Bad Taste vs. Fresh Meat

[kiwiphile]

Why is 'Bad Taste' (1987) rated 6.7, whereas 'Fresh Meat' (2012) is rated 5.4 at IMDB? I can understand that that 'Bad Taste' having been around for 30 years and 'Fresh Meat' only 5 years, there would be more votes for 'Bad Taste', but 39,000+ vs. less than 1400 votes for 'Fresh Meat'?
These are both splatter comedies but IMO 'Fresh Meat' is better made, plus both are available on disc and VOD throughout the world. I would appreciate opinions as to why.

[Shingster]

Because Bad Taste is a trashy cult classic that established itself pretty successfully worldwide mostly on home video thirty years ago now at a time when that sort of film (ie: gross out puerile, foul mouthed, horror-sci-fi-splatter comedy), especially coming out of New Zealand, wasn't really all-too-common and so could still feel fresh. It also proved to be the debut of a pretty significant filmmaking talent so interest in his subsequent works only fuelled interest in Bad Taste going forward.

Fresh Meat on the other hand came out at a time when we've seen a million and one low-budget independent splatter films with the same kind of tone so it doesn't really stand out to the same extent. It's just not "fresh" in the way Bad Taste was.

[phobicsquirrel]

Bad taste is classic and has a niche following... the other film I have not seen.

[P-Rock]

Fresh Meat? Never heard of it.

Also what Shingster said.