When Did Gothic Horror Die?
A provocative title for a post, I know, since gothic horror has never really died. My question, more specifically, is when did the gothic style stop being the norm for horror? Forty years ago, when...
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Thanks, Cadaverino. One thing that just struck me as I was scrolling down here is that a huge factor in the decline of the gothics was undoubtedly the decline of the studios themsevles, as physical...
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I don't know if it's gone away, or just fallen out of favor for a while. There was a period between Universal's heyday and Hammer's reinvention of the Frankenstein and Dracula mythos where Gothic...
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Sad to say, most Gothic accouterments are seen as "camp" or hokey today; certainly anything but frightening. Castles strewn with cobwebs, devious noblemen of the Lugosian stripe lusting for gasping...
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I believe you're right. The trappings of gothic horror probably wouldn't work with younger audiences. My sense is that most gothic horror fans, of the kind that frequent the CHFB, are probably...
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The trappings of gothic horror probably wouldn't work with younger audiences. My sense is that most gothic horror fans...are probably middle-aged Very true. Somewhat ironic, since we have a younger...
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Sadly,a shift in the public taste also coincides with a financial truth. Films with gothic trappings (be they mouldering graveyards,decrepit houses or imposing castles) require sets and locations that...
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Sadly,a shift in the public taste also coincides with a financial truth. Films with gothic trappings (be they mouldering graveyards,decrepit houses or imposing castles) require sets and locations that...
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Spoiler II wrote: Lets face it,young people now think the remakes of DAWN OF THE DEAD and TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE are BETTER than the originals because DAWN is slow and TEXAS doesn't show any gory...
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BijouBob8mm wrote: The trappings of gothic horror probably wouldn't work with younger audiences. My sense is that most gothic horror fans...are probably middle-aged Very true. Somewhat ironic, since...
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Ah, that opens up yet another line of thought...just what is Gothic? I daresay it means different things to different people. The word itself actually equates to "Germanic", coined to describe the...
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I hesitated to use the word gothic when I wrote the OP for this thread due to its vagueness where horror is concerned. It's actually not an easy word to properly define, as it can refer to anything...
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This is such a great topic, and one which has always fascinated me. Let's just think of how often Shelley's Frankenstein is gussied up for our times...it's everywhere. Can you say "Ahll be Baack!".
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Can you say "Ahll be Baack!". Don't you mean, "The World shall hear from me, again!" (Young whippersnapper!)
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I'm kinda young, born in '66. Well, I was thinking of the Terminator films as they pertain to the discussion of the Gothic. It's what I meant by Frakenstein being "gussied up" with each new...
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Knew exactly what you were doing, Doc. (You're not too much younger than me.) Before the TERMINATOR films came along, back when I was in high school, some of my buddies would use that "The world shall...
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The Terminator pictures are gothic. Modern, but definitely gothic in sensibility. I've never seen a Conan flick but from the stills I've seen they sure look gothic to me. Schwarzenegger himself comes...
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telegonus wrote: Schwarzenegger himself comes off as a gothic figure (now more than ever I always saw a bit of dimestore neo-classicalism in him myself!
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telegonus wrote: The Hollywood horrors of the 30's and 40's strike me as mostly gothic, but when the new cycle began in the late 50's, especially the Hammers, I think the word baroque might be more...
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The Terminator pictures are gothic. Future Goth? Cyber-Goth? What will the descendant(s) of Steam Punk be?
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