Oh yeah, forgot about this one. Definitely one I'll be watching if only for the premise. Awkward title, though.

Now I'm by far no Twilight-Fan, but I think what the Casts did with their "House of Night" is far worse than what Meyer did to vampires and werewolves.
I mean, if the heroine starts to cheat on her boyfriend in a physical way with ateacher and being cheered by all her friends, while her then-boyfriends is being threatened and insulted by said friends... I'm speechless, seriously.
Compared to that, Twilight is Shakespear. By lightyears. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. And Meyer seemed to at least have known what she was writing (or wanted to write), while the Casts... don't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7JECkVzuq0

Does this make you miss the 90's?

I haven't seen it yet. The main male lead is keeping me away from watching that movie :P

IMO he preformed well, and no harry potter reference whatsoever thank goodness.

Only flaw is that sometimes he appears to be too young to be a father and sometimes you don''t notice it.

Besides I always imagine in my head that the character is a young father that he married at 18 or something.
Listen to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc671bo3fbw

This one should be the main theme song to the entire resident evil series.

And yes I miss the 90s sometimes.

I totally agree with you, I just didn't embellish much in my post since I didn't have the time. My main point is that is silly to categorise horror in psychological and... what? There isn't anything else. The method the director or writer choses to evoke that reaction is all a matter or imagination and competence. Hence cheap BOO tricks or a more subtle but ultimately more effective way.

On the old movies are not scary comment, what I meant is that everybody has seen and heard those movies many many times over so it's hard to get engaged after so much exposure. A newer twist in plot and effects is needed to make it work again.

And the "physical" thing I mentioned in jest, only to make my point that there isn't any kind of non-psychological horror. Unless a movie could literally fist punch you to deliver that "visceral" blow of fear in the gut.

I think horror (Classic and Contemporary) means different things to different people. I absolutely love classic horror. The House on Haunted Hill and The Thing from Another World are great examples of tension, creepiness, and genuine fright. Today's horror relies a great deal on "Boo" scares. I do not consider "Gorn" as horror. I believe true horror can still be achieved by modern movies, but sadly, the mass audience is more acceptable of gorn and boo scares. I feel Don't be Afraid of the Dark was a tense and chilling tale.

Have you tried the Nosferatu game ? Found it quite scary, yet you can't get much more classical (it's basically Max Shreck running after you).

I still think old school is scary:

Haunted Mansion:
http://www.brensgumbyland.com/haunted_mansion_7f4f46da4f2e7726ed0d7d66316e0817.jpg

Gothic Castles:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7zf2fjnUC1rs3am3o1_1280.jpg

Scary Graveyards:
http://www.radioanywhere.co.uk/upload/74/2685.graveyard_by_kona4tacos-1-.jpg

Dark Forests:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iCneHvAS36M/S9Eb0kKc9jI/AAAAAAAAABw/uug12_61BJ4/s1600/dark-forest-night-image.jpg

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what you're on about. I've sat through a number of lectures on monsters in fiction and forgotten most of it, but it all seems to boil down to being helpless (spooky graveyards) or facing some dark nook of the human mind (Jekyll & Hyde). Everything else is just embellishments.

As to whether these can still be made scary, probably yes, although I prefer the sort of horror where the monstrosity is seen as little as possible and remains elusive - The Blair Witch Project, for instance, even though I didn't like it in general - or is something familiar like in Lord of the Flies. Yes, I know it's not horror, but you probably get the idea.

You should really try Nosferatu: Wrath of Malakhai. It's a "fun" game from 2003. I haven't played it since 2004 but I remember it as being some of the scariest shit I have seen in a video game.

Sure, the horror is not generated through the castle and the creatures themselves but it DOES take place in a castle and involves vampires and other classic stuff so maybe it counts. :P
Darn it, I knew I should have checked the second page before posting. :P

Ohh, ok, then we agree. It´s just I got really dissappointed when movies lost that touch, then series like "Tales from the crypt" and "The twilight zone" would keep me entertained. And yes I also think there has to be new life in the stories.

And by the way, about "feeling like being fist punched by the movie", made me remember the virtual reality jacket that let you feel the punches in a fighting game, though I think it would be too much with movies, we want to be healthy by the end of the movie ;P
I wonder if you have seen a movie called "Poltergeist" :P


And speaking of games, it may be a little funny but for example in Half-Life 2, when I was with Alyx, the zombies would make me feel a little uneasy with their moans and their creepiness.......but.......when I had to traverse a dark, wet and ruined building alone (without Alyx), somehow the zombies became more scary than before, being in company has an effect : )

Cannot handle that movie!