Anyone enjoy watching horror movies? Im starting to believe that the new age of horror is pretty pathetic. Remake of classics doesn't cut it. Do you guyz think they have really ran out of ideas for horror movies? The last good horror movie i watched was George Romero's Land of the Dead. I'm waiting to watch Wes Craven's The Red Eye, but i doubt it will be good.

The Ring, Jeepers Creepers, Dawn of the Dead (remake), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake) were all boring and cheesy. Even though i hate cheesy horror movies, some can be very entertaining such as the Leprechaun movies.

So...What are your favorite horror movies?

Nothing scared me like Kuprick's "The Shining"

As for favourite: It's the smash-hit romantic comedy, with zombies, "Shaun of the Dead." I guess it's only sort of a horror, but whatever, I think it's sweet.

Shaun of the Dead is incredible. It's considered dark humor.

and The Shining is easily one of the best horror movies.

i'm all about the "based on a true story"...
Old school Amittyville Horror... my favorite one.
And have to agree with JWBIII, Kuprick is a master.
Actually went to the theatre for the first time in ages the other night, and saw Skeleton Key. Thought the storyline was pretty good and unique. All about "who-doo" not the voodoo.

the old school Amityville Horror = classic.

i've seen people consider Freddy vs Jason a classic horror film...i think thats the dumbest statment ever. Did anyone really think that was good? yea it was entertaining at some points, but it didn't really stand up compared to the classic Nightmare on Elm Streets, and Friday the 13th horror films.

My favourite Horror films :

(these 5 films with the asterix, have beautiful, breath-taking Art Design that i admire tons)

*Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) (best Dracula story put to film)

*Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) - (the best version with Robert De Niro) - all i want to do is hug Frankenstein and be his friend - his story is so sad

*From Hell (2001) - based on Jack the Ripper crimes

*Mary Reilly (1996) - the best Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde story put to film

*Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Jeepers Creepers (2001) (this is very psychologically frightening when the focus is about being chased by that rusty old piece of roaring metal and the wild imagination we experience about what is down that nasty drainage pipe... then it falls off when the creature enters etc etc, to the end)

Duel (1971) - Steven Spielberg's 1st feature film - Jeepers Creepers was inspired by this

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

The Changeling (1980) - for me, walking around the house without turning on every light in every room was unheard of right after this film

Audrey Rose (1997)

Carrie (1976)

Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940)
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Gothika (2003) - this was an unsettling surprise for me to see Charles Dutton play this kind of character - good change

Misery (1990)

Pet Sematary (1989) - sad too

American Gothic (1987)

When A Stranger Calls (1979)

Ed Gein (2001) - about the serial killer who inspired, Psycho and The Chainsaw Massacre

Cape Fear (1991) - with Robert De Niro

The eel (1997) - psychologically disturbing and sad too

Underworld (2003) - I just like this film a lot, especially the history about why vampires and werewolves came to be against each other - mostly I like the creature design, and if I could turn into one in real life, I'd be the werewolf/vampire hybrid at the end... damn, that's nice!

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987)

The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

Red Dragon (2002) - aspects of this film are frightening, while other parts I find to be mundane

The Others (2001)

Apt Pupil (1998)

Stir Of Echoes (1999)

Audition (1999) - holy crappers, is all I gotz to say

The Howling (1981)

The Exorcist (1973)

Haunted (1995)

Murderous Maids (2000) - a true story about incestuous sisters, Christine and Lea Papin who were forced into servitude in 1930's France and later murdered their employers, a well-off mother and daughter

The Shining (1980)

The Devil's Backbone (2001) - also a sad story

Ju-On (2003) - holy damn sam, this scared me - kinda sad too

Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2001)

Henry, Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1990) - loosely based on true life serial killer, Henry Lee Lucas




Just some of the Horror films I'd like to see :

MR. SARDONICUS (1961)
UZUMAKI (2000)
RASEN (1998)
FAUSTO 5.0 (2001)
HIDE and SEEK (2005)
DARKNESS (2002)
GINGKO BED (1996)
CHINESE GHOST STORY (1987)
CHINESE GHOST STORY 2 (1990)
POSSESSION (1981) - (the complete version)
THE ENTITY (1982)
ALTERED STATES (1980) - I vaguely remember this, so I want to see it
DEAD END (2003)
VICTIM (1999)
BEYOND THE DARKNESS : BUIO OMEGA (1979)
ANGUISH (1988)
EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960)
EXORCIST : THE BEGINNING (2004)
THEM (1954)
MADHOUSE (2004)
THE HOUSE OF DIES DREAR (1984)
MARTIN (1978) - (spoken of as one of THE best humanvampire films ever; more psychologically disturbing, not the typical iconic vampire story)

ONIBABA (1964)
THE BROOD (1979)
THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (1976)
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983)
TIA (Aunt) ALEJANDRA (1979)
VISIBLE SECRET (2001)
LITTLE OTIK (2000)
THE FOG (1979)
SUSPIRIA (1977)

If any of you want to read a short synopsis for films you might find interesting, this website is good :

http://www.rottentomatoes.com


Oh and i must make this correction : the Director's name is Stanley KuBrick

very very nice list

theres a new one coming out called "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" ..based on a trtue story.. the previews look good... w'ell see.

yea the previews did look very good.

Stigmata was a really interesting movie in my opinion.

yeah... horror movies based on extreme religion creep me out, even Carries mom gave me the shivers.

lol^

anyone like the Evil Dead movies?

... thanks Intellectual

City, I also want to see The Exorcism Of Emily Rose - hopefully it'll be good.

and about The Evil Dead films, they're alright... they make me laugh more than anything or make me kiss my teeth, lol


oh yeah, Carrie - her mom was really unsettling for sure. Such a well written character and story in general.

lol @ "kiss my teeth"

yea the Carrie movie was great.

I find horror the funniest genre it's so dead beyond beleif. AHHH! there something out there trying to kill us and they all try to beat it there's that one guy who's like the head honcho and he doesn't beleive there real kinda like a george bush type figure.The whole genre needs to take sometime out and have some origianal ideas cause basically horror is the new rap music which is so repititve repititive repitive repititve repititive repitive

and if you watch horror-movies and are scared of the dark and wonder why ... maybe there's some sort of correlation? could there be? do you think that stuff we're exposed to gets into our heads on some level and can affect us in some way(s) ? like horror movies feeding our fears ? or maybe it differs from person to person and how they deal with it?


i wonder - i wouldn't be surprised if it does have some sort of effect - just a little while ago we went camping with some friends and the night before, they were all watching this whack (IMO) movie (i didn't even see the whole thing so maybe i shouldn't be saying anything about it - i know it's popular with some people, it's called Battle Royale) but the next day when were up north, at night two of the people that had watched the movie were terrified of walking through the forest in the dark, even though there were 4 of us with flash lights and everything ... i dunno ... maybe it wasn't related at all 'cause Battle Royale is just mostly crazy death scenes - but i wonder about that - how what we expose ourselves to may affect us and on what levels ...


and this extends beyond just movies - stuff like music and even just general surroundings - everything from colour to odour to sound - on a daily basis all this stuff has to have some sort of accumalative effect (?)

Rasta youre watching the wrong horror movies lol

ya - that movie i guess i wouldn't consider a horror movie - maybe more like a sad comedy ?!? again - i never saw the whole thing but thought it was pretty dum-diddy-dum-dum from the get-go.

i guess the whole thing about whether something affects us (stuff like movies) depends on how or if we allow it to register - if we keep it with us or let it go - can we let it go - if it isn't relevant - and how do we perceive what's relevant ?

i guess that memory can affect our perception at any given moment ... like if we find ourselves in a certain situation do we search our memory for something similar to compare to so we act based on that? or are we spontaneous in our actions without any dependency on memory to act - or is there something that happens inbetween?

kinda complex to think about - maybe there's more involved ? i guess we're all conditioned to some extent - we all have our neural networks hooked up a certain way that follows certain patterns based on ways we've been conditioned - breaking those patterns can be tough though - i think that's the whole thing that i was trying to get at maybe ... breaking continuity and old worn-out patterns that we recognize have no relevance for us, that may even be harmful ... IMO that can be a very tough thing to do.

i hate horror. i dont find it fun at all 2 watch sumthing which i kno will get me all creeped out. so i dont kno bout these kinds of movies, but they do interest me. i always go into the video store, and pick up horror movies and read the backs. the worst kinds of movies r ones that question the unknown, or make people feal unsafe in their own homes