September 17, 2024 CE

[Slaughterhouserock]

Slaughter knows what's up.

On a side-note, I plan to watch Slaughterhouse Rock for the first time this October. Not sure if I'll care for it, but it's obviously been on my radar for some time, so quite interested in giving it a go.

Good deal. Curious what you'll think of it.

[Lazerus]

What about SlaughterhouseRock?
I have never seen it but assume that is where your screenname came from.

It is where I got my name, but it's just ok. Soundtrack is by Devo, though, so if you like them it'll be a bonus.

I plan on giving it a watch sometime soon.

[zombie]

we had a little talk about which decade is best movie-wise. where do you stand on music? what is your favorite decade or decades?

[Jigsaw]

My iTunes has things as old as "As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending" to Vampire Weekend's "Capricorn" which was released earlier this year.

Decades in music is something I cannot remotely argue about.

[zombie]

"can't argue" never stops a good debate around here, but fair.

[zombie]

as far as i'm concerned, the 90s and 60s are nearly tied. but the 90s gets the edge maybe just cause i grew up into it. then 80s, 70s, 2000s. i don't know where i stand definitively with the 50s or with the 2010s and 2020s. but wet leg is awesome (at least with the first album). so i'm still optimistic.

and i have a hard time going further back than the 50s, movie musicals aside. i just don't know that i can appreciate the popular music from that far back.

[DancesWithWerewolves]

I see Final Chapter as everything a proper slasher should aspire to be. However I do agree it's not the greatest, even in '84...even though I consider it splitting hairs with the OG Nightmare on Elm Street.

Hodder under Paramount I thought was good, but I feel his ego got the best of him under New Line. Mears is a fantastic Jason that merges the best of everyone before, and still feels like his own. Deserved to have done more appearances. Kerzinger is definitely the worse of bunch.

[Slaughterhouserock]

we had a little talk about which decade is best movie-wise. where do you stand on music? what is your favorite decade or decades?

I'm a metalhead, so the 80's was a great decade for me. Everything from power metal to death metal was abundant.

[Reign in Blood]

the 1980's was the golden age of horror films IMO.

Honorable mention to the 1970's, it also had some great films. The early 90's stuff was good but things began downgrading around 94/95 imo.
The 00's sucked mostly due to remake fever and the 2010's were just blah minus a few decent films.

aside from the 1980s absolutely being the best, this has not been my experience with horror.

Care to elaborate a bit on this?

the 90s might be second worst after the 40s,

This. 100% this.

I've seen so many horror fans say that the 90's was the weakest decade of horror, and I'm sitting here like "How many horror films from the 40's have you seen brah? do you even lift?"

LMAO! I'm picturing you saying that, then kissing both your biceps/guns right after and walking off.

[Reign in Blood]

the 1980's was the golden age of horror films IMO.

Honorable mention to the 1970's, it also had some great films. The early 90's stuff was good but things began downgrading around 94/95 imo.
The 00's sucked mostly due to remake fever and the 2010's were just blah minus a few decent films.

aside from the 1980s absolutely being the best, this has not been my experience with horror.

Care to elaborate a bit on this?

the 90s might be second worst after the 40s,

This. 100% this.

I've seen so many horror fans say that the 90's was the weakest decade of horror, and I'm sitting here like "How many horror films from the 40's have you seen brah? do you even lift?"

The 1940's is 100% the weakest decade of horror, and this is an opinion I'm pretty firmly set it. That's not to say there aren't great movies - I Walked with a Zombie, The Body Snatcher, and Bedlam are stellar - but overall, it's a very weak decade.

I think the 1910s is pretty weak. Considering I can't name a single film from that decade.

Whoa there, Nelly.

I'll give you that Die Augen der Mumie Ma (The Eyes of the Mummy) is exceptionally weak, and marketed to the wrong audience, and I'll also give you that Malombra is largely non-sensical, and lastly, I'll give you that aside from historical reasons, Pikovaya dama (The Queen of Spades) isn't that interesting.

That said, Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) is a classic of the genre (widely considered the first full-length horror film), The Avenging Conscience: or, ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ has some strong elements, and Unheimliche Geschichten (Eerie Tales) is the first anthology horror film in the genre (beating out 1945's Dead of Night by 26 years).

It was a largely formative decade, and led into perhaps one of the most crucial decades for the genre as a whole.

Never heard of a single one of those.

[Reign in Blood]

we had a little talk about which decade is best movie-wise. where do you stand on music? what is your favorite decade or decades?

I'd like to say 80's, because of Metallica, Crue, Ozzy, Guns N Roses etc. But I have listened to a metric shit ton of newer modern stuff in particular Avenged Sevenfold and the Weeknd that might have surpassed in amount of listens. Then my main growing up/listening days were in the 90's which had great shit. And I'm a classic rock guy too so I can easily roll with the 70's, so tough to say damnit!

But along with great metal and cock rock, the 80's also gave the best years of the likes of MJ and Prince etc. so the 80's takes it.

[Reign in Blood]

friday the 13th part 4 is not nor was ever the best slasher of all time, nor even of the year that it was releaseds... and this belongs here more than it does in the politics thread, so yeah.

I know Foo's argument that I could agree with was that is was the "Perfect Slasher", meaning it checks all the boxes of what one would like/expect in a prototype slasher, but not necessarily that it's the greatest ever.

[Jigsaw]

the 1980's was the golden age of horror films IMO.

Honorable mention to the 1970's, it also had some great films. The early 90's stuff was good but things began downgrading around 94/95 imo.
The 00's sucked mostly due to remake fever and the 2010's were just blah minus a few decent films.

aside from the 1980s absolutely being the best, this has not been my experience with horror.

Care to elaborate a bit on this?

the 90s might be second worst after the 40s,

This. 100% this.

I've seen so many horror fans say that the 90's was the weakest decade of horror, and I'm sitting here like "How many horror films from the 40's have you seen brah? do you even lift?"

The 1940's is 100% the weakest decade of horror, and this is an opinion I'm pretty firmly set it. That's not to say there aren't great movies - I Walked with a Zombie, The Body Snatcher, and Bedlam are stellar - but overall, it's a very weak decade.

I think the 1910s is pretty weak. Considering I can't name a single film from that decade.

Whoa there, Nelly.

I'll give you that Die Augen der Mumie Ma (The Eyes of the Mummy) is exceptionally weak, and marketed to the wrong audience, and I'll also give you that Malombra is largely non-sensical, and lastly, I'll give you that aside from historical reasons, Pikovaya dama (The Queen of Spades) isn't that interesting.

That said, Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) is a classic of the genre (widely considered the first full-length horror film), The Avenging Conscience: or, ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ has some strong elements, and Unheimliche Geschichten (Eerie Tales) is the first anthology horror film in the genre (beating out 1945's Dead of Night by 26 years).

It was a largely formative decade, and led into perhaps one of the most crucial decades for the genre as a whole.

Never heard of a single one of those.

I'm probably one of the few here who cares about pre-1930's horror. I've not seen every silent horror film, at least those that exist, but I'm only something like ten, maybe 15 away.

Personally speaking, I've always been fascinated with the origins of the genre. Seeing where horror films began as shorts back in the mid-1890's to the beginning of talkies, it's amazing what they accomplished. If you watch some 1920's horror - The Golem (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), Warning Shadows (Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination), Maciste in Hell (Maciste all’inferno), and Faust (Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage) - they feel so different than pretty much everything that's come out since (excluding a few films from the 1930's that have similar sensibilities.