The Vanishing (1988 )
The Devil's Backbone
Stir of Echoes
Audition
Zombi 2 aka Zombie (1979)
The Exorcist
The Thing
The Changeling
The Vanishing
The Devil's Backbone
Stir of Echoes
Audition
Zombi 2
The Exorcist
The Thing
The Changeling
Best Horror - Round 1 - Group 13
The Vanishing (1988 )
The Devil's Backbone
Stir of Echoes
Audition
Zombi 2 aka Zombie (1979)
The Exorcist
The Thing
The Changeling
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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)
The Vanishing is a true classic but I must go with Audition. I still hear thatSpoiler:and it makes my skin crawl.
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.
I can't vote against del Toro
neither can I vote against The Exorcist
what are bears supposed to do?
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Flip a coin.
it keeps landing on its side
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Not a big fan of Del Toro, he directed Hellboy.
did you see Devil's Backbone?
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The Thing.
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Only two votes for Audition?
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.Originally Posted by Jean
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.
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.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 loved Mimic, by the way, although it is in an entirely different league
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
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I'm torn between The Devil's Backbone and The Thing.
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Go with Audition!
Audition is amazing. Not a horror movie, though.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
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It's not? It scared the shit out of me. Just thinking about it now is creeping me out...
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.
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
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have to respectfully disagree here with dear bears, cause if Audition isn't horror, then what is?
No you're not, you want to vote for The Thing.
Do the right thing.
The Thing doesn't appear to need any help. Nobody wants to pick The Vanishing?
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.
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