12-18-2009, 10:06 PM
Nothin makes me feel old faster then kids talking about horror. I instantly become the old codger yelling at young punks to stay off my lawn, and swinging a cane at them. It's painful almost how sad the state of it is, when to them the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake is a 'classic' and who would wanna watch some 'lame rip off' movie made in the 70's. Try explaining the genius behind Nosferatu, or Frankenstein, you don't get a sentence past silent movie before they're laughing at you. Steve and Deadguy are exactly right though, if you weren't exposed to these movies at a young age, and had so many memories attached to them, you wouldn't know much about them. It's easy to forget how small a microcosm horror fanatics exist in, not just horror fans, but the diehards like us. And then even smaller the true fans of horror's roots and lineage, who cringe at CG and would prefer a guy in a rubber suit every day of the week.