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re: The Most influential Horror movie of its time?
Posted on 2/8/17 at 7:53 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Posted on 2/8/17 at 7:53 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
I think you have to reach WAYYYY back to the silent film era. Lon Chaney changed everything with his use of makeup, which he did himself, and the movies he was involved with such as London After Midnight and The Phantom of the Opera. There's a reason that they called him The Man of a Thousand Faces, because he revolutionized Hollywood and filmmaking at a very early time.
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Posted on 2/8/17 at 8:25 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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If you classify King Kong as a horror pic, it deserves consideration. The "mega-monster" movies (especially all the post-war "nuclear" monster movies) could be traced to Kong.
Those really cross over more into action or sci-fi than horror.
Posted on 2/10/17 at 4:25 pm to Cdawg
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Sure it did but I don't recall Halloween 2 until after Friday the 13th wheeled out 1 & 2 in back-to-back years cashing in. It seemed to me at least that Jason became the standard of a cult horror franchise type movies
But it was his mother in the first one and part 2 jason was a shitty killer. By 3 he was a hulking murder machine which was 1982.
Posted on 2/10/17 at 4:53 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I think there are several movies that would fit the category. Movies like the Uninvited and Psycho helped take horror from the hokey monster movies that they were and made them put the suspense and tension back in them.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre helped take the genre from the days of making the more violent scenes take place off screen to rubbing the viewers face in it. It made people realize movies could be violent but still make money and be considered "good".
Then Friday the 13th created the franchise aspect of horror and made money hand over fist. Really catapulting horror into the mainstream.
Nightmare on Elm Street is another since Freddy actually spoke and bridged the fantasy aspect of horror with the monster movie.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre helped take the genre from the days of making the more violent scenes take place off screen to rubbing the viewers face in it. It made people realize movies could be violent but still make money and be considered "good".
Then Friday the 13th created the franchise aspect of horror and made money hand over fist. Really catapulting horror into the mainstream.
Nightmare on Elm Street is another since Freddy actually spoke and bridged the fantasy aspect of horror with the monster movie.
Posted on 2/10/17 at 7:04 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I think it's the Exorcist
People these days are little numb to the shock value of this film but, man.. People were walking out of the theater fricked up from that movie when it debuted in the 70s
Probably THE most notorious/influential horror film I can think of.
People these days are little numb to the shock value of this film but, man.. People were walking out of the theater fricked up from that movie when it debuted in the 70s
Probably THE most notorious/influential horror film I can think of.
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