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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 4, 2016 at 11:47 pm
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(February 4, 2016 at 8:23 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I love most Stephen King books and films. I have a complex relationship with the film and book IT. I love them most of the way through except the end is pretty bad, plus the acting in the IT film is also pretty dated by now and so is the production, I'm disappointed the remake wasn't done.
I love the Freddy films but I think my Freddy of choice is Freddy's dead, the final nightmare.
These are more my childhood films, these days the horror films I've enjoyed were the paranormal activity, conjuring and insidious. Plus it follows.
The book It is amazing and my fave of King's books out of the ones I've read so far. I enjoy the movie, but mostly for the first half. The remake is supposedly still happening, but with a different director.
(February 4, 2016 at 8:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: The Conjuring
The Others
Annabelle
Exorcism of Emily Rose
I'm stoked about the second Conjuring. The first one is one of the best horror films in years.
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 5, 2016 at 9:26 pm
I'm about to watch Green Inferno. Has anyone seen it?
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 5, 2016 at 10:08 pm
Honestly, while horror is, to me, a very nebulous genre, here are a few of my favourites:
- The Haunting (1963 version, naturally)
- The Shining
- Shyamalan's (admittedly few) good films (read: Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Visit, and [an honorary place due largely to a brief scene with Bryce Dallas Howard awakening my foot fetish] The Village)
- The Evil Dead Trilogy
- The Wicker Man (1973 version)
- Silence of the Lambs
- Manhunter
- Red Dragon
- Practically ANY German Expressionist classic
- Natural Born Killers
- Black Swan
- Repulsion
- Let the Right One In
- Rosemary's Baby (No, I haven't seen the remake)
- Where the Dead go to Die
- Dawn of the Dead (Either one, really)
- Shaun of the Dead
- Donnie Darko
- Kalifornia
- Day of the Locust
- 28 Days Later
- Any film by Cronenberg or del Toro
- American Psycho
- Yentl.
I suppose that some may dispute the place some of these films on the list; some might not register as horror. But I stand by them nonetheless. Except for the last one. That was just a joke.
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 5, 2016 at 10:09 pm
I didn't understand Donnie Darko. It was weird. Was there supposed to be a point?
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 5, 2016 at 10:49 pm
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 6, 2016 at 12:49 am
(February 5, 2016 at 9:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm about to watch Green Inferno. Has anyone seen it?
I want to see it myself, but have heard mixed things. Eli Roth means well, but his films aren't among my favorites.
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 6, 2016 at 12:52 am
(February 6, 2016 at 12:49 am)NaughtyButNice Wrote: (February 5, 2016 at 9:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm about to watch Green Inferno. Has anyone seen it?
I want to see it myself, but have heard mixed things. Eli Roth means well, but his films aren't among my favorites.
I chickened out. Don't want to watch it tonight because it's night time and I'll be home along all weekend. Not that I get scared, but it's just a very heavy movie to watch alone at night. I think I'll watch it tomorrow during the day.
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 6, 2016 at 12:53 am
(February 5, 2016 at 10:49 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Well, here's one video that might help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_--aB6mEYsM
That was interesting, thanks! Now I want to rewatch that movie lol.
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 6, 2016 at 1:39 am
Night of the demons (80's)
The Reaping
Sixth Sense
Legion
Event Horizon
Fright Night (80's)
Insidious 1,2,and 3
The Ring
The Eye
Flatliners
Children of the Corn
Sometimes They Come Back
It
Drag Me To Hell
The Devils Rejects
Vampires
The Lost Boys
Dead Silence
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RE: Any horror fanatics in the house?
February 6, 2016 at 2:48 am
Movies that got me spooked as a kid:
Nightmare on elm street... (watched it when I was 8...only took about a year to shake it off)
Star trek II, the wrath of Khan (something to do with worms entering the brain and turning you into a sort of soulless robot)
Aliens
More recent I ones may be...
The ring
Saw (this was more the gross factor than horror)
And then I gave up watching these sort of movies...
With the exception of the evil dead trilogy which I reached recently, but that was more for the funny and nostalgia factor, than any horror thematic.
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