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KingCracker wrote:My wife has an autographed copy of 1000 corpses by Rob and Sherri. Kindda neat, but other then that, I think that and the sequel are total gak boxes
I must respectfulydisagree with you my bearded buddy,both House of 1,000 corpses and The Devils Rejects are fantastic homages to the 70's Grindhouse/ explotation films, which is exactly what Zombie meant for them to be. I also wouldn't even catagorize "Rejects" as " Horror", as it's much more of an Anti-Hero/Shoot 'em up/Action flick ( with a sprinkling of psychological horror thrown in), reminded me much more of " Switchblade sisters" ( albeit with a crazed clown) then it did of any real "Horror" flick.
Ahhh FITZZ, was wondering when you would make an appearance
your avatar still reminds me of 1000 corpses...
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KingCracker wrote:My wife has an autographed copy of 1000 corpses by Rob and Sherri. Kindda neat, but other then that, I think that and the sequel are total gak boxes
I must respectfulydisagree with you my bearded buddy,both House of 1,000 corpses and The Devils Rejects are fantastic homages to the 70's Grindhouse/ explotation films, which is exactly what Zombie meant for them to be.
I also wouldn't even catagorize "Rejects" as " Horror", as it's much more of an Anti-Hero/Shoot 'em up/Action flick ( with a sprinkling of psychological horror thrown in), reminded me much more of " Switchblade sisters" ( albeit with a crazed clown) then it did of any real "Horror" flick.
Ahhh FITZZ, was wondering when you would make an appearance
your avatar still reminds me of 1000 corpses...
As so it should Rev.
I've been reading over this particular thread since it was posted and honestly trying to determine which ( if any) horror fims I would truely consider "terrifying".
The Exorcist would most likely be my number one choice...though clearly not in any " OHMYGOSHTHATSCAREDME!!" way, it's the building tension and the premise that, for me, make the film truely disturbing.
JAWS ( one of my all time favorite films btw) works on a "Horror/Monster movie" level for the first half of the film, the later half ( though great) is more of an action/ buddies on a boat movie as far as I'm concerned.
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KingCracker wrote:My wife has an autographed copy of 1000 corpses by Rob and Sherri. Kindda neat, but other then that, I think that and the sequel are total gak boxes
I must respectfulydisagree with you my bearded buddy,both House of 1,000 corpses and The Devils Rejects are fantastic homages to the 70's Grindhouse/ explotation films, which is exactly what Zombie meant for them to be.
I also wouldn't even catagorize "Rejects" as " Horror", as it's much more of an Anti-Hero/Shoot 'em up/Action flick ( with a sprinkling of psychological horror thrown in), reminded me much more of " Switchblade sisters" ( albeit with a crazed clown) then it did of any real "Horror" flick.
Ahhh FITZZ, was wondering when you would make an appearance
your avatar still reminds me of 1000 corpses...
As so it should Rev.
I've been reading over this particular thread since it was posted and honestly trying to determine which ( if any) horror fims I would truely consider "terrifying".
The Exorcist would most likely be my number one choice...though clearly not in any " OHMYGOSHTHATSCAREDME!!" way, it's the building tension and the premise that, for me, make the film truely disturbing.
JAWS ( one of my all time favorite films btw) works on a "Horror/Monster movie" level for the first half of the film, the later half ( though great) is more of an action/ buddies on a boat movie as far as I'm concerned.
it os one of those immortal images...if you know what it is, theres no way you will forget it. If you dont...its just a happy clown....honest
Chowderhead wrote:I just saw Justin Beiber: Never Say Never with the gal for date night.
That movie just creeps the hell out of me.
That sounds like an advert for a paedophile...
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House of 1,000 Corpses is trash I agree. However its sequel, the Devil's Rejects, is a great, unique, and fresh horror movie and I recommend everyone to see it.
htj wrote:Has it not been mentioned, or did I just miss it? Texas Chainsaw Massacre freaks me out every time. The original one that is, I've not seen any others.
Im a fan of TCM movies. The original is by far my fave, such a good movie. You just felt like that woman just couldnt get away from the family no matter how hard she tried
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htj wrote:Has it not been mentioned, or did I just miss it? Texas Chainsaw Massacre freaks me out every time. The original one that is, I've not seen any others.
Im a fan of TCM movies. The original is by far my fave, such a good movie. You just felt like that woman just couldnt get away from the family no matter how hard she tried
The reboot was pretty good too. As a jaded adult it didn't scare me, but the movie was well done. R Lee Ermy as a cannibal... sweet...
Scarey eh?
I gotta go with Alien as my pick for the scariest. But as has been said none of the films mentioned here are quite as scarey the second time around. I liked The Fog (1979) when I first saw it but after watching it again before the remake came out I was not as impressed.
In the Mouth of Madness. John Carpenter's homage to Lovecraft, and starring Sam Neil. Genuinely creepy, IMO.
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Also surprised no-one mentioned Wolf Creek, come to think of it.
House of 1,000 Corpses is one of those movies that I walked out of having no idea how I was supposed to have enjoyed it. The victims were all unlikeable people, and the whole thing was so silly that clearly we weren't supposed to thinking 'we could be those people' like in, say, Deliverance. So straight scares were out of the way. Then perhaps we were supposed to be fixated on these purely evil people, fascinated and repulsed at the same time, like how you watch Hannibal or similar movies... but these were pathetic, ignorant hillbillies that absolutely no-one would want to be even slightly like, and the only reason they had any success was through the absolute incompetence of their victims and a heavy dose of plot contrivance.
It was full of some effective imagery, like the clown face ie FRITZZ, and some of the body mutilation... so much so that I'm not willing to call it a bad movie, as much as call it a bunch of stuff that would have been pretty cool, if they were put in a movie that made some kind of sense.
Norn King wrote:^Jaws is not scary.
Given lots and lots of people around the world will talk about how scared they were by that movie, your claim above is objectively false.
Now, you might say 'I didn't put it on my list because I didn't find it scary' and that'd be fine, but to say it isn't scary is to confuse your personal reaction with everyone else's.
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Corpsesarefun wrote:However that scene in Signs where the blurry home video shows an alien walking past the window at a kids birthday party always creeps me out something fierce.
That scene wins the award for 'most scary, engrossing scene in a film I otherwise completely hated'
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I think Signs is a terrible alien invasion movie but it's a great monster/spooky film. The less you think of the logistics of this invasion and the more you focus on the creepy things running around the farm the easier it is to appreciate.
As for the list I have to say I can't think of one :/ though I must echo the abundance of The Thing love in this thread, that's a great movie. I think I've seen so many horror movies that I'm immune to them now.
Also slightly off topic, anyone know any good horror movies that are on instant watch on Netflix? I need to stream some screams on my screen!...sorry about that.
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Corpsesarefun wrote:However that scene in Signs where the blurry home video shows an alien walking past the window at a kids birthday party always creeps me out something fierce.
That scene wins the award for 'most scary, engrossing scene in a film I otherwise completely hated'
Yeah that sums it up pretty nicely for me. It started very mediocrely then built up to being quite creepy (that scene more so than any other) and finally threw it all out the window with the ending.
Water? SERIOUSLY? That's almost as bad as the whole "the Earth's natural bacteria killed them" shtick from War of the Worlds.
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I think Signs is a terrible alien invasion movie but it's a great monster/spooky film. The less you think of the logistics of this invasion and the more you focus on the creepy things running around the farm the easier it is to appreciate.
Yeah, except that still gets ruined by that stupid ending. No matter how scary those things might have been when they were lurking in the dark, that's all ruined when one of them just stands there for about minute looking stupid with a glass of water about a metre away, doing nothing about it.
I think the film works best as a kind of Jackass parody, where a bunch of aliens dared each other to go down to the planet full of all that deadly water, stark naked, and run around to prove how brave/crazy they were to each other. That alien at the end was obviously the Steve-O character.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
Corpsesarefun wrote:Tommyknockers was made into a movie?
Again that book was really eerie but I didn't find it too scary.
A TV miniseries... nowhere near as good as the book but not terrible. No tentacle crotch folks at least.
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asimo77 wrote:Oh man that scene is Signs...
I think Signs is a terrible alien invasion movie but it's a great monster/spooky film. The less you think of the logistics of this invasion and the more you focus on the creepy things running around the farm the easier it is to appreciate.
Yeah, except that still gets ruined by that stupid ending. No matter how scary those things might have been when they were lurking in the dark, that's all ruined when one of them just stands there for about minute looking stupid with a glass of water about a metre away, doing nothing about it.
I think the film works best as a kind of Jackass parody, where a bunch of aliens dared each other to go down to the planet full of all that deadly water, stark naked, and run around to prove how brave/crazy they were to each other. That alien at the end was obviously the Steve-O character.
Odin, signs pissed me off. I am an alien. I can fly through the universe with ne'er a care in the... universe. I am going to visit a planet with seas of acid, where acid rains from the sky. Condensates out of the very air. I am going to visit this planet, naked. Profit.
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htj wrote:Has it not been mentioned, or did I just miss it? Texas Chainsaw Massacre freaks me out every time. The original one that is, I've not seen any others.
Im a fan of TCM movies. The original is by far my fave, such a good movie. You just felt like that woman just couldnt get away from the family no matter how hard she tried
The reboot was pretty good too. As a jaded adult it didn't scare me, but the movie was well done. R Lee Ermy as a cannibal... sweet...
Agreed, I thought not just for a remake, but a "Scary" movie on its own, it was really well made. I loved how gritty and dark it was. Sadly the sequel to the remake, was just ass
Corpsesarefun wrote:Tommyknockers was made into a movie?
Again that book was really eerie but I didn't find it too scary.
Yea they did, I havnt seen it in a few years, so my memory of how good it was is pretty foggy. Should probably netflix it now that your making me think about it
Horror movies don't scare me generally (Horror games are a completely different story. Haven't even touched Amnesia since I played it the first time.)
I generally like Sci-fi horror. My favorites are all of the Aliens movies, and Pandorum. Pandorum was a seriously awesome movie. They did every possible thing they could with their low budget and came out with a movie that is better than some films that cost 5 times as much.
Also I freaking love the game Dead Space, but it took me forever to get through it. Dead Space 2 is fun as well, though not really scary.
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Jaws keeps popping up, thought I'd share something on the matter: captain Quinn was a real guy-my grandfather was friends with him. Not the actor, the real captain. Two days after Jaws came out, he went sharking and caught the smallest great white in a school of them-it was two feet larger than Jaws. The smallest. So...they do get that big. I found Deep Blue Sea to be scarier, really. And I saw jaws first.
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timetowaste85 wrote:Jaws keeps popping up, thought I'd share something on the matter: captain Quinn was a real guy-my grandfather was friends with him. Not the actor, the real captain. Two days after Jaws came out, he went sharking and caught the smallest great white in a school of them-it was two feet larger than Jaws. The smallest. So...they do get that big. I found Deep Blue Sea to be scarier, really. And I saw jaws first.
Ratius wrote:Deep blue sea the film > Jaws?
Uhm, to each their own boss
What can I say-as a 13 yr old at the time, the Jaws shark looked fake and not at all frightening. The Deep Blue Sea sharks looked real, had intelligence (science we could PROBABLY replicate these days) and they could have torn Jaws apart. The movie was also plenty hilarious in places-it was an all around awesome movie. I also read the novel of Jaws before I watched the movie-that helped ruin it for me-the book was more terrifying and had a lot more going on in it.
And thanks for posting the guy's name-I didn't know it (if my grandfather ever told me, I forgot). My grandfather also lives in Long Island (East Hampton, about 45 minutes from Montauk, depending on traffic) and they've had coffee together quite a few times. The knowledge I got from this was the best part to come out of Jaws, I think
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timetowaste85 wrote:Jaws keeps popping up, thought I'd share something on the matter: captain Quinn was a real guy-my grandfather was friends with him. Not the actor, the real captain. Two days after Jaws came out, he went sharking and caught the smallest great white in a school of them-it was two feet larger than Jaws. The smallest. So...they do get that big.
There's a grain of truth in there, but not really. The shark in Jaws was meant to be about 25 feet, and while great whites have been spotted about that large none have ever been caught - the largest ever captured was 18 feet long. Average great whites are about 15 feet long, so the idea of a school of them in which the smallest is 27 feet, and that it was captured is, at best, wildly exagerrated.
And you can thank my nephew for all the information above, as he is completing his Year 4 project on great whites on the table behind me as we speak, and is now a fountain of knowledge on all things shark.
I found Deep Blue Sea to be scarier, really. And I saw jaws first.
No kidding.
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