Horror Movies

[leftcider]

Your favorites, and what is notable about them?

Overall, I like Italian horror, it has the best gore. Here are some individual favorites of mine in no particular order:

1. Pieces (Italy) --- Psycho d00d hacks up women at a college, very good death sequences

2. Zombi (Italy) --- Has a zombie vs. shark fight scene, zombies are much more mobile than normal. Awesome "human with molotov cocktails vs. zombies" scene.

3. Reanimator (US) --- Very loosely based off an HP Lovecraft book about two medical students who stumble across a "reanimation" zombie creation vaccine. Hilarious, extremely gorey and disturbing.

4. Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre --- classic

5. American Psycho --- I'd call this more of a satire than a horror. Probably teh funniest movie I've ever seen, and currently my all-time favorite.

[tinybear]

[PatrickHenry]

The creepiest in my memory is Aliens.

[Fonceai]

Out of curiosity, are you talking about the first one; Alien, or the second one; Aliens?

[PatrickHenry]

#2.

I had dreams of those bastards after I saw that flick in a theater.

[Fonceai]

Why did the second one scare you more than the first?

Because of the queen and seeing so freaking many of them?

[PatrickHenry]

Quote by: Fonceai Why did the second one scare you more than the first? Because of the queen and seeing so freaking many of them?

They just kept coming and coming. Wasted the Space Marines...

Bill Paxton:

Well that's great, that's just fuckin' great man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now man... That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?

*Seventeen days?* Hey man, I don't wanna rain on your parade, but we're not gonna last seventeen hours! Those things are gonna come in here just like they did before. And they're gonna come in here ...and they're gonna come in here AND THEY'RE GONNA KILL US!

While blasting the aliens:

Come on! Come on! Come and get it, baby! Come on! Let's go, yeah, come on! Come on! Come and get it you bastards! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this? Fuck you!

[Fonceai]

Nothing like laughing at loud at work, reading each of those quotes out loud.

I'm not so much scared by what I see as what I picture in my head.

Imagine a giant spider. Pale, cream-colored skin, long bony legs; eight 12 inch long fingers. Trailing behind this creature is a tail, spinal ridges protruding from the top of incredibly strong muscle. This thing has no visible sensory organs, but it can smell you. Now imagine, in slow motion, this creature running towards you and leaping at you faster than your reflexes can respond. It slams into your face hard enough to knock you down, but you aren't thinking about falling. You aren't feeling the fingers wrap around your head like claws. You aren't feeling the tail tighten around your throat, forcing your mouth open to gasp for air. You feel thick, wet, organic matter sliding down your throat. You gag but can neither breathe nor vomit. This organ fills your mouth and throat, stretching your jaw open and your lips touch the skin of this creature. If you wake, you vomit from the taste in your mouth. You see the dead, dry carcass of the creature next to you. You can still feel the helplessness of such a grotesque violation. You can still feel its skin on your lips.

That was the description I read before I ever saw the movie.

Now imagine what happened to me the first time I saw a camel spider running at me.

[The Architect]

I think the Asian horror movies are extremely scary- "Old Boy"
-"Ringu"- The original ring
-I enjoy the ones that havent been filmed in english, or have american influence.

BTW has anyone noticed that most of the horror movies coming out these days are slasher, all gore films, I cant stand those kinds of movies, they all have somewhat of the same plot, teenagers on vacation who run into some trouble, some crazy guy captures them and tortures them, and its usally some dumb bitch that survives and instead of doing what most normal people would do she does something completly stupid and it back fires on her.
-Has anyone noticed this? I think im right about this?
- Anyone hear about the movie coming out on Christmas day called "Black Christmas" you think they could destroy more holidays in movies. Do you think anyone is going to see it?

[G. Adams]

Personally I think Alien is scarier than Aliens. Scott's film builds up tension better, has a greater sense of claustrophobia and the weakness of the crew members against the alien (no guns, home made flamers doing jackall) make for a more frightening film. Cameron went for action over suspense and I think it loses out because of that. I do like Ripley's relationship with Newt though, it makes Ripley one of the most admirable female characters on screen, alongside Sarah Conner from the first 2 terminators, also Cameron films.

I havn't actually ever found a genuinely frightening film. There's a handful of computer games that have had me on edge but no films.

[tinybear]

This frightened me when I was a kid.



Pennywise, the evil clown in Stephen King's "IT".

[Compugasm]

The Shining is my favorite also.


I posted that a year ago, but at least this time I'm staying on topic.

[Compugasm]

Quote by: The Architect BTW has anyone noticed that most of the horror movies coming out these days are slasher, all gore films

Yeah, all the movie studios copy each other. A few years ago, there were tons of disaster movies featuring tidal waves, meteors, etc.. The only good one was Twister, staring our favorite actor, the tenacious, Bill Paxton.

Jo: [cow flies by in the storm] Cow. [cow flies by in the storm] Jo: 'Nother cow. Bill: Actually I think that was the same one. [Bill and Jo are in the shed hiding from the F5 tornado and bill sees water pipes coming out of the floor] Bill: Here! These pipes go down at least thirty feet, if we anchor to them we might have a chance!

Classic Bill Paxton.

[kubedawg]

Jeepers Creepers and The Wizard of Oz scare the shit out of me.

[brien]

The Original Dracula silent movie Nosferatu.

Nosferatu

A free adaptation of the famous book, in the hands of director F.W. Murnau the film becomes a multidimensional and personal work that diverts from the original. This appropriation by Murnau explains why the title of the film is Nosferatu and not Dracula: Stoker’s widow saw the plagiarism of her husband’s work and brought court action against the production. Though she obtained the destruction of the film negatives, fortunately some copies survived this cinematic persecution. Moreover, a beneficial name change preserved the reputation of Murnau’s vampire. While Dracula, the object of many mostly mediocre adaptations, sounds like a grotesque and hackneyed cliche, Nosferatu still resonates with a certain terror. The film has guarded a certain troubling aura, and its only true remake, Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre, is a majestic tribute to its master. The possessed interpretations of Count Orlok by Max Shreck and later Klaus Kinski only reinforce the myth. In order to really appreciate Nosferatu, it is necessary to know the foundations on which the film rests. In effect, at first viewing, Murnau’s work can seem overlong and tedious given how little the modern audience is used to silent black and white films with long bucolic sequences. Yet to liken this Symphony of Horror to a vulgar vampire film or the hundredth adaptation of Bram Stoker's book Dracula would be a major error. Despite its apparent simplicity, the film grows in scope in its use of suggestion and different degrees that hide behind a simple story that only serves as a vehicle for the director’s intentions.

I guess you have to appreciate the pure original form of the silent horror film.

I did see a good remake of Thirteen Ghosts recently, a film I first saw as a child of 8 years old, in early 1960. In the remake, no red and green cellophane paper glasses were required as we were issued at the original film.

Other than this, I guess the Stephen King stories are as good as modern horror get these days.

[Fonceai]

The newer Thirteen Ghosts would have been better if it weren't so full of pop culture references. But the idea of it was pretty freaking cool.

It's right up there with the scene with the video camera in The House on Haunted Hill...

It always scares the shit out of me to think that those things are right in front of my face and I just can't see them.

Scares me even more to think that they could affect me somehow.

[brien]

Do you remember the original 13 ghosts with the paper cellophane glasses? I saw it at the Ortani Theater in Hackensack in 1960 when it was first released. I must have been 8 years old. Also the original House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price? Oh that vat of acid. I yi yi. I was only a kid then.

13 Ghosts (1960)

[Fonceai]

That was 18 years before I was born...

But yes, I saw it.

I think scary movies were so much better back then.

They never really showed anything scary... it was all in your head.

[grandpa]

I watched Needful Things last night. Most don't see it as a horror movie but that skinned dog scene is actually pretty disturbing.

Grandpa h.

[brien]

Quote by: grandpa I watched Needful Things last night. Most don't see it as a horror movie but that skinned dog scene is actually pretty disturbing. Grandpa h.

Yea, I think Stephen King is a master at horror. Needful Things is an interesting story line.