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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5627918" data-attributes="member: 19675">I certainly wasn't up until you raised this point about &quot;it is mild as a &quot;horror movie.&quot;&quot;The main differences between the 1951 original and the Carpenter/Russell movie are not ones of quality but of 1) faithfulness to the original story and 2) visual realism &amp; gore.&nbsp; And even so, the original's special effects were about as powerful as they got for the day- just like Carpenter's remake.The nature of the horror is the same.&nbsp; It is no less &quot;Horror with a capital &quot;H&quot; than the 1951 original.&nbsp; Only our expectations have changed.Still, looking through the lens of time, I didn't see anything in that trailer that makes me think the newest movie's visuals will be any more stunning than those of Carpenter's movie, now 29 years old...a mere 2 years less of a gap between the original and Carpenter's remake.So, we have a prequel using something resembling the 1951's plot and the 1982 remake's effects.&nbsp; What are they giving us, really?Interesting, in the context of the nature of the substantive differences between TTFAW and JCTT.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5627918, member: 19675"] [I]I [/I]certainly wasn't up until you raised this point about "it is mild as a "horror movie."" The main differences between the 1951 original and the Carpenter/Russell movie are not ones of quality but of 1) faithfulness to the original story and 2) visual realism & gore. And even so, the original's special effects were about as powerful as they got for the day- just like Carpenter's remake. The [I]nature [/I]of the horror is the same. It is no less "Horror with a capital "H" than the 1951 original. Only [I]our expectations[/I] have changed. Still, looking through the lens of time, I didn't see anything in that trailer that makes me think the newest movie's visuals will be any more stunning than those of Carpenter's movie, now [I]29 years old[/I]...a mere 2 years less of a gap between the original and Carpenter's remake. So, we have a prequel using something resembling the 1951's plot and the 1982 remake's effects. What are they giving us, really? Interesting, in the context of the nature of the [B]substantive[/B] differences between TTFAW and JCTT. [/QUOTE]

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