Old movies you couldn't make today.

[RCMerchant]

in society's defnse, there is probably alot more things you can make today that you couldn't then.

Yeh...like some s**t and p**s porn. Just because it can be done-don't make it worth seeing.
You can't make a drive in movie...a z-budget movie-that will play theaters. Ultra low budget crap goes straight to video. You won't see the equivelent of stuff like MAD DOCTOR of BLOOD ISLAND or The BRAIN from PLANET AROUS playing at a theater near you. Mebbe on Sy-Fy chaneel (I hate that-sy fy-WTF is that??? Tampering with Forry's term!-but no movie theaters. That being said...

You'll never see cartoons like this....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7cvsh2iIwQ&feature=related

[claws]

Cannibal Holocaust type of movies involving real animal cruelty. I doubt any filmmaker would wanna do animal snuff today unless it happens to be some obscure underground direct-to-DVD production.

The Sentinel (1977). Director Michael Winner casting people with Birth defects for exploitative shock value back then. I doubt a big studio would allow this today. Maybe Troma would though.

[hudders]

Cannibal Holocaust type of movies involving real animal cruelty. I doubt any filmmaker would wanna do animal snuff today unless it happens to be some obscure underground direct-to-DVD production.

Except that's not how you'd do it today. Production methods have changed, special effects are much better and cheaper to produce - remaking a movie today doesn't necessarily restrict you to only using what they were capable of in the original year of release. If we're going to start making that restriction you may as well say you couldn't make the vast majority of old movies today because they actors that were in them are dead! 

[indianasmith]

Todd Browning's FREAKS probably wouldn't pass muster today.

[RCMerchant]

in society's defnse, there is probably alot more things you can make today that you couldn't then.

Yeh...like some s**t and p**s porn. Just because it can be done-don't make it worth seeing.

I wanted to good karma this but the board wouldn't let me.

I had it disabled a few years back. At the time it seemed like a competition. I just wanted to have fun.

[Raffine]

The Sentinel (1977). Director Michael Winner casting people with Birth defects for exploitative shock value back then. I doubt a big studio would allow this today. Maybe Troma would though.

This was something of a fad in the 70s. THE SENTINEL, MUTATIONS aka FREAKMAKER, SSSSSSS, and SISTERS all used "Living, Breathing Freaks!" in their casts. Sealo the Seal Boy was in all of them, I think.

THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN probably wouldn't get the green light today.

[Raffine]

Todd Browning's FREAKS probably wouldn't pass muster today.

Able Gance's J'ACCUSE! (1938) was also pretty disturbing. Gance used real French WWI vets with horrendous facial injuries as the army of ghosts of past wars that marches on the countryside.

There was actually a term for these soldiers, but I can't recall it offhand.

[claws]

Cannibal Holocaust type of movies involving real animal cruelty. I doubt any filmmaker would wanna do animal snuff today unless it happens to be some obscure underground direct-to-DVD production.

Except that's not how you'd do it today. Production methods have changed, special effects are much better and cheaper to produce - remaking a movie today doesn't necessarily restrict you to only using what they were capable of in the original year of release. If we're going to start making that restriction you may as well say you couldn't make the vast majority of old movies today because they actors that were in them are dead!  

I never said anything about restrictions, I only said that I "doubt" filmmakers would actually slaughter real animals on screen these days fore pure shock value. Sure they could use advanced special effects but the results just wouldn't be the same (no pun intended).

[hudders]

Well, here's one you sure as blood couldn't do today. I wouldn't normally post it except after seeing some of the ads in the 'ads you couldn't do today" thread and seeing the cartoon posted above, this one doesn't look so bad.

Note that's it's incredibly offensive by today's standards. In fact it's nearly a whole 1/4 as offensive as a typical episode of "the chapelle show".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXFSsKFrCgY

Show's over folks, this is the winner.

[Nakuyabi]

Spielen wir Liebe (1977) could not be made today anywhere anyhow. When even Europe is banning your film as too obscene, it's too obscene.