Movies: Horror Movie Discussion

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

Checked out It Follows this weekend, I definitely enjoyed it. It was very creepy with a pretty simple premise, kind of reminiscent of Halloween from 1978. Definitely had a very 80s feel to it, and Disasterpeace made an excellent soundtrack. The music was creepy as hell.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

I watched The Innocents again tonight, and it gave me chills on several occasions. I think what I must have objected to the first time around was the movie making it a little too obvious a little too early that Deborah Kerr might actually be seeing something, thus slightly compromising the delicate ambiguity that James carefully constructed in The Turn of the Screw. But this time around, with a lot of distance from the novella, I found the film genuinely creepy and the ending eerily disturbing. Somehow I think, with rare exceptions, this kind of refined horror is much more effective in black and white. Anyway, very good movie.

Glad to hear it paid some dividends the second time around, haha. I came to the movie without having read James' story, so the ambiguity sideswiped me - it's not something I've seen very often in horror movies, and I really liked it.

I wonder if a visual medium, or horror movie convention, calls for Kerr seeing something a little earlier than in literature.

Anyway, I think it was a rare horror combination of a great story, good acting, and striking cinematography.

 

[The Gongshow]

Checked out It Follows this weekend, I definitely enjoyed it. It was very creepy with a pretty simple premise, kind of reminiscent of Halloween from 1978. Definitely had a very 80s feel to it, and Disasterpeace made an excellent soundtrack. The music was creepy as hell.

I've heard some good stuff about that movie i'll give it a watch soon.

 

[kihei]

I wonder if a visual medium, or horror movie convention, calls for Kerr seeing something a little earlier than in literature.

I'm not sure I would agree with that. I wouldn't think there was a general rule for ambiguity in either medium. I think great writers or directors have made it work in a lot of different ways.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

I'm not sure I would agree with that. I wouldn't think there was a general rule for ambiguity in either medium. I think great writers or directors have made it work in a lot of different ways.

While that's true, as a viewer, I think I would have been leaning pretty far in the "[spoil]projecting virginal governess[/spoil]" direction had we not seen something with Kerr early on. As it unfolded, the ambiguity caught me off guard.

 

[F L Y E R S]

sigh....It appears 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is getting rebooted.... yet again

2010 one was just awful. Copied multiple scenes from the great original. Bad script and not the same without Robert Englund playing Freddy Krueger.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/469033-a-nightmare-on-elm-street-reboot

 

[Smelling Salt]

Oculus - Highly entertaining I thought. Has Katee Sackhoff in it which is a bonus. Would have been easy to make a movie about a haunted mirror really terrible, but this ended up good. Really great use of flashback scenes I thought. 7.5/10

The Den - Found-footage style movie, but via webcams. About a woman who gets in a bit of a quagmire on a Chat Roulette type of website. Not too shabby and probably worth a look. Maybe a bit of slow build, but once it gets going it's pretty tense. The big reveal at the end may be a turn off to some, but I didn't mind it. 6/10

Both on Netflix Canada.

 

[izzy]

The Den was freaky, but it was still pretty bad.

 

[Smelling Salt]

The Den was freaky, but it was still pretty bad.

Yeah my 6/10 is kind of based on a horror movie scale. If I gave it a score out of 10 for movies overall, it's more like a 4/10. I think as far as low budget no-name horror movies go, it was fairly solid.

 

[The Gongshow]

It Follows was really boring imo. Wasn't scary or creepy, just boring. Wasn't a fan.

 

[izzy]

It Follows was really boring imo. Wasn't scary or creepy, just boring. Wasn't a fan.

Gotta admit the scene where the tall follower creeps in the bedroom behind the friend was scary.

 

[Porn*]

another nightmare on elm street? oh boy how they've ruined one of my most beloved characters growing up.

Hope they make it properly this time... gritty, evil, sinister... I'd love to see more of a prequel with a human Freddy moreso then what they did in the last one.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

another nightmare on elm street? oh boy how they've ruined one of my most beloved characters growing up.

Hope they make it properly this time... gritty, evil, sinister... I'd love to see more of a prequel with a human Freddy moreso then what they did in the last one.

The idea that a killer could stalk you through your dreams is so full of possibilities, if it had the right creative minds behind it.

 

[jasonleaffan]

another nightmare on elm street? oh boy how they've ruined one of my most beloved characters growing up.

Hope they make it properly this time... gritty, evil, sinister... I'd love to see more of a prequel with a human Freddy moreso then what they did in the last one.

I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure a human Freddy would involve him molesting the children. I thought they covered his orgin story in the last one?

 

[jasonleaffan]

I wish they would hurry up and make jeepers creepers 3 cathedral.

There is so much that has not been explored with the orgin of the creeper. At least give us a book.

I know it's been damn near impossible to find funding with Victor salva attached to the film and his criminal history, but jeez get the movie made soon. He should agree to not be involved with production at all. Or sell the script and his rights to the series.

 

[sandman441]

I tried to watch annabelle yesterday. I got maybe 45 minutes into it and I couldnt finish it.

 

[Bi Coastal Bawse*]

I tried to watch annabelle yesterday. I got maybe 45 minutes into it and I couldnt finish it.

recent movies like that have put me to sleep

Annabelle, Conjuring, Ouija................

 

[sandman441]

recent movies like that have put me to sleep

Annabelle, Conjuring, Ouija................

yeah when I do movies I try and do independants or movies in the 70s,80s or 90s.

Have netflix for a few more days so wanted to get a few movies in before I cancel it.

 

[Saturated Fats]

So, I love horror movies. I love the horror section on my VOD. Always looking for a good one.

But my VOD just tricked me into watching something called Tusk, largely because it had Justin Long and Johnny Depp in it. And now I think I'm going to barf.

I can count on two fingers the amount of times I have been genuinely, psyche-alteringly disturbed by a film. That piece of sarcastic, camp trash did it. Thanks Kevin Smith! I am a grown-ass man, and I have a feeling that is the **** I'm gonna see in my nightmares.

Don't watch it. Not even if you're curious. Just don't. It is disturbing, gut-rumbling detritus.

 

[jasonleaffan]

So, I love horror movies. I love the horror section on my VOD. Always looking for a good one.

But my VOD just tricked me into watching something called Tusk, largely because it had Justin Long and Johnny Depp in it. And now I think I'm going to barf.

I can count on two fingers the amount of times I have been genuinely, psyche-alteringly disturbed by a film. That piece of sarcastic, camp trash did it. Thanks Kevin Smith! I am a grown-ass man, and I have a feeling that is the **** I'm gonna see in my nightmares.

Don't watch it. Not even if you're curious. Just don't. It is disturbing, gut-rumbling detritus.

Tusk was a great movie.

 

[Porn*]

I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure a human Freddy would involve him molesting the children. I thought they covered his orgin story in the last one?

They did... very little. I mean a true prequel prior to him even becoming a burnt up Freddy... or at least a good chunk of the film. It would make it original.

 

[Bi Coastal Bawse*]

Have watched a few recently. Phantasm 4, Leprechaun 1,2, in the hood, back to da hood, christmas evil. Leprechaun is pretty funny, all of them. Watched the first remake of Halloween and all I kept thinking was what happened to Taylor Scout Compton

 

[Pete Gas]

Anyone gonna see The Green Inferno next week? Its probably gonna be lousy but my fiance wants to see it so I will go with her. It seems to be a gorefest only movie.

 

[izzy]

Anyone gonna see The Green Inferno next week? Its probably gonna be lousy but my fiance wants to see it so I will go with her. It seems to be a gorefest only movie.

Yes. Eli Roth movies aren't great but they're entertaining

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

I dunno. It seems like it'll be Cannibal Holocaust all over again, which I also wasn't a fan of. I didn't dig the animal scenes in that, largely because they were actually real.