Rhodes1968 1,638 Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 The Thing (carpenter's) The Ring The Legend of Hell House (1973) Like many, those are the ones that stuck John Carpenter's The Thing is my favorite of all time. The sequel was... unimpressive. Aliens is my favorite action/horror. Theatrical version please. The extra fluff in the director's cut adds nothing. The original Alien deserves an honorable mention also. We won't mention the "other" alien movies. The best of them set a mood and The Thing has this overwhelmingly.(now I gotta watch it again) This is getting to be a lost art in horror films though it was never easy nor common. All three on my list accomplish proper mood setting very well, had enough of gore, bad jump scares, and crummy CG. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gaddis 1,689 Posted July 16, 2016 Report Share Posted July 16, 2016 (edited) John Carpenter's The Thing is my favorite of all time. The sequel was... unimpressive. Aliens is my favorite action/horror. Theatrical version please. The extra fluff in the director's cut adds nothing. The original Alien deserves an honorable mention also. We won't mention the "other" alien movies. Yeah, the alien in the second Thing movie looked like a vag filled with teeth. Couldn't warm up to any of the characters in it either. The only thing they could have cut out of the extended version (IMO) of Aliens was the scene where Pvt. Hudson was shucking & jiving in the landing craft. I thought the part where the Robo sentries were introduced & deployed should have stayed in the film though. Didn't really care for the original Alien movie all that much (especially for all the hype). Always thought that all the alien needed was a straw hat and bamboo cane when it and Capt. Dallas (Tom Skerritt) first met up in the ventilation shafts with that stupid spread hand pose it made. Edited July 17, 2016 by Gaddis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rhodes1968 1,638 Posted July 17, 2016 Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 The original Alien was fairly well done and they captured a lot by keeping the cast in the dark about when the little critter was going to show up. Nothing like a real jump scare to get things going in a "gotcha" movie. I guess it qualifies as Scifi-horror pretty well as opposed to the Scifi-action of the second movie. Action is easier than horror is easier than comedy but making them well is still very difficult no matter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Juggernaut 11,054 Posted July 17, 2016 Report Share Posted July 17, 2016 Old Peter Jackson (Lord of the rings director) horror movies are a lot of fun... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
6500rpm 670 Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 For whatever reason 28 Weeks Later and I am Legend always disturbed me a bit, in the same way Phantasm and Hellraiser did when I was young. The War of the Worlds remake and Signs also had some good scenes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hawk451 2,230 Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 A bit lesser known & off-the-wall, loosely based on a Bram Stoker novel, but just about guaranteed to make you cringe at least once or twice... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJo9-sO-qIU Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sim_Player 1,939 Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 (edited) I feel like the only one out there who generally hates horror movies. They just don't scare me, and mostly seem like corny garbage. I get more annoyed at the ridiculous infallibility of the monsters/etc. and the way the victims make all the worst choices imaginable, are never armed, own cars that don't start, try to escape into dead end areas, etc.Movies have never scaried me. The shear pain in Hell Raiser was as dark as I ever wanted to go. It's my version of Hell. Edited July 18, 2016 by Sim_Player 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DLT 1,646 Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 CNN, MSNBC and Hillary commercials scare the hell out of me. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ktcm7271 999 Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 1. The Thing. 2. Return of the living dead. 3. An American werewolf in London. 4. Evil Dead 2 5. The Boogens. Slashers suck: Humans are fragile.A good beating will take most of them out. Ghosts suck: They move furniture for 2 hours. If one killed me, I'd be a ghost too, and go all Dan Henderson on their ass the moment they kill me. Animals and monsters get to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rhodes1968 1,638 Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 The Relic is a pretty good creature feature, if thats what gets the blood pumping. They are among the best and worst of horror. Really all the The Thing is after all. Gore and sick twisted psychopaths are too far on the plausible side for that suspension of disbelief to kick in and that is important. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
6500rpm 670 Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 Casino-the end of Nicky Santoro Quote Link to post Share on other sites
XD45 7,124 Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 The first 2.5 hours of Steven King's It were great horror. Tim Curry's Pennywise was perfect. Then the last half hour with the giant spider puppet ruined it all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rhodes1968 1,638 Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 So it seems that King's work almost never translates well to the screen, his novels are too long to be done in less than several hours. Best are IT, The Storm of the Century, and The Stand, all TV efforts. Have yet to see a good "movie" done of his stories. Would think his short stories (which I think better than his novels) should adapt well but they always find a way to foul it up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alistar 13 Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 I'll put in a vote for The Babadook. Creepy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Juggernaut 11,054 Posted July 22, 2016 Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 Yeah Dave Mustaine was awesome as the mom in Babadook... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Odd Man Out 1,283 Posted July 22, 2016 Report Share Posted July 22, 2016 Thought of another one -- not really a horror movie but the russian roulette scenes in the movie "The Deerhunter" stayed with me for quite a while... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rhodes1968 1,638 Posted July 26, 2016 Report Share Posted July 26, 2016 Just a little diversion from the insanity with a sci-fi bent http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/1950s-scifi-movie-quiz.htm?mkcpgn=i600002505 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hawk451 2,230 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Good quiz. I only got 22 out of 30...D'oh! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rhodes1968 1,638 Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Some of them were tough questions. Great period for cheesy sci-fi and some of it was great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gzus Kryst 53 Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 (edited) House of 1000 corpses, and even The Devil's Rejects but that was more action then horror but some awesome quotes from them two https://www.youtube.com/embed/vbooMZvH-Qg Edited July 31, 2016 by Gzus Kryst Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hawk451 2,230 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 Finally got around to watching 'Bone Tomahawk' last night. Holy cow! Not a movie for the squeamish... Kurt Russel is still in fine form. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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