70s Video Nasties Are ALIVE!
 

I live and die for horror (comics, novels, movies) and grew up on a healthy diet of freddy, jason, michael, et all. So the new return to (pseudo) video nasty is very much welcome. I'm watching cabin fever and dead end this weekend. Both seem to borrow very much from their ancestors (I'm thinking evil dead and the hills have eyes, predominantly).

Later in the week, I'm planning on watching the remake of Massacre. Am I right in thinking tobe hooper directed it? If so, that should be interesting. I would LOVE to have watched the remake of Psycho directed by Hitchcock; it makes you wonder exactly how he might have changed or improved his filmic vision.

Right, back to the fam. Hope you're all having a good weekend! :)

Kisses :D

I don't think Hooper directed the remake.

Not seen the films you mentioned, but from the recent horror films I have seen, I think Hollywood lost the recipe about ten years ago.

I have fond memories of time spent at the Scala Cinema (London, England) in the 80's where they used to show banned film occasionally (it was a club, so they could show things ordinary cinemas could not, and video stores would be raided for stocking). I remember once going there about 2pm on a Saturday and watching horror films constantly until about 8am Sunday morning. Hell who needs sleep when you got a box of popcorn to eat and Italian zombies to watch.

You're right, I just checked it out. Marcus Nispel directed the remake. Pity; would have been interesting with Hooper.

A true horror fan. You need to see Cabin Fever, not for the film itself, but for the interview with it's director, Eli Roth. He explains about movie horror (and by that I don't mean casting David Scwimmer in Apt Pupil) in the 90s to present day. The recipe is still known but censorship has all but killed what filmmakers can do. Horror filmmakers and, indeed, writers are held in the same light as us in the adult industry. Since the 90s horror has become unacceptable. Luckily, indie filmmaking is steadily growing, and directors like Roth are breathing life back into the undead genre. :)

There is a problem though. Most new filmmakers are so enthralled by the genre they get swept up in it's past. Cabin Fever is basically an unintended tribute to its more worthwhile ancestors (namely evil dead and anything with living dead in the title). What we need are films that further our collective experience, rather than mirror the past in some form of fan-like reverie.

Oh fuck, what do I know? LOL

ecchi, aside from all the crap I just tapped out, I loved your story and it's great to meet a true fan of the genre :)