tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173887948269031901.post6874965442296518787..comments2024-03-26T01:21:57.869+00:00Comments on Supernatural Tales: John Carpenter on Eighties Horrorvaldemarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03829872956512652469noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3173887948269031901.post-61754578451343545742016-06-03T05:11:02.134+00:002016-06-03T05:11:02.134+00:00I'm hard pressed to remember any good horror f...I'm hard pressed to remember any good horror films released during the 80s. There were The Changeling, An American Werewolf In London, The Howling, the beautiful Company Of Wolves, The Shining, the delirious Re-Animator and a few others. But, unfortunately, it was dominated by slasher films. It also seems to be the era where characters really started spending half the film's running time wandering around and encountering false scares before meeting a grisly end, setting up a trend that continues, unfortunately, to this day. Recently I was watching The Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Dracula as well as some Val Lewton movies and was amazed at the difference in films of that era and films from the 80's on. The former films were entirely plot driven, with a story that filled the running time from start to finish whereas most films now are merely setups for scares. They were also filled with a real sense of fantasy, even if they were horror films, something many, if not most films released today, lack.Oscar Solishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05266668061798353541noreply@blogger.com