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I think the thing I miss most from that era was the experimentation.

Yes, there were bad scripts and bad effects in many of the low budget films, but they were so unique. You had so many films with outrageous plots or absolutely no plot at all. Films that Lucio Fulci called "absolute" where you basically just took an idea like "There's a house, some people and some zombies" and that was the film. It played out like a Nightmare. Random things happen in our dreams and things don't always make sense. The same type of thing was applied to so many films from that time period because a lot of guys took ideas from their own dreams and nightmares and cast them onto film.

There was so much outlandish fantasy out there. There were always people pushing boundaries with fantastic tales, but when the Horror boom of the 80's really took off they just all tried to be more outlandish and more over the top than the last film that came out. Most of it was done out of pure fun and not meant to be taken seriously and that's what made it fun for me as a viewer. I love serious films, but I also love the zaniness from something made for no other reason to be completely outlandish.

I miss those times and those films. My other favorite time period for horror movies was from the 1920-40's. There was so much experimentation going on with film. German expressionism and monsters and all sorts of crazy ideas as science was making new leaps and bounds. I get the same feeling from that period of the late 70's-early 90's. Again science and technology making new leaps and bounds. Computers and video games and graphics and using that new technology in films. Nobody knew how far you could go with it so people just imagined all sorts of things.

It was such a fun time.