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Heather19
04-22-2014, 06:46 AM
The Vanishing (1988 )
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/heather1019/board%20pics/vanishing.jpg

The Devil's Backbone
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/heather1019/board%20pics/the-devils-backbone-2.jpg

Stir of Echoes
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/heather1019/board%20pics/stirechoes.jpg

Audition
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/heather1019/board%20pics/a41ff452-4831-4e66-b180-d31961eb3809.jpg

Zombi 2 aka Zombie (1979)
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/heather1019/board%20pics/zombie.jpg

The Exorcist
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/heather1019/board%20pics/943f212f-d0af-42ee-a6d0-7ba062dbb3b6.jpg

The Thing
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/heather1019/board%20pics/3dce311f-225b-49d9-87d9-46d71c72c81b.jpg

The Changeling
http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/vv360/heather1019/board%20pics/fc3e25ba-c7fa-48b4-a807-900d520b1095.jpg

mae
04-22-2014, 07:02 AM
Coming attractions:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlO2oIieI44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90o1YhN0vHY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlqHp4KmofQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aOW4QqBepw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcEk8g_lNU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9qjmUtHWYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPRW-_OcdE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzWmUM-U3wY

divemaster
04-22-2014, 07:03 AM
John Carpenter's The Thing had a pronounced effect on me. I was 14 or 15 when I first saw this and it was at that time the best "creature feature" I had ever seen. As a kid, I grew up on afternoon re-runs of all sorts of creature movies and giant bug movies, etc., from the old B&W standards to 70's schlock. I had no idea a movie like The Thing could be made. I loved it; watched it over and over; quoted it from heart at Boy Scout campfires (..."You got to be fucking kidding me!"...you know the scene).

So, there's my vote. (Certainly other good choices though)

mae
04-22-2014, 07:04 AM
The Vanishing is a true classic but I must go with Audition. I still hear that kiri kiri kiri and it makes my skin crawl.

fernandito
04-22-2014, 07:27 AM
The Thing. It is one of my all time favorite films. It doesn't rely on overt gore or dismemberment, it lets the paranoia and tension do the work.

Jean
04-22-2014, 10:02 AM
I can't vote against del Toro

neither can I vote against The Exorcist

what are bears supposed to do?

fernandito
04-22-2014, 10:02 AM
Flip a coin.

Jean
04-22-2014, 10:03 AM
it keeps landing on its side

mae
04-22-2014, 01:14 PM
Not a big fan of Del Toro, he directed Hellboy.

Jean
04-22-2014, 01:17 PM
did you see Devil's Backbone?

needfulthings
04-22-2014, 01:37 PM
http://imageshack.com/a/img841/8944/quwn.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img845/9236/f1mj.jpg

Mattrick
04-22-2014, 01:48 PM
The Thing.

needfulthings
04-22-2014, 01:51 PM
http://imageshack.com/a/img836/4548/vjha.jpg

mae
04-22-2014, 06:00 PM
Only two votes for Audition?


did you see Devil's Backbone?

Yes, he's got a few good ones, Cronos also, but then there's Mimic, Blade II, the Hellboy movies, and I haven't seen Pacific Rim yet but it looks meh.

barlow
04-22-2014, 06:51 PM
The Thing and The Exorcist are classics and should both advance, so I am going to vote for A Stir Of Echoes. Although two other movies I nominated are in this group too.

Jean
04-22-2014, 11:47 PM
did you see Devil's Backbone?

Yes, he's got a few good ones, Cronos also, but then there's Mimic, Blade II, the Hellboy movies, and I haven't seen Pacific Rim yet but it looks meh.
I don't even care what else he has made. Pan's Laburynth and Devil's Backbone (the latter my personal favorite) are among the best films in history.

I loved Mimic, by the way, although it is in an entirely different league

Heather19
04-23-2014, 05:29 AM
I'm torn between The Devil's Backbone and The Thing.

mae
04-23-2014, 06:05 AM
I'm torn between The Devil's Backbone and The Thing.

Go with Audition!

Jean
04-23-2014, 06:07 AM
Audition is amazing. Not a horror movie, though.

mae
04-23-2014, 06:12 AM
It's not? It scared the shit out of me. Just thinking about it now is creeping me out... :panic:

P.S: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audition_%281999_film%29

Audition (オーディション Ōdishon) is a 1999 Japanese psychological horror film, directed by Takashi Miike [...] In the early 2010s, Time Out conducted a poll with several authors, directors, actors and critics who have worked within the horror genre to vote for their top horror films. Audition placed at number 18 on their top 100 list.

Jean
04-23-2014, 07:07 AM
well, you know how much bears are inclined to rely on wikipedia

there are lots of films that creep me out without being horror films, too

mae
04-23-2014, 07:09 AM
Have to respectfully disagree here with dear bears, cause if Audition isn't horror, then what is?

fernandito
04-23-2014, 07:15 AM
I'm torn between The Devil's Backbone and The Thing.
No you're not, you want to vote for The Thing.

Do the right thing.

mae
04-23-2014, 07:19 AM
The Thing doesn't appear to need any help. Nobody wants to pick The Vanishing?

divemaster
04-23-2014, 07:23 AM
Have to respectfully disagree here with dear bears, cause if Audition isn't horror, then what is?

I think it is horror. And horrible.

Ok, ok, not "horrible," but I did not really care for the movie. You can show me anything, as long as the internal logic holds. But the guy was having flashbacks to things that there was no way he could have seen. I watched the ending twice and again with the commentary. I understand that some of the flashbacks were supposedly his point of view and some were from the director's omnipresence. But it got all tangled up. I found myself on more than one occasion thinking, "he can't be flashing back to that! He wasn't there when it happened!"

Plus, on the commentary Miike says, about the whole ending sequence, something along the line of "Here, the screenwriter must have been on drugs." Meaning, I guess, it's happening but don't even try to figure it out linerally or literally.

As I said before, a director can show me anything, as long as he earns the right. I don't believe he did. The ending seemed gratuitous. Even Miike seemed to be at a loss. (Maybe the screenwriter should have been on the commentary). If it was set up better, I'd be all over it. But don't jerk me along and then throw something like that at me.

I will say that Audition has the best "jump moment" I've ever seen in a movie.

Heather19
04-23-2014, 07:23 AM
I'm torn between The Devil's Backbone and The Thing.

Go with Audition!

Sorry to say but I wasn't a fan.

Heather19
04-23-2014, 07:27 AM
Divemaster, what's your top 5 Asian horror films?

Jean
04-23-2014, 08:03 AM
It seems I have to watch it once again. I don't even remember the plot. All I remember is that I had that feeling that the author is talking to me (directly) about what exactly is wrong with human existence; the same goes, for example, for Cold Fish. When I have this feeling, I immediately place the film in "just films" category.

divemaster
04-23-2014, 08:06 AM
Divemaster, what's your top 5 Asian horror films?

Gosh, that's tough. I'll go with:

A Tale of Two Sisters (Korean)
Bio-Zombie (sortof a comedy horror, like Re-Animator or something; from Hong Kong)
Cure (Japanese)
Ju-on (Japanese)
Some (Korean)

The 1964 Japanese film Kaidan (Kwaidan) is a very good "ghost anthology."

I liked the Japanese films Junk and Dark Water, and a slew of Korean efforts like The Wig, Memento Mori, Wishing Stairs, Bunshinsaba, Spider Forest, and R-Point, but not in top-10 land.
I don't consider films like Oldboy and Tell Me Something to be horror per se, but they would be up there.

There's also a lot of B-grade Hong Kong stuff I like a lot with at least some element of horror. Mr. Vampire, The Seventh Curse; The Eternal Evil of Asia (category III!); The Eye

It seems like I watched some Thai horror movie a year or so back that I liked but I can't for the life of me recall what it was.

Inevitably I've forgotten something that would be way up there on my list.

mae
04-23-2014, 08:06 AM
It seems I have to watch it once again. I don't even remember the plot. All I remember is that I had that feeling that the author is talking to me (directly) about what exactly is wrong with human existence; the same goes, for example, for Cold Fish. When I have this feeling, I immediately place the film in "just films" category.

I think its strength lies in the change-up that happens about two-thirds in. Since I watched it the first time without knowing anything about it, I was shocked and scared beyond belief.

Also, I really don't categorize films in any way. A film is a film, whether it's a drama, a comedy, an animated film, or a horror film. So it's all a matter of quality of the given film, whatever the genre.

mae
04-23-2014, 08:08 AM
The 1964 Japanese film Kaidan (Kwaidan) is a very good "ghost anthology."

I wanted to nominate that one but went with Onibaba. Have you seen that one?

Jean
04-23-2014, 08:12 AM
The 1964 Japanese film Kaidan (Kwaidan) is a very good "ghost anthology."

I wanted to nominate that one but went with Onibaba. Have you seen that one?
bears have seen both, and loved Kaidan more

re: divemaster's list - bears need to watch many of those...

divemaster
04-23-2014, 09:01 AM
The 1964 Japanese film Kaidan (Kwaidan) is a very good "ghost anthology."

I wanted to nominate that one but went with Onibaba. Have you seen that one?

I have not, but it is in my Netflix queue. Along with about 160 other films. I manage about 2 a week, so...one day...

divemaster
04-23-2014, 09:07 AM
The 1964 Japanese film Kaidan (Kwaidan) is a very good "ghost anthology."

I wanted to nominate that one but went with Onibaba. Have you seen that one?
bears have seen both, and loved Kaidan more

re: divemaster's list - bears need to watch many of those...

Knowing what I gather about your tastes, I doubt you would like many of them. Of my top 5 list, I'm sure you would find Bio-Zombie ridiculous. Ju-on is great for "creepy mood" and horror tension but doesn't make much sense and there is very little character development. Some and Cure might be worth a shot. As would Spider Forest and Tell Me Something. The rest? Not so sure...

Jean
04-23-2014, 09:09 AM
I rather liked Ju-on, but wasn't crazy about it

if you can think of anything like Tale of Two Sisters, let bears know!

mae
04-23-2014, 09:09 AM
Oldboy is great. Very much in line with Sisters in that mindfuck genre.

Jean
04-23-2014, 09:10 AM
and bears don't absolutize the necessity of character development. In fact, the only guy who has to have a developed character in a movie is the director.

Heather19
04-23-2014, 09:59 AM
Divemaster, what's your top 5 Asian horror films?

Gosh, that's tough. I'll go with:

A Tale of Two Sisters (Korean)
Bio-Zombie (sortof a comedy horror, like Re-Animator or something; from Hong Kong)
Cure (Japanese)
Ju-on (Japanese)
Some (Korean)

The 1964 Japanese film Kaidan (Kwaidan) is a very good "ghost anthology."

I liked the Japanese films Junk and Dark Water, and a slew of Korean efforts like The Wig, Memento Mori, Wishing Stairs, Bunshinsaba, Spider Forest, and R-Point, but not in top-10 land.
I don't consider films like Oldboy and Tell Me Something to be horror per se, but they would be up there.

There's also a lot of B-grade Hong Kong stuff I like a lot with at least some element of horror. Mr. Vampire, The Seventh Curse; The Eternal Evil of Asia (category III!); The Eye

It seems like I watched some Thai horror movie a year or so back that I liked but I can't for the life of me recall what it was.

Inevitably I've forgotten something that would be way up there on my list.

Thanks, I'll have to look up some of these that I haven't seen yet. I couldn't get into Ju-on, it was so confusing. I had no clue what was going on. It jumped from one story to another, and I hadn't even realized it hence the whole time I was lost trying to figure out who was who, and what was happening :lol:

Have you seen Infection? That was one that I really enjoyed.

divemaster
04-23-2014, 12:48 PM
if you can think of anything like Tale of Two Sisters, let bears know!

I'll get back to you on that...but in the meantime, I know you are a fan of The Sixth Sense and The Others. Try Inner Senses. Seriously. This is a very well-done Hong Kong film, with a few creepy scares, a few jump scares, good tension, combined with a very touching story. In fact, I should have listed it in my top 5 Asian horror (as a psychological horror). It stars Leslie Cheung, and I believe it was his last film before he committed suicide.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316023/combined

Jean
04-23-2014, 12:59 PM
great! started downloading

mae
04-24-2014, 11:31 AM
Can't believe Audition still has only two votes. What's going on? :panic:

Jean
04-24-2014, 11:41 AM
well, at least The Exorcist will advance

BROWNINGS CHILDE
04-24-2014, 11:47 AM
Exorcist of course, though if I had it to do over again, I'd give my vote to Stir of Echoes since Exorcist will have no problem moving on.

dnemec
04-24-2014, 05:34 PM
The Vanishing is a true classic but I must go with Audition. I still hear that kiri kiri kiri and it makes my skin crawl.

When I want to freak out my boyfriend, I make that sound. He likes to say he sleeps with one eye open! :cyclops:

I have not yet decided which to vote for. Audition totally freaked me out. Stir of Echoes is just fantastic (of course, it's Matheson so that helps!). The Thing was creepy. The Changeling was an amazing film. And of course there's The Exorcist.

Can't I vote for them all?

dnemec
04-24-2014, 05:37 PM
Divemaster, what's your top 5 Asian horror films?

Gosh, that's tough. I'll go with:

A Tale of Two Sisters (Korean)
Bio-Zombie (sortof a comedy horror, like Re-Animator or something; from Hong Kong)
Cure (Japanese)
Ju-on (Japanese)
Some (Korean)

The 1964 Japanese film Kaidan (Kwaidan) is a very good "ghost anthology."

I liked the Japanese films Junk and Dark Water, and a slew of Korean efforts like The Wig, Memento Mori, Wishing Stairs, Bunshinsaba, Spider Forest, and R-Point, but not in top-10 land.
I don't consider films like Oldboy and Tell Me Something to be horror per se, but they would be up there.

There's also a lot of B-grade Hong Kong stuff I like a lot with at least some element of horror. Mr. Vampire, The Seventh Curse; The Eternal Evil of Asia (category III!); The Eye

It seems like I watched some Thai horror movie a year or so back that I liked but I can't for the life of me recall what it was.

Inevitably I've forgotten something that would be way up there on my list.

Sweet! Some great Asian movies to look for!

As a side note, do you read any Asian horror? I recently sought out a few that were the basis for movies, and am looking for more ideas!

Mattrick
04-24-2014, 06:54 PM
What about The Host?

Heather19
04-25-2014, 04:47 AM
Finally voted and went with The Devil's Backbone.

mae
04-25-2014, 05:59 AM
Ack! Need more Audition votes, people!

Jean
04-25-2014, 06:59 AM
Finally voted and went with The Devil's Backbone.:rose: :rose: :rose:

divemaster
04-25-2014, 07:05 AM
Sweet! Some great Asian movies to look for!

As a side note, do you read any Asian horror? I recently sought out a few that were the basis for movies, and am looking for more ideas!

Not exactly "horror," but I've always wanted to read Battle Royale (I loved the movie), but I'll probably never get around to it. As it is, my reading wishlist is longer than my movie wishlist. I need to live to be 800 years old to get through everything on my lists!


What about The Host?

Wasn't a huge fan. I actually saw this first-run at the theater; was not compelled to purchase the DVD afterward. Don't get me wrong; I liked it ok. I liked the characters and the dynamic of the family in peril. But I think they tried to cram in too many plot elements. Monster--good!; Government/virus conspiracy--ho-hum.

mae
04-25-2014, 09:05 AM
Sexual favors for all who vote for Audition:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbTSIyCjjyA

If this doesn't scare you, I feel sad.

Jean
04-25-2014, 09:18 AM
yes, sweet little film, isn't it?

I am seriously thinking of re-watching it...

Heather19
04-28-2014, 10:37 AM
Last chance for votes! This one ends tomorrow and there's a few movies vying for that third spot.

Odetta
04-29-2014, 05:52 AM
It's a wonderful day for an Exorcism

mae
04-29-2014, 07:42 AM
Yes! Audition squeezed in!