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With Halloween fast approaching, let us turn to talk of horror films.

Favorite genre and film, to start with...


I love my zombie movies, with the class original Night of the Living Dead as my fave.

Beverley Hills Chihuahua.

1) Hellraiser II - Hellbound.

2) Dawn of the Dead. (The original, not the remake, which is not bad but not the original...)

3) Night of the Living Dead. (Still have to watch the colorized version sitting here. The scary B/W one was very good. Wonder if it loses in color.)

(And more zombie movies.)

Bambi.

30 Days of Night


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30 Days of Night


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2) Dawn of the Dead. (The original, not the remake, which is not bad but not the original...)

3) Night of the Living Dead. (Still have to watch the colorized version sitting here. The scary B/W one was very good. Wonder if it loses in color.)

(And more zombie movies.)

The remake or have they colorised the classic NotLD?

The remake was good, but as with DotD, not the original.

Bambi.

There's always one... :D

Hellraiser II

The Fog (the original one)

Return of the Living Dead

The Raven

Ghost Story

Halloween III

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Cube Zero

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There's always one... :D

I've only ever watched one horror-type film...someone who actually knew me quite well for some reason thought it was wise to invite me to the cinema to watch such things. For Christ's sake, I can't sleep after some Doctor Who episodes. Can't remember the name of the generic suspense-then-gore film in question. Needless to say I left after five minutes of that. So of the films I've seen, Bambi was probably the most disturbing and upsetting, Especially as I was a kid when I watched it.

EDIT: I've just remembered another one. I found "Signs" utterly terrifying. That probably tells you all you need to know about me and films.

Favorite genre and film, to start with...
Mostly into what you've called psychological horror. Though blood-splattered zombie movies kick ass, Day of the Dead in particular ("Choke on 'em!"), I find a slow dawning of the horror of the situation far more spine-tingling than any gore or tentacled grublie.

As for favourite horror flick, I'd have to stump for The Wickerman... though some may dispute it as a genuine horror movie.

Honestly, I prefer more physiological thrillers, Seven, Ringu, Psycho, things like that.

I also admit a fondness for horror comedy, but I'm weird that way. ;)

Vampires: "30 Days of Night"

Zombies: "Diary of the Dead"
"Shaun of The Dead'
"28 Days Later"

Werewolves: "Dog Soldiers"
"Ginger Snaps"

Ghosts: "The Others"
"The Orphanage"
"Below"

For some reason, although I don't much care for war movies, I like horror-movies-set-in-war so... "Below", "The Bunker", "Deathwatch".

Also quite a big fan of eastern horror... Kairo, Ju-on, Ringu, etc.

I also admit a fondness for horror comedy, but I'm weird that way. ;)
Have you seen The Happiness of the Katakuris?

My favourite has always been the HBO original "The Changeling", with George C. Scott.

An Inconvienient Truth

hmm lets see favorite horror well cant mess with the classics, so Texas chainsaw massacre is fun. I enjoyed Zombie's Devils rejects (and house of a 1000 corpses) further I must say Cannibal Holocaust was an excellent piece of cinema and that's regardless of genre. and I love the score on Argento's Suspiria

but if a I had to make a list it would look something like this:

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
2. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
3. Night of The Living Dead (1968)
4. Evil Dead 2 (1987) (though technically not a horror movie, but I do love it)
5. Black Christmas (1974)

and I like Hellraiser (different one depending on mood but I or II most likely, I adore Pinhead) and Cronenbergs work (though I do not think of them as horrors) and I would like to see more of Lucio Fulci's work, The beyond was a really interesting film.

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For some reason I didn't get it....?

i persoanlly like all or most horror movie genres
1) Zombies
2) psychologie ( but this fits into most zombie movies exemple: DotD )

i have many rstrictions about most modern movies though, they often lack a good story that makes them interesting for me. lets take "reality monster movie" cloverfield for exemple. it sux heres the storyline in 3 words AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!. carachters are so predictable they are almost concave (they call a good carachter, round, becaus it has many aspects of personnality.) why concave? becaus they are so flat they almost colapse on themselves.

anyway back to the bizzness at hand
i Voted Marxist Lenninist... DAMN! i should keep it secret (election day in canada fyi)

i voted 10. becaus my alltime favorite horror movies are canadian. i think they should be a genre of theyr own. heres a couple of tittles you should check out: Ginger snaps, Black christmas( yup the first slasher movie ever made/ the invetor of the PoV shots/ oh and yes halloween was the unofficial sequel to this movie) Cronenberg's early movies( shivers, rabid, existenz, The fly, god i love the fly), my bloody valentine, Dead reckoning( i mean Land of the dead, yeah it was filmed in canada!), Jim Carrey is canadian and he is pretty scary!!!

P.S. i did on pupose not to specify wich DotD becaus i like both day and dawn... wait a minute theyrs diary as well.... crap :( well theyr all good. dont forget to check out romeros "The crazies" and "Creepshow"( written by steven king and romero)

P.S.S. Nightmare on elm street (all of them)

With Halloween fast approaching, let us turn to talk of horror films.

Favorite genre and film, to start with...


I love my zombie movies, with the class original Night of the Living Dead as my fave.

The cheezy old fashioned ones that are easy to make fun of. :)

I loved Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call). I know its not particularly scary, but I get nightmares from some Angel episodes so...not the horror buff here.

Evil Dead 2 is kinda one of those films that I will always love. And yes it is a horror film... at least it was when I was 9.

I'm a big fan of the dark, imposing, there is no hope types. Not the "oh no, we live in a haunted house in downtown Detroit" types, but the "oh no, we are stuck all alone in the middle of fucking nowhere and walking death is after us" types. Alien, The Thing, etc...

I loved Chakushin Ari (One Missed Call). I know its not particularly scary, but I get nightmares from some Angel episodes so...not the horror buff here.

I really like One Missed Call, too.

The American remake is not nearly as good. What a surprise...

SAW movies *nod*

I never really liked horror movies, most of them don't scare me and more than a few of them just made me laugh (30 Days of Night, The Happening, House of Wax)

Classic ones I can watch and enjoy but not for the horror factor.

Zombie movies. Land, Dawn and Shaun of the dead come to mind. Among others.

I really like One Missed Call, too.

The American remake is not nearly as good. What a surprise...

I refuse to watch it on principle.

I dunno, I been doing some reading on these cannibal movies. They sound horrific.


Poor little animals.

Favorite horror film would be a toss-up between House of 1000 Corpses (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/), and Tremors (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100814/).

As for genre, I tend to go for more sci-fi themed horror, or zombies, but almost anything works for me.

I refuse to watch it on principle.

At least it's better than the remake of "Kairo" (Pulse).

Hellraiser 2 is pretty much the top of my list. One of the most disturbing movies I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. Even that Asian "extreme" stuff and modern torture films are child's play.

Other than that, I'm a sucker for werewolf movies, or anything else that involves strong elements of physical transformation and/or mental collapse (Session 9, Ravenous, Ginger Snaps, The Brood, etc).

Hellraiser 2 is pretty much the top of my list. One of the most disturbing movies I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. Even that Asian "extreme" stuff and modern torture films are child's play.

Other than that, I'm a sucker for werewolf movies, or anything else that involves strong elements of physical transformation and/or mental collapse (Session 9, Ravenous, Ginger Snaps, The Brood, etc).

Then you should definately see "Dog Soldiers", if you havent already.

I'd put it right up there with any of The Howlings, (although the first two were the only good ones.) or An American Werewolf in London.

My all time favorite has to be The Excorcist.

Definately the most frightening movie of all time, even by todays standards.
No other horror film made such an impact, or sent so many people to an extra long session with thier therapist.

Right behind that, would be Romero's "...of the dead" series, with the exception of "Land of the Dead", becuase that one sucked dead zombie balls.

I really like horror as a genre, but I've never seen a horror movie which is genuinely scary, or what I'm looking for in a horror movie. I guess, what I'm looking for in a horror movie would be Resident Evil (the remake for the Gamecube). It has everything I want in horror - atmosphere (the mansion just does it for me), zombies, other monsters, plot, the right music, a feeling of isolation and being 'trapped'.

I'll also add that I've never ever seen a horror movie with a decent ending. The Shining was great all the way through, until the ending, which was just lame. Somehow, they can never make the ending as scary and suspenseful as the rest of the movie. They just end up showing the monster and making it chase someone(s) around until it either gets them or they get away. Eh. Doesn't do it for me.

For some reason I enjoy the Saw series. The whole 'game' thing kicks ass.

However, I do enjoy The Exoercist too. Scary stuff that.

Zombie flicks are always good - not least because shotguns are usually involved ;p so, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later. I've always been a bit of a fan of gore-slasher horror movies too soo Nightmare on Elm Street (scary idea lol), Chucky and Scream.

Psychological/Ghostey type movies are always fun to watch too because these are the ones that usually freak my head around the most so Ju-on, Psycho, The Ring. Also Horror Comedies are pretty fun to watch heh so movies like Shaun of the Dead for example.

By far though I have always loved vampire-y films, no matter what - always liked 'em so Interview with the Vampire, Dracula, Fright Night (lol), Buffy and many more :P

The Stand(Stephen King),the thought of 99% of Humanity succumbing to a Super Flu,Society breaking down and back to the Stone Age scares seven bells out of me.Loved the book and Tele adaptation tho'

Zombie flicks are always good - not least because shotguns are usually involved ;p so, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later. I've always been a bit of a fan of gore-slasher horror movies too soo Nightmare on Elm Street (scary idea lol), Chucky and Scream.

Strictly speaking, 28 Days Later was not a zombie film. They were not zombies, but just people, infected with 'rage'. They had the same strengths and weaknesses as humans (perhaps enhanced by continuous supply of adrenalin). You did not die to become one, and the dead could not become them. They were in no way zombies.

I would also argue that the zombies in the Dawn of the Dead remake were not zombies either, as they were able to run (zombies don't have the co-ordination to run, they would simply trip up and fall down), and they made shouting noises, zombies only moan.

I like psychological horror, like Signs, and The Village.

Strictly speaking, 28 Days Later was not a zombie film. They were not zombies, but just people, infected with 'rage'. They had the same strengths and weaknesses as humans (perhaps enhanced by continuous supply of adrenalin). You did not die to become one, and the dead could not become them. They were in no way zombies.

I would also argue that the zombies in the Dawn of the Dead remake were not zombies either, as they were able to run (zombies don't have the co-ordination to run, they would simply trip up and fall down), and they made shouting noises, zombies only moan.

Your definition of Zombie is not the same as everyone else's.

Your definition of Zombie is not the same as everyone else's.

I'm just talking about established zombie canon in popular culture. But, again, by the definition of a zombie - "undead", the 28 Days Later monsters were not zombies, because they were not "undead". As was said in the movie, they were "infected with rage", not "the living dead". And my comments about the Dawn of the Dead remake zombies were speculative opinion.

Strictly speaking, 28 Days Later was not a zombie film

Well, yep I agree but I'm still calling it a zombie flick for the purpose of grouping easiness - suppose you could call it a Sci-Fi or perhaps a 'Monster' movie I guess.

Well, yep I agree but I'm still calling it a zombie flick for the purpose of grouping easiness - suppose you could call it a Sci-Fi or perhaps a 'Monster' movie I guess.

Horror/thriller?

I really liked "The Descent", though you can miss the first twenty minutes or so (up until they realize they're in the wrong cave). It's been the first time for a while that I've felt anxiety while watching a horror movie.

Horror/thriller?

Meh, yeah I guess so - although I'd prefer to call it a zombie flick... just for you Fonz ;]

Anything involving vampires, yep.

For me, it's a tie between Zombie movies and the horror mixed with sci-fi genre. Examples of the latter include Alien, Hellraiser 4, Jason X, Event Horizon. Somehow no matter how scary something is, you can make it a lot scarier by setting it on a spaceship where there is *NO* escape whatsoever.

I'm just talking about established zombie canon in popular culture.

interresting fact on zombies: When Geroge A. Romero made Notld He did not intend to make a "zombie" movie. The vilains/deadites/walking dead are actually ghouls. And you will also notice that in every single one of his "zombie" movies the word zombie is never mentionned. Zombies are related to voodoo.

No love for the Golden Age or Slasher films? :(


Well, yep I agree but I'm still calling it a zombie flick for the purpose of grouping easiness - suppose you could call it a Sci-Fi or perhaps a 'Monster' movie I guess.
Horror/thriller?

FWIW, the overarching sub-genre is IDed in literature on horror films as "the horror-of-Armageddon".

http://books.google.com/books?id=AavstWM6jjIC&pg=RA1-PA163&lpg=RA1-PA163&dq=%22horror-of-Armageddon%22&source=web&ots=BDRJPXHKIz&sig=J67V-N9f6nI413ITEd614q7cDHI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PRA1-PA171,M1

"The horror-of-Armageddon" covers most of your zombie flicks (but not all - Evil Dead world be "The horror-of-Demonic", for example), The Stand, The Birds, and that sort.

Anything Vampiric... the imagery of blood drinking... I love it. :)

Hellraiser II
(...)
Return of the Living Dead
Good calls!

Zombies: "Shaun of The Dead'
"28 Days Later"

Werewolves: "Dog Soldiers"

For some reason, although I don't much care for war movies, I like horror-movies-set-in-war so... "The Bunker".
In bold: Excellent entertainment!
Hellraiser 2 is pretty much the top of my list. One of the most disturbing movies I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. Even that Asian "extreme" stuff and modern torture films are child's play.
I wholeheartedly agree! "We have such sights to show you."
Then you should definately see "Dog Soldiers", if you havent already.
Yes!
My all time favorite has to be The Excorcist.
Funny fact: The Catholic priest who taught Latin at my U.S. high-school was the adviser on The Exorcist. Wonderful fellow, smart, funny, kind - pretty much the way you'd like every priest to be. Never got mentioned in the original credits, but when the movie was re-released a couple of years ago, he was.
Right behind that, would be Romero's "...of the dead" series, with the exception of "Land of the Dead", becuase that one sucked dead zombie balls.
True. That was disappointing, although not as bad as Day of the Dead. And I really liked the straight-to-DVD remake of that one.

Anything Vampiric... the imagery of blood drinking... I love it. :)

hence the Zombie name, right? :wink:

hence the zombie name, right? :wink:

:p :D

hence the Zombie name, right? :wink:

That's from a shoujo anime/manga called "Vampire Knight". Zero is one of the main characters.

The remake or have they colorised the classic NotLD?
No, not the remake. They colorized the classic.

Pretty much like they've produced a colorized version of The Longest Day. That one was pretty well done, so I hope the best for NotLD.

Then you should definately see "Dog Soldiers", if you havent already.
I have, and it was great. Spoon raised the bar for movie badassness pretty high.

:p :D

Heh.

No, not the remake. They colorized the classic.

Pretty much like they've produced a colorized version of The Longest Day. That one was pretty well done, so I hope the best for NotLD.

Hmmm... let us know how it is...

My all time favorite has to be The Exorcist.


I don't know why, but that movie never bothered me... not even the first time I saw it.

I tend to think of "Stigmata" as the superior remake.

I like Del Toro.

Chronos and The Devil's Backbone, specifically.

Me, my favourite horror movie is 28 Days Later. Personally I think 28 Weeks Later Sucks.

Strictly speaking, 28 Days Later was not a zombie film. They were not zombies, but just people, infected with 'rage'. They had the same strengths and weaknesses as humans (perhaps enhanced by continuous supply of adrenalin). You did not die to become one, and the dead could not become them. They were in no way zombies.

I would also argue that the zombies in the Dawn of the Dead remake were not zombies either, as they were able to run (zombies don't have the co-ordination to run, they would simply trip up and fall down), and they made shouting noises, zombies only moan.

The link between zombies and undead-ness is inconstant, at best. Much like the iea of the 'aristocratic' seductive Vampire... both are fairly recent variations in much older traditions.

I like Del Toro.

Chronos and The Devil's Backbone, specifically.

Not seen Chronos, but Devil's Backbone is beautiful.

The link between zombies and undead-ness is inconstant, at best. Much like the iea of the 'aristocratic' seductive Vampire... both are fairly recent variations in much older traditions.

Indeed so. The etymology is unclear, but come from the Afro-Carribean languages. But it's quite clear that modern usage has changed it's meaning. (Note also that Ghoul has changed from the original Arab concept of a demon to a corpse eating monster...)

Indeed so. The etymology is unclear, but come from the Afro-Carribean languages. But it's quite clear that modern usage has changed it's meaning. (Note also that Ghoul has changed from the original Arab concept of a demon to a corpse eating monster...)

I've seen movies where the zombies were not undead.... so this decision to make them undead-as-a-rule is fairly recent. Which is actually one of the reasons I like "28 Days Later". It's one of the reasons I like "30 Days of Night", also - the fact that they decided NOT to stick to the typical ideas of vampires, and return to a pre-Polidori vision of 'the beast'.

I'll see your Ghul, and raise you a Djinn. :)

I've seen movies where the zombies were not undead.... so this decision to make them undead-as-a-rule is fairly recent. Which is actually one of the reasons I like "28 Days Later". It's one of the reasons I like "30 Days of Night", also - the fact that they decided NOT to stick to the typical ideas of vampires, and return to a pre-Polidori vision of 'the beast'.
I have yet to see "30 Days of Night". And I've seen B-zombie-movies with Voodoo-zombies. Just plain fun. In comparison to plague zombies.

And while I consider slow zombies canon and fast zombies in remakes non-canon, I still appreciate them for the extra madness they create. I mean, undead in hordes are pretty bad, but undead hordes that are fast. Bah!
I'll see your Ghul, and raise you a Djinn. :)
I see your Djinn and rise you a ZOOL!

Heh.
Hmmm... let us know how it is...
What I see so far is pretty crazy. It's not a colorized picture but more of a colorfulerized picture.

But it's kinda surreal and I wouldn't have believed such things possible a couple of years ago.

Oh, and the box contains the original B/W uncut feature, a colorized version, and a DVD called "Reflections on the Living Dead" (which I have yet to see).

I have yet to see "30 Days of Night".

Rent it. Or if you see it cheap, buy it.

It's the first vampire movie I've seen since Bram Stoker's Dracula that I literally walked out of the cinema saying "Well, I'll definitely be buying that".

Jesus camp scared the shit out of me. Does that count?

1 The Haunting (1963)
2 Phantom of the Opera (1928)
3 The Masque of the Red Death

Looking through a few post you can really get a sense of people with poor taste.Anyways here goes:

Classics: Them, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Godzilla (the first one), Nosferatu (the silent film), Night of the Living Dead (original), Psycho, Feind Without a Face, The Birds, ...

70s and 80s and ...: Marathon Man, Friday the 13th, The Wicker Man, The Thing, Poltergeist, The Howling, Deliverance, Eqiunox, The Being, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Troll, Nightmare on the 13th Floor, Motell Hell, Critters, Demon City Shinjuku, ...

Modern: Scream thrillogy, Anatomy, Silence of the Lambs, Hellbent, Dagon, Ginger Snaps thrillogy, The Woods, Misery, IT, Carival Of Souls, The Blob, Arachnopobia, Cube thrllogy, Shallow Grave, Dr. Giggles, Twin Peaks FWWM, The Blair Witch Project (you just have to)... umm... I'm sure there is more but I got to go to work.

Alfred Hitchcock once said that Horror and Comedy were the hardest genres to work in, as either badly done becomes the other. That said, Hitch treated us to one of the truly great horror films in The Birds, which I'm amazed avoided mention here.
I also have a soft nostalgia for Vincent Price in The Abominable Doctor Phibes, but disfigured genius is rarely done well, and Phibes is more fittingly a revenge film than horror.
Cat People is very good, both the original and the remake, though the original is much creepier.
Peter Lorre in Mad Love is chilling on so many levels-I'm still astounded at the sheer horrific presence a five foot tall pudgy man can generate. Mad Love was remade several times, with the fantasy elements given precedence, but Lorre's presence fills out the original, and the game of driving the husband insane to get the wife is much more effective than later versions' attempts to make one fearful of transplant surgery.
Mr. Frost, with Jeff Goldblum, is the ultimate date movie-when a woman sees this film, she's not going to bed alone. It is also terrifying on levels far beyond the animated snowman films of the same name.
Near Dark is probably the best vampire movie ever made, but it's more fittingly a romantic fantasy with horror elements than a horror film.
The Audition is very effective, but a little disjointed-the payoff is worth the price of admission, however-the climax of this is gut-wrenching and surprisingly bloodless.
The Stepford Wives-so genteel-it was made for television in the seventies-but for mood and atmosphere, it tops every remake and ripoff ever made.
Bad Ronald-a low budget slasher, this was recently reissued and holds up well. Still chilling and worth the rental.
The Raven-best comedy with horror overtones save Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein, the payoff here is Karloff and Price squaring off in the best wizard's duel ever filmed. An honorable mention, really.
The Resurrected-possibly the best adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft ever filmed, this version of The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward stars Chris Sarandon(the vampire in Fright Night), and deserves far more exposure than it's gotten.

Haha, just remembered I have half the collection of "50 horror classics" as the DVD cases say. I friend and I split the cost down the middle and sorted out the movies we each wanted. I think I've only watched a few of the movies on them in all the years I have had them. I must have 5 or 6 with Bela Lugosi in them and couple more with Boris Karloff. I've got quite a bit of watching to do; The Little Shop of Horrors, Swamp Women, Bluebeard, White Zombie, Monster from a Prehistoric Planet, Attack of the Giant Leeches just to name a few. My friend I think got some good ones in the trade; Attack of the Killer Shrews I believe as well as The Giant Gila Monster.

With Halloween fast approaching, let us turn to talk of horror films.

Favorite genre and film, to start with...


I love my zombie movies, with the class original Night of the Living Dead as my fave.

My fav is the Asian Horror. while I could vote for Ghost stories, your examples of Amityville Horror and Poltergeist don't really cut it for me.

now Changling... that was scariest one of American Horror for a long time. Now I might have to say "the Chair (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772172/)"

but movies like Juon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391198/) and Juon 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367913/) were, IMHO, scarier than the American version.

I love Asian Ghost stories. :D

Shaun of The Dead and Aliens.

I like Del Toro.

Chronos and The Devil's Backbone, specifically.

Awesome film!

Hellraiser 1 and 2, and The Shining.

My fav is the Asian Horror.


Same here.


Now I might have to say "the Chair (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772172/)"


I was looking at that just a couple of days ago, but in the end picked up "Mongol" instead. Should I be putting "The Chair" on the list?

My fav is the Asian Horror. while I could vote for Ghost stories, your examples of Amityville Horror and Poltergeist don't really cut it for me.

now Changling... that was scariest one of American Horror for a long time. Now I might have to say "the Chair (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0772172/)"

but movies like Juon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0391198/) and Juon 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367913/) were, IMHO, scarier than the American version.

I love Asian Ghost stories. :D

A Chinese Ghost Story is one of my favorite films period. Joey Wong ROCKS! :D

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Looking through a few post you can really get a sense of people with poor taste.Anyways here goes:

Classics: Them, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Godzilla (the first one), Nosferatu (the silent film), Night of the Living Dead (original), Psycho, Feind Without a Face, The Birds, ...

Classics all, yet split up into sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres. :P

70s and 80s and ...: Marathon Man, Friday the 13th, The Wicker Man, The Thing, Poltergeist, The Howling, Deliverance, Eqiunox, The Being, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Troll, Nightmare on the 13th Floor, Motell Hell, Critters, Demon City Shinjuku, ...

MOTEL HELL! A true forgotten classic!

Modern: Scream thrillogy, Anatomy, Silence of the Lambs, Hellbent, Dagon, Ginger Snaps thrillogy, The Woods, Misery, IT, Carival Of Souls, The Blob, Arachnopobia, Cube thrllogy, Shallow Grave, Dr. Giggles, Twin Peaks FWWM, The Blair Witch Project (you just have to)... umm... I'm sure there is more but I got to go to work.

Alfred Hitchcock once said that Horror and Comedy were the hardest genres to work in, as either badly done becomes the other. That said, Hitch treated us to one of the truly great horror films in The Birds, which I'm amazed avoided mention here.

Not at all forgotten. See the post I quoted above.

Cat People is very good, both the original and the remake, though the original is much creepier.

Indeed.

The Resurrected-possibly the best adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft ever filmed, this version of The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward stars Chris Sarandon(the vampire in Fright Night), and deserves far more exposure than it's gotten.

Indeed one of the few Lovecraftian films done halfway right.

I was looking at that just a couple of days ago, but in the end picked up "Mongol" instead. Should I be putting "The Chair" on the list?

Good use of camera 'tricks' and background actions to enhance the mood.
Don't expect alot of 'gore', there is bloody scenes, but they were done well and not over the top.

but other than that. a good movie in my opinion.


Rented "Headless Horseman" and NO, it's NOT a retelling of Sleepy Hollow.

7 friends get lost on their way to a halloween party and end up in a small town of Wormwood. The town is glad to have visitors and the townsfolk are dying to keep them there.

Kinda corny, but not overly so. lots of beheadings and an intersting spin on a halloween classic and Richard Moll (Bull from Night Court) was fun to watch.

Good use of camera 'tricks' and background actions to enhance the mood.
Don't expect alot of 'gore', there is bloody scenes, but they were done well and not over the top.

but other than that. a good movie in my opinion.


Sounds good. The lack of gore isn't a problem, since I tend to view gore as a replacement for horror, rather than an aid to it, for the most part.

Which is why I love movies like Ju-on, or The Others, or Blair Witch.


Rented "Headless Horseman" and NO, it's NOT a retelling of Sleepy Hollow.

7 friends get lost on their way to a halloween party and end up in a small town of Wormwood. The town is glad to have visitors and the townsfolk are dying to keep them there.

Kinda corny, but not overly so. lots of beheadings and an intersting spin on a halloween classic and Richard Moll (Bull from Night Court) was fun to watch.

Sounds diverting enough. At least it's not co-eds being murdered by a pinata.

Earth Vs. The Spider was on AMC last night. While not my favourite giant bug movie (Them...) had a laugh when the guys and dolls were practicing for the school dance and the spider woke up. Chaos ensued.

Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow was damned good. But if one does not like it I can see why, as it dangerously strains the willful suspension of disbelief, and it butchered Washington Irving's short story.

Which is why I love movies like Ju-on, or The Others, or Blair Witch. I also suggest Reincarnation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456630/). it has a nice twisty ending that is the icing on the cake!

Sounds diverting enough. At least it's not co-eds being murdered by a pinata. or by cartoons (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099524/).

I also suggest Reincarnation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0456630/). it has a nice twisty ending that is the icing on the cake!


Awesome. I already have Kansen and Yogen, so I guess that's on 'the list' too. :)


or by cartoons (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099524/).

There should be a test you're forced to take before you're even allowed on a movie set, much less allowed to actually make movies....

Awesome. I already have Kansen and Yogen, so I guess that's on 'the list' too. :)

Check Jurei, if you haven´t yet. That film made me shit myself from fright.:eek2:

Sounds diverting enough. At least it's not co-eds being murdered by a pinata.
The worst part of Demon Island was realizing that I had been conned, and there would be no fucking pinata. No one was going to be trampled to death by a brightly colored donkey made out of paper; no one was going to be hung from a tree by their neck until they died and were beaten by small children; there would be no final showdown with the hero wielding a Sacred Stick of Slaying and wearing a blindfold so as to avoid meeting the pinata's death gaze.
I tell you, I'm not far from losing all faith in the schedule planners of the SciFi channel.

Ravenous wins. I haven't seen many horror movies, admittedly, but this was one of, if not the best of the lot. The soundtrack probably influenced this choice a lot. *Shivers*

Battlefield Earth

Check Jurei, if you haven´t yet. That film made me shit myself from fright.:eek2:

that's the one about the family being hunted by the ghost right? where it starts with the last victim and works 'backwards' towards the first?

the Hair Salon scene... *shudder*

Deborah Kerr in "The Innocents" was very scary. An old black and white film based on Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" (which was made into a movie recently).
Hitchcock is always good as well.

Want to know the prime ingredient of horror? Helplessness!
It's the stuff of nightmares

Check Jurei, if you haven´t yet. That film made me shit myself from fright.:eek2:

sorry. but funny and short threadjack.

I have a PS2 in my bathroom. (yes... I do.)
I picked up the game Fatal Frame. Got home. and decided to play it on the bathroom PS2. this was a 10 p.m.

That was one frightening game. a top slotter for Fright Games. all the others, you have a Gun to fight with and a weapon of that sort instills some form of confidence. in Fatal Frame, you have a camera. oh and you have to FIND that camera first! :eek2:

so I can HONESTLY say... with a straight face... that game scared the shit outta me.

Check Jurei, if you haven´t yet. That film made me shit myself from fright.:eek2:

Ooh, interesting. Just read about it on imdb. I'll have to see if I can track it down.

The worst part of Demon Island was realizing that I had been conned, and there would be no fucking pinata. No one was going to be trampled to death by a brightly colored donkey made out of paper; no one was going to be hung from a tree by their neck until they died and were beaten by small children; there would be no final showdown with the hero wielding a Sacred Stick of Slaying and wearing a blindfold so as to avoid meeting the pinata's death gaze.
I tell you, I'm not far from losing all faith in the schedule planners of the SciFi channel.

No kidding. Even having Xander from Buffy didn't save that movie.

The worst part of Demon Island was realizing that I had been conned, and there would be no fucking pinata. No one was going to be trampled to death by a brightly colored donkey made out of paper; no one was going to be hung from a tree by their neck until they died and were beaten by small children; there would be no final showdown with the hero wielding a Sacred Stick of Slaying and wearing a blindfold so as to avoid meeting the pinata's death gaze.
I tell you, I'm not far from losing all faith in the schedule planners of the SciFi channel.

... Demon Island sounds like my kind of cheese! :p

and I lost faith in Sci Fi when they kept remaking blockbusters into their crappy "original" movies.

... Demon Island sounds like my kind of cheese! :p

and I lost faith in Sci Fi when they kept remaking blockbusters into their crappy "original" movies.

It's called "Pinata: Survival Island", down our way.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201844/

It is SOOOO bad, it's bad. None of that 'so bad it's good' crap. :)

I like this series they show on TV every night...they call it "The News"...

*cuts sociological statement*

I do like Zombie flicks, but it's way better when the origin of the plague is unknown, and the main characters aren't trying to save the world, they're just trying to survive.

http://www.10tv.com/live/export-content/sites/10tv/images/bios/Revishx_Jerry.jpg

Especially this guy, the picture doesn't do justice to how terrifying his eyes are. I mean, the level of horror that is encapsulated in his eyes...they're like the puffy, jelly-donut eyes of a small dog--only on a large black man.

... Demon Island sounds like my kind of cheese! :p
Sadly, I was describing all the things that did not happen (but should have). What you get is a shitty CGI effect that lives in a clay statue of a Satan, or something.
and I lost faith in Sci Fi when they kept remaking blockbusters into their crappy "original" movies.
Even worse are when they legitimately acquire a franchise. The original Species was pretty rotten, but at least it had decent talent (Forrest Whitaker as Captain Obvious, Marg Helgenberger as the Doctor with Ridiculously Misplaces Affections, Michael Madsen as the Mercenary With No Tailor, Ben Kingsley as Ben Kingsely Getting Paid to Appear on Film, Roger Donaldson as the Little Director that Apparently Can't Anymore) and lots of gratuitous nudity.
Species 3? What in Hell was that?

Sadly, I was describing all the things that did not happen (but should have). What you get is a shitty CGI effect that lives in a clay statue of a Satan, or something.
well, if I can get a good laugh outta it... :p

The Evil:
A professor, his fiancee, and several of his students spend the weekend renovating his new home. only to release an evil force that begins killing them one at a time.

a good movie... unill you get to the end. where the two survivors enter the pit to hell and meet the devil. a well dressed, over-weight, lame joke cracking demon.

that's the one about the family being hunted by the ghost right? where it starts with the last victim and works 'backwards' towards the first?

the Hair Salon scene... *shudder*

Yup, that´s the one. Frightening thing. *nod*

With Halloween fast approaching, let us turn to talk of horror films.

Favorite genre and film, to start with...

I love my zombie movies, with the class original Night of the Living Dead as my fave.

I like all kinds of monster movies, especially zombies and aliens. I love the Alien franchise and the Romero movies are straight-up classics.

I also like psychological horror, my favorites being The Ring and The Blair Witch Project.

Bambi.

Edit: Damnit! Beaten to it! *sigh* First Jaws then, I guess...

Aliens
The Thing
The Descent

I love the Ten Little Indians trope in a well-done horror movie. Not sure why.