CLASSIC MONSTER FANDOM: Will it die with us?
I often wonder about this, and I know it's been brought up off and on here on occasion. The original "Monster Kids" were those who grew up when the old films were first released to TV in the '50s via...
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My fandom is alive and well DUE to the home video industry. I have lived in remote places where even a cable signal was dubious. Cable has helped, but my massive library of movies has truly kept me...
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Basically,the same thing is happening with music these days too! What's classic rock today will be golden oldies 20 or 30 years from now! But with digital technology,most of it will survive. Without...
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Horror films on tv in the U.K are getting rare all the time.They are just not showing all the classic films anymore.Not just that,but you never see the likes of Laurel and Hardy,Chaplin,Harold...
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Thanagarian wrote: Horror films on tv in the U.K are getting rare all the time.They are just not showing all the classic films anymore.Not just that,but you never see the likes of Laurel and...
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Would you say the last wave of the Monster Craze died out around the mid '70s? If so, I'm among the last who grew up in it and really remember it all as it was by that time, and I'm 40. I have trouble...
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One thing I do is give out DVDs at Halloween. Load up on dollar DVDs from the Dollar Tree and give them out (along with some candy) on Halloween night. White Zombie is one I like to hand out and I...
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Monster Kid Fandom is itself a product of a REVIVAL of interest in films made before we were born... and all it takes to keep it alive is for each generation of FANS to produce enough ARTISTS to...
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As someone born in 1974, I obviously missed the original ''Monster Mayhem'' and I agree with what I'm seeing on this post, in my mid 30's I'm already bitter at the kids I talk to, nephews nieces and...
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I don't know if this will account for anything. I wasn't the huge lover of these movies in my youth like I am now. Half of the movies that I love now I've only discovered in the last ten years or so....
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ghoulkid wrote: Basically,the same thing is happening with music these days too! What's classic rock today will be golden oldies 20 or 30 years from now! But with digital technology,most of it will...
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The baby boomer generation has been the perpetual kid generation, and because of that we have been able to skirt dealing squarely with a truism all people eventually face in their generation, as if it...
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Well I know it won't die. In fact I'm proof of it. I'm a teenager who loves everthing from the silent horror films to the 80's slasher movies. I love the old 30's and 40's horror movies the best....
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Joe Karlosi wrote: So when will this end? Nahhh, it'll evolve just like everything else. There'll be the usual revivals too.
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Sabroso, wise words and well writ. -Craig
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Fans still exist but the idea of what constitutes a 'classic' has changed since it's impossible to feel nostalgia for something you never experienced. The Sorg Opera House in Middletown is being...
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Bifocals wrote: Would imagine whenever we begin a conversation with a younger horror fan with the 'back in my day' speech their attention span switches off the same way ours did back in the days when...
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And a message to Bifocals: Hey, I grew up in Hamilton, Ohio apparently right in your neck of the woods. Used to go to the old Rossville Theater on the West Side, and the Ramona Drive-In plus the...
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Geezermonster wrote: And a message to Bifocals: Hey, I grew up in Hamilton, Ohio apparently right in your neck of the woods. Used to go to the old Rossville Theater on the West Side, and the Ramona...
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Wow! It was fantastic to read your memories of the old days in Hamiltucky! Yes, we went to the Riverview and the Acme -- I don't remember any horror films there, but I do recall getting drunk with old...
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