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Press Junketeer  Posts: 369 Joined: 21 May 2008     | |
Beat Writer Posts: 165 Joined: 2 Apr 2008   | Candyman would be my choice just because it's SO f--ked up. It also mixes social commentary and horror perfectly - the only other movie I can think that did that was "Night of the Living dead". Although I've never seen the original "Dawn of the Dead" either, and I've heard that does a pretty good job too. I quite enjoyed "The Descent" but I think you have to see it on a big screen to get the most of it. Death to horrible American remakes! I've seen the original "Ring". Haven't seen the American remake and certainly don't intend to. |
Beat Writer Posts: 165 Joined: 2 Apr 2008 | Oh, and "Deep Blue Sea" and "Lake Placid", for my money, are great value if you want a superb comedy monster movie. Just don't go in expecting scares (although there are a few great jumps - ironically enough, both films rely on scares generated by people being decapitated by marine life. Well, there's worse ways to go!) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 73 Joined: 23 Apr 2008   | Safe to say that both phobias and the response elicited from horror movies are an individual account. I appreciate a well crafted scare-fest as much as the next bloke, but given the immersion of interactivity, videogames are way more likely to scare than movies, in my case. However, movies can disturb me delightfully and I take the opportunity to do so as often as possible with worthy titles like: - Irreversible If those are new titles to anyone, I'd suggest checking them out on amazon or IMDB for the gist. None of these are really 'horror' movies in the conventional sense, but they all have a respectively unique talent getting under your (i.e. my) skin. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1300 Joined: 7 Mar 2008   |
any good horror film does that, and yes dawn of the dead does a great job on social commentary a movie called teeth is great for that too, it's pretty funny too ichi the killer was pretty good |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 1 Dec 2007  | That alien crop-signs thingy with mel gibson in it. I dont remember what it was called. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2757 Joined: 13 Feb 2008   |
SiGns? Really? That was scary? I was laughing my ass off when the latex suit appeared. Been more scared by Plan 9. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 773 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
Yeah, I agree too. I don't know why but I just wasn't scared by Ring. A much better example of the same sort of film is The Grudge- way creepier and with a far more vicious spirit. You have to see the original though, since the American version is apparently awful. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 151 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 | I've seen some of the trailers for teeth, seems like it would only be a scary film for guys though. It's pretty obvious why. I didn't need reminding of the sound from Audition either... |
Paperboy  Posts: 32 Joined: 19 May 2008 |
Audition is the greatest movie ever. When my husband and I first saw it, it messed me up for a good day. I've told everyone I know to watch it. Ichi the Killer isn't really "horror" per se, but it is definitely messed up. I was told by a friend of a friend that it was "so scary" and when I got a copy for myself, I realised what it was: an arterial slash "b" movie. Don't get me wrong, its freaking great...but I found myself laughing my ass off through most of it. Good horror should mess you up mentally, not just throw a bunch of gore at you. Asian movies seem to get this right, since the writing and style of these movies are so much different than "hollywood" horror (maybe this is cultural, since there is much more fokelore in Japan that can be used in this kind of fashion). Audition (most Takashi Miike films for that matter), Dumplings (3 Extremes) & Tale of Two Sisters come to mind just from my own collection. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 539 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | I'm probly gonna be flamed for this, but The Blair Witch Project was pretty good, in my opinion. Had the whole "can't really see the monster, fill in the blanks with your imagination" thing going for it. And it was pretty original. Could Cloverfield be considered a horror movie? I quite liked that as well. For others that have been mentioned, Alien, The Mist, The Thing, The Grudge, Dawn of the Dead, are all great. And I've always wanted to see Old Boy. And there's this one called Funny Games that I recently heard about that sounds very intriguing. |
BANNED  Posts: 51 Joined: 21 Jun 2008 |
I meant Evil Dead 1 or else I would have wrote "Evil Dead series". Sorry for the confusion :> User was banned for: Heath Ledger's Joker in the Dark Knight. (30 days) |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 573 Joined: 26 Mar 2008 | I haven't seen anything remotely scary of late to tell you the truth, it's all just either torture porn or a gore-fest. Having been raised on a steady diet of 70's, 80's & 90's horror I find nothing really shocking. The last movie I found genuinely disturbing was 'Requiem For A Dream'. The last movie that genuinely scared me was 'Event Horizon'. Neither are what I'd call "horror". |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3353 Joined: 2 Dec 2007   |
Dude, don't joke about that! The acting, the strings, the dialouge in Plan 9 had me on the edge of my seat (ready to turn off the movie). Scary. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1300 Joined: 7 Mar 2008 |
yeah i didn't mind it, i would have liked it better if i didn't have 1789047123948137048932714 telling me about it before i saw it the cool part about it was the actors had no clue about the night scenes, it was the director and his buddies terrorizing them in the middle of the night, so those screams of terror are real on another side note, the director must be a fan of cannibal holocaust cause they did the same thing in that movie, tried to say it was real
sci-fi/monster movie ala godzilla/gojira, not horror the thing about horror is it's not always supposed to be scary, there's a lot of times it's supposed to be shocking and make you squirm and go "ewwwwwwwwwwww that's nasty" i didn't mind captivity it was pretty good, had some good momments in it also i didn't mind wrestlemaniac, it's pure cheese but so good, it has Rey Mysterio in it too, the original one, not Rey Mysterio Jr, who is in the wwe right now and has dropped the Jr off his name |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1756 Joined: 7 Feb 2008 | Session 9 is probably one of the scariest low budget horror flicks I've ever seen. Also Jacobs Ladder is great, especially if you like the Silent Hill Series. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 132 Joined: 16 Apr 2008 |
I'd have to favour the aggressively-played piano in the schoolyard from the first Silent Hill. While SH2 had a much better plot, the first game had its intentions of suspenseful, almost satanic horror planned out a lot more efficiently, the sirens etc.
I was talking about Khell's post. :) |
Muckraker  Posts: 335 Joined: 28 May 2008 | God I love scary movies, especially the classic ones like Alien/s, Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th.
Yea 28 days later is one of my favourite films, not because its especially scary, just because it's so well done with the choice of music, camera work and actors all being brilliant. Makes for some very atmospheric viewing which makes it all the more enjoyable. I'd also recommend Grindhouse to all of you that have not seen it yet, that really is brilliant, and be sure to catch the moc movie trailers in between films too. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 849 Joined: 15 Jun 2008 |
That is a messed up film. oh, and steer clear of Maximum Overdrive, unless you're planning to do a MST3K on it |
Beat Writer  Posts: 205 Joined: 7 Jan 2008 | The one film that instantly comes to mind for being pants-shitting scary is aliens. Im scared of facehuggers. The original "One Missed Call" from Miike had pretty heart stopping shock effects, but was generally better in being a bit of a subtle spoof to all the "technology and little girl ghost movies" like the Ring. Also, the Ju-On Movies have marked me pretty badly, and the girl who plays the ghost mother in the movies deserves some kind of prize for being so damn effective. Then again, nowadays i do not find them as scary as i used to. Except of course, there happen to be bunch of cats fighting or having sex (or whatever cats do making these awful noises) close to my window ^^. Also, kudos for Marebito. Not particulary scary most of the time, but very spine-chilling throughout. EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot Jacobs Ladder...now THATs a scary movie! P.S.: Am i the only one who found the ending of "the Mist" extremely cheap? (at least like, the very last 30 seconds or so...if you seen it you know what i mean) |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 849 Joined: 15 Jun 2008 |
Not to mention predicatable and a bit depressing...its been about a year since i read the story, but im pretty sure the ending wasnt nearly so bad. |
Beat Writer Posts: 205 Joined: 7 Jan 2008 |
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Beat Writer Posts: 205 Joined: 7 Jan 2008 | Oops....half the fun, double the post. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 849 Joined: 15 Jun 2008 |
Yeah that's right, i remember. Yay for Lovecraftian Horrors. OOOH which reminds me: Reanimator- its fucking hilarious. Would be nice for someone to do a decent Lovecraft adapation, though on reflection, since some of them rely on unseen or hinted at horror, might be a tad difficult. |
Paperboy  Posts: 26 Joined: 2 Jul 2008 | I used to be REALLY easy to scare even shaun of the dead scared the hell out of me lol but i got over that. I really prefer the retro horror films like friday the 13th or Nigthtmare on Elm Street but i also like to watch Jhorror as well |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 513 Joined: 23 May 2008 | I don't get scared easily when watching a movie, my "this isn't real" switch is usually on during these things, last time I got scared was in 28 days later when the car alarm went off, I always find myself looking at the situation and wondering "What would I do in this situation?" my usual answer to this is wait and ambush them the a killing instrument of some kind, this basically makes the movie kind of boring to me. |
Paperboy  Posts: 19 Joined: 18 Nov 2007 | The spanish film The Orphanage |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 453 Joined: 14 May 2008   | I like scary movies without crazy amounts of gore or zombies. Any suggestions? That isn't to say that I can't handle the gore because I'm a wuss- believe me, blood is something I can handle (and do, frequently, whilst volunteering at Red Cross blood drives). It's just that it doesn't scare me. I want to be truly freaked out by a movie: a good psychological thriller. Movies like "Saw" and "Hostel" just don't do it for me, and the "Evil Dead" series sends me into fits of giggles. My history in acting, stage makeup, and stage combat just make me unable to believe horror films enough to make them scary. It's not really contributing to the discussion, but I thought I'd ask anyways. I know good things come out overseas and never get a huge debut in America, so there are probably a few good movies I'm missing out on. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 557 Joined: 25 Feb 2008 | I don't think anyone's mentioned Jaws yet. not indy at all, but it's JAWS for crying out loud. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2757 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
Well...let's see: Carry on Screaming (Yeh, I went there) For truly mindwarping: The Cook The Thief The Wife The Lover, Consuming Passions, A Zed and Two Noughts, Videodrome, Existenz, Naked Lunch; but these get VERY disgusting. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 849 Joined: 15 Jun 2008 |
Ahhh Fenella Fielding....my first ever crush *sighs* |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2757 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
There is "To Cast a Deadly Spell"; which is bordering on excellent. Del Toro (The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth) is also rumoured to be doing "At the Mountains of Madness" in 2010; but Warner are unhappy about it not having a love story or a happy ending. There was this really weird one as well about BDSM and sonic waves that I can't remember... Oh and you can't really talk about unsettling Horror without the Twilight Zone; they also have some new audio's out which you can listen to here : http://www.twilightzoneradio.com/ I would really really suggest listening to "Five Characters Looking for an Exit" and seeing how long it is before you work out what's ACTUALLY happening. |
Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 849 Joined: 15 Jun 2008 |
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What makes a good horror movie is when it get to your head.
I loved 28 days later. Each time I hear In The House/In a Heartbeat (song). I start looking outside to worry if an infected comes.
Last night I watched Cube. While the idea of the movie can get to my head, the HORRIBLE acting made me remember it's a movie. (I'm serious the acting makes Hayden whatever -family-is-name look good.)(the guy from Starwars). (I'ts better if you just read the article at wikipedia) (Or if you like watching bad actors dying, be my guess).