jellyhead wrote:  You win! It might be that I'm being a wuss, but I found Wolf Creek just deeply unpleasant and mean-spirited. But I'm not a torture porn / gorno fan, so I'm not best placed to judge! |
Recommend me some good horror films • Page 4
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Jeepers 16,616 posts
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Claymation Tom Thumb.
Not strictly a 'horror', but by God it's unsettling. -
Br0ken_Engli5h 1,369 posts
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70's Bodysnatchers
Braindead
Black Sheep
Planet terror
Prince of darkness
The thing
The shining
The wicker man
Evil dead and AoD
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Jeepers wrote:
No, I'm not either, but I did think WC was pretty decent wheras I mirror exactly your feelings for it about Saw, etc myself. It's not wussy - it's probably a harder film to watch than a pure gore-fest.
It might be that I'm being a wuss, but I found Wolf Creek just deeply unpleasant and mean-spirited. But I'm not a torture porn / gorno fan, so I'm not best placed to judge!
For me, the difference was that there's very, very little actual violence but tons of menace, the acting's decent and does a good job of making the characters believeable, and - crucially - that I found myself really, really wanting the protaganists to survive rather than hoping they ended up as a gory kill scene. It's certainly unpleasant in a sense - bad things happening to likeable people, and the bleak tension is palpable - but that made it a decent horror to me.
I'm certainly not saying people should like it, since I can certainly appreciate someone wouldn't - part of me finds it unsettling, but it works. I tend to go on about it a bit more, though, since I think it got associated with that particular fad of films when it perhaps didn't wholly deserve to. -
Any scary animated films apart from Animal Farm and Watership Down? -
Jeepers 16,616 posts
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Any scary animated films apart from Animal Farm and Watership Down?
Maybe not scary, but Plague Dogs will make you cry like a little girl. -
dangerpuss wrote:
When the Wind Blows, but that's a different sort of scary.
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Jeepers 16,616 posts
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I think you're right when you say that WC is unlike Saw/Hostel etc. - they struck me as being essentially comedies, with pratfalls replaced with limb severing.
The only similarity between the two - for me - was that both seemed to rejoice in the final act of violence, which made it feel a bit 'porny' for me. And that whole 'violence/sex' thing makes me uncomfortable (despite that being a very, very old connection). -
Jeepers wrote:
I think that's a fair point, though I found that the nutter's obvious relish for what he was up to was balanced by having properly-rounded, human protaganist characters rather than two-dimensional meatsacks. Not exactly good vs evil, but wanting them to get out of it served as an antidote to the bloodlust on the bushman's side, which is something that wouldn't have happened if they'd been the usual wretched machete-fodder.
The only similarity between the two - for me - was that both seemed to rejoice in the final act of violence, which made it feel a bit 'porny' for me.
I can totally see where your coming from though, and it's interesting to talk about how people see it - I was surprised at thinking it was pretty good first time I saw it, despite my general reaction being mixed interest and unease rather than actually enjoying it. I'd expected it to be terrible, but thought the uneasiness of it worked as a different type of horror rather than scares and gore.
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sirtacos 8,279 posts
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dangerpuss wrote:
Any scary animated films apart from Animal Farm and Watership Down?
Maybe not scary, but Plague Dogs will make you cry like a little girl.
I'm really tempted to watch Plague Dogs. On one hand, I love films like that. On the other hand, I don't want to feel depressed for a week, so I'll give it a miss for now. -
PazJohnMitch 17,276 posts
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In my opinion the best horror film there is. More of a thought provoking film than one which relies on cheap scares. -
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Registered 19 years agoLFMartins wrote:
grayson wrote:
Are there any genuinely 'fuck you up so you sleep with the lights on for a week' horror films around anymore?
I'm not talking about:
-Goreporn
-Rednecks in the hills/woods/desert
-"J-horrors" with silly little backward moving emo ghosts
-Something that scared you as a kid but is laughably bad by modern standards
Try Session 9
+10000000000
Great movie.
I´ve been thinking about this one, too, but forgot all about it. Thanks for the reminder. Now I just have to find it somewhere...
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Oh! Jacob's Ladder!
Just happend to stumble across it yesterday and gave it a new home. Only a fiver? Sold!
I think I'll pass on Wolf Creek, though. Too many differing opinions, to be honest.
LFMartins wrote:
Any scary animated films apart from Animal Farm and Watership Down?
I haven't seen either yet, but there are [link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Resident-Evil-Degeneration-Alyson-Court/dp/B001J1O884/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1233926022&sr=1-1">Resident Evil and -
Midnight_Raven 729 posts
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Registered 19 years agoJust watched The Descent last night and thought it was excellent. Cheers to everyone who recommended that! .gif)
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wizbob 936 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI just watched The Orphanage and it was very creepy. but in the vein of The Turn Of The Screw or The Others rather than a fulll-blown horror. It had a few touches that reminded me of the '70s Italian movies too. -
OllyJ 4,866 posts
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repairmanjack 6,133 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThe Changeling. -
Jeepers 16,616 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDon't look back.
Will make you poo yourself. -
Vinicity 252 posts
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Registered 18 years agoJeepers wrote:
Don't look back.
Will make you poo yourself.
I never really get why so many people think Bob Dylan is scary.
I personally prefer Don't look now. Unsettling and creepy in a beautiful 70's way... -
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Registered 16 years agoBr0ken_Engli5h wrote:
70's Bodysnatchers
The best version BTW. -
BanjoMan 13,692 posts
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Registered 16 years agoLeolian'sBro wrote:
What was that film about the Tooth Fairy, or something in darkness (not a vampire). Half remembered, looked good though.
I remember this, but not the bloody name. Something in the house and it 'got you' if you went in the dark, and its nickname was the Tooth Fairy. It was worth watching once.
/racks brain
Has anyone mentioned The Keep?
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Vinicity wrote:
Jeepers wrote:
Don't look back.
Will make you poo yourself.
I never really get why so many people think Bob Dylan is scary.
I personally prefer Don't look now. Unsettling and creepy in a beautiful 70's way...
Its because people know Cate Blanchet is sexy but can't get their head around her being the Bob-meister - it kinda messes with your sensibilities when it crosses your mind as a straight guy that you'd fuck Bob. That in itself is pretty creepy
But yeah, Donald Sutherland having sex and midgets in red PVC raincoats - eeewwwww! -
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[Rec]
Wolf Creek
The Shining
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoBlue Velvet.
There's that moment where Dennis Hopper's character looks up a stairwell right at the main character (Kyle McLachlan). Genuine shit your pants moment.
Always thought David Lynch should do a proper horror flick. -
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danathjo 8,294 posts
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Registered 14 years agobit of an oldie, 'don't look now'....where it lacks gore it has a certain creepy charm about it, and a great (and scary) ending, brilliantly made too if your into that
but everyone has to see 'drag me to hell', best horror of recent times! -
BanjoMan 13,692 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHaha.
No-one reads threads before posting these days. -
danathjo 8,294 posts
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The Innocents
The Haunting (the original)
Dead of Night (1945 - the original anthology that inspired Amicus/Creepshow)
TV-wise, the BBC's adaptations of M.R. James - short, hour-long (or so) TV plays, relying on atmosphere, performance and creepy corner-of-the-eye shit: "Whistle & I'll Come to You" "A Warning to the Curious" "Lost Hearts" "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" "The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral" "The Ash Tree" and (more recently) "Number 13" and "A View from A Hill."
You should also check out "Nigel Kneale's Beasts" a six-part anthology from the chap who created Quatermass and his excellent TV play, "The Stone Tape."
And "Sapphire & Steel" is still creepy.
If you like zombie flicks and can stomach a little gore, then there's none better than "Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue" AKA "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie." And on a similar Euro-kick, "The Tombs of the Blind Dead" are a great series of zombie/ghost movies.
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