your favorite horror films

AND IF ANY OF YOU EVEN MENTION THE RING, YOU BETTER HAVE THE BEST FUCKING EXPLANATION IN THE WORLD

the ring

suspiria

suspiria, whats that about?

hmm... I love horror flicks and I can go on forever so I will just name a limited number of my favorites...might need to check for futher info on imdb.com ----my plot sypnosis' aren't always the most clarical.

Ichi The Killer- Asian nihilistic black comedy anti-hero movie that revolves around S&M and a whimpering Man-Child superhero that slices people in half if they either piss him off or get him excited. Dir: Takashi Miike

Vistior Q- just plain fucked up! like Todd Solondz's Happiness meets American Beauty but with a lot more necrophillia and other vile things....hell I like all movies from Takashi Miike(well, ones I have seen anyway)....

Return of the Living Dead

Cemetery Man/Dellamorte Dellamore- Egostentialistic zombie movie about love and death has one of the greatest endings I have ever seen eventhough I am not sure what it means.

Dust Devil (extremely underrated movie about drifting shapeshifter that snatches up souls, a lot better than it sounds; definitlet worth seeking the uncut version which has 30 additional minutes)

Santa Sangre- All I can say is "Psycho" but on crack!

Jacob's Ladder

Street Trash (well what can be said about a movie about bums that drink cheap booze then melt and explode?.... one of the funniest movies of the genre in my oppinion).

Bad Taste - Aliens that come to New Zealand in order to round up humans for their intergalactic fast food chain.

FREAKS- One of the few real classics that I really love.

I am also a big geek for the recent (as of the past 10-15 years) Asian Horror flicks; Either ones that are just plain bizzare and weird (Tetsuo, Pinnochio964, Evil Dead Trap, Organ ect.) to ones that never really take themselves too seriously (Wild Zero, Untold Story, Junk, Versus, etc). ----Even if the humor is stupid.

I will probably post a second list of more of my favorite horror flicks later there is just too many to mention in a single post.

Jacob's Ladder was some fucked up shit eh, i only liked it though cause silent hill was somewhat based on it

HALLOWEEN, BITCH!!

halloween?! eww kitty!....ewww!....kitty!..........ewww! common halloween and jason (and freddy somewhat) have butcherred the horror industry witht he countless sequels that are out juts for th eoney

Well, I'm not a huge horror film type person, and what I'm about to admit is a bit embarrassing, but hear me out. Don't bash me until you've at least contemplated my situation.

I'd seriously have to say that the best horror film I've seen is *wince* The Blair Witch Project, but seriously, hear me out. I didn't go to the movie thinking it was a scary horror film. I was young and stupid and lived out in the boonies. I was unsure whether it was an actual movie, or exactly what they marketed it as, kids who vanished while camping in the woods. I don't know why I thought that was a possiblity, but I did. So naturally, thinking it could be real, it scared me, especially because of the fact that you never saw anything. Further fueled my belief that things are never as good as they are in your head.

Hey Spaced out fetus did you like AUDITION or Battle Royale?
I just recently got ionto Asian horror
buying dvd's like crazy.

Audition was great though most of it was pretty slow-paced (up until the last 15 minutes) and Battle Royale was awesome.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by knoxville [/i]
[B]Jeepers Creepers[/B][/QUOTE]

Knox, please tell me you liked this one only for the kitsch value, please please please.

first off, i really liked the blair witch project. they had an awesome, morst awesome idea, but juts pursued it in th rong way. i thought it was a pretty damn freaky movie once it got done to the actual "events", the end in the house, that was fucking awesome. they had a great idea but just went about thw rong way making it on the film screen.second off i loved jeepers creepers, cause my town is like that (or at least was, not sure about the condition in the other countries but canada has caught the "lets-shit-out-thousands-of-houses-on-beatiful-pieces-of-land" bug, but our town use to have long stretches of empty highway running through it and i just loved the idea. the only part of the movie i didnt really like was the whistling, the truck driving idea was weird but they puleld it off, hold on a sec im gonna go look up kitsch in the dictionary. "worthless. bad taste of art" hmm not sure what that means but i still loved the movie, i cant wait for part 2 to come out

asian horror...the worst thing to happen to horror cinema. O! no arguing about bad movies here, meet me in the "movies you hate section"

NIght of The living Dead: The Remake by umm shit i forgot his name, he always does the special effects for most horror movies (not stan winston) either way for a remake i thought this movie kicked some major ass, i dont know whats with me and "deserted" country towns and evil creatures/people amock but i love it. just adds a more realistic feeling. i was readign my post about ghost movies, and iw as just wonderring if anyone out there has had seen a good GHOST movie lately. i recently saw the entity and the changeling and thought they both sucked, but other than st.francisville experiment and stir of echoes (and house on haunted hill, which i have mixed feelings for) i havnt seen any good ones, in fact i havnt really seen any at all

what about "ghost"?

lol i kid, i kid.

the sixth sense is a great ghost movie.

sorry for the double post, but i'm lazy, and i'm a mod now, so you must OBEY!! lol j/k

i love halloween for its kitsch value. i felt the same way about jeepers creepers.

as far as movies that truly scared me, the only one i can think of is blair witch. probably some older hitchcock movies would scare me too, but i haven't gotten off my fat duff and rented them. the problem w/ blair witch, however, was that it only worked the first time i saw it. when you know what happens, it doesn't have the same effect.

and finally--there are a lot of movies that other people would consider "horror" that didn't scare me, so i didn't include them. like Se7en, for example.

i dont get the term, kitsch value

i never really appreciated the sith sense as a ghost movie, i always viewed it as a thriller, involving ghosts. but i do rememebr the first time i saw it it scared thecrap out of me

and the difference between "a ghost movie" and "a movie involving ghosts" would be...?

hmm hard ot say, the best example would be the movie "Below", has a ghost in it, but the real mystery is a whodunit of the killing of the guy who turned into the ghost. the ghost is jut there to help move the story along or to keep the tension up

right but the sixth sense is all about bruce willis being a ghost...so the sixth senes is a ghost movie.

yeah i guess you can say that. the main difference is a ghost being involved just to push the story along, but sixth sense could definatly past as a ghost one

Dog Soldiers. Don't know if it was released in the US. If it wasn't, you're missing out, you poor poor fools. The Friday the 13th movies are fun, especially the fourth, with the psycho kid that hacks Jason up good (on the other hand, Jason X is quite possibly the worst film ever). The Thing is good (the John Carpenter version). 28 Days Later is supposedly the greatest thing since sliced cadavers, but I'll have to wait until the end of the month before that's released on video. Feh.

I JUST WATCHED DOG SOLDIERS LAST NIGHT!!!! i must admit those brits know how to make a good b movie, i was hesitant cause all the north american b-movies suck ass, but this film was rocking. and i just cant support any idea of anyone who believes that the jason, michael myers, and freddy movies are any good, or scary at that. maybe the first 3 i'll let by, but anything after 3 i think is over doing it

ph yeah baby jeepers creepers 2 trailer is out and boy does it fucking rock. head over to bloody-dsigusting.com )not sure about the "-" in there) or creature-corner.com to check it out.
i just finished watching jeepers creeprs one and i think i figured out why no one really liked it. the atmosphere. so many people topday live in big cities with buildings and literally no deadly silence in the dark night. i think maybe all people who lived in those small towns, where at night it turned pitch black out, where at night its so silent you can hear the trees above you sway back and forth in the wind, really did enjoy the movie. like me, go watch this movie in a small town where nature is still dominant, or better yet go watch it at your cottage, its only at these plays where you can truly see the scariness this movie holds.
i wasnt so scared by dog soldiers, because dog soldiers is set in an even more remote place than where i am now, but i can guarantee if i saw it up at my buddies cottage, no one would be even going outside to piss

anyone agree? anyoen else been affected by the atmosphere while watchign a horror movie?

I don't think Friday the 13th was good, God no. Or scary. Films like that are just funny. I hated Nightmare on Elm Street with a passion, Freddy Krueger is one of the most irritating characters ever.

Watching horror films in a cinema is the best way. It's dark and you tap into everyone else's fear because you're all packed into the one space and no one's moving (except those arseholes at the front who go out for a slash every ten fuckin minutes and hurl popcorn all over the people behind them, the knob-dangling turd-burglars). Failing that, a horror movie can only be properly watched at 2am in a pitch-black, silent room.

[B]Poltergeist[/B]
Scary. The man tearing his face up in the mirror, the clown doll, the white beast from the closet. Even in broad daylight everything looks menacing.

[B]Jacob's Ladder[/B]
Really unsettling, i.e. the horn coming out the woman's mouth and the old lady on the subway. All the visual FX were filmed live btw, with no post production.

[B]Rosemary's Baby[/B]
I like how Mia Farrow wants to name the spawn of the devil "Andrew."

[B]Videodrome[/B]
It's gross but it's neat too. Predates the original Ring by about 15 years.

I also like Jaws, The Thing, The Blair Witch Project, Don't Look Now, and The Ring.

byee
andy

thats totally true chosenjuan. last ngiht i saw house of 1000 corpses in the theatres for the first time (id seen it several times on my computer) and it actually made me jump at scary parts! that never happenned once while watching the movie on my computer, even parts i knew that were comin up still made me jump. its all about the atmospere dude

[QUOTE]anyone agree? anyoen else been affected by the atmosphere while watchign a horror movie?[/QUOTE]

when i saw the blair witch project, i worked at the movie theater, and we had tech screenings after hours, where if you felt like staying till like 3 am you could stay and watch them put the film on just to make sure it was spliced together right, etc. i did that with BWP. it was me and five other people that i worked with alone in this vast theater (our biggest one, 500 stadium seats), at 1 am, with no one else in the entire huge building with us but the people running the projectors in back.

i didn't know the other people i was sitting with all that well, we didn't really hang out, but by the end of the movie all of us were holding hands and huddled together. i actually started to cry the second time night fell--i was IN that movie, man.

afterwards i walked alone through the pitch-dark theater, alone across the pitch-dark parking lot and sped home, where i lay in bed with the covers up to my nose with the lights on until the sun came up.

now THAT was a movie experience.

ha ha ha ha nice kitty, recently we all watched jeepers creepers at my buddies cottage, thatw as sick, having large windows in every room with total darkness and thick forest facing each window, and than having to walk back to your cabign thru a small little brush of forest was even worse. fricking amazing, i wish i oculd of seen House of 1000 Corpses there thoguh, but at least i get to see Jeepers Creepers 2 there!!!! wooooooo

[QUOTE=chosenJuan]I don't think Friday the 13th was good, God no. Or scary. Films like that are just funny. I hated Nightmare on Elm Street with a passion, Freddy Krueger is one of the most irritating characters ever.
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Freddy Krueger went to my friend's 2nd birthday party! How cool is that?

I hate to say it, but Horror is dead. But I still love to watch the classic horror movies, but few frighten me (I'm a toughie!) andnowadays, as the characters are never likeable and there is nothing about the movie you can relate to.

My favourites:
[B]Warlock[/B] 1/2/3 These are so incredibly funny.
[B]Halloween [/B] tense
[B]Texas Chainsaw Massacre[/B] I feel so sorry for the neglected guy in the wheelchair
[B]Nightmare on Elm Street [/B] in an ironic sort of sense
[B]Jacob's Ladder[/B]
[B]From Dusk Till Dawn [/B] I love how this could be split into two different films
[B]The Exorcist[/B] I'll probably get slated for this, but the first time I saw it, I was in a haunted house with a girl who grinded her teeth at night.
[B]Scream[/B] ditto. But getting stuck in a catflap is pretty original.
[B]Serial Mom [/B] John Waters did a brilliant job
[B]Nosferatu [/B]
[B]Dracula, Dead and Loving It [/B] What a load of crap. Good crap?
[B]Ring [/B] Jap version. Come out, come out, wherever you are Knoxville...
[B]28 Days Later[/B] except all the fems in the movie. They were irritating. I would've killed them.

[QUOTE=SnowWhite][B]28 Days Later[/B] except all the fems in the movie. They were irritating. I would've killed them.[/QUOTE]
Damnit, I was going to mention that movie, but I wasn't logged in when I read the thread and I forgot which one I had been reading after I logged in. Great movie, though. I'm also quite fond of the soundtrack.

Just saw [b]Freddy Vs. Jason[/b] last night. It was better than I though it would be. Certainly better than any of the later Friday/Nightmare movies (admittedly, we are using a different scale of "bad" to "good" for these "films"). I was, frankly, surprized.

Exorcist
Suspira
Carrie
All M. Night Shyamalan's
All evil deads
Carnival of Souls (original)