So its a week before halloween and tons of horror movies on tv.
I don't care for them myself, most are cheesy.
What are your favorites or the ones you hate?
Dislike
Any Mike Myer movies, saw or scream movies
Like
Cujo, Birds and Abott and Costello meet the Mummy
I like ones like Saw that have some basis in reality. Something that could actually happen is far more terrifying than some supernatural bullshit. I remember being riveted during the first hour or so of Jeepers Creepers, thinking there was some sick hillbilly on the loose pursuing them in that van. The moment they revealed that alien creature, I lost complete interest.
Went to see Saw 5 friday night just as good as the previous 4
So it was rubbish then?
Not a great fan either though The Fog really scared me as a kid, especially where the Fog surrounds the DJ on her own in the lighthouse.
The Omen is also a class flick as is a relatively new movie called Dog Soldiers about a squad of British soldiers encountering werewolves in Scotland.
Those Ring movies were muck imo as was the Blair Witch.
Dog Soldiers was a great low budget horror, I also liked The Descent by the same director.
Absolutely love the Saw movies as well as the Alien films too. Anyone remember watching IT as a kid? Scary stuff!
The original Nightmare on Elm street was a great film. Like many others it was ruined by cheap sequels.
The Excorcist will never be surpassed tho.
Quote from: under the bar on October 27, 2008, 10:22:47 AM
The original Nightmare on Elm street was a great film. Like many others it was ruined by cheap sequels.
The Excorcist will never be surpassed tho.
100% agree UTB....the only film ever to scare the bejasus out of me. :o
I suppose it comes down to what type of horror you watch, as in a realistic movie with a nut in it or a supernatural one.
Dog Soldiers was a good movie, and would be of similar fear factor to the like of Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days later.
I have re-watched a few over the past couple of months which were scary. Obviously its all down to how the individual reacts (how macho they are etc) but try watching something like Candyman (the first one), Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street in a house at night on your own - scare the crap out of you. Stephen Kings IT/Dream Catcher is also scary as hell. I haven't seen the movie Pet Cemetry in a while but read the book again recently and I imagine the movie would be scary as hell.
The like of Wolf Creek is supposedly fact based and it has no supernatural element to it but it would be high on the list. Fallen with Denzel is a good film and the original SAW is up there too.
I recorded SAW 2 last night. Is it worth watching?
I'll just mention one movie - Salems Lot.... first watched when I was a youngfella, terrified the bejaysus out of me - window scene one of the all time greats in horror terms!
SAW is dirt. Original Amytiville is quite decent.
Saw House Bunny.
SAW 2 was good enough but the 3rd was dirt so I never watched the 4th or 5th.
Quote from: Gaoth Dobhair Abu on October 27, 2008, 12:29:10 PM
I'll just mention one movie - Salems Lot.... first watched when I was a youngfella, terrified the bejaysus out of me - window scene one of the all time greats in horror terms!
Someone beat me to it! I remember watching it in my cousins house sometime in the 80's. They lived in a bungalow and later that night my cousin went to the bog so everyone snuck around outside to the toilet window and started scratching the window with a branch! Jesus he near had a canary and was crying like a baby! Can't say I'd have been any different.
As a rule though I'm no fan of horrors. Didn't rate the likes of Wolf Creek at all. The Omen, Salems Lot, Exorcist definitely made an impact when I was younger and too young to be watching such films!
You werent as scared as this poor git! ;D
http://www.bestofgooglevideo.com/video.php?video=37
The Grudge is my favourite horror film
Quote from: under the bar on October 27, 2008, 01:42:10 PM
You werent as scared as this poor git! ;D
http://www.bestofgooglevideo.com/video.php?video=37
Now thats funny :D
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on October 27, 2008, 08:49:29 PM
The Grudge is my favourite horror film
What's with the picture?
I thought it was only up my part of the country that offspring like that were encountered!
Watched "Watership Down" yesterday
It's still scares me.....
Quote from: The Corporal on October 27, 2008, 09:31:24 AM
Dog Soldiers was a great low budget horror, I also liked The Descent by the same director.
Absolutely love the Saw movies as well as the Alien films too. Anyone remember watching IT as a kid? Scary stuff!
Thought Dog Soldiers was rubbish tbh. The Descent was good as were the others you mentioned. And I remember IT....had nightmares for a month.
I thought the first Ring film was freaky....2nd one was poor...but the original Japanese Ring was terrifying.
Hostel was very good.
28 Days later and 28 Weeks Later.
More recently, I thought that 30 days of night was very good.
There's still nothing to top the original Omen films...or the Exorcist.
But my all time favourite scary film is The Shining......Jack at his best.
Horror movies have changed a lot in recent years - they are more gore fests these days.
Nightmare on Elm Street was a great film in its day
the Exorcist was real horror in my book
the Decent wasn't bad
Saw and the like do not interest me at all
Salem´s Lot was pure manure lads. of course i watched the original a few years ago and it had definately aged badly. perhaps if i had watched it when i was a lot younger i would have a different view on it.
Horrors i enjoyed...
The Exorcist
The grudge (saw it in the cinema which may have made it appear better than it actually was)
The Shinning
IT
the first SAW but not the rest
Seen a few of the Saw films, although cant remember which ones as I fell asleep during them as they were so sh1te
Mind you, I found Blair Witch Project a good show, probability because of the unknown in it & the possibility it could happen
Ghost is my favourite.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 28, 2008, 09:02:37 PM
Ghost is my favourite.
ah but could that really happen? believable eh? ;) :P
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 28, 2008, 09:02:37 PM
Ghost is my favourite.
Not exactly a horror film pog, more one to get your end away when you were a young fella ;)
BTW fcuk off lurganblue :D , you know what I meant
Quote from: lurganblue on October 28, 2008, 09:08:12 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 28, 2008, 09:02:37 PM
Ghost is my favourite.
ah but could that really happen? believable eh? ;) :P
It is! I know someone that happened to!
I don't mind blood and guts and gore but supernatural stuff gives me the creeps.
Like being on your own and getting that creepy feeling and then thinking about the young lad in "Sixth Sense" saying "you know when you get the feeling you're not alone........" Arrrrghh!
Can't stand horror movies meself. They're just far too horrific for somebody of my nervous disposition. Saw near shot my nerves altogether. I'm always afraid of screaming in fear in the cinema as well. That has me as badly on edge as the film does.
Quote from: TacadoirArdMhacha on October 28, 2008, 10:11:18 PM
Can't stand horror movies meself. They're just far too horrific for somebody of my nervous disposition. Saw near shot my nerves altogether. I'm always afraid of screaming in fear in the cinema as well. That has me as badly on edge as the film does.
Agree TAM
Watched Wallace & Grommit and the Curse of the Ware Rabbit last night and couldn't get to sleep after it. :)
I know it isnt a Horror film but "Signs" creeped me out a little. The bit where Mel Gibson goes into his daughters room and looks out the window and sees the silhouette (sp) of the alien beside the chimney was creepy. Also the bit where he's in the corn field and his torch fails then he turns it on and sees a green foot.
Quote from: full back on October 28, 2008, 09:09:17 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on October 28, 2008, 09:02:37 PM
Ghost is my favourite.
Not exactly a horror film pog, more one to get your end away when you were a young fella ;)
BTW fcuk off lurganblue :D , you know what I meant
Maybe somoene should recommend Ghost to youngfella on the girlfriend thread!
Lads i seen that new film out "Mirrors" last week and it def is scary shit...Of course it was a nice legal copy :P But seriously it was one of the best horror's I've seen...def up there with the original Exorcist
Thought the Exorcist was a pile of sh1te, much like the Saw shows
The Ghostbusters :D
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ibZ6R7ALxb0J::www.oklibrary.org/ghostbusters.jpg)
2005 Leinster Hurling Semi final :(
Stephen Kings Pet Cemetery its the only horror movie that has ever freaked me out and im a great fan of horrors. Seriously not a film to watch on your own but i highly recommend it
Quote from: TacadoirArdMhacha on October 28, 2008, 10:11:18 PM
Can't stand horror movies meself. They're just far too horrific for somebody of my nervous disposition. Saw near shot my nerves altogether. I'm always afraid of screaming in fear in the cinema as well. That has me as badly on edge as the film does.
Saw the Ring years ago in the cinema, some spoofer let out a yell at some opportune time, turned a horror into a comedy...
Most horrors sacrifice suspense for gore. Gore horrors are more funny than scarry I think. LIke some ye said already, Saloms lot scared the daylights out of me when I was young but I watched again about a year ago and it looked really dated. The blair witch project is a damn good film and damn scarry two. I could hear those bloody cracking noises outside me window for days afterwards. The Shining has to be up there too.
The Ring, the original version, in Japenese, had to read the sub titles, scared the bejasus out of me