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dete wrote:one thing I like to mention though is
Dracula is not a true horror movie to me.

Dracula to me has been a romantic tragedy much like
Shakespear's work....

:spyder: unless yer afraid of vampires. :spyder:

Good flick, Resident Evil as well.

Hi,

Its my first post in this message board and i want to say hi to everyone.
I really wondering that none of you mentioned Suspiria, i bought it on dvd a few years ago and it scared me a lot. Dario Argento was back then a true master of Horror.
Also pretty good horror flicks are:
Dawn of the dead (original)
Audition (Takashi Miike) freaked me out a lot, very bad movie :eek:
Tenebrae
The classic Universal Horror movies are pretty good too, especialy Dracula Frankenstein The Wolfman and the Mummy are movies that i like a lot.

Best Regards from Germany
Robert

nightmare on elm street creeped me out bad the first time I saw it. I Spit on your grave was pretty creepy too. HIGH TENSION is probably the one that weirded me out the most, but schizophrenic french lesbian slasher films tend to have that effect. :o

Michael Cook wrote: :spyder: unless yer afraid of vampires. :spyder:

wait wait wait... what if your afraid of Matt Damon, does that make
every movie he's in a horror movie just because it is one to this person?

hmmmmm, some food for thought :)

WELCOME Robert! :)
I havn't heard of most of the movies you mentioned, but yeah, it's really hard to beat those Classics!
Regards Sonny

I got a good collection at home, i like more the old movies from the 80ies mostly the italian horror flicks or some old Fung Fu movies from the Shaw Brothers I wanted to post some pictures to the Dvd Collection tread, but i couldn´t upload the pics. You should watch Suspiria, if you like this old Classics. Its not so bloody, although there are some gory scenes in it.
Maybe this may interest you in the movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspiria

Regards Robert

I like anything with ZOMBIES(Dawn of the Dead, 28 days later, etc.).....

Hot Fuzz gotta be the best....kinda a Horror movie. but i'm not really into horror movies either.

Probably Audition. I watch a lot of horror both foreign and domestic and this is pretty much the only movie to ever thoroughly disturb the **** out of me.

The guinea pig flicks are way over rated for how horrific they are. Cannibal Holocaust is far worse (and disgusted the **** out of me even). **** I'd even say Devil's Rejects is worse. The motel scene in that flick is among the more disturbing things I have seen on film. I was amazed when I saw that film in a theater.

Ichi the Killer is good for just wholesale gore, although I don't think it's all that disgusting or horrific. The gore is all very cartoony, great, but cartoony. There's also great atmosphere flicks like Suspiria, Cronos, Alien. I also really enjoy comedy horror flicks like Evil Dead (particularly 2), Slither, Feast, Sean of the Dead, Braindead, Undead, etc.

My favorite genres are probably vampire flicks, Near Dark being my favorite vampire movie of all time.

I could go on and on, there's a lot of great horror flicks out there and they span all genres from, drama, action, comedy, romance, etc.

The Creme De Le Creme of the terror/horror movies without a doubt is Stephen King's PET SEMETARY :eek: And there was a super horror classic that is somewhat tough to find now a days but back when I was youngster there was a movie called "ASYLUM" ( 1972). IT was way ahead of it's time in special effects and the shock value is even good by today's standards.

Not to mention some of the old Vincent Price movies from back in the 50s and 60s that I like to rent and watch occasionally.

I still see that cat in PET SEMETARY when I close my eyes sometimes to this day :eek: :D :D

"Dracula: Dead and Loving It" by Mel Brooks is one of my favorites....it had me laughing so hard I started crying.... :p

Stehpen King IS da man, I'm with You on this JD Spydo.. I have almost all of his books.

But movies, I think Those Dracula's with Cristopher Lee in them.. man I was scared as a kid, when I saw those. Still gives me the creeps, but in a good way :)

Don't really go for horror fims, but on TV there used to be this great horror program called "Night Gallery" when I was a kid; the host was pretty creepy too.

Starling

Michael Cook wrote: :spyder: Cannibal holocaust was the most upsetting and offensive.

Land behind the sun was the most outraging.

In a glass cage was the most psychologically numbing.

Zombie has the best splatter gag(9 inch splinter in the eye).

Carpenter's the Thing has the only gag that makes me flinch every time (jumping blood)

Henry: portrait of a serial killer was the most truly frightening the more I thought about it.

I can't bring myself to watch Asian bug barfing or kidnapping/dissection films (such as the guinea pig series of films out of Japan) but they are truly horrifying. :spyder:

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is totally disturbing. The scariest movies I've seen are The Exorcist and Open Water.

A movie that really disturbed me was Open Water. Jaws was entertaining but Open Water is just wrong to the point that I can not bring myself to watch the sequel.

I am guilty of enjoying the fullmoon stuff...

puppet master series and a few others.

also enjoyed the Phantasm series quite a bit.

Fullmoon? Yeah I love that stuff. I'm a big fan of the Subspecies films. I like that most of Fullmoon's stuff feels like old Castle films or something.

And on the subject of Vincent Price... I think The Abominable Dr. Phibes is probably one of his best if not the best he's been in. Great weird 70s horror. Kind of similar I think in tone to the also great Phantom of the Paradise.

Slasher movies aren't horror movies.
So I'm going to skip those and vote top spot for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic - "The Shining", starring Jack Nicholson as the demented reincarnation of a long dead murderer doom to repeat his past action. Talk about bad karma. Care for some "red rum"?
The pure horror is in seeing so many slasher movies being made and remade to the same old storyline of the "hunter and the hunted". BORING!

ExSpAgtStarling wrote:Don't really go for horror fims, but on TV there used to be this great horror program called "Night Gallery" when I was a kid; the host was pretty creepy too.

Starling

You remember NIGHT GALLERY!!! That was a really cool show. If my memory hasn't gone to dust yet I do believe that Rod Serling who created the TWILIGHT ZONE was the creator of NIGHT GALLERY. I thought it is even more intriguing than the ZONE :cool:

Also back in those days Alfred Hitchcock had a really cool show too. Glad you remembered that one Starling :)