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(4th Annual) Favorite Horror Movies Thread

Bryan R. Tyler

Bryan R. Tyler

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I do this every year around Halloween- please feel free to share any of your favorites, or for those that have posted before, have you found any new favorites? Discover any old jems?

I recently saw "High Tension," and while there were either plot holes the size of canyons or a REALLY brilliant story where the entire flick (including the beginning) is taken from someone's mind, I found it to be a pretty gripping movie. A lot of really scary stuff....not something I often see in horror movies these days. I also saw the new Amityville Horror, and while it was okay, it reminded me of how much better the original 70's version was, and of the Shining, which I always believed was a big influence on the original Amityville.

We also rented Undead, which is VERY reminiscent of Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive" (or Brain Dead outside of the US), although it dragged on way too long to be anywhere near as enjoyable.

I'm looking forward to seeing Land of the Dead this week- I missed it in theaters, so I don't know if it was good or not.
 
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Bryan R. Tyler said:
I do this every year around Halloween- please feel free to share any of your favorites, or for those that have posted before, have you found any new favorites? Discover any old jems?

I recently saw "High Tension," and while there were either plot holes the size of canyons or a REALLY brilliant story where the entire flick (including the beginning) is taken from someone's mind, I found it to be a pretty gripping movie. A lot of really scary stuff....not something I often see in horror movies these days. I also saw the new Amityville Horror, and while it was okay, it reminded me of how much better the original 70's version was, and of the Shining, which I always believed was a big influence on the original Amityville.

We also rented Undead, which is VERY reminiscent of Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive" (or Brain Dead outside of the US), although it dragged on way too long to be anywhere near as enjoyable.

I'm looking forward to seeing Land of the Dead this week- I missed it in theaters, so I don't know if it was good or not.
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Agreed about High Tension. It was a throwback to the 70's style slasher and it was great at times and awful at others.

Recent horror movies that I dug: Exorcism of Emily Rose, 28 Days Later. I loved Thirteen Ghosts, not because it was good, but because it was laughably bad.

Classics: Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Poltergiest, etc
 
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The Grudge was pretty freaky, so was the Ring.

We just saw Saw (play on words not intended)... that was more of a thriller rather than horror - sort of like Seven.

One of my all time favourites is the Entity.

Omen is another great one.

I remember watching a movie when I was really young, where in one scene, a boy is swimming in a pool, and starts to drown, and one of the parents tries to get to him, but the house wouldn't let them out... Is this the original Amityville? For some reason, I also remember an old woman in a rocking chair in the attic, which sounds like Psycho to me??? Maybe I'm inventing movies by blending them together.
 
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C-5KO said:
I remember watching a movie when I was really young, where in one scene, a boy is swimming in a pool, and starts to drown, and one of the parents tries to get to him, but the house wouldn't let them out... Is this the original Amityville?
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Nope... "House" maybe?

The 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead is one I can watch over and over again. The first time I saw Exorcist has always stayed with me.
 
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Bryan R. Tyler said:
That was one weird movie. The whole thing looked like an old Queen video or something (Argento kept changing film types), and it went on forever.
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I love the atmosphere and the style of that movie much more than anything else about it - the first murder scene is possibly the most stylish cinema death I've ever seen. Argento uses color and lighting to amazing (and surreal) effect, so much so that the movie resembles a fairy tale or a dream. Or an old Queen video. ;)
 
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On the other side of Argento, ever see Demons 2? TERRIBLE zombie movie. I kinda doubt he had much to do with it though. He's credited as the writer, but there's not much "writing" to it.
 

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