recommend any good horror flicks?
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Iamforever
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only one comes to mind. the texas chainsaw massacre. not that sissy ass version with that chick either. go for the original. oh yeah.
Iamforever
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if you have not seen shutter yet, then how do you know what you want to see?
Iamforever
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dude. poltergeist. the only movie to ever give me a nightmare. :thumbsup:
Legzman
what the fuck you lookin at?
Monster flicks do it for me! :thumbsup:
Not all but there are a select few that scared the shit outta me and gave me nightmares as a kid!
Iamforever
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like arachnaphobia. LMAO :rofl:
Iamforever
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its the scariest ghost movie i know of. unless you want 13 ghosts. :rofl:
meesterperfect
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The Others was a pretty good Ghost story, They did a good job making it, a little slow for some perhaps.
Like most everything,the best ghost story flics are from the late 60's -mid 70's,
Like most everything,the best ghost story flics are from the late 60's -mid 70's,
Iamforever
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now there is a waste of time. that movie is beyond horrible. an insult to good drug movies.
That's because they are poor remakes of Asian films. Hollywood has been doing quite a lot of these and not just horrors either. Most the things they remake are done very badly and can't even compete with the original.
Examples...
The Italian Job
The Fog
Get Carter
War of the Worlds
Both the Grudge and The Ring are remakes of Asian horror films and nowhere near as good as the original. Especially if you saw them first. They just don't hold the suspense of the Asian versions and often are cast with big name actors who just can't handle the role. Because they are thinking to much of their image and not the role itself.
It's always best to see a film that is a original. Considering up to 50% of Hollywoods films are either remakes, based on or have lots of bits from Asian films then yes they are very good.
I'm not going to list any films that I think you should see. As different people like different styles of horror. But my advise is look at the ones you've liked in the past and try to stick to that style of horror. So don't touch the remakes for one, as you've already said your not impressed.
Ghosts, eh? Try some of these:
House on Haunted Hill (The older 50s version with Vincent Price)
Fall of the House of Usher (Also a Vincent Price one)
The Legend of Hell House
Tomb of Ligeia
Ghost Story (This one scared the crap out of me as a kid)
Poltergeist (As mentioned above)
That's just a start. I'm just thinking off the top of my head right there.
JB
House on Haunted Hill (The older 50s version with Vincent Price)
Fall of the House of Usher (Also a Vincent Price one)
The Legend of Hell House
Tomb of Ligeia
Ghost Story (This one scared the crap out of me as a kid)
Poltergeist (As mentioned above)
That's just a start. I'm just thinking off the top of my head right there.
JB
I was trying to find some stuff and I came accross that movie shutter, that does sound good from what I heard.
as far as japanese horror I came accross that site http://www.kyonsi.com/sitemap.htm that has some stuff that looks really cool. It has the movie "tale of two sisters" that patrick s just recomended, so he might want to check that out too.
one japanese director that I like is takashi miike. he's made like 60 movies and most of them suck, but there are some that are pretty cool. not all of them are horror some are more like crime/gangster, but all of them are usually pretty gruesome. the most famous ones are Audition and Ichi the killer, so you should probably go with those, and there's a few others on that site I posted.
He was a big inspiration for the movie Hostile, and he has a cameo in the film. The guy that did that movie (eli roth) also did Cabin Fever which is pretty good too.
another japanse movie that I wanted to see is called Tetsuo which is about a guy that finds his body turning into metal, but it's more like an artsy flick than straight up horror. I'm not sure who does that, but hes a couple other art/suspense movies that look pretty good.
Another pretty good horror flick is Susperia. I think it's italian. it's pretty artistic too, so I don't know if it's for everyone's taste.
There's some good mexican horror movies, but they totally escape me right now. Guilermo Del Toro who did the great Pan's Labyrinth (you should see it if you haven't) did a movie called the Devil's Backbone, that I want to see.
just one more off the top of my head, I liked pretty much all the movies that were based on the books by richard matheson. they aren't really that good, but they are pretty good, and I like them, just because the books are so good. those would be A Stir Of Echoes, the Omega Man, What Dreams May Come, Hell House (which i just now see hedonis mentioned)...
Peter Jackson has some good horror movies as well: Bad Taste, Frighteners, Dead Alive.
There's a pretty decent Australian zombie movie called "Undead."
I've neglected to mention classic american horror movies because the list would go on and on, and I wanted to bring up things that people might not have thought of.
oh yeah, and although it's not really horror either, i'd definetly recomend Stay. it's one of my favorite movies.
as far as japanese horror I came accross that site http://www.kyonsi.com/sitemap.htm that has some stuff that looks really cool. It has the movie "tale of two sisters" that patrick s just recomended, so he might want to check that out too.
one japanese director that I like is takashi miike. he's made like 60 movies and most of them suck, but there are some that are pretty cool. not all of them are horror some are more like crime/gangster, but all of them are usually pretty gruesome. the most famous ones are Audition and Ichi the killer, so you should probably go with those, and there's a few others on that site I posted.
He was a big inspiration for the movie Hostile, and he has a cameo in the film. The guy that did that movie (eli roth) also did Cabin Fever which is pretty good too.
another japanse movie that I wanted to see is called Tetsuo which is about a guy that finds his body turning into metal, but it's more like an artsy flick than straight up horror. I'm not sure who does that, but hes a couple other art/suspense movies that look pretty good.
Another pretty good horror flick is Susperia. I think it's italian. it's pretty artistic too, so I don't know if it's for everyone's taste.
There's some good mexican horror movies, but they totally escape me right now. Guilermo Del Toro who did the great Pan's Labyrinth (you should see it if you haven't) did a movie called the Devil's Backbone, that I want to see.
just one more off the top of my head, I liked pretty much all the movies that were based on the books by richard matheson. they aren't really that good, but they are pretty good, and I like them, just because the books are so good. those would be A Stir Of Echoes, the Omega Man, What Dreams May Come, Hell House (which i just now see hedonis mentioned)...
Peter Jackson has some good horror movies as well: Bad Taste, Frighteners, Dead Alive.
There's a pretty decent Australian zombie movie called "Undead."
I've neglected to mention classic american horror movies because the list would go on and on, and I wanted to bring up things that people might not have thought of.
oh yeah, and although it's not really horror either, i'd definetly recomend Stay. it's one of my favorite movies.
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