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Comment by Rocky Oliver (LotusGeek) on November 20, 2011 at 3:32pm

I have to say that the previous "Renaissance of Horror" in the 70's/80's was pretty awesome. John Carpenter movies (e.g. Halloween, The Thing, Nightmare on Elm Street", Phantasm, Clive Barker's "Hellraiser", etc. A great time for Horror.

Comment by Rocky Oliver (LotusGeek) on November 20, 2011 at 3:26pm

Oh, yeah, one of my early fav set of comedy/horror - the Evil Dead Trilogy!

Comment by Rocky Oliver (LotusGeek) on November 20, 2011 at 3:25pm

I have to say my fav movies (right now) are leaning towards the comedy/horror vein (although much of my DVD collection is horror movies). "From Dusk til Dawn" will always be on my fav list, as well as "Zombieland" (one of the funniest movies I've ever seen).

 

My all time fav horror flick is old-school - "The Exorcist - Director's Cut" (i.e. the one with about 20 min extra, including the scene where Reagan goes up the stairs on all fours, facing UP. This movie had a huge impact on me as a kid. It came out in 1973, and at first my parents refused to take me. Then they realized the books I was already reading were scary (Edgar Allan Poe - pretty much everything, as an example), so they took me. They didn't see the hype yet - people running from the theatre, etc. We went to a matinee (so if we had to leave it didn't cost as much), and I sat there enthralled, at 9yrs old. My mom had to leave the theatre, but I was hooked. After that I couldn't get enough.

 

I also think that my rational mind realized that the stuff I was seeing wasn't real - and I truly think this was the first seeds of my becoming an atheist. I rationalized that if you don't believe in fairies, ghosts, ghouls, possession, etc. then why believe in a deity? To me it's all or nothing - if you believe in a deity, you have to believe in the rest of it.

Comment by Marc Poulin on October 16, 2011 at 8:38pm

The Walking Dead season 2 premiere tonight! Perhaps a discussion thread afterwards?

Comment by Skycomet the Fallen Angel on October 1, 2011 at 1:47pm

Contagion is in theaters in the US right now. I saw it about a week ago and it is an excellent non-supernatural thriller. If you don't get scared by ghosts anymore.... try Contagion. Totally realistic... and when I was watching it, I felt my hands tighten up convulsively every time someone in the audience sneezed or coughed.

Watch this trailer!

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on February 18, 2011 at 1:32pm

Shanna, I have posted a number of reviews in the discussion threads, and some other people have as well. Check 'em out.

Comment by Shanna on February 17, 2011 at 10:27pm

LOVE HORROR! Guess what folks. Unfortunately, I got laid off. Fortunately, I have Netflix! I enjoy the gore and slashers (not like Jason, boring) from the 70's to the 80's. The effects are laughable in some but gruesome in others. Anyone have any great suggestions? Take care!

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on February 17, 2011 at 12:03pm

I finally watched the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre last night. Pretty tame by today's standards, and no splatter at all, which was suprising. Still, it did have its moments. When the girl was at the dinner table, and she was screaming for what seemed like 10 effin minutes, that was a bit hard to take, because we are biologically inclined to be distressed by distress calls (screams) from others. So that was definitely an effective technique for adding tension to the movie (though I suspect that that was not exactly intentional -- they likely just thought it was cool to hear her scream and scream), and it lasted much longer than you hear in today's movies.

 

The first guy he killed with the sledgehammer was also very effective and unsettling, the way he fell to the floor and twitched like that.

 

I can easily see why TCM was really, really scary and shocking for its time.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on December 11, 2010 at 6:11pm

Brad, Drag Me to Hell was kind of disappointing for me, though I did think it had some nice atmosphere to it at times. I didn't hate it though.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on July 29, 2010 at 7:08pm

Trailer for Die Farbe, a German film adaptation of "The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft

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