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

I also love horror comedy movies like Evil Dead 2 Re-Animator and Return of the Living Dead

 

From Beyond
The Unnameable
Hellraiser I & II
The Evil Dead Trilogy
A few others.

Also, in the original NOTLD the were actually called ghouls and not called Zombies.

And here's something to consider, in the original Nosferatu, the vampire was not killed by any wooden stake, sunlight, holy water, or silver.

It was killed by a rooster crowing at dawn.

 

I love all the horror movie and songs.

 

Video games can be, due to interactivity, scarier than horror movies, as I've found lately.

 

The Ring. What a great concept. Leave it to the Japanese, eh?

 

A +1 for The Ring for me too. Possibly the best remake I've ever seen was John Carpenters The Thing. Alien broke new boundaries in terror for me too in 1979.

Has anybody seen a small budget Canadian production called The Cube from 1998 ? I'd heartily recommend it to those who like to be kept off balance by the unexpected

 

Speaking of Japanese movies, a nightly session of Ju-On (remade in the US as The Grudge) has creeped me out more than anything else since I was a little kid.

Any criticism of Alien is generally indefensible IMHO. I have seen it at least 20 times and will still watch it every time it's on.

The Cube was great the first time I watched it because the setting and story distract so much from the bad acting. I wouldn't recommend rewatching it.

 

I found that too playing the original Silent Hill back in 1999. I found it far creepier and more immersive than the higher profile Resident Evil games of the day

 

I'm playing the evil within. Not that great. There are a few jump scares but not freighting at all

 

I recommend Slender. Play it with the lights down and speakers turned up.

 

If you haven't played new horror games from the past few years you don't even yet realize just how terrifying we can make them. RE jumped the shark, luckily Frictional slapped some sense into everyone and re-booted survival horror properly. I'm sure you've noticed the reaction vids of people playing Amnesia.

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Oh and no offence to Ridley Scott in any manner, but it is admittedly scarier when it's hunting you instead of someone on your TV (skip to the 19 minute mark).

[video=youtube;C7vmXLlPc-k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vmXLlPc-k&list=UUpnjlvS2zxhbNJuGNo_TxkQ[/video]

 

I just bought this game on Saturday believe it or not ! I haven't gotten around to playing it yet as I've been organising my trip to Orlando

 

I am so going to buy this.

 

I spit on your grave......from the 70's. You can not get away with making the movie now......not PC.

Here is the full movie, enjoy.

[video=youtube_share;LlHx4ADVsX8]http://youtu.be/LlHx4ADVsX8[/video]

 

If you are looking for true life horror, then look no further than Snowtown Australia, scene for the counties worst serial killer.



This is one of the scariest films I have ever watched. Not for the gore, there is only one of thirteen murders depicted. It is the horrific psychological influence the murderer impacts on the family he ingratiates himself with.

 

I seen that. It was really good. It was too thought provoking to be scary to me. I like how it explored the gray area on how regular people can be subtly swayed to do horrible things, even if it seems justified.

 

If games are included, has anyone heard of PT?

[video=youtube;SFCjCxaDAVI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFCjCxaDAVI[/video]

 

For me, it's the thought provoking aspect that makes it so scary. I haven't been scared by a straight up fiction horror film since I was in my early teens. Snowtown on the other hand worked, not only because it was based on a true story; it is the only fictionalised version of the story that has been made.

After the trial (the longest running, and most infamous in Australia's history), there was a court order banning the depiction of the events relating to the murders. The film maker spent more than two years researching the murders and then presented them to the court, requesting for permission to be granted to make the film.

It is very rare that you get a film that you can almost trust to be as close to the facts as possible. This for me makes it terrifying. The main actor, who plays the lead serial killer, does an unbelievable job at portraying the sociopathic tyrant that the real life character obviously was. The terror of this film is not from what you see, but from what you feel. If that makes sense? I have watched it twice. It was an experience both times. I will not be watching it again!

 

I like creature features for entertainment. But for scary stuff I don't like real life horror, it's too depressing to watch what man can do to his fellow man and enjoy it. (hmm' a Freudian slip?) I feel like I am helping the real life monster by watching a film elevating him or her to human, and I have enough real life experience with bad things to need to pack more in my brains harddrive. I do like the psychological thrillers like the outstanding Cape Fear remake years ago, I even like the original. De Niro was masterful as was Nick Nolte. Very good film for 91'.

I love good scifi one of the more recent ones I admired was District 9. I liked it because it was shot and told in a different style than is common with most scifi films. It was based on the Blomkamp short, Alive in Joburg. Others must of liked it too because it made $200 million at the box office (world wide). There are rumors that filming will begin on a squeal to 9, called....district 10, no kidding! Of course the rumors happen every year and I am tired of waiting! If any film deserves a sequel 9 does. I am leaving out a lot of films actors ans styles I like, but its late! 4:17 am! ...crap might as well stay up...

reva

 

old schooler that I am, this is what I like to watch:








Dracula in Spanish - this movie was called "superior" to the Lugosi version and has a fascinating history:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1931_Spanish-language_film)

 

I can't bear to watch the gory ones and see no value in watching remakes of classics. Can some of you address this though?
I just watched The Birds again and noticed that some form of bird attack takes place 9 times during the film. In Alien-horrible as it was-the creature appears only 7 times.
In Psycho only 2 killingstake place. (I left the 2 words together for a pun).
it seems to me the best true horror is people not about the number of violent scenes on camera, but the character development as peopl cope with the crisis.
I'd like to know whether you guys prefer lots of real violence or constant fear.

 

The anticipation is better than the kill scenes if done right, with creepy music.

 

There's an "Alien 5" in the planning stages now, but it's looking like it will take a while.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ridley-scott-insists-prometheus-2-165057542.html#2kAmerr

Director Neill Blomkamp has said he's taking it back to horror roots, of the monster stalking you in dark places. And the rumor is they'll be ignoring the abominations of Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection, and restarting after the events of Aliens.

 

My favorite genre of horror films are war/horror, but as I don't generally follow horror I've not seen many. One I saw just recently was called "Frankenstien's Army" and was a sort of combination of "Enemy at the Gates" "The Blair Witch Project" and "The Island of Dr Moreau". Another is "The Keep".

I like to include "Saving Private Ryan" just for it's first half hour, which is as scary as anything I've ever seen. I think this is the essential attraction here. The idea that what people actually do (war) is a whole lot more horrible than anything we can think up.

Anyone know of any others that are good in this genre?

 

Is anything scarier than the officer in Schindler's List? He's shooting people at random and that long scene with his maid...