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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2019 15:12:15 GMT
Growing up, I never realised that you were supposed to be scared by these things; I couldn't see the horror in them. It didn't mean that I didn't like the stories, many of them, I did, but it was more that they were interesting than scary. To me, horror is when the danger is real, and there is a terrible outcome.
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Post by sootycat on Sept 26, 2019 21:19:04 GMT
The first film I saw that put the fear of s**** up me was The Curse of Frankenstein with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Looking at it now, and with the graphic horror stuff that is in films now.....it was very mild.
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Post by yankee on Oct 3, 2019 16:30:55 GMT
The first film I saw that put the fear of s**** up me was The Curse of Frankenstein with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Looking at it now, and with the graphic horror stuff that is in films now.....it was very mild. The Hammer remakes of all the old Universal films were quite shocking in their day.
Christopher Lee's Dracula the first to have fangs (Bela Lugosi just had that toothless grin) and to be shown biting a (busty) woman in the neck and also the trickle of blood.
Peter Cushing's Frankenstein the first to be shown stitching together amputated limbs to "create" a man with spare parts. To actually be shown inserting a brain into the sawed off skull.
The Hammer films often don't get enough credit for both reviving the traditional monster movie (Hollywood had moved away from traditional monster stories and into bugs, animals and humans who had been mutated from nuclear fall-out to tie into the existing scare factor of the Cold War) and also moving it forward in terms of showing more graphic images and also ramping up the sex.
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