Who likes horror movies?
 

I do. Me and my baby's mama (jest) both love them.

So I just saw Saw IV Friday with her, but haven't committed time to my computer until now (save Fantasy Football lineups) to express my feelings toward the anticipated annual Halloween scary movie.

I must say, I was disappointed and confused.
SPOILER: Don't HIGHLIGHT
Such a great premise and cliff hanger ending to Saw III then Saw IV totally solves Saw III's greatness by just killing Jeff, the main character. Saw III and IV actually run parallel timelines, except Saw IV tries to do the whole shadow a main character and his ethical decision making but fails because....Saw III already did that. Instead of progress the intriguing Saw III storyline it just opened doors to more questions and left tons of things unexplained and some things pretty much irrelevant. The guy with his eyes stitched up and the guy with his mouth stitched up, they weren't explained at all, not even given a tape recorder. I hope Saw V and VI (they have contracts for the sequels) satisfy and can correctly link the events because I had to read the Wiki afterward to get the movie--which then made me say "oh that's just dumb."

Hey. An actual use for the "white text" thing.

My background is off gray, and not many people have yellow as a background, and it's mostly indecipherable, in my opinion.
Yellow it is.

I think the scariest one I've ever seen is Wolf Creek. That film is freaky, particularly since it's based on a true story.

White. Yellow. Whatever.

damn hell ass saw IV was awesome, it made me say "cowabunga! quite loudly..
:3eye:

Best horror flick I've seen recently was the Brit flick, Dog Soldiers. Awesome. It's now on my (ever growing) list of favourite horror movies :P

I am a huge horror movie fan. The only ones that I like, and I actually collect them, are the ones from the 50's and 60's. I prefer black and white films. The ones the proliferated in the 50's and early 60's often were around a theme of radiation as the source for the (insert monster name/theme here). The early Godzilla movies were a hoot. The original King Kong is awesome. Many of them are considered B Grade movies at best but I like them anyway.

When I used to collect horror films, they tended to be either late 80s/early 90s schlock horror (e.g the Full Moon productions, mainly based loosely on Lovecraft) and very obscure films (some early, some just Italian :P).

The Saw series is by far the worst for me. Used to thrive on these movies. Now I go for the action flick.

"Vacancy" is a better movie than it looks......rent it. It's awesome.
I'm a horror movie lover...All genre's....all countries....all of it..and the worst done, the better, in my book.

Of course I have to mention Evil Dead 2....who could not mention that...it's downright hilarious!! One of my favorites of all time.....

"I'll swallow your soul!!" "I'll swallow your soul!!!"
(I guess you'd just have to watch it)

lol!!

We have recently watched Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), The Hitcher (1986), and Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Of those, Last House on the Left was the most disturbing to me.

I just bought the original Halloween, which we'll probably watch tomorrow or Wednesday.

Not a big fan of horror flicks - I haven't watched, but everyone else in the household likes "Hostel" & "Saw".

I liked Vacancy & 1408, both different & decent.

The only horror flick I did not want to watch and even now is, Salem's Lot - the dude was just too much for me.

Oh & both Jeepers Creepers that dude is a freak.

Oh...and I can't forget "The Shining".....still creepy.

And that one German flick where the mom feeds a log like it's a kid and it eats people. Starts with a B....bor..bortik...borteek...damn, what is the name of that movie?!? C'mon tell me someone has seen that piece of insanity?!? This is going to bother me.....

I love horror flicks with a passion.

I'd have to say that the most unsettling would be 'Cabin Fever'. Although I've a fondness for 'The Host' and get a huge kick out of 'Evil Dead II' and 'Evil Dead III - Army of Darkness'.

I'm particularly attracted to Zombie films, and Romero is my hero. Although Land of the Dead was a miss for me. That was rubbish.

Meh, this just in...

'The Exorcist' voted scariest horror film.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/stor...ectid=10472799

See, now I don't get 'The Blair Witch Project'. I think that movie is something of an American phenomenon. And this is because here in New Zealand we don't have that long tradition of the witch being the 'Big Bad'. Actually there's nothing really all that scary here... honest (by the way, see 'Black Sheep' if you can). ;)

Top horror villian - Hannibal Lecter? I'm guessing that's because they couldn't remember the names of the cenobites from Hellraiser. :(

And I agree with the Alien, but to be honest I don't find it that much of a horror.

I love zombie movies! 28 days later...dawn of the dead...stuff like that. 28 weeks later made my friend pass out but I loved it. it was nothing like 28 days later though.

does anybody here remember Arachnophobia? with John Goodman playing the exterminator (hilarious)? That movie scared the living crap out of me.

"8 Legged Freaks" was the fun, exciting version of Arachnophbia. Loved it :)

On Zombie movies; I've seen and loved (some exceptions...);

Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (and recent remake)
Day of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead (camp, certainly)
Land of the Dead
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness
Resident Evil
Resident Evil II
Resident Evil III: Extinction
Night of the Creeps
Night of the Comet
Slither (technically NOT living dead, but close enough)
28 Weeks Later
28 Months Later
Shaun of the Dead
Brain Dead (known as 'Dead Alive' in the US)

Oh, and if you're into books, read 'World War Z'. It's the business.

And keep an eye out for 'Worst Case Scenario'. That looks freaking COOL from the trailers off the web

(excuse multi posts)

I thought that was the stupidest movie. Not scary in the slightest.

Jacob's ladder:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SXXbIOc9h4g

Silent Hill
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZSOhAocQ7-4

I love a scary movie.

However, gore just for gore (no, not Al) does nothing for me. Sure, some gore is great if it's done right, but without some intelligent writing it's like, eh. Give me the suspense, the jump out of your seat scary.

Halloween
Exorcist
The Other (not the Others with Nicole Kidman)
The Omen
Rosemary's Baby
Seven
The Hitcher
Duel
That first part of Scream with Drew Barrymore!

Oh, and HLJ...I need to watch Last House on the Left again! I have a vague recollection of it.

Here are some old ones that scared me when I was a kid:

+ What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
+ Lady in a Cage
+ Picture Mommy Dead
+ The House that Dripped Blood


I can lend you my copy.

Duel was the best made-for-TV movie ever.

Thank you Bandito....Night of the Living Dead is still one of the best hits....it's hard to top that...of course I love Zombie classics too.

You guys have to see "I Zombie" as I have been looking for it and can't find it here lately.

It's written from the perspective of the Zombie...awesome!!

Is that the car v. truck one? What is the plot line again? Why is the truck chasing the car? How does it end? The long middle I remember.

Before the term "road rage" Duel is simply that: Dude passes a semi truck. Trucker is ticked off and starts screwing with the driver (an everyman passive commuter) and it slowly escalates; when you think the driver has finally given up terrorizing poor David (played by Dennis Weaver) he comes back, worse. Scary because it's something that could happen on any given day. It was directed by Spielberg, clear back in 1971.

OK. So it was just that the trucker got passed. How did it end? Is the truck blown up or anything like that?

Are you writin' a book? ;)

Spoiler:

If you like some blowing up and cliff-plunging, this is the flick for you. David's car overheats, he turns his car around to face the semi, jumps out at the last moment...the car explodes on impact and the semi goes over a cliff. Everyman beats Everypsycho.

I was talking with a Japanese guy today who said the exorcist scared him so badly he wouldn't go to the toilet at night for months afterwards....
He was TWELVE when he saw it!!!!!!
Holy &%$#, what kind of parenting was that?

Oh, I don't know. I was 11 when I saw Jaws (with a neighbor girl, no 'rents) and 14 when I saw Halloween. They scared me but I guess I've always been pretty fearless because neither one translated to reality for me.

But wait, after I saw Trilogy of Terror (at 11) I was sure that freaking little witch doctor guy was under my bed. You've never seen anyone hop across a room so fast. But, even then, it was a fun kind of scared and I didn't need my parents or anything.

The thing that kept me awake at night was thinking there were nuclear bombs coming (see Cold War)

Oh hell yes!

That was the first of a double bill with Tremors as the undercard... I took this sweet young thang out to the drive in to see them both. She was, I soon learned, deathly afraid of spiders! It made for a very interesting and fun date! Ahh, good times, good times. You want to know the best part?

She married me anyway! Love that movie!

zen I saw the exorcist at a drive in at about that age-my parents took me

Deathly afraid of spiders, you took her to a nasty spider movie, :0) and she still married you. Must be love!

hehe... it is.

don't know what she sees in me, but, hey, perfect vision isn't top of my priority list.

Actually, I don't remember if I knew about the spider thing before the movie or not...but I know now.

At home, I'm the only person who sees spiders as the noble predators they are. As such, I am their defender at home, and my wife's defender too. We have an agreement that she won't kill them and I'll take them outside. It works out for the spider too.

I don't mind them in the house--I figure for every spider I see in the house, that's 100 bugs I don't see. She doesn't like them, though, so out they go! I like being her champion even more than saving a little spider's life, to tell the truth.

This is what we share... of similar age... that thing will endlessly haunt us...

Looking back, it was so lame, but I was sure that little effer was gonna stab me in the foot! :)

Which reminds me...CSI New York did a thing about Amityville, and it reminded me of how lame that movie was, but the damn pig eyes in the window scared the snot out of me. Just a couple of stupid red lights (they spared much expense on special effects.) Then I remember that there was an episode of McMillan and Wife where someone was looking in the window and I realized I do have residual fear: I'm still creeped out by the thought of seeing someone in the window. I'm all about blinds at night!

If a horror movie does not make me laugh, like they usually do, then it's a good one.

So Clowns and Harlequins and guardian hockey masks freak me out in Horror films but Women are very dangerous - they don't kill like men do: face to face, hacking bits off each other. Women kill much more scaringly.

In the late 80's the powers that be thought that the world as we know it was coming to an end because of what was affectionately known as "Video Nastys" titles like "Driller killer" "I spit on your Grave"
Canibal this that or the other were banned by the Government at the time as danger to the morals of the youth at the time.
Complete bollocks now there's a ground swell of opinion in computer games such as "Manhunt" etc that these should be banned also where will it end "Grimms fairy tales" will be too violent and should that be banned also the PC brigade are getting away with murder if you pardon the pun, surely parents should be monitoring what their kids are watching or what games they're playing
I used to watch a shed load of horror gore fest movies over the years but most now are too predictable to bother with.
The "Hell raiser" movies were my favorite "Pinhead" was a class character.. :D

*raises hand as the only complete and utter wimp on the board*.

I hate horror movies. Dr Who gave me nightmares as a kid. Even the Incredible Hulk cartoon had me cowering behind the sofa. I'm not a total wuss -I'm very into Vietnam (etc.) movies which can get pretty gory, but just gore out of contect -WHY?

and what is fun about being frightened?

And no, I never ever go in haunted houses. I allowed myself to be bullied into the haunted house at Alton Towers one time. I was crying so badly after a few feet (bullies had abandoned me), some kind person led me out of the nearby fire exit. Never been in one since. Of course I'm a bit claustrophobic too, doesn't help....

The Exorcist was the first movie to ever genuinely scare me. Though it didn't help that I was 12 at the time. Other than that, I think Saw I is my next all-time favorite. Not because of any gore, but the whole plot just seems so original, esp. the very end. Just watched Eraserhead for the first time a couple weeks ago, wow.

Eraserhead is a classic. Lynch classic, that is. I've had different friends watch it over the years and the reaction is always great: either they hate it and say WTF, or they love it in a WTF kind of way. I'm in the latter category!

I love Eraserhead. Lynch = one of my favorite directors.
David Cronenburg can direct a mean horror flick, too. Videodrome is quite wonderful.

I divide my favorite horror movies into two camps:
70's/ 80's/ early 90's latex fests
and
Things That Truly Make My Soul Feel Sick.


Hostel / Saw / 21st century, filter-heavy, splatter-porn remakes are definitely not on either of those lists.
All gore with no thought does nothing to make my brain produce juices.
It's not horrifying to watch cardboard-cutout-characters get hacked up, even if it is ridiculously cringe-worthy at times.
They are insulting. I'd much rather go to a professional haunted house during Halloween.

Well hello Giant Salamander. Welcome to the Cellar!

I love those 70s/80s/early 90s 'latex fests', or schlock horror as I call 'em:)

I love horror films and horror stories (which scare me FAR more) but I hate haunted houses and ghost trains. I too had to turn around and go out of the entrance of the Alton Towers haunted house when I was 12. The girl I was with came with me though, leading me with my head down and my eyes on the floor so I couldn't see anything. There were tiny children coming out of the other end laughing, but I scared myself silly in there. I'm also wary of enclosed spaces, especially in crowds, so not being able to see the exit may have been a part of it.

Anyway it's called a fertile imagination apparently, not being a wimp :)

"schlock horror" is quite a good word for it.

Welcome, Giant Salamander.

"I Spit On Your Grave" is a classic.
"The Undertaker and His Pals"
"Voodoo Black Exorcist"
"Mondo Cane"
"Faces Of Death"
"The Cabinet Of Doktor Caligari"
"I Bury The Living"
"I Eat Your Skin"
"The Beast Of Yucca Flats"

A more recent one is "2001 Maniacs".
"House Of 1000 Corpses"
The "Saw" trilogy.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", the remake, and "TCM: The Beginning" make for a good trilogy also.

I went to the cinema on Wednesday (I love having a job!) to see The Cottage. It's a British comedy/ horror and might never make it to the States, but if you see it out on DVD I recommend it.

I went to see it because Reece Shearsmith is in it, and I wasn't disappointed as he is the first and last thing you see on screen pretty much :yum:

It starts very slowly - I think the comedy is a little clunky and I would certainly have edited it down. But once the horror starts it is grim and darkly funny and all you could want from a funny horror. I watched some bits with both hands on my face - not over my eyes, just mouth open and shocked and laughing at their audacity.

Love them! 'The Shining' is the best!

I like "Fido". The cover looks incredibly low budget...but it's good. It's like edward scissor hands meets classic zombie film. Good stuff.

(just in case you wanted to rent it but didn't)

I went to see The Strangers last night. Disappointed. I like that it was a horror film which didn't rely on CGI, but it just descended too quickly in a chase - I hate it when that happens. Lazy, lazy film makers.

Also, I was waiting for the phone call at the beginning to be explained. What? Who was Jordan? She never appeared in the film...? Anyway, I just never really engaged with the film. I didn't care enough about the characters. Shame.

Saw a trailer for Mirrors, looked amazing. Read a couple of reviews this morning, sigh. Wouldn't you know, there's a horror film made specifically about one of my top personal creep outs (even the trailer scared me) and it's rubbish. Might go see it anyway, depends on where I live when it comes out.

I was hoping The Strangers would be one of those rare actually scary movies...but I didn't hold out much hope. Every so often a gripper comes around, but usually it's not scary at all. Or just gory, which is silly.

A long long time ago the Abominable Dr. Phibes films were my favorites. Mostly because we saw them at the Drive-In and I LOVED going to the drive-in when I was a kid.

I can still remember some of the ingenious ways he went about killing people.

I saw John Carpenter's The Thing when I was a kid, and it freaked me out.

If you want a laugh a minute, watch John Carpenter's The Fog.

Tommy Wallace: She's crazy. There's no fog bank out there.
[other men talk]
Tommy Wallace: There's no fog bank out there.
[more talk]
Tommy Wallace: There's no fog bank out there.
[after a moment, fog begins to appear]
Tommy Wallace: Hey, there's a fog bank out there.
Al Williams: All right, I'm drunk enough. Let's go back

It's seriously supposed to be scary, and actually got decent reviews...but looking back at it all these years later it's pretty darn funny.

I thought Rocky Horror was pretty good....oh, wait.

My fav is "Them" and all those 1950's ones with a nuclear theme.