Horror movies

[wilser]

I saw this asian flick not long ago called Three...Extremes which features 3 short stories ...some of the most scary asian horror I've seen to date.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Really? Day of the Dead is one of my favorites....almost more than Dawn...I know that's blasphemy to some hardcore Romero fans but I dunno, there's something claustrophobic and atmospheric about it that I didn't get with the others.

Plus that one dude's voice goes up an octave when his vocal cords stretch as the zombies are pulling him him into two pieces

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Nice. Sounds like the original TCM set.

 

[Barkless Dog]

Recent Favorites

28 Days Later
The Mist - horror was in the store!
Cloverfield
Fido
The Grudge
The Ring
The Audition

The Japanese movies are so much more scary to me, they prey on your psyche more than American Gore Boo movies.

 

[Barkless Dog]

The Exorcist Three was really scary and good- George C Scott was in it and was in a nursing home. It really had some nightmarish stuff with elderly people-


Old people & children are scary

 

[Barkless Dog]

The Dark Backward was good

Slither was hilarious

Conger seriously scary?
"Amy wants a martini!" - Best comedy movie not trying to be funny, ever

 

[Rusty Chainsaw]

Personally, I like horror films that don't take themselves too seriously. The likes of the Evil Dead trilogy, the Re-Animator series, and everything Peter Jackson did before he got famous and made LOTR (Bad Taste, Braindead, Feebles, etc). Brilliant stuff. I think Braindead still holds the record for the largest amount of fake blood ever used in a film. The old Hammer films are also great, mostly for their kitsch value.

Most modern horror films are rubbish, but I'll make exceptions for 28 Days/Months Later, Dog Soldiers, the Final Destination series, the original Scream and the first Saw movie. And the less said about recent vampire films the better - vampires are supposed to be scary, not whinging emo kids like in Twilight and True Blood. Bring back Vincent Price and Peter Cushing.

The Japanese have it sorted though - stuff like the original Ring, Audition, etc have a creep factor that Western stuff just can't seem to match. I think it's actually creepier because a lot of their cultural references are lost on us Westerners. Somebody mentioned Ichi The Killer - great film. But the version I saw had the most unintentionally hilarious English dub ever - everyone sounded like Cockney gangsters straight out of a Guy Ritchie film.

 

[metron]

Personally, I like horror films that don't take themselves too seriously. The likes of the Evil Dead trilogy, the Re-Animator series, and everything Peter Jackson did before he got famous and made LOTR (Bad Taste, Braindead, Feebles, etc). Brilliant stuff. I think Braindead still holds the record for the largest amount of fake blood ever used in a film. The old Hammer films are also great, mostly for their kitsch value.

Most modern horror films are rubbish, but I'll make exceptions for 28 Days/Months Later, Dog Soldiers, the Final Destination series, the original Scream and the first Saw movie. And the less said about recent vampire films the better - vampires are supposed to be scary, not whinging emo kids like in Twilight and True Blood. Bring back Vincent Price and Peter Cushing.

The Japanese have it sorted though - stuff like the original Ring, Audition, etc have a creep factor that Western stuff just can't seem to match. I think it's actually creepier because a lot of their cultural references are lost on us Westerners. Somebody mentioned Ichi The Killer - great film. But the version I saw had the most unintentionally hilarious English dub ever - everyone sounded like Cockney gangsters straight out of a Guy Ritchie film.

All good points. The recent Japanese stuff is pretty killer. I find a lot of the newer American horror movies rely too much on pure shock/gore, overused cliches, and/or remakes. No real original ideas. I am most interested in finding old movies that I haven't seen yet ninstead of recent ones.

Bad Taste huh?! Definitely not too serious there. I don't think I got through the whole movie.

30 Days of Night wasn't too bad for a new vampire movie.

 

[metron]

The Exorcist Three was really scary and good- George C Scott was in it and was in a nursing home. It really had some nightmarish stuff with elderly people-


Old people & children are scary

I liked Exorcist 3 a lot. Complete with George Scott's classic overacting. It had a very creepy vibe. Plus Pt 1 is one of my all time faves.

 

[Barkless Dog]

I recently saw "The Cube" it was actually pretty cool. It was the one with the white modern cube.

I had a couple over years ago and we rented Re-Animator. The next dad my friend called me and said his girl friend was up all night crying because of the movie. I thought it was funny. The whole series was great.

Funny how a lot of Horror flicks don't hold up well due to the dated effects. I saw the re-release of Aliens and it was almost comical how bad the effects were. Same with the first Exorsist.

Stephen Kings "It" was amazing till the ending, as with many of his movies. Misery was excellent as well.

 

[Zomb13]

I thought Diary of the Dead was pretty awful myself. Anyone see the Day of the Dead remake with Mena Suvari? It wasn't too bad.

I dunno.....zombies crawling on the ceiling?

Really? Day of the Dead is one of my favorites....almost more than Dawn...I know that's blasphemy to some hardcore Romero fans but I dunno, there's something claustrophobic and atmospheric about it that I didn't get with the others.

My favorite though, is still Night.

It's not blasphemy. I sometimes feel the same way.

Plus that one dude's voice goes up an octave when his vocal cords stretch as the zombies are pulling him him into two pieces

"Choookkee on theeemmmmm!"

All this Day of the Dead talk has me wanting to watch it tonight.

+100 to all of this.

Re-Animator is a win on ANY day of the week. I remember seeing that when I was 7 years old and WOW.

I +100 your +100

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

I dunno.....zombies crawling on the ceiling?

Yeah, like that's any more out of the realm of possibility than the dead coming back to life to eat us all

 

[Barkless Dog]

28 Days Later pulled the biggest mind **** with zombies, by making them able to run and run fast.

Now that was scary and ground breaking. The intense drum music at the beginning really was cool, that & one of the main characters being chop to bits in the first few minutes.

 

[metron]

Yeah, like that's any more out of the realm of possibility than the dead coming back to life to eat us all

I think you have to have some degree of suspension of disbelief. Let's say there is some mysterious military or space chemical that makes dead people come back to life as cannibal zombies. It's semi plausable. However said zombies defying gravity is just odd if not silly unless we as the viewer are given some potential cause for that effect. Could it be that the chemical was originally designed to make people float and the whole thing went horribly wrong? We can only assume so much.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

To be clear, they weren't really floating- they were using super-strength to punch holes through and grip the ceiling tiles. If you're going to have the strength to rise from the grave, walk around with your rib cage showing, and rip off huge chunks of flesh with just your teeth, why not some ceiling crawls?

 

[Zomb13]

Yeah, like that's any more out of the realm of possibility than the dead coming back to life to eat us all

I think you have to have some degree of suspension of disbelief. Let's say there is some mysterious military or space chemical that makes dead people come back to life as cannibal zombies. It's semi plausable. However said zombies defying gravity is just odd if not silly unless we as the viewer are given some potential cause for that effect. Could it be that the chemical was originally designed to make people float and the whole thing went horribly wrong? We can only assume so much.

^ What he said. Believe me, I'm not one to take zombie movies too seriously. I sat through the last 2 Return of the Living Dead movies laughing my butt off and having a great time. I just had to draw the line at anti-gravity spider-man zombies. That, and they killed of Rhodes way too quickly.

28 Days Later pulled the biggest mind f*&*k with zombies, by making them able to run and run fast.

Now that was scary and ground breaking. The intense drum music at the beginning really was cool, that & one of the main characters being chop to bits in the first few minutes.

I never really thought of the "zombies" in 28 Days Later as zombies, just infected people. To me, that's even more terrifying because it's certainly plausible. I enjoyed this movie quite a bit.

I just ordered Dog Soldiers. Any other fans of this movie?

 

[metron]

To be clear, they weren't really floating- they were using super-strength to punch holes through and grip the ceiling tiles. If you're going to have the strength to rise from the grave, walk around with your rib cage showing, and rip off huge chunks of flesh with just your teeth, why not some ceiling crawls?

LOL Hmmm I guess I missed that part. Now the failure becomes what ceiling tiles out there are going to support the weight of a partially decomposed cannibal zombie? Now it's getting ridiculous. Unless the tiles were made of asbestos or something.

But to come full circle... with that kind of finger strength, think about how insanely talented those zombies would be with a bass in their hands.

 

[Mazatleco17]

I never really thought of the "zombies" in 28 Days Later as zombies, just infected people. To me, that's even more terrifying because it's certainly plausible. I enjoyed this movie quite a bit.

+1 but it was a really good movie, I'm still reluctant on watching the "remake" of day of the dead, hated diary of the dead it made me nauseous with all that first person perspective, land of the dead was ok.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

My wife bought it for me when it came out- I've only watched it once as I didn't think it was very good either. I was actually just thinking about watching it a second time the other day- some movies get better the more you watch them.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Troll and The Gate are definitive throwbacks to my childhood- those would play on Saturday afternoons on the old non-network channels. Troll 2 is worse