Wardrobes and sets that look like 1980s magazines and catalogues but not like 1980s real life, palette with deep blacks and super saturated accents, post processing as if shot on film with optical lens effects and distributed on magnetic video tape though obviously shot and edited one hundred percent digital, modern synthwave heavy soundtrack, titles in red text on black background… You know the entire package. It’s starting to feel lazy. For some reason it seems to be the aspiring young directors first feature length flick for the last few years or so. Damn I’d be more impressed by retro theming be the 90s or 00s that should be these directors genuine era of nostalgia.
Any examples? I’m intrigued bc idk if I ever noticed this!
Recent examples I can think of would be Censor, I Saw the TV Glow and Late Night with the Devil. Personally I liked all those movies though.
TY! I’m gonna check these out over the weekend! I haven’t seen any of them. Just saw a trailer for Maxxxine, too. Seems to fit the bill of what you described, I believe! I guess I never noticed, or even saw that trend.
Maxxxine was very good but it’s a sequel to a film called X which is excellent (but doesn’t quite do the 1980s style we’re discussing).