Official Horror Film Discussion
 

I'm aware of the few other overall horror threads that were posted a while back, but they've also had no activity for a good while, so that being said....

it's time for a new one! What are some of your favorites? Which ones are the worst ones?

I'll start right off the bat by saying Hide and Seek is f*cking terrible. It's bad enough it was a film designed to get you hooked all the way to the end and then throws a twist for the finale (that didnt really make sense to begin with).
Another bad one is The Ouija Experiment, especially the sequel, dont see those...unless you like to be in for a bad time.

They are hilariously bad. :D

I really enjoy bad horror movies. Shark movies are a staple of Bad-Movie-Nights.

The Barrens 2012 (was named Jersey Devil on my Netflix) is pretty good, it balances well between what's real and what is not real through the movie.

The Hatched movies are not good, but pretty fun and inventive on the gore. A bit of low-rent Jason killer that lives in the swamps.

The Only Horror Movies I like are Evil Dead 2 Dead by Dawn and the Halloween Movies.

I'm in the midst of writing a horror movie right now so I've been watching a huge string of horror flicks. Just watched Hellraiser last night.

My favourite horror* film is Scream. I know it has its share of problems but there's a real sense of fun included in the carnage.

I'm also a huge pusher for people to watch Beyond the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. If you like the slasher classics like Jason, Freddy, Michael.. check it out. It's amazingly charming.

*As a genre, "Horror" is typically misused to categorize any scary movie. By definition, Horror needs to have a supernatural element in the story to be deemed Horror. If it doesn't, such as the case of Scream, it's considered a Thriller.

My favorite horror films are The Fly (1986), Alien, Psycho, Near Dark (1987), John Carpenter's The Thing, and Fright Night (1985).

Have any of you seen "Sleepaway Camp"?

I find this strange. If it were proven that there are beings in the universe like in The Thing, would that make The Thing a sci-fi/thriller instead of sci-fi/horror?

You're entering a grey area but I'd suppose it'd be considered Science-Fantasy/Thriller.

I tend to enjoy horror a lot more than thrillers.My favorite antagonists have to be the cenobites from Hellraiser. They're all business and don't quip like Freddy. I think the only thriller that gets my heart pumping is Saw and the subsequent films. Pitched down or not, Tobin Bell's voice never fails to give me the creeps. I'm still hoping he lends his voice to some ancient Sith Lord in a holocron in one SW thing or another. Other than Jigsaw, thriller baddies just don't do it for me.

Just watched this little... well, I was gonna say gem, but its not quite that.

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I love late 90s/early 00's slasher flicks, as unremarkable as they might be. Probably due to nostalgia more than anything else: the cast, the clothing, the music(especially in this case) all have a way of making some pretty schlocky films quite endearing to me.

Not sure how this one managed to sneak by me for all these years, but I'm happy I saw it. It's no masterpiece and certainly doesn't break any new ground in the genre but it's still a fun little by the numbers slasher flick. Most of the death scenes are pretty uninspired but there's a couple stand outs, too.

And I don't care how many seasons of Bones he has under his belt, I still can't see David Boreanaz as anything but Angel.

All in all, a fun little flick. There's worse ways to burn 90 minutes.

I'm not a big fan of horror films, but I like a lot of them, mostly slashers from the late 90s onwards. My favourites are Scream, I Know What You Did That Summer, Wrong Turn, 28 Days Later, House on Haunted Hill (1999), Cabin in the Woods, Ghost Ship, and Tucker and Dale versus Evil. Ones I don't like are Urban Legend, The Final Girls, Small Town Folk and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (remake).

I've seen this one...wasnt really a fan.

I mostly gravitate towards Troma & Japanese horror. Rubber creatures, gore, exploitation, they're my thing. :trazz:

Have you seen Killer Condom? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116791/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Yeah, like I said, there's nothing special about it. But I enjoy it for what it is. Or maybe since I watched it immediately after Slumber Party Massacre, which didn't really do much for me.

I saw Slumber Party Massacre a few months ago. It had some unique characters, but the overall story has been done better by other films.

My favorite horror films are

1. Psycho
2. Jaws
3. Halloween (original)
4. Misery
5. The Others

I think The Others is a really underappreciated film. Highly atmospheric.

I'm trying to think of some horror films but one I felt that was categorized as horror but I felt wasn't was Stephen King's Cat's Eye. I don't know if it was meant to be scary but truthfully it didn't know what it wanted to be.

Actually I did enjoy The Skeleton Key with Kate Hudson but that was probably more thriller than scary. I hated the ending though.

For horror tv show, try either Slasher or Darknet

Any good ones to advise?
I am looking for a horror in this vein for Saturday night.

Well some Troma favorites are Toxic Avenger 4 & Terror Firmer, as far as the Japanese ones go I'd suggest Tokyo Gore Police, Mutant Girls Squad, Robo Geisha, Aliens Vs. Ninjas, & Frankenstein Girl Vs. Vampire Girl for starters. They're all pretty goofy, but heavy on the gore, fun, & suggestive imagery. Dead Alive is great for satisfying this kinda need, too. If you just want straight up violence, with less traditional horror, go with Ichi The Killer.

The Gate is an unrelated film that I'd highly recommend to any horror fan, if only for it's effects. Lots of stopmotion & stuff.

Someone else would have to answer that. I stick with gore for the most part. I'm not well versed in the more dramatic kind of films they produce there.

I'm not really intro horror movies. My main problem with them is that most of them usually try to disturb, scare or just, well, horrify you instead of simply telling a good story with horrifying elements. It also doesn't help that when I was a kid horror films utterly terrified me...and my Mom and sister couldn't get enough of them. Whenever we'd go to the video rental store I'd always say something like "Can we get the Lion King?" My Mom and sister would just stare at each other for a brief second before saying something like "Let's get Child's Play instead.". So that was always my family movie night, watching something that would give me nightmares and make me terrified and/or paranoid. To top it all off, my Mom would send us to bed RIGHT after watching whatever new or old terror I had been exposed to...with the lights off. I couldn't even just go off and play by myself because during my young days all my toys were kept in the same room as the TV. So my only option was to watch something that I'd regret or go into another room all by myself with nothing to do. Always hated when we would rent a movie, only consolation was that I got to rent a video game...which I couldn't play until the next day because of the movie.

However, I really like older horror movies like the Universal Monsters films like Dracula, etc. The Bride of Frankenstein is probably my favorite horror movie. The most "modern" horror series that I often think about is the Evil Dead series. Just something about them has never left me. Maybe it's seeing Ash's character progress through the trilogy, maybe it's because Army of Darkness is a lot of fun to watch. Or maybe it's because, I kid you not, I got so scared during a jump scare in the first one that I had an out of body experience. But for whatever reason I often think about watching them again, I've still not seen all of Evil Dead 2 because I closed my eyes and covered my ears through most of it. Hey, I wasn't even in the third grade yet, give me a break!

If you wanna see the most messed up Japanese horror film you will ever see you should check out Audition. I warn you though. It is NOT for the faint of heart. It's a Takashi Miike film. He also made Ichi The Killer and 13 Assassins. 13 Assassins is one of the greatest movies ever if you've never seen it. It's on Netflix. Not horror but a GREAT Samurai movie.

Tokyo Gore Police is inSANE dude! I was just telling someone about that movie the other day.

13 Assassins might be the best samurai movie ever. :tlol: As you said, it's totally not horror, but there are some similarly disturbing elements, & plenty of violence.

I see Child's Play was mentioned. The 7th Chucky movie is supposedly coming next year. So I'm personally excited for that.

I know these topics get made every year but other than listing some of my favorites, which I've done before, I don't know what else to add.

The most recent film, Curse of Chucky, was very good and had a bit of novelty to it. I hope this next one is a direct sequel.

Yeah it would pretty much make Tarantino blush. LOL!

I was reading the comicbook Tomboy and saw that "Action Labs" was doing Puppet Master comics, so what are the opinions on Puppet Master?

Aw, dude. Great flick. Chopping Mall is another good one.

You should check out the Evil Dead remake that came out a few years ago. It's the only remake I can think of that I actively did not want to happen, but ended up loving it after seeing it.

Ehhhhh...not my bag.

Ya I love the Chucky movies. It is going to be a sequel.

No solid info yet but it's supposed to clear up the ending of Curse. That's all that's been said. Nica, the girl in the wheelchair is supposed to return too.

I try to watch at least one horror movie in October, I think I'll watch the Friday the 13th remake. I've always liked Jason but as an adult I find it hard to watch any of his movies but this remake from what I read kind of takes the first 3 movies stories and combines them into one film so that might be the way to go.

Just watched Kobolos
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Found it on YouTube and was going to let it play in the background but I got sucked in. For a budget movie it holds a great atmosphere and has some great gore effects.

Not much of a teaser but uhhh yeah

Watched Syngenor the other day

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Not a bad creature feature and I enjoyed David Gale's character. You should be able to pick up the Synapse release on the cheap if this one tickles your fancy.