Horror Movies

[doowopgirl]

Modern horror fils aren't scary. Like GNT said it's all CG fest. Also the monsters are just gooshy. Thats not scary it's just gross. I hark back to the days when you really didn't see the monster, just the threat. My favorite movie is The Haunting of Hill House. Black and white and not a monster or a drop of blood in sight.

 

[CriticAndProud]

Zombi 2 is awesome! One of the best "eye" scenes ever! I like most Fulci flicks with a few exceptions. His plots are pretty much incoherent but who cares when there is a "guts" scene like in Gates of Hell? Like you said, who thinks this sh*t up?
Agree that TCM is one of the best ever IMHO. While there are a lot of complaints about films like I Spit on Your Grave and Last House on the Left(originals, NOT the remakes)as a female, they never bothered me. Yes, brutal, awful things happen and the scenes probably don't need to be dragged out quite so long but don't they get their revenge? Yes they do! In more brutal ways and well deserved!
Did you like the Wolf Creek sequel?

Haven't got around to seeing Wolf Creek 2 yet

Is it any good ? It looks alright.

 

[fljoe0]

A good recent horror flick is Sinister with Ethan Hawke.

Don't watch the trailers or look it up and read about it. Just watch it.

 

[misery chastain loves co.]

Haven't got around to seeing Wolf Creek 2 yet

Is it any good ? It looks alright.

It was pretty good. It seemed a little more "campy"(for lack of a better term) than the first one and Mick was spewing a lot of one liners Freddy Krueger style but if you want to see Mick at his bloody(definitely more gory!)best than give it a whirl. It's not as good as the first but it's fun.

 

[Mr Nobody]

Alien
The Thing (1982)
Carrie (original)
Psycho (1960)
The Day of the Triffids (any)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (forget the year; the one with Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy, anyway)
Village of the Damned (either/any)
Hallowe'en (original)
The Fog (original)
The Woman in Black (either)
Dr Terror's House of Horrors
Horror Express

The last couple probably fall into the 'So bad they're good' category, but that's Hammer for you.
Listed like that, most of them are clearly 'old-style' horror, where it's no so much what you do see as what you don't. I think that's where horror works best.
Modern horror...generally, it's not subtle. There's little suspense, so they either go for the gross-out or they use the old low trick of using a long shot and silence before having something flash by close to the camera, accompanied by a high, sharp note played loud. IMO, it rarely works and, in my case, merely annoys. (Actually, it makes me angry, to the point where if the producer, writer or director was sitting next to me, they'd be apt to get a smack in the face. Call it reflex. As it is, I simply mutter something along the lines of 'Oh for [slang term for sex]'s sake'...usually in unison with my gf, who takes that attitude to horror in general.)
Torture porn...nope, stuff it where the sun don't shine. I don't even consider it to be horror in the traditional/genuine sense.

 

[Grandpa]

Psycho changed everything. It was a great horror movie. Modern horror movies, even modern movie-watching habits (actually seeing the movie when it begins), stem from this masterpiece.

 

[Mr Nobody]

Psycho changed everything. It was a great horror movie. Modern horror movies, even modern movie-watching habits (actually seeing the movie when it begins), stem from this masterpiece.

I like the fact that you never actually see the knife go in, and don't need to.
The first time I saw it, probably at around the age of 17 or so, I was also impressed by the way the story seemed to be one thing, then became quite another - though the first story route would have been pretty good in any case.
The work of a genius film-maker, if a flawed man.

 

[Sarah25]

Some of my favs and some that scared me:

The Ring
High Tension
The Shining
Devil
Constantine
Funny Games
The Road (2011)
The Devil's Backbone
Inside (2007)
Carrie
The Exorcist
The Strangers
Pet Sematary
I Saw the Devil
Martyrs (very disturbing, one time only watch)
Saw
The Others
Blue Ruin

Today's horror movies don't scare me very much. Still like to watch them though.

 

[misery chastain loves co.]

Some of my favs and some that scared me:

The Ring
High Tension
The Shining
Devil
Constantine
Funny Games
The Road (2011)
The Devil's Backbone
Inside (2007)
Carrie
The Exorcist
The Strangers
Pet Sematary
I Saw the Devil
Martyrs (very disturbing, one time only watch)
Saw
The Others
Blue Ruin

Today's horror movies don't scare me very much. Still like to watch them though.

Great list! I loved Funny Games(original and remake)Martyrs, and Inside. Foreign horror seems to be doing so much better than North America these days. We take their movies and water them down to PG-13 remakes.
The Others is one of my favorite ghost stories.
Still haven't seen I Saw the Devil, been on the fence about that one.

 

[ghost19]

A good recent horror flick is Sinister with Ethan Hawke.

Don't watch the trailers or look it up and read about it. Just watch it.

Definitely a good flick. The same studio, if I remember correctly, has produced The Conjuring, Dark Skies, and a couple of other recent horror movies that seem to be catching the essence of what scary movies used to be. I hope the trend continues.

 

[Sarah25]

Great list! I loved Funny Games(original and remake)Martyrs, and Inside. Foreign horror seems to be doing so much better than North America these days. We take their movies and water them down to PG-13 remakes.
The Others is one of my favorite ghost stories.
Still haven't seen I Saw the Devil, been on the fence about that one.

Agree on foreign horror. I Saw the Devil is a revenge tale, but it is very gory. Everyone has their own levels with that. The Awakening is a decent ghost story also. Not nearly as good as The Others, but I think it is worth a watch.

I made my list from memory and left off a few of course. I would add:
Let The Right One In
Let Me In (love em both)
Chained (2012)
From Hell

I'd like to add Frailty, The Skin I Live In, and Stoker but none are classified as straight up horror. To me, they are scary and creepy in their own way. I see something new every time I watch Frailty.

 

[blunthead]

...We [Hollywood] take their movies and water them down to PG-13 remakes...

Yes, indeed. It happens after non-talent with money takes over anything.

 

[blunthead]

Not in chronological order...
Dead of Night
The Innocents
The Haunting
Frankenstein
Dracula
Wolfman
Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Blob
The Lady in Black
Any and all Vincent Price horror movies
Pyscho
Halloween
Rosemary's Baby
Silence of the Lambs

2000's and the advent of "torture porn" (please tell me there's a line drawn distinguishably somewhere between "torture porn" and "horror").