I was thinking about Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It's a great movie. The movie has an interesting origin story in that the movie was green-lighted by the financiers as a typical slasher movie. The guy who ended up directing Henry at some point came across a documentary on TV about serial killers, and he then decided to make this movie about this (then) new phenomenon of serial predators. Instead of the typical 80s slasher, we got this complex, disturbing character study.
Texas Chain Saw Massacre is another movie that perhaps fits this bill. It feels as if it's way too good for the material. Hooper's direction is fantastic and the filmmaking is transcends what you'd expect.
Almost as if these movies accidentally ended up as these terrific movies.
I'm not sure about movies like George Romero's zombie movies or The Terminator. Those feel more like genuine visions by directors who were aiming high. If that makes any sense.
Anyway, I'd like to see a discussion happen about great movies that seemed to have 'come out of nowhere'.
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