horror movie hoe-down!!!

[Dick Sirloin]

The Haunting - classic

One of the greatest movies ever made. Awesome book as well.

I mean, how can you beat this opening paragraph?

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for 80 years and might for 80 more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

 

[NAD]

The Wicker Man - awesome atmosphere, excellent ending
The Haunting - classic
Witchfinder General - good stuff, hilary heath is :Smokin:
Burn, Witch, Burn - overlooked gem
The Last House on the Left - amateurish, hilariously bad music, good ending

This could very well be my Top 5 Horror Movies list. Well probably not Burn, Witch, Burn, but DAT EAGLE at the end, whoa. Fucking rules.

 

[dorian gray]

Halloween afficionados: The *television* version of Halloween II had an extra scene wherein the background of MM's MO was explored. Does anyone remember this? I'm not asking for confirmation of the veracity of the scene's existence - I know it does - but just if you've seen it. I am having trouble remembering what it was and where it took place - a school, maybe.

 

[NAD]

So I watched Black Christmas a few weeks ago. HOLY FUCK that movie ruled so hard. Once again further proof that the originators do it first, and do it best.

 

[rms]

Yeah the original is amazing, especially compared to the new one.

 

[NAD]

I heard the remake was pretty bad, even as remakes go. No interest in bothering with that.

I love two remakes, if you can even call them that: I Am Legend and Evil Dead 2.

Well and okay, I kinda like the new Thirteen Ghosts for some reason. Probably the dead titties.

 

[dorian gray]

Just finished Halloween 6. I saw this in theaters in 1995. Theres a reason I dont remember it....it SUCKS

 

[NAD]

So, you know those movies that EVERYONE says is awesome, and you avoid it, because EVERYONE loves McDonald's and that is clearly shit as well?

I did that with Cabin in the Woods. I watched a bunch of non-horror types say OMFG SO GOOD THE BEST SRSLY DID I SAY OMFG ALREADY?! Kind of like when Inception came out and a bunch of mouthbreathers said OMFG SO SMART THE BEST SRSLY DID I SAY OMFG ALREADY?!

Anyhow, I finally watched it. Let me just say that it was very, very good. It would never make my Top 10 or anything, but I do I highly recommend it to horror movie fans. A royal pantload of fun.

 

[Reign in Acai]

Dude, that movie is AIDS bro. I left the theater actually feeling like a royal dipshit for sitting through that monstrosity.


Also, why is the premise of every recent horror flick, based on a family moving in to a home, with the father discovering a box in the attic that unleashes ghouls and ghosts? A co-worker recommended Sinister to me yesterday, after viewing the trailer, it's pretty much the same premise as Insidious, and every other cookie cutter horror flick of the past 10 years. Yep, this genre fucking sucks.

 

[rms]

Well every decade in time has it's own style of horror. Last decade was the Saws, and now it's this ghost shit that seriously will not just go away. I haven't seen a new good horror flick since The Descent

 

[dorian gray]

Descent 2 was pretty good, btw
Cabin in the Woods is poop (sorry, Adrian)

 

[rms]

Yeah it wasn't a great or bad sequel..worth watching. Seen [Rec]? Spanish original of Quarantine and it's actually good.

 

[NAD]

How did you fuckers not get a larf from Cabin in the Woods?!

That part when he's screaming at the Japanese school girls? LO fucking L.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Cabin in the Woods tricked me. The first third, or perhaps even the first half, was crap. Then it did the ol' switcheroo and turned into greatness. Far-fetched, laughable greatness, yes, but that doesn't necessarily make a horror movie bad; if done right, it just makes it fun. Butttt fun (as well as butt fun) isn't for everyone.

I liked it very much.
(the movie, not butt fun)

 

[NAD]

Agreed with all that.

 

[NAD]

I picked this up a few months ago on a drunken book shopping escapade after a work function with me lady, and of course promptly forgot all about it. But, it popped into my head the other day: "wait a second... didn't I get some 50 Awesome Horror Movie List magazine/thing awhile back?" and quickly liberated it from underneath a pile of New Yorker issues that I'll likely never read.

So I've been going through it on the pooper the last several mornings, and holy hell, it has some great stuff therein. You should go buy a copy. Or download it from a PDF site, whatever. Lots of movies I've never heard of, but multiple ones that I love that nobody really talks about. I'll be watching several from this list shortly, I mean it's March and all, so I'm primed and ready for The 2013 Horror Movie Season (which started on January 1st really).

 

[Climb Thar Hill]

Well, it's by Rue Morgue so it's bound to be an excellent read. That's the best horror movie magazine around right now and absolutely shits down the throat of Fangoria. Though Horror Hound is pretty decent as well.

 

[rms]

Always wondered how one stays informed on horror films that aren't made for hollywood

 

[NAD]

Honestly most of the time I just run through Netflix. Once you get a few unknown films on your list all kinds of odd shit pops up. I loathe many, many things about modernity, but Netflix is definitely not one of them. Along with occasional magazines like this, my dad is an estate sale connoisseur so he sometimes passes me weird horror / sci-fi / whatever movie books that I'll romp through.

Also a friend of mine goes to horror conventions on a regular basis. Plus our neighboUr is quite possibly the biggest horror movie fan I've ever met. He designed his bathroom around old Fangoria magazines. I'm in a constant state of Horror Newb by comparison really. Their knowledge is my power.

Dagon. Has Dagon been mentioned? Fuck me that is one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen. I love Lovecraft movies because while they usually suck in several ways, especially compared to the books, they are always fun. But that there Dagon scared the poop out of me. Absolutely captured Lovecraft's eerie mood. Neat.

Also I'm not sure if anyone else thinks this, but I swear some of the music in Die Monster Die! sounds EXACTLY like the dark world dungeon theme in A Link to the Past. I mean it even does the muted horn section like an SNES game. Fuckin' COOL.

 

[Ars Magna]

I love Netflix. Horror Hound fest is in Cincy in a couple weeks. I may have to go, the folks from Subspecies (Radu, the babe and the director) will be there. Subspecies is so damn good.