I like a good horror flick now and then -- problem is, there are so many crappy ones.
Anybody seen any good ones lately?
I watched the exorcist and several of the slasher flicks of the day before my 6th birthday. I am completely desensitized to the horror genre (my wife won't watch anything with me because I laugh too much at it). Suspense on the other hand is far more fun. With that in mind the only recent movie that I liked therein was Insidious.
there's this movie where a white guy talks to women about black s.........
wait a minute.......that was a thread from wc.
nevermind.
Sinister was a great movie.
I saw this at the theater. Movie would've been better without the last couple of minutes.
The remake of the thing was decent.
I keep to foreign horror films. They have a pretty good understanding on how to make a decent movie. Something Hollywood never will be good at again.
correct, can't remember the last good horror from hollywood.
euro and the east do it well
A lot of American horror films are just foreign remakes -- The Ring, Quarantine, etc
God the ring was just horrible. I saw that piece of in the theater and at the end there was a guy in the back who yelled "RREEEEEEFUUUUUUUND" and I responded with a " yeah". I watched the Japanese version and, if you can believe it, it was worse. Nothing ever happened.
Yeah, that one sucked
Original was awesome as well.
yeah, I wouldn't mind finding a scary movie worth watching, but seems it has been ages since a good one has even been attempted.
agree about The Ring being , Ringu pretty much represents when I realized no one was trying to make good horror movies anymore. there was the American version, which people were saying good things about, and then there was the original winch the purists were raving about. "finally a real horror movie" etc. well they both sucked and I haven't even bothered with horror movies since.
IMO horror requires firm grounding in reality at first, slow buildup, mystery, characters that don't behave like idiots. as I jog my memory only good horror movie I can recall is Event Horizon.
The problem is, the makers of these movies are so caught up in special effects, gore, CGI, etc. that they neglect the story.
There have been maybe 2-3 horror films in the last couple of years that range from decent to great.
Insidious was alright and it's on Netflix
http://www.imdb.com/ le/tt1591095/
just because you didn't your pants watching those movies it doesn't mean they not good imho
The Cabin In The Woods is good, but it isn't scary at all. It's a parody of Horror movies.
Strangers was not bad either.
Cabin in the Woods
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
House of the Devil
Drag Me to
^ House of the Devil in a nuts :
-talking
-girl wanders around
-more talking
-girl continues to wander around
-some other girl is shot
-girl wanders around some more
-Rosemary's Baby ripoff climax
That's it.
today's horror movies are all overmarketed
The 80's, sons, the golden age of the genre
The previews for Mama looked pretty scary.
That bedroom scene with Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep in "Hope Springs" was the scariest I've seen in decades....I haven't slept well since then....whew...chilling!
Scarred for life- no joke.
you rang?
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