I loved horror moves, or rather "horror" movies that feature fun and delightful creatures and monsters that stalk the world of video cinema. I watch them as a kid, and I mean little kid, and thing was no horror movie scared me because I knew they weren't real. And because of that lack of fear "slashers" never interested me, unless they had something cool like a neat mask, a gimmick or some kind of supernatural power.

And things never changed, because I still go back to those movies featuring demons leaping off the screen, video games that kill (Brainscan, Arcade, that segment in Nightmare), murderous yogurt, and Joan Crawford rises from the grave. It was a great time to be alive and into the fun, "stupid" and off the wall monster stuff in the 80's and 90's. They had a visual language of their own, with special effect artists even on the lowest budget productions schlock movie pushing their craft of monsters. Sure there is a lot of crap, but remember 10 percent of a million is 10,000 so the more there is out there the more cool stuff there is.

I'm getting off topic. During the mid to late 90's I fell out of horror movies when Scream became a hit, and with that out went the dragon hiding in the closet with a taste for women and in came with the killer best friend despite the dozens of red herrings through out the movie. I knew the landscape was changing, and just admit when something was not for me and moved onto other genres and media.

Post 2010's after a constant influx of "grounded" horror, a lot of people who still love those Trouma productions and try to make their own. Which is great, because of great movies of my favorite decade was taking ques from the 1950's science fiction and making it their own.

Thing is, a lot of times while on the surface everything was very chic 80's with vhs scan lines, quirky one line slinging villains, wacky monsters and "funny" characters. But that's it, it's all surface, hell it's not even proper 80's surface but rather Gold Key comics of Star Trek version of it. Taking a bad shot on shideo found footage film and spray painting everything in bright colors to "emulate" the 80's look without it's feel.

The thing about the 80's is while it is presented as this happy, go-go wonderful era everything was scary as shit. Pollution, urban decay, civil unrest, and two super powers ready to end the world in nuclear hell fire at a moments notice. People just filter out that stuff for the toys, the cartoons and neat music.

I wish I had more of a point here, but I'm getting tired and running out of steam to bitch.

TL;DR A lot of film makers try to bolt on the "80's aesthetic" to hide a bad movie, or they misunderstood how it worked. Ether or.