tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154292810213123565.post5317934744486153488..comments2023-05-18T02:44:45.157-07:00Comments on Anthony Balducci's Journal: The Ugliness of Modern Films, Part 2: The True Evil of the Horror Film abaldu8246http://www.blogger.com/profile/09727909582571090283noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154292810213123565.post-41593660346182530642019-03-09T10:19:29.883-08:002019-03-09T10:19:29.883-08:00Tommie, you always have valuable input. You are a...Tommie, you always have valuable input. You are absolutely correct about Queen Anne. The film horribly defames the poor woman. I considered listing the many inaccuracies of the film, but I decided that was another subject altogether.<br /><br />I love the old horror movies from Universal and Hammer. Christopher Lee's Dracula still scares me after all these years.<br />abaldu8246https://www.blogger.com/profile/09727909582571090283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154292810213123565.post-7547048082156721492019-03-09T07:52:46.734-08:002019-03-09T07:52:46.734-08:00I once ran (on 16mm) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRAN...I once ran (on 16mm) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN during a small town Halloween festival. The monochrome monsters scared some kids to the extent that about six kids had to leave. These monsters scared these kids without showing a drop of blood.<br />Its extremely hard to scare people without gore, hence it was a matter of time before Hollywood became a literal sausage factory of "horror" films. In the 1980's there was a genre of "horror" film which featured only beautiful women being murdered and the heroine of the film has to step over the previous victim's bodies to escape the murderer in the final reel. That was the moment I started re evaluating the talent level of Hollywood.<br />Being in an audience helped the old time movie makers pull off horror without gore. Hollywood has crippled itself so much that most people will watch THE FAVORITE alone at home. Why falsely portray a woman, Queen Anne as a monster when she was not? A dozen of her children died in her arms, Anne was so distraught she could not be a threat to anyone, yet many young people will watch THE FAVORITE and think the events depicted within are true. <br />I am called an old fuddy duddy because I nearly always prefer older films. I really don't wish prefer to watch older films but the modern cannon of "horror" and super hero films with CGI sets and action leave me uninterested.<br />Hollywood has gone from story telling to mere depictors of gross and horrible things.<br />Thanks for wonderful writing and letting me vent. Back to Alice Howell for me.Tommie Hickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13234009155660504147noreply@blogger.com