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Posted September 10, 2014
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Telika: Good, bad, doesn't matter. Cheap tricks or clever tricks, I don't care.

Unrealistic horror supernatural efficient thingy. Like, uh, hmm...

What worked on me ? Okay, "The Shining" worked. "The exocist" works. "The grudge" did too, I admit, and so did "the ring". And "Darkness" and "Rec". Long ago, "Evil Dead" and "Prince of Darkness" terrified me, but nowadays I'm not sure.

Oh yeah "the changeling" and "communion" had also petrified me, somehow.

Is there anything recent, that might function on me ? I became a bit jaded. And gore itself (the "ewww" factor) tends to bore me.

But I need something to keep my attention away from reality for a while, and scary movies do it the most economic way.
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LoboBlanco: So you haven´t watched "The Thing" (1982) or "The Fog" (1980) ooooohh!.....

By the way, I love horror movies but never got interested in the ones that called themselves "horror" movies but were just gore like Jason movies, I watched some of them yes, but at the time I was most afraid of how the next person was going to be chopped than feeling afraid of the unknown.....
...though with real horror movies I was afraid of what unexpected thing was going to happen next and these movies delivered, plus I like movies like "And then there were none" so "The Thing" kinda fulfills both ranks. "The Fog" must have been the union of three things I "like", "zombies" and "pirates" and "horror".
he mentioned he watched the thing somewhere in the last 4 pages
Posted September 10, 2014
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LoboBlanco: So you haven´t watched "The Thing" (1982) or "The Fog" (1980) ooooohh!.....

By the way, I love horror movies but never got interested in the ones that called themselves "horror" movies but were just gore like Jason movies, I watched some of them yes, but at the time I was most afraid of how the next person was going to be chopped than feeling afraid of the unknown.....
...though with real horror movies I was afraid of what unexpected thing was going to happen next and these movies delivered, plus I like movies like "And then there were none" so "The Thing" kinda fulfills both ranks. "The Fog" must have been the union of three things I "like", "zombies" and "pirates" and "horror".
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snowkatt: he mentioned he watched the thing somewhere in the last 4 pages
Ahhh, well I skipped those pages it seems, just read some of the posts xD
Posted September 10, 2014
Yeah, with the exception of "the ward" and the "midwich clock" remake, I've seen all Carpenter movies -good and bad- multiple times (with and without director commentaries).

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LoboBlanco: "The Fog" must have been the union of three things I "like", "zombies" and "pirates"
Yeah well... I... kinda like them separately...

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Telika: I have seen "Riget" a couple of times, and my gf is a von Trier fan, so no way I escaped "Antichrist".
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Lemon_Curry: Cool, then I recommend that you watch Epidemic (which in many ways is an early precursor to Riget) - it's an extremely underrated film and one of my personal von Trier favourites.
Duly noted. Anyway the Europa trilogy was next on our to-watch list.

Uh by the way,

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tsaweeos: The Thing has my vote. The scarriest creature I've ever seen in a film to date; and the fact that there's no cgi makes it even more frightening in terms of realism.
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snowkatt: never thought the thing was scary
impressive ? yes
awesome ? yes
scary ?
not so much
the orginal is better if you want paranoid scares
The original ? You mean "the thing from another world" ?

There was zero paranoia in that one. It hadn't retained the "who goes there" shapeshifting... :-/
Post edited September 10, 2014 by Telika
Posted September 10, 2014
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Telika: Thing is, I'm not even certain there is one. I do love that series, but didn't strike me as a totally thouroughly cunningly-planned-from-the-beginning-to-the-very-conclusion sort of plot.
I know what you mean but actually he and his co-writer Niels Vørsel (both of whom wrote as well as starred (as themselves (Trier also plays a doctor) in Epidemic, by the way) had already finished the first draft prior to Rolffes' death.

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snowkatt: or thathe has a change of heart and will push forward with riget 3 if only to finish the story
I too highly doubt that will ever happen. Too many of the principal actors have passed away by now... Kirsten Rolffes, Ernst-Hugo Järegård and Holger Juul Hansen. Back in the day there was a lot of talk about rewriting the script but nothing came of it.
Post edited September 10, 2014 by Lemon_Curry
Posted September 10, 2014
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snowkatt: never thought the thing was scary
impressive ? yes
awesome ? yes
scary ?
not so much
the orginal is better if you want paranoid scares
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Telika: The original ? You mean "the thing from another world" ?

There was zero paranoia in that one. It hadn't retained the "who goes there" shapeshifting... :-/
I don´t think that´s the original, here it was called "El Enigma del otro Mundo" ("The Enigma from the other World") and I recall watching briefly one called also "The Thing" that was black and white and they were dressed like it was the 40´s.
Posted September 10, 2014
The Thing. John Carpenter's 1982 version with Kurt Russell. The greatest monster horror film ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ec

Ninja'd. Sorry for the repeat. Go watch it again anyway. Damn fine movie.
Post edited September 10, 2014 by Emob78
Posted September 10, 2014
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Emob78: The Thing. John Carpenter's 1982 version with Kurt Russell. The greatest monster horror film ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p35JDJLa9ec

Ninja'd. Sorry for the repeat. Go watch it again anyway. Damn fine movie.
Yep, first time I watched it my parents didn´t allow me to watch it entirely :P, though I managed to get some glimpses of it from afar, "Thief" style.
Posted September 10, 2014
Ravenous was a movie that I found surprisingly good, maybe not enough scares for the real fan as the horror is more psychological, but then horror never was my favorite genre.

And if that doesn't fit the bill there are always productions from The Asylum to choose from, Piranhastorm, Octocroc Vs. Tyrannocuda, etc.
Posted September 10, 2014
Kazaam

Shaquille O' Neal portraying a rapping genie with attitude, that's enough to give a sane person nightmares for years.
Posted September 10, 2014
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Potzato: 'The malediction' is for you. Clean horror.
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Telika: You mean "the omen" ? Or a movie which title is actually "the malediction" in english ?

"The omen" is brilliant (and its sequels are amusing), though I haven't seen the remake. That film was my first though when I learnt the death of Jerry Goldsmith.
Ow, I am completely out of my depth .... not 'the malediction', nor 'the curse' .... 'The Omen' indeed. The fact I didn't knew the english title is a poor excuse but I'll take it nonetheless :s

Didn't see the sequel nor the remake, but that movie scared a lot of things out of myself (when I was twelvish)
Posted September 10, 2014
Well since we are on GOG I might as well suggest some video game related horror that will keep you awake at night...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_25

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369226/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_24

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383222/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_23

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486640/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_20

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400426/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_17
Post edited September 10, 2014 by Mr.Caine
Posted September 10, 2014
Justin Bieber's Believe ALWAYS gives me nightmares.
Posted September 10, 2014
Yeah. "Ravenous" is pretty tense, and great, in a dark folktalish way. It also has one of the best movie soundtracks ever composed.

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LoboBlanco: I don´t think that´s the original, here it was called "El Enigma del otro Mundo" ("The Enigma from the other World") and I recall watching briefly one called also "The Thing" that was black and white and they were dressed like it was the 40´s.
That's very weird. I find no reference to an earlier John Campbell adaptation. Are you sure you're not mixing up with a similarly-themed "Body Snatchers" by Don Siegel ?

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Potzato: 'The Omen' indeed. The fact I didn't knew the english title is a poor excuse but I'll take it nonetheless :s
Didn't see the sequel nor the remake, but that movie scared a lot of things out of myself (when I was twelvish)
I guess it makes you ready for Lucius.

Or for "Holocaust 2000", a lighter version of "The Omen" with a nice Morricone soundtrack...
Posted September 10, 2014
I'm not sure someone brought up this one before (after just 5 pages, I can't remember anymore...) but I think the remake of Evil Dead is very good.
I like very much the original but let's tell the truth, it was horror+comedy.
The remake? Not so much. It makes the original look like My Little Pony.
Posted September 10, 2014
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capile2: I'm not sure someone brought up this one before (after just 5 pages, I can't remember anymore...) but I think the remake of Evil Dead is very good.
I like very much the original but let's tell the truth, it was horror+comedy.
The remake? Not so much. It makes the original look like My Little Pony.
I hated it. And not because it's a remake, I liked some remakes and reboots as much or better than the originals, I'm mostly open minded about that. I hated it because it was neither funny nor scary. It was just disgusting. Plenty of gore, really hard to watch for me, I'm not into that, but that is not scary to me. I like horror in the more classic sense, something like Nosferatu (I've seen Herzog's version, not the orignal yet), Carpenter's Prince of Darkness or Del Toro's The Devil's Spine, and all of those I heartily recommend.

I like Coppola's Dracula a lot, but I don't think it captured what was best about the novel, the scary part when Dracula is out of the picture, we only follow characters oblivious to his existence as they witness the effects of his actions, the signs of his presence. It was that shadow of his, falling on everything when he himself is not seen that makes him so scary and the book still so good.

To me "terrifying" is all about the atmosphere, about what you DON'T show, or at least what you only show rarely, and most of the time just suggest, only show enough of to let the presence of whatever horror lurks in the dark known. It's the difference between looking at a bucket of blood, and having to spend a night alone in an old house on the moore knowing a killer escaped from a nearby prison yesterday.
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