Zombie movies!
Like Resident Evil and Planet Terror and 28 days!
And Resident evil computer games are scary too- especially Resident Evil 4 on Gamecube or Wii. I hate zombies and sometimes wonder how scary it would really be if everyone was infected and turned. Geez I hate to think about it!

I just got back from seeing "The Mist", great movie, I hated the ending though.

I'm into the whole horror genre; especially, the cheesy italian zombie flicks.

The Japanese are doing some great stuff in horror now too. "The Messengers" was another great one, and of course as I stated before, "The Exorsist" is an all time fav.

"30 Day's of Night" was great!!! Although the scariest vampire movie, and the scariest vampire of them all in my opinion was the early 80's t.v. movie "Salems Lot" with 'David Soule' (i think i spelled that right?).

anyone seen "8 Movies to Die For" series? Those are great too.

Quote from: Tink on November 25, 2007, 06:42:41 PM
OMG we rented Hostel Part II last night, and I was scared out of my wits! 

Someone else was laughing the whole time though...

tink

lmao   it wasnt scary.  some messed up dudes that kill girls.  lotsa blood but it aint sacry  

Quote from: Chris on November 26, 2007, 01:34:51 AM

Quote from: Tink on November 25, 2007, 06:42:41 PM
OMG we rented Hostel Part II last night, and I was scared out of my wits! 

Someone else was laughing the whole time though...

tink

lmao   it wasnt scary.  some messed up dudes that kill girls.  lotsa blood but it aint sacry  

Women taking baths in blood, elderly men eating young men alive....Chris, that is scary and indeed it is gross too.  I have been having nightmares about it.  Honestly!  I wonder if testosterone numbs your senses somehow to prevent you from being frightened..sheesh!

tink

Quote from: Tink on November 26, 2007, 06:45:09 PM

Quote from: Chris on November 26, 2007, 01:34:51 AM

Quote from: Tink on November 25, 2007, 06:42:41 PM
OMG we rented Hostel Part II last night, and I was scared out of my wits! 

Someone else was laughing the whole time though...

tink

lmao   it wasnt scary.  some messed up dudes that kill girls.  lotsa blood but it aint sacry  

Women taking baths in blood, elderly men eating young men alive....Chris, that is scary and indeed it is gross too.  I have been having nightmares about it.  Honestly!  I wonder if testosterone numbs your senses somehow to prevent you from being frightened..sheesh!

tink

aww princes.  lmao   it aint real though.  it aint real blood.  its a movie!  
T does lotsa things.  maybe.  dunno.

Quote from: Tink on November 26, 2007, 06:45:09 PM

Women taking baths in blood, elderly men eating young men alive....Chris, that is scary and indeed it is gross too.  I have been having nightmares about it.  Honestly!  I wonder if testosterone numbs your senses somehow to prevent you from being frightened..sheesh!

I love scary movies.  They're about the only things I really buy anymore.  Call me a scream queen.

I'd agree with Tink on Hostel 2 being gross, but not scary.  I agree more with Kendra's definition-- it has to make me jump or be afraid to walk around in the dark.  The movie Boogeyman (2005) was pretty good in that sense but doesn't stand up to a second watching. 

One of the scariest movies for me was Event Horizon.  The sense memories from that movie are worse for me than the movie is.  Still, I'm sure there's some people here that would be pretty scared with that one. 
Also, the Shining miniseries that came out in like 1996 or '97.  Pretty slow, and not overly memorable except for when Danny goes into Room 237.  That was awesome.  I actually jumped about 3 feet when I saw that the first time. 

Most Disturbing would have to be Imprint by Takashi Miike for the MOH series on Showtime.  The first time I saw it, I thought I was going to be sick.  I gave it one star on Netflix.  And I couldn't stop thinking about how messed up it was.  And that's when I had a horror movie epiphany.  Maybe that was the goal of the movie.  To be so disturbing you couldn't stop thinking about it.  And it worked.  In that sense, the movie was much better than I gave it credit for.  So I went back to Netflix and changed my rating to a five-star.  And I am very sparing with the 5 star rating for horror movies.  Nearly everything gets 2 or 3, depending on whether it's at least a solid movie.  Run of the mill crap gets 2.  A solid horror movie gets 3.  Something that might actually scare me gets a 4.  But, Imprint was some kind of messed up.  That's the kind of thing that gives little kids nightmares and causes psychological harm. 

I usually do a horror movie marathon during the month of October-- I think we got through nearly 100 movies last year.  Between Netflix and the movies we own, it adds up. 
The classics are so great-- the original Dracula from 1931, Frankenstein, the Wolfman and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.  I love that one.  They're not scary anymore, but Bela Lugosi is still the best Dracula ever.  If he was still alive and made a modern movie, I think it would be terrifying. 


Any other good suggestions?  I've only got seven more months to plan my movie schedule for this year!
I added the Maid per Tink's suggestion a few pages back.  Looks good. 

Someone else had mentioned the annual Horrorfest eight movies to die for.  I've heard sort of mixed things about them.  I saw the movies from '06 and only liked about 2 of the 8.  Haven't seen the ones for '07 yet.  Was gonna go, but they didn't show it at my local theater like they had the previous year. 
I think this might be my year, though.  Horrorfest here I come!

I liked Event Horizon. And Boogeyman we liked, and in fact played it in slow motion. Similar to the kind of jump I got in the Forgotten and maybe Darkness Falls.

There were a few good moments in Darkness Falls.  I thought the Forgotten was more of a weird thriller.  Totally didn't see that one as scary at all.  Am I desensitized? 

Try walking by a storm drain after seeing Tim Curry in It (We all float down here).  I didn't care much for the movie overall, but Tim Curry as Pennywise was inspired.  Nightmare-worthy that is.   

We are going to watch "The Eye" (the American version) tomorrow.  I understand it is a pretty scary movie..   

tink

The car scene is the one that made me jump. The crash in the forgotten. Also the final scene when he was ripped out of the house or whatever that was.

They all float down here

Just watched 30 days of night. Not scarey, but an ok vampyre movie.

That was exactly the part of the forgotten that made it exciting.  The rest was sort of so-so.  Still, it wasn't the worst movie I've seen. 
30 days of night is on my Netflix list.  Probably down at the bottom.  Oh well.  Sooner or later. 
Finally got around to seeing Resident Evil:Extinction a few nights ago.  Certainly not my favorite of the series.  Oh well.....

Well, we went to see The Eye and IMO it was scarier than the Asian version. I will give it a B.  We also rented Saw IV...what a lousy movie!  I wasn't impressed at all! an F for that one!

tink

I had to watch Saw IV twice to make sure I understood what the heck was going on.  It'd been a while since I saw III and I was a bit mixed up the first time around. 
Certainly not my favorite either.  I think I might have been generous to give it 2 out of 5 stars, only because it seemed like a somewhat novel idea for a franchise horror movie-- occurring concurrently with the third.  Sort of cool, and can't recall any horror films off the top of my head that tried to do the same thing. 


Posted on: March 09, 2008, 03:59:45 PM

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Saw Hellraiser 3 last night.  When I went through the Hellraiser series a few years ago, the third installment wasn't out on DVD yet. 
This one sort of didn't make sense-- Pinhead was able to act in "our" world without anyone opening the puzzle box.  I mean, the whole point of the first two films was that only by solving the lament configuration was the gateway between earth and hell opened.  So how did Pinhead get to kill wantonly without anyone solving the puzzle?  Turns out that was sort of the point of the movie.  At least it made sense by the end.  I gave it 3 out of 5 stars.  Generous, I know, but Hellraiser has always had a special place in my heart. 

ALIEN The original film.

I saw this movie in a theatre in 1979, the year it was released.  There had never been anything like it.  You never really get a clear shot of the monster.  You just new it was there, it was hiding and could leap out at any moment and dispatch a crew member with a terrible death.  It's the only time i've ever screamed at a movie!

If you want to see the Mother of all Creature features, rent THEM.  It was done in the early 50s when mutations from atomic bombs, not space invaders was the source of the monster.  I swear, if you change the characters and the setting all that follows is a variation this original.

Quote from: Claire de Lune on March 19, 2008, 11:45:31 AM
ALIEN The original film.

I saw this movie in a theatre in 1979, the year it was released.  There had never been anything like it.  You never really get a clear shot of the monster.  You just new it was there, it was hiding and could leap out at any moment and dispatch a crew member with a terrible death.  It's the only time i've ever screamed at a movie!

If you want to see the Mother of all Creature features, rent THEM.  It was done in the early 50s when mutations from atomic bombs, not space invaders was the source of the monster.  I swear, if you change the characters and the setting all that follows is a variation this original.

Oh, Alien.  I love that movie.  Never got to see it in its original theatrical release, but that's definitely one of my all time favorites.  Keeping the creature under wraps for nearly the whole movie was so effective. 

THEM....  Haven't seen that one.  But I will.  Just added it to my netflix queue.  There's nothing so good as old horror movies.  I remember one with some giant grasshoppers that had been mutated by radiation.  Oh, those were the days.  Why don't they make mutant grasshopper movies anymore? 
Anyhoo, thanks for the recommendation.  I'll let you know how I like THEM.  It might be a while until I get to it, though.  The netflix queue has been piling up lately.


Posted on: March 19, 2008, 01:01:03 PM

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Has anyone been watching Fear Itself on NBC Thursday nights?  Not exactly scary, but for a network television show it's not half bad.  I think there's been three episodes so far.  I think they're pretty average, par for the course type productions.  Not really great, but not the worst stuff I've ever seen.  For thursday night, it's something to do, and that's a good enough reason for me to watch it. 

There just isn't anything on TV that's actually scary anymore.  Does anyone remember when there actually used to be shows on TV that were scary?  Did anyone ever see the episode of the X-Files called "Home"?  God, that creeped me out!

Nothing is scarier then the news every night. 

I already have a list of movies on dvd that I haven't seen yet ready to watch for this Sept/Oct season.

Angst
Tenebre
Dark Corners
Unrest
Wicked Little Things
Altered
Aswang

Might throw in The Brood. Been a long time.

Those are what are in my Queue right now. Maybe will add The Eye, since Tink gave a B.

i thought "Trance" was pretty good.

also liked "Shutter" and "Face" and "The Grudge"

-Ell

Quote from: Ken/Kendra on June 27, 2008, 03:24:50 PM
I already have a list of movies on dvd that I haven't seen yet ready to watch for this Sept/Oct season.

LOL.  I'm setting up my list too.  All the movies from Horrorfest earlier this year are out on DVD, so I'm saving those.  Only 4 months until October!