Trylakos
gimme my key bitch!
Jacob's Ladder is awesome but I also wouldn't really consider horror, but it does have its creepy moments and stuff, check it out.
No seriously, are there any Good Horror movies out there?!?!
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Evil?
omghaxlol!1
Thanatopsis123
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Intelligent Horror has got to be an oxymoron.
You've got to be kidding. Such a third rate 6th Sense rip-off.
I've never met anyone else that likes that movie. Quite under rated and I'm not sure why.
I saw a preview for that recently. Wow did that ever look like crap.
Yeah, let's give the guy a beer for unnecessarily mangling one of the best sci-fi novels of all time.
Evil?
omghaxlol!1
Jim LotFP
The Keeper of Metal
"Psychological thriller"... what a wonderful bullshit marketing slogan to avoid calling a horror movie a horror movie...
Jacob's Ladder rules, as does The Thing.
And I don't care what anybody says, when I saw the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie (not in the theater, but on video before the second one had come out on video
) it scared the SHIT out of me. Freddy got ruined by success.
EricT
Don't you ever get...
I define horror movies as something made to make you scared, or atleast try to make you fear something, where as a psychological thriller is more based upon making you think and reflect on what you just saw.
Thanatopsis123
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Dark One
The Tainted Dogma
And I don't care what anybody says, when I saw the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie (not in the theater, but on video before the second one had come out on video
Actually, I think he got ruined by bad writing. He became a campy character that spouts out wisecracks while the writers also presented idiotic, annoying teenage characters that you can't wait to see killed and don't care about (a recurring theme in so many second rate horror films that continues to this day). They completely took away the sinister, dark feel of the first movie.
An effective horror movie needs to be both horriffic and affecting at the same time. It stays with you long after you leave the theater. I've seen most of the Nightmare films and really only remember the first one.
Jason
Jim LotFP
The Keeper of Metal
Dark One
The Tainted Dogma
Quoted for truth. Plus, they totally re-wrote the video game storyline to install the whole "religious fanatics" bit, which was over the top and ridiculous.
If they had stayed true to the original story, they may have had something there.
Jim LotFP
The Keeper of Metal
Agreed, but I think the bad writing wouldn't have been an issue if somebody didn't feel the need to make another one and ANOTHER one because there would be money being unmade not to.
Dark One
The Tainted Dogma
Good point, I'm with you now. Just like many franchises, the studio greed factor led them to hire wholly different personnel, butchering the original over and over. I guess both elements were just as guilty and not mutually exclusive. Sad that the original's image became more tarnished as a result.
Jason
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Thanks, I was wondering about this. Out of the queue it goes.
I liked the first Hellraiser. Another campy flick we used to watch a lot in high school is The Re-Animator. Fun movie.
JayKeeley
Be still, O wand'rer!
Splatter-gore, campy, Italian, exploitation type horror is a genre I really like anyway (and probably deserving of its own thread. Again). There's a time for Jerry's "intelligent" horror, and there's also a time when you need to crack open a beer, sit back, and watch heads roll.
All hail Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento.
Where the fuck else are you going to see a zombie take on a shark, or see some chick in a nightgown fall into a pit of barbed wire?
All hail Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento.
Where the fuck else are you going to see a zombie take on a shark, or see some chick in a nightgown fall into a pit of barbed wire?
