Oct 22, 2003 06:13 pm "The Ring" was probably the worst one I have seen in a long time...what a piece of crap.
I hope to see "Scary Movie 3" this weekend :-)
any horror movie fans?
Posted on Oct 22, 2003 05:12 pm
wrmach
I'm Roscoooo P. Coltrane
Member Since: Apr 12, 2003
Any horror fans? I thought since its the Halloween season we might give some horror movie pics.(and since dB set the mood with the horror gig contest) I'll start with my favorite... an oldie but a goodie...The Exorcist. I have some others but this one to me is great for so many reasons.
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Oct 22, 2003 06:13 pm "The Ring" was probably the worst one I have seen in a long time...what a piece of crap.
I hope to see "Scary Movie 3" this weekend :-)
Oct 22, 2003 06:24 pm I actually liked The Ring until the last 15 minutes or so. I'm not a big scary movie buff, but it had me jumping in my seat except for the last part.
Freddy vs Jason is good for a laugh or two as long as you aren't expecting a good movie.
Oct 22, 2003 06:32 pm Ya, I'll give The Ring credit, it had it's scary moments, but the whole concept of how they made the tape kill people and stuff was so stupid. It just made no sense, how did the tape get made in the first place? The girl was in the frickin well...I dunno, just didn't do it for me, but like you, I am not a big scary movie buff either, when I see a movie I would rather laugh or watch stuff blow up and people get shot.
Oct 22, 2003 06:37 pm yeah, the concept was pretty stupid, but then again, it's pretty stupid in most horror movies.
Oct 22, 2003 07:10 pm That is a hard choice. Since I grew up watching old school horror movies and such. But my favorites were the cheap B grade drive in movies. I guess without thinking I would say it is a toss up between the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the original Night of the Living Dead. But if it is something newer I will go with the Friday the 13th box set. As cheesy as they may have been. To stretch a horror character that far, and kill him that many times takes some major creativity. Who would ever have thought that the poor girl would figure out, the only way to kill Freddy was to pull him out of the dream and into the real world, (Dream Warriors) and (Freddy vs Jason). But being a cheesy horror movie freak, I really cant pick just one for a favorite. My 14 year old and one of his buddys from boy scouts are now getting into all the old Japanese flicks of the Godzilla genre, and are planning an all night horror movie party which means I get to put up with 9 boyz overnight watching cheap horror flicks. But it gives me time to plot the ultimate scare when they least expect it.
Oct 22, 2003 08:38 pm "The Ammityville Horror" was a sick horror movie, and "The Omen" was great too...
Oct 22, 2003 10:13 pm Hey Dan,
I have to agree. I like alot of horror movies made in the 70's. I know this may sound silly but if you watch the exorcist, most of the movie is quiet. What I mean is, notice the parts when the mother and the priest are in the house, downstairs talking. Theres a silent eerieness to it. You see that in Ammityville too. It just seems like these days special fx are the only thing alot of movie makers know. It seems like thats getting better lately;I seen Cabin Fever, it had that eerie suspense, kind-of...
Oct 22, 2003 10:24 pm Ringu (jap version) was creepy.. the ring was not.
My favourite "scary" movie is anything with freddy in it. That charactor is amazing. Aside from that I really like The Others and Six Sense. I'm not one for slasher type films, I'm more into the psychological terror. Anything with Vincent Price is gold, and a lot of the movies based on stories by H.P Lovecraft are good, although Cthulhu Mansion is a waste of time.
Oct 23, 2003 12:25 am not really a horror movie, but more like a psychotic mind-trip, i just saw Donnie Darko the other night and I'm still having friggin wierd dreams. Jeez, if anyone hasn't seen this yet, it's worth renting. i'm still trying to gather how i feel about it..
Well, I'm not too into scary movies myself. They're usually plotless crap with poor acting. The only movie that ever really scared me was Aliens. Something about that creature... it's so real. I still have nightmares about that thing every now and then.. i can feel it chasing me ::shudders:: I've since become a big fan of H.R. Giger artwork and James Cameron films (Terminator 2, The Abyss, etc)
Oct 23, 2003 12:38 am aside from the beginning, and some foggy logic, i thought the ring was pretty good and had some truly disturbing moments. the plot? woulda been nice if better, but who needs it. i liked the presentation and feel. the muted lighting (what kind of filter is that? i think i heard this is an acid-washing process that bleeds out color), the off-angle shots (a classic horror tactic that never gets old), some of the 'jumpy' stuff that takes you off guard--all great. the tape itself, which i'd heard hyped as a nine-inch nails video without music--i found actually deeply scary on an archetypal level. i thought it was obscene and nightmarish.
and i think that was what was going on in the film: the girl had been 'conceiving' those pictures that the doctors were asking her about, and she said that the pictures occurred to her and then they 'just were.' the girl had some power to manifest images inside other mediums, if i'm understanding it correctly. the horses went insane because they felt the nightmares she was exuding, and the tape itself somehow came into the existence the same way, although im still not sure whose nightmare that is...the girl's, or anna morgan's? anyway it seems to me that the girl is reaching out through this tape, craving to be heard. she wants to hurt people. this is why the horse commits suicide on the ferry--the reporter woman is already infected with a lot of these nightmare images, which the horses feel and get spooked by.
i got lazy thinking about it. i just liked watching the feel and mood of it. godawful beginning though.
Oct 23, 2003 02:04 pm on closer watching, i now see that the ring is really about namoi watt's exquisite facial bone structure.
Oct 23, 2003 02:57 pm I liked the Ring, in the sense that it gave me something to chuckle at. The magic videotape was a little far-fetched. Uh - so how did the tape get made? Must be mystical secret type stuff.
I liked Ghost Ship - anybody seen that one?The "dance" scene at the beginning will fester in my memory forever....
If I'm renting videos, it's not usually horror, it's almost always scifi or scifi/action flicks. I'm also a big fan of B scifi movies! As a matter of fact, I've started working on a song that is basically a tone poem of B scifi themes. Eerie samples, otherworldly melodies, etc, etc.
Oct 23, 2003 03:00 pm "Communion", althought not a horror movie, still very edgy, and one of my personal favorites. Christopher Walken rocks, and I am very interested in the whole UFO phenomenon. (Thought Walken is best as "The Continental" when he guests on Saturday Night Live)
It's also kind of a scary flick if you inject the whole message and it's possiblities, along with all the other theories and such that go along with alien abduction.
Oct 23, 2003 03:25 pm The Continental! God that's hysterical... haven't thought about that guy in a long time... :)
Oct 23, 2003 05:59 pm the ring....this movie scared me so bad. i mean there isn't ANY movie that can scare me ever, but this one did. i think that it was aimed for a cirten audience or kind of person because i find that people ether don't think it was that scary or was FRIGHTENING! i walked out of the movie theater in a panic attack and crying my eyes out in fear. weeks later if i rememberd a part of the moive it would drive me into anxiety attacks. i don't know what there was about the movie but it hit me like nothing ever has. this is coming from somebody thats not scared of ANYTHING. like seriously nothing. now stop laughing:)
Oct 23, 2003 06:25 pm So the scene that sticks with you is
Please Note Sarcasm:
the really clever and totally unpredictable
part where she climbs out of the TV and scares that dude to death, isn't it?
I will give the movie credit for shock-value type scares, but I still found it very cheeky.
Oct 23, 2003 06:47 pm i know, brock, i totally agree with you.
i found it archetypally scary. the images on the videotape are images that affect a deep part of your primitive brain, if you let them. it's not the plot. its the way some of that stuff is framed. deeply scary and unreal. the perspective on the shot of the man upstairs in the house with the clouds rolling by above him. the too-big centipede. the ladder, naked and alone against a wall surrounded by white. all very artful, and just WRONG. it jars your sense of the way reality is supposed to look. i thought it was --dont laugh -- pretty much the definition of nightmare.
how did it get on tape? the girl put the images onto the tape with her mind. the tape was born without tracking numbers. that's her power.
personally im not a huge fan of the plot, but the underlying story is really good--the stuff about the horses committing suicide, and the girl making everyone nuts. its just the "overplot" that sucks.
Oct 23, 2003 06:49 pm The Ring ... scary?... pffft.... I dig scarier stuff out of my ears in the morning.
Exorcist? yep that was a scary one. Almost made me turn Catholic.
I think Natural Born Killers was pretty scary.
American Werewolf in London was good.
I personally like the George Romero Night of the Living Dead series, and any B horror movie and all the old horror stories done in the 1930s. Plus all the hokie b&w Earth vs Flying saucers movies of the 1950s. My family (who thinks Im nuts) finds other things to do when these movies are on cause they know I'm munchin popcorn and I've hidden the remote. This is a great time of year to watch the original Frankenstine movies, if you havent seen them give-em a try, not the Freddie or Jason kinda thing but very good none the less.
Booo!
Oct 23, 2003 07:19 pm Quote:
the girl put the images onto the tape with her mind.
oh, pahleese...natural born killers...ooo, I forgot about that one...wicked flick
Oct 23, 2003 09:46 pm well like i said the overplot sucked. the essence of the backstory was good, though. also, db, you just have a problem with ghosts entering the digital age. if they can stack chairs and dishes, the leap into the digital realm is just a short hop away! i know they buy those windows tutorials from that john scherer pitchman too. its money-back! whats there to lose! "buy my product."
natural born killers i found just cheaply pornographic and totally not scary. it had trent's music, though, so thats a plus.
this year i resolve to see the exorcist. at last.
Oct 24, 2003 05:09 am No, I didn't find it Natural Born Killers scary really, more disturbing...
As far as The Ring, well, I wish I could create a tape with my mind, my entry form for "Survivor" would get done a hell of a lot quicker...
Oct 24, 2003 08:00 am Natural Born Killers is a great movie. Not scary, though. The director's cut is phenomenal. Titillating, maybe, but I wouldn't say pornographic.
I love the B&W Night of the Living Dead, and the Return of the Living Dead movies! Total classics.
That tape in the Ring was pretty freaky... very neat cinematography, startling images. The whole idea of her creating that tape with her mind is pretty far-fetched.
Oct 24, 2003 11:48 am How was the tape in the ring made you ask? maybe it's Super-VHS ...ok it wasn't as funny as I'd hope...
One Sci-fi horror-ish movie I've been, because of a bet, trying to remember was ripped off by the really terrible movie "Virus".
Story was: NASA finds this husk...looks like a coconut... they put it on a lab bench and leave for the night at which time it opens up and builds a robot out of itself, lab equipment, and someone that was in the lab during the process. Eventually NASA has to send a team to the moon to destroy the aliens where they find that humans were living on the moon for the past 2000 years (or so) and that the aliens are useing us as spare parts.
I don't remember it being a "good" movie.... but Virus was terrible...they even killed the hot chick :( while whatshername from aliens lived :(
Oct 24, 2003 12:24 pm first, i loved donnie darko- great movie
next anyone seen 28 days later?
i wanna get it this weekend- i looks really cool
Oct 24, 2003 12:50 pm i havn't seen 28 days later. is it somehow related to donnie darko? i know the cycle in darko was 28 days and some-odd hours minutes and seconds too.
Oct 24, 2003 01:49 pm 28 days later has a great beginning and a bad ending, i think. i both love it and hate it. i like movies that make 'mood' the star of the show in a certain sense. well, 28 days later has a great, great setting and vibe and its worth watching for that alone. what's it feel like to be the last person in a postapocalyptic world?
but i think there's a huge prob with the plot. halfway through, it becomes a seperate movie with a different theme. the two plots are connected tenuously, but it still comes as a surprise, a jarring one. unfortunately, i get why they did it. if they would have introduced this subplot early in the film (as would be natural and typical) they would have totally lost the ambience and even the whole point of the opening. so they had to. (or they could have just come up with a better subplot.)
what was the point of natural born killers? i cant remember, but i remember not liking it.
Oct 24, 2003 01:50 pm I just saw "Phone Booth" and thought that was pretty good.
Natural Born Killers was just a look into the disturbed world of Woody Harrelson :-D
Oct 24, 2003 01:58 pm 28 days later is a really good movie from my opinion. I saw it while I was visiting my cousin in Oregon. Didn't want to see it really, but I'm really glad I did.
I saw Donnie Darko the day it opened, and I got a little tipsy before going to see it. That movie is kinda eerie, and the trailer totally misrepresented that movie to me. It's kinda quirky and pretty entertaining, but there's too many parts at the end that don't make sense to me. There's too many loose ends that don't get explained (I was sober by the end of the movie). But it was cool because the movie opened around halloween and I was a giant green rabbit that halloween.
Oct 24, 2003 02:38 pm can't remember who, but i swear *somebody* on here quoted that movie at some point on this website... maybe a year or so ago.
"why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?"
"why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"
that scene jumped out at me when i saw the part and i immediately saw an HRC page in my mind. But then, I too was pretty tipsy while I was watching it. I still think I "got" it all though. wow
but i think the disturbing world of Natural Born Killers was an Oliver Stone world. I swear, if you watch The Doors and Natural Born Killers one right after the other, they feel like a sequel.
Oct 24, 2003 02:46 pm sounds like something Walt would say :-D
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