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Post by i_deserve... on Apr 12, 2005 14:56:09 GMT
Right then: best [glow=green,2,300]HORROR![/glow] movies?
I propose The Shining, Suspiria, Nosferatu, Psycho and Taxi Driver. Which is a social [glow=green,2,300]HORROR![/glow] movie, as I say so.
I love [glow=green,2,300]HORROR![/glow] fillums, nothing beats staying up til 6 on Halloween with a bowl of popcorn, 6 DVDs and a window open.
[glow=green,2,300]MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA![/glow] *Cough* [glow=green,2,300]Ha.[/glow]
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Post by creakyknees on Apr 12, 2005 15:09:13 GMT
The Wicker Man Alien Psycho Evil Dead (1 or 2) The Vanishing (not the US but the original, its just so unpleasent and downbeat so I wouldn't really recommend anyone watch it)
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Post by Tom-From-Sparks on Apr 12, 2005 15:12:32 GMT
Me and horror movies don't get along, they just make me laugh with all the cliche's and charecters especially when someone gets killed. (maybe I'm just sick ) I watched Shaun of the Dead last night.. That's quite good.
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Post by i_deserve... on Apr 12, 2005 16:14:51 GMT
Wicker Man is top stuff, but i always hated Alien, wasn't scary and was entirely predictable.
horror movies are fucking great Tom!
watch Suspiria, with the lights off. Trust me.
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Post by DangerousDoug on Apr 12, 2005 16:16:50 GMT
i like horror films. they scare the shit outta me. i like films that create a physical reaction upon my person.
frailty dark water ring shining 28 days later my little eye blair witch project
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Post by i_deserve... on Apr 12, 2005 16:22:28 GMT
weird Korean film called Whispering Corridors that's worth a look if you like ASian horror.
and this hilarious HK horror flick called, and i kid you not:
HORROR HOTLINE: BIG HEAD BABY MONSTER
it's good fun, but it can't live up to that title.
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Post by DangerousDoug on Apr 12, 2005 16:24:00 GMT
i do like my asian horrors. tale of two sisters. fantastic!
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Post by Monpot on Apr 12, 2005 16:50:33 GMT
I think I actually made a poo in my pants when i first saw Dark Water. Bloody kids, i'll never trust 'em again!
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Post by Smileadelic on Apr 12, 2005 21:18:44 GMT
"Psycho", from what's been mentioned so far. (Love the idea of "Taxi Driver" as a "social horror film" though - I might adopt that on the sly...)
I thought "The Wicker Man" was kind of overrated actually. The end was obviously one of the most harrowing pieces of film I've ever seen, but besides that... the atmosphere is destroyed by rubbish dialogue, one-dimensional characters / poor acting, and truly horrible visuals. Maybe I need to see it again...
As for "Alien"... okay, so it's kind of cheesy, but visually it's superb.
I'm also gonna go out on a limb here and say "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". There's some brilliant filmmaking going on there beneath all the controversy and jittering early-teen sleepover hype.
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Post by i_deserve... on Apr 12, 2005 21:23:15 GMT
i find the appeal of the Wicker Man to be that it's all very camp and British.
Alien has great art design and NOTHING else.
agree on Texas Chainsaw Massacre - really effective stuff, and Leatherface makes a realistic psycho killer for once.
Straw Dogs is a horror too i suppose, and although the infamous rape scene is a touch unnecessary it's a really intense film, and the end is superb.
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Post by Fullerov on Apr 12, 2005 21:30:01 GMT
Peckinpah said Straw Dogs is a "Western set in the West Country"
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Post by Monpot on Apr 13, 2005 0:11:20 GMT
My gripe with Texas Chainsaw Massacre is that they're all really annoying, and I was just waiting for them to get killed, I think I even cheared when the whinger in the wheelchair got done.
The scene with the grandpa dropping the hammer is a great bit tho, really cranks up the tension and the disturbance factor.
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Post by John Brainlove on Apr 13, 2005 0:21:42 GMT
I like Dawn of the Dead (the old one) quite a lot. The Ring films (the 'old' ones) made me shit my proverbial kecks. Climbing out of telly! argh. Audition (never watch this it's truly horrific). People hated it, but I found Event Horizon quite effective also. Halloween obviously. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was pretty nasty. The first Freddy film scared me when I was a teenager. Tetsuo: Body Hammer is really ming. Jeepers Creepers (kidding).
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Post by Monpot on Apr 13, 2005 0:46:13 GMT
I didn't like Ring (havn't seen the Hollywood version). I think maybe it'd been built up as Scariest Film Ever, so when I watched it I was dissapointed.
I love The Wicker Man but I don't really think of it as a Horror film, more Harrowing I spose. I shudder to think what the Hell Nic Cage is gonna do in the remake? Someone jokingly said he'd blow up the wicker man and scubadive off the island.
I love some of the cheesy old Hammer horrors. There's a great one called Dr Jekyll And Miss Hyde, where Dr Jekyll (yup you guessed it) turns into a woman (instead of a big beast-man thing), and it ties it in with Jack The Ripper and stuff. Channel 4 used to always show films like this at night. Taste The Blood Of Dracula -what a film!
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Post by cadd on Apr 13, 2005 2:15:10 GMT
I saw Audition on the big screen and it was excellent first time around. Took the remake of Dawn Of The Dead round for my mum today as she liked the original so much she went out and bought a copy. I like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a far better film than a lot of people expect it to be. Ichi The Killer I saw on the big screen and would love to see it again.
I'm sitting just now watching a Beat Takeshi film, Boiling Point. I really like his films and Japanese gangster films in general. It does disturb some people how I let out callous, gleeful laughter at the sight of someone being mercilessly bottled about the head, face and body, but that's showbusiness. I would never condone this in real life, unless they wore their watches on their left wrist, these scum deserve all that's coming to them.
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