The Horror Thread: Talk all things macabre

General Discussion
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After running a Premium version of this, I kind of missed my old thread and figured GD would have more of a population to discuss these things so why not. I’ll keep the front page updated as often as I can with interesting information and links.

Anything Horror related can be discussed here. This includes Movies, Books, Games, Comics, etc. Whatever falls under the theme of spooky shit going on.

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All purpose news site for Horror related things, fairly decent.

http://www.horrorhound.com/

Of all the various Horror magazines I find this to be the most clean and interesting. Usually has a theme each month where they delve into a movie series or particular film and give behind the scenes stories involving it.

Place I stumbled upon that sells gory and cerebral Horror Literature, I’ve got a few books that I choice picked and enjoyed but quality differs from author to author. Some are straight up torture porn, while others have a more mystery or atmospheric quality. I guess flavors for all kinds.

Anyways discuss. This week movie wise I watched V/H/S, Slugs, and Ghost Encounters as well as a large number of The Twilight Zone (OG series) episodes.

V/H/S was pretty good, had no reason to be. A “Found Footage” anthology Horror film of five stories and one wrap-around to tie them all together. Nice amount of violence and each story is unique compared to the others but they all follow all to familiar tropes, something that doesn’t personally bother me.

However the cast is largely unlikable, I never really cared for them or who was killed or not, I was never made to. Some people might find the idea of the stories not telling you every damn detail of what is going on problematic, but I dislike when a movie spoon feeds me the story and let’s my own imagination run wild, especially in a short story segment.

Still, a fun movie and I enjoyed the violence level.

Slugs is pretty lol, one of those creature B-movies with an insane plot and good special effects. Just don’t go in expecting an Oscar worthy show and you’ll be fine.

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The only Horror like movies I really like are the Tremors movies (the first 3 and the 3rd one just squeeks in).

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Is it wrong that I laughed during the majority of my time watching Hellraiser?

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Tremors is pretty awesome, for sure. I just watched them all back to back a few weeks back and have been trying to find the Television show they had. I also consider sci-fi/Horror stuff to be pretty acceptable here like Alien, Terminator and shit.

Nah, everyone has different reactions to films. When the bitch got it I cracked a smile, then she popped up in the second film to troll it up and I got salty. First two are pretty awesome though, three is ok, four is meh, and the rest are laughable.

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I mostly just laughed at how silly the main female character is(not the girl) and the monsters that look like dicks.

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The stepmother? I just didn’t like her, she was a film bitch.

For some reason I am interested in the upcoming movie Sinister, which looks like a standard Hollywood haunt film that stars Ethan Hawke. I really don’t know why I want to see it, maybe it’s because seeing Ethan Hawke as a 50’s looking timid father is funny. Pretty sure it’ll be terrible.

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The book is always so much better than the movie.

Like in Stephen King’s It where Pennywise nailed severed penises on the wall.

I can’t believe that didn’t make it into the movie.

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Or the part with the flying leeches.

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Just downloaded a Norwegian indie horror flick titled Thale (with srt subs, thank god), a story about (apparently) 2 guys in the murder scene cleanup business go to a home and take home an…unusual woman who turns out to be a Huldra, a creature from Scandanavian folklore, kinda like the female equivalent of a satyr/nymph combo, murderous if provoked. It’s horror, so I’m guessing they eventually provoke her and shit hits the fan.

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Tremors is great. It’s more on the 50s comic book, action/adventure side of horror. I don’t think I ever saw the third one.

I liked Hellraiser, but I’m not too big on fantasy horror. I think horror is supposed to tap into something elemental, so when all that necessary backstory gets added in to explain the fantasy elements, it starts to get kind of heady.

Great classic horror movie two-pack: Halloween (original only), The Shining (theatrical movie only).

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Book would have translated to a six hour film lol, had to cut stuff. I find some adaptions of Literature better as film.

For example the Novella “Who goes there?” is all fine and dandy, but I’ve always preferred the two films it’s spawned for different reasons. The Thing from Another World (1951) which does a great job of setting a bleak atmosphere and creating a sense of unease. While The Thing (1982) was a special effects treat wrapped around a story of claustrophobic paranoia.

Also was the inspiration for an episode of The Twilight Zone and X-Files, it got around.

In the Mouth of Madness is another film I really enjoy. While not necessarily based on a particular book or story, it is inspired by the work of Lovecraft and gets trippy. Dat Sam Neill is great.

Can’t wait for The Cabin in the Woods release next week, been waiting for a while to see it.

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Oh, shit, thanks for the catch. I didn’t watch anything but the first couple seconds of the trailer, which is also the first couple minutes of the movie.

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Scariest movies I’ve ever seen (and which, no longer scare me):

-In The Mouth of Madness
-Event Horizon*
-The Ring

*EH no longer scares me, but Dead Space seems to get me because it used to.

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Event Horizon is top tier, good film. Slowing down and watching what happens on the monitor they see is a highlight.

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Wait…I remember WEEKS watchin hour-long parts of that movie, but the dvd is only 188 minutes? That damn movie had like 5-7 parts! Did the dvd cut some stuff out, or were there WAY more commercials than I recall?

And I liked The Mist…but wish they’d gone with the story ending.

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Darabont trolled the shit out of us with the theatre ending. The monsters were a little weak compared to what you envisioned from the short story’s descriptions: that thing crossing the highway was supposed to be MUCH larger, AND we were never meant to see so much of it. And the movie spiders sucked.The book’s ending was like we were totally fucked, with the inference that the arrowhead aperture had somehow inverted, and an entire alien ecology was here to stay with that driven home by the huge highway monster, and that we would somehow have to find a way to survive our new world. Aside from that, the movie was good…is it just me, or are a lot of people in this movie also in The Walking Dead?

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How did you feel about Rec? That was one movie that had me anxious for the characters. And annoyed at the women who were always screaming and alerting the monsters to their location.

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Funny thing is Stephen King himself said he enjoyed the film ending for The Mist better than what he originally envisioned, but different fans responded in some manners. And yeah It on TV had a FUCK TON of commercials.

REC 1 & 2 are pretty good, I liked them at least. REC 3 however looks really…off to me, I don’t like the abrupt move to actual movie style a bit into the film and the comic book-esque story that goes down afterward.

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It was a bit jarring when that happened in 3…I mean, the camera was supposed to be the ONE thing that survives. Hey, but that chubby dude in the kitchen, props to his ass for being so cool about being left behind. I am always struck by the stupidity of the people in these films though: they went into the kitchen while there was blood on the dance floor (shamon-a!), and they were left alone until everybody out there got nom’ed…but they left the damn LIGHTS on and stayed right in the line of sight of the windows in the double doors, so naturally they were getting bombarded by infected wanting to nom them. Wtf? Oh, and fuck chivalry: if your ass is screeching like a chimpanzee every time you’re startled (like every damn women in this series…the dudes just gasp), you ain’t sneaking ANYwhere with me. You’ll be left in the kitchen with stoic, too-big-for-airshaft dude.

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I love horror movies, when they’re done well. Though I will occasionally enjoy some B grade horror just for fun. Guess it all depends on the subject and how well it’s done. Case in point, “My soul to take” the first 15 min or so are AMAZING, really got me into it. but once it’s ~16 years later~ It falls into the same tired cliches as any horror movie.

I suppose some of the best horror to me is psychological, anything that leaves you questioning whats going on, Japanese horror is great at this. I also like to get into the mind of the killer, to understand them, that’s why I enjoyed Rob Zombies version of Halloween. You get to actually see Michael lose his fucking mind!

Also, Here’s about 150 full and free B grade horror movies. http://www.youtube.com/tromamovies

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Wait a minute here. Don’t go full retard in your own thread. The best films in the Hellraiser series are Inferno and Hellseeker (5 & 6). Bloodlines is there to explain the how and why of the box. Three is a pile of dogshit that had a dude throwing CD’s at people and a bartender Cenobite shaking up explosives; there is no way in hell to say that 3 is ok. Three is not ok.

Deader was weak and Hellworld is in the same tier as 3.