Horror Movies

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I hate, hate, hate, horror movies. Yuck. I just can't handle it.


Possibly because at the age of three or four, I was left with really irresponsible teen girl babysitters who literally forced me to sit on the couch and watch Freddy Kreuger with them.

Clive Barker can sure write some horror.

The Hammer horror stuff is quite funny (unintentionally) and very raunchy too. Lee and Cushing were really wasted on it.

Cronenberg does some very weird but good stuff. Scanners is good too and the Fly.

The Shining is my favorite horror movie, it kept me from sleeping when i was a kid. In the mouth of madness is also very good, but not scary.

corroonb:
Cabin Fever is a good movie. It's theme is self-irony. I liked it.

Agreed, did Cronenberg do The Fly?

I believe so. That movie scared the excrement out of me back in the day. The Metamorphosis by Kafka is a great short story along a similar theme, if not tone.

Yes it was much better done than the original even though Vincent Price was in it.

I love horror movies, even the crap ones.

I don't mind slasher to a certain point. The original Halloween was good for instance and I didn't mind Hostel 1 and 2. I didn't mind the Texas Remake either, though the original was far superior - it didn't show much gore but had a "real" feel about it - like Blair Witch tried to get.

I recently saw Texas Chainsaw : The Beginning - it was utter rubbish... just excuses to kill people.

Story is king.

I like sophisticated horror movies that are weird and full of suspense. I like twisted plots.

I despise horror movies where they don't even TRY to give it even a threadbare plot. It should at LEAST have some kind of story.

same:D

I'd really love to make a horror movie. I think most of the horor movies out there just don't cut it. They fall into my comedy category.

Gore can have its place in a horror movie, but isn't neccessary. When done wrong it can ruin a movie. Also gore done with computer graphics isn't always fake looking. It's gore done with low-quality and low-budget computer graphics that look bad. It's the same with the old-school gore makeup. Do that badly and it shows. It's just cheaper to do really good makeup and prothetics than it is to do CGI.

Anyway, if you can drive half of your audience out of the theatre partway through the show and give the other half nightmares for years than you haven't made a real horror movie.

I just watched one called "Morturary" on Sci-fi this morning. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415167/ )
Suprisingly really good, for a movie I'd never even heard of. Great ending.

i especially like the gory old crapfest horror fliks. zombie films are generally my favorite.

anyone see the old Pete Jackson films like Dead Alive and Bad Taste? classics

also Cemetary Man (i dont remember who did that one, italian film), which is more a black comedy with gore....i have to go look for that one now, i havent seen it in a while...

I dislike horror movies that rely on violence, I much prefer thriller. I actually think that the less violence, the scarier it is, since you get used to it really quickly. In thriller, it's about what you don't see that's scary. I like Japanese horror the most because they use that philosophy. And of course, a story that you connect with is essential or the characters don't matter.

I like Horror movies but I much prefer the psychological approach over tons of gore, I got fed up with that a long long time ago The one genre I don't really like are the apocalyptic zombie movies, they don't scare me I just find them to be deeply deeply depressing.

The origional Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Wicker man movies plus the Evil Dead tilogy are some of my favourites.

Maybe it's just me, but I never find horror movies to be scary Closest they ever come is the ones that throw loud noises around and startle me...but "startle" is not "fear".

Or when I was little, I was terrified of gore...couldn't watch Robocop 2, Terminator 2, Leprechaun, or Pet Semetary.