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I'm very much a 70s/80s horror fan. There's a certain charm that horror films from those decades have that I don't get from a lot of later productions. I'll recommend a favourite: Phenomena by Dario Argento. It's a pretty atmospheric slasher horror film featuring Jennifer Connelly, heavy metal music from bands like Iron Maiden and even a chimpanzee kill! That, and it is one of the films responsible for the game Clock Tower, which is something else I hold very close to my heart.
 
Calandrino said:
Did I? ofc the remake doesn't count. Don Mancini openly trashed it and complained that its shittiness would hurt the profitability of his own movies before it was even released, but MGM owns the rights to the original Child's Play so not much he could do.
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Well you started by saying he wrote all of the movies, but didn't exclude the remake. Glad to know he was bitching about it even if it was just covering his bases (or he saw the script and he knew it'd be a total shit show)

I mean it was really fucking terrible and generic. And again Mark Hamill was the fucking worst choice for the voice, too.

Product Placement said:
Halloween is soon, so this thread could be good to find movies I haven't seen in but I have seen over 1500 horror movies according to imdb, so starting to get hard to find good horror movies I haven't seen lol
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I don't know, 1.5k horror movies isn't that much considering the output of the genre. And usually horror fans tend to have a lower treshold so finding a good or entertaining horror flick really isn't that hard. Especially if you haven't already gone through, like, the 1930s to 1960s classic, the Hammer stuff, etc..

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A couple of more than decent French efforts that I enjoyed are Martyrs and Haute Tension. I think most horror fans would've seen one or both of them but they're definitely worth checking out if you haven't.
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I really liked HT until the last five minutes and I hated the ending so much it retroactively ruined the movie for me.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
Well you started by saying he wrote all of the movies, but didn't exclude the remake. Glad to know he was bitching about it even if it was just covering his bases (or he saw the script and he knew it'd be a total shit show)

I mean it was really fucking terrible and generic. And again Mark Hamill was the fucking worst choice for the voice, too.


I don't know, 1.5k horror movies isn't that much considering the output of the genre. And usually horror fans tend to have a lower treshold so finding a good or entertaining horror flick really isn't that hard. Especially if you haven't already gone through, like, the 1930s to 1960s classic, the Hammer stuff, etc..


I really liked HT until the last five minutes and I hated the ending so much it retroactively ruined the movie for me.
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Well, it's about 5% of the horror movies listed on imdb, true many I still got watch, just starting to run dry on the stuff that is well known to be good pretty much done with everything from those eras of note, however, do have many 20s horrors to still check out.
 
I mean not only by decade, but also if you open up to movies with subtitles, there are so many choices when it comes to Italian, Asian, etc... I have about 200 releases on my hard drive right now waiting to be cast, and that's only the shit I can't get from Shudder & Netflix. Most of them have been released in the last couple of years, too. Between indie + foreign + older movies there's another 5k-10k good to great movies out there for you to watch, at the very least. It's just a question of being willing to put up with subtitles and researching shit/reading blogs
 
Internet War Criminal said:
I mean not only by decade, but also if you open up to movies with subtitles, there are so many choices when it comes to Italian, Asian, etc... I have about 200 releases on my hard drive right now waiting to be cast, and that's only the shit I can't get from Shudder & Netflix. Most of them have been released in the last couple of years, too. Between indie + foreign + older movies there's another 5k-10k good to great movies out there for you to watch, at the very least. It's just a question of being willing to put up with subtitles and researching shit/reading blogs
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5k to 10k more good to great is way overboard for horror, that would be 1/3 of horror movies listed on imdb, really maybe a couple of hundred more worth watching than a lot of shit. But yeah I do watch none English movies but do have a few I still need to watch like A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night which is on my list for Halloween.
 
Tonight's movie was Sadistic Intentions (2018.). A musician and a girl meet up at a house in the woods waiting for a third party who invited them there with, well, sadistic intentions. I won't say much else to ruin the plot but overall I thought the movie was great, the first two thirds even better than the ending IMO, the interplay between the lead actors was absolutely fantastic. It's one location, very small cast, relies on the script and acting and thankfully it's all top notch.

Overall, a very strong 4 out of 5 for me.


As a side note, the main actor should be much bigger than he is. He is really great in this role, just as he was in The Battery, a really different and low-key Zombie flick, he was also in The Spring and Bliss, The main actress and the lead have also teamed up for Fingers, After Midnight and The Leech. I've only seen After Midnight, but it was a great flick as well and I'm gonna make sure to check out the other two now.
 
I guess I should put this out of the way but the works of Junji Ito are some that have genuinely unnerved me, mostly because it makes me feel a mix of squeamish and intrigue with how it's portrayed. I guess Gyo is one of my favorites of his works since I have a fascination with the ocean.
 
So, I had an idea.

With horror, there are so many different styles and sub-genres and I'm curious about what your favorite movie from the different styles would be.

It can be a single pick or you can go for a "Top 3" instead.

Here would be some of mine...

Slashers
Halloween '78
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

Vampires
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Lost Boys
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

Zombies
Day of the Dead
Zombie (AKA Zombi 2)
Night of the Living Dead

Werewolves
Dog Soldiers
The Howling
An American Werewolf in London

Demons, Witches, and the Occult
Hellraiser
The Wicker Man
Sleepy Hollow

Horror Comedy
Evil Dead II
Return of the Living Dead
Slither

Exploitation and Extreme Horror
Cannibal Holocaust
August Underground
I Spit On Your Grave

Found Footage
The Blair Witch Project
The Last Broadcast
REC

Sci-Fi Horror
Alien
The Thing
Cronenberg's The Fly

Guilty Pleasures and Black Sheep Sequels
Alien 3
Jason Goes To Hell
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Backwoods Horror
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Deliverance
The Hills Have Eyes

Mondo
Faces of Death
The Killing of America
Shocking Asia
 
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Syaoran Li said:
So, I had an idea.

With horror, there are so many different styles and sub-genres and I'm curious about what your favorite movie from the different styles would be.

It can be a single pick or you can go for a "Top 3" instead.

Here would be some of mine...

Slashers
Halloween '78
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

Vampires
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Lost Boys
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

Zombies
Day of the Dead
Zombie (AKA Zombi 2)
Night of the Living Dead

Werewolves
Dog Soldiers
The Howling
An American Werewolf in London

Demons, Witches, and the Occult
Hellraiser
The Wicker Man
Sleepy Hollow

Horror Comedy
Evil Dead II
Return of the Living Dead
Slither
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A good idea, I'll fill in mine later, but I think it's lacking a few categories, like Home Invasion and Found Footage, who definitely deserve their own category, as well as Exploitation.
 
Internet War Criminal said:
A good idea, I'll fill in mine later, but I think it's lacking a few categories, like Home Invasion and Found Footage, who definitely deserve their own category, as well as Exploitation.
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For sure. And keep in mind the list I posted was by no means at all complete. Just something I wrote on the fly.

EDIT - Updated the list just now
 
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Two vampire movies tonight, one of them shit and the other one just half shite

Ten Minutes Before Midnight is about some DJ who hears that she's gonna be replaced after her show, and it devolves into a Jacob's Ladder daydream with violence and nonsense and overall, fuck that movie. Could have been something, turned out to be terrible
1.5/5

Boys from Hell County
Irish humor has been hit and miss, with some gems like Get Duked and some valiant attempts that fell flat like Caveat (still worth a watch). In this case, a construction project unveils some vampires thought to be buried, and shit breaks loose. It's not a bad movie in any way, I just can't recommend it to anyone who is not into specifically the vampire genre, or indie European horror.
Either a strong 2.5 or weak 3 outta 5
 
I'm a bit of a pussy and am slowly getting more into horror, but psychological horror I find super interesting. It doesn't always freak me out (Silence of the Lambs is supposed to be psychological horror, but it came off more as a thriller tbh, I think One Hour Photo fits the bill more), but I enjoy works that explore the psyche and its fragility and how it can be manipulated by anything. Horror video games seem to be oozing with this, but I'm not as inclined to play them for sissy reasons. Corpse Party was the closest I got, and Higurashi barely counts as a "game" but the sound novel is intense and legit gave me nightmares, I love it. (The live-action movies sucked.) Giant animal monster movies are probably my favorite B-horror movies if I had to pick a genre, but I don't watch them much anymore. Used to when I was younger, especially when Blockbuster was still around, in which case Them! and Godzilla are my go-to favorites, with Anaconda on the occasion.

For more proof how much of a fucking pussy I am outside of the fantastical elements, I still have of yet to watch J-horror movies despite the genre interesting me. I've seen the American take on The Ring, but Ringu eludes me. Maybe it's because I don't wanna watch it and Ju-On alone for some reason, in which case make fun of me for it, especially since I had watched The Exorcist alone at night and came out of it just fine (fuck that blood-letting scene, though, just gross). But then again, something as stupid as Frogs somehow managed to freak me out years ago, so maybe I don't really have an excuse.

Also hot take, but The Babadook was honestly a pretty good movie. The Internet did stupid shit to it, unfortunately, but when you take the movie at face-value, I thought it was a good take on personifying grief and being freaky about it. Dad will sometimes reference it at random, but that might be because that was one of the few movies I actually willingly sat and watched with him in the last few years.

Lights Out had so much potential since the short film is actually great, but holy shit the executive meddling shows. Test audiences can be dumb motherfuckers at times.
 
Just watched children of the corn and nightmare on elm street again as a double feature. Hard to believe both films came out the year Linda Hamilton and Johnny Depp made it big. Hamilton with terminator, Depp with elm street and 21 jump Street.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
Horror video games seem to be oozing with this, but I'm not as inclined to play them for sissy reasons. Corpse Party was the closest I got, and Higurashi barely counts as a "game" but the sound novel is intense and legit gave me nightmares, I love it. (The live-action movies sucked.)
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..there were live action Higurashi movies?
 
Kari Kamiya said:
For "Onikakushi-hen" and "Tsumihoroboshi-hen". They sucked. "Chikai", the theme song, was pretty good, though.
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I guess since it's relevant to the thread, I can say that I own two volumes of the Higurashi manga! I think it's for the first arc? Haven't read them in a good while.
 
Yukari Yakumo said:
I guess since it's relevant to the thread, I can say that I own two volumes of the Higurashi manga! I think it's for the first arc? Haven't read them in a good while.
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If it's the first two volumes, yeah, it's the first arc. Which I must say, Karin Suzuragi's art progression was pretty stunning. She was kinda rough for Onikakushi-hen, but when she hit Tsumihoroboshi-hen, you almost couldn't believe it was the same artist. Though you could tell Rena was her favorite and wanted to make her look good by Tsumihoroboshi-hen.
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But yeah, the manga adaptation has some haunting art to it. Scenes of murder have never looked so beautiful if you ask me.
 
Yukari Yakumo said:
I guess I should put this out of the way but the works of Junji Ito are some that have genuinely unnerved me, mostly because it makes me feel a mix of squeamish and intrigue with how it's portrayed. I guess Gyo is one of my favorites of his works since I have a fascination with the ocean.
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Incoming Junji Ito gushing.

I have every Junji Ito manga in physical form and his art books. No regrets. He is my absolute favourite. There's something so genuine in the way he writes and draws that the horror feels just right at your door while you're reading. There's only been a few horror focused writer/artists who I think can really get under the skin and appeal to such a broad amount of people because let's face it - horror is very subjective. He's a rare gem in manga honestly and doesn't get enough acknowledgement for how much he's done for horror and manga.

If you like Ito though, they've done a manga version for the Mountains of Madness that is not Ito but very good and faithful to the Lovecraft story while expanding on it a little.

Back to movies, though, there's a dude I like who does horror movie analysis (without it being boring or up his own butt) he's got some good vids for little known horror movies and I've watched a good amount due to his recommends. (Usually I watch them and then watch the analysis)


The Hallow was really, really good and I recommend it also.
 
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