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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 2, 2020 15:49:55 GMT -5
I saw one with my stepson and it was gory and nasty. ( That's the old man in me talking).  I think kids get excited about horror franchises because they are franchises, and almost regardless of their inherent quality. It's a winning mixture of exhilaration and comfort to have "rules" and a sense of logic/familiarity when facing our collective worst fears on the movie screen. If you already know the franchise, you know how not to get killed in the new movie, and that suggests a sense of being immune to death. My generation had Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street to help us make sense of our existential dread. The last generation had Saw and Final Destination. The new generation has Annabel. I didn't care for Saw either (and I've never seen Final Destination), but I could see some older folks saying the same about Fred Krueger and Jason Vorheese. In fact, I wonder if I would have liked them if I'd first approached them with adult scrutiny instead of wide-eyed tweenage awe. Yeah, I'm not particularly big into slasher movies except for the first two Hellraiser films which feels more like a "thinking man's slasher"
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Post by shaxper on Oct 2, 2020 16:22:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not particularly big into slasher movies except for the first two Hellraiser films which feels more like a "thinking man's slasher" The first Hellraiser creeped the hell out of me. It's like they made a list of every possible way to make an adult male uncomfortable and threw it into one film. Never really scary...just rip-your-eyes-out unsettling. I never did stick around for the second one. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 2, 2020 16:34:38 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not particularly big into slasher movies except for the first two Hellraiser films which feels more like a "thinking man's slasher" The first Hellraiser creeped the hell out of me. It's like they made a list of every possible way to make an adult male uncomfortable and threw it into one film. Never really scary...just rip-your-eyes-out unsettling. I never did stick around for the second one. Hellbound is good if only for the lore it presents, especially Leviathan, god of the Cenobites. I remember watching it late at night at age 10 or 11 during a sleepover. The opening scene where Pinhead gets his namesake utterly terrified me for a good long while
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 16:49:24 GMT -5
I saw one with my stepson and it was gory and nasty. ( That's the old man in me talking). I think kids get excited about horror franchises because they are franchises, and almost regardless of their inherent quality. It's a winning mixture of exhilaration and comfort to have "rules" and a sense of logic/familiarity when facing our collective worst fears on the movie screen. If you already know the franchise, you know how not to get killed in the new movie, and that suggests a sense of being immune to death. That sounds right. As I mentioned a couple times, I've been on a horror-watching spree with my daughter, and she was totally taken with the "rules" in the Saw franchise (which I found to be inconsistent and pretentiously motivated instead of captivating, but we have fun). She liked Escape Room, Happy Death day 1 & 2, and similar, also for the "rules" aspect. The Saw movies were actually less torture-porn than I was expecting. Yeah, there was creative ways of getting gore on the screen, but it still felt like watching a movie. The movies I turn off are the real-world brutality, lingering suffering, bleakly nihilistic downers (although my soul is in fact bleakly nihilistic, I'm not entertained by seeing such on the screen). We ran out of promising film franchises, so we decided to give the Walking Dead a chance, and now we're both addicted. Not to say it's perfect, but I'm glad it's getting her exposure to some well-done drama, under the guise of a zombie apocalypse. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 2, 2020 19:40:27 GMT -5
So... who here likes the Happy Tree Friends? Graphic violence + cute animals = one joke stretched to every possible variation.  Me, me, me! I have laughed myself sick at these twisted little 'toons.
Paradoxically, I almost universally loathe modern day horror movies. I have zero interest in watching people die horrible gory deaths, no matter how imaginative the means and manner.
Cei-U! I summon the study in contrasts!
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 2, 2020 20:27:16 GMT -5
I thought Ghost Ship and Pan's Labyrinth were great graphic modern horror movies. I think the most violent thing I ever saw as a kid was It's Alive in the movie theater! Didn't give me nightmares or anything though. A cousin got freaked by Halloween, the edited for tv version yet. Oops, bad babysitter!   |
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Post by Warmonger on Oct 2, 2020 20:34:58 GMT -5
I thought Ghost Ship and Pan's Labyrinth were great graphic modern horror movies. I think the most violent thing I ever saw as a kid was It's Alive in the movie theater! Didn't give me nightmares or anything though. A cousin got freaked by Halloween, the edited for tv version yet. Oops, bad babysitter! Speaking of ‘It’s Alive’, watch ‘Basket Case’ I guess many people these days find the effects laughable, but it’s still pretty damn disturbing and unsettling if you ask me. Especially the noises that the former conjoined twin makes. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 2, 2020 20:56:11 GMT -5
I thought Ghost Ship and Pan's Labyrinth were great graphic modern horror movies. I think the most violent thing I ever saw as a kid was It's Alive in the movie theater! Didn't give me nightmares or anything though. A cousin got freaked by Halloween, the edited for tv version yet. Oops, bad babysitter! I haven't seen Ghost Ship but I really enjoyed Pan's Labyrinth. It had a depth and poeticism very few horror movies achieve.
Cei-U! I summon the exception that proves the rule!
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 2, 2020 21:11:28 GMT -5
Love horror films. I gravitate strongest to horror rich in atmosphere and imagery, but I can also enjoy the cheesier/trashier stuff. The only stuff I really dislike is torture porn, slasher sequelitis, and most everything Hollywood's produced since the 2000s.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 2, 2020 21:28:55 GMT -5
Ugh, no thanks! I got nightmares from Dr Boris Balinkoff, (Vito Scotti) on Gilligan's Island. Even pictures from Frankenstein and Dracula gave me nightmares. Too much imagination, I think. I couldn't watch that stuff until I was much older, mostly in my 30s. Funny thing is, it seemed to immunize me against nightmares as an adult, as anytime a dream becomes unsettling, logic and reality seem to kick in, like someone flipping a circuit breaker, and I disbelieve the situation, right before I wake up. Even then, it's mostly mundane stuff, like trying to find the exit of a building, after wandering up and down stairs and through passageways.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2020 0:41:00 GMT -5
Love a good horror myself...but they're hard to come by. Don't need CGI and stupid make-up either.
I mean, if I was wandering through the corridors of a large building and saw these 2 just standing there staring at me, I'd feel a warm gush as my bladder lets go....
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 3, 2020 7:22:34 GMT -5
When it comes to scary films, the two that made me jump were the original Exorcist and the "IT" movie from a few years back.
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Post by impulse on Oct 3, 2020 8:56:34 GMT -5
I like certain aspects of horror but prefer the more action-oriented take on it. For example, the Resident Evil video game series* uses zombies and scientific labs and crap as a backdrop, but you are running around kill the s**t out of everything. I like the horror stuff for a setup but to get the payoff in the end. I do like camp, though. Evil Dead series esque. Army of Darkness has me rolling, though I suppose it's not really horror anymore by this movie
*Not to be confused with the atrocious movie series that is basically completely different aside from the name and a few references.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 3, 2020 9:20:51 GMT -5
My favourites are by far the ones in which the carpet is suddenly from under our feet at some point.
Like in The Ring, Angel Heart or Alice or the Last Escapade. That feeling of total helplessness after a major and usually final plot twist.
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 3, 2020 10:29:52 GMT -5
When it comes to scary films, the two that made me jump were the original Exorcist and the "IT" movie from a few years back. I, on the other hand, thought The Exorcist was hilarious. You should've seen the rest of the audience eyeing me as I laughed through all the "scary" parts. I find subtlety and implication much scarier than all the in-your-face antics of Captain Howdy.
Cei-U! Yes, I'm weird!
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