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Gauge -> Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 7:52:55 PM)

OK gang, I am a horror movie nut. I also love movies and have over 1500 DVDs... more if you count all the TV series ones I have. I have found myself in a rut lately. I haven't seen a really good horror movie in some time and the suspense/action genre is also lacking in good ones.

I am a huge fan of the Saw series and foreign horror. The Americans think we have the best horror... you haven't lived until you have seen a French horror film. It does not take blood and gore to make a horror film for me, if you have a plot where you actually care about the characters all the better. So scratch off any Freddy or Jason movie... ever.

I am also looking for a specific movie that came out a few years ago where there was a political assassination and depending on where you were you saw a different thing. I believe it may have been an action film but I could be wrong.

So the idea here is to give me some of the best films horror or otherwise that you have seen. You can leave chick flicks or tear jerkers languishing on the floor where they belong... no interest. I will chime in from time to time and let people know if I have either already watched their suggestions or I intend to watch them. I will also leave reviews after watching, if anyone cares.

Thanks for the help in breaking up the mind numbing boredom. Let the game begin. (total Saw reference)



Spiritedsub2 -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 8:42:14 PM)

I don't have the nerve to watch Saw and its progeny. My all time favorite horror movie was The Exorcist, and I don't even have the nerve to watch it again! It will give me nightmares and I'll hear the soundtrack (Tubular Bells) in my head for a surreal week.
The first Omen movie was scary as hell too. God, do they make horror films like they used to? I'll be watching this thread for good suggestions for more current ones.



LookieNoNookie -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 9:05:20 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Gauge

OK gang, I am a horror movie nut. I also love movies and have over 1500 DVDs... more if you count all the TV series ones I have. I have found myself in a rut lately. I haven't seen a really good horror movie in some time and the suspense/action genre is also lacking in good ones.

I am a huge fan of the Saw series and foreign horror. The Americans think we have the best horror... you haven't lived until you have seen a French horror film. It does not take blood and gore to make a horror film for me, if you have a plot where you actually care about the characters all the better. So scratch off any Freddy or Jason movie... ever.

I am also looking for a specific movie that came out a few years ago where there was a political assassination and depending on where you were you saw a different thing. I believe it may have been an action film but I could be wrong.

So the idea here is to give me some of the best films horror or otherwise that you have seen. You can leave chick flicks or tear jerkers languishing on the floor where they belong... no interest. I will chime in from time to time and let people know if I have either already watched their suggestions or I intend to watch them. I will also leave reviews after watching, if anyone cares.

Thanks for the help in breaking up the mind numbing boredom. Let the game begin. (total Saw reference)

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and have over 1500 DVDs


(That may possibly be fucked up.....I'm not exactly sure).



TNDommeK -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 9:25:08 PM)

I made a thread about this movie I saw, it's called V/H/S.

If you've never seen it, get it, see it.



theshytype -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 9:37:56 PM)

I love the Saw movies, mostly for their uniqueness.
What I believe to be the most gory I've ever seen was Hostel.
Not the greatest, but very gory.

I've heard somewhere else that French horror movies are the best. I have yet to see one so I'd love a recommendation.

The movie you were referring to...Vantage Point?



Gauge -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 9:44:42 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: TNDommeK

I made a thread about this movie I saw, it's called V/H/S.

If you've never seen it, get it, see it.


Haven't seen it. Will watch it and let you know.



Gauge -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 9:58:34 PM)


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ORIGINAL: theshytype

I love the Saw movies, mostly for their uniqueness.
What I believe to be the most gory I've ever seen was Hostel.
Not the greatest, but very gory.

I've heard somewhere else that French horror movies are the best. I have yet to see one so I'd love a recommendation.


Hostel was child's play compared to French films. I have a few favorites:

Inside

High Tension

Frontiers

I have to warn you, Inside was pretty disturbing but a fantastic horror flick. None of those movies are for the faint of heart.

quote:

The movie you were referring to...Vantage Point?


You may be right! Thanks a ton!



TNDommeK -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 10:03:11 PM)

High tension was good.
Repo the genetic opera was good.
I'm weird like that though.



Gauge -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 10:11:21 PM)


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ORIGINAL: TNDommeK

Repo the genetic opera was good.



Never saw Repo even though the producers of Saw were involved. I was fearful that it would be ridiculous.



theshytype -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/19/2013 10:19:04 PM)

I'll be checking those out this weekend! Thanks for the suggestions!



TNDommeK -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 3:11:41 AM)

I like it. Plus the only time Ive EVER seen Paris Hilton look good, was in that movie.



PyrotheClown -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 3:28:28 AM)

I'd give ya a list of some recently watched horror movies, but I keep gett'n them confused with porno's and vice versa



then again I get most movies mixed up with pornos


Did you know that deepthroat wasn't a medical documentary

and did any one else have rape fantasies bout smeagol from LOTR



PyrotheClown -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 3:29:57 AM)


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ORIGINAL: TNDommeK

Repo the genetic opera was good.



there's also a really good 90's movie called repo man,totally different,but totally worth a watch



Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 5:00:03 AM)

Repo Man's the '80s, mate (very, very '80s if you listen to that soundtrack).

If we're bigging up French Horror, everybody should watch Weekend (the nastiest art film of all time) and Brotherhood Of The Wolf (monster hunt in feudal France, with a load of martial artsy fight scenes).

I much prefer Italian horror films myself, though (even the ones by Lucio Fulci). Anything Dario Argento did between The Bird With Crystal Plumage and Phenomena is likely to be great, and even after he started casting his talentless daughter in everything, there are still standouts like Opera. If you're just watching one, though, Suspiria could well be the one to go for. As the OP's tastes seem to be more for splattery thrillers than the supernatural though, almost any giallo by anybody should appeal. I'd hope you've seen all of these, but Blood And Black Lace, Deep Red/Profundo Rosso, Tenebrae, Twitch Of The Death Nerve and The New York Ripper (aka Demoniac) are all great. John Carpenter's gone on record as saying that Italian giallos were the single biggest influence on Halloween.



Winterapple -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 8:26:29 AM)

Hey! You posted what I was going to post.[;)]

Brotherhood of the Wolf is one of my favorite films.
I love Italian horror especially Dario Argento and Mario Bava.
I'd watch pretty much anything either made at least once.
Suspiria is a favorite Argento. I agree Asia Argrento isn't a
great thespian.

Classic Bava is Blood and Black Lace and Black Sunday.
He made movies outside the horror genre as well including
some Hercules movies. He's also the director of The Whip
and the Body.

They aren't splatter movies but I recommend the Val Lewton
produced and written movies made for RKO in the 1940's
I Walked With a Zombie, The Seventh Victim, Cat People,
The Curse of the Cat People, The Leopard Man, The Body Snatcher,
Isle of the Dead, Bedlam.

I also like Burn Witch Burn aka Night of the Eagle.
The screenplay was written by Charles Beaumont and Richard
Matheson both of who wrote for the original Twilight Zone.
Matheson also wrote I am Legend and Hell House (novels).
Hell House was made into the movie The Legend Of Hell House
which I enjoyed.



Moonhead -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 11:26:48 AM)

Now I think about this more, a few horror things the OP might have missed are going to be Uk films and telly series that haven't made it onto Region 1 DVD yet, so I can recommend:

The Stone Tape and Beasts. One's a one off television film and a masterpiece, the other is a short lived (and quite low budget) anthology series that raises from the sublime to the slightly crap. Very of their time, but if you enjoyed any of the Quatermass stuff, well worth investigating.

Ultraviolet. A turn of the Millennium Brit vampire series that's more X Files than Buffy, except that it follows through on stuff properly. There was a crap film of the same name, that recycled some of the same content, but the original series is a lot better.

That also applies, of course, to Edge Of Darkness. Ignore the (shitawful) Mel Gibson film, and seek out the DVD of the original BBC series instead. This is the one of the best British drama series of the '80s, and while more SF (or a straight techno thriller) than horror, most of the implications and follow through qualify it as a horror story. Messily, and shatteringly of its time, but breathtakingly good.

Urban Gothic is an interesting series of which the US audience seems completely unaware. It was produced shortly after the turn of the millennium as a low budget anthology series and several of the one off half hour tales are remarkably good. Sadly, a few others are blatantly crap, but it's worth tolerating those for the highlights which include a documentary film crew following a vampire around over the course of one day, a gleefully nasty mash up of the '90s Brit crime flick and the urban horror story, the ugliest sickest and just plain wrong teen love story of all time, a breathtakingly unpleasant MR James update rooted in real psychology, and a gleefully nasty fuck you to the conspiracy theorists. Several stories just plain don't work, but even those tend towards interesting failures rather than damp squibs most of the time.



Hillwilliam -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 12:02:36 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: TNDommeK

I like it. Plus the only time Ive EVER seen Paris Hilton look good, was in that movie.

Was she eviscerated?


FR to the OP.

2 movies I'll suggest. Eraserhead for the pure weirdness.

Creepshow for the GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!! endings of the vignettes.



PyrotheClown -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 12:04:34 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam


2 movies I'll suggest. Eraserhead for the pure weirdness.





In heaven...every thing is fine*SPLAT*



PyrotheClown -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 12:06:07 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam


Creepshow for the GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!! endings of the vignettes.



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



sexyred1 -> RE: Horror Movies and Movies in General (8/20/2013 12:20:39 PM)

I love film but don't like the splatter horror films.

I prefer psychological horror. One of the most horrifying films I have seen is the original The Vanishing.

I also never got over the old and new Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

Some other psychological horror films:
The Tenant
Repulsion
Sisters
Don't Look Now
Dead Ringers
Diabolique
Dead of Night
Audition
The Machinist
Bug
Donnie Darko



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