Collarspace Discussion Forums


Home  Login  Search 

RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General


View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
 
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General Page: <<   < prev  1 [2] 3   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 12:22:25 PM   
Hillwilliam


Posts: 19394
Joined: 8/27/2008
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: sexyred1

Diabolique


Which one? The original in French or the American remake?

_____________________________

Kinkier than a cheap garden hose.

Whoever said "Religion is the opiate of the masses" never heard Right Wing talk radio.

Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Johnson.

(in reply to sexyred1)
Profile   Post #: 21
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 12:35:22 PM   
sexyred1


Posts: 8998
Joined: 8/9/2007
Status: offline 		I actually liked the original one better, as I usually do with film remakes.

Except for a few, they are usually better.

(in reply to Hillwilliam)
Profile   Post #: 22
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 12:37:32 PM   
Spiritedsub2


Posts: 3316
Joined: 7/18/2012
Status: offline 		Good call on Dead Ringers! Though the evil twins' collection of medieval gynocological torture instruments just makes me think of Kana nowadays...

_____________________________

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
~ Rumi

Laughing Dolphin

(in reply to sexyred1)
Profile   Post #: 23
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 12:54:11 PM   
Hillwilliam


Posts: 19394
Joined: 8/27/2008
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: sexyred1

I actually liked the original one better, as I usually do with film remakes.

Except for a few, they are usually better.

same here.

Am I the only one that didn't notice the connection to the music video for "Goodbye Earl" by the Dixie chicks?

< Message edited by Hillwilliam -- 8/20/2013 12:55:10 PM >

_____________________________

Kinkier than a cheap garden hose.

Whoever said "Religion is the opiate of the masses" never heard Right Wing talk radio.

Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Johnson.

(in reply to sexyred1)
Profile   Post #: 24
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 12:59:24 PM   
sexyred1


Posts: 8998
Joined: 8/9/2007
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2

Good call on Dead Ringers! Though the evil twins' collection of medieval gynocological torture instruments just makes me think of Kana nowadays...



Haha.... Yes those are probably just lying around like kitchen utensils!

(in reply to Spiritedsub2)
Profile   Post #: 25
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 1:19:05 PM   
Gauge


Posts: 5689
Joined: 6/17/2005
Status: offline 		Wow! I have my work cut out for me.

Some of the suggestions I have already seen, but others I never heard of so they go on my list.

Just to clear something up, I enjoy all horror, not splatter films because they tend toward the absurd, but a decent dose of gore never hurts. Psychological horror is one that I love because if you have my brain, the rest comes along for the ride.

I am not opposed to Science Fiction either, I love all kinds of different stuff, thus 1500 DVDs in my modest collection. Only ones I stay away from are chick flicks and tear jerkers, all others are fair game.

Keep them coming... and thank you for taking the time to make suggestions for me!

_____________________________

"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men." Herman Melville - Moby Dick

I'm wearing my chicken suit and humming La Marseillaise.

(in reply to sexyred1)
Profile   Post #: 26
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 1:22:48 PM   
ShaharThorne


Posts: 11071
Joined: 2/24/2009
From: Somewhere in TX
Status: offline 		Now watch while Kana comes on and decides to get a few items on LW...

I love foreign horror movies but I seldom get to watch any (unless Netflix carries them). It has to tease my mind, no blood and gore needed. I actually got Mom to watch Love, Actually because I love how Alan Rickman was an asshole on it. I always cry when the Christmas pageant is playing (love the song). If we get free previews of any movie channels, I watch them. Can't convince Mom to get Starz so I can watch The White Queen (medieval freak here).

I think I did see Brotherhood of the Wolf YEARS ago. Maybe need to check out the queue on Netflix again...

_____________________________

Goddess of Yarn

You are making two and a half feet of irresistible, tubular sex! -Lola, Kinky Boots

Founder: Bitch with Tits

Whip me, beat me, make me feel cheap and have great sex

(in reply to sexyred1)
Profile   Post #: 27
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 1:25:43 PM   
hlen5


Posts: 5890
Joined: 3/2/2008
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Spiritedsub2

Good call on Dead Ringers! Though the evil twins' collection of medieval gynocological torture instruments just makes me think of Kana nowadays...


Dead Ringers is the one movie I have ever walked out of a theater on.

It's not really a horror movie, I don't know what to classify it as, but Closetland was very interesting to me.

One other suggestion - The Cube (I think it's called) with Jennifer Lopez. Odd but interesting.

< Message edited by hlen5 -- 8/20/2013 1:29:32 PM >

_____________________________



My fave Thread: http://www.collarchat.com/m_2626198/mpage_1/tm.htm

One time "Phallus Expert Extraordinaire"

(in reply to Spiritedsub2)
Profile   Post #: 28
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 1:26:24 PM   
theshytype


Posts: 1600
Status: offline 		Ooooh. I love Donnie Darko.
My favorite movies are ones that play with your mind. I really liked the Butterfly Effect as well.

Two movies that scarred me for life:
Creepshow 2: The Raft - I'm always leery when I see a blob of seaweed roaming about in the middle of the lake.
When a Stranger Calls Back (I believe that's the right one) - I was young when I first watched it but I never looked at walls the same.

(in reply to sexyred1)
Profile   Post #: 29
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 1:28:04 PM   
Hillwilliam


Posts: 19394
Joined: 8/27/2008
Status: offline 		Strangeland with Dee Snider as a massively pierced sadistic psychopath is pretty good too.

_____________________________

Kinkier than a cheap garden hose.

Whoever said "Religion is the opiate of the masses" never heard Right Wing talk radio.

Don't blame me, I voted for Gary Johnson.

(in reply to ShaharThorne)
Profile   Post #: 30
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 2:27:27 PM   
theshytype


Posts: 1600
Status: offline 		I found this list on IMDB:

The 100 Best Psychological Thriller Movies

I don't agree with some (Paranormal Activity mostly comes to mind) but does include two of my all-time favorites, Se7en and The Silence of the Lambs. Also included is a movie I'm hesitant to admit I really enjoyed, The Cell.
There are some other movies I've never heard of. It appears I have some major catching up to do.

I'd be interested to know just how many thrillers in the past decade are remakes.

(in reply to Hillwilliam)
Profile   Post #: 31
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 2:45:20 PM   
Moonhead


Posts: 16520
Joined: 9/21/2009
Status: offline 		If you walked out of Dead Ringers, don't even think about watching either of these two...

Tetsuo and Tetsuo Two (Body Hammer), are raving mad. Imagine Ichii The Killer, if it had been scripted by Phillip K Dick on crack. These films have everything (except much of a plot in the first one): scrap metal Akira style mutations (a great mix live action and stop motion), casual slaughter, misogyny (one scene involves a woman being screwed to death with a penis that's turned into a drill), strange conspiracies, you name it. Strange flicks, but not much like anything else, particularly as both were made in the early '90s.

Another horror film everybody should see is the wonderful short of The Call Of Cthulhu a HPL fan society made. it's done as the film they'd have made of the story in the year it was written, so it's a black and white silent film, with stop motion monsters and awesome cod expressionist sets. Wonderful fun, particularly if you know your Lovecraft.

_____________________________

I like to think he was eaten by rats, in the dark, during a fog. It's what he would have wanted...
(Simon R Green on the late James Herbert)

(in reply to hlen5)
Profile   Post #: 32
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 3:33:34 PM   
MasterCaneman


Posts: 3842
Joined: 3/21/2013
Status: offline 		Straight to Hell, A story of blood, money, guns, coffee, and sexual tension. It's billed as an "action-comedy", but only loosely fits those. Watch it. You'll either love it on a Rocky Horror level, or you'll hate it and everyone associated with it.

_____________________________

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and ambition.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Goddess Wrangler



(in reply to Moonhead)
Profile   Post #: 33
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 5:47:45 PM   
pissdoll


Posts: 343
Joined: 5/25/2005
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: PyrotheClown

I keep chanting "ubu gabu ubu gabu,one of us one of us" at work but no one ever gets the reference



hmmm, might be because the reference is "gooble gobble, gooble gobble. we accept her. we accept her. gooble gobble, gooble gobble. one of us. one of us."

Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932)

(in reply to PyrotheClown)
Profile   Post #: 34
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 5:59:21 PM   
dcnovice


Posts: 37282
Joined: 8/2/2006
Status: offline 		FR

To me, The Devil Wears Prada was a horror flick, but then I work in publishing.

_____________________________

No matter how cynical you become,
it's never enough to keep up.

JANE WAGNER, THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF
INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE

(in reply to pissdoll)
Profile   Post #: 35
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 7:31:05 PM   
Gauge


Posts: 5689
Joined: 6/17/2005
Status: offline 		OK, just got done watching VHS and I thought that the movie was pretty decent. Had some nice elements of horror and definitely a dip into the bizarre here and there. Great concept to it, smaller stories can be nearly twice as effective as one long one. Of course the smaller stories concept has been done before, but not quite this way which was not without its intrigue.

A few times I found myself looking at the time which is never a good sign with a movie because that means I feel like it is dragging, but if it did drag a little it quickly made up for lost time. I also love that there was no one famous in it, sometimes unknowns are better because they are everyday people and can pull off that feel much better than someone famous who you have seen in 20 different movies.

I normally rate movies on two elements, one is the basic movie overall, and the second is the entertainment value. I have seen some OK movies that have been highly entertaining. I have also seen some well acted clunkers that bored me to tears. So that is my rating system.

Overall score: 7/10

Entertainment value: 8/10

I would watch this again. Thanks for the suggestion.

On to my next movie. Keep them coming!



_____________________________

"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men." Herman Melville - Moby Dick

I'm wearing my chicken suit and humming La Marseillaise.

(in reply to dcnovice)
Profile   Post #: 36
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/20/2013 9:18:53 PM   
TheHeretic


Posts: 19100
Joined: 3/25/2007
From: California, USA
Status: offline 		After a years long binge in my youth, and a number of years working in the blood and guts makeup of mass casualty simulations and halloween, I really don't watch horror movies anymore. I did think that The Blair Witch Project was a nice bit of creepy work.

Just for movies for the guy who has seen all of them though, there is a fun little one (not horror in any way) called The Wizard of Speed and Time. It's a passionate kiss goodbye to the old stop motion method of special effects, before CGI took over the craft. It's on Youtube, but I cannot imagine that video quality would let anyone appreciate just what it took to make that film.

There is a 3 minute snip at the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLhLn9hVkE

_____________________________

If you lose one sense, your other senses are enhanced.
That's why people with no sense of humor have such an inflated sense of self-importance.


(in reply to Gauge)
Profile   Post #: 37
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/21/2013 8:18:50 AM   
Darkfeather


Posts: 1142
Joined: 3/13/2007
Status: offline 		1500 DVDs, that's a good start. As for horror, I could do a running list but for starters if you haven't seen it. Martyrs

(in reply to Gauge)
Profile   Post #: 38
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/21/2013 1:03:36 PM   
TheDerekHarper


Posts: 69
Joined: 6/7/2013
Status: offline 		Off Topic a bit: Just saw The Evil Dead.
Good movie, i liked the scene where the chick is giggling and the other where the tree stump attacks the lady but made it look as if she was being raped in the woods XD

(in reply to Darkfeather)
Profile   Post #: 39
RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General - 8/21/2013 4:00:01 PM   
hlen5


Posts: 5890
Joined: 3/2/2008
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Moonhead

If you walked out of Dead Ringers, don't even think about watching either of these two...

Tetsuo and Tetsuo Two (Body Hammer), are raving mad. Imagine Ichii The Killer, if it had been scripted by Phillip K Dick on crack. These films have everything (except much of a plot in the first one): scrap metal Akira style mutations (a great mix live action and stop motion), casual slaughter, misogyny (one scene involves a woman being screwed to death with a penis that's turned into a drill), strange conspiracies, you name it. Strange flicks, but not much like anything else, particularly as both were made in the early '90s.

Another horror film everybody should see is the wonderful short of The Call Of Cthulhu a HPL fan society made. it's done as the film they'd have made of the story in the year it was written, so it's a black and white silent film, with stop motion monsters and awesome cod expressionist sets. Wonderful fun, particularly if you know your Lovecraft.


No offense Moon, but I SO wish I had skipped this post. To theshytype - I HATED Seven for the "Lust" murder.

_____________________________



My fave Thread: http://www.collarchat.com/m_2626198/mpage_1/tm.htm

One time "Phallus Expert Extraordinaire"

(in reply to Moonhead)
Profile   Post #: 40
Page:   <<   < prev  1 [2] 3   next >   >>
All Forums >> [Casual Banter] >> Off the Grid >> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General Page: <<   < prev  1 [2] 3   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts




Collarchat.com © 2025
Terms of Service Privacy Policy Spam Policy

0.090