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You do kind of need to get into the right 'mood' for a lot of these movies. The Exorcist, for example, is a definite 'slow burn' in that it builds to stuff, and you need to be kind of relaxed and thoughtful during the slow first half hour or so to get the best results when it gets weird near the end.

It won't grab people who drink/play games/laugh it up during the first part while waiting for the scary stuff, for example.

For a more modern look at possesion,The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a well paced film that's very much overlooked.

I still find Rosemary's Baby an unwatchable snoozefest.

There might be a new movie coming out that can actually scare me The 4th Kind

The movie was originally going to be called "When Owls Attack", but the people wanted the movie to be about aliens, so they shoehorned in 10 minutes of alien related footage and changed the name.

I hope that movie doesnt suck. It looked pretty freaky, until I found out it has to do with aliens? That was confusing..... I thought it was ghosts of some kind. Dammit

Umm.. This is 'Dakkite of the year' isn't it? Not 'best crappy horror movie ever?"

KingCracker wrote:I hope that movie doesnt suck. It looked pretty freaky, until I found out it has to do with aliens? That was confusing..... I thought it was ghosts of some kind. Dammit

The 4th kind seems scary, I mean the trailer scared me

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:Not 'best crappy horror movie ever?"

I'm sorry sir, but "crappy horror movie"? We're talking about the good stuff here, the stuff that's genuinely scary, not that bs that passes for horror today...most of which either try too hard to rip off classics like Alien, rely on having stuff jumping out at you all the time to "scare" you, or simply try to gross you the feth out with pointless violence and gore a la the Saw series.

Maybe we find this conversation more amusing? After ten pages, this stuff happens.

Actually up to now ( 12th page )
over half of the posts are attacks towards some of the people in the list . I dont think im crazy to say some people are trying to shut this thread down.

You're not crazy. This thread will keep on going unless it is locked. Someone forgot to put a time limit on the poll.

Why haven't they yet? lol

Because as long as it is vaguely under control, it is deemed 'Safe'.

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:Umm.. This is 'Dakkite of the year' isn't it? Not 'best crappy horror movie ever?"

My friend, welcome to the everlasting gobb-stopper thread. Every time you come back, it's a different flavor topic.




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Sidstyler wrote:

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:Not 'best crappy horror movie ever?"

I'm sorry sir, but "crappy horror movie"? We're talking about the good stuff here, the stuff that's genuinely scary, not that bs that passes for horror today...most of which either try too hard to rip off classics like Alien, rely on having stuff jumping out at you all the time to "scare" you, or simply try to gross you the feth out with pointless violence and gore a la the Saw series.

Amen! It's all shock and gore now-a-days. What do the kids call it? Gore-nography?

I'm not opposed to gore, I loved Silent Hill, but I think it needs the gore needs be appropriately placed. I think the new Hills have Eyes (not the sequel) and Dawn of the Dead are the upper limit for me. Both of those at least had enough of a story to hold my interest.

The House of a Thousand Corpses and Devil's Rejects were just stupid.

I only know about half of them. They usually cannot resist thier urge to demonstrate thier ignorance of good music by poking fun at my user name having no clue where it comes from. That's ok. Lots of people like butt rock.

What do the kids call it? Gore-nography?

Torture porn, I believe.

The House of a Thousand Corpses and Devil's Rejects were just stupid.

Eh...I don't want to call them "stupid", since I like Rob Zombie's music (well, not so much his newer stuff), but yeah, they don't really appeal to me that much...I just can't get into it. I don't know why, I just don't like movies where the whole premise is basically "Horrible people do horrible things because they fething feel like it!"

But in my opinion the Saw series is the worst. They churn these things out in practically no time at all, and every single one is exactly the same: people get abducted and killed in brutal and "creative" ways because some guy feels like being an donkey-cave. Not to mention this guy is a bigger schemer and planner than even Tzeentch, by the sound of things, and he manages to do it all while on his fething deathbed...

I dunno, like I said I just can't get into it. It's not that I'm squeamish or anything (although what little I have seen of the Saw films made me physically ill, no joke), I just don't see what the point is.

Silent Hill is awesome, too, though I'm too much of a pussy to actually play the games...and lacking a console to play them on.

They usually cannot resist thier urge to demonstrate thier ignorance of good music by poking fun at my user name having no clue where it comes from.

That's kind of how I settled on my current username. Years ago I followed a link to the Machinae Supremacy website, helped myself to all the free mp3's they had, and fell in love. I started using the name "Sidstyler" because the song of the same name was one of my favorites. I've even had a few people recognize where the name came from and say "Hey, Machinae Supremacy, awesome".

Sidstyler wrote:

What do the kids call it? Gore-nography?

Torture porn, I believe.

Yup. Sid gets the cookie for being first.

Sidstyler wrote:But in my opinion the Saw series is the worst. They churn these things out in practically no time at all, and every single one is exactly the same: people get abducted and killed in brutal and "creative" ways because some guy feels like being an donkey-cave. Not to mention this guy is a bigger schemer and planner than even Tzeentch, by the sound of things, and he manages to do it all while on his fething deathbed...

Okay, I have to reply to this:
Although I too feel that some of the gore in the Saw movies is a bit overdone, have you seen the last few? As of the last few (Since 3 technically), there is actually a more than the just killing-for-no-reason storyline developing, which was the only thing that made me watch 6 (some interesting stuff happened in that one)

The Shining is the only movie that consistently scares. Not on that cheesy quiet-quiet-quiet-LOUD! way that most horror movies operate but psychologically. By the end of the movie, you're sure that Jack is nuts and you're not so sure about yourself anymore. The Exorcist scared me the first time I saw it but has seemed funnier every time since. Emily Rose was a long, extra-boring episode of Law & Order. Saw was even more boring than that. I don't bother with horror movies any more. They're no fun to me. The last good movies I saw was the new Star Trek, actually. Hey, maybe the UM movie will be good.

Oh, and vote for Gwar!, for the sake of being on topic. I don't know why a thread so be locked for being off-topic anyway, as long as people are being nice. The conversation is still good. Mods must just be bored when that happens.

have you seen the last few?

God no, and I think I'm better off. Whatever possible semblance of plot or meaning they could have, it isn't worth sitting through fething torture porn to find it. I just don't find the character or the story all that interesting, and I sure as hell aren't interested in the "traps"...

Sidstyler wrote:

have you seen the last few?

God no, and I think I'm better off. Whatever possible semblance of plot or meaning they could have, it isn't worth sitting through fething torture porn to find it. I just don't find the character or the story all that interesting, and I sure as hell aren't interested in the "traps"...

Ha, good point, good point indeed...

We are going a bit OT but...WTH, might as well...

I liked Aliens, but none of the others. The only good part was Alien 3 where the preacher/prisoner goes all 'Sigmar Warrior' on the Alien. Real heroic moment that.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:I'm gonna watch Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone! later this weekend, I've not seen it in years and it's one of my favourites.

I'm going to have a special Halloween movie night later. My favourite Halloween-related movie, Nightmare before Christmas, something gory, Dead Snow, which just got a release in Germany and to top it off, something really scary: The Dragonball Live-Action Movie

Sidstyler wrote:

What do the kids call it? Gore-nography?

Torture porn, I believe.

I hate the genre too, but Gore-nography" sounds pretty funny. ^^

Sidstyler wrote:Silent Hill is awesome, too, though I'm too much of a pussy to actually play the games...and lacking a console to play them on.

I didn't get around to play any of the games yet (waiting for the Wii-remake) but I found the movie to be pretty boring. Also, Sean Bean didn't die. WTF?

Eight Ball wrote:

Okay, I have to reply to this:
Although I too feel that some of the gore in the Saw movies is a bit overdone, have you seen the last few? As of the last few (Since 3 technically), there is actually a more than the just killing-for-no-reason storyline developing, which was the only thing that made me watch 6 (some interesting stuff happened in that one)

but I found the movie to be pretty boring

I watched the movie with little knowledge of the games, and liked it...kinda. At the time, anyway.

There are some good parts...the town as a whole looked pretty cool, but it fails for making pointless changes (Harry is a woman, snow is ash, pyramid head is awesome but shouldn't be here, etc.), and having a pretty crap ending.

Sidstyler wrote:

but I found the movie to be pretty boring

I watched the movie with little knowledge of the games, and liked it...kinda. At the time, anyway.

There are some good parts...the town as a whole looked pretty cool, but it fails for making pointless changes (Harry is a woman, snow is ash, pyramid head is awesome but shouldn't be here, etc.), and having a pretty crap ending.

Well I quite enjoyed super mario brothers movie once i got over how badly they'd got it wrong. If you want to try it out theres a copy on youtube (at the moment).

Got to say I've always had a soft spot for cheasy movies. One of my favours is Tremors ...

... who doesn't love what is effectively Jaws on land.

I don't need YouTube, I used to own the VHS several years ago...and watched it regularly...and Tremors used to scare the gak out of me, lol.

"Monkey!"

Tremors was cool.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Tremors was cool.

I know such a shame the TV series didn't make it to the uk.

Half the genius of Tremors was the script which raised it above your average cheesy horror movie...

"Running's not a plan. Running's what you do when a plan fails."

The original Japanese version of 'The Grudge' was pretty freaky.

Drag me to Hell wasn't too bad either, lots of jumpy moments. A proper old skool horror I thought.