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Originally Posted by NoCarrier
Oh come on.. The 80's had its classics as well..
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Not the point. The point is, what decade was the best? I'm going by IMPACT... and by the 80's the masses of horror fans were litterally inundated with a wave of horror and psuedo-horror flicks ranging from a few good ones to a glut of hollywood crap that is more comedy than horror. The 70's was a time when people were ripe for a good scare, and like I said movie technology was just starting to get into areas where movies started containing special effects never before seen.
Really, not since the 30's, 40' and 50's were people so ripe for a good genuine scare from a blockbuster horror. Back then Bella Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr etc were scaring the bejeezus out of people, but by the 70's horror fans were ready for something different. Definitely the Omen trilogy, The Exorcist, Amityville horror etc had the incredible impact on people that I'm talking about. Maybe you weren't around then NC, I was. You just don't hear people talking about horror films of today the way they did back then, except for the occasional one.
Not to mention, like Fletch said, the sequels to those great 70's movies made in the 80's and on into the 90's were complete hollywood shit.
My pick is definitely the 70's.