Ever Notice...

[MacReady]

The Idead of this thread is that you find certain patterns in horror films and tell us about em'. A good is example is found on The Arrow's review for Critters:"I’ve noticed that a lot of horror movie "heroes" sooner or later wind up in space. Critters checked it out, so did Pin Head (Hellraiser), that lousy Leprechaun (he also checked out Vegas) and soon the man with the plan Jason Voorhees in JASON X Jason In Space. Who’s next? Freddy???" One of my observations is about horror movies from the sixties. They always seem to have such a slow pace. Their either them doing something manual with no dialogue, there's often little music and when do talk the'll talk for a very long time. Apperently Hitchcock, Romero and Polanski couldn't get their hands on a decent editor. Crow T. Robot said it best:"Uh, honey shouldn't we be in a cutaway here?".

Well, anybody notice anything?

[Johnny582]

i notice that macready i think in the 60s people like that slow pace cause they didnt have such a short attenchion span back in those days.

did any one ever notice when people are geting chased by a car, insted of geting off the road the keep running on the road

[Weird_Kitty_Cat]

yeah, it's like they keep runnin an lookin behind em to see if the car's still there even tho it's obvious w/ the headlgiths so they decide to zigzag on the road, still lookin back. why is it that whenever the victim is runnin away they feel the need to look back an then let out a lil scream to let the killer or whoever know right where they are...

-meghan

[ominous_oat]

You have to keep in mind that in the 60's it was a little harder to edit movies, without the help of computers. now we can have lightning fast split second cuts, but then lightning fast cuts would have to involve lots of time, effort, a keen eye, and a sharp razor...

Also technology for stunts was more primitave back then, so in car chases they couldn't make them as exciting as they do now, since driving was pretty much all they could do.....

So I don't think it was a love of slow paces, I think it was just a lack of more advanced technology.

[Johnny582]

i didnt say they loved it iam jsut saying they didnt mind it cause they didnt know any better, but yeah its what you said to

[ominous_oat]

S'all good man. Also I think it's not that they didnt' know any better, it's more we've become spoiled, jaded by eye candy. How sad.