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Someone recently told me that Drag Me to is a decent horror but everything else lately uses the same ty formula and predictible cliches. Anyone have good suggestions on horrors?
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I've been wanting to see a haunting in CT
Drag Me to sucked bad in my opinion. They don't make good horror films anymore. They are hard to find. Horror films started going down the toilet when "Scream" and the "I Know What you Did last Summer" movies started coming out.
I love movies like Poltergeist, Pet Semetary, the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street", Demons 2, Fright Night, Silver Bullet and The Lost Boys.
They don't make em like that anymore. Now you have vampire movies and horror wannabe movies where the soundtrack is filled with alot of noise and stupid rock music trying to be hip and cool, horrible dialogue.
Trash, trash, trash...
Kinda lost faith in all horror movies...the last one to actually freak me out and keep me interested was Quarantine.
I agree.
Also The Devil Wears Prada scared the shiit out of me.
Final Destination 12
Go ahead and add the Notebook and the other sister. Both of which I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes without turning on all the lights and checking the closets.
Nosferatu and The Shining are the best I've seen. But for comedic-horror I like The Lost Boys, Fright Night, and Shadow of the Vampire.
Some have already been mentioned, but you gotta go with the classics.
Poltergeist
The Shining
Pet Cemetery
Seven
It
Alien
Event Horizon
Horror series with kitsch value:
Friday the 13th
Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
Chucky
Saw
The only newish horror movie I really enjoyed was 1408, but I haven't seen one in a long while.
Last edited by Dex; 07-06-2009 at 12:03 PM.
Kinda lost faith in all horror movies...the last one to actually freak me out and keep me interested was Quarantine.
that ! I couldn't watch it, it made me dizzy.
I also have to add to my previous post that I loved "An American Werewolf in London"...
Remember when it was scary to watch a scene where the man transformed into the wolf, him screaming from his hands growing and face disfiguring, the little hairs growing out of his skin? That was scary, That was entertaining.
Now we get cartoon-looking werewolfs running all over the screen and people are impressed with this crap? Trash!
The exorcist....bottom line.
Thriller
I'm compelled to add Gremlins to this list.
jeeze ppl how about some this decade
The others was ok and I liked the japanese horror with the monster that came out a couple years ago
agreed. these movies have really watered down american horror films.
i think there are a few directors who are kinda reverting back to the older and better days - like eli roth and rob zombie. i think the saw and hostel series are both better than the i know what you did last summer level garbage.
also liked grindhouse and the fake previews between were brilliant. i wish they'd go ahead and make "Thanksgiving". and where's Machete? i thought that was set for release about the time grindhouse hit dvd...
also masters of horror on showtime was a nice breath of fresh air. the premise was to give famous horror directors two weeks to film a one hour show. some were good, some sucked. had a nice tales from the crypt feel to it though, that good ol tongue-in-cheek horror.
The original Nightmare on Elm Street was good.
The first Saw was good; it was new and inventive. Then they turned it into another mass produced piece of just so it could release every year on Halloween.
Hostel is just gore-porn. Its not scary to see some chick bleed someone dry and bathe in the blood. I'm not saying some gore is bad, but having gore for the sake of gore doesn't make something scary.
And Zombie ing butchered Halloween. Butchered.
1000 corpses was a rip off of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but I actually Devil's Rejects was pretty decent. I do like his style, its gritty but he needs the right story.
The Grudge
They haven't made any horror movies this decade. Gorenography? Yes. Horror? No.jeeze ppl how about some this decade
I don't know if it counts as horror, but it was always in the horror section of my local VHS rental store ala 1995; Silence of the Lambs.
Anyone who's read the book The Shining, not only doesn't like the movie, they think it's absolute rubbish. And in general, probably harbor feelings of ill-will unto Stanley Kubrick for destroying it.
The Thing
The ending is classic. Only two guys left, neither one knows if the other is still human, and they know they can't make it out alive so they just sit and wait to freeze
yeah, really dug the first saw the most. didn't bother to see the last one, but i'll catch it when it comes out on hbo or showtime. i'm just at a point with modern horror movies where it's stuff like saw or nothing. nothing to drool over, but good for a few cheap torture scenes and twisted ideas!
i liked the plot of hostel. unique concept overall with a solid revenge aspect to clinch the ending. and i can't get enough gore personally. ; ) you're right though on the scare factor. doesn't resonate that way.
i actually liked halloween, mainly for my reasons above in wanting something gritty. it's admittedly my least favorite of zombie's movies, but i thought it was a better addition to the series than H20 and the last few pieces of crap. i wasn't as bothered as most people were by seeing myers's prototypical broken-home background - didn't ruin the mystique of the story for me for some reason...
all about zombie's characters though. there are some hilarious scenes in devil's rejects. the first time i watched it i found it a little unnerving, but i've since grown to see the underlying humor. looking forward to tyrannosaurus rex.
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