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[Horror Movies] Gotta Be Nuts To See The Crazies?

OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
edited February 2010 in Social Entropy++
A new year means new horror movies. Kinda. The end of the month has this coming out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEMZwQulT1Q
Wikipedia wrote:
The Crazies is about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. One man, his wife, a nurse, and the sheriff try to survive this plague, but the military is killing everyone on sight. They're going to have to fight their way out, or die by either the plague or the military.

It's not a new idea though. It's based off of a film from the early 70's. And directed by someone quite experianced with the horror genre.

Though maybe not as experienced then...

It's not the only horror remake this year either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97h_Oj6PotM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS02xaTIdRI

Now I don't mind a remake or two, but it seems more often then not you end up getting something along the lines of the remakes for The Fog or Day Of The Dead. I know there's at least a few good ideas left for scaring people that doesn't include making them watch a piece of retreaded crap. What do you guys think? Was there any great horror movies that deserve to be left alone (or any period) or do we need these remakes to keep the scare 'fresh'?

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I vote for more horror movies and less gore movies pitched as 'horror' movies

    Chances of that happening: 1%

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    i enjoy a movie that can do gore and a sense of foreboding and doom really well

    so most horror movies are really disappointin for me

    i enjoyed The Thing and the uncut version of wolf creek

    on the latter, i may be in the minority

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Sheri wrote: »
    I vote for more horror movies and less gore movies pitched as 'horror' movies

    Chances of that happening: 1%

    I can back that sentiment. It seems like directors nowadays can't do a horror movie without resorting to some sort of extreme dismemberment or decapitation. Some movies can make it work but others just smell of laziness on the director/writers' part, trying to score a cheap scare.

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  • pillowpillow Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I don't like Horror movies or gory movies because they make me hurl and keep me up at night.

    I liked shawn of the dead but still made me toss my cookies

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  • SheriSheri Resident Fluffer My Living RoomRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Shawn of the Dead is amazing

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Sheri wrote: »
    Shawn of the Dead is amazing

    I back that opinion as well

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    i have a friend who just watched the fly for the first time ever

    i refuse to watch it ever again because it creeps me out more than any movie in history, but she kept texting me at all the gross parts and it grossed me out by proxy

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  • Casually HardcoreCasually Hardcore Once an Asshole. Trying to be better. Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Holy shit, since when trailers are so damn long? Might as well just give us the entire movie.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I thought Drag Me To Hell was hilarious and a fun horror flick

    who's with me

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    The Orphanage if you like tension without excessive gore

    The Orphanage errday

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Houk wrote: »
    i have a friend who just watched the fly for the first time ever

    i refuse to watch it ever again because it creeps me out more than any movie in history, but she kept texting me at all the gross parts and it grossed me out by proxy

    Have you watched this version?

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    spanish and italian horror

    now that's the stuff

    gore, terror, sense of hopelessness and misery

    now that's a recipe for some scary shit

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    #pipe wrote: »
    I thought Drag Me To Hell was hilarious and a fun horror flick

    who's with me

    Forever and ever. I thought it was genuinely terrifying.

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I really liked The Descent.

    I have to praise it in every horror thread.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    #pipe wrote: »
    I thought Drag Me To Hell was hilarious and a fun horror flick

    who's with me

    funniest movie I saw last year

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    i watched drag me to hell while drinking with a group of people on a tiny tv

    basically what im saying is i havent watched drag me to hell

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Drag Me To Hell is still sitting on my Netflix queue

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Raimi certainly hasn't lost his Evil Dead chops

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  • ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    ethugs4life wrote: »
    Holy shit, since when trailers are so damn long? Might as well just give us the entire movie.

    A lot of trailers lately have been annoying me because instead of giving you a general idea of the film they seem to give away most of what happens and a lot of it would actually be pretty good surprises. I guess they feel like they have to show the cool parts to get people to watch them or something.

    I understand why my mom doesn't watch trailers now.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Sheri wrote: »
    I vote for more horror movies and less gore movies pitched as 'horror' movies

    Chances of that happening: 1%

    YES YES YES

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Artreus wrote: »
    ethugs4life wrote: »
    Holy shit, since when trailers are so damn long? Might as well just give us the entire movie.

    A lot of trailers lately have been annoying me because instead of giving you a general idea of the film they seem to give away most of what happens and a lot of it would actually be pretty good surprises. I guess they feel like they have to show the cool parts to get people to watch them or something.

    I understand why my mom doesn't watch trailers now.

    yeah I don't watch trailers of movies I know I'm going to see

    I haven't seen anything from Iron Man 2 for example.

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  • DangerousDangerous Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Is it wrong that the 70's version of the crazies looks way more entertaining than the new one? I might have to track down a copy now.

    Also Ju-on, the original japanese version of the grudge (Which I heard kinda sucked) scared the fucking shit out of me. I don't even know why, something about it was just really unsettling.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8R1dODSbzU

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Dangerous wrote: »
    Is it wrong that the 70's version of the crazies looks way more entertaining than the new one? I might have to track down a copy now.

    Also Ju-on, the original japanese version of the grudge (Which I heard kinda sucked) scared the fucking shit out of me. I don't even know why, something about it was just really unsettling.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8R1dODSbzU

    Oh lord, fuck that movie.

    It gave me nightmares for a week.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I found the American version of The Ring to be much more effective than Ringu, but that's almost certainly a cultural thing

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    honestly

    the scariest movie I've ever seen is Blair Witch Project

    followed by the first three quarters of Poltergeist

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I found the American version of The Ring to be much more effective than Ringu, but that's almost certainly a cultural thing

    I too am easily effected by Naomi Watts

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Dee Kae wrote: »
    #pipe wrote: »
    I thought Drag Me To Hell was hilarious and a fun horror flick

    who's with me

    Forever and ever. I thought it was genuinely terrifying.


    It was awesome but there is no way it was genuinely terrifying

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  • DangerousDangerous Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    vsove wrote: »
    Dangerous wrote: »
    Is it wrong that the 70's version of the crazies looks way more entertaining than the new one? I might have to track down a copy now.

    Also Ju-on, the original japanese version of the grudge (Which I heard kinda sucked) scared the fucking shit out of me. I don't even know why, something about it was just really unsettling.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8R1dODSbzU

    Oh lord, fuck that movie.

    It gave me nightmares for a week.

    Amen. That fucking gurgling noise, and the crunching. I can't even watch the trailer with the sound on.

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  • CreepyCutieCreepyCutie Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I have to agree, The Decent scared the living daylights out of me.

    Also, I enjoy every Alien movie, even the bad one. Those chestbusters would hurt like nobodies business.

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    DodgeBlan wrote: »
    Dee Kae wrote: »
    #pipe wrote: »
    I thought Drag Me To Hell was hilarious and a fun horror flick

    who's with me

    Forever and ever. I thought it was genuinely terrifying.


    It was awesome but there is no way it was genuinely terrifying

    Depends on your mindset at the time of watchin'.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    #pipe wrote: »
    honestly

    the scariest movie I've ever seen is Blair Witch Project

    followed by the first three quarters of Poltergeist

    I thought Blair Witch was very effective!

    Lot of people like to rag on it now but I liked it a lot; I only saw it for the first time about 2 years ago

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    #pipe wrote: »
    honestly

    the scariest movie I've ever seen is Blair Witch Project

    followed by the first three quarters of Poltergeist

    Yeah, the Blair Witch Project is basically evil.

    I can't watch it alone.

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  • Airking850Airking850 Ottawa, ONRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Tried to watch Rec alone a few weeks ago

    could not get through the final scene.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    #pipe wrote: »
    honestly

    the scariest movie I've ever seen is Blair Witch Project

    followed by the first three quarters of Poltergeist

    I thought Blair Witch was very effective!

    Lot of people like to rag on it now but I liked it a lot; I only saw it for the first time about 2 years ago

    it is so so effective.

    it's that different kind of terrifying, the unknown "what the fuck is going on" kind.

    I mean it was a perfect storm when I watched it for the first time. I was home by myself at night and I watched one of the mockumentaries that pretend it's all real on the DVD special fetures before I watched the movie

    I was frozen to the couch, sweating and clenching teeth in fear

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    the previews and stuff for ju-on really creeped me the fuck out until someone walked by and heard that gurgling sound and was like 'man it sounds like someone playing with a bendy straw'

    immediately the whole thing became comical

    never did see the movie though, maybe it would scare me?

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    #pipe wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    #pipe wrote: »
    honestly

    the scariest movie I've ever seen is Blair Witch Project

    followed by the first three quarters of Poltergeist

    I thought Blair Witch was very effective!

    Lot of people like to rag on it now but I liked it a lot; I only saw it for the first time about 2 years ago

    it is so so effective.

    it's that different kind of terrifying, the unknown "what the fuck is going on" kind.

    I mean it was a perfect storm when I watched it for the first time. I was home by myself at night and I watched one of the mockumentaries that pretend it's all real on the DVD special fetures before I watched the movie

    I was frozen to the couch, sweating and clenching teeth in fear

    I was at my friend's house. Just the two of us. In the middle of nowhere. Near a forest.

    Suffice to say, I did not sleep well.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    If we're going to bring up Japanese horror...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7CQvmNF8l0

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    #pipe wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    #pipe wrote: »
    honestly

    the scariest movie I've ever seen is Blair Witch Project

    followed by the first three quarters of Poltergeist

    I thought Blair Witch was very effective!

    Lot of people like to rag on it now but I liked it a lot; I only saw it for the first time about 2 years ago

    it is so so effective.

    it's that different kind of terrifying, the unknown "what the fuck is going on" kind.

    I mean it was a perfect storm when I watched it for the first time. I was home by myself at night and I watched one of the mockumentaries that pretend it's all real on the DVD special fetures before I watched the movie

    I was frozen to the couch, sweating and clenching teeth in fear

    I remember the mockumentary that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel when the movie came out

    Anyway, that final sequence of the movie, in the house, had me so on edge it wasn't even funny
    The running and the screaming and aaaah

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Owenashi wrote: »
    If we're going to bring up Japanese horror...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7CQvmNF8l0
    ohh man this fucking movie

    it didnt help that i had no idea it was a horror movie when i watched it

    my friend was just like 'hey watch this movie, trust me its good'

    and then i was all fuuuuuck

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Opinions on Paranormal Activity?

    I thought it was awesome scary, though the end probably wasn't as good as the first 3/4.

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