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Post by harrycanyon on Aug 4, 2009 18:53:23 GMT -5
A classic or pure crap? afterall this movie did help made the horror genre more popular but oldschool horror fans despised the Scream series for they thought were they too smart, too trendy and too overexposed that it nearly sank the carreer of Wes Craven. It was from the guy who gave us classics like "Last House on The Left", "Hills Have Eyes" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" and it spawned many crappy soft teen slasher wannabes like "Urban Legend" to "I Know What You Did Last Summer. Horror fans were fed up and studios listened including Rob Zombie himself who thought "Scream" were a bunch of shitty teen horror movies aimed at 17 year old girls who know nothing about the 70's and 80's horror films. So Zombie decided to bring back the true great feeling of 80's and 70's grindhouse cinema like "House of 1000 Corpses" and "Devil's Rejects" even tinseltown took notes as "Saw" and "Hostel" came for they were not cute and tounge-in-cheek but raw, tough and went right to the jugular.
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 4, 2009 19:02:43 GMT -5
I don't think the it's classic or crap. It's a pretty good slasher movie & I enjoyed the sequels but didn't dig the trend it started with all of the Scream clones.
Rob Zombie really doesn't have any room to talk about Scream since he hasn't given us anything good yet & probably never will. He's not innovative, visionary, deep, or brilliant.
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Post by harrycanyon on Aug 12, 2009 13:49:52 GMT -5
What about films like Hostel and Saw?
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 12, 2009 14:39:11 GMT -5
The first Saw was good but it ushered in the whole obsession with torture films & the like. Hostel was pretty average & more than likely came about because of Saw.
Despite a handful of decent horror flicks, this decade has been utterly boring & uneventful when it comes to horror.
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Post by harrycanyon on Aug 12, 2009 16:35:14 GMT -5
Do you prefer the 70's and 80's when it comes to horror? not the 90's or 2000's?
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Post by The Dead Walk! on Aug 12, 2009 18:35:59 GMT -5
I think EVERYONE prefers the 70s and 80s! And if not, they SHOULD!  |
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 12, 2009 18:52:25 GMT -5
I prefer the 1980s over the 1970s slightly but both are pretty much my favoritie periods in horror. The best horror movies came from both decades.
The 1990s & 2000 have given us some good ones here & there but the 1970s & 1980s reign supreme.
And if we're discussing action flicks, 1980s rules that one with an iron fist.
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Post by omer135 on Aug 12, 2009 19:30:50 GMT -5
I think EVERYONE prefers the 70s and 80s! Not everyone. I prefer the 2000s. However the 70s and the 80s did have some great horror films. |
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 12, 2009 20:07:02 GMT -5
I think EVERYONE prefers the 70s and 80s! I wish that were true. The world would be a better place to live in it it were. No more Rob Zombie worshippers that kiss the ground he walks on because of three terrible movies & subpar music.  |
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Post by The Dead Walk! on Aug 12, 2009 20:50:19 GMT -5
I think EVERYONE prefers the 70s and 80s! I wish that were true. The world would be a better place to live in it it were. No more Rob Zombie worshippers that kiss the ground he walks on because of three terrible movies & subpar music. Haha, yeah I wish it were true too. To be fair, I don't mind The Devil's Rejects. It's not great by any means, but I thought it did a good job for what it was. As for the man's music, I only have one thing to say (and I say it in disgust)... DRAGULA!!! |
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Post by Flyboy on Aug 12, 2009 21:18:10 GMT -5
Rejects is the best movie he's done but that's like picking which turd you like the best out of a line-up containing three turds.
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Post by UndeadNed on Aug 12, 2009 21:23:35 GMT -5
To be honest I enjoyed Scream and have fond memories of it. It was pretty much the first horror movie I saw that didn't have a Monster or Supernatural elements, prior to that it was mostly Freddy Krueger, the Nightmare on Elm Streets, or anything with monsters/aliens/demons for me.
The very first one was entertaining but I thought the rest were rather lame.
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Post by harrycanyon on Aug 13, 2009 1:11:57 GMT -5
Hey Flyboy, have you seen Wes Craven's earlier movies like Hills Have Eyes and Last House on The Left? Raw, tough and gritty movies that went to the jugular.
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Post by The Chief Archivist on Aug 13, 2009 20:35:11 GMT -5
Ah, I think Scream is a classic. You can't deny it's influence over the genre, for better or worse. I'm a big fan of the entire trilogy, actually. Smart, fun, and sometimes silly horror.
A bit worried about all this talk of a fourth one with Dewy and Gale having a kid and such non-sense.
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Post by UndeadNed on Aug 24, 2009 0:06:55 GMT -5
A bit worried about all this talk of a fourth one with Dewy and Gale having a kid and such non-sense. That sounds like an abomination unto horror movies everywhere. |
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