The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 01:27 PM)
Also Cannibal Holocaust (1980) really set the course for the modern Cannibal-alike movies.
I don't think that The silence of the lambs (1991) -one of my top 10s films btw- would have been as great it was without Cannibal Holocaust's influence.
So let's also include this one too, along with Night of the Living Dead.
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 01:44 PM)
Indeed.
Everyone goes crazy about The Blair Witch Project (1999) but this is almost 20 years prior The Blair Witch Project.
Also, completely different aesthetics and elements of horror: one is exploitation gore and the other is supernatural horror.
Idk why people like The Blair Witch Project anyways. Honestly, i find it extremely boring. Only 5 or 6 minutes are worthy and these are the last 5 or 6 minutes in where they entered that abandoned creepy house (which was the house of the witch).
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cryptoflovecraft — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 11:39 PM)
I agree. Blair Witch is incredibly overrated. I never understood why it was so popular and, worse yet, it inspired so many young filmmakers to make similarly forgettable found footage films. Next to torture porn, I consider found footage to be the nadir of horror subgenres (and, yeah, there are a few good ones but most ff films are utterly predictable and badly acted).
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 21, 2024 12:55 AM)
"I never understood why it was so popular and, worse yet, it inspired so many young filmmakers to make similarly forgettable found footage films."
That's easy to answer: found footage are always low-budget and because all of them involve supernatural horror, all it takes for these to be made is a shaky camera (to mimic the documentar-alike "realistic" POV) and only 5-6 minutes of a glimpse of "something creepy" , assuming that this "thing" is too dangerous to be filmed more than for some seconds each time, so no need for any kind of expensive equipment, SFX/CGI. The more amateur a found footage mockumentary is, the more realistic found footage fans believe to be -some even consider some Bigfoot or other ff with urban legends, witches, paranormal activity, etc. as scientific evidence of actual phenomenon-.
It's just boring. I wouldn't mind watching 1 or 2, just for the experience's sake but a whole subgenre dedicated to these?️
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SpringheelJack1837 — 1 year ago(November 22, 2024 04:30 AM)
Say what you want about the crap that Blair Witch inspired, it’s still the only one that actually feels like legitimate found footage.
There’s also the cultural phenomenon - a lot of people thought it was real and left the theatre absolutely terrified.
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ToastedCheese — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 11:59 AM)
Hooper let Part 2 draw on for too long and it becomes a bit sluggish and even ott silly. It was almost like a parody of the raw organic terror of the first and wasn't believable.
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ToastedCheese — 1 year ago(November 22, 2024 02:37 AM)
Yes, it was messy and Hooper edited out a Leatherface underground garage attack sequence because it was just too stupid and ruined the pacing. He also needed to reign in the rest of the film by about 10mins of cuts. The hammer attack by Chop-Top on LG was ludicrous and he was still alive after all those smashes to his head.
Too much running around from one place to the next and Dennis Hopper going ballistic in a psychotic way that seemed like his Frank Poole character from Lynch's
Blue Velvet
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 10:33 AM)
Same here!
I just love Leatherface's costume on the original, the whole combination of both feminine (make up and lipstick on his "face") and male (brutality) characteristics, like he dresses up as the mother he never had, (not the biological mother but a woman who cares for him and doesn't look at him as a deformed freak or doesn't encourage him to kill people) giving to himself the attention and love he never received.
On the later remakes, this feature permanently gone and Leatherface becomes just another mental insane serial killer with a twisted hobby, so we can't resist the temptation to compare the new Leatherface with other serial killers like Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.
On the first film we experience something that isn't there in all remakes, perhaps the beginning of 2006s remake (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) is the only scene worth to be mentioned, i watched the first 20 minutes of that movie more than 3 or 4 times, really good character re-build!
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 10:46 AM)
Well, that's the point; making the audience feel disgust and despair and appreciate life more since they aren't into the position of the victims.
I guess that one can either hate or love splatter movies, there is no middle choice in there…
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fuckyouallfuckyouallfuckyouall — 1 year ago(November 20, 2024 10:56 AM)
Fair enough. But even if you do hate them, TCM is undoubtedly one of the most iconic horror movies franchise, ever.
A friend of mine never saw a single horror movie in her life, she only watches romantic comedies and dramas and she avoids anything creepy at all costs and she knows TCM. That says it all
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Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 
