What was it about the classic horror movies that pulled so many audiences, over and over? It was the state of the art special effects back then, stop movement camera techniques, enabling you to see Lon Chaney Jr. change from a normal human to the tortured soul of the wolfman. How many people watching this transformation in utter horror, even though they knew they were watching a movie?
When people are watching the horror movies of today, they underestimate that many of the special effects incorporated today were born from the classic horror movies of yesteryear. Stop movement photography, rubber masks, and other items, makeup techniques, were all unheard of before these movies turned out. Special effects teams back in the day didn't have all the PC generated graphics back then and had to come up with everything literally from their own imaginations.
These actors also told the characters sad story in these classic horror movies, from the issues that Dracula had faced having to live forever, lonely, watching the world evolve around him while he didn't. Or Boris Karloff's portrayal of the innocent Frankenstein Monster brought to like from pieces stolen from graves. You experienced his childlike demeanor and his sad wonderment when he accidentally kills the child. You can almost see the question in his eyes while the villagers are attacking, 'why are you doing this to me?' These are the characters that many loved to hate, but were also the first ones with tears in their eyes when these poor creatures met their demise.
A large number of the more younger generation today watching scary movies of today are horrified by special effects. A while storylines may have changed, or some that don't even have a decent plot, 'slasher movies' as they are frequently called, they simply don't have the same engagement as the classic horror movies many have grown up with. It's all right though because, with modern technologies, these classic movies of yesteryear have been brought back from the dead once more. I guess you just can't keep a good monster down, which is perhaps a good thing in the 'end'.
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