Horror Movie Fans, let's have discussions...

Different kind of creepy though, at least, IMO...

Phenomenally played though...

 

I'd say it's a horror/action crossover - the way the Terminator is an "unstoppable" foe who pursues the main character and kills everything in its path seems like it borrows some elements of the horror genre.

 

This is a good argument for this point...

I, myself, always considered T2 to be an action flick, but, you point out something very interesting...

 

Anybody see "Cube"?

"Cube" trailer

 

Pet Cemetery was one of my favorites. I really like the feel of the movie, and they filmed it in a great location.

The Omen is a good one, too, the original.

Sleepy Hollow was awesome, but I'm not sure if it qualifies as a "horror" film.

 

One of my favorite things about the Pet Sematery movie was that they stayed relatively true to the book, which is also really good...

The Omen is extra creepy, and, on a side note, I didn't mind the remake either, though the original is far superior...

Sleepy Hollow is a cool adaptation of a classic story...

I give it a thumbs up...

 

By and large Stephen King novels do rather poorly as Movies.
The most - Shining - example would be - The Tommyknockers - {1993}
And a real gem of a fantastic horror-like genre is - Thinner - {1996}
I have the original jacket cover & first print of - Thinner - where Stephen King
used the alias Richard Bachman,replete with a jacket photo of some guy,supposedly
Bachman.

 

I think that was the best part...was the way the movie was hyped beforehand...I thought it was quite cleaver actually. Coming out of the theatre still not aware whether it was real footage or a hoax....was really cool. It was extremely well acted, and seemed very very authentic. Don't be mad because you were played...embrace it as a job well done!

 

As I recall the movie moved at a snails pace and for the ending { a letdown with nothing
to offer,one has to force themself to believe there's something in that basement }
the Movie is just a Fraud.Wasn't Scarey and wasn't anything there.It's like a magic
act that perfoms no magic but one is told it's all in their mind.That Magic did occur.
Kinda like a seance where something shoulda happenned and still might.
Houdini was obsessed with stuff like Seance,ever since his Mother died.
He was a Momma's Boy.

 

agreed, blair witch was assumed to be based on a true story, in the woods of maryland

if you look at it knowing its fake, of course it would not have the same effect, but it was well done with the trickery, best scary movie of all time.

 

You seem to have trouble staying on point. Just an observation.

 

Tommyknockers was atrocious...

As was Dreamcatcher...

Oh, and The Langoliers!?



King's stories rely so much on, for lack of a better description, sci-fi happenings, that it's near impossible to do well with them in a movie format...

I'm a HUGE Stephen King fan, but, them's just the facts...

I think the of the best screen adaptations of a King novel (sci-fi type) was Carrie, which is in the process of being remade, and, is looking really good so far...

Obviously the best King novel adaptations are The Green Mile & The Shawshank Redemption...

SIDE NOTE: The Dark Tower is coming...

 

I think the promotion for it was genius...

The movie itself, I didn't enjoy, personally...

 

Never read any King novels, though maybe I should. But the biggest reason why I like that film is because of the atmosphere of it. The location, the season, and the overall dreariness is my kind of thing.

Would is qualify as a "horror" film? I'm not sure. Either way, I really liked it. Johnny Depp is BA and Tim Burton is a dark genius.

 

The book gives you the exact same vibe, maybe, moreso, because you are at the mercy of your own imagination...

Mine is scary...

lol

I think it could...

I mean, you have the "dark figure" stalking a particular place, and, he focuses on Ichabod Crane, who is trying to stay alive...

I think you could legitimately classify it as a horror movie...

As far as Depp & Burton, I don't think you're gonna like this, but, I like Depp in certain things, i.e. Donnie Brasco...

I absolutely can't stand when him & Burton work together (Sleepy Hollow being an obvious exception)...

In fact, Burton altogether irks me...

 

I've seen Cube and Cube 2.
I think if I was in the first one they would have done better. I would have reminded them that if they reached the window and it was 300 feet high they'd be no better off. I would have argued that their first attempt in any cube should be downward. That might have worked and if it didn't the slow pace might have persuaded the observers to end the experiment and let us out or kill us.
We know from the end of Cube 2 that they kill survivors anyway.

 

Well I thought it was scary, and I know my kids did. We went camping shortly after seeing that movie....not a good idea. Sounds like you have a "grudge" (get it?) against the movie or something? Man, it was only 15 bucks wasted...no biggie.

 

The movie was literally Falsely advertised.Not just using Bogus Police reports but the
entire thing was based in a huge Lie.That is why so much time was invested in
explaining some Urban Myth.
I appreciate Documentaries because it's what happened.I appreciate many a Movie,
that is based in Fact,or LOOSELY Based in fact.That to me means everything.
This movie was supposedly based in fact.
It was nothing of the kind.Not even close.It was ALL MADE UP CRAP.

 

How many people thought the Leonardo Di Caprio/Kate Winslet love story depicted in Titanic was true? On the other side my stepdaughter thought Apollo 13 was fiction.
I always thought the Godfather movies were fiction, but then I read about a gangster that was shot to death at a barber shop and thought they were true for a few years.
As Stan Lee once wrote: "Who can tell which were fact and which were fiction? Who can tell where legend ends and history begins?"

 

Because it was Advertised as Actually happening.It was PURE 100% Hoax.No group of 3
filmaker ever disappeared.The movie was advertised as based in Fact and therefore a premise
that it happened.
Part of what makes some movies more powerfull is the reality that it did in fact happen.
Blair Witch had nothing to offer,but that.It was shot in an amateur fashion,with no
budget whatever.Not even enough to afford any special effects.
BW isn't horror or documentary.It should be in the genre of Pure Exploitation film.
Absolutely no different than the grossly under budget - Glen or Glenda - {1953}

 

Lair of the White Worm

"Any film that ends with Catherine "Dynasty" Oxenberg hanging from a ceiling in her best M&S white undies whilst being threatened by a very naked Amanda Donahoe sporting what can only be described as a huge strap-on has got to be worth a look". BritishHorrorFilms.co.uk

Still gives me the shivers!

 

That's the allure of the "found footage" type films...

They're pushed as actual events...

Hell, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was portrayed as actual events...

Did that make it any less scary?

 

I don't know what exactly the reason is,but I never liked - Carrie - {1976}.I know
what really turned me off.Is the way the pyrotechnics were used as a way for
most to fall in love with the movie.I thought that was Dopey.In fact,that was before
the Pyrotechnics Industry took off and became a staple in most action flicks.
I personally can't stand Pyrotechnics.I think it marks a flaw in the screenplay.
It masks a lack of dialogue,always the hallmark of a good Movie.Dialogue and acting.
In fact,pyrotechnics in a movie,usually means I'll refuse to rent that movie.

 

The pyrotechnics were very important to that sequence, because, that is when, under the strain of the taunting from her peers, which culminated in the bucket of pig's blood being dumped on her, she absolutely lost control of her telekinesis, and, all hell broke loose...

Dialogue was unnecessary in that scene, because everyone was just trying to escape, so it was total chaos...

 

The more you write, the less I find interest in reading it. Dialog does not make a movie, in fact dialog can kill a movie. Nothing more inane than watching a bunch of idiots chat when the pictures on the screen can tell the story. A great movies tells a visual story. If you want a bunch of dooshbags yamming and yapping, get an audio book.

The ending of CARRIE was brilliant. Mayhem, desolate solitude as she walks alone, final confrontation with psycho mother. The jump shot at the end works well, but was unneeded.