Horror Movie Fans, let's have discussions...

I watched "Chernobyl Diaries" yesterday & I thought it was pretty good. I guess one must be careful where one vacations in Europe.

 

That's funny...

So did I...

On Cinemax?

lol

Yeah it was pretty decent...

My only complaint was that when it ended, it didn't really explain the background of what happened, I mean, with the "escaped patients..."

 

Yea, it was a free preview weekend, Cinemax & HBO.
I thought I caught that there were prisoners at the reactor. I'm not sure though. The movie was good for what it was though. Movies like that tend to scare me more than say, aliens or monsters, 'cause something like a nuclear accident(chemical or virus) is more likely.

 

I hear ya...

I also liked that they didn't give you a good look at the "creatures" until the very end...

 

I need to re-watch this. Because the parts I saw were good. But when I saw it in the theater, there were a couple of retards on the row in front of me a little ways down that wouldn't shut up. When I went to say something to them after the movie, they both stood up and were about 6'6" and 250 lbs each. This is about twice the size of yours truly. And considering that there were two of them, I was essentially outnumbered 4 to 1. So like a good little internet tough guy, U-Dog just begrudgingly stormed out of the theater and talked (*)(*)(*)(*) under his breath.

 

WHAT!...That's not you in your avatar? I feel rather misled...

 

Well, sort of. Same look. Just about half the size.

 

Here are some upcoming British horrors:

Berberian Sound Studio
Locked away in a recording studio, British sound engineer Gilderoy is hired to create the audio for an art movie. However, he soon discovers he’s been led there under false pretenses and is actually creating sounds for horror.

Sightseers
In this black comedy a newly formed couple take their caravan for a road trip around the British Isles to help invigorate romance and intimacy between them, whilst also unlocking their passion for a spot of violence and murder.

Guinea Pigs
Eight volunteers go in for drug testing at a remote medical establishment. The drug they begin to trial starts to mess with their head space as the severity of the side effects takes hold of each individual. All the footage is caught on camera and presented to us in a documentary style for our viewing pleasure.

 

Any idea where I can check these out in the US?

 

I thought these movies haven't been released yet, but I've found out that they have.

All three were released last year and should be avilable on DVD in the US.

Here are some clips from those three movies:

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Some more British horrors to look out for:



Hollow
This is yet another "found-footage" horror movie. Standard stuff, right? Not quite - a ghostly presence resides in the hollow centre of a tree and it causes people to commit suicide.



Stitches
Stitches the clown returns from beyond the grave to seek bloody revenge on those responsible for his tragic death. A black comedy.



Tower Block
Residents of a London tower block, who were witness to a youth beaten to death, are now being picked off one by one by a revengeful sniper.




Slasher House
A woman named Red wakes up in an abandoned lunatic asylum with no recollection as to how she got there. When the door to her cell opens she realises that there are a few other people in the asylum with her - psychotic serial killers, including an ice-cream-van-driving, child-killing clown, who also have no recollection of how they got there but who decide to hunt her down. But there is an unexpected twist at the end...



The Torment
A young couple hear a knock on their front door late at night. Upon answering it they discover that it's their friend David, who is being plagued by terrifying demonic entities and who wants to stay at their house for a few days. But they eventually regret it. A truly creepy movie......

 

Awesome...

Thanks...

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I keep meaning to watch Hollow but never get around to it...

 

I love zombie and disaster movies. As for horror, I love the ones that are real spine-tingling.

My faves:

28 days later and its sequel, 28 weeks later
Night of the Living Dead (original, black and white)
The Others
Sixth Sense
Stir of Echoes (Kevin Bacon)
The Shining
Mama (new release on video)
The Changeling (old 70's (?) movie)
The Exorcist

I can't wait to see World War Z with Brad Pitt!

 

Some more British horrors.........

Summer Scars



This 2007 hoodie horror sees six disgusting kids run into trouble in some woods in South Wales. Six youths -five boys and a girl - ditch school for the woods where some hot rodding on a stolen moped changes the fate of their day. They crash into Peter, a dishevelled drifter, who is delighted to have a group of teens to hang out with. First, he seems friendly and he gains their trust by joining in their games. He even treats them by showing them a couple having sex in a car on a nearby country road. But then his behaviour changes.....

Dog Soldiers



This 2002 horror-comedy sees a group of British soldiers go on a training exercise in the Scottish wilderness. At first everything is normal, but then the soldiers encounter a badly wounded Special Operations officer, whom they take with them. But then they learn the cause of the man's injuries when they are suddenly set upon by a group of werewolves, causing more casualities. The group manages to make it to a remote farm in their car, but once there they are left stranded when the furry fiends destroy their vehicle. Besieged, with no radio or phone connection, desparately trying not to panic and running out of ammo, a fierce fight ensues with the almost invincible werewolves.. This movie has blood, guts, gore, horror and plenty of laughs. In other words, a very British horror movie.

The Haunting



A 1963 classic. Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit the house, the mysterious and clairvoyant Theodora and the insecure Eleanor, whose psychic abilities make her feel somehow attuned to whatever spirits inhabit the old mansion. As time goes by it becomes obvious that they have gotten more than they bargained for as the ghostly presence in the house manifests itself in horrific and deadly ways.

Evil Aliens



This 2005 slapstick horror-comedy was the first full-length British horror film to be filmed using Sony HD (High Definition) cameras, and contains almost 140 digital effects shots and a huge amount of gory conventional special effects.

A tabloid television news magazine host and her ramshackle crew have a gruesome close encounter when they set out to investigate an alien abduction in director Jake West's no-holds-barred splatstick comedy. Cat (Jennifer Evans) and her boyfriend are copulating in a moonlit graveyard when they are abducted by a malevolent gang of extraterrestrials and forced to endure a most unseemly series of highly-intrusive medical tests. Though Cat eventually finds her way back to terra firma, something strange seems to be growing inside of her and the man she was with that night has never been heard from again.

The Community



A 2012 quintessentially British hoodie horror, but with a little bit of a twist.

In a certain town, the Draymen Estate has become the stuff of urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of strange locals and brutal violence, people have gone missing there. Two student filmmakers decide to visit the estate in the hope a sympathetic documentary about it will land them a lucrative career. Before going to the estate they interview some of the town's residents who regale them with sinister stories of the estate and its people - who, according to some of the interviewees, produce strange grunting noises. Within minutes of arriving at the estate the documentary-makers are introduced to a skinned dog in a shallow grave.... and that's only the beginning of their terror.

Hush



On a moonlit, rainy night a young couple are driving along the M1 motorway. In front of them is a truck and they are suddenly shocked to see the back of the truck slide open and, inside the trailer, a young woman fighting for her life. What they witness causes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between them and the truck driver...

F



Another hoodie horror.

A teacher at the fictional Wittering College in North London, Robert Anderson, is hit in the face by a pupil and forced to take three months' leave to avoid being sued by the parents of the child for giving the pupil an F grade, which is against school policy.

Anderson is deeply affected by the incident and upon his return to teaching, he is an alcoholic, emotionally disturbed and separated from his wife, Helen.

One day, after hours, Anderson is overseeing detention, in which he has placed his daughter. They argue over her use of a mobile telephone during the detention session – he slaps her in the face and immediately regrets it.

Soon after, the protagonist notes some strange movements outside the school and discovers that the telephone lines are down. Standing by a closed window, a milkshake is thrown at him from outside and the words 'U R Dead' appear written in the milkshake....

Creep



A woman locked in overnight on the London Underground finds herself being stalked by a hideously deformed killer living in the sewers below.

 

Great movies...

Classic...remake was really good too...

Kind of slow, but great movie nonetheless...

One of my favorite movies...M. Night Shenanigans fell off after that...

Creepy ass movie...

Legendary...

Still need to see this...

Haven't seen this yet...

My favorite horror movie...up in my top 5 movies overall...

Likewise...

It looks awesome...

 

Freddy will always be my favorite. I remember staying up late one night(back before I had even started school)and watching the the third one. I loved it. It's a shame no one knows how to make a scary movie anymore though. Part of it is due that we're no longer shocked by what we see. When this stuff was fresh people just weren't used to that kind of thing but we've become desensitzed to it. And I think that's another thing, people are confusing gore with scary. That's not true. The fear is in the mystery, the not knowing what's going on and why. As it is though that's a difficult enough thing to figure.

Also please please please get rid of stereotypes and retarded victims. I want a horror movie where people would actually behave the way people would actually behave. You know who's going to die anyway by what role they feel, slut, stoner, jerk, black guy(sorry RP, I didn't make the rules). Trying mixing it up and let people actually wonder what's going to happen to who. That would add to the suspense in my opinion.

And one last thing since I'm already ranting, can somebody for the love of god tell my how Descent was supposed to be scary? It was honestly one of the worst and stupid horror movies that I have ever seen. I never understood all the hype about that film.

 

How could've I forgotten about....

Ghost Story - an old movie from the 70's or early 80's about 4 old men who were best friends.

Lake Placid
Rogue - an Australian film about a killer crocodile which preyed on a group trapped in a small island.
Anaconda - with a young Jennifer Lopez
Razorback - 70's or early 80's movie of a killer wild pig in Australian outback

The Thing - with Kurt Russell

I find that it's that atmospheric tension building up before the "ceiling hits the fan" - like those little tell-tale signs that something's wrong - that really makes a horror movie special. The new movie, Mama, is good because of that.

A lot of nice gems from the 70's and 80's that I would like to see re-made:

Impulse - an old movie 70's or early 80's movie that see town folks in a small quiet town do sadistic things.
Sole Survivor - survivor of a plane crash is haunted by dead people
Monkey Shines - a quadriplegic and a trained monkey
Child Play - the killer doll
An American Werewolf in London
Silver Bullet
A Clockwork Orange
See No Evil - with Mia Farrow as a blind girl, who came home unaware that her whole family is dead
Rabid - an epidemic of zombies, maybe the inspiration for Crazies.
The Amityville Horror - the original
Salem's Lot - oh boy, did that vampire boy floating outside the window gave me nightmares
The Birds - by Alfred Hitchcock maybe from the 60's (?)
The Fog - the original
Demons - people trapped in a movie theatre killing and possessing their victims.
Invasion of the Body Snatcher - the one with Donald Sutherland

 

Psycho is the only film that's ever really terrorized me. I was peeing sitting down for a week after that one haha.

I don't like horror movies. I love thriller flicks, especially psychological thrillers.

 

Psycho is awesome...

As far as psychological thrillers, The Silence of the Lambs has to be one of my favorites that's considered a psychological thriller, though, to me, it's more of a horror movie...

 

Well what I consider Horror and others consider Horror can be two entirely different things. LOL
My favs:
The Vampire Lovers
Nosferatu
Dracula (both the 1930 and the one in the 70's. Seriously when the daughter in the Frank Langella Dracula was in the tunnels and her father saw her ...scared the crap out of me!).
Day of the Triffids was great. It's about a man who has an operation when something happens and plants come to life and almost everyone dies off. Because of the ending, I was terrified for months to go down into the basement of our old farmhouse.
Frogs with Ray Miland. Wonderfully scary for the decade it was made.
Dog Soldiers was good.
Night of the Living Dead (and of course I liked the ones that made fun of them too "Return of the Living Dead".)
Recently I rented three movies and wasn't sure how good they were going to be.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln VS Zombies
Zombie Apocalypse(sp).Was pleasantly surprised to find that I liked all of them. Zombie Apocalypse especially surprised me because it was believable. Nobody did anything really stupid to get him/herself killed. All the deaths were believable and didn't leave you either laughing, disgusted or shaking your head. I liked the acting too and the curves they threw in.

I like all the Scream films. Liked the Halloween films.

As far as scaring the living daylights out of me...I have to give The Exorcist the prize. However, having seen it once this born and raised Catholic will NEVER watch it again!

I liked Rosemary's Baby too.

Just thought of another one: Thirty Days of Night

 

I saw that film...scared me too. Another one that terrified me was Susperia though it was a bit hard to understand at first and the maggots...UGH!

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Nosferatu was a good horror film without any dialogue!

 

I watched brand new film "A Field in England", a brand new British horror from director Ben Wheatley, the man who has brought us other British horrors and dark comedies such as "Sightseers" and "Kill List".

"A Field in England" (2013), the UK's first simultaneous feature release across all formats, is a psychedelic trip into magic and madness during the English Civil War and is filmed entirely in black and white.

England: 1648 AD. The English Civil War is raging. A small group of deserters from both sides (Roundheads and Cavaliers) flees from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by a man named O'Neil, an Irish Cavalier alchemist. He forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descends into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

A Field in England claims kinship with the rural horror films that flourished in Britain in the Sixies and Seventies; doomy, sexy frolics with titles like Witchfinder General and The Blood on Satan’s Claw. The Wicker Man, the most accomplished of the set, was the first film to fully appreciate the blood-curdling power of acoustic folk music, and there are two musical interludes in A Field in England – Lady Anne Bothwell’s Lament and Ring a Ring o’ Roses – that are as unnerving as anything sung by the residents of Summerisle as they frogmarch Edward Woodward’s policeman to their cliff-top barbecue.

When O’Neil pulls Whitehead (one of the group of deserters, played by Reece Shearsmith of the dark comedy quartet League of Gentlemen) into his tent to prepare him for the treasure hunt, Shearsmith’s reaction must be the scariest thing I have seen and heard in the cinema in at least a year. First comes the scream: a strangled yell of pure, congealed terror, like a baby’s cry slowed to a baritone. Then he emerges - with a rope around him - with a look on his face that could make a hedgehog’s spines drop out.

What happens in that tent is never fully explained, although much of A Field in England, and particularly its psychotropic third act, will irritate viewers who prefer their plots unthickened. But the script, by Wheatley’s regular co-writer (and wife) Amy Jump, gives us plenty of interpretive wriggle-room, while the spiderweb delicacy of Laurie Rose’s monochrome photography draws us in even closer.

Some of its finest, and strangest, moments come when the cast freeze in a tableau vivant, invoking Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, maybe, or the illuminations in books where stories like A Field in England would have originally been scratched. All the details are right: the tranquil faces, the oddly angled limbs, the hands twisted into effete, come-hither poses. Wheatley’s extraordinary film shakes you back and forth with a rare ferocity, but the net result is stillness.

It is quite strange - in a good way - in parts and if you don't like rapidly flashing images then this film won't be for you, especally the part when you are met with a barrage of images, several per second, for several minutes in total.


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"A Field in England": Creeping, hallucinatory horror













http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/10157059/A-Field-in-England-review.html

 

Also I really like the Exorcist too! Movies of 70s are simply the best

 

I usually don't like horror movies because I don't enjoy fear. I imagine people who know little real fear in their lives are the best audience for filmed fear. But I make an exception for "Cabin in the Woods," which is a brilliant film by any standard. It's a Joss Whedon film, he of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel." The cinematography and production values are excellent. There are excellent performances by some Whedon regulars as well as Richard Jenkins and Chris Hemsworth. But what makes the film extraordinary is its three stories and the way in which they interlock and unfold.

The film starts ordinarily - appealing young people go for a weekend to a remote cabin in the woods, with hints of gathering menace. They face zombies soon enough. But wait, there's a large government bureaucracy that seems to be watching them and supervising the horrors. The bureaucrats are ordinary office joes who calmly plan the deaths of the young people. Why? The bureaucrats do all this to avert the wrath of the Elder Gods, who would destroy the world without annual human sacrifice. It all comes to a splendid head when the last of the young people get behind the scenes and must confront the horror of the Elder Gods and their human servants. The whole movie seems to escalate, getting faster and faster toward an explosive end. The zombies are just an hors d'oeuvre. One of the better made films I've seen. Recommended to all. This 2012 film is available on Netflix.

 

That's a fine summary, and I did enjoy the movie very much, but you really should have highlighted your comment that it contains spoilers. What makes the movie work is the gradual evolution from thinking this is a regular teens, party, raise the dead, and get slaughtered type of horror movie to something much smarter than that, and you pretty much short circuited it.