Movies: Horror Movie Discussion

[izzy]

Cabin Fever is actually one of my favorite horror films. I've seen it many times. V/H/S was pretty good.

I recently watched Afflicted, and it was alright.

Oh yeah, forgot to ask.

Did you watch the Cabin Fever sequel/plan to watch the third?

 

[member 151739]

Oh yeah, forgot to ask.

Did you watch the Cabin Fever sequel/plan to watch the third?

I've seen the sequel once, but it was a while ago. Don't really have a solid opinion on it. I'll watch it again before the third comes out.

Have you seen the Hatchet films? I think you'd like them.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Love the genre but most of today's horror is terrible ,, Sad but very few quality films have come out since about 06 or so and even then from mid 90's thru today the quality has been poor

I grew up enjoying 80's/early 90's horror on VHS which was the golden age of genre

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

What type of movie collections do you guys have?

On VHS/DVD I have or had at one point (Gave some away to people who liked genre in my family)

Classics/Older Films
Them
Tarantula
The Fly
Return of the Fly
Madhouse
The Last Man on Earth
Madhouse
The Birds

Serial Killer/Slasher genre
Psycho
Psycho 2
Psycho 3
Halloween
Halloween 2
Halloween 4 : The Return of Michael Myers
Halloween 5 : The Revenge of Michael Myers
Halloween 6 : The Curse of Michael Myers
Halloween Resurection (I did not like this one at all)
Halloween (Remake)
Nightmare on Elm Street
Nightmare on Elm Street 2 : Freddy Revenge (Awful)
Nightmare on Elm Street 3 : Dream Warriors
Nightmare on Elm Street 4 : The Dream Master
Nightmare on Elm Street 5 : The Dream Child
Nightmare on Elm Street 6 : Freddy's Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street remake (Meh)
Freddy vs Jason
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th 2
Friday the 13th 3D
Friday the 13th 4 : The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th 5 : A New Beginning (Awful,,,,,,,, So Awful)
Friday the 13th 6 : Jason Lives
Friday the 13th 7 : The New Blood
Friday the 13th 8 : Jason Takes Manhattan
Jason goes to hell (Awful)
Jason X (Awful)
Friday the 13th remake (meh)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 : Leatherface
Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake (meh)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (Actually liked this one ,, More then remake)
Black Christmas (Original)
Slumber Party Massacre
Prom Night
Slaughterhouse
The Dentist
Scream
Scream 2
Wrong Turn
Urban Legend
I Still Know What You Did Last summer
Last House on the Left
Clownhouse
Criminally Insane
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
My Bloody Valentine (Original)
Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

Zombies/Outbreaks/etc
Night of The Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Land of the Dead
Diary of the Dead (Romero jumped the shark here)
Night of the Living Dead (Remake)
Dawn of the Dead (Remake)
Return of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead 2
Return of the Living Dead 3
Undead
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
The Dead
The Dead Next Door
Redneck Zombies
Flesheater
Zombie 2
House by the Cemetery
Burial Ground
Hell of the Zombies
City of the Living Dead
Demons
The Crazies
The Crazies (Remake)
Re-Animator
Bride of Re-Animator
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Brain Dead
Cabin Fever
Night of the Comet
Night of the Creeps
Shaun of the Dead
Zombieland

Killer Animals/Nature movies
Jaws
Jaws 2
Orca: The Killer Whale
Kingdom of the Spiders
Frogs
Willard
Willard (Remake)
Piranha
Piranha (95 TV remake)
Piranha (09 remake)
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Return of the Killer Tomatoes
Black Sheep
Eight Legged Freaks
Tremors

Stephen King stuff
The Stand (TV Miniseries)
Sometimes They Come Back
Cujo
Christine
Needful Things
The Dark Half
Carrie (Original)
It (TV Miniseries)
Pet Sematary
Storm Of Century (TV Miniseries)
Graveyard Shift

Vampires/Monsters/Anthology stuff/Scifi-ish/Others
Prince of Darkness
Near Dark
Vampires
Fright Night
Fright Night 2
Slaughterhouse
Waxwork
Scarecrows
Trilogy of Terror
Trilogy of Terror 2
Phantasm
Phantasm II
Asylum
Trick R' Treat
Buried Alive (Underrated TV movie from early 90's)
Buried Alive 2
Critters
Critters 2
Critters 3
Critters 4
Ghoulies
From Beyond
Pumpkinhead
Pumpkinhead 2
Nightbreed
Shocker
Scanners
Dog Soldiers
Poltergeist
Motel Hell
Fade to Black
Martin
Tales from the Crypt
Tales from the Darkside
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
976 Evil
Night of the Demons
Its Alive
The Chanegling
Killer Clowns from Outer Space
The Thing
Leviathan
Aliens
Altered States
C.H.U.D.
Toxic Avenger
Class of Nuke Em High

TV Shows
Kolchak The Night Stalker (TV Series)
Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)
Tales from the Darkside (TV Series)
Friday the 13th (TV Series)

Probably have forgotten some that I packed away years ago on VHS in basement

I was lucky enough as a kid that my mother worked at a video store and when it went out of business in early 90's I got about 40-50 films from that

 

[Beef Invictus]

Hellraiser is my favorite horror series.


I love this time of year. I'm gonna waste so much time watching awful horror movies. . Off the top of my head, I think the 80s were the last great decade for the genre. The 90s were just awful, mostly. And there's been some decent stuff in about the last 10ish years.

 

[JDinkalage Morgoone]

The Fly is the best remake ever.

I love it. I just really enjoy Cronenberg because of how gross his movies are. The effects are really good.

 

[member 151739]

I love it. I just really enjoy Cronenberg because of how gross his movies are. The effects are really good.

Jeff Goldblum makes everything more awesome as well.

 

[izzy]

I've seen the sequel once, but it was a while ago. Don't really have a solid opinion on it. I'll watch it again before the third comes out.

Have you seen the Hatchet films? I think you'd like them.

Cabin Fever 2 was pretty bad compared to the first.

And yeah, I've seen them all. Great for some entertainment.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I love it. I just really enjoy Cronenberg because of how gross his movies are. The effects are really good.

First time I saw the remake it was just me and the roommate's girlfriend. Neither of us had any idea what we were in for, aside from a Goldblumy experience. By the time the arm broke in the arm wrestling scene we knew we were in for some ****, so we both shotgunned beers to catch up with the level of inebriation we really needed for such a movie and then kept going to make it through. So many awesome "What am I watching" moments. Or to quote a ceiling-bound Brundlefly, "What is this? I don't know" moments.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Zombie movies are my favorite. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (both) and Land of the Dead are great. I also love 28 Days Later, although they technically aren't zombies.

John Carpenter's The Thing is another one of my favorites, just a great all around movie. Pretty much anything John Carpenter has done, I have enjoyed. They Live is awesome.

I don't know if it's horror, but Cronenberg's stuff is great. Videodrome and the Fly.

Day of the Dead (1985) is much better then Land of the Dead

And no love for Return of the Living Dead?

As for Carpenter ,, After Prince of Darkness the quality of his films began to drop

 

[McGhostbuster]

Usually try to go through a franchise every Halloween. Last year did NOES, which is my favorite.

I'm thinking of doing my own verson of the Dead series (I'll include Return and take out Diary of the Dead just because it's crap. I'll also include the Evil Dead's).

 

[TheThrill81*]

Jason Voorhees = GOAT

Tales from the Crypt TV series had a ton of great episodes. Ahnuld's appearance in the episode The Switch remains one of my favourites.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Halloween 3 is my gold standard for what not to do with your horror series.

 

[TheThrill81*]

Halloween 3 is my gold standard for what not to do with your horror series.

I was going to suggest Jason X, but at least that movie had its antagonist.

 

[silkyjohnson50]

Tales from the Hood!

I used to enjoy horrors, but I don't get too much from them anymore. I don't know if it's just me getting older or the films getting worse, but I haven't seen much in the past 10 years or so that I thought was good.

The Conjuring wasn't awful so I'll probably give Annabelle a chance ( depending on the reviews as well.)

I actually did enjoy the remake of The Texas Chainsaw.

Also, Zombieland wasn't a horror. It was as much a romantic comedy. It was awesome though.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Hellraiser is my favorite horror series.


I love this time of year. I'm gonna waste so much time watching awful horror movies. . Off the top of my head, I think the 80s were the last great decade for the genre. The 90s were just awful, mostly. And there's been some decent stuff in about the last 10ish years.

Always felt the Hellraiser franchise was overrated

I liked the 2nd better then 1st and was meh on a few sequels (Or outright thought they sucked)

 

[Sombastate]

I was going to suggest Jason X, but at least that movie had its protagonist.

I never saw 3. Did michael never appear?

 

[silkyjohnson50]

Also good to see Candyman mentioned. That was probably my favorite horror of the 90s along with Scream.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Always felt the Hellraiser franchise was overrated

I liked the 2nd better then 1st and was meh on a few sequels (Or outright thought they sucked)

Hellraiser 1 is great, 2 is an entertaining movie but really breaks from 1 (and the themes of Hellbound Heart) in a big way, and after that they're all pretty bad except for 4.

Hellbound Heart and the first Hellraiser both explore the nature of free will, its relationship to sin, and how both can affect those around you against their own will. It's got stuff to think about and analyze. The rest don't.

I was going to suggest Jason X, but at least that movie had its protagonist.

Yeah, the protaganist in H3...let's see. He's a doctor who works drunk, who sleeps with an emotionally compromised (to put it lightly) girl like a creep, and as far as action stars go he's firmly in the "Zap Rowsdower" school of philosophy.

 

[izzy]

Usually try to go through a franchise every Halloween. Last year did NOES, which is my favorite.

I'm thinking of doing my own verson of the Dead series (I'll include Return and take out Diary of the Dead just because it's crap. I'll also include the Evil Dead's).

I hate that i actually enjoyed diary of the dead...

 

[izzy]

Will watch as it has Jay from the Inbetweeners in it.

 

[Socks]

Dr. Giggles. Yeah buddy.

 

[brendan]

 

[Porn*]

Trick R Treat was surprisingly good... as was the Conjuring and Sinister.


The Purge was a great concept but flopped on so many levels.

Tales from the Crypt was great growing up... remember staying up til 2am to watch it

Bubba Ho-Tep was good for a laugh for the Bruce Campbell fans :p

I also remember the movie Gacy scaring the **** out of me as a kid.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

You know what movie was really rubbish and insulting? High Tension.

What a POS that was. It's insulting because it leads you on like "gee I wonder who the killer is!" But you figure it out right away once the girl is the only one who doesn't get found and killed in that house.

WOAT.