Horror Movies

[Darthshearer]

I have never really been interested in Horror moveis and recently watched Scream for the second time with my bird and its still pants.

Horror movies yeh or neh?

 

[Kathal]

Yeh imo.
Spice Girl movie was scary.

 

[Alithiel]

I've never been all that interested in watching horror movies, largely because they make me laugh, and it seems a bit wrong to be laughing at that sort of thing...

No, I'm not being sick or anything... I just can't help being amused by all the stupid ways in which people commit suicide in these films.

For example: Going outside to investigate a noise when theres a monster/murderer on the prowl = suicide...

Having said that, I did find the Scream trilogy quite entertaining - mainly because it doesn't take itself at all seriously, and came across as poking fun at horror movies in general.

 

[leggy]

When I was at school I loved them. Goulies, House, Any zombie film you can imagine. As I grew up I began to hate them more and more. Now I won't even waste my time as the quality is usually that bad.

Saying that, my all time fav horror film has to be the Mothman Prophecies. A controversial choice but it was one that really did scare me.

 

[Damini]

Scream isn't a true horror movie. It's a quasi slasher movie for a teen audience. If you want to try horror, try the original version of The Ring. Or try the first two Alien films, or Halloween, or The Eye.

 

[granny]

I like scary films, genuinely scary ones like Alien1/3, The Ring... er... yeah.. what Damini said

Gore films though, not interested, not scary. Although in the last 12 months or so I seem to have developed some kind of weird hyper-sensitivity to TV/film graphical violence, I just can't watch it any more, dunno wtf has happened, it never used to bother me. Was watching something about the Turin Shroud lastnight and when some forensic pathologist started going into detail about the crucifixion I had to turn it over.

A good old scary film though... that takes some doing. I actually find Apocalypse Now quite scary although that's the fine line between scary and disturbing.

 

[Lazarus]

personally I prefer a tense plot to over the top blood and gore.

 

[Wij]

Get Audition.

Ooh, that is sooooooooo good

 

[milou]

http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/index2.shtml

 

[Darthshearer]

Are Aliens classed as horror movies though? I like them a lot but I wouldnt really class them as horror movies tbh.

 

[leggy]

How could I forget poltergeist. That film made me cry. Twice.

 

[Taen]

The Ring ( US or Japanese version .. both are good )
Jacobs Ladder
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Blair Witch Project
The Exorcist
Suspiria

Just a few different types of horror movies .. all very good but different, you will definetly like a couple if not all and believe me they will scare you.

 

[Scouse]

I still reckon that, although it fits the Sci-Fi profile more - The Thing is my favourite "horror"

 

[Tom]

I still can't watch The Blair Witch Project unless its really bright and sunny outside.

 

[WPKenny]

I'm a big horror fan. Not the gore type but the stalk and slash. I like a lot of the classics but the ones that the genral public call "classics" I think are a bit pants.
Texas Chainsaw massacre for instance. The original made me laugh out loud when I saw some fat fucker running around iwth a mask on and a chainsaw. The remake bored me.

Exorcist was was dull to. Maybe it was all the parody around of it but the only bit that scared me was when the white face flashed up on screen at random moments.

Films in my collection that I do rate as horror even if they also fall into other categories are....
Jaws, Alien (classic stalk and slash just like...), Halloween I and II, The Fog, The Thing, The Ring (Jap version), The Eye, Dark Water, American Werewolf in Paris, IT and the Lost Boys and the Evil Dead trilogy to name a few.

Jaws is, for me, pretty much a perfect film. Halloween is stalk 'n' slash at it's peek. Alien isn't far behind it. The Jap horrors are great but don't hold up to strongly to repeat viewing with an exception to The Ring. The Fog still makes me jump each time I see it.

For horror movies it's each to their own. Horror movies do fall into a number of categories....teen slasher, stalker, gore, suspense etc etc and each person has different buttons that get pushed by each type.

Blair Which for example scared the crap out of me the first time I saw it. I was in a cabin at the end of the garden with my (now) ex and the wind was howling and trees were blowing in the wind and although it was about 20ft to the house, it may have been a million miles because there was no fucking way I was going it alone even if my bladder was about to burst. Yet I've seen it since and it's just "ungh" kind of average but I do still appreciate how orginal it appeared at the time.

 

[Taen]

The Evil Dead trilogy were some of the funniest films I have ever seen .. cant believe they scared you, though there were a few jumps in them

 

[WPKenny]

The Evil Dead trilogy were some of the funniest films I have ever seen .. cant believe they scared you, though there were a few jumps in them

Never said the scared me, just said they were good horror films

But yeah, there's a few good jumps in them.

 

[Wij]

Dead Of Night for teh ph34r !

 

[evzy]

Event Horizon - watch in a dark room , drunk and alone and I guarantee it will scare you (did for me anyways!)
American Werewolf in London is a classic.
Seem to remember a film called Demons being scary by Dario Argento - was some time ago i saw it though so may be dated by todays standard.
Alien scary, Aliens cool but not scary.
Wasnt that impressed with Ring (original) think the hype stopped it living up to the expectation but if i had seen it pre-hype i reckon i would've enjoyed it more.
Dawn and Day of the dead - originals - scared me as a wee kid and i think its helped the scare factor - zombies still freak me out a little

Probably more than a few good films still to list that escape me at the moment as well...

Freddy V Jason = only horror? film i still cannot decide if its funny or awful or bizzare or wtf is going on here! surreal....

 

[CorNokZ]

Yeh imo.
Spice Girl movie was scary.

Agree... Pissed my pants... Twice..

 

[Tasslehoff]

Agree... Pissed my pants... Twice..

And i were wearing them

 

[Sydrik]

My sister forced me to watch 'it' when i was about 9. But then she was horrible. Good horror is hard to come by nowadays. *sigh* they dont make em like they used to.

 

[DaveyJones]

My sister forced me to watch 'it' when i was about 9. But then she was horrible. Good horror is hard to come by nowadays. *sigh* they dont make em like they used to.

Its not that they dont make horror like they used to the problem is people today are just to jaded.

 

[evzy]

Its not that they dont make horror like they used to the problem is people today are just to jaded.

Or is it we were more scared of horror at a younger age and now with age/wisdom and sorry to be a bit heavy but the horror's of real life at times - terrorism etc, is it more a case of we have generally outgrown horror - i find its more the horror that plays with your imagination - e.g Blair Witch than slasher flicks that scare me most these days but when i was younger any kind of gross horror would invariably do the trick and require a change of the mighty Y's.

 

[Bron]

I agree

I think RING, especially the Japanese version is very scary. I had to sleep for about a week with my main bedroom light on!

I also found its sequel pretty scary too, there is something about the girl (Sadako) that i don't like. She creeps me out big time. Before when i had my hair over my face , i caught myself in the mirror and my heart jumped a mile and i started crying! I looked the spitting image of the girl, I was so frightened!

Jus thought I'd share that!

 

[Meatballs]

You need to be in the dark to watch a proper horror movie, alone is also good, and with doors half open etc

 

[FuzzyLogic]

The first Nightmare on Elm street is fairly frightening. Don't let the sequels put you off, the original one had much less of a nudge wink "He's behind you" mentality and more of the "One, two, freddy's coming for you" which was damn scary when i saw it years ago and still is O~O.