet. They never seemed to go so way out like they do now. Not my thing. 

[BeauJangles]

55 minutes ago, Henry_iain said:

There was a 1997 movie called Cube. It was scary but gripping and exciting. I really enjoyed it (I think I still have it on VCR) 

Ah, yes. VHS videos. Competitors of Sony's Betamax and VHS could never beat them for quality. Just more time on the cassettes in hours. I still have a collection and my old but very good VCR. Still works and it even does a self cleaning to the capstans and record/playback heads on rewinds. I've got the first three legendary performances of The Beatles when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. It even has the commercials they aired then. Some are pretty amusing. I bought in 2001, from a television add when this media was still out there. Davy Jones was also in the cast of Oliver just several years before The Monkees. He was just a kid! And the puppet Topo Gigio the Mouse was on one of the tapes. Great stuff!

Edited June 3, 2020 by BeauJangles

[teddyv]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a "slasher" and at the time very shocking. Cheesy as all get out, but it did have a lot of suspense. These sorts of films are not really what I enjoy as horror movies. Jaws was also pretty good for it's time. I also saw Jaws II, Jaws 3D, and there was one more bad follow up Jaws movie that was pretty bad. I'm not sure if it was an official "Jaws" flick, but had the name.

I think it was "Jaws, The Revenge". 

The technology of today's scary movies are very impressive and have that "in-the-face" effect to them. That ups the frightening aspect of them. I'll go for pretty much the gambut on them if they aren't deeply into the satanic. That's where I have to draw the line. Some of the classic horror movies did do some, but were subtle and discreet. They never seemed to go so way out like they do now. Not my thing. 

Agree on the satanic part. One of the more disturbing movies I saw was, of all things, the made-for-TV versions of the Stephen King's "Storm of the Century". That just gave me such an evil vibe. But this digresses from the 'old horror flicks' of the OP.

[BeauJangles]

2 minutes ago, teddyv said:

I think it was "Jaws, The Revenge". 

Yeah, that's the one. A pretty horrible plot compared to the rest of them. One and a half stars out of four. 

**** - 2+1/2 stars. Not a good flick. 

3 minutes ago, teddyv said:

Agree on the satanic part. One of the more disturbing movies I saw was, of all things, the made-for-TV versions of the Stephen King's "Storm of the Century". That just gave me such an evil vibe. But this digresses from the 'old horror flicks' of the OP.

Some of Stephen King's movies are a bit hard to take. I've not seen Storm of the Century and quite a few others. I think the last one was Misery or was it Thinner? King is pretty intense and he does deserve credit as an author. What an imagination. I guess we are veering off topic a bit.   

[Debp]

4 hours ago, Henry_iain said:

There was a 1997 movie called Cube. It was scary but gripping and exciting. I really enjoyed it (I think I still have it on VCR) 

I think I saw Cube listed for free at Tubi TV (app or website).   Maybe I will check it out.

I don't like slashers either or anything bloody.   I enjoy the suspense movies.   Jaws was a favorite!