Let's say that you, the aspiring horror movie-goer, watch the original Halloween and right after go to the theater to see The Strangers... what's different?
The Answer: Everything!!!
I've done such a scenario, albeit with different horror movies, and I can tell you truthfully that both movies are definitely not the same! Why?... because age has something do with it!
In the 70's and 80's cinema wasn't as strict, so previously unviewed movies, especially in the horror genre, could be shown without any cuts for content. There's was no limit to what a director could show in his/her film, there was no movie review board, and there wasn't no big baby audience either.
Kids grew up a lot differently then, and so when such films as Halloween, A Nightmare Elm Street, The Last House on the Left, among others were viewed it might scare them half to death but there was no traumatization factor with most of the populace. Sure they would be scared out of their minds but the films were never truly traumatizing, or suspected of being traumatizing.
Now is a different age, with a different populace - and guess what this "populace" is made up of... big babies! Everyone thinks that horror is traumatizing to young minds and so needless cuts are made to already great films to make it "less traumatizing" to the big babies that make up our society. From infancy kids are thrown into this stupid happy go lucky world, made to watch T.V. shows that are stupid and too babyish for their minds... and once these kids get accustomed to that, the rest of the media has to enclose themselves around those babyish values to avoid scaring kids that could be grown up a lot faster than most of adult society thinks! It's stupid really... I mean, you have to protect your kids to some degree, but when the media makes sure they "program" a bunch of big babies there's nothing anyone can do!
Having been born in the early 90's, I've watched the remnants of T.V.'s glory days, and so am not accustomed to being a big baby... so my mind can comprehend more complex concepts. I am in no way babyfied!!!
So the big difference between horror cinema now as compared to it's glory day's is that films have to conform to the big baby society that the media and the government have created!!!
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