Good horror movies?

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DEAD ALIVE!

I caught the end of that movie one night on cable...it was seriously gorey and pretty fucked up. I never knew what the name was till now (you guys had me research it) but I'm going to rent it!!!

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Peter Jackson actually directed it, along with another movie called Meet The Feebles, a seriously fucked up Muppet type movie, but with a serious twist.... who knew this guy was going to do Lord of The Rings Years later

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[ntacfreefly 0]

Yeah I just saw that....who would have guessed!

Damn...that lawnmower scene was really gory

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Yeah I just saw that....who would have guessed!

Damn...that lawnmower scene was really gory

I love that scene. Dammit. Now Im gonna have to go rent it.

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Good to see someone else reads The Psychotronic Video guide! I thought I was the only one who ever saw (and owns) Psychomania!

That is one of my favorites!

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Dead Alive simply brilliant.

Dead/Alive is not a horror film. So many on this list are not "horror" films. Dead/Alive was gorefest comedy. Awesome gorefest comedy, but gorefest comedy.

With lines like,
"Your mother ate my dog!"
"Not all of it."

"That's my mother you're pissing on!"

Or the Bruce Lee wannabe Priest? "I kick ass for the Lord."

I'm wondering how to separate horror from comedy from suspense.

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Sure it is a horror. Maybe a comedic horror but nevertheless. Take it from me, I am a horror host, been one for 4 years!

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Has nobody ever mentioned "The Blair Witch Project"?

That was as good a low-budget horror flick if I've ever seen one.

I was pretty scared the first time I watched it.

Nobody has said "Signs"?
Ok the ending was stupid, but up until then i thought it was scary.... like when he looks under the kitchen door and the alien tries to grab him.

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[FreeflyChile 0]

my favorite thing about creepshow was the one where they had the thing that looked like a garbage bag on a pond that ate people. hilarious stuff!

[kenz 0]

i used to get freaked out by tales from the crypt - the show.... that damn crypt keepers laugh...

looking back at it now it's pretty humorous- but that shit scared the crap out of me when i was younger

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Carnival of Souls
The Haunting (original B&W)
13 Ghosts
Boo
The Mausoleum

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Dude, Silent Hill, it's frikken AWESOME!

One of the best horror style flicks i've seen in a while. A bit more trashy is The Hills Have Eyes.
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Sarcasm/practical joke?

I was angry at myself after it was done for sitting through that movie, IMO truly one of the worst and unentertaining films I've ever seen.

If you're serious, I'm curious to know what quality you found in that movie if you don't mind sharing.

Yeah, i didn't get Silent Hill at all. It sucked major ass and i sooo want blockbuster to give me my money back for that complete load of garbage.

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The Haunting (Robert Wise NOT the remake by Jan DeBont)
Haunting of Hell House
The Omen (1979 NOT the remake)
The Shining
The Hills Have Eyes (either version)
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Halloween
Alien
Ringu
Audition
Dark Water (NOT the US remake)
The Grudge (NOT the US remake)
The Devil's Backbone
Tesis
Cronos
The Others
Count Dracula (1978 BBC starring Louis Jordan)
Dead Alive
Eyes Without a Face
Night of the Demon (Jacques Tournier)
To the Devil a Daughter
The Devil Rides Out
The Exorcist
The Fog
The Thing (either version but I perfer the 1982 Carpenter one)
Man Bites Dog
The Mephisto Waltz
The Nineth Gate
Rosemary's Baby (HELL YEAH)
The Uninvited
Ghost Story
Heavenly Creatures
Crawlspace
Demons
Tenebrae
Suspiria
Blood Red
Dracula (1932 Todd Browning)
Freaks (Todd Browning)
Zombie (Lucio Fulci)
Return of the Living Dead
The Stuff (Larry Cohen)

just a few....

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wtf? no body mentioned Hostil?

that was pretty twisted.

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[Peej 0]

I thought the concept of Hostel was really cool. What didn't gel with me was the way that the film felt like three distcinct movies: the trashy teen travel film, the gorefest and the escape, maybe that was the effect that the director was going for but i would've like a more seamless feel. That said, the scene with the drill had me wanting to vurp.

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Dude, Silent Hill, it's frikken AWESOME!

One of the best horror style flicks i've seen in a while. A bit more trashy is The Hills Have Eyes.

Sarcasm/practical joke?

I was angry at myself after it was done for sitting through that movie, IMO truly one of the worst and unentertaining films I've ever seen.

If you're serious, I'm curious to know what quality you found in that movie if you don't mind sharing.

No sarcasm at all.

I guess i'm a huge fan of the game, and of anything to do with the playstation too really - in fact I think that was probably what got my attention initially.

I was also impressed with the way they brought the game to life on screen. Beyond that though i'm in the ad industry and watch films from angles other than sheer enjoyment. For example i loved the CG, i loved the sets, the grade and the way it was shot.

I thought the story wasn't half bad, although there seems to be a trend with using a little girl and/ her mother as the main protagonist in horror films these days: The Ring, Hide and Seek, etc, but then again, maybe it's just children in general.

I dunno, thinking about it now, the whole thing just had me on the edge of my seat. Like the scene where her mother crawls through those fucked up zombie style nurses was intense, and there were a lot of parts where we were just going, "oh my god, what the fuck is THAT?" when some creature appeared on screen. I loved it and i'll definitely be adding it to my movie collection.

To each their own i guess...

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At the time I watched it, I had no idea Silent Hill was based on a game. If I knew something about the game and was into it, I probably would have appreciated it a lot more.

One thing I can credit that movie with is that it had some pretty amazing special effects.

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Sweet

Check out this wiki for some more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill#Film_adaptation_.282006.29

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Bumping this up because I'm at the library right now looking for DVDs for Halloween.

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Bumping this up because I'm at the library right now looking for DVDs for Halloween.

I'm a fan of movies by the old Hammer Film Studios.

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I think the name is, "The Ventrolequist". Anthony Hopkins is in it and it scared the bejesus out of me but I had to keep watching.

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At the time I watched it, I had no idea Silent Hill was based on a game. If I knew something about the game and was into it, I probably would have appreciated it a lot more.

One thing I can credit that movie with is that it had some pretty amazing special effects.

I actually liked Silent Hill a lot more than I expected to, and I haven't played the game (though I was aware of it). I thought the movie was stylish, and lots of it was original and nicely reminiscent of the stuff of bad dreams. The only things I didn't really like were the female cop - who just seemed too glamorous to convince - and Sean Bloody Bean, who I think is one of the most overrated actors out there. He always seems wooden to me, and his accents - whether he's trying to do American or 'posh' English - seem to be constantly at war with his Yorkshire roots .

I'm also going to stick my neck out and say I enjoyed the remake of The Ring more than the original. Great atmosphere, decent performances and superbly understated special effects. Everyone seems to bash Hollywood remakes of Japanese horror, but I don't think it's fair in that case.

I'm really weary of torture porn, which seems to rely on this idea that nastier = better - so I've got a downer on 'Saw' and all its imitators. My favourite horror/ suspense movies are Se7en, Alien, Wolf Creek, The Shining, The Descent, Jaws and The Sixth Sense.

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While watching these with your date you will feel trapped in the theater. Waves of panic will overcome you as you search for the exit and try to plan your escape. Soon, you realize that you have your excuse for leaving as you involuntarily begin tossing the fajitas you had for dinner an hour ago. Finally it is over and you can begin to work on recovering from the psychological scarring you received from watching these sadistic displays of pure terror, torture and horror.

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To the original poster:

Since it's Halloween, I suggest checking out a recent Swedish production called "Let the Right One In" (2008). It's a very stark, minimalist and moody picture that has a surreal atmosphere to it, brought on partly by the fact that it's in Swedish with English subtitles (however, DO NOT let that keep you from watching it!).

It's just been remade as "Let Me In", which looks like a frame-for frame refilming for the cretins in the USA. Why American audiences can't appreciate foreign films is beyond me. Over here, all the American films in the theater have Arabic subtitles, but the Arabs watch them anyway.

You can keep your hockey masks, power tools, and "scary" music. I'll take a picture rated at 98% with over 150 reviews on the Tomato-Meter any day over the shlock pumped out by Hollyweird (one review said "It's everything Twilight wanted to be but wasn't: beautiful to gaze at, achingly romantic, emotionally involving, unexpectedly terrifying." Another said "If Twilight is the Vampire film for starry-eyed teenage girls, Let the Right One In is the Vampire film for everyone else.").

My opinion? "Let the Right One In" is an absolutely brilliant piece of filmmaking, a refreshing take on the genre, and well worth your time. That's coming from someone who has very little spare time and is extremely choosy when it comes to spending it.

Another picture is "Eraserhead", from the twisted mind of David Lynch. It's like watching a nightmare.

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edit to add review quotes and other film. Be sure also to see "Nosferatu" and bookend it with "Shadow of the Vampire". Willem Dafoe was an Oscar nominee for that one, and he should have gotten it. Brilliant work!

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