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Post by chrislord on Oct 13, 2009 8:41:09 GMT
It's coming to that time of the year again folks when the horror movie makes a brief comeback around Halloween. Pitifully rare to see good horror movies on the box nowadays. So can we sift through the last 90 years of chills at the movies and on tv and come up with a top
ten of the most scary movies?
(and I did promise myself never to use the word 'movies'...it's like calling football 'soccer'.)
HALLOWEEN is one film that still manages to scare me half to death. Michae Myers plodding up the stairs in the captain kirk cutout mask...jeez!
Wont be everyone's choice but I feel I also have to include THE EXORCIST because it's still a very powerful film and has to be up there in the all time top twenty surely!
...now I'll have to go away and refresh my memory with half a gallon of coffee.
Oh...THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (the original)...fooking brilliantly terrifying.
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Post by motorist on Oct 13, 2009 13:11:15 GMT
Phooey to those films. Michael always seemed to me to be a skinny knock-off of Jason. I could be wrong, though, I don't know which character came out first. I didn't think Exorcist was horrific, just odd. TCM I struggle to stay awake through My alltime favourite is the Fog (not the shitty recent remake) but I don't think it's particularly horrific. Maybe I'm just de-sensitized from seeing so many, but the only film that I found scary was the first ALIEN film when I first saw it on telly at the age of 13 or thereabouts I do like a nice mindfuck horror film. Hellraiser V was very good at that, they went AWAY from the usual slasher-style to make that film, to come up with a "wtf? didn't see that coming" flick. I liked that, as the slasher genre is so predictable Zombie flicks are good for shits and giggles, I think  |
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Post by chrislord on Oct 13, 2009 14:21:47 GMT
None of those films have had as many sequels as The Mortal Orchard though. Now how scary is that?  |
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Post by everso on Oct 13, 2009 15:05:15 GMT
I really only like ghost stories: The Shining etc. nice and creepy without being nasty (except for the "Here's Johnny" bit). I find slasher type films boring actually. Usually the characters are all horrible and you couldn't really care less if they do cop it, and there's no apparent reason why this bloke with the knife or whatever is going around doing people in.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 13, 2009 15:28:10 GMT
I don't class "slasher" movies as "horror"...me and my mate used to watch them and lay bets on the next "murder" method/weapon.
Movies like A L I E N and Ringu (the ring) are "horror" movies IMO.
AH
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Post by motorist on Oct 13, 2009 15:35:01 GMT
I really only like ghost stories: The Shining etc. nice and creepy without being nasty (except for the "Here's Johnny" bit). I find slasher type films boring actually. Usually the characters are all horrible and you couldn't really care less if they do cop it, and there's no apparent reason why this bloke with the knife or whatever is going around doing people in. If you haven't seen it yet, I think you'd find "The Others" (with Nicole Kidman) a very good watch. Also possibly "What Lies Benearth" (Harrison Ford)  |
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Post by aubrey on Oct 13, 2009 16:35:45 GMT
The Living dead Trilogy. I know them too well now to be scared by them, but the first time I saw them was scary, especially the first two.
Aguirre, The Wrath of God. I was tensed up all the way through this one, for all sorts of reasons.
Night of the Demon was quite effective, except for the demon at the end.
Paperhouse was great - one of my favourites.
Ginger Snaps - another favourite.
I've been watching some Italian 70's horror recently - mostly awful, though there was one - an Exorcist knock-off - that was quite effective. Malabimba, it was called.
There's a film on BBC1 tonight that looks OK.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 13, 2009 17:12:41 GMT
The Living dead Trilogy. I know them too well now to be scared by them, but the first time I saw them was scary, especially the first two. The scariest things about GARs zombie movies are the people...unstable, unreliable and untrustworthy (for the most part). The zombies themselves are a poor foe, slow, weak and stupid...any organised group of people/militia could put down a zombie outbreak in a few weeks. AH |
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Post by chrislord on Oct 13, 2009 17:28:18 GMT
The Living dead Trilogy. I know them too well now to be scared by them, but the first time I saw them was scary, especially the first two. The scariest things about GARs zombie movies are the people...unstable, unreliable and untrustworthy (for the most part). The zombies themselves are a poor foe, slow, weak and stupid...any organised group of people/militia could put down a zombie outbreak in a few weeks. AH 28 days later was good. |
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Post by chrislord on Oct 13, 2009 17:29:26 GMT
I think my next messageboard will be an RPG zombie game. Now there's an idea!! |
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Post by motorist on Oct 13, 2009 17:37:17 GMT
The scariest things about GARs zombie movies are the people...unstable, unreliable and untrustworthy (for the most part). The zombies themselves are a poor foe, slow, weak and stupid...any organised group of people/militia could put down a zombie outbreak in a few weeks. AH 28 days later was good. I couldn't get my head round its suggestion that 4 weeks is all it takes for a bunch of people to be happy to rape an underage girl or else they would mutiny. The sequel puzzled me as to how the zombie dad magically knew where the kids were at all times and could teleport near them  Mind you, I did like the zombies being fast buggers. Those gits were nasty if they were on your tail ;D There's a new zombie film out this month, I hope I get to see it at some point, but I don't know if it'll be on at the local pics |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 13, 2009 18:24:26 GMT
Motto, you mean .Rec 2? I posted a trailer on the harbour yesterday...it looks suh-weet! And please remember...28 days later folks are not zombies, they are infected...although they are scary fast and savage mofo's. A "28 days/Dawn 04" type outbreak would be hard to put down, maybe impossible....it would be carnage! AH |
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Post by aubrey on Oct 13, 2009 19:36:42 GMT
The Living dead Trilogy. I know them too well now to be scared by them, but the first time I saw them was scary, especially the first two. The scariest things about GARs zombie movies are the people...unstable, unreliable and untrustworthy (for the most part). The zombies themselves are a poor foe, slow, weak and stupid...any organised group of people/militia could put down a zombie outbreak in a few weeks. AH True - especially in Day of the dead. In the first two, the focus is on small groups, who are struggling (in Dawn, they've just about got it sorted, and then the Hell's Angels come and mess everything up). I like the way Romero can make you have some sympathy for the Zombies. I really really did not like 28 Days Later. He really blew it with the alternative ending for one thing, and the weird technique for filming the Zombies. By the way, when I saw it I was really in St Thomas's, where the film starts. The Dr Who the weekend was set in St Thomas's, as well. |
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Post by chrislord on Oct 13, 2009 19:57:44 GMT
Motto, you mean .Rec 2? I posted a trailer on the harbour yesterday...it looks suh-weet! And please remember...28 days later folks are not zombies, they are infected...although they are scary fast and savage mofo's. A "28 days/Dawn 04" type outbreak would be hard to put down, maybe impossible....it would be carnage! AH Of course Alpha...I always refer to it as another zombie flick...but of course it is no such thing. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 13, 2009 20:04:01 GMT
True - especially in Day of the dead. Legend! ;D AH |
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Post by everso on Oct 14, 2009 10:04:53 GMT
I really only like ghost stories: The Shining etc. nice and creepy without being nasty (except for the "Here's Johnny" bit). I find slasher type films boring actually. Usually the characters are all horrible and you couldn't really care less if they do cop it, and there's no apparent reason why this bloke with the knife or whatever is going around doing people in. If you haven't seen it yet, I think you'd find "The Others" (with Nicole Kidman) a very good watch. Also possibly "What Lies Benearth" (Harrison Ford) Thanks Moto. I saw them both at the cinema with my daughter. They were great and beautifully creepy. There's this bit in What Lies Beneath when Michelle Pfeiffer is walking downstairs to her basement. It was a very tense scene and you could have heard a pin drop in the cinema, except for one person who just sort of gave a squeaky groan, which I think was how everybody else felt too. Several times during the film my daughter and I were clinging on to each other in fright. Excellent! The Others was great too - very dark and moody with an unexpected ending (although I daresay some people saw through it). I've seen them both on t.v. since but they were definitely better at the cinema. |
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Post by motorist on Oct 14, 2009 13:13:40 GMT
I've seen them both on t.v. since but they were definitely better at the cinema. Very likely, but like ALIEN when I was a kid, they are also much better when you first see them, not knowing what is going to happen |
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Post by everso on Oct 14, 2009 16:06:02 GMT
I've seen them both on t.v. since but they were definitely better at the cinema. Very likely, but like ALIEN when I was a kid, they are also much better when you first see them, not knowing what is going to happen You are correct. |
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Post by motorist on Oct 14, 2009 16:06:37 GMT
Very likely, but like ALIEN when I was a kid, they are also much better when you first see them, not knowing what is going to happen You are correct. That's three times this year. I feel faint  |
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Post by everso on Oct 14, 2009 16:10:45 GMT
That's three times this year. I feel faint ;D |
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