Why Are The Most European Horror Classic Movies Definitely Better Than Any Modern American Horror Flicks?
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I collected around 60 european Horror classic on DVDs from the 1960´s and 1970´s especially from Mario Bavas, Fulcis, Argentos cult italian horror classics from the past two decades. Even though I also enjoy to collect the hammer british horror classic, both italian & british classic horror directors had tried so bloody hard to produce a damned extreme good horror actings from those days.
Then I´ve tried to compare with the new mainstream American Horrorproductions which are featuring and stressing more the actings of unknown big booby playmates in their colleague teenie modern Horrorstories like “Tales from the Crypt, Scary Movies etc”. Oh God, their actings & dialogues are seriously awful and the line story (Script) is totally empty /unisnpired! they are unlike the charismatic dialogues of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing nor Boris Karloff who had driven their horses with their scary huge black cape.
I enjoy the gothic horror so much, it was so original and so wonder
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American films lack originality most are copied from foreign films and hence they often lack the factor that makes foreign film superior, but the main reason is that American films focus on the aesthetics, sound effects and forget about the storyline and well most movies are so hand fed they do not allow the audience to think on its own
I disagree! Vincent Price was an American and made American movies. The Fall of the House of Usher, House of Wax, the Raven, the Pit and the Pendulum, House on Horror Hill, etc. etc. etc. I’m a HUGE Vincent Price fan. (EA Poe was American.)
… Hitchcock’s The Birds, Psycho, Marnie .. those aren’t European flicks.
I do like psychological thrillers, and think Anthony Hopkins fits the bill in terms of a modern “horror” character actor very nicely.
The Omen, the Exorcist, Cape Fear. Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The Devil’s Advocate and Constantine.
Stephen King is talented, too, and his movies don’t rely on the “slash and scream” of Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street. Salem’s Lot? The Shining?
Johnny Depp’s Sleepy Hollow – very nice! (and Washington Irving was an American.) From Hell, Ninth Gate – he could do nothing but horror/psych thrillers and be quite successful.
I quite like the Saw movies, too.
because americans steal their ideas and miscontrue it into something cheesy! They do that with korean films too
When you think something isn’t cheesy, it’s because it is culturally compatible – you can’t smell your own cheese. Personally I find the old Hammer Horror productions have moments that are as bad as Will Smith punching out an alien in Independence Day, just in their own way.
I guess to enjoy something like Scream, you’d need to have watched all those recent American teen flicks and have grown up on 80s horror like A Nightmare On Elm Street.
Most new horror movies are all showy and focus on the special effect and what tv star is in them more than plot, suspense and actual acting quality. They try to make up for it with music thats supposed to create tension and attempted jump scares that only have an effect on non-horror fans and morons. Where as the old school European directors were focused on original ideas and pushing boundaries, as well as having amazing music that completed a scene rather than just trying to showcase the new hit from Sum 41 or something.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some good new horror movies out ther, but they almost always blur the generas, comedy horrors like Shaun of the Dead or Dead and Breakfast, or Torture thrillers like Saw or Hostel. Most any new “normal” horror movie is just old and obvious, or simply relies on some “brilliant twist” to justify it. Best to stick with the classics for now.
whereas there’s a long tradition of gothic horror in europe (think shelley, think stoker), the horror tradition in america is mostly of exploitation movies (think blacula) and drive-ins (where the aim wasn’t to enjoy quality cinema in the comfortable confines of your car, but to feel up your date).
but as with most things, there are exceptions to the rule. wes craven and john carpenter made great horror movies (the key word being ‘made’ – you have to look to their early work. last house on the left, the thing, the first nightmare on elm street, assault on precinct 13) as well as works by tobe hooper (texas chainsaw massacre, poltergeist) and the evil dead series by director sam raimi. oh and lest we forget, the alien movies (who are as much horror as they are sci-fi)
you have the benefit of hindsight and are able to separate the wheat from the chaff as movies go. i’m sure there are tons of crap to go with the examples you’ve cited, only no one remembers them anymore.