Horror Films

[Mince]

So who watches them? I think the last one I watched that I enjoyed was in 2009: Drag Me To Hell.

[Roger Kettle]

As I've mentioned on more than one occasion, "The Exorcist" scared the crap out of me. Since that original trip to the cinema, back in the 70s, I've seen it several times on TV and it still scares the crap out of me. More recently, I saw "Paranormal Activity" and, while it has a more subtle approach to the genre than most films, it was still extremely creepy.
I can't really say I'm a fan of horror films---I've tried to watch a few on TV and they're mostly just, well, bad. As a kid, I used to love the Pan horror anthologies that were published regularly but these were great short stories by some wonderful authors like Poe, De Maupassant and the like. Must check them out again.

[Mince]

Here's one for you, Roger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LiKKFZyhRU

[Roger Kettle]

Okay, that's a film I think I'll avoid. Not that I'm scared, of course.......

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Love them !!

Watched them since I was too young to watch them. Only one that's really ever creeped me was "It". Can't remember why, and I've never watched it again to check...probably never will!

Strangely enough there is one thing that still unsettles me, and you'll laugh at this, in Carry on Screaming when they regenerate Oddbod from his finger, it makes me feel nervy even as an adult! Bizarre.

My favourite genre...bring the Horrors on! Brilliant! Don't get me started on Hammer House either..what a series!!

 

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Not a fan, I'm afraid (see what I did there?).

I prefer films that make either make me change my mind or my heart...not my underpants.

[Mince]

I love how you grammatically try to balance the 'either . . . or' and end up cocking up the whole thing.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I changed my mind about where to put it, then forgot to take the extraneous bit out, and, as you say, cocked it up.

Story of my life, really.

[Mince]

From now on, the phrase 'to do a Tarks' ought to refer to any attempt to achieve perfection that actually makes things worse.

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Does "The Hound of the Baskervilles" count in the horror genre?

I was watching the old Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce version (the ONLY Holmes/Watson combo, if you ask me!) with my daughter and it reminded me that it unsettled me as a nipper. Just goes to show that effects count for little when the story is good!

1939 the BR/NB version came out, you know!

[Egg]

Has to be this little fella for me........



Total gore fest over the 8 DVD's but there is a back story and some moral challenges.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

From now on, the phrase 'to do a Tarks' ought to refer to any attempt to achieve perfection that actually makes things worse.

That ought to get me in the Oxford English Dictionary: Idiots Idioms Section, toot sweet!

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Has to be this little fella for me........



Total gore fest over the 8 DVD's but there is a back story and some moral challenges.

Cuddly!

[Madmalc]

I watched a ton of horror movies growing up - mostly the black and white ones with Lon Chaney et al.

One movie I highly recommend is called "Let the Right One in" - it's an exceptional Vampire movie in Swedish.  Do not confuse it with "let me in" the utterly crap remake of it vomited out by Britain about 11 months after "Let the Right One In" was released. 

In general - I think as we get older - it gets harder to scare us.  But I am with Roger - the exorcist scared the bejesus out of me - and the directors cut still does.

My wife had never seen it and wanted to watch it - I cautioned her against it - but she insisted so I downloaded it and watched it with her.  At the end of it - she made me delete it from my computer, then got out her bible and went room to room praying away the evil....

[Max]

Saw a load of horror movies in the late 60's and onward. The midnight movie show in Glasgow ran through the night before they chucked you out in the morning.
To get by local rules and regs they had to give you coffee and something like a Jacobs cracker and a Dairylea triangle with two small pickled onions (this constituted a meal).
Honestly I liked the early seventies horrors, Dr Phibes, Death Line (mind the dooorrs), and the multi story movies set in an asylum (not a high rise).
Occasionally a film will come to mind and I'll go hunting for it, usually just to recall how awful it was when I watch it.

Agree totally that the Exorcist is the daddy of them all (the Shining deserves a mention though), no time for gore/splatter films now, the Saw franchise and a multitude of Zombie movies put paid to all that.