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15 Aug 2011, 12:54 pm

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After all, I absolutely loved Re-Animator, which might have been a gore-a-minute flick.


Re-Animator is great (even if it's a failure at adapting Lovecraft, but the story it's adapting sucked anyway), but I don't remember it being all that gory. Besides, it's more comedy than horror. Still, the fact that it's genuinely more unsettling than the serious horror movies being made today says a lot.



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15 Aug 2011, 1:02 pm

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The only one I didn't like was Dead Alive. That was too gory for me, and that's saying something.


Did you see the uncut Braindead version, or the heavily-cut Dead Alive version? The uncut UK/Australian/New Zealand version is even gorier than the unrated US verison.


The Braindead version. I wouldn't have watched the clean version, even if I knew how disgusting the other one was.


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15 Aug 2011, 2:11 pm

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After all, I absolutely loved Re-Animator, which might have been a gore-a-minute flick.


Re-Animator is great (even if it's a failure at adapting Lovecraft, but the story it's adapting sucked anyway), but I don't remember it being all that gory. Besides, it's more comedy than horror. Still, the fact that it's genuinely more unsettling than the serious horror movies being made today says a lot.


I was sort of stumbling over my words in that part of my post. But anyhow, when I first saw the movie back in my high school days, my friends and I had thought it was more than gory enough. It still remains one of my very favorite Lovecraft adaptions, though as you say, it's hardly one hundred percent as a literal adaption. The comedic effect certainly worked well.

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15 Aug 2011, 2:17 pm

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I was sort of stumbling over my words in that part of my post. But anyhow, when I first saw the movie back in my high school days, my friends and I had thought it was more than gory enough. It still remains one of my very favorite Lovecraft adaptions, though as you say, it's hardly one hundred percent as a literal adaption. The comedic effect certainly worked well.


Just curious, have you seen The Call of Cthulhu? Everyone was raving about it, but I was sort of underwhelmed by it. It's easily the most faithful adaptation of his writing, but it's impossible to watch it without thinking of it as a novelty. "Hey look, a 1920s silent movie made in 2005!" But as a goof, I guess it's pretty good.



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15 Aug 2011, 2:47 pm

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The Braindead version. I wouldn't have watched the clean version, even if I knew how disgusting the other one was.


I should have been clearer that there are three versions out there, at least that I know of:

The heavily-cut Dead Alive version,
The less heavily-cut Dead Alive version.
The uncut Braindead version.

Did it have a little segment of the beginning with God Save the Queen with the Queen on her horse?



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15 Aug 2011, 4:25 pm

Jory wrote:
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I was sort of stumbling over my words in that part of my post. But anyhow, when I first saw the movie back in my high school days, my friends and I had thought it was more than gory enough. It still remains one of my very favorite Lovecraft adaptions, though as you say, it's hardly one hundred percent as a literal adaption. The comedic effect certainly worked well.


Just curious, have you seen The Call of Cthulhu? Everyone was raving about it, but I was sort of underwhelmed by it. It's easily the most faithful adaptation of his writing, but it's impossible to watch it without thinking of it as a novelty. "Hey look, a 1920s silent movie made in 2005!" But as a goof, I guess it's pretty good.


As a matter of fact, I own The Call Of Cthulhu. While it was a very good adaption, Cthulhu's appearance was unfortunately underwhelming.

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16 Aug 2011, 6:35 pm

I know one type of horror movies I can't stand are Stephen King movies. I never really cared for his books or the movies based on the books. Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but his works have never really scared me because he comes up with the weirdest ideas for "horror". Like a telepathic teenage girl who murders her classmates with her special powers (To think that these days in the real world teenagers simply shoot up their schools with guns), a cult of redneck children who worship corn and kill adults, a gang of demonic greasers who kill hapless teenagers so they can come back from the dead. I think these ideas are more comical than they are scary. I mean I'm sure there are lots of original horror writers out there who have come up with better original stuff. :?



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16 Aug 2011, 7:15 pm

GreySun369 wrote:
I know one type of horror movies I can't stand are Stephen King movies. I never really cared for his books or the movies based on the books. Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but his works have never really scared me because he comes up with the weirdest ideas for "horror". Like a telepathic teenage girl who murders her classmates with her special powers (To think that these days in the real world teenagers simply shoot up their schools with guns), a cult of redneck children who worship corn and kill adults, a gang of demonic greasers who kill hapless teenagers so they can come back from the dead. I think these ideas are more comical than they are scary. I mean I'm sure there are lots of original horror writers out there who have come up with better original stuff. :?


King blows, and this is coming from someone who loves trashy genre fiction. His dialogue skills are a joke, half his plots are ripped off from his favorite writers, and he's so self indulgent that he can't come up with 100 pages of plot without stretching it to 500 or more. (Where the hell are his editors?) I stopped reading King the moment I discovered Richard Matheson. He's like King without all the problems.



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16 Aug 2011, 7:20 pm

GreySun369 wrote:
I know one type of horror movies I can't stand are Stephen King movies. I never really cared for his books or the movies based on the books. Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way, but his works have never really scared me because he comes up with the weirdest ideas for "horror". Like a telepathic teenage girl who murders her classmates with her special powers (To think that these days in the real world teenagers simply shoot up their schools with guns), a cult of redneck children who worship corn and kill adults, a gang of demonic greasers who kill hapless teenagers so they can come back from the dead. I think these ideas are more comical than they are scary. I mean I'm sure there are lots of original horror writers out there who have come up with better original stuff. :?


Oh, I did think The Shinning was a pretty decent scare flick, though.

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16 Aug 2011, 7:29 pm

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Oh, I did think The Shinning was a pretty decent scare flick, though.


You mean The Shining, or the Simpsons parody, The Shinning? :P

Kubrick's The Shining is much better than King's The Shining, but don't let any King fans hear me say that. They hate that movie.



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16 Aug 2011, 7:34 pm

Yeah The Shining was pretty scary (the movie I mean, I never read the book). Watching an ordinary American family become isolated from the world and subcoming to violent madness is oh-so-entertaining. ;)



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17 Aug 2011, 12:18 am

Jory wrote:
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Oh, I did think The Shinning was a pretty decent scare flick, though.


You mean The Shining, or the Simpsons parody, The Shinning? :P

Kubrick's The Shining is much better than King's The Shining, but don't let any King fans hear me say that. They hate that movie.


Okay, you got me! It's The Shining! :lol:

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17 Aug 2011, 5:21 am

I like bizarre movies for their creativity to shock and surprise you:
Orphan
Love Object
Puppet Master
Chucky
Critters
When Darkness Falls
The Ring


and to actually scare me, movies with forces or enemies that can't be killed by Brute Force. If demons are real, they really scare me because you can't just get a gun and shoot them.Also things that really could happen with detailed gruesome situations.
These ones actually scared me:
Hellraiser
Asylum of the Damned
Hostel



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17 Aug 2011, 9:25 am

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and to actually scare me, movies with forces or enemies that can't be killed by Brute Force. If demons are real, they really scare me because you can't just get a gun and shoot them.Also things that really could happen with detailed gruesome situations.
These ones actually scared me:
Hellraiser
Asylum of the Damned
Hostel


If you like that then I highly recommend you watch the Ju-On films. Ju-On is a Japanese horror film about a family that is brutally murdered by the man of the house and their anger manifests itself in the form of an evil spirit called an Onryo, and basically they kill anybody who enters the house where they died and they are unable to be stopped.

Don't watch the Americanized remakes known as The Grudge films, they are crap compared to the original Japanese films. :)



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17 Aug 2011, 10:56 am

My favorite kinds are the ones which elect to use suspense and mental horror over gore and physical horror. That's not to say I don't like gore in my films, horror or otherwise, but I feel there needs to be an effective balance between the two. IMO, that's what so many horror filmmakers don't get these days. Just because you can make it look like you can slice and dice a naked girl in 3D doesn't mean that they SHOULD do it in order to make up for a bad script with no suspenseful buildup.



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17 Aug 2011, 4:34 pm

Mockumentary films are awesome like The Poughkeepsie Tapes and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. Psychological films are really great, and there are some great slasher flicks.