Kamen Rider Stopped Being B-Horror

[Shougo B'Stard]

ZO was about the same as well. Never seen J, so I cannot comment.

I don't really find anything horror about ZO, that one's pretty much full-on sci-fi -- it did try hard to imitate the Terminator movies, after all.

 

[HaiTien78]

Kamen Rider The Next was pretty recent and probably the most obvious Kamen Rider stab at the horror genre.

 

[Chronotia Archzenom]

Oh Kuuga, THE HAND!! D:

AAAANNNDDDD.... That skyhigh big needle sniper. Now I don't wanna get killed when I am not that prepared. Seriously. She aims at you with a full speeding needle that kills you from the above. DANG! Somebody call Lockon Stratos.

 

[The_Next!!!]

It was never B-Horror in the first place...>.>

 

[NoirSon]

Those Grongi games in Kuuga were indeed messed up. I remember when I first watched and was shocked when one seemed to crush two women with a car it seemed like the writers themselves were just coming up with new messed up ways/reasons to kill right along with the Grongi.

I will say this about Blade, those early episodes where they had Undead literally massacring people and stacking piles of dead bodies all over the place.


For some reason I also can't get this one scene where a bus load of kids is attacked and they cut away never mentioning or showing the end result out of my mind, although I don't remember which Heisei series it was.

 

[aniking_8]

Grongis are weird and gruesome and I usually skip to fight scenes since I don't understand Japanese. I still remember a scene where Grasshopper Grongi ride his motorcycle to crush people.

 

[MrMonk]

I don't really find anything horror about ZO, that one's pretty much full-on sci-fi -- it did try hard to imitate the Terminator movies, after all.

The Spider Woman was rather freaky to me.

 

[Black Fang]

AAAANNNDDDD.... That skyhigh big needle sniper. Now I don't wanna get killed when I am not that prepared. Seriously. She aims at you with a full speeding needle that kills you from the above. DANG! Somebody call Lockon Stratos.

That was a female?

 

[Chronotia Archzenom]

I think so!

 

[wavehawk]

Kamen Rider The Next was pretty recent and probably the most obvious Kamen Rider stab at the horror genre.

- I think that's why the horror element didn't work out nearly as well--it was a bit TOO obvious, IMHO.

I've already posted what I feel about the horror/kaijin element in Kamen Rider is in the Vicious Kaijins thread, so I won't repeat it here. But I do think that some attempt to make the monsters creepier and more intelligent would be appreciated, if not in mainstream Kamen Rider (TV), then in some movies.

BTW: I haven't seen Ultraseven X, so I may be using the wrong example here, but wouldn't two different KR series--one for kids on Sunday morning, the other for mature viewers after 11pm--work, maybe? Assuming you could get Toei to pry their fingers away from the budget box.