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Post by theonemouse on Oct 28, 2009 18:20:24 GMT -7
Call me crazy, but I was always creeped out by the original "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Something about those weird 1970s special effects.
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Post by TRO Admin on Oct 28, 2009 18:37:07 GMT -7
Not much of a horror fan in the "Saw" or "Friday The 13th" style... Stephen King style I like. So my list won't really fit in here, but of the thriller variety, "The Stand" (a miniseries based on King's book) , "Red Dragon" and "Silence of the Lambs" (Hannibal sucked) are the three that come to mind first.
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Post by Fen on Oct 28, 2009 18:47:49 GMT -7
Nah I don't do horror films... I'm more into murder mystery, and in this case Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett. So I'll be spending the evening with Sherlock.
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Post by korbendallas on Oct 28, 2009 19:08:56 GMT -7
Any of those movies anyones faves?
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Post by theonemouse on Oct 29, 2009 5:58:10 GMT -7
@cassiagwnllian - I miss Jeremy Brett! He was an amazing Sherlock. korbendallas - I've seen all those movies and I can't say any of them were really horror to me. Half of them I feel asleep to and the other half I laughed at due to the really obvious clichés. I can rightly say that I have never been scared at any of those movies. |
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Post by abatos on Nov 4, 2009 19:16:29 GMT -7
Great list, #'s 10, 28, 52, 69 and 81 are the faves for me out of your list. I prefer fantasy/adventure with a touch of the darkside, lol.
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Post by Legendbournageddon on Nov 14, 2009 11:29:19 GMT -7
I always a fan of J-Horror. Throwing a bucket of gore at me never works so Saw and slasher movies aren't for me... too predictable. :/
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Post by rainbowfalls on Nov 15, 2009 14:57:59 GMT -7
^ This. I'm a Silent Hill addict. ^_^
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Post by kathyfraggle on Dec 23, 2010 6:48:42 GMT -7
I also am not a fan of the gory or gross type of horror movies. I like the supernatural type like God Bless the Child or Stigmata. They don't always have to be religious, but those are the most obvious ones.
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Post by TRO Admin on Dec 23, 2010 18:15:17 GMT -7
Would rather watch paint dry or Barney & Friends than a gory horror movie... although psychological thrillers such as Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, etc. interest me.
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Post by Sylverwolfe on Dec 27, 2010 18:10:48 GMT -7
Horror Movies...
Interesting topic.
My favorite overall has to be Alien. (Some argue that it is sci fi and they are correct, it is, but it is also horror.)
I think what made the alien so truly menacing in nature was the fact that the creature was not revealed for the first time until really late in the movie. All you had to go on were shots of portions of it and the actor's reactions to it.
And it captured our most natural fears about exploring space.
Kane (John Hurt) captured the curious one among us when he went leaning dangerously over that pod and looking into it only to have the face-hugger inside and poised to strike. The first time I saw that, I jumped halfway to the ceiling!
The best scene, though bloody, was the scene where the crew is eating dinner for one last time before they go into freezer to sleep for the journey home and after Kane has finally had the face-hugger get off of his face. They eat dinner and he is not well, the scene ends with the alien bursting out of his chest.
The reactions of the other characters were amazing. According to the behind the scenes and commentary on my DVD, Only John Hurt and the Special Effect crew knew that they were going to have the alien burst out of his chest. They didn't tell the rest of the actors and so when it did burst out, they were actually factually surprised and the director caught genuine emotions on film.
Another Sci-Fi horror movie was Signs! That scene where the little girl comes into the room and tells her father: "There's a monster outside my window, may I have a glass of water?" You are thinking "No way." And as dad is bringing her back to her room he spots one of those aliens crawling around on the top of their barn!!! I jumped in the theater when I saw it. My hair stands on end just describing it!
That movie had a lot of those hair-raising scenes in it. The alien seen on the amateur footage from South America was another one! The scene where he goes into the kitchen and sees it reflected in the kitchen knife is another.
Another Alien movie that gave me chills was Fire In The Sky. It was about a man who was abducted and can't remember until events and various stimuli trigger his post traumatic stress from the ordeal on the alien spacecraft.
I like a gamut of styles.
Cheesy Horror:
Evil Dead,
Evil Dead: Dead by Dawn
and
Army of Darkness fill this bill.
Even the sequels to Nightmare on Elm Street fill this role.
Thriller/Psychological: The Shining, By far bar none, my favorite of Stephen King's works. I like both versions. The classic with Jack Nicholson was the first one I saw and the one that stands out for me. The second version, actually directed by King was a great version too. It shows more details into how the family slips into madness and how the spirits in the Overlook Hotel manifest themselves stronger and stronger over time. (I still need to read that one.)
I also like Silver Bullet This one is about a paraplegic boy who has to fight a werewolf. It is based upon a short novel or novella, by King called The Cycle of the Werewolf
The series involving Hannibal Lecter is always hair raising too. It is incredible how sick the human psyche can become. Along these same notes is the movie The Island of Dr. Moreau. The latest version with Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando was not terribly great. In fact it was lacking in the story line, though the special effects weren't bad. The true madness of Dr. Moreau is best seen in the 1970's version which stars Burt Lancaster.
Thrillers:
Disturbing Behavior. This one came out when I was finishing High School and it was a good movie. It had people who were trusted manipulating and giving lobotomies to students who misbehaved in school.
The Faculty was another about that same time, and arguably another Sci-Fi movie because it featured aliens that were parasitic or symbiotic lifeforms infecting the faculty in a high school. This one had Elijah Wood in it.
I know What You Did Last Summer
Urban Legend
and
Scream
Creature Features:
The Blob I like both the 1970's version and the 1980's version. I think the 1980's version did a better job explaining the origins of the blob though.
The Aliens Quadrilogy could arguably be here.
But I am talking mainly about Jaws. I remember being terribly afraid to go to the beach after that movie. And in the summer of 1976 and summers following, until National Geographic and Discovery started showing more about sharks, the beaches and beach towns really suffered bad tourist seasons because of the movie. It was great to see Roy Scheider finally bag that shark in the end.
There are many more I could talk about but I would type you all to death.
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