Originally Posted By kennect I have a lot of garbage coming up over the next week or so and I need a little escape in the meantime... I want to see, here at home, a really good old fashioned horror film...Something recent but available on DVD...Something that would really blow my socks off...On my short list is the Stephen King bit "The Mist"...After that my mind sort of goes blank...What was the "Twenty nine days of darkness"? I know I have that title wrong but still you get the idea I hope...I have seen all of the classics so I am looking for something new that is available on DVD...Please help me out with some suggestions...The more suspense type of thing the better...A really good scare would be fun right now....
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie The Mist was pretty good except I hated the ending. I watched Shutter the other night and it was entertaining. Have you seen The Grudge? I watched that one late at night home alone and got a serious case of the heebie jeebies.
Originally Posted By kennect The Grudge won't get it....Sorry..Glad to hear you enjoyed "The Mist". I wouldn't expect to really be a horror film but it does sound interesting....
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie The Mist isn't very suspensful, but stays pretty true to the original book and the creatures are really good.
Originally Posted By Khiori We recently watched a great horror film called "Rec" or "REC" I can't remember exactly (it's Rec as in Record) Anyway, it's a foreign film. I believe it's Argentinian. I find most foreign horror films to be more "scary" than our own. It was a popcorn muncher for sure.
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie If you don't mind subtitles, I thought The Orphanage was really good.
Originally Posted By kennect Now that I am thinking about it...I really liked Disturbia, that is a clue to the type thing I am talking about...Then again I love the Saw films also...I guess I should have said horror or suspense....
Originally Posted By beamerdog I'm not a fan of that genre. The only one I watched (probably 20 years ago) was Videodrome. ick
Originally Posted By DAR It's not so scary anymore but the original Halloween is still good for a jolt or two. The first Nightmare on Elm Street is pretty creepy. Freddy isn't some goofy caricature in that one. The 1963 version of the Haunting is pretty scary. And either version of The Thing works pretty well.
Originally Posted By kennect OH DAR, I think I suffered about fifteen heart attacks seeing the original Halloween in a theater when it first came out...The first film that truly scared me....
Originally Posted By Khiori kennect, I love horror films. I would love to hear some of your favorites. That 29 Days of Darkness (or whatever it ends up being) sounds interesting enough to rent.
Originally Posted By kennect Khiori, My list is too long...My ulitmate favorite would be Halloween but there are so many others for various reasons...Blood and guts don't do a thing for me...I really like something that is creepy story wise instead...One of the recent films I liked was Cabin Fever from a few years ago...Loved the first two Evil Dead films...Loved Mother's Day...Re-Animator...As a kid the most frigthening film I saw was The Birds...Psycho left me with a feeling of this is it? No big deal...I think I am the only person in the world that got a thrill out of Cujo...I am trying my hardest to think of something I saw recently that I really liked and I simply cannot...I think the last horror film I saw in a theater was Halloween H2O and I thought it was kind of fun the way it was handled...I did see the remake of the original and thought it was the worst waste of time...Another one from a few years ago was Wrong Turn....I noticed the other day there is a sequel that must not have made it to the theaters...So I don't have a lot of faith in that one...I guess for the last couple of years one of my favorites would be the Saw series...They have managed to keep the whole series interesting to me since they all tie together in some shape or fashion...I really need to sit down and watch the original film again...I think there are some things in it that I missed but then again I might be imagining such...I konw people that refuse to watch the original Saw film because they think it is going to be an out gross attack...I found it to be anything but...I thought it was very cleverly put together and they had me fooled to the very end.....I am in it for what I call the "heart attack"...You know, in the last moment of Carrie when the hand comes up that you aren't expecting...Those are the type scares I want to see...So what is on your list?
Originally Posted By Khiori I grew up with Newfoundland dogs so Cujo always made me think "Awww, it's slobber!" LOL You have some great choices listed there. I would add a couple: Cube - It was different and appealed to the geek in me. 28 Days Later - ZOMBIES SHOULD NOT RUN! Broke all the rules. Freaked.me.out. I thought since I lived in a multi-story house I was safe from the coming Zombie Invasion but I guess I have to rethink all that now. Carnival of the Souls - Oldie but goodie if you can get past the soundtrack. REC - Blair Witch-ish in the sense of the filming. But different. It's about a news show that profiles a night in a fire station and what happens when they go on a call. Evil Dead - was fabulous! I became a diehard Bruce Campbell fan because of that movie. Solaris - the Russian version. I don't know why but I really liked that one. It's long but worth it. It had enough scifi to keep me happy and enough mystery. Not sure what else but it caught me in the whole "what's going on?"-ness of it. I'm sure there are a ton more that I would "Yeah yeah! that one too!" but I can't seem to think of them right now. I have "Olympics on the Brain" at the moment. How many days left again?? ha
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains My DS17 is really into this type of movie right now - the two he said were his fav's right now are It's Alive The Descent He said the Descent was very suspenseful and was actually scary...
Originally Posted By ToonKirby >"Twenty nine days of darkness"< I think your thinking of "30 Days of Night": <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389722/" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389722/</a>
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF Good horror movies these days are few and far between. It's telling that everyone else has already mentioned everything worth mentioning. I'm eager to see "[REC]" myself. The American remake, "Quarantine," will be out late this year or early next. Kennect: One you might want to check out is William Friedkin's "Bug." Just don't read up too much about it before you watch it. I went into it almost totally cold -- knowing only that it was based on a stage play -- and it was surprisingly good. You could also check out the "Masters of Horror" series. Every episode -- a mini-movie in and of itself -- is available on DVD separately. Here are the episode guides: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448190/episodes#season-1" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04...season-1</a> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448190/episodes#season-2" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt04...season-2</a> My favorites: "Dreams in the Witch-House" "Homecoming" "Sounds Like" "Pro-Life" "Pelts" "The Screwfly Solution" "The Black Cat" "Dream Cruise"
Originally Posted By jasmine7 It's really more suspense than horror, but I'd have to recommend The Others, the Nicole Kidman film from a few years back. It really harkens back to the good suspense/horror films of the 40s & 50s, and I really enjoy it.
