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(7th Annual) Favorite Horror Movies Thread

Bryan R. Tyler

Bryan R. Tyler

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I do this every year around Halloween- it's a chance for new members to talk about their favorite horror flicks and old members to post about any new discoveries or old gems they've found.

I've found a new favorite in an old 80's "campers being killed" style movie called The Burning. The IFC channel has been showing some great older indie horror movies this past year, and this was one of them. I always prefer the late 70s and early 80s horror for their more realistic film quality. I also finally saw I Spit On Your Grave. Not much as far as horror goes, but it was some pretty extreme stuff for a movie- I'm sure even more so back then.

I caught up with a lot of the horror that came out in late 2007 as well- most were on the disappointing side, including Rob Zombie's version of Halloween, Dark Corners, and especially the second Aliens vs. Predator movies. There were some bright spots though- 30 Days of Night was fantastic, and I'm looking forward to Quarantine (still can't find Rec. at the movie store though :(). So what have you guys seen that you were into?
 
#2
Inside - French horror. It's awesome. If you have a weak stomach or are pregnant, I don't recommend watching it.

Cigarette Burns - By John Carpenter for the Masters of Horror series. Grabbed it yesterday in the $5 bin...worth much more than that. A short ride at 59 minutes, but it doesn't feel rushed at all.

Hatchet - Film by Adam Green...Fun, campy and bloody. Great cameos by faces you know, but names you don't. Robert England and Kane Hodder are bigger names in the film.
 
#6
TheDarkReaver said:
I actually prefer Rob Zombie's version, I like the addition of a back story. Makes the whole film more rounded.
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The back story rapes what was scary about Michael Myers being a regular kid going crazy and killing his sister, then stalking a babysitter 15 years later. Rob Zombie's version turns him into a sociopath. I found Michael far scarier when I was imagining what caused him to go nuts, not being shown it.

edit: Zombie's version isn't even scary. No suspense or horror, just violence and cursing. And the cast couldn't act their way out of a wet paper bag.
 
#10
ones I've seen recently and liked:

Unrest
Tooth And Nail
Undead
Homecoming

personal note: does anyone else think that Saw V looks horrible? I liked the first two, but the third and fourth ones just seemed like rehashed crap to me. It's like we're back in the late 80s/early 90s when someone made an interesting horror movie with a new idea behind it, and then the film company that bought it decided to make the same movie with different actors over and over again until it stopped making money.
 
#13
TheDarkReaver said:
Yeah, but the original isn't scary either.
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You're judging a horror movie made in 1978 by 2008 standards, of course its not going to be scary now. The horror genre has changed so much in that time, thanks in most part to the original Halloween. The original is a horror masterpiece while the remake is some ****** reinterpretation that nobody is going to remember.
 
#18
Hrmmm.

I think it's classified under 'Drama' but I like Jacob's Ladder. It's an older movie but damn....

The second Alien movie was pretty good. Event Horizon, as I recall, was good.

If you want straight up gore try 'High Tension'. IMO most modern horror movies are pretty disappointing.

FWIW I went into the second AVP with low expectations and thought it was pretty good. The Predator/Alien hybrid was an injustice, but so was the whole first movie.
 

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