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Lets talk Horror Movies!

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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    I agree with em, 8 MM is disturbing as fuck :(

    also you guys should watch tucker and dale vs evil, it is good and funny

  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Wrath Registered User regular
    Magus` wrote:
    Need to find new horror movies.
    I'll throw a few out that many haven't seen.

    Creep
    Dead End
    The Last Winter
    Near Dark (Arguably not horror)
    Nightbreed
    Gingersnaps 1, 2, & Snaps Back
    Monster Squad
    White Noise 2 (Mediocre, but Nathan Fillion!)
    Brotherhood of the Wolf

    Troll 2 (So bad it is good)
    Heebie Jeebies (Not as good as Troll 2, but still fun)

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  • Magus`Magus` Registered User regular
    I've heard Cronos was good and it's on Netflix streaming, but the transfer is all fucked up and jittery. I can't watch it.

    Also, I've seen most of those.

  • Psychotic OnePsychotic One The Royal Tart Toter Registered User regular
    Hatchet 1 and 2
    Laid to Rest (don't bother with the sequel. Its nowhere near as good as the first)

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  • HonkHonk Registered User regular
    I do not get joke

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    TehSpectre wrote:
    Magus` wrote:
    Need to find new horror movies.
    I'll throw a few out that many haven't seen.

    Creep
    Dead End
    The Last Winter
    Near Dark (Arguably not horror)
    Nightbreed
    Gingersnaps 1, 2, & Snaps Back
    Monster Squad
    White Noise 2 (Mediocre, but Nathan Fillion!)
    Brotherhood of the Wolf

    Troll 2 (So bad it is good)
    Heebie Jeebies (Not as good as Troll 2, but still fun)

    If we're thinking of the same 'The Last Winter', then I'd say avoid it like the plague. My girlfriend and I absolutely hated it. Gingersnaps was good, though, from what I remember.

    On an unrelated note, I should thank the thread for getting me to find and watch Trick R Treat. What a great Halloween movie.

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  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Wrath Registered User regular
    Aside from the admittedly softball ending, The Last Winter was a slow, psychological burn.

    Love it to death.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    I have the weirdest relationship with horror movies. i love the plots, i love the tension - but I am a huge wuss. So I don't watch many. But I have to just throw in my vote for "The Omen" (original, obviously). I fucking love everything about that movie.

    As for the most disturbing "horror" movie ever, my brother and my old roomate are super into horror movies. there is some japanese movie, Pinocchio 747 or something like that (with a square root symbol thrown in somewhere too), that seriously messed up my roomate. Seriously. Then he gave it to my brother, and my brother said it was the weirdest, most disturbing thing he'd seen. I believe the disc, literally, is up in my parents attic because I refused to watch it or take it, and they didn't want it.

    So I can't really recommend it, and I'm not even 100% sure it's classified as horror because all I've heard are descriptions, but jesus christ if you're in the mood to just be horrified it's...yeah...

    Also I remember a copy of the instant classic "Fear dot com" floating around my brothers bedrooms forever. my brother worked at a blockbuster and got it from there, and I just remember it becoming the default gag gift whenever we gave each other a present for no reason.

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  • Capt HowdyCapt Howdy Registered User regular
    TehSpectre wrote:
    Magus` wrote:
    Need to find new horror movies.
    I'll throw a few out that many haven't seen.

    Creep
    Dead End
    The Last Winter
    Near Dark (Arguably not horror)
    Nightbreed
    Gingersnaps 1, 2, & Snaps Back
    Monster Squad
    White Noise 2 (Mediocre, but Nathan Fillion!)
    Brotherhood of the Wolf

    Troll 2 (So bad it is good)
    Heebie Jeebies (Not as good as Troll 2, but still fun)

    I love Brotherhood of the Wolf. They need to hurry up and put it out on BD, damn it.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    TehSpectre wrote:
    Aside from the admittedly softball ending, The Last Winter was a slow, psychological burn.

    Love it to death.

    Ditto, it was a fabulous film.

  • SammyFSammyF Registered User regular
    Magus` wrote:
    I've heard Cronos was good and it's on Netflix streaming, but the transfer is all fucked up and jittery. I can't watch it.

    Also, I've seen most of those.

    You want to see something that's fucking unsettling as shit? Antichrist with Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

    Definitely a film for mature audiences.

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    SammyF wrote:
    Magus` wrote:
    I've heard Cronos was good and it's on Netflix streaming, but the transfer is all fucked up and jittery. I can't watch it.

    Also, I've seen most of those.

    You want to see something that's fucking unsettling as shit? Antichrist with Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

    Definitely a film for mature audiences.

    I read a synopsis of that and decided I never need to see it, ever.

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    mxmarks wrote:
    SammyF wrote:
    Magus` wrote:
    I've heard Cronos was good and it's on Netflix streaming, but the transfer is all fucked up and jittery. I can't watch it.

    Also, I've seen most of those.

    You want to see something that's fucking unsettling as shit? Antichrist with Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

    Definitely a film for mature audiences.

    I read a synopsis of that and decided I never need to see it, ever.

    Ditto. Like the fucking Human Centipede.

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  • SammyFSammyF Registered User regular
    mxmarks wrote:
    SammyF wrote:
    Magus` wrote:
    I've heard Cronos was good and it's on Netflix streaming, but the transfer is all fucked up and jittery. I can't watch it.

    Also, I've seen most of those.

    You want to see something that's fucking unsettling as shit? Antichrist with Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

    Definitely a film for mature audiences.

    I read a synopsis of that and decided I never need to see it, ever.

    That's about right. The thing is, it's actually an incredibly well done movie in that every sound, gesture and camera angle makes you want to crawl out of your skin, and the story isn't spoiled by the desire to pull some gigantic reveal where the film beats you over the head and goes "SEE YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW WHAT WAS GOING ON BUT I FOOLED YOU, THIS IS WHAT"S ACTUALLY HAPPENING." Sometimes evil and insanity don't have a clear cut rationality.

    Having said that, if it turned out that Lars von Trier spends his free time strangling hobos so he can use the blood from their mutilated genitals as a masturbatory lubricant, that wouldn't surprise me based on the film he made.

  • L Ron HowardL Ron Howard Registered User regular
    I agree with em, 8 MM is disturbing as fuck :(

    also you guys should watch tucker and dale vs evil, it is good and funny

    I didn't think 8MM was much of anything. I mean, I guess you could call it compelling in that you want to finish it, and it is filmed very well, but I'd put so many more movies that do it better well before that in my recommendations.
    I haven't had time to finish it, but Cigarette Burns is a much better take on the same thing.

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  • KetarKetar Registered User regular
    mxmarks wrote:
    As for the most disturbing "horror" movie ever, my brother and my old roomate are super into horror movies. there is some japanese movie, Pinocchio 747 or something like that (with a square root symbol thrown in somewhere too), that seriously messed up my roomate. Seriously. Then he gave it to my brother, and my brother said it was the weirdest, most disturbing thing he'd seen. I believe the disc, literally, is up in my parents attic because I refused to watch it or take it, and they didn't want it.

    So I can't really recommend it, and I'm not even 100% sure it's classified as horror because all I've heard are descriptions, but jesus christ if you're in the mood to just be horrified it's...yeah...

    Google tells me it's 964 Pinocchio (with a square root sign over the 964). Also that the genre is technically Japanese cyberpunk. Also that the plot involves a memory-wiped sex slave who is thrown away due to his inability to maintain an erection.

    You can find more plot info online if desired. Uh, if you really want. I guess.

    Reading further, horrifying seems like a good description. Damn you.

  • valhalla130valhalla130 Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote:
    My favourite zombie flicks are NotLD (despite Romero being involved) Return of the Living Dead, Undead and Shaun of the Dead. None of them tend to hammer the social commentary. Special mention to [REC] and Mulberry Street (which, granted, isn't about zombies but is certainly a zombie film).

    the point with zombie films is never about the zombies tho; if they do that the movie is a complete bore. Zombies really aren't very interesting. The films are always about the breakdown of the people involved and how they deal with the situation. It's tough to do that without some sort of social commentary leaking in.

    And that's why I didn't have a problem with the scenes in 28 Days Later. In the breakdown of society, there are always going to be people who either lose it completely, or attempt to take advantage of the situation to get as much personal power as possible. In this movie, it just happened to be the guys with the guns. didn't really see it as a commentary on the military, per se.

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote:
    My favourite zombie flicks are NotLD (despite Romero being involved) Return of the Living Dead, Undead and Shaun of the Dead. None of them tend to hammer the social commentary. Special mention to [REC] and Mulberry Street (which, granted, isn't about zombies but is certainly a zombie film).

    the point with zombie films is never about the zombies tho; if they do that the movie is a complete bore. Zombies really aren't very interesting. The films are always about the breakdown of the people involved and how they deal with the situation. It's tough to do that without some sort of social commentary leaking in.

    And that's why I didn't have a problem with the scenes in 28 Days Later. In the breakdown of society, there are always going to be people who either lose it completely, or attempt to take advantage of the situation to get as much personal power as possible. In this movie, it just happened to be the guys with the guns. didn't really see it as a commentary on the military, per se.

    Absolutely. I was thinking about it later and I really couldn't come up with any real social commentary from 28DL other then "what can we be pushed to" or "we're all a little monstrous". There wasn't any slam on the military tho.

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  • valhalla130valhalla130 Registered User regular
    Exactly. Heck, the military showed up at the end to save them.

  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Some other horror films I've been impressed by lately:

    Yellow Brick Road
    The Possession of David O'reilly
    The Disappeared
    Home Movie
    Cthulhu
    Salvage

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    Ketar wrote:
    mxmarks wrote:
    As for the most disturbing "horror" movie ever, my brother and my old roomate are super into horror movies. there is some japanese movie, Pinocchio 747 or something like that (with a square root symbol thrown in somewhere too), that seriously messed up my roomate. Seriously. Then he gave it to my brother, and my brother said it was the weirdest, most disturbing thing he'd seen. I believe the disc, literally, is up in my parents attic because I refused to watch it or take it, and they didn't want it.

    So I can't really recommend it, and I'm not even 100% sure it's classified as horror because all I've heard are descriptions, but jesus christ if you're in the mood to just be horrified it's...yeah...

    Google tells me it's 964 Pinocchio (with a square root sign over the 964). Also that the genre is technically Japanese cyberpunk. Also that the plot involves a memory-wiped sex slave who is thrown away due to his inability to maintain an erection.

    You can find more plot info online if desired. Uh, if you really want. I guess.

    Reading further, horrifying seems like a good description. Damn you.

    Yeah. Only reason I mentioned it was because I hadnt seen it talked about, and I remember him buying it in the HORROR section of Best Buy.

    And the cover of the DVD is burned into my brain.

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  • Magus`Magus` Registered User regular
    SammyF wrote:
    Magus` wrote:
    I've heard Cronos was good and it's on Netflix streaming, but the transfer is all fucked up and jittery. I can't watch it.

    Also, I've seen most of those.

    You want to see something that's fucking unsettling as shit? Antichrist with Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

    Definitely a film for mature audiences.

    Saw it. Was confused, though not scared.

  • NailbunnyPDNailbunnyPD Registered User regular
    This thread lacks Tetsuo: The Iron Man. There is a trailer on Youtube, but it gives away a lot of the imagery from the film, so I've spoilered it below.
    Spoiler:

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    Magus` wrote:
    I've heard Cronos was good and it's on Netflix streaming, but the transfer is all fucked up and jittery. I can't watch it.

    Also, I've seen most of those.
    Cronos is great. It's a pretty unique vampire movie and it's got Pearlman in it so, go find a watchable version when you can.

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  • Magus`Magus` Registered User regular
    DanHibiki wrote:
    Magus` wrote:
    I've heard Cronos was good and it's on Netflix streaming, but the transfer is all fucked up and jittery. I can't watch it.

    Also, I've seen most of those.
    Cronos is great. It's a pretty unique vampire movie and it's got Pearlman in it so, go find a watchable version when you can.

    Yeah, that's what I heard so it annoys me that it hasn't been fixed in over a year.

  • NoneoftheaboveNoneoftheabove Registered User
    I might be another silly goose in line to bring this movie up, but "Let Me In" is a good movie and on Netflix. The original foreign film ( Let The Right One In) is also, however I have not watched it. The US version is just fine!
    Love the film score by composer Michael Giacchino for Let Me In, too.

  • NappuccinoNappuccino Registered User regular
    I personally prefer the pacing of the original. It is a little slower, but the US one feels like it moves too quickly- like the relationship builds much too fast.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    I might be another silly goose in line to bring this movie up, but "Let Me In" is a good movie and on Netflix. The original foreign film ( Let The Right One In) is also, however I have not watched it. The US version is just fine!
    Love the film score by composer Michael Giacchino for Let Me In, too.

    It's only just fine if you haven't seen the original. If you have, it comes nowhere near to fine.

  • SammyFSammyF Registered User regular
    I might be another silly goose in line to bring this movie up, but "Let Me In" is a good movie and on Netflix. The original foreign film ( Let The Right One In) is also, however I have not watched it. The US version is just fine!
    Love the film score by composer Michael Giacchino for Let Me In, too.

    I tried watching Let the Right One In on Netflix a few years back, and the subtitles were cut off at the bottom of the screen. I had to get it on DVD instead. They might have since fixed it.

  • Alfred J. KwakAlfred J. Kwak Registered User
    This thread lacks Tetsuo: The Iron Man. There is a trailer on Youtube, but it gives away a lot of the imagery from the film, so I've spoilered it below.
    Spoiler:

    is that a ... drill wang?

  • NailbunnyPDNailbunnyPD Registered User regular
    This thread lacks Tetsuo: The Iron Man. There is a trailer on Youtube, but it gives away a lot of the imagery from the film, so I've spoilered it below.
    Spoiler:

    is that a ... drill wang?

    :winky:

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    So I'm watching Rec 2 right now, and the first thing that's immediate is the production value boost. The first movie went the route of news reporter documentary, but this one seems more traditional movie quality.

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    This thread lacks Tetsuo: The Iron Man. There is a trailer on Youtube, but it gives away a lot of the imagery from the film, so I've spoilered it below.
    Spoiler:

    is that a ... drill wang?

    :winky:

    Dead Leaves anyone?

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    I gotta say, I've discovered a bit of a problem with going through my horror-movie binge all throughout this month, and that's the fact that it sort of desensitized the effect scares have on me. In the beginning I would generally get scared from these flicks, then creeped out; now it's more or less nothing more than a rise every once-in-a-while.

    I especially notice this during viewings of classic horror movies; movies like The Exorcist, Alien and The Thing didn't actually scare me at all. I thought they were fantastic movies on their own rights, but outside of the crab walk scene in The Exorcist and the blood jump scene in The Thing, those three movies didn't terrify me so much.

    I treat those movies like The Beatles music; sure they can seem outdated and/or surpassed in different ways by other, newer flicks, but back then those kind of scares were so groundbreaking and fresh that people didn't know how to react because of how original they were at the time.

    It becomes a lot more easier to appreciate them for what they are with that in mind, so I definitely don't feel disappointed for not being as scared as I've heard others being when viewing the flicks.

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  • useless4useless4 Registered User regular
    No-Quarter wrote:
    Dangerbird wrote:
    Yes, I noticed the super gayness of Elm Street 2. I don't quite recall the details, but I remember it made me laugh on multiple occasions while watching it.

    Look up " A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 is Gay " on youtube, I would post it here but it's TOTALLY not safe for work. Suffice to say the cast and crew discuss it.

    There is an EXCELLENT documentary called Never Sleep Again all about the Elm Street series that goes very very indepth about the homosexual overtones (inadvertent as they may have been). It was one of the best documentaries about a film series I have seen and would love one about Friday the 13th just like it.

    But then again I am the exact right age to love the "dream" triliogy of 3/4/5.
    I was just old enough to watch but just young enough not to fully understand Dream Warriors when it was new. With 4 I was old enough to fully understand and be sucked in by the "90s hip" of part 4 and just had to see the whole thing thru with part 5. I don't like the others except for Freddy Vs. Jason and I am one of the few that actually think the plot makes sense in it's own way.

    3 really really could use a quality remake. The remake of 1 was ... ... I don't know if I like it or not but i think if handled right 3 would make a killing at the box office.

  • Magus`Magus` Registered User regular
    Godfather wrote:
    I gotta say, I've discovered a bit of a problem with going through my horror-movie binge all throughout this month, and that's the fact that it sort of desensitized the effect scares have on me. In the beginning I would generally get scared from these flicks, then creeped out; now it's more or less nothing more than a rise every once-in-a-while.

    I especially notice this during viewings of classic horror movies; movies like The Exorcist, Alien and The Thing didn't actually scare me at all. I thought they were fantastic movies on their own rights, but outside of the crab walk scene in The Exorcist and the blood jump scene in The Thing, those three movies didn't terrify me so much.

    I treat those movies like The Beatles music; sure they can seem outdated and/or surpassed in different ways by other, newer flicks, but back then those kind of scares were so groundbreaking and fresh that people didn't know how to react because of how original they were at the time.

    It becomes a lot more easier to appreciate them for what they are with that in mind, so I definitely don't feel disappointed for not being as scared as I've heard others being when viewing the flicks.
    Spoiler:

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  • GodfatherGodfather Registered User regular
    So my local Blockbuster had a copy of Trick r Treat! I'm looking forward to this Tales-From-The-Crypt style storytelling!

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    Tell us what you think~

  • NailbunnyPDNailbunnyPD Registered User regular
    Yay! The local indie theater is doing a free showing of Halloween on Monday.

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  • Magus`Magus` Registered User regular
    Come on, GF, don't leave us hanging! WHAT DID YOU THEEENK

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