Horror movies do absolutely nothing for me. I did enjoy Silent Hill though. Not the best movie but it had some really fucked up scenes. The barbedwire shredding scene was fantasticly done. The skin rip scene was one of those “OH FUCK” moments. And when the monster in the bathroom appeared, there is no way the average movie goer wouldnt scream.
I liked Hostel except for the “I have to go back and save the girl moment.” That was the biggest puke of writing as I have ever seen. They should have just let her escape somehow and meet him outside or something because her suicide was done really well. NOBODY would ever go the fuck back in there to save someone they hardly know.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Along with the two I mentioned above, The Dawn of The Dead remake is probably my favorite horror movie in a very long time. Aside from Event Horizon, I don’t think I’ve seen any of them more times than that one.[/quote]
Agreed. The fast, smart zombies definitely took that one up a notch or three.
The first Resident Evil is the only fairly recent good scary movie I can think of off hand that I will recommend to everyone and anyone. I know that was over 4 years ago, but that’s how sparse it’s been!
Ringu, the original Korean version of The Ring, is quite creepy too. The Hills Have Eyes remake wasn’t bad.
Non-monster movies like Training Day or Red Eye are much scarier and suspenseful than most of the horror crap they churn out.
i thought the descent was very good. I didn’t think it was as good until I got on youtube and saw the UK ending. It’s much different, and makes more sense. Make sure you watch it if you saw the movie.
[quote]oriensus wrote:
Can you name any characters in horror movie as being smart?
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Granted, but “The Hills Have Eyes” characters just seemed extra dumbed-down to me.
I’ve seen a shitload of movies, and most horror movies are full of absolute morons, but there’s typically 1 or 2 moderately intelligent people that last longer than the others.
“The Hills Have Eyes” was just pure mental retardation. If nuclear-defected desert hillbillys are dramatically out-smarting all of your main characters, you’re in trouble.
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Along with the two I mentioned above, The Dawn of The Dead remake is probably my favorite horror movie in a very long time. Aside from Event Horizon, I don’t think I’ve seen any of them more times than that one.
Agreed. The fast, smart zombies definitely took that one up a notch or three.
The first Resident Evil is the only fairly recent good scary movie I can think of off hand that I will recommend to everyone and anyone. I know that was over 4 years ago, but that’s how sparse it’s been!
Ringu, the original Korean version of The Ring, is quite creepy too. The Hills Have Eyes remake wasn’t bad.
Non-monster movies like Training Day or Red Eye are much scarier and suspenseful than most of the horror crap they churn out.[/quote]
I liked Red Eye. I wouldn’t call it “scary” at all because it was more of a suspense movie. I just like the way Dawn of The Dead was written. The only part that I felt was a “dumb move” was the girl chasing after the dog and the very last scene of the movie after the credits start. I like to stop the movie at the start of the credits because of that.
Resident Evil was my favorite zombie movie before that one.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
The only part that I felt was a “dumb move” was the very last scene of the movie after the credits start. I like to stop the movie at the start of the credits because of that.
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Do you mean the part where they’re on the boat and it’s out of gas and they happen upon some other island or something?
I actually thought that was reasonably cool. I liked having some sort of conclusion to what happened after they got on the boat.
A big part of me buying that DVD was the promise of deleted scenes (of which I hoped contained some alternate endings) and a “lost tape” feature of “Andy’s last days battling zombie horsdes outside his gun shop”.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
Professor X wrote:
The only part that I felt was a “dumb move” was the very last scene of the movie after the credits start. I like to stop the movie at the start of the credits because of that.
Do you mean the part where they’re on the boat and it’s out of gas and they happen upon some other island or something?
I actually thought that was reasonably cool. I liked having some sort of conclusion to what happened after they got on the boat.
A big part of me buying that DVD was the promise of deleted scenes (of which I hoped contained some alternate endings) and a “lost tape” feature of “Andy’s last days battling zombie horsdes outside his gun shop”.
It all sounded really cool… it wasn’t.
Luckily the movie is still pretty kick-ass.[/quote]
In real life, I would have stayed on the boat and sent the dog on the island to check shit out. They got ambushed in the water by 1 million zombies. That’s just fucked up.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
oriensus wrote:
Can you name any characters in horror movie as being smart?
Granted, but “The Hills Have Eyes” characters just seemed extra dumbed-down to me.
I’ve seen a shitload of movies, and most horror movies are full of absolute morons, but there’s typically 1 or 2 moderately intelligent people that last longer than the others.
“The Hills Have Eyes” was just pure mental retardation. If nuclear-defected desert hillbillys are dramatically out-smarting all of your main characters, you’re in trouble.[/quote]
Retardation is right. Wasn’t the dad supposed to be some kinda bad-ass ex-cop or something? And there he was, blasting away at nothing like some scared kid drafted into war. I HATED that movie.
The Grudge wasn’t that bad, but I didn’t really like it that much. The original, Ju-on, is better, and creepier.
[quote]Kratos wrote:
Bauer97 wrote:
oriensus wrote:
Can you name any characters in horror movie as being smart?
Granted, but “The Hills Have Eyes” characters just seemed extra dumbed-down to me.
I’ve seen a shitload of movies, and most horror movies are full of absolute morons, but there’s typically 1 or 2 moderately intelligent people that last longer than the others.
“The Hills Have Eyes” was just pure mental retardation. If nuclear-defected desert hillbillys are dramatically out-smarting all of your main characters, you’re in trouble.
Retardation is right. Wasn’t the dad supposed to be some kinda bad-ass ex-cop or something? And there he was, blasting away at nothing like some scared kid drafted into war. I HATED that movie.
The Grudge wasn’t that bad, but I didn’t really like it that much. The original, Ju-on, is better, and creepier. [/quote]
I liked The Hills Have Eyes. The dad and his son were idiots, but that was it. The guy with glasses was a badass. The mom and her daughter that got killed never even had a chance to be idiots. The sister did a decent job after she got raped by the two mutated hillbillies. And I loved watching the dogs fuck people up. Nothing like a pissed off German Shepperd.
Bottom line, if you go into a horror movie expecting the characters to be even moderately intelligent, you’re aiming too high.
I thought Saw was an ok movie. I liked the premise of the movie but the overacting really killed it for me. I haven’t seen the second one and don’t plan on seeing the third either.
And as far as Hostel goes, I thought that movie was just plain horrible. The only good thing about the movie was the amount of hot topless women. I’m just saying.
But then again, i’m not much of a horror fan anyways.
[quote]Bauer97 wrote:
H-Bomb wrote:
And I loved watching the dogs fuck people up. Nothing like a pissed off German Shepperd.[/quote]
You might like this so, French Special Forces attack dogs in training.
I put Hostel and Saw into the same category. Both were good though Hostel did kind of drag in the begining and hint at soft porn more than horror. I like the felling they give though. When freaks or ghosts attack its a little creepy but nothing like putting people at the mercy of someone who is totally fucked in the head.
It was like the first time I read Helter Skelter and they cut that girls baby out of her while she was alive. It’s so fucked up that it’s almost beyond comprehension.
That’s how Hostel and Saw were. Imagine, what would you do(be like) if you were in that situation. I almost had to turn it off it gave me that bile feeling in the back of my throat. When that kid is so scared he pukes it adds realisim and when he cuts his achillies tendon…oh man. Saw is just about a total psycho sociopath.
It’s just wild that somewhere out there there are people like this (maybe a little more watered down) and they may live next door. That shit is weirder than ghosts or mutant freaks. If you’re into Mutant Freaks then Texas Chainsaw Massacre is where it’s at. There is some reality to that.
[quote]dre wrote:
I thought Saw was an ok movie. I liked the premise of the movie but the overacting really killed it for me. I haven’t seen the second one and don’t plan on seeing the third either.
And as far as Hostel goes, I thought that movie was just plain horrible. The only good thing about the movie was the amount of hot topless women. I’m just saying.
But then again, i’m not much of a horror fan anyways.[/quote]
I thought Hostel sucked, mainly because I ended up rooting for the main characters to die, and then the one asshole survived.
It’s funny, I don’t think I ever notice the acting quality in movies. I don’t ever try to figure out what’s going to happen next, either. I just kinda take it as it comes.
It’s funny, I don’t think I ever notice the acting quality in movies. I don’t ever try to figure out what’s going to happen next, either. I just kinda take it as it comes. [/quote]
And that right there is why I think I really don’t get into horror movies. Because most of the time the acting is not that great and i’m always trying to figure out what’s going to happen next. I do that with every movie though. Drives my wife nuts! haha
I guess that’s why I don’t get into horror movies all that much. Most of them are just to predictable. Oh, that person is going to jump out of the bushes. Or the classic scare tatic of showing a close up of the character, and then a close up of an empty doorway, another close up of the character and finally another close up of the doorway and surprise a ghost or zombie is now in the doorway. Wow, scary.
That’s the problem with American horror movies. They are mainly based on shock and surprise, whereas say most of the Japanese films they actually try to creep you out.
[quote]Kratos wrote:
That’s the problem with American horror movies. They are mainly based on shock and surprise, whereas say most of the Japanese films they actually try to creep you out.[/quote]
Dude, anything on Japanese TV freaks Americans out. Have you seen that shit?
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
Kratos wrote:
That’s the problem with American horror movies. They are mainly based on shock and surprise, whereas say most of the Japanese films they actually try to creep you out.
Dude, anything on Japanese TV freaks Americans out. Have you seen that shit?[/quote]
Hell, yeah. Some of that shit is warped. I do love watching MXC, though.
