tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235923248137948919.post7548315721564314512..comments2024-01-27T03:29:09.226-05:00Comments on Chuck Norris Ate My Baby: Shock Value: The (R)evolution of HorrorMatt-suzakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16215962688591291944noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235923248137948919.post-87161275379812067652011-07-26T17:56:15.118-04:002011-07-26T17:56:15.118-04:00Thanks for having me!Thanks for having me!Matt-suzakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16215962688591291944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235923248137948919.post-66375683597982379142011-07-26T00:24:24.875-04:002011-07-26T00:24:24.875-04:00I'm glad you enjoyed this one. Thanks for the ...I'm glad you enjoyed this one. Thanks for the great review for the tour!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235923248137948919.post-23893039278132301862011-07-25T21:08:11.976-04:002011-07-25T21:08:11.976-04:00Daniel: I think his main focus was on American cin...Daniel: I think his main focus was on American cinema and its impact on the country at the time, which is fine, but I too would have liked to read about some of the foreign filmmakers making impactful films during this period. It would have been nice to see some love for Argento as this was his era to shine the brightest, and I was bummed that the focus on Cronenberg was so brief. <br /><br />Also, the stuff about Alien is some of the better stories in the book. That and pretty much everything that covered O'Bannon, who was apparently way crazier than I had thought before reading the book. <br /><br />James: Thanks! I think you would dig the book, James. It's a good, informative read and well worth the price.<br /><br />Now films that get a theatrical release are in and out, released onto DVD, in three months time. A movie like Chainsaw sat in drive-in and random theaters for a long time, giving them a chance to be noticed by audiences. People don't need to go to the cinema for a film anymore, we can just fire up our TVs, computers, cell phones, and what have you, and watch virtually anything if we so desire. It works in good and bad ways depending on how you look at it. <br /><br /> Ashlee: He really doesn't go there specifically, though he does briefly go over what has come since then, noting that the era hasn't really come close to being replicated. So it might seems as if he is hinting at the fact that nothing has matched what came at that time as far as quality and quantity. <br /><br />I don't think there will ever be a golden age in a way that there was in the '70s just because film comes at us from all places and on all formats. I do believe that, despite what so many horror fans will claim (that there is no good horror nowadays), that we are in a golden age of horror cinema in many ways. <br /><br />Looking back at the last ten or so years, we had a massive wave of Japanese and Asian horror, Spanish horror the French new wave, which may be the strongest, and even South Korea's cinema is laced with dark dark stuff. It's pretty awesome what has come to us from foreign lands. <br /><br />Christine: Thanks, it's the first book I have ever reviewed, so I was actually pretty nervous about doing it, but it turned out to be fun, thanks to the subject matter. I think you would really enjoy it; there's a lot of De Palma talk!Matt-suzakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16215962688591291944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235923248137948919.post-36316482610197647722011-07-25T19:33:36.707-04:002011-07-25T19:33:36.707-04:00I'm really interested to read this.
Great rev...I'm really interested to read this. <br />Great review. That is to say, you expertly balanced the pros and the cons and now I know what to expect!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235923248137948919.post-90447814366369596752011-07-25T17:06:01.004-04:002011-07-25T17:06:01.004-04:00LOL! Old E? I feel the bile rising already...
You...LOL! Old E? I feel the bile rising already...<br /><br />You bring up some excellent points, Matt. I want to say that it is difficult to measure a Golden Age of anything if one is living in it. It all seems retrospect and because a lot of my work now is dealing with a "golden age" of sorts in a niche horror subgenre, a lot of it entails exhausting analysis and an immense amount of justification in how it's importance to culture is conducive to the present.<br /><br />Damn, did any of that make any sense?<br /><br />Anywho, I wanted to ask you if Zinoman (because I haven't read the book yet) feels there will never be another true Golden Age of horror or vice versa?Ashlee Blackwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01530884243523757687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235923248137948919.post-66072054692309603652011-07-25T16:00:30.729-04:002011-07-25T16:00:30.729-04:00This sounds like a right tasty read! Interesting t...This sounds like a right tasty read! Interesting too what you said about current horror and what might be considered 'classic' in years to come. <br />I guess because there are so many different formats now (on-demand, DVD, cable - as well as cinema etc) that films are being made for, it is perhaps harder for one film to make the same kind of imapct as, say, the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre... Thanks for the heads-up about this book! :)James Graceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08968719719213071671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8235923248137948919.post-68310757301071232962011-07-25T09:58:50.285-04:002011-07-25T09:58:50.285-04:00Shock Value is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Worth ...<em>Shock Value</em> is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Worth the price alone for the material on the development of <em>Alien</em>; I've always wondered exactly what each of the various figures (O'Bannon, Ronald Shussett, David Giler/Walter Hill, Ridley Scott) contributed to the final product.<br /><br />I think my one criticism would be the focus on American directors. I would have liked Cronenberg to get more than a token mention.Daniel Lackeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13870229978652991168noreply@blogger.com