Horror

[Ashen]

Maybe I'm just perverse, but I didn't think it was her leg she was going for.

I didn't find the Exorcist even vaguely scary, to be honest - very good, yes, but not scary. Although, I didn't see it until it was re-realeased in the UK a few years ago to so much hype that it was never really going to live up to it.

I'm with Eggie - I avoided horror films for ages (I had nightmares about Freddy Kruger before I'd even seen any of the films), and now I love them - but I can't say that I can think of a single one that's actually scared me, apart from the occasional 'cat scare'.

[Corey]

no horror movie scares me either... i gues im too evil 

[jetxl]

1: No, you're just a confused teenager that don't know how to handle his feelings.
2: It's "because", not "cuz".
3: Is it necessary that you use "..." in every sentence?

It's amazing... by the time the exorcism was over, her leg wasn't all bloody and scarred and beat up and bandaged, but was fine...

"Fuck Christ, fuck him, fuck him!"
"Let Jesus fuck you, let Jesus fuck you!"
It was definitely not her legs that she was stabbing.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

"Let Jesus fuck you", I think is the actual wording. : Ayuh, I doubt it's the legs. In fact, when I had read about the film (before I saw it), the word employed was not "stabbing" but "masturbating", which left me somewhat surprised that anyone could consider something that violent and bloody a "simple masturbation".

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

Meh... what do you want.  I was 8 when I saw it... the schools didn't start showing me those "growing up" films 

[Adamski]

Horror films aren't really my bag to be honest, perhaps because I'm neither scared or grossed out by them (with the possible exception of Event Horizon). Only the game 'System Shock 2' and the book 'House of Leaves' have ever managed to instill a real deep-rooted sense of fear in me... well, in terms of media anyway.

Not to say I don't enjoy John Carpenter's films, and I loved the 'video' in the American version of The Ring because it's generally unsettling. Night of the Hunter, The Shining and Rosemary's Baby are also favourites... Cronenberg of course if he counts... surely there are more if I put my mind to it.

Oh yes, Jacob's Ladder. More psychological than 'horror' I guess. And Shaun of the Dead, which sort of doesn't count but I'm listing it anyway!

[Nikolas]

It disturbs me that kids these days are so desensitized that they find The Exorcist funny.

Well I have to agree with you.

I don't know a lot about horror movies, but I think that the exorcist is a fine horror movie. + nobody dies (at least not every 2 secs, nipper)

On the other hand, one thing that really really freaked me out, not scared me, but I was left tottaly numb was:

Nine Inch Nails (NIN): The video clip from Burn and happiness in slavery. These video clips I believe are f***ing amazing but also really scary.

Or maybe I'm just getting older and think about my son, what to watch and what not to

Save me somebody...!

[Corey]

1: No, you're just a confused teenager that don't know how to handle his feelings.
2: It's "because", not "cuz".
3: Is it necessary that you use "..." in every sentence?

1. No im very evil!!!
2.It's coz ... thats short for because (u didnt know that?? ohhh really didnt...??!!! ohh cute...)
3.yes , its my style... yeah... hehu... (many "..."s just to anoy you)

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

It's not so much the blood and violence that's funny.  The exorcist was just way overdone... to the point it was amusing.

It's also the fact that none of it is real.  The blood, the violence, the killing, it's to the point you know it can't be true.  Or for me anyway...

My friends were talking about how scary all those crappy ass horror movies are.  I laugh at how sissy they are when they're not looking.  It makes me glad I tower over all those midgets, some of the things i say...

[jetxl]

1. No I'm very evil!!!
2.It's coz ... thats short for because (you didnt know that?? ohhh really didnt...??!!! ohh cute...)
3.yes , its my style... yeah... hehu... (many "..."s just to anoy you)

Your cute reply only confirms my point. And your lack of english makes it even funnier.
It's "annoy" b.t.w.

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

Yes, we all know he has very poor grammer Jet. 

But then agaun what of us havent not not had made same mistakes then before the now? 

The problem with grammer is that not enough people care to correct it, unless it's really annoying like the sentance I just wrote.

[Fuzzpilz]

I can't say that I'm very familiar with most classic "horror" movies, though I've certainly seen and liked a few, some genuinely and some in that execrable postmodern ironic way which may or may not be all the rage with the kids these days (by which I mean to imply, more or less, that I am the kind of person who enjoys MST3K).

Books - I can't say that I like what I've read from Stephen King very much, though I did mildly enjoy Kubrick's version of The Shining. I liked Wolfgang Hohlbein (a ridiculously prolific German author) when I was 12 or so, which I think is the age he writes for anyway. At least I hope so, for his sake.

Lovecraft, of course, amuses greatly. Indeed I generally seem to like elderly examples of the genre (and its forerunners) more. I'm not sure why that is - perhaps it's that when sufficient time has passed, the uninteresting stuff has been largely forgotten, or perhaps I'm just a huge snob.

1. No I'm very evil!!!
2.It's coz ... thats short for because (you didnt know that?? ohhh really didnt...??!!! ohh cute...)
3.yes , its my style... yeah... hehu... (many "..."s just to anoy you)

Perhaps jetxl's post was a little more blunt than necessary (he does that, I've noticed, though I hear he's a reasonably nice guy in person); but if you're going to respond to it like that, then I feel I should point out he's not the only one annoyed by excessive informalism in writing. (Then why does almost nobody ever say anything? Because nobody wants to look like the world's greatest pedant, and because it would get terribly tiresome doing this to every other new person that comes along.)

I'm not going to tell you to use a spellchecker. Instead, spell things correctly in the first place. (I'm only half joking - I keep coming across people apparently using odd out-of-place words, words similar to others that would make rather more sense there. I can only guess that this has something to do with spellchecker abuse.)

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

i FORGOT TO...

...ER, EXCUSE ME...

...there. Sorry. I forgot Caps Lock on. But that's not what I forgot that made me write this.

I forgot to mention Poe. His stories are amazingly atmospheric, and when he wrote horror (which, despite what some people might think, was just one of the genres he wronte in, along with comedy, satire, fantasy, science fiction, whodunnit, poetry (of course), and... "parables", for lack of a better word) he accomplished a certain... ah, hard to say. I mean, you read it today, and it does show that it was a 19th century hand what wrote it, but it's still... "fresh". Forgive me, I don't have the vocabulary to express what I mean. Basically I guess I mean that his stories are a product of such genius that even now, two centuries later, they're still among the best horror stories ever written. Classics such as "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" and oh so many more will live forever.

[Pumaman]

Asian horror movies just have style coz they dont have to let someone gte killed every 2 sec to make it interesting...

Err ... and what film does?

Most Americain horror movies are about a thing that kills people, and that most times bores me...

So you're saying that films like The Shining, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, American Psycho and Evil Dead are all the same because they involve people getting killed, and therefore they're all boring?

2.It's coz ... thats short for because (you didnt know that?? ohhh really didnt...??!!! ohh cute...)
3.yes , its my style... yeah... hehu... (many "..."s just to anoy you)

Please re-read the forum rules. Firstly, it is not acceptable to do things here "just to annoy people"; and secondly, the word you want to use is "because". The minimum age here is 16 -- if you are unable to act that age, please refrain from posting.

[Fuzzpilz]

Regarding Poe, I vaguely enjoy this, though I do think it would have been more amusing if they'd done the entire poem in that style.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Heh, funny you should come up with that. I find that to be one of his most interesting pieces. The poem has a musicality of it's own, and each "section" (don't remember the word, is it "verse"?) clearly has a certain music, a certain atmosphere.

[Ishmael]

I think The Shining is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It didn't raise my hair up and make me sink my nails on the arm rests, though. But it was a good movie. It had atmosphere. That's what I like in horror movies. I haven't seen many of the newer ones, but at one point one of the Finnish TV channels showed the good ol' black&white horror movies from the 50's. And those were awsome. They were not scary, but awsome. Of titles I remember only Cat People now I also liked The Fly, and the remake-sequel whatever of it, IIRC titled The Fly II was also good. Oh dang, that's where the list of horror movies I remember seeing ends

[Ashen]

Well now, there's an old, 50s Vincent Price starring version of 'The Fly'. There's a pair of sequel/remakes to that called 'Return of The Fly' and 'Curse of the Fly', an 80s remake with Jeff Goldblum, and a sequel to THAT (with an entirely different cast), called 'The Fly II'. I've seen the original, and both the 80s ones. They're all kind of cool in their own ways, but none of them are particularly 'scary' (well, my mum says she's scared of the original, but ...).

Oh, and apparently they're making another remake, starting next year.

And yes, 50s B&W movies are majorly awesome - as is (almost) anything starring Vincent Price.

[Ishmael]

I have The Fly - apparently the 50's version - and The Fly II on VHS. So I miss a few pieces of the puzzle...

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

That's funny, Fish, I don't remember discussing WW II at all, so you're the one who is very wrong.  Show me some kind of evidence that Japan made horror films before America (which was my point- do read again).  You do KNOW, of course, that the first documented horror film was made by Thomas Edison himself (that being Frankenstein, long saught after by collectors for its rather racy material for 1910)?  While there are few things that I do know, this happens to be one of them.  Thank you, drive through.