Scary Movies

[Jay]

Just saw H2 poster on the Halloweeen myspace, coming in August to the states.

The second one! W00t! Can't wait!

The original Night of the Living Dead.

That was extremely funny. The second one is better though!

Quarantine is a good small horror film, about people trapped in a building with others who are suffering from...something. It's the English-language remake of a (Spanish?) film called [REC], and I'm looking forward to seeing that for comparison.

I haven't seen the English version, only the Spanish one and it was brilliant best horror movie I have seen in years! So I wouldn't want to ruin it by watching the English version.

Outpost Highly recommended.

Added to my rental list

Jay

[Kendall]

And just found the trailer. Looks like a remake of the original part 2 from what the trailer shows.

Halloween 2 (H2) TRAILER - HD - Good Quality  (from Yahoo Movies)

I also hear "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is in pre-production slated for 2010.

[Jay]

I also hear "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is in pre-production slated for 2010.

WOW I can't wait!, I bet the special effects are going to be awesome!

Jay

[Jaimey]

That looks AWESOME!!!!!!!

[tekla]

I bet the special effects are going to be awesome!

Sigh, I remember when movies were about acting and plot and not F/X.  Most horror movies can't compare to what Hitchcock did, and he used few F/X.

And, the scariest word in movies is often 'remake.'

[Ms Jessica]

I'm with Tekla.  You can throw millions of dollars at something, and get awesome effects, but it doesn't always equate to a good movie. 

Remakes, I can usually take 'em or leave 'em.  I get worried when people start re-making a franchise.  Shot-for-shot remakes aren't usually much earth-shatteringly different than the original, and a remake that goes way out usually loses the original target audience. 

The Halloween remake was okay, but wasn't one of those movies I loved sooo much.  It won't prevent me from watching the sequel, but probably won't be enough to convince me to purchase it on DVD.  I usually have low expectations in situations like this, so if it's awesome, at least I'll be pleasantly surprised. 

[Jaimey]

I think a lot of it is what you're looking for in the movie.  In this case, I just like a good slasher flick and this one looks promising.  It's always better to enter the theater with no preconceived notions of what the movie should be.  All my friends get angry at comic book films if they don't meet their expectations.  I go in without expectations to EVERY FILM.  It makes the experience much more enjoyable...take it for what it is, not for what it should be.

To me, the worse "remakes" coming out right now (in the horror genre, anyway) is all the American versions of Japanese films.  They just don't do it for me (even if I see the American version first...with the exception of the Ring...I liked the American version better).  Give me the original.  It makes more sense in Japanese...for whatever reason...perhaps it's just a difference in Japanese film and American film...the two cultures don't mix all that well in this sort of film remake stuff.

[tekla]

perhaps it's just a difference in Japanese film and American film...the two cultures don't mix all that well in this sort of film remake stuff.

Except that Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai was a Japanese version of an American Western, and then it was turned around, reset in the West, and was The Magnificent Seven, which is an awesome movie too.  But that's more along the lines of an homage then a redo.

[Kendall]

WOW I can't wait!, I bet the special effects are going to be awesome!

Jay

I am unsure concerning the current director. He is from the music video and commercial realms. This would be his first real feature according to his credentials.

Samuel Bayer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1207904/

[Jamie-o]

Halloween II was the first horror film I ever saw.  (Well, other than some of the old B&W classics.)  It was at a friend's 7th birthday party.  Her dad took us to the video rental place and we got Halloween 2 and Old Yeller.  They were the first people I knew with a VCR, so that added to the cool value.  Good lord I feel old. 

The only thing I remember is the scene in which the doctor is found with a syringe stuck in his eye.

[Jaimey]

My first horror movie was Chuckie...I don't think I could have been more than six.  And then something called "Dolls", I think...all I remember about it was that the toy soldiers lined up and shot a girl and blood poured out of each hole...very waterspout-like...not scary now, but to a six or seven year old, that was terrifying...I mean, dolls are creepy enough...dolls that kill you...geez...

[Ms Jessica]

I have several horror movie memories from when I was a kid:
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, The Exoricist, The Blob, The Thing, Poltergeist
The one that really got me though, when I was a kid, was one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies (part 3).  I don't know why that would bother me so much, some of the things in Poltergeist were wayyyy worse.  =)

[Ani]

as a kid i loved _Trilogy of Terror_, Karen Black getting chased by a voodoo doll!

[Jay]

Outpost, wasn't really that good it was slow and he idea had flawes. Not the worst movie I have seen but not that good.

My first horror movie was Chuckie...I don't think I could have been more than six. 

Same here!!! It was so damn scary funny now but still I was scared for years after watching that movie!

I also watched The Seed Of Chuckie at the weekend and it is a stoner movie, and not really a horror more of a comedy. Also Jennifer Tilly is in it and she is super hott so that was a bonus

Jay

[Ms Jessica]

as a kid i loved _Trilogy of Terror_, Karen Black getting chased by a voodoo doll!

Ahh yes, the Zuni Fetish Doll.  Awesome.  Remember that one from years ago. 

[Luc]

All these remakes are driving me up a wall... especially when the original was perfect to begin with!

Nightmare on Elm Street, in my opinion, is an absolute gem among the horror film world. Heather Langenkamp was iconic as Nancy, and considering she hardly ever did anything else in the acting world, she basically WAS Nancy. The special effects were incredible, especially for 1984, and IMO the crap they do with CG now can't even begin to compare to the realism of old special effects. They're going to tarnish the names of many good old horror staples... and while I can't do anything to change it, it pisses me off to no end.

Don't even get me started on them redoing Friday the 13th... though I hear it's a modern take, not a remake of the original. I must admit, though, that My Bloody Valentine was a million times better the second time around... I'll wager most people weren't even aware it was a remake, considering how deplorable the original was. However... where are the original ideas in Hollywood today? Must we continually recycle and deteriorate old classics?

SD

[tekla]

However... where are the original ideas in Hollywood today? Must we continually recycle and deteriorate old classics?

Classic Hollywood thought says there are only five movies to begin with, they all circle round the same five plots.

[Jaimey]

Same here!!! It was so damn scary funny now but still I was scared for years after watching that movie!

I know, right?  Homicidal dolls might not be the best choice for a little kid...

[tekla]

Homicidal dolls might not be the best choice for a little kid...

Depends on the kid don't it?  I can think of a few who deserved them.

[Jaimey]

Homicidal dolls might not be the best choice for a little kid...

Depends on the kid don't it?  I can think of a few who deserved them.

You're evil.