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CGI killing horror movies?
Reason why the 70's, 80s' and 90's produced great horror movies was because there was no CGI in the movies! All the costumes and sickening scenes were all done by the FX team. Number one movie to come to mind is John Carpenter's "The Thing" with Rob Bottin and his work creating all those monsters from his own hands. THATS WHAT HORROR IS ABOUT! Not this cheap ass crap that cuts costs and takes the "fright" out of the movies. I guess I am 1341st person to talk about this lol. I know one thing is for certain....I won't be running to see The Wolfman anytime soon :cool:
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CGI/Make up was done pretty well in The Wolfman..
It wasn't over done and stuck to a design similar to Chaney's version.. CGI does really fall down when it comes to doing gore and blood.. |
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Your time frame is a bit off. The first movie to use cgi effects was Westworld, in 1973.
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I agree with the OP, though...I don't understand how CGI blood in some of these B-movies lately is cheaper than just buying a gallon of stage blood and tossing it about. If you have a budget of 5 bucks, I'd still rather see cutaways and suggested kills than tons of CGI nonsense. It *can* be pulled off in some movies where a lot of money is dumped into it or if it's meant to be stylized like 300 or something, but most of the time it looks like bad CGI even for 1994. |
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I think the new King Kong. District 9 and the LOTR used CGI to great effect.. |
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I should have been more specific since I didn't ask when the first time CGI was used in horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing, Halloween, Candyman, Night-Return-Dawn-Day-of the living dead, etc.. All these great horror flicks had the real "feel" to it. Someone�s brains were torn off you felt the realism in it. I was sold time and time again. You appreciate all the work put into making the movie, especially with the FX teams. To be more specific, for me I never had to analyze a movie before and say,"Gee I wonder how long it took them to create that on computer" because everything was done hands-on which is why everything felt so real. Movies now where I see a computer made monster turns me off so much, this is why I started switching to Asian horror movies. Sure they are implementing some CGI but most movies are not which is why I say CGI is ruining American released horror movies. Every horror movie for the past 10 times I've seen in theaters has REALLY turned me off. Disappointed in every way. Dead Silence was the only new movie to catch my attention because the producers themselves have a mission which is to make movies without CGI.
However, this is my view and I believe threes a generation difference. I've been raised with special FX, not CGI. |
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No, you didn't ask when cgi was first used, but I thought I would provide that info because you made this statement:
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But, I agree that stage blood still looks better and should be used whenever cgi isn't needed. |
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Still, as a fan of B-horror (I admit, I watch a lot of bad movies...intentionally at that) it's really irritating when even even the gore/kill scenes are not fun to look at. It's frustrating when the "bad" movies of the 80's often times end up being "better" than the bad movies of the present. I just figure in 20 years, they should be able to make better shitty movies than they used to, if you get my drift, haha. ;) And it goes the same way with creatures, too. All of the movies on the Sci-Fi channel may be able to do more with CGI with having more interactivity between their creature and the actors (I'm thinking of all of these dragon/griffon/harpy/etc kinds of movies), but even something like the Overlord in Howard the Duck looks better to me than most of them and it's stop animation for crying out loud. This isn't a hard rule, of course...there are some studios that really make their tight budgets work and I have no issue with big budget cgi, of course. I mainly have issues with the low budget movies mis-using it when they could probably make things more effective with less. |
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Hmmm....thats a real valid point of making a mess on the set and then washing clothes....however...I believe that if you truly believe in what you're doing, and if you have a passion for this than it's not really a pain in the ass if you know what I mean. But then of course the whole "cost-reduction" point will be brought up over and over again.
I mean the one thing that really makes me think when I bring this topic up is the movie "The Thing". I am not sure how well everyone knows this movie but EVERYTHING was done originally. The crew had to fly to ?Alaska? and build the whole set up in the mountains. When you watch the extra footage on the blue-ray DVD you see how everything was done. It's sensational! Truly something to appreciate. |
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