ohh scarey???

[Mr D]

As we're onto the 3 'modern mainstream monsters', here are my thoughts:

Nightmare On Elm Street:

1 - Classic!, 2 - Dire, 3 - Ok, 4 - Poor, 5 - Dreadful, 6 - Worse

New Nightmare - though the plot was silly and crummy, it otherwise tried to make Freddy 'serious' again  - snatch him back from the 'Super Freddy!' low he'd sunk to.

Friday 13th
1 - Not bad, 2 - Bad, 3 - ok, 4 - Poor, 5 - Bad, 6 - Fun, 7 - Fun, 8 - Fun, 9 - Moderate

This series is best when they're doing the 'amusing death' route. Therefore Jason X is my favourite. I especially liked the hilarious bit at the end with the holographic campers!!

Halloween
1 - Utterly Brilliant!, 2 - Where it started to go wrong, 3 - SO bad, it's quite funny. And therefore quite good, 4 - Pretty fun, 5 - No, 6 - Please stop doing this to me, H20 - Maybe there's still a chance?, Resurrection - Huoh. So close.

There's life in the old dog yet, but only as a traditional madman on the loose tale. Loose all the crud about 'Thorn' and him having to kill his sister. If you NEED a reason to kill Laurie, just have him pissed that she escaped him. The rot set in with the 'motive' of the second film. Myers is brilliantly terrifying as a stalking, skulking, motiveless, murderous creature of the night. The Thorn bullsh*t was awful - it made so little sense, and really took away from his ability to scare.
Incidentally, H20 assumes that 4-6 never happened, they didn't resurrect Jamie Lee Curtis. Though they proffered a partial explanation for the big fans of the show (the 'faked my own death' crud. I prefer to forget them)

Freddy Vs Jason - Hehehe! Kinda respectful to Freddy, same level as Jason X. Was smiling throughout - wonderful deaths, right tone exactly.

[Krustabi]

Never been scared by any movies in the horror genre, but Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs is scary due to the general sense of moral bankrupcy in it's depiction of rape, mental illness and violence.

[stront692]

lord of illusion, thats it

i enjoyed that one although i think it was more to do with the female counterpart (charlize theron???) cant remember now

very strange story as well

[paulvonscott]

"PVS...eh?"

Wakey Waket hands off Snakey is one of the catchphrases of one of the sleezy bushwhackers in Razorback.  A fun 'Jaws on Land' movie.  By the way, it ain't no ordinairy pig!

NoES3 - Pretty much hate all the Freddy movies (and paedo Freddy himself), but three comes in for particular criticism as it had a Dokken Soundtrack.

"Dream Warriors..."

Arse!

[Quirkafleeg]

I was Smiths a while back and a load of youths were standing around the dvds in the sale giving it the best 'how many killings?' conversation I've ever heard... "This is great this women gets cut in half with a wire and her legs still standing anf there's blood everywhere!"... made Ghost Shit sorry Ship sound almost good...

[rc]

The first ELM STREET is a milestone in modern horror (though the real-dreams idea may have been stolen from THE SLAYER) and the last unpretentious effort from Wes Craven (apart from maybe THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW).

I though DREAM WARRIORS was great fun - sure, it did not take itself as seriously as Craven's original, but Chuck Russell knows his way around a horror movie and gave it some great touches like the snake-Freddy, the kid who can pull people into her dreams and the neat backstory of Kruger's revolting conception.

Best remembered though is the creepy soundtrack, and the end theme "we're the dreeeeam waaaariors....!"

[Mr D]

The first bit of Ghost Ship, with all the cut-into-bits deaths is brilliant. The rest sucks.

[rc]

Er, "brilliant", Dribbles?

I got wrong for calling SINISTER DEXTER brilliant, and you reckon that hokey CGI-fest at the start is brilliant...?

I smell a new "debate" thread, all about brilliant! and its misappropriated uses!

[Mr D]

Hehe, apologies.

It isn't brilliant, but I thought it was going to be acceptable CGI hokum.

It wasn't.

[stront692]

im with dribbbles, id also call the whole film 'quite good' actually but its not horror - its a thriller in that u have a pretty good idea whats going to happen when u buy it, your just watching for the story and to see who 'gets it'

this is also the perfect version of TITANIC, brilliant and much better

[rc]

That is a big problem with today's "horror films" - you have a good idea of what is going to happen and who is going to "get it" right from the off.

Why o why there is such a lack of imagination, creativity and good ideas in today's (big and low-budget) films is hard to say.

But I'll have a go and suggest true imagination is being sapped from filmmakers by over-stimulation from other sources. This is why we are seeing just so many fanboy knockoffs of Romero's Zombie films and FRIDAY THE 13TH slashers.

Where are all the new ideas?

[thrillpowerseeker]

Japan thats where..Look east my friends if you want your Horror shocking and gut wrenching...even Bollywood is churning better films than Hollywood lately

[rc]

The ALL NIGHT LONG series is a compulsive excercise in nihilism, especially the second - "I'm sorry...", as the inside of his mouth is burned with a pocket blowtorch...

NAKED BLOOD has some cracking gore scenes

GUTS/ENTRAILS OF A VIRGIN are hilarious; "...the case of the urinating Mahjong!" lol!

Most of the GUINEA PIG series are whacky but rather dull, except of course for the notorious THE FLOWER, THE FLESH & THE BLOOD and UNABRIDGED AGONY.

More disturbing are the Hong Kong titles such as RED TO KILL, RUN AND KILL, EBOLA SYNDROME and, especially, THE UNTOLD STORY.

And when the on-screen atrocities aren't keeping the viewer entertained, you can always laugh your tits off at the often bizarrely translated subtitles!