Horror Movies

[rainbowphoenix]

I don't watch horror movies so often but here are the one that I like the grudge, saw, hide and seek.

[Guest kuroinuyoukai]

Horror movies are my fav.

I like movies with vamps in them(Interview withA Vampire is my fav) and evil themes in them. If you aren't scared easily might I suggest the Hellraiser series. It's from the 80's but they are good in my opinion.I also liked all the Omen movies and most of the Exorcist movies.I like the evil storyline and ...I just like evil movies!! I haven't seen too many of the recent ones though. I think the last one I saw was Gothika or was it the Ring? Anyway...I need to check out Saw I guess.

[quote name='rainbowphoenix']Is gothika a good movie, because I was planning on renting it but i'm not sure[/quote]

woo that was a big picture! Gothika was good-not my favorite though. I have picky tastes. It is very suspenseful though.It is a good movie if things jumping out at you scare you.It was kinda creepy too.


[B]Sorry James-won't happen again.[/B]

[rainbowphoenix]

Is gothika a good movie, because I was planning on renting it but i'm not sure

[James]

[font=franklin gothic medium]rainbowpheonix, I recommend either linking to a picture using text or uploading it as an attachment, if the dimensions are as large as that. It was distorting the page so much that it made the thread almost impossible to view.

Also, please watch your post quality. Right now you're pretty much just telling us what movies you like - I think it would be a good idea to tell us [i]why[/i] you like those movies as well. If you want more information about post quality, you can always refer to the rules and FAQ pages, which you'll find on the left navigation menu.

Please try to inject a bit more description into your posts if you want the thread to stay open, guys.[/font]

[GreatBird]

[quote name='rainbowphoenix']Is gothika a good movie, because I was planning on renting it but i'm not sure[/quote]

Well its not bad and it's not a work of art either. But if you are into horror movies I would suggest, Saw (The original), Amittyville Horror (Newest Version), and The Exorsist (The original.)

[renayiiq]

Don't get the new Amityville Horror. It was a BIG disappointment. Land of the Dead was pretty good. it scared the piss out of me. Of course, I have 2 weak spots. Anything raised from the dead, things that actually look as if they're decomposing. I don't like uber-scary demonic things either. I'm scared of them. And werewolves, too.
House of Wax was alright, Land of the Dead was pretty good, Amityville Horror sucked, Saw sucked, and that's all that I've seen as of this year. Oh, and the Ring Two was pretty good. And White Noise was spectacular.
That's the newest stuff. I liked Dawn of the Dead (the newer version) because it just scared me. I like the thrill when I'm watching it. It's just the after-effects. Can't sleep. Need coffee.
Exorcist was great. I like it because the little girl just looks so repulsive that she's scary, and I have a thing for god vs. satan themes, even though god always ends up winning (damn!).
I like the Mummy (the one with Brendan Frasier). The chick who plays Anck-su-namun in the beginning is beautiful. and I feel sorry for Imhotep in a way.It's a combination between horror and comedy, because Brendan Frasier has some of the greatest one-liners in this movie.
The Evil Dead trilogy kicked so much ***. Bruce Cambell also has good one-liners in it, and it's scared me since I was ten when my parents let me see it. I think I'll watch it tonight, as a matter of fact; haven't seen it in a while.
That's it for now.

[rainbowphoenix]

[QUOTE=James][font=franklin gothic medium]rainbowpheonix, I recommend either linking to a picture using text or uploading it as an attachment, if the dimensions are as large as that. It was distorting the page so much that it made the thread almost impossible to view.

Also, please watch your post quality. Right now you're pretty much just telling us what movies you like - I think it would be a good idea to tell us [i]why[/i] you like those movies as well. If you want more information about post quality, you can always refer to the rules and FAQ pages, which you'll find on the left navigation menu.

Please try to inject a bit more description into your posts if you want the thread to stay open, guys.[/font][/QUOTE]Sorry about the picture, i'm new here so I don;t know how big or small a picture is gonna turn out but thanks for the tip. :D

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I actually thought that saw was a great movie, but the bad thing about the movie is that there are a lot of flashbacks so most of the movie takes place in the bathroom, the older guy explaining who jigsaw was and what he had done. When I rented the movie I though the two victims had to find their way out of the building, but I guess I was wrong. Anyway saw its a pretty scary movie, after I watched it I couldn't sleep for a whole night, it really scared me when the guy started to cut his leg of. This movie has a lot of blood in it. The grudge is a great movie though unlike saw this movie is easier to understand than saw, tha grudge is a typical haunted house movie, well not exactly because th ghost can actually get out of the house and kill people, but this movie had a bad ending , when the nurse's boyfriend dies (well I think it was his boyfriend I'm not sure, you don't really get to see his face at the end when he is dead) anyway wile the nurse is looking at the dead body the ghost its right behind her she turns around and its over, I mean its like the ghost is going to kill everyone, so I didn't really like the ending, but other than that this was a good movie.

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[Shinmaru]

I really enjoy a great horror movie. There's just something about that feeling you get while watching a really good one that's just so cool. I love it. :)

Lately my favorite horror movie has been The Thing. It's been almost twenty-five years since the movie was made, and the special effects are still amazing. Every time that the thing is outed is just a nerve-wracking experience lol. This is a movie where special effects are used to their highest potential for sure. I love the palpable sense of paranoia you get in the movie as well. The Thing was one of the few movies that just scared the hell out of me the first time I watched it, and kept scaring me every time I watched it afterwards. I still can't help but be a bit scared when watching it - The Thing still does that to me, haha.

[rainbowphoenix]

Anyone seen the devil's rejects? is it good?

[James]

[font=franklin gothic medium]I know what you mean about The Thing, Shin. I have a similar feeling about The Birds, which is one of my favourite old films.

The Birds is not particularly scary, but I do think it has an unnerving quality to it. And I think it's a clever idea. What impresses me most, though, is that even after all this time, it's still a gorgeous movie to watch. It has some amazing camera shots and the effects still stand up very well, especially given it's age.

It's also one of those movies that doesn't seem to rely on cheap scares to frighten the audience. In other words, it relies more on a build-up of tension and suspense. I would say that generally I prefer films like that.

One of the movies that scared me the most - when I was about eight years old or something, anyway - was Robocop 2. lol

Does anyone remember that scene where they have Kane in the back of the truck and they let him loose in the factory where it's all dark? He walks around with a spotlight on his shoulder and a mini-gun on the other shoulder, killing the various criminals who are hiding. I remember thinking that the scene was terrifying. Something about a giant, frightening robot hunting around in the dark with a massive spotlight...it was awful. Even the sound of his movement was creepy. I also think that the slightly stilted stop-motion animation played a role in making him a slightly creepy character to watch.

Of course, when I look at it now, the whole thing looks very fake and it's difficult to find it frightening. But I think that was one of the first times in my life when I was really freaked out by a film, lol.[/font]

[Semjaza]

Gothika was absolutely terrible. Was that whole "let's try to spin this around into something more disturbing" random angle near the end even necessary? What a waste of a climax of a film.

The new Amityville Horror is certainly not good, but it looks like a masterpiece in comparison to the original. Why they felt a need to remake that one, I have no idea. I can't comprehend why someone might like House of Wax but think Saw was awful (as much as it was Seven-lite)... but to each their own.

Most of what's around nowadays is horrid. Boogeyman was one I saw recently and it was just outright awful. The Darkness was one of the most vague, unexplainably stupid films I have EVER seen. Land of the Dead, while damn good, didn't really do much to help "save" the genre.

I liked Dead and Breakfast. It's advertised as a "zombie musical", but it only barely falls into that category. Still, it's overly cheesy and fun... it was enough to enjoy it. Worth a rent.

I want to see this newer Australian zombie film called Undead, but I've not seen it to rent yet. Lion's Gate released it here, but there seemed to be zero buzz around it. With horror, you never know if that's a good or bad thing.

As for something I actually enjoyed, I'd have to go with The Devil's Rejects. It's a follow-up to House of 1,000 Corpses, but it has an incredibly different feel to it. It's more of a thriller/serial-killer film than the normal monster-stupid horror that usually comes out (and would probably encapsulate House of 1,000 Corpses). The humor and drama and violence were just pulled off so much better this time around and I think Zombie has really come into his own. I have to admit the actress who plays Baby is pretty damn awful, though.

[Zen]

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I used to be a real scaredy cat when it came to horror films. But as I grew older, I found that most of them are actually extremely ridiculous. My girlfriend, who is notoriously easy to scare, enjoys horror films and has me watching them with her. While she is jumping in fear, I sit there, laughing hysterically in my mind. I mean [B]"House of Wax"[/B] was freaking hilarious! Especially [spoiler]Paris Hilton's death.[/spoiler] That made the movie worth watching. Other than that, I kinda wanted everyone to die. I didn't really care for anyone on there.

That last movie that I remember raising the hair on the back of my neck was [B]"Signs"[/B]. I don't know why, but that movie kinda gave me an extreme paranoia factor. Before that, it was [B]"The Sixth Sense"[/B], but neither of these really scared me, just kinda gave me a chill down the spine. The movies I recall actually scaring me are [B]"28 Days Later"[/B] and it wasn't even the zombies who scared me, but the desperation that the regular characters showed. The scariest part in that movie was when [spoiler]the main character gouged that one guards eyes out, and how he released the zombie they kept captive on everyone else.[/spoiler]

[B]"Seven"[/B] was also quite a scary expierience. Mostly due to the brutality of the murderes. When that [spoiler]when the guy representing Sloth just popped back to life, I nearly **** myself.[/spoiler] [/color][/size]

[Semjaza]

[quote name='Mugen][color=sienna][size=1] [B]"Seven"[/B] was also quite a scary expierience. Mostly due to the brutality of the murderes. When that [spoiler]when the guy representing Sloth just popped back to life, I nearly **** myself.[/spoiler] [/color'][/size][/quote]

I think in that movie (and many others), the stuff they don't really explicitly show comes off worse. I think most people have better imaginations than what can realistically be displayed in a film... If certain things are tried with today's technology, it just winds up looking fake and then, laughable.

[spoiler]Anyway, the one scene that comes to mind instantly from that film that fits within that is Lust. The image of what he had made and the fact that the man was forced to use it for an extended period on the woman is pretty damn horrifying.[/spoiler]

[Shinmaru]

[QUOTE=Generic NPC #3]I think in that movie (and many others), the stuff they don't really explicitly show comes off worse. I think most people have better imaginations than what can realistically be displayed in a film... If certain things are tried with today's technology, it just winds up looking fake and then, laughable.

[spoiler]Anyway, the one scene that comes to mind instantly from that film that fits within that is Lust. The image of what he had made and the fact that the man was forced to use it for an extended period on the woman is pretty damn horrifying.[/spoiler][/QUOTE]

Yeah, that's what I was going to come in here and say. You only actually see one person murdered in the entire film ([spoiler]John Doe at the end, obviously[/spoiler]), and the movie just leaves your imagination to fill in the gaps with the other murders. The scene that you mentioned is what I always imagine to be the most brutal murder committed in that film... I mean, just the guy's reaction to what he was forced to do is unsettling enough, but when you actually find out what happened and you're left to think about it afterwards it's just so twisted and horrible lol.

EDIT for Mugen: [spoiler]He died on the way to the hospital I think.[/spoiler]

[Zen]

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That's what I originally meant by brutality. The plotting of each murder was horrible, and then it just made you queasy as your mind races through the scenario of the people's demise. Sloth however, just made me kind of sick to see the guy's body and how he was set up... nasty way to be left. (Not quite sure if he died...?)

Another movie that I recently remembered that scared me was [B]"The Excorsist"[/B]. The original of course. I saw the movie when I was fairly young (I'd say around 10?) and it spooked me good. The thing that scared me most was the girl's body as it slowly decayed over the movie's course. Also, the whole projectile puke kinda grossed me out at the time. Today, it doesn't really scare me too much, but it was something back then.

Certain non-horror genre movies also scared me aswell. [B]"Casino"[/B] where the Irish guy got his head in a vice and Peschi got beat to death with a baseball bat, all kinda made me a little sick to the tummie. Also, [B]"Marathon Man"[/B] kinda off set me, because I didn't like the dentist in the first place, and I can't imagine the agony. You know what I'm talking about if you've seen the movie. Some war movies scare me when guys get all shot up and it shows their guts just falling out. It scares me not because of the guts, but because it's a beleivable scenario where it could happen. Namely the first scene in [B]"Saving Private Ryan"[/B] and others.

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[IceRose]

Well the only two horror movies that I've been strong enough to just not scream and run away were Interview with a Vampire and Queen of the Dammed, they were good movies about vampires relatively. The other horror movies that I'v tried to see all the way through but haven't been capable were 13 ghosts and Ghost ship, I just get too scared and get nightmares.

[Crimson River]

The Devil's Rejects is pretty good in my opinion. If lots of blood and abuse of women isn't for you, then this movie and the original (House of 1000 Corpses) aren't for you.

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The only scary movies to really have an effect on me were Jeepers Creepers, remake for Dawn of the Dead, the Japanese aka original version for The Grudge (I think it's called Ju-On), and Infection. If you like Bruce Campbell and really funny oldie B-horror movies, see Bruce Campbell's Man With The Screaming Brain. Bruce directs and stars in it. Some really good horror/comedies I have seen recently are Satan's Little Helper (dumb people in scary movies are the best! but the part before the killer goes to the party is absolutely creepy! just the expressions of the family will send chills down your spine), Dead And Breakfast, and Shaun of the Dead. If your a werewolf freak like me, then you might like Werewolf Hunter: The Legend of Romasanta.

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[nikkilynn211986]

Horror movies are funny. I don't see why Saw scared everyone...It wasn't very scary, it was kinda twisted towards the end, but that's it. The grudge was funny. The new Amityville cracked me up. The Halloween series, while decent, isn't scary. Freddy vs Jason was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Walk the Line scared me more that FVJ. Friday the 13th...yeah. The original Amityville wasn't bad. But it wasn't spectacular. Jeepers Creepers and Jeepers Creepers 2 were funny! The Shining was decent, I can't see Jack Nicholson as anyone else now. The Hannibal series, while not really horror, were tastefully done. Also the Blade series, The Interview w/a Vampire series (it's a series, read the books), also while not horror as much as action/sci-fi/drama, were very tastefully done. The Dracula movies....ehhhh...not really that good. Last House on the Left - sucked. Terribly. Only thing scary was that it could happen. Nightmare on Elmstreet series - Okay in it's own respect. Pinocchio - frightened me a bit when I was 10. Child's Play - c'mon it's a freakin' doll...You can't tell me that a doll can do all of that without these people realizing "oh, hey, he's made of rubber, let's melt him?" I may sound cynical and antihorror but I'm not so much antihorror as anti-bad movie. I'm waiting on people to remake day of the dead and night of the living dead. Dawn and Land of the dead were okay. Horror movies just don't scare me. I've had dreams about Care Bears that scared me worse that most "horror" movies. I guess I get it from my grandmother. She's the same way. My "father" (if you can call him that) is too...anyway, my point is - Horror movies are never so much horror as thriller to me. Most, comedies honestly...I watched Saw and The Grudge while eating, didn't bother me at all...I guess I'm just weird.

[Semjaza]

I don't really think any one was scared by Freddy vs Jason. I also think the people who made that knew that would be true. It's the same reason pretty much every film in both series is ridiculous in some way. I mean, really, Jason X? Some of the films were obviously trying way too hard with some really awful material, but the later ones, particularly Freddy vs Jason, were obviously just trying to appeal to fans and let people have some fun. I don't know why anyone would expect anything else out of it.

A lot of the things being mentioned in here are pretty run of the mill. I'd not consider most of them scary either, when it comes down to it. Most horror movies are not going to actively frighten most people because people know they're not real. I kind of approach them in a different way and like to just see some excellent work or some humor. I'm into horror movies that are purposely funny and I know a lot of people aren't... but I also like the more serious ones providing they are well done. It doesn't really matter how much they "scare" me.

Susperia, Changeling, The Fly and Videodrone are good examples of ones I've enjoyed.

[Ailes de Velour]

I've seen Queen of the Damned, and I thought it was the funniest movie I've ever seen. If it was supposed to scare me (and believe me, I get scared unbelievably easily and I've never seen a horror movie in my life), then it failed. One of my favorite laughing parts was when [spoiler]Akasha set fire to the whole coven, and everyone was screaming and burning. It was all, BOOM! Flamey flamey flamey flamey[/spoiler]. That movie actually MADE me sleep with the light OFF.

[Lozer and Proud]

[FONT=COURIER NEW]I haven't been watching a lot of movies lately, but some of the ones I have seen and liked are The Ring, The Amittyville Horror, and 28 Days Later.

I think those are the only one's that I can really remember at the moment. Although I tend to like vampire movies more, there hasn't really been one that would actually "scare" me anymore. Most of them nowadays show a lot of romance and mushy type stuff and not all that blood and voilence that they used to be about. But hey, I guess times change, right?[/FONT]

[NinjaJedi007]

One of my favorites has to be Amityville Horror (the original of course). I remember seeing that all by myself when I was a kid. That was some serious stuff back then!

[Crimson River]

[font=Verdana][size=2]I finally saw the remake for House of Wax over the weekend. It was ok, but not really scary. It's not really a video, but this link will lead you to a creepy video I found recently. I personally don't think it's all that scary, but it can make you kind of paranoid if you watch it at 1 or 2 in the morning with all of your lights off. [url="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/rubberjohnny.html"]http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/rubberjohnny.html[/url][/size][/font]

[rainbowphoenix]

I simply just loved House of Wax (the remake), one of my favorite parts is when the pole goes right through Pamela Anderson's forehead, and when Vincent (one of the killers) chops Dalton's head off, and the visuals are amazing, I thought hoese of wax was a great movie
Has anyone heard of Wolk Creek, its not out yet but it looks like a great horro film, well its more of a crime anyway the movie is not out yet.

[Crimson River]

Yea, I know about the movie Wolf Creek. I have very good sources for any movie you want that is out right now. I think this movie might be out. (My bad. I have the sources right, but the movie doesn't come out until December or January 25.) The plot outline is this: A chilling, factually-based story of three road-trippers in remote Australia who are plunged into danger when they accept help from a friendly local. The movie is based off of the infamous "Backpacker Murders" committed along the Hume Highway by Ivan Milat between 1989 and 1992. It's also based off of the Falconio case in the Northern Territory of Australia. What do people think of the video on the link I posted?