Why didn't shit like this get made in the 1930s? does anything from that time period even come close to being as disturbing as The Exorcist or Texas Chainsaw? Psycho seems to be the first movie in history that still disturbs people today.
Why didn't shit like this get made in the 1930s...
Cameron Nelson
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Henry Ward
Did yo uever see the one where a train bursts out of the screen and kills everyone in the theater?
Benjamin Bennett
King Kong is the closest thing that comes to mind. Back before the 1960s, people had the concept that being a depraved sick fuck was a bad thing. That concept has largely been lost.
Jordan Jackson
Real life was already scary enough for them.
Imagine having such a cushioned life that you go out of your way to scare yourself kek
Jaxon Watson
I don’t know on film but France had gory plays during the early 20th century.
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Jaxon Reed
Because America used to be great and Christian. It used to be like Bedford Falls from It’s A Wonderful Life. Degenerate filth was taboo back then. We were trying to get back to that with President Trump, but the libtards rigged the elections before he could make America great again.
Adrian Lewis
What does America have to do with an Italian horror movie?
Aiden Edwards
I used to think the world was really cookie cutter and clean back then but honestly that guy is just a massive fag.
Brian’s dad is much older than him and I can’t imagine that guy crying at a fucking TV commercial. That guy is just so fucking gay I physically can not stop mocking him.
Luke Kelly
>Why didn't shit like this get made in the 1930s?
the lost version of Freaks (1932) was allegedly just as as "disturbing" as Cannibal Holocaust, desu
also, tejas chainsaw massacre has always been shit, and psycho is pretty weak
Evan Russell
also, eg The Wages of Fear (1953) is downright hard too (the hanging, the first truck, Jo's leg, etc)
Jackson Watson
>he thinks people werent depraved in the 30s
lmfao
Dylan Reed
>psycho is weak
It isn't, you just have three negative traits:
-you have poor taste,
-you are biased against black-and-white movies, and
-you are desensitized by modern thrillers and horror flicks.
Psycho isn't just a boomer meme, it holds up extremely well. The sound is allowed to go very quiet just before the shower kill, and it's the sound design that makes it. You get these soft domestic noises of flushing a toilet, moving things around, starting a shower. It feels like you're relaxing at home. An archetypal jump scare, in the best sense of the trope. Then when he disposes of the car we sympathize with the killer, fearing that the car may not sink completely into the swamp. I happily concede that the mummy-prop of Mrs. Bates looks a bit silly, but it's not that far off-base.
Kevin Taylor
Straw Dogs (1971), 9 years before Cannibal Holocaust: rape, murder, brutal home invasion
quite straightforward (that pauline kael anal goblin probably never stopped imagining the special version buttfuck close up was real, in her worthless "mind")
Anthony Adams
>It used to be like Bedford Falls from It’s A Wonderful Life
it used to be run by a miserly old jew and was constantly on the brink of ruin? no shit retard.
Angel Fisher
You haven't understood. Of course there have been sick fucks in every historical period (Albert Fish!). The point is that it was discouraged, unspeakable, taboo. Nowadays true crime shows air constantly on tv and flicks like Se7en are considered modern classics.
Kayden Barnes
Hayes Code plus the general loosening of societal morals only happened in the 60s, also the same time when softcore and a bit later hardcore porn first emerged
Jaxon Miller
>tejas chainsaw massacre has always been shit
Shit taste
Jonathan Roberts
>you have poor taste
partial, but not even
>-you are biased against black-and-white movies
certainly not
>-you are desensitized by modern thrillers and horror flicks
nope: Freaks (1932), The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), The Wages of Fear (1954), Harakiri (1962), Lord of the Flies (1963) or Onibaba (1964), noticeably, are stronger to me than psycho
sorry, not sorry
again: utter, fucking shite
always has been, and the whole series
rage moar
Thomas Nelson
But Se7en is a modern classic user
Jordan Ward
sure, sure
Ryder Perez
I'd glossed over your opinion about Texas Chain Saw Massacre, thanks for doubling down on both points and (re)confirming your poor taste.
Henry Brown
yeah the concept, right, right.
Julian Taylor
>gayddit spacing
>brags about taste
Kek
Ayden Morales
They're both good but overrated just because of their canonical status plus the fact that horror fans feel "cultured" watching them compared to the typical straight to video slasher trash
Jeremiah Perez
psycho isn't bad, but it's vastly overrated
all tcm are straight bad, and overrated: mere popcorn "horror"
Leo Stewart
There was def some fucked up shit back then. Remember we lost like 80% of pre 1940s films ..
But I can think of Nosferatu and Freaks as being some disturbing old timey shit.
Freaks used actual amputees and deformed niggers
Joshua Martinez
Pozzed
Landon Cruz
terrible fedora bait
Caleb Harris
I like first TCM because it's low budget and weird like a home movie, agree on the rest though
Carter Moore
There are several famous Greek myths involving rape, the story of Medea involves cutting up children and feeding them to their father, Baudelaire wrote poetry about putrefying corpses, Poe wrote several gruesome stories on par with or worse than the sort of thing you're describing. People have always been interested in the dark side of humanity, the only difference is the state generally frowned upon it and sometimes took direct action (Baudelaire's publication of Les Fleurs du Mal for example)