Horror is my favorite genre and watched almost all the classics and famous movies.
Do you guys have any recommendations? Also, looking for completed horror series, I hate waiting for new seasons and episodes :)
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Horror is my favorite genre and watched almost all the classics and famous movies.
Do you guys have any recommendations? Also, looking for completed horror series, I hate waiting for new seasons and episodes :)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). Because it was last time the most classic Universal monsters of would be together in non-cartoonish form and because I don't like horror movies that revel in cruelty.
Original Black Christmas is pretty awesome. Like original Halloween, movie itself isnt that scary. Then later on, you find yourself opening the closet door twice, just to be sure.
Then Mystic River always gave me the creeps.
Sylvester Stallone.Quote:
Originally Posted by haladabza
Steven Seagal is far, far more terrifying.
Try Shutter https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0440803/
Also try Ils aka Them https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465203/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Make sure you get the originals with subtitles. Dubbed lowers the experience as was intended by the director.
If you like these I'll recommend more.
Finding them would be hard though specially in HD quality. That's why you need to be on sites like PTP.
Can't be worse than the last sequel to Arnold Schwarzenegger :alien:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Counterpoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwXE-T4HPI
I think the fact he can run at all actually proves me right :turned:
I believe it's called 'Kwanzaa'. Racist.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosendayoo
I still think Aliens Series stands the test of time. I particularly liked Aliens (1986) and the Queen Alien.
The problem with that is that Aliens is not a horror movie. A movie can have horrific elements and still not be Horror. Think Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom if you are confused by that statement.
Both of you make good points. I don't think of the Alien series as horror movies (more like sci-fi action), but they certainly have shades of such, especially the first. And the licensed game not only didn't suck, but was scary in its own right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6o49pbJaDo
Third movie was awful, though. Resurrection was okay.
The original Alien was definitely Horror. Problems with that not being apparent is the setting where the USCSS Nostromo is in reality really just a stand-in for the traditional haunted house. What would you call Event Horizon then? It's also set in space and the crew run around a lot.
So what elements make a film a horror film?
I would say that they invoke a feeling of dread. Notice I said dread, not fear because you can be afraid and still excited in a positive sort of way. With a horror movie as opposed to say an adventure, most of emotions the viewer feels are going to be quite negative. In horror movies, bad things almost always result in bad outcomes.
Btw that once didn't use to be the case like with the old Universal monster movies where the "good guys" still got to win in the end. Nowadays it's basically de rigueur that horror movies have to end on a downer which is something I don't like.
Add the complete isolation and that in space no one can hear you scream and you're on :)Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
I think uncertainty and the feeling that something is off hold far more weight than actual horror or scares. Say, The Shining. Even the elevator flood scene was less "eeek, ugh, that's a lot of blood" and more "okay... what was that, where did it come from, and why?".Quote:
Originally Posted by Zupper
I remember back in the day going to the cinema with my friends on Buck Night (all movies just a dollar), and since we were late, there was only one movie that had not started yet. Nobody knew anything about it, had never heard of it or its predecessor, and we were all just "Why not. Surely it will be entertaining and it's only a buck."Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
That movie was "Nightmare on Elm Street II".
Scarred me for life.
I killed a man with a Dyson once. His wife was in the very next room and she didn't hear a thing because there's no sound in a..... well, you know.Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
Did you need a heart transplant after Freddy vs. Jason? :alien:Quote:
Originally Posted by Caballero
Explains why nothing shaina hears goes in one ear and out the other :shifty:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
If life were a bridge, shaina would be the proverbial water under it.
Servant was pretty good, om AppleTv+Quote:
Originally Posted by isaquebylde
Second vote for Servant