What is your favorite horror movies, if any. What kinds do you prefer?
I pissed my pants watching Ringu! Japanese horror is the best because it features nubile girls and copious amounts of blood.
Shazam.
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LOL No. And I saw Shazam.
Not to dis Japanese horror, but there are other countries which produce horror featuring nubile girls and copious amounts of blood. Hell, America is one of them, and recieves criticism for it from "serious" horror fans who think they are too good for gore and beautiful ladies.
Actually, Cannibal Holocaust is an Italian film which became one of the top 10 grossing films in Japan. It was so effectively gorey that there were rumors that the actors were really killed in the film.
The scariest movie I've ever seen was John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness." It scared me in the same way Ring did, only much moreso.
I watched PoD in BROAD DAYLIGHT, on an afternoon, with window glare reflecting off the TV screen. That night, in order to sleep, I had to close the bathroom door, close my bedroom door, and leave my closet door open with the closet light on.
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Can you name some of these good ("good") American horror films? I only know about the notoriously bad ones.
Good depends on what your criteria for an enjoyable horror movie is. If you're criteria is simply nubile ladies and copious amounts of blood, the standard template for a slasher film should suffice, the bloodier, the better. Bloody Murder 2 has a decent quantity of blood, although it has more gore and violence than blood, and more than one attractive female, in varying stages of undress. The plot can leave something to be desired, but plot wasn't listed as a significant criteria.
Chances are, you aren't the only person in America who is dissatisfied with the state of mainstream American horror. It's really a matter of finding movies made by other people who felt the same way, and decided to do something about it.
All in all, it doesn't really seem sensible to assume that any country is only capable of producing gems, or garbage. Since a country's "movie industry" is actually a collection of smaller industries, with a few major ones dominating the theaters, every country is capable of producing a wide variety of films.
I can list horror movies in which there is technical merit, or quality production design, but often, a person's decision as to whether or not a movie is "good" or "bad" is a matter of personal taste. The two don't always overlap. Saw had impressive sets, and production design. There were also excellent performances. Not everyone will like it. I'm not even sure I do.
However, if you want me to look up splatterfests, I can. It will take a while. Although I appreciate those movies, I've got other tastes which I'm more apt to persue.
Cool. I'll be certain to pick it up.
OK. I've never seen an american horror film--- the trailers turn me off-- so donmai with finding obscure ones.
Hm... I watched this Thai movie called "Shutter." It really scared me, although there was this one part I thought was funny.
A movie I thought was sooo scary that I couldn't watch it during the day was this Chinese film called "The Eye."
And um... I got scared by "Nosferatu" and (somehow I feel really guilty for this one) "Freaks," if that really counts as horror...
I heard that people thought "Aswang" was gross and scary and stuff... but I just couldn't get into it... =_=
None. I've never liked horror movies, and never understood why people like to watch them.
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I like horror movies and I don't know why I like them or why other people like them. Stephen King once wrote something about horror and comedy being the hardest kinds of liturature to write. I have no idea if it's actually true but I thought of it when considering that my love of horror films is linked to my love of comedies.
Both handle it in different ways but often play with the scarier parts of existence.
Cruelty, greed, death, pain, love, sex, race, (the reposibilities of?) free will, class, gender, desire, longing, lonliness, isolation, (the illusion of?) free will, helplessness, fear.
A lot of comdies and horror films fail to amuse or to scare because they just do what other successes of the past have done when what really makes good comedy and good horror is transgresion.
Best horror: Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), The Ring (2002), Resident Evil (2002), Stephen King's IT (2002)
^ actually I meant "IT (1990"
The original, b/w "Night of the Living Dead" was awesome. No other zombie movie compares...
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Both Dawn of the Dead movies are superior, in my opinion. At least as zombie movies, maybe not as horror.
zombies are cool but dawn of the dead was BORING. it wasn't bad enough to be funny, but not good enough to be good.
Anyone from Halifax Nova Scotia know where to get Bloodsucking Freaks. I Google'd for screenshots and it had the most coious amounts of blood and nubile women I have ever witnessed.
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I love Asian Horror. Ive seen A Tale of Two Sisters, Battle Royale, Dark Water, Spider Forest, Grudge 1 and 2, Kairo, Chakushin Ari 1 and 2, Ringu 1, Ringu 2, Rasen, Ringu 0, Suicide Circle, Shutter, Jian Gui 1 and 2, Uzumaki, Audition, Ichi The Killer, Into the Mirror, Dead Friend, Kyua, Three Extremes, Another Heaven, and a few others.
My faves
Friday the 13th complete series
Nightmare on Elm Street
Night of the Living Dead Trilogy
Zombi 2
Maniac
Mad man
Henry
Cemetary Man
Sleepaway Camp Trilogy
Guinea Pig
Eaten Alive
Dead Alive
Maniac Cop
Heh, I actually find Asian horrors not scary at all so far. Quite odd, but they really aren't scary. I liked One Missed Call <Chakushin Ari>, becouse it had quite an interesting story. Kairo could have been a bit better - wonder what the remake is going to be like...
I watched The Descent recently (with the original ending). It wasn't SUPER scary (a theatre atmosphere probably would have helped in that department), but it was very interesting. I recommend it.
28 days later was good.
Wandavision(2021) ~ Wicked Witch of Westview enslaves town to fulfill her fantasy.
Ginger Snaps
Doctor Sleep was good. I thought it was pretty dumbed-down compared to Kubrick's Shining, but that made it enjoyable for stupid people like me.
I watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre recently, and it easily became my favorite.