How many of you are horror/slasher film fans??

[dadesnine]

i watched exam with my friends and it was so awesome, we didnt expect it to be that good, it sucks that there hasnt been any good horror movies out lately, you can kind of consider cabin in the woods, but it did tend to go on the more campier side, which isnt everyones favorite.

recently i bought the movie mothers day with rebecca de mournay, i have to say it was definitely one of the better movies ive seen, she killed it.

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also i really liked hatchet as well, how was the second one? i saw they made a sequel

Darren Lynn Bousman's Mother's Day was incredible. Rebecca Demorney was just so terrifying. Most remakes tend to suck but sometimes you'll get a brilliant re-telling.

 

[zoltanspawn]

but the best slashers are coming out of France (Inside, High Tension, Martyrs, Frontier(s)...)

I thought High Tension was a heckuva movie, just great. I love it when a director pulls off an ambitious film like Irreversible. But, sometimes I think the French are guilty more than others of pretense. (Trouble Every Day.)

So I'm curious about the three movies I bolded, but fear intellectual poppycock. I went ahead and added Inside to my queue.

Anybody have any more thoughts on Martyrs or Frontiere(s)? Affected? Successful? Just shocking?

 

[kombatwombat]

Hey y'all,
I love horror films. I'm running out of ones to see though
I don't like horror-comedies much though

 

[Ninja108]

Halloween is still a movie that stands the test of time for me.

 

[RRUGER]

does anyone know where i can find exam and house of 9 to watch ?

 

[dadesnine]

I thought High Tension was a heckuva movie, just great. I love it when a director pulls off an ambitious film like Irreversible. But, sometimes I think the French are guilty more than others of pretense. (Trouble Every Day.)

So I'm curious about the three movies I bolded, but fear intellectual poppycock. I went ahead and added Inside to my queue.

Anybody have any more thoughts on Martyrs or Frontiere(s)? Affected? Successful? Just shocking?

Martyrs is an amazing film. Everything from the performances, to the twists and turns in plot that eventually reveal the horrifying nature of what's going to happen and the special FX are gruesome. Frontiere(s) starts off with tension and the protaganists' are introduced as they try to survive a riot between the police and the arabs. There is a terrific shot in that movie I won't give anything away but it's a medium shot on two people in a hospital, and without the use of a steadycam or a dolly the shot quickly moves us outsides through a car window and onto a wide shot revealing the outside of the hospital the car, and how far away the two actors in this medium shot really were from the camera. Of course it follows the same formula of finding yourself at the hands of lunatics. The leading actress put herself through a lot (although the *actress and writer of "The Bunny Game" pretty much has every actor beat when it comes to going through extreme duress for their film) Frontier(s) and Martyrs are definitely worth watching. I don't know if you've seen "A Serbian Film", it's garnered a great deal of controversy. I didn't buy the story but it had a unique style worth checking out. The best American horror film I've seem recently was Lucky McGee's "The Woman". It's a cruel and terrifying story. I never saw the ending coming... I was so happy to be truly shocked with an actual plot twist and not a graphic skullfucking (see "A Serbian Film").
*The actress in "The Bunny Game" also wrote the story (as she had no choice but to improvise with her co star, got together with a director, hired a non actor (actually a real gross looking trucker) and allowed this man to torture her, perform acts of unsimulated sex and just let this mad man torture her mentally and physically in the back of a truck, even going as far as enduring the pain of being branded). Knowing the small crew and this poor actress were in the presence of a sadist who genuinely abused and ostensibly raped his co-star (even though in an interview she said she had a feeling he would violate her, but didn't ask the crew to interfere and rescue her from sexual assault and and all abuse this man visited upon her (he was a genuine sadist, watching the behind the scenes featurette makes it even scarier because we see this man actually threaten the director, and refused any direction at all (besides the branding scene, and "the game" sequence,. I was actually frightened for the crew. The actress said she wrote the part to relive and destroy some past trauma in her life, but I can't see how anyone could go on living a normal life after seeing what she experienced. It's worth seeing for her commitment to writing a story, and crafting a character and becoming that person for the whole shoot...)

 

[zoltanspawn]

Thanks for the reply, dadesnine. The Bunny Game looks like the kind of movie I'm not interested in. (I don't mind extraordinary violence, but I don't seek it out for its own sake.)

The jury's still out on the others, too.

But The Woman has been added to my queue. The NYT has a writeup here.

 

[braex27]

As I get older I find less and less attraction in slasher films.

Horror, genuinely scary films are rare but I do love them.

Recommended:

Ugetsu (apparently the entire film is on youtube)

The Innocents (probably my favourite horror film)

Psycho (the first truly scary film I saw)

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Kim Stanley is just remarkable in this film)

 

[hairybum]

Luv horrors
Halloween the remake
I spit on your grave the remake
Eden lake

 

[Ninja108]

Friday the 13th never did it for me..did like Psycho though.

 

[Lazario2006]

Horror is my passion in life. But I will admit like many here there are large chunks missing from my education. (I'm going to highlight all the must-see films below in red.)

I've only seen 1 silent, 2 Hammer films, maybe a couple Amicus's, and except for most of the main Universal 30's films (and even then I need to re-watch Frankenstein and I've never seen Creature from the Black Lagoon) but the trouble is is they made so many sequels and smaller spin-off films with Karloff and Lugosi (etc). Thanks to MGM though, I've seen almost all of Roger Corman's AIP (American International Pictures) films but until Polanski started his NYC trilogy with Repulsion, I've only seen the odd cult film (Carnival of Souls, Spider Baby, half of Dementia 13) and all the Bette Davis movies she did when she was a horror hag in the 60's (The Nanny, Dead Ringer, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, and of course the movie that started it all What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?). Oh, and I've seen a few William Castle movies. All of which I highly recommend (House on Haunted Hill, 13 Ghosts, Strait-Jacket, The Tingler).

Since I got Netflix, I started working my way through Mario Bava and until Hatchet for the Honeymoon, I didn't like any of his earlier films (Black Sunday, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Black Sabbath, Kill Baby Kill). At all. I still need to see Blood and Black Lace and Whip and the Body but I'm not expecting either to change my mind. If I can call Corman gothic (Masque of the Red Death, Tales of Terror, The Raven, House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Tower of London), I seriously prefer him over Bava. Until we get to Hatchet for the Honeymoon. Between then and Lisa and the Devil, all his films have clicked with me (5 Dolls for an August Moon, Baron Blood, and Twitch of the Death Nerve / Bay of Blood).

Once we get to the 70's, that's where I decided I needed to see every single highly acclaimed horror film ever made. Though I'm still missing a few: The Wicker Man, Possession (1981), Lair of the White Worm, Magic (1978), Two Evil Eyes, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, almost every Asian horror film between Kwaidan and Bio Zombie (A Chinese Ghost Story, The Bride with White Hair, The Untold Story, Evil Dead Trap, Ringu, Junk), all of Guillermo Del Toro's films, and for some reason I've made it a mission to see Lucio Fulci's The Psychic. Don't know why. I won't even think of bothering with anything he did after Manhattan Baby (which is awful but I have a bit of a soft spot for). And I've had Bloody Birthday kicking around in my Instant queue for almost a year and I want to kick myself for not having watched yet.

Anyway, my Top 13 Horror Films (all are must-sees in my opinion- none are remakes which I hate with a passion except for The Fly, Cat People, and I have no beef with Carpenter's The Thing or that new Maniac movie... or April Fools Day, Night of the Demons, or Sorority Row but I never saw those remakes):

13. Killer Klowns from Outer Space
12. Creepshow
11. Deep Red (1975)
10. Dawn of the Dead
9. The Last House on the Left
8. Dead Alive / Braindead
7. Halloween
6. The Evil Dead
5. Suspiria
4. Deathdream
3. Carrie
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1. Rosemary's Baby

 

[dereperez]

I love me some psychological horror/thrillers.

Some of my faves:

"Tras el cristal" (In a Glass Cage)....this one is very mentally fucked up/messed up, but it's one of my favorites
Halloween
Evil Dead
Haute Tension (High Tension)
Cello
Audition
Ils (Them)