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ok then what do you think is the best horror film it could be recent or from before your mum and dad were even conceived.

i like the friday 13th series and before anyone else says i know it is a bit repetative in the story lines but i still like it and also the freddys first one was the best but didnt think much about freddy vs jason the pin ball scene made me puke, heres another question from horror films who would you have fight each other?

Not one for horror films really, however the original Nosferatu movie is available as a legit download from here

Dan

Link: Nosferatu

whats wrong with horror films theyre good for laughing at what do you prefer barbie meets the little ponys

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This week (one a day Monday-Wednesday) I've been watching Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead/Day of the Dead trilogy.
Previously I'd only seen NOTLD before (and not the 30th Anniversary extended version - the extra scenes were generally good & improved things, but I really didn't like the extra scene at the end 'one year later' - the film really needs to end just when it originally did.

Never seen Dawn or Day before (nor last year's remake of Dawn) - but really enjoyed them - I think Day was better than Dawn, but Night is probably still the best.



'The Others' is my favourite ghost movie.

"whats wrong with horror films theyre good for laughing at what do you prefer barbie meets the little ponys"

Oooh - hark at her!

Recently, I are been mostly watching:

Goke - Bodysnatcher from Hell
Cursed (the Japanese flick, not the Craven schlockathon)
The War Game (the Beeb drama-doc from the 1960s, which is far more horrific than any of the piss-poor stalk & slash groaners that have been released in the past few years)

Thanks for the link to Nosferatu, already an .mp4 so it will go straight on my PSP when i get a bigger memory stick.

Alos downloaded the Hitchhikers radio series for the same purpose.

Gotta love the PSP :-)

Alien

Although 'The Thing' (JC version) is very good...

   Steve

I love horror movies but I think most of them are pretty shit! The Hammer ones are my favourites but I have to admit that they're far too cheesy to be scary.

Gory, slasher ones are good for a laugh but it's stuff like The Omen, Rosemarys baby, Exorcist that does it for me.

A madman with a knife is scary and all, but the whole possiblity of "evil" plus the trappings of the catholic church does it for me.

The Others and Ring are two recent favourites.

Love this film:

Yes!! Brilliant movie- has everything!

Robert Morely forcefed his own poodles!

too good for 'im I say

You guys going to the stage adaptation, on this week at the National?

no way? I usually can't stand theatre, it irritates me,  but this I'd be interested in! The chances of this being staged in Dublin are pretty slim though

If teen-slasher movies are your thang then you just cant beat Halloween - Its the Daddy!

boy, I watched one of those horror double bills that they used to show on BBC2 in the 80s, I can't remember the first film but the second one was called 'Bug' and it bugs me to this day, it's the only film other than Jaws2 (bizarre I know, but I hadn't seen Jaws at this point and there's a sequence in Jaws2 where the shark is circling all these kids who are adrfit on  collection of dinghies and yachts etc and I was actually shaking with fright) that still gives me THE FEAR.  The Bugs were some sort of firebug and there was a sequence where they fried a cat and another where they set some bints hair on fire when she was on the phone that freaked me OUT! Sorry for the capitals but I've had 3 beers instead of working this afternoon.

James - when & where? 'girl & I would be up for it!

I think The Thing is marvellous, in that I watch it, and marvel.  Such a fantastic movie.

>I think The Thing is marvellous, in that I watch it, and marvel. Such a fantastic movie.

  It was a hard choice between that and Alien for me, and Alien only _just_ won, because it still shits me up, whereas the Thing is just great to watch (Must watch it again now...)

   Steve

What about BBCs,Ghostwatch.It really freaked me out when I saw it.
Of more current films,Dark Water was pretty good,though it has made me swear never to watch another horror movie from japan.

Ghostwatch was aces first time around, and it still stands up surprisingly well now. Check out the BFI DVD if you get the chance, as it's a nice presentation of this spooky show.

Dark Water is a good little movie, let down by a slightly weak ending. If you enjoyed that, then Cursed, Phone, Eye, Ju-On or any of the Ringu movies would probably be worth a look...

skurvy - I think we watched the same double-bill.

The first movie was called "The Car", which you could call a cross between "Christine" and "Duel".  A menacing car roams the rural highways of America, killing people.  A lot.

"Bug" was indeed a memorable horror, in the pantheon of movies-where-insects-attack but somehow on another level as it turns out that these bugs have come up from the depths of hell itself!  To this day, I still check the ear-piece of every single phone before I put it to my ear.  Those devil-spawn aren't setting my hair on fire, by jove!

I haven't seen hide nor hair of either of those movies since.

With movies like Bug, Phase IV (where the cunning termights harness the power of the sun to defeat the scientists) and all those killer-bee ones, is it any wonder I have a phobia of insects?

scanners zombie flesheaters the exterminater texas chainsaw massacre SAW the cube sliver silence of the lambs....

Phase IV is a really odd little movie that i haven't seen since I was a teenager, would love to see it again as I have a confused recollection of how it ends.
 I miss horror movies being "hosted", STV in the 80's used to do this regularly late night, and i think having a spod talking about a movie before hand adds to the experience
(though oddly I've never seen a post-film feature which in many ways makes more sense, maybe 15 minutes of features after the movie, though i suspect dvd has killed this kind of thing off).
   

Not horror films as such,but stuff like The Dark Crystal and Return to OZ,made an impact on me when I saw them at a young age.

Oddboy - mail me @ work tomorrow and we'll fix it up.

We were going to watch Theatre of Blood yesterday, but ended up watching...something else (not The House that Dripped Blood).

An American Werewolf in London is my all-time fave horror movie.  Top show - the bit with the nazi/demon/werewolf/bikers and that bit that Peter Jackson ripped off in Fellowship of the Ring were spooktastic when i was a nipper.

What bit? Griffin Dunne? Cos he was in Scosese's After Hours...

No, that bit where he's dreaming and opens his eyes at the saucy nurse and he's wearing too much eyeshadow and fangs.  Bilbo did much the same in the first Lord of the Rings movie.

Oh yeah. Except that that was cg, and so innately cack.

Mutant bikers are good though, but.

Best horror film would probably have to be one of the following:
-Dead of Night
-Bride of Frankenstein
-Curse of Frankenstein
-Dracula (aka Horror of Dracula)
-Freaks
-I Walked With A Zombie
-The Innocents
-Night/Curse of the Demon
-Cat People
-Brides of Dracula
-Hound of the Baskervilles
-Fall of the House of Usher
-Nosferatu
-Masque of the Red Death
-Dawn of the Dead (Aka Zombie)
-Tomb of Ligeia
-Plague of the Zombies
-The Gorgon
-Peeping Tom
-Psycho
-The Phantom of the Opera
-The Ghoul
-Night of the Eagle
-Curse of the Werewolf
-The Mummy
-From Beyond the Grave
-Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm)
-The Wicker Man
-The Devil Rides Out
-The Abominable Snowman (aka The Abominable Snowman of he Himalayas)

But I'm probably leaving a lot out...

Blimey! Byron - are you my long-lost twin? I don't think I'd pass up a single movie on that list (provided Cat People isn't the 80s remake...)

BTW - have you seen the DVD of Dead of Night? Very disappointing, I thought. Hopefully someone will prepare a restored version for a future release.

Does Freaks count as a horror, though?

Amicus' anthology films. I can watch them over and over again. One of the most disturbing bits of any of them is the sight of Terry-Thomas in a pair of pink, frilly knickers. :s

By 'disturbing', do you mean 'arousing'?

No. I'm afraid you're alone in your Terry-Thomas fetish, Bear. ;p

Heh :-)

The Amicus anthologies always had fun guest stars - Pertwee in "The House that Dripped Blood", Roy Castle in "Dr Terror's House of Horrors", Tom Baker in "Vault of Horror" - as well as greats like Cushing & Lee.

Great stuff, and I'd *love* to see someone with the passion and talent make a modern equivalent of "From Beyond the Grave" or "Asylum", but I don't think Britain has the kind of film industry that would support genre flicks like that anymore...

Robert Bloch contributed quite a few tales to Amicus' early anthology (or portmanteau) films: he wrote all of both Asylum and The Torture Garden (which starred the excellent Burgess Meredith, and Amicus' sole appearance by Hammer stalwart Michael Ripper). Later they turned to EC adaotations (Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror), before finally Milton Subotsky went it alone to make R. Chetwynd Hays-based films (The Monster Club). Of course, none of them ever quite match their progenitor, 1945's Dead of Night (not much of a DVD, you're right), which was part of a whole series of anthology format films that became popular in the the 1940's and eventually dies out again in the late 1950's.

"One of the most disturbing bits of any of them is the sight of Terry-Thomas in a pair of pink, frilly knickers"

That's Vault of Horror (always felt sorry for him in that - he might have been a prickly shit, but he's still Terry Thomas and doesn't deserve to get murdered with a hammer and then turned into a zombie by Curt Jurgens). Interestingly, that film is only available in its cut form on DVD and video, which cuts part of the denoument, though you can usually see the full version if you catch it on television.

"Does Freaks count as a horror, though?"

Yes, because it was directed by Todd Browning (sick bastard).

And of course I'm talking about the original Cat People - much as I sometimes love Paul Schrader, he can't hold a candle to the genius that was Jacques (son of Maurice) Tourneur.

Has anyone else seen The Devil's Rejects?

I saw it last night. Ooh! Ooh! Excellent film - very horrible indeed, but not as gut-churningly awful as the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Still pretty gruesome though.

Just watched Land of the Dead.


It sucks.

BIG time.
:(

You big liar. It's not even out yet!

Anyone seen J Carpenter's Prince of Darkness? Pretty bad effects in some places and some laughable bits of plot, but one of the most shit-scary and unsettling films i have EVER watched.

"from before your mum and dad were even conceived"

That'll be Nosferatu then. Not many others prior to 1930.

"whats wrong with horror films theyre good for laughing at what do you prefer barbie meets the little ponys" FUCK OFF TROLL.

He trolled right off on June 27th. He said something about coming back in 7 weeks or so, which means he should be about to return any moment now.

Oops, didn't realise the thread was old :o)

Anyone seen J Carpenter's Prince of Darkness? Pretty bad effects in some places and some laughable bits of plot, but one of the most shit-scary and unsettling films i have EVER watched.


Great movie, and an underratted film in the Carpenter cannon. It's got an awesome ending too.

"You big liar. It's not even out yet!"

Managed to get to Edinburgh last weekend for one of the previews, featuring a Q&A session with Romero himself!

Also stood next to Billy Boyd for a while, though he buggered off before i could say hello. AND Richard Wilson.

But yeah, the films a bit shit.

Also stood next to Billy Boyd for a while, though he buggered off before i could say hello. AND Richard Wilson.

I DON'T...

Never mind.

- Trout

Ohhhhh goody at last,horror! yeah first freddy was cool load's o' blood, your not the only one who thought freddy vs jason sucked and blowed!!

but i've got to say and put up for nomination for my fav horror,has got to be "trilogy of the dead" george romero is the god of gore! dawn of the dead is good but i prefer the final part,

especially the last scene,"choke on 'em choke on 'em" the effects might not be as good as the thing, but it is funny,besides it's the only film in which u can say "look there goes his legs,and spleen,spine etc etc.

and u cant say that at freddy vs jason!!
besides what's wrong with zombies? they worked in resident evil 2 did'nt they? or is that just me who thought it could have been better?.

but if u want horror watch last house on the left or the thing (jc) or ghosts of mars me i'll stick to the undead,werewolves,zombies,demonic possesion,and all the other things of what once was.

Yeah, the original Dead trilogy are perfect horror films.
Mainly because the real horror is never the zombies themselves, rather the depths humanity is prepared to plunge to in order to survive.

That, and gore.


Lots and lots of lovely gore...