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Syberia, what is your personal top 3 or 5?

Guido wrote:Syberia, what is your personal top 3 or 5?

Hum, well there are actually not that many horror movies that I really, really love. Most of them are very mediocre...
But if I would list some of my favorites it would be:
The Blair Witch Project
Sinister
The Shining
Rec (Spanish version)
Mama
And I also like all the Paranormal Activity movies.
At least these are the ones I can come up with right now.

2020k wrote:Cannibal Holocaust & Noroi & VHS!

Watched VHS yesterday and I really like it. Nice way to do a full movie out of short movies. I love horror movies made only with hand cameras.

V/H/S 2 is also REALLY good! I was not expecting to like it very much, but I thought it was a great follow-up, didn't step on the first film's toes whatsoever. Gory as fuck too, loved the "Cult" segment and the "Alien Abduction" segment..hell I loved all them!!!

Ustillhavefriends wrote:The Conjuring was a complete surprise and is the best horror film i've seen in ages.

I saw it Friday with a few friends...was not impressed. That's not to say I hated it, it just was over-hyped for me and did nothing special that stood out. I'm not big on "jump scare" type horror movies, I find them contrived. I will credit the sound design in this film however, it was very well done!

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Ustillhavefriends wrote:

harpoon dodger wrote:

Ustillhavefriends wrote:The Conjuring was a complete surprise and is the best horror film i've seen in ages.

I saw it Friday with a few friends...was not impressed. That's not to say I hated it, it just was over-hyped for me and did nothing special that stood out. I'm not big on "jump scare" type horror movies, I find them contrived. I will credit the sound design in this film however, it was very well done!

IMO it was the first "jump scare" modern horror film I've seen that was well made and actually scary. I liked that it earns its scares, theres no faking anything. + the sound design and cinematography were fantastic.

Agreed on the cinematography. I will clarify by saying it was a good film, however it did not frighten me in the least. As I've said earlier in this thread though, I'm more a body horror/gore/generally fucked up shit type of horror aficionado That's the kind of stuff that really gets to me.

Ustillhavefriends wrote:The Conjuring was a complete surprise and is the best horror film i've seen in ages.

Saw it yesterday and I agree! really nice horror! Well made and met every expectation I have on a horror movie. I just gets so irritated when people are so god damn brave . Like if you hear a strange noise from downstairs and no one is there I would hide under a blanket and cry but in horror movies they are always like "hum, I have to check this out, alone." Am I just unusually cowardly or is the characters in the way to brave?

There's many good picks but the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is probably the best scary movie I can think of. The original Evil Dead is essential as well. Friday the 13th Part IV is pretty awesome. And check out Jacob's Ladder if you've never seen it. That one's really excellent.

Second Jacobs ladder. What a bad trip.

Also, did I mention "I can see you"?

Hell of the living dead!!!

This movie is great its like the king of B grade zombie movies. Incomprehensible storyline,bad acting, unnecessary but excellent 80's breasts, buckets of gore and an awesome main title theme by Luis Bacalov! And soundtrack by Goblin.

Main theme:

Yep, check Jacob's Ladder, great movie.

I can recommend you some cool X-Files horror episodes but I take it your roommate is your primary advisor in that department .

I've been thinking about this for a while now, as for me, NO horror films seem to actually SCARE me anymore. I mean there's plenty of horror films that I love and enjoy to watch, but nothing has scared me since I was a child. Gore porn can make me cringe, but it doesn't frighten me. I enjoy the supernatural, when its approached in an intelligent way, but I never feel terror. And possesion/exorcism films are SOOOO damn played out at this point. The moment I start seeing muscle spasms and backwards talking, I usually tune out.

So what is there possibly left to be made??? I've been trying to figure out, what would truly disturb me to my core???

I'm thinking the answer can lie in the found footage genre (though believe me, I'm aware of how played out this is too). The thought I've been having is that the film needs to make the audience feel involved. Not simply watching these "scary" images and story play out, but as if something is happening to THEM. Imagine that there's no forewarning. Usually the found footage genre relies on information be supplied in the beginning, through interviews with people involved with the situation, or examining the situation, before the audience can view the supposed footage. This works against the terror, cause now the audience is painfully aware of the story and characters. I think the footage should just START, no title cards, no background info. This will instill a sense of unease, because the audience will be confused. "Is this the movie??" "What am I seeing?". The audience should feel unsure, as if they shouldn't be or don't have permission to be watching this. Even though they paid to watch a film in a theater, it could feel as if the wrong reel was placed on the projector, and they've stumbled into something, they're not sure they want see.

Now at this point I dont know what sort of story could be told, how a sense of cohesion could arise, or how a narrative could be put in place. I mean, you can't just then proceed to show 90mins of random disturbing images. Something has to happen......

Guido wrote:Yep, check Jacob's Ladder, great movie.

I can recommend you some cool X-Files horror episodes but I take it your roommate is your primary advisor in that department .

Will do!

Haha, yep she have tried to made me watch X-files but I'm still very sceptical..But I actually watched all the Alien movies this summer after years of nagging from her. The first Alien and Aliens was very good but than the other was really not so intriguing..

Cupz wrote:Second Jacobs ladder. What a bad trip.

Also, did I mention "I can see you"?

Is it some kind of Highschool project? Started watching it but...ehh..

ONTHE88 wrote:I'm thinking the answer can lie in the found footage genre (though believe me, I'm aware of how played out this is too). The thought I've been having is that the film needs to make the audience feel involved. Not simply watching these "scary" images and story play out, but as if something is happening to THEM. Imagine that there's no forewarning. Usually the found footage genre relies on information be supplied in the beginning, through interviews with people involved with the situation, or examining the situation, before the audience can view the supposed footage. This works against the terror, cause now the audience is painfully aware of the story and characters. I think the footage should just START, no title cards, no background info. This will instill a sense of unease, because the audience will be confused. "Is this the movie??" "What am I seeing?". The audience should feel unsure, as if they shouldn't be or don't have permission to be watching this. Even though they paid to watch a film in a theater, it could feel as if the wrong reel was placed on the projector, and they've stumbled into something, they're not sure they want see.

Now at this point I dont know what sort of story could be told, how a sense of cohesion could arise, or how a narrative could be put in place. I mean, you can't just then proceed to show 90mins of random disturbing images. Something has to happen......

I think the horror genre has produced a formula that nobody is willing to break -- neither the filmmakers, nor the public. Nobody wants to go into a theater to be actually disturbed. People just want to get scared without feeling unsafe. Every horror film needs to make sure, at all times, that they're "j/k lol", so the folks can laugh their way out of the theater and go grab a beer. I always felt, for example, that the "scare chord" is something that could only come from an absolutely incompetent director, because it is the confession that the imagery is not frightening enough. But then, I realised, the scare chords exist to remind the viewers that they're not going to get too disturbed.

I've been hearing that asian horror is, like, "the salvation" of the horror genre. But every single asian film I've seen is absolutely stupid and ridiculous, because they take themselves absolutely seriously, while always playing faithfully by the book, without surprises, without subversions of any kind. I despise asian horror.

Personally, I think the element that can truly make a film genuinely disturbing is ambiguousness -- and I find that's the least played card. When you see something supernatural, they always make you absolutely sure that the supernatural is absolutely true, and from that point, you can expect absolutely anything, and the sense of danger dissipates -- it's just a matter of expecing the next scary scene.

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Cupz wrote:Second Jacobs ladder. What a bad trip.

Also, did I mention "I can see you"?

Is it some kind of Highschool project? Started watching it but...ehh..

It starts really slow, but the way it ends, boy.

Has anyone here seen Kill List? I don't want to say too much, but it might be what some of you who are tired of more formulaic horror tropes are looking for. It's often very discomforting and uneasy (but more if you don't know much about it before you watch)