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Heather19
03-21-2010, 12:22 PM
I am an avid lover of the horror genre, and I know there are quite a few others here as well. So I thought we could use a thread devoted to these films where we could discuss our favorites, or recommend some to others.

I just watched The Children the other night. Anyone else seen this? I never knew kids could be so scary.

Jean
03-21-2010, 12:34 PM
Heather, I adore you! it's incredible, I actually logged in now (23:33 Moscow time - it's exactly one minute after your starter post) to start a similar thread!
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DoctorDodge
03-21-2010, 12:36 PM
Yes, LOVE that film! These days, us Brits don't seem to bother making horror movies, but apparently, we can still make 'em good!

I think what worked best about it was the long, slow build up, before unleashing the evilness and just plain nastiness of kids at xmas (hmmm, sounds like a bad family comedy)! A horror that's done less to entertain you and more to scare the living shit out of you. My kind of horror, really! Need to get it on dvd, actually.

What's really ironic is that I'm not much of a horror fan, but I do like films that are good at suspense, that are out to scare you and not just show a load of blood and guts every ten minutes, and are directed well.

And the Final Destination movies.

The Children's not my favourite horror film (that would be Alien), but it is one I quite like, and that takes a lot for me to like a good horror film.

SynysterSaint
03-21-2010, 02:19 PM
My favorite horror/thriller films are oldschool slashers. I don't know why, but the direction and the acting in them just hit me everytime I watch them. Any horror film that's a throwback to the genre works out fine for me, as well. I remember discussing Trick 'r Treat pretty extensively earlier :cool: That's still my favorite along with the original and Rob Zombie homage Halloween films.

Woofer
03-21-2010, 02:35 PM
Monsters. Aliens. Other lifeforms.

But I will watch almost anything horror, from Entrails of a Virgin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222817/) to John Carpenter's The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) to The Spiral Staircase (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038975/) to The Trollenberg Terror (aka The Crawling Eye) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052320/).

Of course I won't necessarily watch it twice. :P

ETA: Whoops, just figured out you mean the new movie The Children and not the 1964 version or the 2006 movie Wicked Little Things, which also goes by The Children. I haven't seen the new one.

Heather19
03-21-2010, 02:59 PM
I'll watch any type of horror. I love them all for different reasons. My favorites always seem to be the slasher films though. The more gore the better :lol:
And I do love the old horror classic films, as well as all those old B-horror and sci-fi films.

Check it out Woofer. It was pretty good. Not the best, but those children (while not the best actors) were pretty damn creepy.

SynysterSaint have you seen Zombie's Halloween 2 yet?

DoctorDodge
03-21-2010, 03:06 PM
Monsters. Aliens. Other lifeforms.

But I will watch almost anything horror, from Entrails of a Virgin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222817/) to John Carpenter's The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) to The Spiral Staircase (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038975/) to The Trollenberg Terror (aka The Crawling Eye) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052320/).

Of course I won't necessarily watch it twice. :P

ETA: Whoops, just figured out you mean the new movie The Children and not the 1964 version or the 2006 movie Wicked Little Things, which also goes by The Children. I haven't seen the new one.



Well, I do recommend checking out The Children (2008 ), Woofer. Nothing like the cosiness of a wintry English countryside to really unsettle ya!

OK, just clicked on that imdb link for Entrails of a Virgin, and it sounds like one of the trashiest films ever made! Idk, normally I'd say that's the kind of horror film i'd normally avoid, but if it's trashiness to an extreme...it's like the whole reason I wanted to see Planet Terror: one of the most OTT horror films in a long time, yet deliberately and brilliantly so, making it so bad it was funny. Much better than Death Proof, as far as I'm concerned.

Ugh, need to see The Thing, saw a few clips of it, and it truly looks terrifying! I'm always fascinated by the kind of body horror that films like that can achieve so successfully, where a man slowly, VERY slowly, starts to change into something inhuman. It's why I think District 9 is shocking and in some places genuinely horrifying, and why I also want to watch David Cronenberg's The Fly. Idk, i think i've been drawn to it, to that kind of horror, ever since seeing a man's hand wrapped in green bubble wrap in Dr Who when i was just 8 years old! :lol:

Anyone seen an American Werewolf in London? That's another one of my favourite horrors. In some places funny, but the best moment is seeing THAT transformation scene. One of the most painful to watch werewolf transformations I've ever watched, and one that actually gave me nightmares! Not often I can say that about horror films!

SynysterSaint
03-21-2010, 03:22 PM
SynysterSaint have you seen Zombie's Halloween 2 yet?

I can't say I have, unfortunately. I've still only seen the first one. I'll download it tonight or tomorrow and then tell you how I liked it (I'll actually do it this time- I forgot you asked me to until now, sorry :().

Heather19
03-21-2010, 03:28 PM
SynysterSaint have you seen Zombie's Halloween 2 yet?

I can't say I have, unfortunately. I've still only seen the first one. I'll download it tonight or tomorrow and then tell you how I liked it (I'll actually do it this time- I forgot you asked me to until now, sorry :().

It's ok :couple: I hope you enjoy it. It definitely had some great moments in it. But I'd like to discuss it with you after you watch it.


And Woofer, The Crawling Eye is great! It's been forever since I've seen that one. Have you ever seen Carnival of Souls? That's one of my favorites.

Woofer
03-21-2010, 03:31 PM
Oh yes, Entrails is terrible and OTT. There is one scene involving a person jumping from a building and they use - I am not kidding - a shot of a watermelon hitting the ground and exploding. Absolutely no attempt to disguise it or anything. There's a sequel, too, Entrails of a Beautiful Woman. I get them confused, but one has a monster that can change sex to assault people. And I will say no more on that.

I love American Werewolf in London. It still owns for the definitive shapeshifting scene IMO. I totally used that description as inspiration for my werewolves on MUDs.

Definitely check out The Thing as it is also explores the themes of isolation and trust and is one of the few all male casts that I can recall. The Fly is also one to check out. Cronenberg's got a style all his own, and he uses a much more believable scientific premise than the original. I also recommend Videodrome and Night Breed.

ETA: Yes, I have seen Carnival of Souls - that movie is like a B&W bad trip (for the character, I mean).

ETAA: I haven't seen Zombie's Halloween 2, but I enjoy his other movies as tributes to old school slasher.

John_and_Yoko
03-21-2010, 03:53 PM
I like the first three Body Snatchers movies, Psycho, the first Alien movie, the Kubrick version of The Shining, and The Blair Witch Project.

DoctorDodge
03-21-2010, 03:56 PM
Woofer, if you love the transformation in AAWIL, I suggest you track down Brit series Being Human. The premise - where a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost all share a flat - sounds mega dumb, but it's brilliant because the vampires are genuine addicts, there's a decent amount of blood and gore for a tv show, AND the werewolf transformation is as good as AAWIL i.e. long, slow, and PAINFUL. Track it down before Scyfy fuck it up with a bad remake!

Heather19
03-21-2010, 04:03 PM
Woofer, if you love the transformation in AAWIL, I suggest you track down Brit series Being Human. The premise - where a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost all share a flat - sounds mega dumb, but it's brilliant because the vampires are genuine addicts, there's a decent amount of blood and gore for a tv show, AND the werewolf transformation is as good as AAWIL i.e. long, slow, and PAINFUL. Track it down before Scyfy fuck it up with a bad remake!

I've been wanting to see this. I missed it when BBC America was showing it. But I think the second series is starting here this summer so I'm hoping they re-air the first one prior to the start or at least release the dvds.

DoctorDodge
03-21-2010, 04:54 PM
It's certainly worth a look, Heather19: the 2nd best British monster show to watch out for on BBCAmerica!

My current theme is currently giving small clues as to what I consider the no 1 monster show to check out, of course! :D

Woofer
03-21-2010, 05:35 PM
Being Human? I will definitely see about getting my paws on that. Maybe some of my YT buddies have access. :orely:

BTW, my main YouTube account, where I share house a buttload of playlists for horror on YouTube is TheCuteWoofer (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCuteWoofer). I'm migrating my MST3K to another account eventually because they've made it too hard to organize a lot of lists now.

Don't laugh at me. I have all the Dr. Who specials with David Tenant linked (need to make sure they're updated), but I've only watched the first two. This is because YT doesn't autoadvance on full screen any longer. And that makes wolves very unhappy.

Still, I keep up my lists for people to try before they buy horror. I remember record stores where you could do that. My site urges subscribers to buy the movies if they like them. May I also recommend GoblinXXX (a good friend to the wolf) who stays way on top of his YT channels?


Midnight Movie Massacre (http://www.youtube.com/user/GoblinXXX) - all horror, all the time.

Load Pan Bay (http://www.youtube.com/user/GoblinXX1) - This channel is dedicated to playlists of full episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the best show to ever grace the airwaves.

Rocket Number 9 (http://www.youtube.com/user/Goblinxx22) - This channel is dedicated to playlists of full episodes of TV shows and pilots- Sci Fi, Horror, Cult and Educational.


ETA: Being Human is not available on Netflix, but I saved it for later. Putting out feelers.

Jean
03-21-2010, 10:31 PM
my favorite horrors are:

any quiet creeping family horror including children of any kind: changelings, ghosts, ghost-seers, dangerously insane, just "weird", dead etc

anything taking place in a psychiatric asylum

anything related to psychopathology, except the cases when the authors try to draw an additional "moral", and the psychopath is the moralist (Saw; The Silence of the Lamb, etc): these are usually shit

The best ones I've seen so far have been El Orfanato and The Others.

thebumblerinblack
03-21-2010, 10:55 PM
I love horror movies. Werewolf flicks are probably my favorite, but I like monsters, ghosts and demons, too. Not into movies like the scream series, or the grudge, high budget, too much cgi movies with only beautiful people, shit like that. I like a lot of the cheesy ones, though, troma movies are fun as hell to watch while :) (well, any movie is hehe).

I can't wait to see the nightmare on elm st remake coming out next month. I think it'll be good, Rorschach will make a good Freddy.

I think my love for horror movies spawned from being traumatized by the movie Child's Play when I watched it at a friend's house at age 6 or 7. I had to throw my MyBuddy doll away cause it reminded me of chucky. Ever since then I guess my subconscious just craves scary.

The scariest horror movie I've seen is still the original exorcist. The sounds (and vomit) that come out of little Regan's mouth, jeezum crow!!

Woofer
03-21-2010, 11:35 PM
I would've said werewolves, but they almost always disappoint. So I settle for monsters!

RAWR!

thebumblerinblack
03-21-2010, 11:57 PM
yeah a lot of em arent very good, but the good ones are real good, both the american werewolf movies and Wolf with good old jack nicholson to name a couple, but the werewolves somehow never look exactly how I want them to. I don't like them to be too wolfish, I want to see the human and the beast. I havent seen the new wolfman yet. Is that good?

Savvy
03-22-2010, 04:34 AM
anyone seen creep?

Woofer
03-22-2010, 05:04 AM
I haven't seen it! I have heard mixed reviews, though.

For werewolves, I like them to be able to change by degrees (depending on how much control they have over it).

Ah! For a great example of exactly how I think werewolves should be and act and be able to change, just read Robert R. McCammon's The Wolf's Hour. In fact, read it anyway - great book!

Back to werewolves on screen, I am almost always disappointed. What the hell, for example, was with the werewolf in Harry Potter? Sirius as a dog looked more werewolfish than Lupin as a werewolf did - at least according to J.K. Rowling's description of werewolves and what distinguishes them from regular wolves.

I have seen Creep. Isn't that the one where that thing is following the woman in the subway?

Heather19
03-22-2010, 06:51 AM
I havent seen the new wolfman yet. Is that good?

It was ok, but it had the potential to be so much better. Since you like werewolf films I'd say to check it out, just don't go in with really high expectations.

pathoftheturtle
03-22-2010, 07:21 AM
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Woofer
03-22-2010, 07:27 AM
Trilogy of Terror!

Zuni warrior fetish - get one now!

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fernandito
03-22-2010, 07:36 AM
Ugh, need to see The Thing, saw a few clips of it, and it truly looks terrifying! I'm always fascinated by the kind of body horror that films like that can achieve so successfully, where a man slowly, VERY slowly, starts to change into something inhuman. It's why I think District 9 is shocking and in some places genuinely horrifying, and why I also want to watch David Cronenberg's The Fly. Idk, i think i've been drawn to it, to that kind of horror, ever since seeing a man's hand wrapped in green bubble wrap in Dr Who when i was just 8 years old! :lol:


You most definitely need to check out The Thing. Apart from the perennial body horror that's rampant throughout, the films greatest strength is the exploration of themes like isolation and the not knowing of who to confide / trust in, and that lingering sense of paranoia that's ever present throughout the film. It is my favorite horror film.

turtlex
03-22-2010, 07:40 AM
Trilogy Of Terror !! :lol:

That cracked me up !

Oh, Carpenter's The Thing is seriously worth seeing. ( Hmmm.... not sure I ever considered it a Horror Movie, though ).

The Fly. :meh: By today's standards, it's gooey but not exactly good. Mostly, it kind of turned my stomach more than scared me.

Woofer
03-22-2010, 08:58 AM
Monsters. Aliens. Other lifeforms.

But I will watch almost anything horror, from Entrails of a Virgin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222817/) to John Carpenter's The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) to The Spiral Staircase (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038975/) to The Trollenberg Terror (aka The Crawling Eye) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052320/).

Of course I won't necessarily watch it twice. :P

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Ugh, need to see The Thing, saw a few clips of it, and it truly looks terrifying! I'm always fascinated by the kind of body horror that films like that can achieve so successfully, where a man slowly, VERY slowly, starts to change into something inhuman. It's why I think District 9 is shocking and in some places genuinely horrifying, and why I also want to watch David Cronenberg's The Fly. Idk, i think i've been drawn to it, to that kind of horror, ever since seeing a man's hand wrapped in green bubble wrap in Dr Who when i was just 8 years old! :lol:

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Definitely check out The Thing as it is also explores the themes of isolation and trust and is one of the few all male casts that I can recall. The Fly is also one to check out.

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Ugh, need to see The Thing, saw a few clips of it, and it truly looks terrifying! I'm always fascinated by the kind of body horror that films like that can achieve so successfully, where a man slowly, VERY slowly, starts to change into something inhuman. It's why I think District 9 is shocking and in some places genuinely horrifying, and why I also want to watch David Cronenberg's The Fly. Idk, i think i've been drawn to it, to that kind of horror, ever since seeing a man's hand wrapped in green bubble wrap in Dr Who when i was just 8 years old! :lol:


You most definitely need to check out The Thing. Apart from the perennial body horror that's rampant throughout, the films greatest strength is the exploration of themes like isolation and the not knowing of who to confide / trust in, and that lingering sense of paranoia that's ever present throughout the film. It is my favorite horror film.


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Oh, Carpenter's The Thing is seriously worth seeing. ( Hmmm.... not sure I ever considered it a Horror Movie, though ).<snip>

Universal praise from me, feev, AND Pam :grouphug: - sounds like you MUST see this movie.


Why aren't you watching this RIGHT NOW? Why are you here still?

feev, it's my #1 horror, too. :couple: :wub: :couple:

candy
03-22-2010, 11:31 AM
anyone seen creep?

i did, i loved it to start with, then it went the same as all the others, which was a shame


my favorite horrors are:

any quiet creeping family horror including children of any kind: changelings, ghosts, ghost-seers, dangerously insane, just "weird", dead etc

anything taking place in a psychiatric asylum

anything related to psychopathology, except the cases when the authors try to draw an additional "moral", and the psychopath is the moralist (Saw; The Silence of the Lamb, etc): these are usually shit

The best ones I've seen so far have been El Orfanato and The Others.

i love asylum films and children (esp when they are singing **shivers**), anything slow and where the atmosphere and music as opposed to blood and guts. Dont get me wrong i love a good slasher movie, but they aren't scarey enough for me. I love hiding behind a cushion and then being too scared to go to bed alone:scared::scared:

Brice
03-22-2010, 11:43 AM
The Thing is great! The original movie was less so. John Carpenter's was closer to the original novella/short story.

Woofer
03-22-2010, 12:04 PM
Monsters. Aliens. Other lifeforms.

But I will watch almost anything horror, from Entrails of a Virgin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222817/) to John Carpenter's The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) to The Spiral Staircase (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038975/) to The Trollenberg Terror (aka The Crawling Eye) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052320/).

Of course I won't necessarily watch it twice. :P

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Ugh, need to see The Thing, saw a few clips of it, and it truly looks terrifying! I'm always fascinated by the kind of body horror that films like that can achieve so successfully, where a man slowly, VERY slowly, starts to change into something inhuman. It's why I think District 9 is shocking and in some places genuinely horrifying, and why I also want to watch David Cronenberg's The Fly. Idk, i think i've been drawn to it, to that kind of horror, ever since seeing a man's hand wrapped in green bubble wrap in Dr Who when i was just 8 years old! :lol:

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Definitely check out The Thing as it is also explores the themes of isolation and trust and is one of the few all male casts that I can recall. The Fly is also one to check out.

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Ugh, need to see The Thing, saw a few clips of it, and it truly looks terrifying! I'm always fascinated by the kind of body horror that films like that can achieve so successfully, where a man slowly, VERY slowly, starts to change into something inhuman. It's why I think District 9 is shocking and in some places genuinely horrifying, and why I also want to watch David Cronenberg's The Fly. Idk, i think i've been drawn to it, to that kind of horror, ever since seeing a man's hand wrapped in green bubble wrap in Dr Who when i was just 8 years old! :lol:


You most definitely need to check out The Thing. Apart from the perennial body horror that's rampant throughout, the films greatest strength is the exploration of themes like isolation and the not knowing of who to confide / trust in, and that lingering sense of paranoia that's ever present throughout the film. It is my favorite horror film.


<snip>

Oh, Carpenter's The Thing is seriously worth seeing. ( Hmmm.... not sure I ever considered it a Horror Movie, though ).<snip>

Universal praise from me, feev, AND Pam :grouphug: - sounds like you MUST see this movie.


Why aren't you watching this RIGHT NOW? Why are you here still?

feev, it's my #1 horror, too. :couple: :wub: :couple:


The Thing is great! The original movie was less so. John Carpenter's was closer to the original novella/short story.

Now is there any question?

True story. I was lying on the floor beside my brother's Siberian Husky the first time I saw The Thing.

turtlex
03-22-2010, 01:03 PM
A big part about Carpenter's Thing being so great ... Feev puts it perfectly - "the exploration of themes like isolation and the not knowing of who to confide / trust in, and that lingering sense of paranoia that's ever present throughout the film."

... it is that aspect that of the movie that completely backbones the entire film and makes it more than just a horror or sci-fi movie.

Heather19
03-22-2010, 01:22 PM
Well I may as well add in some love for The Thing too :lol:. It really is a great film. I'd recommend checking it out.
Was the original really bad? I've been wanting to see that one.

Woofer
03-22-2010, 01:51 PM
Monsters. Aliens. Other lifeforms.

But I will watch almost anything horror, from Entrails of a Virgin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222817/) to John Carpenter's The Thing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084787/) to The Spiral Staircase (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038975/) to The Trollenberg Terror (aka The Crawling Eye) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052320/).

Of course I won't necessarily watch it twice. :P

<snip>
<snip>

Ugh, need to see The Thing, saw a few clips of it, and it truly looks terrifying! I'm always fascinated by the kind of body horror that films like that can achieve so successfully, where a man slowly, VERY slowly, starts to change into something inhuman. It's why I think District 9 is shocking and in some places genuinely horrifying, and why I also want to watch David Cronenberg's The Fly. Idk, i think i've been drawn to it, to that kind of horror, ever since seeing a man's hand wrapped in green bubble wrap in Dr Who when i was just 8 years old! :lol:

<snip>


<snip>

Definitely check out The Thing as it is also explores the themes of isolation and trust and is one of the few all male casts that I can recall. The Fly is also one to check out.

<snip>




Ugh, need to see The Thing, saw a few clips of it, and it truly looks terrifying! I'm always fascinated by the kind of body horror that films like that can achieve so successfully, where a man slowly, VERY slowly, starts to change into something inhuman. It's why I think District 9 is shocking and in some places genuinely horrifying, and why I also want to watch David Cronenberg's The Fly. Idk, i think i've been drawn to it, to that kind of horror, ever since seeing a man's hand wrapped in green bubble wrap in Dr Who when i was just 8 years old! :lol:


You most definitely need to check out The Thing. Apart from the perennial body horror that's rampant throughout, the films greatest strength is the exploration of themes like isolation and the not knowing of who to confide / trust in, and that lingering sense of paranoia that's ever present throughout the film. It is my favorite horror film.


<snip>

Oh, Carpenter's The Thing is seriously worth seeing. ( Hmmm.... not sure I ever considered it a Horror Movie, though ).<snip>

Universal praise from me, feev, AND Pam :grouphug: - sounds like you MUST see this movie.


Why aren't you watching this RIGHT NOW? Why are you here still?

feev, it's my #1 horror, too. :couple: :wub: :couple:


The Thing is great! The original movie was less so. John Carpenter's was closer to the original novella/short story.

Now is there any question?

True story. I was lying on the floor beside my brother's Siberian Husky the first time I saw The Thing.


Well I may as well add in some love for The Thing too :lol:. It really is a great film. I'd recommend checking it out.
Was the original really bad? I've been wanting to see that one.


A big part about Carpenter's Thing being so great ... Feev puts it perfectly - "the exploration of themes like isolation and the not knowing of who to confide / trust in, and that lingering sense of paranoia that's ever present throughout the film."

... it is that aspect that of the movie that completely backbones the entire film and makes it more than just a horror or sci-fi movie.

It's not bad, it's just not as good. Certainly it doesn't seem as scary to our modern sensibilities.

DoctorDodge
03-22-2010, 02:22 PM
Ok, i'm aware i do need to see this film, and badly. Truth be told, i actually did try to watch it round a mate's once, but the video we were watching was OLD, and in bad condition, so much so that it was practically unwatchable, so in the end I just gave up on it. I'll pick it up cheap on dvd, somewhere.


A big part about Carpenter's Thing being so great ... Feev puts it perfectly - "the exploration of themes like isolation and the not knowing of who to confide / trust in, and that lingering sense of paranoia that's ever present throughout the film."

... it is that aspect that of the movie that completely backbones the entire film and makes it more than just a horror or sci-fi movie.

Now, I always enjoy a film like that - where paranoia and claustrophobia rise so much you start to feel the panic yourself, but I actually find that a lot of the best horror movies are like that, pam. Not all of them, and there a few films out there that can achieve this that may not be thought of as "horror", but i think these elements are so closely connected with the best horror movies (or even on tv with shows like "The X Files", Ice is easily one of my favourites from Season One because it achieves all of this), that these days is easy to think of a film which has those elements as "horror", anyway.

Again, it's another reason why I quite liked the Children - the building mistrust between two families is fantastic! (Although, it is set at xmas, so nothing unusual there.)

Woofer
03-22-2010, 02:30 PM
:beat:

Jean
03-23-2010, 01:06 AM
i love asylum films and children (esp when they are singing **shivers**), anything slow and where the atmosphere and music as opposed to blood and guts. Dont get me wrong i love a good slasher movie, but they aren't scarey enough for me. I love hiding behind a cushion and then being too scared to go to bed alone:scared::scared:
candylove, could you recommend something to a bear? http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bearheart.gif

turtlex
03-23-2010, 02:40 AM
DD !! :couple: That's one of my all time favorite X-Files episodes!

Jean
03-23-2010, 05:14 AM
who wants to make a list of scariest movies ever? (if possible, specify some keywords so people/animals who don't know the movie would have an idea of what type it is)

The scariest, not the best; it doesn't have to be the same.

1. El Orphanato [children, ghosts]

Darkthoughts
03-23-2010, 05:26 AM
Woofer, if you love the transformation in AAWIL, I suggest you track down Brit series Being Human.
Absolutely! Being Human is fantastic, makes me proud of British tv :thumbsup:

My Dad is more of a horror fan than I am, but I remember the first time he ever watched The Thing, he said he double checked he'd locked all the doors before he went to bed :lol: His ultimate film is Alien. He said the first time he ever saw that scene with John Hurt it was just so unexpected and well executed (ha, excuse the pun!) :D

I'm a bit of a horror wuss, but at the same time I'm drawn to them - like, if I come across one I'm compelled to watch it, even though I don't go out of my way to. I find the more modern stuff like Saw too disturbing - I haven't watched any of them, the closest I've gotten to that kinda torture horror is Wolf Creek which was too freaky.

I like horror to be over the top or fantastical.

DoctorDodge
03-23-2010, 06:01 AM
Woofer, if you love the transformation in AAWIL, I suggest you track down Brit series Being Human.
Absolutely! Being Human is fantastic, makes me proud of British tv :thumbsup:

My Dad is more of a horror fan than I am, but I remember the first time he ever watched The Thing, he said he double checked he'd locked all the doors before he went to bed :lol: His ultimate film is Alien. He said the first time he ever saw that scene with John Hurt it was just so unexpected and well executed (ha, excuse the pun!) :D

I'm a bit of a horror wuss, but at the same time I'm drawn to them - like, if I come across one I'm compelled to watch it, even though I don't go out of my way to. I find the more modern stuff like Saw too disturbing - I haven't watched any of them, the closest I've gotten to that kinda torture horror is Wolf Creek which was too freaky.

I like horror to be over the top or fantastical.

I'm afraid I'm exactly the same, Dt. I like a good horror film, but only if it doesn't go past my realistic gore limit. OTT gore, such as Planet Terror, that I can handle because it's less of a horror and more of a comedy, but I just can't watch torture films. With the exception of some of the Saw films: it's weird, but the puzzle-like nature of the traps tones it down for me. Films like Hostel, on the other hand, where the torture is done by other people...yeah, that kinda stuff just shreads my nerves a little too much. Still, I love a bit of gore if there's some imagination behind it.

And Alien is always a classic. Especially the scene with John Hurt: not only one of the most memorable scenes in scifi horror history, but it has also been used by men all around the world to explain to their wives that they DO know how painful going into labour can be!

Darkthoughts
03-23-2010, 06:08 AM
:lol:

I know what you're saying with the gore - I watched Evil Dead 2 and was fine with that, because it was OTT and funny. Again, like you, Hostel is not something that appeals to me at all. Even the acted terror of the characters just makes it too uncomfortable for me.

Not a film I've watched, but what was it about Event Horizon that terrified people so much? Even hardened horror buffs I know say that was too much for them.

DoctorDodge
03-23-2010, 06:13 AM
You know, I'm not sure. I saw it a long time ago, and I was ok with it myself. It creeped me out, sure, but I've seen scarier. It's just basically a haunted house movie in space, with some light dashings of Hellraiser in. There really wasn't that much that I found truly original with the film, tbh.

Now speaking of Hellraiser: watched that once, and...fuck. I mean, fuck! It's probably one of the most fucked up films I've ever seen! It's sick, it's nasty, and it nearly made me throw up. Of course, another British classic!

Darkthoughts
03-23-2010, 06:20 AM
I liked all the 80's horrors like Fright Night, Lost Boys, Waxwork...that kinda stuff was more amusing than scary.

Melike
03-23-2010, 06:33 AM
I am totally in love with any kind of horror movies except teen slasher movies like My Bloody Valentine.

Asian horror movies are on top of my list. Some of them has a romantic/dramatic point of view, about death, villains, monsters.
Besides, I love surreal, absurd, bizarre images and storylines in a movie.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1222/4fs0.jpg
http://www.sgnewwave.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/pan-2.jpg

Vampire movies! http://i788.photobucket.com/albums/yy168/melikeb/forum/kalp.png
http://img.blogcu.com/uploads/nosferatu06_nosferatu.jpg
http://uashome.alaska.edu/~dfgriffin/website/dracula.jpg

I also like torture movies. Ichi the Killer...

DoctorDodge
03-23-2010, 07:04 AM
Oh, Ichi the Killer! Another film that I've seen, despite my high aversion to gore, only at the constant insistence of my best mate, of course!

Having said that, during the one scene my mate said he could NEVER watch, I of course decided to watch it. Just because I'm weird like that. And the fact that my best mate and I are constant arch enemies and will do anything to prove that oneself is better than the other bastard!

It was the tongue slicing off scene. Yowch!

fernandito
03-23-2010, 07:18 AM
I'm not sure I'd quality Ichi as a full fledged horror film, but it is very damn gory / unnerving to be sure ! The part that got to me the most was :

When that Yakuza boss is hanging from the hooks and Kakihara pours the boiling water over him ! :scared:

thebumblerinblack
03-23-2010, 07:26 AM
Ichi the Killer is great, the most fucked up movie I'd seen until I watched Antichrist...but have you seen other films by Ichi's director, Takashi Miike? That guy is so twisted, two of his movies I'd recommend to this thread are Gozu, and Imprint. Imprint was one of the Masters of Horror episodes, has anyone seen that series from Showtime? Definitely some good ones from that (Pelts, Pro-Life, Dreams in the Witch House).

Woofer
03-23-2010, 07:31 AM
http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo194/TheCuteWoofer/Werewolves/werewolf_smilie.gif

Sickrose
03-23-2010, 08:25 AM
Now speaking of Hellraiser: watched that once, and...fuck. I mean, fuck! It's probably one of the most fucked up films I've ever seen! It's sick, it's nasty, and it nearly made me throw up. Of course, another British classic!

I totally agree with this it scared the shit out of me. I was only a kid when I saw it and i STILL have nightmares about it.

I like more supernatural horror like The Ring and The Grudge despite scating the shit out of me.

The most recent thing I have seen which spooked me loads was Evil Dead 1 - the whole bit with that laughing possessed girl was intense.

My other half bought me a hammer horror collection for Xmas and The Nanny is a cracking film - it is scary in a non gory kind of way. The power play between the nanny and the kid in it is really spooky!!

Woofer
03-23-2010, 08:59 AM
I'm not sure I'd quality Ichi as a full fledged horror film, but it is very damn gory / unnerving to be sure ! The part that got to me the most was :

When that Yakuza boss is hanging from the hooks and Kakihara pours the boiling water over him ! :scared:

That was boiling oil from the tempura he had been cooking before they arrived.

/over & out

pathoftheturtle
03-23-2010, 12:08 PM
who wants to make a list of scariest movies ever? (if possible, specify some keywords so people/animals who don't know the movie would have an idea of what type it is)

The scariest, not the best; it doesn't have to be the same.

1. El Orphanato [children, ghosts]Very true. I haven't got any scary ones that aren't really good, off of the top of my head, but I could easily list a number that don't much scare me although they're definitely some of the best horror movies. I'll have to think more about scariest... you sure that's all you want to list?

Jean
03-23-2010, 12:10 PM
bears love to list anything! they don't mind a list of the best horror movies, either!

By the way, El Orfanato would be at the top of this other list, too...

Dagavidiab
03-23-2010, 12:12 PM
Eh....

Haunted Room

or

The Haunted Drum

Dagavidiab
03-23-2010, 12:28 PM
This one is very graphic....

"Meat Grinder" Trailer [R-Rated]

Umm... hungry!

Woofer
03-23-2010, 12:50 PM
IMDB should help you guys with names.

/out

Heather19
03-23-2010, 01:48 PM
who wants to make a list of scariest movies ever? (if possible, specify some keywords so people/animals who don't know the movie would have an idea of what type it is)

The scariest, not the best; it doesn't have to be the same.

1. El Orphanato [children, ghosts]

:huglove:

I have a very high threshold for horror films, so there aren't that many that actually really truly scare me. These aren't my top horror films (although I do love them all), but probably the ones that scared me the most.

1. The Shining (1980) - I know most here will probably disagree with me on this one, but this one still creeps me out even though I've seen it probably a million times.
2. Ils (aka Them) - unseen stalkers
3. Paranormal Activity - ghosts
4. The Fourth Kind - alien abductions

I don't know what it was about those last two, but they scared the crap out of me when I first saw them. I'm not even sure I could watch them right away again, I was that scared :lol:

Woofer
03-23-2010, 03:12 PM
:beat:

DoctorDodge
03-23-2010, 04:39 PM
Ok, i was in town today, and guess what I saw on dvd for a fiver?

That's right, i've finally watched John Carpenter's The Thing, and...bloody hell. Mixes the perfect amount of claustrophobia, paranoia, and good ol' fashioned gore moments that make you quote Nathon Fillion in Slither (another classic sick "wtf?!?" fest), "That's some pretty fucked up shit!" I can see why it's a classic!

Also watched the trailer, and I nearly lmao. Because I had finally got the joke to one of my favourite trailers:

YouTube- Sam &amp; Max - Ice Station Santa

I had always found this funny before, but I hadn't realised how much of a direct pisstake it was until now!

Oh, and anyone with a pc or a wii NEEDS to play this!

Melike
03-23-2010, 10:08 PM
Ichi the Killer is great, the most fucked up movie I'd seen until I watched Antichrist...but have you seen other films by Ichi's director, Takashi Miike? That guy is so twisted, two of his movies I'd recommend to this thread are Gozu, and Imprint. Imprint was one of the Masters of Horror episodes, has anyone seen that series from Showtime? Definitely some good ones from that (Pelts, Pro-Life, Dreams in the Witch House).

Definitely!

Jean
03-27-2010, 02:18 AM
The scariest - and the best - Americal horror I've seen lately was The Dark, by John Fawcett. It's rather unique inasmuch as unlike any other American horrors I've seen yet

it bears a totally non-Christian message that there are sins that can't be redeemed whatever you do: no repentance, no martyrdom, nothing you do or feel or become will help, and there's no hope, not even such that was offered in The Others or El Orfanato.

Having lately watched a shit ton of horrors, I've also learned that most people are called Sarah and Stephen, and they always sleep fully clothed.

Heather19
03-27-2010, 07:45 AM
:lol:

Jean here's a few other recommendations I've got for you. Not sure if you've seen any of them or not.
In the Mouth of Madness
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Infection (Kansen)
28 Days Later

Not sure if you'll like those last two, but I thought it was worth a mention.


Also have you ever heard of a film Session 9? It's about a group of men who go in to clean up an old asylum. I've seen good things written about it online, but haven't had a chance to watch it yet.

Jean
03-27-2010, 08:02 AM
I've seen 28 DL, and loved it - not as a horror, but as a great story of a ka-tet; the whole bit when they meet those militarized survivors, and all the final part - that is, approximately one whole half of the movie - is really really good. (I think by now we understand each other so well that I don't have to mention that 28 Weeks Later was pathetic shit)

Have never seen any of the rest! You have a very interested bear now!

Did you see The Reflecting Skin?

Heather19
03-27-2010, 08:17 AM
I've seen 28 DL, and loved it - not as a horror, but as a great story of a ka-tet; the whole bit when they meet those militarized survivors, and all the final part - that is, approximately one whole half of the movie - is really really good. (I think by now we understand each other so well that I don't have to mention that 28 Weeks Later was pathetic shit)

Have never seen any of the rest! You have a very interested bear now!

Did you see The Reflecting Skin?

Oh good, enjoy :huglove:

I have not seen it, but I just looked it up. It looks really interesting. I'll have to see if I can track down a copy.

Woofer
03-27-2010, 02:24 PM
My friend Gobbie mentioned my YT channel in his Midnight Movie Massacre hits 500 subscribers video!

Ruthful
03-27-2010, 03:46 PM
http://www.allmovie.com/work/330730

Heather19
03-27-2010, 04:18 PM
http://www.allmovie.com/work/330730

I forgot all about this movie. How was it?

ArtherEld
03-27-2010, 04:46 PM
http://www.allmovie.com/work/330730

I forgot all about this movie. How was it?

They got the whole thing on youtube. I'll have to watch this when I get back from work.

Ruthful
03-27-2010, 06:08 PM
http://www.allmovie.com/work/330730

I forgot all about this movie. How was it?

It was pretty good. I haven't watched too many Dario Argento films-supposedly, they're going to release a remake of Suspiria soon-but I enjoyed that one.

Woofer
03-27-2010, 06:26 PM
http://www.allmovie.com/work/330730

I forgot all about this movie. How was it?

It was pretty good. I haven't watched too many Dario Argento films-supposedly, they're going to release a remake of Suspiria soon-but I enjoyed that one.

:doh:

Heather19
03-27-2010, 06:36 PM
http://www.allmovie.com/work/330730

I forgot all about this movie. How was it?

It was pretty good. I haven't watched too many Dario Argento films-supposedly, they're going to release a remake of Suspiria soon-but I enjoyed that one.

Oh no, you're kidding me. That's one of those films that should not be remade.

Savvy
04-05-2010, 10:09 AM
I haven't seen it! I have heard mixed reviews, though.

For werewolves, I like them to be able to change by degrees (depending on how much control they have over it).

Ah! For a great example of exactly how I think werewolves should be and act and be able to change, just read Robert R. McCammon's The Wolf's Hour. In fact, read it anyway - great book!

Back to werewolves on screen, I am almost always disappointed. What the hell, for example, was with the werewolf in Harry Potter? Sirius as a dog looked more werewolfish than Lupin as a werewolf did - at least according to J.K. Rowling's description of werewolves and what distinguishes them from regular wolves.

I have seen Creep. Isn't that the one where that thing is following the woman in the subway?

yes thats the one, it is the only horror that has truly freaked me out! I was high on gas and air at the time so my imagination went awol

Jean
04-05-2010, 10:50 AM
I have seen Creep. Isn't that the one where that thing is following the woman in the subway?

yes thats the one, it is the only horror that has truly freaked me out! I was high on gas and air at the time so my imagination went awol
mething that accounts for your being freaked out... I didn't find anything especially memorable or impressive about that movie, except

the man playing at doctors. That was good, especially when he mimics giving her narcosis

DoctorDodge
04-05-2010, 01:51 PM
Saw Midnight Meat Train and Trick 'r' Treat the other night. Both I really liked, but for very different reasons. MMT was as deep and dark story wise as you'd like a Clive Barker film to be, whilst still being pretty fucked up visual wise, and TrT was just classic horror anthology fun with a wicked sense of humour.

SynysterSaint
04-05-2010, 09:56 PM
TrT was just classic horror anthology fun with a wicked sense of humour.

I'm glad to hear you liked it!

My, my . . . what big eyes you have!

Savvy
04-06-2010, 01:10 AM
I have seen Creep. Isn't that the one where that thing is following the woman in the subway?

yes thats the one, it is the only horror that has truly freaked me out! I was high on gas and air at the time so my imagination went awol
mething that accounts for your being freaked out... I didn't find anything especially memorable or impressive about that movie, except

the man playing at doctors. That was good, especially when he mimics giving her narcosis

:lol: That is the part really I was laying on the hospital bed thinking that, that thing is going to come in here in a minute and torture me! I just kept on with the gas and air I'd rather go out not giving a shit really(excuse the language):D

Sickrose
04-06-2010, 03:36 AM
I watched an pretty good horror film the othe day called May. It's kind of plays with the Frankenstein story among other films. It's a about a girl who doesnt have any friends so makes her own ....

I have put the Children on my love film list and am looking forward to it.

Woofer
04-06-2010, 03:54 AM
I love May! I even own it.

It has Jeremy Sisto.

I could say more about horror. A lot more.

Sickrose
04-06-2010, 05:06 AM
I love May! I even own it.

It has Jeremy Sisto.

I could say more about horror. A lot more.

No way do you own it that's quality. that scene with the blind kids when they break the doll is really disturbing. I really like how it took it's time to build up tp the horror but the glass scraping noise is really eerie.

turtlex
04-06-2010, 05:30 AM
Hey All - Don't know if anyone has Comcast Cable or not ... but I caught Carpenters The Thing over the weekend!

Which, I thought, was very interesting since we'd just been talking about it here .... so, if you have Comcast, check to see if it's in your listsings or available OnDemand. I think I caught it on the free movie channel ENCORE. Good luck!

Jean
04-08-2010, 10:48 AM
Watched two horror movies yesterday, one very good, the other pathetic. The good one is Skjult (Hidden), a Norwegian movie that touched me deeply; also think that the actor who played the main part did a really really great job. Highly recommend it to everyone who loves them slow and sad.

The pathetic one was Descent: Part Two, which somehow managed to be even worse than Part One.

we were even cheated of the only bearable things the first descent was boast - namely, its bleak hopeless end.

No matter good or bad, I wasn't in the least surprised to learn the name of the main female characters in both the Norwegian and the American movies.

Yes. Sarah.

I'm beginning to think it's a law, or maybe the key part of some obscure conspiracy.

Woofer
04-08-2010, 11:13 AM
I love May! I even own it.

It has Jeremy Sisto.

I could say more about horror. A lot more.

No way do you own it that's quality. that scene with the blind kids when they break the doll is really disturbing. I really like how it took it's time to build up tp the horror but the glass scraping noise is really eerie.

Yes! I had never heard of it, but my neice let me borrow it. When I said I loved it, she said keep it. Sweet!

I need to watch it this weekend. Thanks for getting me geared up for it. :)

Pam - Glad you finally got to see The Thing. Does it rock or does it rock? :D

My biggest problem with horror that is sad and/or emotionally-based is that I can't handle how depressed it makes me these days (same with most dramas) - unless I am in a superhappy mood when I start watching. :arg:

Heather19
04-08-2010, 01:23 PM
Watched two horror movies yesterday, one very good, the other pathetic. The good one is Skjult (Hidden), a Norwegian movie that touched me deeply; also think that the actor who played the main part did a really really great job. Highly recommend it to everyone who loves them slow and sad.

:D I had that in my netflix queue. I just bumped it straight to the top! I've been on a Norwegian film kick lately.

Do you like slasher films at all Jean? I watched Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) awhile back, and loved it. If you like those types of films then I'd highly recommend it.

Woofer
04-08-2010, 01:50 PM
Don't ask what happened when I watched Dreams (yes, that Dreams) a couple of months ago.

Sauerkraut knickers frog swallow flappety, froth froth froth cuppa paking bow.

Jean
04-08-2010, 08:30 PM
Do you like slasher films at all Jean? I watched Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) awhile back, and loved it. If you like those types of films then I'd highly recommend it.
I rather like them - not half as much as slow, creepy, involved horrors featuring little girls, psycopaths and the chilling history of a particular house/lake/doll/family/hospital - my main problem with slashers is that they normally lack any development, substituting for it mere escalation. I don't mind them as a good, wholesome entertainment, though, and I especially love to see anything you loved! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bearheart.gif

Woofer
04-08-2010, 09:28 PM
Do you like slasher films at all Jean? I watched Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) awhile back, and loved it. If you like those types of films then I'd highly recommend it.
I rather like them - not half as much as slow, creepy, involved horrors featuring little girls, psycopaths and the chilling history of a particular house/lake/doll/family/hospital - my main problem with slashers is that they normally lack any development, substituting for it mere escalation. I don't mind them as a good, wholesome entertainment, though, and I especially love to see anything you loved! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bearheart.gif

HOLLYWOOD - Are you listening? Heed the bolded words.

pathoftheturtle
04-09-2010, 06:26 AM
Do you like slasher films at all Jean? I watched Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) awhile back, and loved it. If you like those types of films then I'd highly recommend it.
I rather like them - not half as much as slow, creepy, involved horrors featuring little girls, psycopaths and the chilling history of a particular house/lake/doll/family/hospital - my main problem with slashers is that they normally lack any development, substituting for it mere escalation. I don't mind them as a good, wholesome entertainment, though, and I especially love to see anything you loved! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bearheart.gif:lol: You must have the broadest possible view of what "wholesome" means. I'm not arguing; just appreciating an irony.;)

Woofer
04-09-2010, 09:57 AM
I'm not wearing any pants.

Heather19
04-09-2010, 01:47 PM
Do you like slasher films at all Jean? I watched Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey) awhile back, and loved it. If you like those types of films then I'd highly recommend it.
I rather like them - not half as much as slow, creepy, involved horrors featuring little girls, psycopaths and the chilling history of a particular house/lake/doll/family/hospital - my main problem with slashers is that they normally lack any development, substituting for it mere escalation. I don't mind them as a good, wholesome entertainment, though, and I especially love to see anything you loved! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bearheart.gif

So have you ever seen Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween? Based on your description, I think you might actually really enjoy that one. Zombie really delved into the character of Michael, that it adds another level to the film. Also it involves a child and a mental institution ;)

SynysterSaint
04-09-2010, 02:40 PM
I'm not wearing any pants.

*like*

Woofer
04-09-2010, 05:38 PM
I'm not wearing any pants.

*like*

:huglove: Thankee. I was beginning to think I was invisible. For a horror geek like myself, I feel strangely invisible most of the time when I post in this thread. :unsure:

Going to try to find something to watch tonight. I hope Fearnet has something new.

BTW, I was wearing pants then...but I am not now. :evil:

Sickrose
04-12-2010, 01:57 AM
I watched the children the other night as a result of this thread and I really enjoyed it. They really managed to build a decent amount of tension. The beginning scenes make the children seem ubiquitous therefore really setting up what follows!

It's defo the kind of horror I like.

i have put session 9 on my Lovefilm list.

Woofer since youhave seen May which I really liked - can you think of anything similar that I could add to my Lovefilm list ? Also id you watch May again?

Switchblade Romance is a fantastic film. It's French I think and not a common garden slasher as the title wold sugest. It has a pyscho in it and a shit load of tension - it really sets you n edge watching it !

SynysterSaint
04-12-2010, 10:29 AM
:huglove: Thankee. I was beginning to think I was invisible. For a horror geek like myself, I feel strangely invisible most of the time when I post in this thread. :unsure:

Going to try to find something to watch tonight. I hope Fearnet has something new.

BTW, I was wearing pants then...but I am not now. :evil:

You're welcome :rose:

I wish I could respond to most of what is being said here, but I haven't seen any of the movies you've been talking about lately :lol:

I'm very excited for the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street which comes out on my birthday!! :excited::excited: I can't wait to see it.

About the pants: good, woofer, I'm glad to hear you quit the false advertising ;)

pathoftheturtle
04-12-2010, 10:40 AM
...I was beginning to think I was invisible. ...Oh, we noticed... No offense meant. I dunno about anyone else, but I was just struck speechless. :|

fernandito
04-12-2010, 12:29 PM
Alright lovers of horror cinema, read the premise for this film and let me know what ya'll think :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_%28First_Sequence%29

Heather19
04-12-2010, 01:17 PM
Alright lovers of horror cinema, read the premise for this film and let me know what ya'll think :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_%28First_Sequence%29

:scared: Well I'm struck speechless.
That is probably the most bizarre premise for a film that I have ever heard of. :lol: Have you seen it?

fernandito
04-12-2010, 01:53 PM
Nope, I just became aware of it's existence today. A user on the IGN movie forums made a thread about it and I was wondering if any here saw it.

Heather19
04-12-2010, 02:00 PM
And what did they say? Did they enjoy it?
If you see it let me know what you think, I'm too scared to watch it :lol:

Melike
04-13-2010, 12:26 AM
Wow! I have to see it!

Woofer
04-13-2010, 06:54 AM
Thanks guys! Tee hee. Been feeling a little down in RL, so good to be noticed. :couple:

Sickrose - As far as something similar to May, the first thing that popped into my mind is Sick Girl, so I looked it up to confirm the information. I knew it was a MOH episode and that it also starred Angela Bettis, but I was surprised to find that both May and Sick Girl are Lucky McGee projects. Definitely check out Sick Girl - not nearly as gross or insipid as the title might suggest.

I'm with Melike - definitely have to see The Human Centipede. It can't be more disgusting than Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. Might have to watch it alone, though. That's stretching the limits of all the other fans I know IRL.

Sickrose
04-13-2010, 09:12 AM
Cool, Thanks woofer :) I will check it out. By any chance did you notice that there was another film called sick girl which looks fucking weird http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1078931/

Woofer
04-13-2010, 09:42 AM
Interesting! I must check out that Sick Girl, too. Thanks for spotting it; I was preoccupied with the Lucky McGee/Angela Bettis piece.

I forgot to mention - finally saw Ils last night. I totally skipped the American rip-off and went straight to the French original. :thumbsup:

Sickrose
04-13-2010, 10:03 AM
Interesting! I must check out that Sick Girl, too. Thanks for spotting it; I was preoccupied with the Lucky McGee/Angela Bettis piece.

I forgot to mention - finally saw Ils last night. I totally skipped the American rip-off and went straight to the French original. :thumbsup:

Ils is fantastic I went to the French original. Remakes just fuck me off especially when the original is so perfectly done.

Another of my favs is The Vanishing.

fernandito
04-13-2010, 12:47 PM
And what did they say? Did they enjoy it?
If you see it let me know what you think, I'm too scared to watch it :lol:

Don't think it's been released in the U.S yet ... however judging by the responses on the board, don't think many of the users there will be flocking en masse to see it.

I think once I get over the shock factor I'll probably watch it.

Heather19
04-13-2010, 01:18 PM
And what did they say? Did they enjoy it?
If you see it let me know what you think, I'm too scared to watch it :lol:

Don't think it's been released in the U.S yet ... however judging by the responses on the board, don't think many of the users there will be flocking en masse to see it.

I think once I get over the shock factor I'll probably watch it.

:lol: I know right! I'll be waiting to hear what you guys think of it. I'm still pretty creeped out by the premise.


Woofer :huglove: I LOVE Ils. It's one of my favorites. I try to get everyone I know to watch that film. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Woofer
04-13-2010, 01:30 PM
Interesting! I must check out that Sick Girl, too. Thanks for spotting it; I was preoccupied with the Lucky McGee/Angela Bettis piece.

I forgot to mention - finally saw Ils last night. I totally skipped the American rip-off and went straight to the French original. :thumbsup:

Ils is fantastic I went to the French original. Remakes just fuck me off especially when the original is so perfectly done.

Another of my favs is The Vanishing.

I'll have to check out The Vanishing. I have The Children added to my Netflix queue. At first I thought everyone was talking about the old 80s movie called The Children.

ETA: I'm glad I waited to watch it. The first time I tried, I was too tired to read the subtitles. This time I was glued to the set!



And what did they say? Did they enjoy it?
If you see it let me know what you think, I'm too scared to watch it :lol:

Don't think it's been released in the U.S yet ... however judging by the responses on the board, don't think many of the users there will be flocking en masse to see it.

I think once I get over the shock factor I'll probably watch it.

I'm not sure "enjoy" is the right term for a movie like this, Heather. LOL! I already added this one to my Netflix queue pending their acquisition of the film. The IFC has a page for this movie, but I closed the window, so... google, baby, google.

fernandito
04-13-2010, 01:58 PM
Woofer - If you're going to watch The Vanishing, make sure it's the Dutch original Sporloos and not the sub-par remake with Jeff Bridges.

Sickrose
04-14-2010, 03:25 AM
Yeah it's got to be the original which is the one I watched. I have heard the remake is just shite.

Woofer
04-14-2010, 05:21 PM
And what did they say? Did they enjoy it?
If you see it let me know what you think, I'm too scared to watch it :lol:

Don't think it's been released in the U.S yet ... however judging by the responses on the board, don't think many of the users there will be flocking en masse to see it.

I think once I get over the shock factor I'll probably watch it.

:lol: I know right! I'll be waiting to hear what you guys think of it. I'm still pretty creeped out by the premise.


Woofer :huglove: I LOVE Ils. It's one of my favorites. I try to get everyone I know to watch that film. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I found a trailer for The Human Centipede.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmTv2nqTHo

Melike
04-15-2010, 03:23 AM
Woofer, I am looking for the movie everywhere in last two days. I couldn't find it. :(

And I found out that there would be another sequence in 2010.
http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/34068/human-centipede-sequel-chatter-the-human-centipede-ii-the-full-sequence-2010

Woofer
04-15-2010, 03:33 AM
That will be so freaked out!

As predicted, even my closest horror buds IRL have said "You watch it first."

Mr. Woofer didn't want to see it before the trailer, and now he definitely doesn't want to see it. Hehehe.

Heather19
04-15-2010, 06:00 AM
Well it doesn't look nearly as crazy as I was expecting, but I think I'll still wait to hear what you guys think of it first :lol:

Woofer
04-15-2010, 08:26 AM
The official website (http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/human-centipede) for The Human Centipede lists a theatrical release of April 30 and an IFC on-demand release on April 28.

Anybody want to record this and send me a copy? Pretty please with brown sugar and a cherry on top?

fernandito
04-15-2010, 08:37 AM
Me and my friends think we might have found a theater nearby that's going to show it ... if that's the case, we're all gathering up our courage and heading out to watch it :D

Woofer
04-15-2010, 09:22 AM
AWESOME! I'm pretty sure I'd be alone in the theater.

Melike
04-15-2010, 10:17 PM
AWESOME! I'm pretty sure I'd be alone in the theater.

You wouldn't be alone Woofer. :couple:

Heather19
04-19-2010, 04:55 AM
I watched Skjult this past weekend. And I don't know, I had a hard time getting into it. I thought the film was kinda confusing, and very disjointed. It just kinda seemed to jump around a bit. And then I found it to be very predictable because I figured out early on how it was going to end.

I actually thought the main character was Peter from the get go because of the hair, and then I was thoroughly confused when I found out it wasn't him because the other kid looked nothing like him. And I was wondering why they didn't switch the casting of the kids. I thought maybe I had missed something :lol: But then it started to come together for me shortly after that. Do you think that was just a lot of foreshadowing on the directors part?

And a few other random questions that I had:
Was there a reason that the woman had a cast? And how did she know him, I don't think they ever said. Was the crazy woman living in the house right up until she passed away? or why were kids already sneaking in there? And who was the woman in the hotel? Was she just someone that he imagined to escape his pain when he was being locked up when he was younger?

Melike
04-19-2010, 05:19 AM
I have watched it yesterday and I felt totally disappointed. I don't care it being predictable. But, nothing about the movie is special. As you say, it is disorganised.
Yeah, I know. The hairs of the boys are so strange and confusing. For a llittle while, I thought it was a multiple personality disorder story.:rolleyes:

The crazy woman is his mother, I believe. The woman in the hotel is a singer or actress(he was holding a photo of her with microphone in her hand). I think, her existence in his life is his imagination.

Heather19
04-19-2010, 05:39 AM
I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one that was bothered by their hair color :lol:

And thanks, I was thinking that was the case with the woman in the hotel, but I missed the microphone in the picture I guess, I don't recall that. And I understand the crazy woman was his mother, but I was wondering if she was living in the house right up until the end? or had she been living in the hotel? It doesn't really matter I suppose but I was kinda curious because it was as if kids had been breaking into the house for quite awhile.

Any thoughts on the police woman?

Melike
04-19-2010, 05:48 AM
I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one that was bothered by their hair color :lol:

And thanks, I was thinking that was the case with the woman in the hotel, but I missed the microphone in the picture I guess, I don't recall that. And I understand the crazy woman was his mother, but I was wondering if she was living in the house right up until the end? or had she been living in the hotel? It doesn't really matter I suppose but I was kinda curious because it was as if kids had been breaking into the house for quite awhile.

Any thoughts on the police woman?

I thought she has been living in the house till the end. I am not sure why but I just pictured her like that. But, now I think I was wrong. I remember the woman in the hotel said that there was a shortcut between the hotel and the house. Still it doesn't make sense. Maybe she was at the hospital for a long while...

I think police woman was in love with him. :D

candy
04-19-2010, 09:26 AM
AWESOME! I'm pretty sure I'd be alone in the theater.

You wouldn't be alone Woofer. :couple:

make that 3
although i doubt it will make it to the theatre here and i will have to wait for the DVD. it looks ....... interesting:wtf:

Dagavidiab
04-26-2010, 05:41 AM
Anybody had seen this movie?

Trick 'r Treat (2008)

Already loving 0:55!!

Woofer
04-26-2010, 06:39 AM
It's in my queue.

SynysterSaint
04-26-2010, 06:51 AM
Dagavidiab: it's my favorite horror/thriller flick :)

Sickrose
04-26-2010, 10:53 PM
i have just added this to my Lovefilm list it looks awesome!

Dagavidiab
04-27-2010, 06:06 AM
Dagavidiab: it's my favorite horror/thriller flick :)

It says 2008, but never come to my country....... Fuc%ing country..... :pullhair:

Brice
04-27-2010, 07:33 AM
I am still needing to see that one.

fernandito
04-27-2010, 07:53 AM
Have that on my queue :)

SynysterSaint
04-27-2010, 04:59 PM
It says 2008, but never come to my country....... Fuc%ing country..... :pullhair:

Actually, it was slated for a 2007 release, but was pushed back for no official reason. Then, instead of being released in 2008 like the new date said it would, it was just simply not released (again, for no announced reason). Then, it was silently released in October of 2009 on Warner Bros. site as a direct-to-DVD film. It has a really cool and kind of creepy release history. I love it!

Heather19
04-27-2010, 05:24 PM
It says 2008, but never come to my country....... Fuc%ing country..... :pullhair:

Actually, it was slated for a 2007 release, but was pushed back for no official reason. Then, instead of being released in 2008 like the new date said it would, it was just simply not released (again, for no announced reason). Then, it was silently released in October of 2009 on Warner Bros. site as a direct-to-DVD film. It has a really cool and kind of creepy release history. I love it!

I was just going to say that I didn't recall it being released here either. Which is kinda surprising because I think it would have done well in the theater.

SynysterSaint
04-27-2010, 05:28 PM
I was just going to say that I didn't recall it being released here either. Which is kinda surprising because I think it would have done well in the theater.

Oh, it would have made a killing! But instead, they did... that. I don't understand it, but I have to say that I love the fact that I'm one of the few people I know to have seen it. No one has watched it or even heard of it before I show it to them. I get so much pleasure out of introducing people to films (or music, or video games, for that matter)! :lol:

Heather19
04-27-2010, 05:39 PM
I was just going to say that I didn't recall it being released here either. Which is kinda surprising because I think it would have done well in the theater.

Oh, it would have made a killing! But instead, they did... that. I don't understand it, but I have to say that I love the fact that I'm one of the few people I know to have seen it. No one has watched it or even heard of it before I show it to them. I get so much pleasure out of introducing people to films (or music, or video games, for that matter)! :lol:

Yep, you're the only one I know that's seen it, and you're the one that introduced me to it :lol:

I rarely understand the studios. It would have been the perfect Halloween movie release. I really hate when they put a release date on a film, only to have it pushed back, and then back, and back again....

SynysterSaint
04-27-2010, 06:40 PM
Yep, you're the only one I know that's seen it, and you're the one that introduced me to it :lol:

I rarely understand the studios. It would have been the perfect Halloween movie release. I really hate when they put a release date on a film, only to have it pushed back, and then back, and back again....

I'm just happy you enjoyed it!! :rose:

I still bring this movie up whenever my friends want to have a movie night. I've only shown it to 5 or 6 people here at UConn, but hopefully that will change. I have seen this movie enough times by now that I basically know the script :lol:

Dagavidiab
04-27-2010, 07:15 PM
Yep, you're the only one I know that's seen it, and you're the one that introduced me to it :lol:

Nonono, i did it :P

SynysterSaint
04-27-2010, 08:02 PM
Nonono, i did it :P

You're not trying to take credit for my work, are you? ;)

Woofer
04-28-2010, 06:48 AM
People who aren't me will be watching The Human Cenitpede: The First Sequence tonight.

Dagavidiab
04-28-2010, 08:35 AM
Nonono, i did it :P

You're not trying to take credit for my work, are you? ;)

I did post the trailer :rock:


People who aren't me will be watching The Human Cenitpede: The First Sequence tonight.

Where is the review???

Woofer
04-28-2010, 08:56 AM
MTV has a four minute trailer at their website. There's also a wiki on it, as well as interesting info at the IFC site as well. I honestly can't remember where I saw what as I devoured everything I could find on it.

Dagavidiab
04-28-2010, 10:02 AM
MTV has a four minute trailer at their website. There's also a wiki on it, as well as interesting info at the IFC site as well. I honestly can't remember where I saw what as I devoured everything I could find on it.

I'm sorry, i thought you said that you will be watching it! Another sorry..., because my broken use of tenses

Woofer
04-28-2010, 10:55 AM
No worries! I wish. Soon, though, very soon. I have it reserved on Netflix. :excited:

Brice
04-28-2010, 04:04 PM
Nonono, i did it :P

You're not trying to take credit for my work, are you? ;)

I did post the trailer :rock:




You did indeed (and you reminded me to see it), but SS posted it a couple/few months back also.

SynysterSaint
04-28-2010, 10:03 PM
You're going to love it, Brice! That's a promise :cool:

Dagavidiab
04-29-2010, 06:30 AM
You did indeed (and you reminded me to see it), but SS posted it a couple/few months back also.

:orely: I wasn't around a few months back... :arg: recorcholis!

fernandito
04-29-2010, 10:09 AM
People who aren't me will be watching The Human Cenitpede: The First Sequence tonight.

I'm /probably/ watching it over the weekend :D

fernandito
04-29-2010, 11:03 AM
Found a pretty harsh review of The Human Centipede -

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The Human Centipede
IFC Films // Unrated // April 30, 2010
Review by Jason Bailey | posted April 29, 2010 | E-mail the Author | Discuss


About halfway through The Human Centipede, as I was recoiling from what I was being shown, I asked myself a couple of fairly reasonable questions: Where does it go from here? And is anything going to happen that I actually want to see? I spent the next fifteen minutes staring at the screen with something akin to shame. At about the hour mark, I started to gather up my things; I've never walked out of a critics' screening before, but I was ready to. And then I stopped myself, because I would feel dishonest, writing a review of a movie I hadn't seen through to the end. But not writing this one up would be letting it off to easy. No. We need to talk about this movie.

It starts off interestingly, as these things go. Yes, the set-up is a little obvious--Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), two American tourists, are on a road trip through Europe. En route to an obscure nightclub, they get lost on a back road, flat tire, you know the drill. They wander through the nearby woods and end up at the home of Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser), who is plenty sinister. He lets them in, pretends to make a call, roofies their water, and takes them down to his basement lab.

So far, not so bad. The constant name repetition in the dialogue is irritating (there will be no doubt, by the end of the film, that one of the girls is named Lindsay, and the other is named Jenny), but the dread is thick, and the pseudo-Kubrickian photography is clean while creepily off-putting. Director Tom Six knows from atmosphere and gets the job done in these early scenes, slamming the "young women in jeopardy" set-up into a worst-case scenario, coldly and efficiently.

But some of it is just plain goofy, and it only gets worse when our evil genius lays out his ridiculous plan. Here it is (spoiler warning, etc.): the good doctor, who made his name and fame successfully separating Siamese twins, now plans to do the opposite. He explains to his two hostages, and the third one he's added, that he is going to connect them into a kind of (title!) human centipede. How will this centipede work, you ask? Oh, he explains it (and here's where you want to click away if you've got a weak stomach): he will surgically attach them to each other, mouth to anus, running the intestine from the front one, through the second, and into the third.

Somebody made a movie about this.

This is around when I started eyeing the exit. Most of the rest of my notes are along the lines of "Yep, they're really gonna show us this" and "This is actually happening." No, you think. They don't actually show that, it doesn't actually happen. Oh yes they do, and yes it does. The result is a cinematic geek show--there's absolutely no engagement with it whatsoever, because we spend the entire second half of the story feeling bad for the actors. They spend the second half of the film in that "human centipede", their faces buried in each other's asses, the girls (of course) topless. It's reprehensible. What this sadistic director has put them through runs parallel to the madman at his story's center--but this is worse, because it really happened. However much they paid these actors, it wasn't enough.

There's tension here or there, and skill in some of the performances--the girls are likable, and Laser has a real presence, though he turns too obvious at the climax, overacting grotesquely and then becoming laughably stupid at the plot's convenience. There's even some suspense in the repulsive climax, before the laughable attempt to shoehorn in some kind of bullshit philosophical nonsense.

But it's cheap, repugnant filmmaking. I can't imagine the director who would want to make The Human Centipede, or the distributor who would want other people to see it. But more than anything, I can't imagine the audience that would want to subject itself to it. I know, in writing a review this harsh and strongly-worded, I'm risking drawing people to it. Well, if it got that kind of response, if it's that fucked up, I gotta see it, right? Please trust me on this. I don't mean to be the carnival barker here, but it's seriously the most vile, sickening thing I've ever watched. You can't un-see it. Don't go, or the consequences could be dire. How, you ask? Well, there's a moment of confusion when the opening title comes up (ah, that lovely, simpler time in my life, the last moment before I'd seen The Human Centipede), because it reads The Human Centipede (First Sequence) . What the hell does that mean? When I went to imdb later, I found out: currently listed as "in development" is, of course, a sequel: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence). Young actors looking for a break, beware.

Source. (http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/43497/human-centipede-the/)

Dagavidiab
04-29-2010, 11:14 AM
Found a pretty harsh review of The Human Centipede -

jajaja, after this, who won't want to see this movie??

Woofer
04-29-2010, 01:34 PM
Dear Jason Bailey,

Constant name repetition is a staple of Hollywood, Jason. It's a standing joke with me and Mr. Woofer, Jason. Why single out this movie, Jason?

Hrm, Jason, some critic makes those same complaints every time an extreme movie comes out, such as Hostel, SAW, or Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom. Why should we think this is the one with no redeeming qualities, Jason? Isn't taste individual, Jason?

I suspect, Jason, that you feel superior to everyone because you watched it only to write a review. You didn't really want to see it, did you, Jason?

Well, Jason, let me tell you something. These same things were said 30 years ago when people heard the Sex Pistols and wanted to know what sort of twisted, fucked up, sick individuals would want to listen to songs like Bodies and God Save the Queen, Jason. And you know what, Jason, you want to know what? The fucking world is still here, Jason, and I suspect it will remain after The Human Centipede: The Second Sequence is filmed as well.

Love,
Woofer

Woofer
04-29-2010, 04:22 PM
People who aren't me will be watching The Human Cenitpede: The First Sequence tonight.

I'm /probably/ watching it over the weekend :D

Be my eyes? :fairy:

Sickrose
04-30-2010, 12:21 AM
I watched Trick R Treat last night - it is really good iliked all the intertwining stories pretty cool!

SynysterSaint
04-30-2010, 04:29 AM
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it, Sickrose!

Who was your favorite character and what was your favorite story? I really like Laurie (Little Red Riding Hood) and my favorite story/part was probably the serial-killer school president when he took his son downstairs! I love the suspense. You think for sure he's going to kill his son, but no! He's just going to help him with the eyes ;)

Jean
04-30-2010, 04:33 AM
Found a pretty harsh review of The Human Centipede -

jajaja, after this, who won't want to see this movie??

Bears definitely will, as soon as they can find a copy.

Woofer
04-30-2010, 05:31 AM
Found a pretty harsh review of The Human Centipede -

jajaja, after this, who won't want to see this movie??

Bears definitely will, as soon as they can find a copy.

:huglove:

Melike
04-30-2010, 05:36 AM
Found a pretty harsh review of The Human Centipede -

jajaja, after this, who won't want to see this movie??

Bears definitely will, as soon as they can find a copy.

:huglove:

Me too. :( But, I still couldn't find anyway to see it, which is not coming to the theatres around. :(

Woofer
04-30-2010, 06:31 AM
Wish we could watch it together. :grouphug:

Sickrose
04-30-2010, 10:57 AM
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it, Sickrose!

Who was your favorite character and what was your favorite story? I really like Laurie (Little Red Riding Hood) and my favorite story/part was probably the serial-killer school president when he took his son downstairs! I love the suspense. You think for sure he's going to kill his son, but no! He's just going to help him with the eyes ;)o

I think Laurie too - i didint see it coming and I loved the black humour in the fil. The fact she was dressed as Little Red riding hood, when the girls are talking about pulling at the last halloween and one of them says "they all taste the same" loved it! The principals son is quality the way he keeps yelling "dont forget to help me with the eyes" and of course the suspense like you say. Ohh it's hard to choose, maybe the story with the girl dressed as a witch. So fav character Laurie fav story- the school bus prank which turns out to be real. I loved how it referenced so many other horror films and staple scenes but in a clever rather than just ripping off other films way

Woofer
04-30-2010, 07:14 PM
The Children and Repo: The Genetic Opera are both available on Fearnet.com to watch instantly for free.

Dolan's Cadillac is on Netflix watch instantly, but the sound goes hinky after the opening credits. I've reported it (and added the entry to our King Film & TV Catalog).

ETA: Wow! The Children was really tiring. I need to watch it again to see what I missed the first time. Thanks guys! Your recommendations never fail. :thumbsup:

Heather19
05-01-2010, 11:35 AM
Glad you enjoyed it Woofer :)

Jean! I just saw Who Can Kill a Child? Excellent film. I think what worked so well is that all the children didn't come off as kid actors, nor did they look crazy. They just looked like your regular everyday children. The wife was quite annoying at times though. I know she didn't speak spanish so she didn't hear the story of the kids going crazy, but how could she not realize something was amiss in the town. And why did it take them so long to finally try to leave?
But that scene at the end where the guy goes and guns down the kids! You almost felt sympathetic toward them.

Ricky
05-01-2010, 03:34 PM
Repo: The Genetic Opera are both available on Fearnet.com to watch instantly for free.

:excited:

I've been wanting to see this for awhile, so I think I may watch it tomorrow (on Fearnet On Demand)!

Woofer
05-01-2010, 04:39 PM
I'm going to watch it soon, too. :)

Sickrose
05-03-2010, 02:03 AM
Hey, I was wathcing You Have Been Watching last night and there was a trailer for The Human Centipede. You should be able to catch the show on Channel 4OD I now sure if everyone can watgch it but thought I would mention....

Sickrose
05-03-2010, 02:05 AM
Sickrose - As far as something similar to May, the first thing that popped into my mind is Sick Girl, so I looked it up to confirm the information. I knew it was a MOH episode and that it also starred Angela Bettis, but I was surprised to find that both May and Sick Girl are Lucky McGee projects. Definitely check out Sick Girl - not nearly as gross or insipid as the title might suggest.

By the way what is MOH? is it a series ? It sounds interesting?

Brice
05-03-2010, 06:07 AM
Masters of Horror=Mick Garris's cable series which was actually done so each episode was a standalone (approximate) 1hr. movie by various horror directors. It was VERY good.

Sickrose
05-03-2010, 09:18 AM
Masters of Horror=Mick Garris's cable series which was actually done so each episode was a standalone (approximate) 1hr. movie by various horror directors. It was VERY good.

Thanks :) Sounds pretty immense. I have been checking out the box sets on Amazon and think I might invest it is defo up my streegt. Would you say there was a season which was the better than the others?

Brice
05-03-2010, 09:41 AM
There are only two seasons actually. There was also a third season (titled Fear Itself) although it was never completely aired that I know of. I really liked both of the first seasons. I haven't seen Fear Itself.

pathoftheturtle
05-04-2010, 08:22 AM
For TV, "Fear Itself" was truly excellent.

fernandito
05-06-2010, 11:57 AM
The Human Centipede
BY ROGER EBERT / May 5, 2010

It's not death itself that's so bad. It's what you might have to go through to get there. No horror film I've seen inflicts more terrible things on its victims than “The Human Centipede.” You would have to be very brave to choose this ordeal over simply being murdered. Maybe you'd need to also be insane.

I'm about to describe what happens to the film's victims. This will be a spoiler. I don't care, because (1) the details are common knowledge in horror film circles, and (2) if you don't know, you may be grateful to be warned. This is a movie I don't think I should be coy about.

OK. Dr. Heiter is a mad scientist. He was once a respected surgeon, but has now retreated to his luxurious home in the German forest, which contains an operating room in the basement. His skin has a sickly pallor, his hair is dyed black, his speech reminds us of a standard Nazi, and he gnashes his teeth. He is filled with hatred and vile perversion.

He drugs his victims and dumps them into his Mercedes. When they regain consciousness, they find themselves tied to hospital beds. He provides them with a little slide show to brief them on his plans. He will demonstrate his skills as a surgeon by — hey, listen, now you'd really better stop reading. What's coming next isn't so much a review as a public service announcement.

Heiter plans to surgically join his victims by sewing together their mouths and anuses, all in a row, so the food goes in at the front and comes out at the rear. They will move on their hands and knees like an insect. You don't want to be part of the Human Centipede at all, but you most certainly don't want to be in the middle. Why does he want to commit this atrocity? He is insane, as I've already explained.


Get the idea?

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He also wants to do it because he is in a movie by Tom Six, a Dutch director whose previous two films average 4 out of 10 on the IMDb.com scale, which is a score so low very few directors attain it. Six has now made a film deliberately intended to inspire incredulity, nausea and hopefully outrage. It's being booked as a midnight movie, and is it ever. Boozy fanboys will treat it like a thrill ride.

And yet within Six, there stirs the soul of a dark artist. He treats his material with utter seriousness; there's none of the jokey undertone of a classic Hammer horror film like “Scream … and Scream Again” (1970), in which every time the victim awoke, another limb had been amputated. That one starred the all-star trio of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and you could see they were having fun. Dieter Laser, who plays Dr. Heiter, takes the role with relentless sincerity. This is his 63rd acting role, but, poor guy, is seemingly the one he was born to play.

Tom Six is apparently the director's real name. I learn his favorite actor is Klaus Kinski, he is an AK-47 enthusiast, and wears RAF sunglasses and Panama hats. Not the kind of guy you want to share your seat on a Ferris wheel. He has said, “I get a rash from too much political correctness.” I promise you that after this movie, his skin was smooth as a Gerber baby's.

I have long attempted to take a generic approach. In other words, is a film true to its genre and does it deliver what its audiences presumably expect? “The Human Centipede” scores high on this scale. It is depraved and disgusting enough to satisfy the most demanding midnight movie fan. And it's not simply an exploitation film.

The director makes, for example, effective use of the antiseptic interior of Heiter's labyrinthine home. Doors and corridors lead nowhere and anywhere. In a scene where the police come calling, Six wisely has Heiter almost encourage their suspicions. And there is a scene toward the end, as the Human Centipede attempts escape, that's so piteous, it transcends horror and approaches tragedy.

The members of the Centipede are Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie and Akihiro Kitamura. The Japanese actor screams in subtitled Japanese, perhaps because he will broaden the film's appeal among Asian horror fans. In the film's last half, the two actresses don't scream at all, if you follow me.

I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.

Woofer
05-07-2010, 10:29 AM
Ebert, I am surprised at you. Kudos for coming through on an honest review, unlike some of the reviews he's done for far tamer movies. Man, I have been trying to find a pay copy online. My cable subscriber offers it, but we don't have premium service. They ought to offer it for PPV online, too.

I'm being deprived. {Insert picture of angry Calvin, arms crossed and brow furrowed.}

Brice
05-07-2010, 11:14 AM
Isn't this the first time he's refused to give a movie stars? :lol:

Woofer
05-07-2010, 11:50 AM
I'm not sure. I think you may be right. I could think of a place or two to put those stars, movie-wise.

JRM
05-07-2010, 12:29 PM
My two absolute favorites are The Mist and 28 Days Later. They'll forever hold place in my heart. :grouphug:

Yaksha
05-10-2010, 11:22 PM
Let the right one in. I just saw it and was literally speechless. just a simply magnificently done movie.

Melike
05-11-2010, 01:34 AM
Let the right one in. I just saw it and was literally speechless. just a simply magnificently done movie.

:couple:

Sickrose
05-11-2010, 03:55 AM
Let the right one in. I just saw it and was literally speechless. just a simply magnificently done movie.


Isn;'t it just, as soons as the titles begin and you see the gently falling snow movew across the screen you know it will be special.

Do you have a favourite bit?

fernandito
05-11-2010, 08:31 PM
Oh man, you guys are going to love this :

http://twitchfilm.net/news/2010/05/cannes-2010-an-exclusive-first-look-at-the-trailer-for-mexican-cannibal-drama-we-are-what-we-are-som.php

:)

Heather19
05-12-2010, 02:18 AM
Oh that looks really good Feev! :)

Jean
05-12-2010, 03:21 AM
yes, bears are interested...

Yaksha
05-12-2010, 04:02 AM
Let the right one in. I just saw it and was literally speechless. just a simply magnificently done movie.


Isn;'t it just, as soons as the titles begin and you see the gently falling snow movew across the screen you know it will be special.

Do you have a favourite bit?


The end where Eli kills the bullies in the pool then they are on the train and she taps the word kiss in morse code.

Dagavidiab
05-12-2010, 06:43 AM
Oh man, you guys are going to love this :

http://twitchfilm.net/news/2010/05/cannes-2010-an-exclusive-first-look-at-the-trailer-for-mexican-cannibal-drama-we-are-what-we-are-som.php

:)

:scared: You are right!

Jean
05-26-2010, 06:24 AM
have just watched Human Centipede

Very mediocre, can't see what the fuss was about. There's really, really nothing to see there. You never see more than you already know from the synopsis; I mean, if you know what it is about you don't even have to watch. Very dumb, pointless, and, worst of all, boring.

Jean
05-31-2010, 09:11 PM
... I killed the thread... http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_unsure.gif

DoctorDodge
06-01-2010, 06:20 AM
Actually Jean, I think it's more of a case that atm there seems very little to talk about when it comes to horror: the Human Centipede seems to be showing at very few cinemas, if it's being shown at all now, and the only other recent horror I can think of is the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. Which, for a remake, wasn't too bad. I think the only real problem I had with it was that there were too many deaths by stabbing - there wasn't anything nearly as freaky as Johnny Depp getting sucked down a bed and turned to mush like in the original! So no real moments of something that would only happen in a nightmare in the remake, but I did like how Freddy's backstory was expanded. Although, when I heard he was a gardener, I couldn't resist saying to my mate, "Pleasure to rake your acquaintance!" in a bad Scottish accent! :lol:

Also saw Paranormal Activity on dvd. Fucking hell, now that was a scary film! Wonderfully basic, kept its scares simple, and never went over the top. Fantastic!

Woofer
06-01-2010, 08:24 AM
Jean! I didn't even see the thread has moved.

Re: The Human Centipede: I have watched it twice now, and I'm going to watch a third time before I decide how I feel about it. The main squick factor is the premise, so it doesn't get any worse than that. In that sense, Jean is correct that it is merely mediocre; however, there are moments of brilliant cinematography and glimpses of what could've been a much better movie behind the one we're watching. Will the second sequence be that movie? I'm not hopeful, but I would be pleased.

Our crazed German doctor waxes comedic at times and at other times appears so twisted that you wonder why the detectives don't arrest him on the spot - evidence to be found later.* We're not given much background on him, but we don't really need much more than we're shown. What we do need is an emotional connection and that is not possible with what we're shown. Like most horror movies of this nature, how the good doctor came by the means to have fully equipped operating room in his basement is never explained, nor is his ability to operate successfully with no OR team. Even allowing him the strength and ability to handle the individual "segments", he would be physically incapable of manipulating the completed centipede without ripping apart his own work. Indeed, the logistics problems abound in this movie, but they are not insurmountable given a little more thought and another writer. For the purpose of the movie, however, we overlook that and stare, gape-mouthed as the mad doctor screams for segment one to "feed" segment two. 'Nuff said.

There’s little character development given to the people who are to be the centipede’s segments. In all, the doctor kidnaps four victims, two of which literally stumble into his home. Victim one is a truck driver who is quickly replaced by victim four (“a Japanese man”) when he jeopardizes the project. Victims two and three are a couple of young ladies from New York who (surprise) experience car trouble en route to a swinging party. With so little information, it’s difficult to feel much of anything for the victims, yet the horrific nature of their later predicament elicits a surprising amount of sympathy – particularly as one “segment” becomes ill. As the disappearances are noted, the authorities become involved and the movie grinds toward its bleak and hopeless conclusion.

It’ll be interesting to see if the proposed second sequence would address the scientific and logistical shortcomings of the first movie. Executed properly, this premise could render a much creepier and much more disturbing film.


*NOTE: I don't actually advocate this practice.

Heather19
06-01-2010, 01:41 PM
... I killed the thread... http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_unsure.gif

I was waiting for you to return so that we can discuss Who Can Kill a Child? :)



Also saw Paranormal Activity on dvd. Fucking hell, now that was a scary film! Wonderfully basic, kept its scares simple, and never went over the top. Fantastic!

Wasn't it! I loved that one.

Woofer
06-01-2010, 03:09 PM
Nobody?

disel24
06-01-2010, 04:13 PM
I spent the weekend watching [REC] and [REC]2.

[REC] is the Spanish movie that Quarentine was based off of (the directors of the remake were EXTREMELY true to the original.)

The sequel came out not long ago and I managed to get a copy....OMFG...seriously....

What they did (it was the original directors and writers that did the sequel) was take us into the same building, moments after the end of the original with a new set of people. One of them is supposed to be someone from the CDC, ends up being a priest... the 'contagion' isn't super rabies, it is in fact the blood of a possessed little girl and if the blood or saliva of the infected touch you, then you become possessed as well....yea.. um...wtf? LOL I laughed so hard when they gave that explination that I'm pretty sure my neighbors thought that I was having a seziure.

demorgan
06-01-2010, 08:21 PM
I spent the weekend watching [REC] and [REC]2.

[REC] is the Spanish movie that Quarentine was based off of (the directors of the remake were EXTREMELY true to the original.)

The sequel came out not long ago and I managed to get a copy....OMFG...seriously....

What they did (it was the original directors and writers that did the sequel) was take us into the same building, moments after the end of the original with a new set of people. One of them is supposed to be someone from the CDC, ends up being a priest... the 'contagion' isn't super rabies, it is in fact the blood of a possessed little girl and if the blood or saliva of the infected touch you, then you become possessed as well....yea.. um...wtf? LOL I laughed so hard when they gave that explination that I'm pretty sure my neighbors thought that I was having a seziure.

Next time put SPOILER or something to warn people.

Jean
06-02-2010, 06:13 AM
Woofer: enjoyed your review, agree with everything, only don't understand how you could watch it twice? it's boooooooring.......

(will watch the sequel, though, for the same reasons as the ones you mention)

Brice
06-02-2010, 07:16 AM
Jean! I didn't even see the thread has moved.

Re: The Human Centipede: I have watched it twice now, and I'm going to watch a third time before I decide how I feel about it. The main squick factor is the premise, so it doesn't get any worse than that. In that sense, Jean is correct that it is merely mediocre; however, there are moments of brilliant cinematography and glimpses of what could've been a much better movie behind the one we're watching. Will the second sequence be that movie? I'm not hopeful, but I would be pleased.

Our crazed German doctor waxes comedic at times and at other times appears so twisted that you wonder why the detectives don't arrest him on the spot - evidence to be found later.* We're not given much background on him, but we don't really need much more than we're shown. What we do need is an emotional connection and that is not possible with what we're shown. Like most horror movies of this nature, how the good doctor came by the means to have fully equipped operating room in his basement is never explained, nor is his ability to operate successfully with no OR team. Even allowing him the strength and ability to handle the individual "segments", he would be physically incapable of manipulating the completed centipede without ripping apart his own work. Indeed, the logistics problems abound in this movie, but they are not insurmountable given a little more thought and another writer. For the purpose of the movie, however, we overlook that and stare, gape-mouthed as the mad doctor screams for segment one to "feed" segment two. 'Nuff said.

There’s little character development given to the people who are to be the centipede’s segments. In all, the doctor kidnaps four victims, two of which literally stumble into his home. Victim one is a truck driver who is quickly replaced by victim four (“a Japanese man”) when he jeopardizes the project. Victims two and three are a couple of young ladies from New York who (surprise) experience car trouble en route to a swinging party. With so little information, it’s difficult to feel much of anything for the victims, yet the horrific nature of their later predicament elicits a surprising amount of sympathy – particularly as one “segment” becomes ill. As the disappearances are noted, the authorities become involved and the movie grinds toward its bleak and hopeless conclusion.

It’ll be interesting to see if the proposed second sequence would address the scientific and logistical shortcomings of the first movie. Executed properly, this premise could render a much creepier and much more disturbing film.


*NOTE: I don't actually advocate this practice.

I agree entirely and couldn't have said it better. It's sort of like once you get past whatever shock value it has everything else is just fluff. The premise in the right hands though does have potential.

disel24
06-02-2010, 02:18 PM
Next time put SPOILER or something to warn people.

Spoilers put up. I apologize

JRM
06-02-2010, 09:52 PM
I spent the weekend watching [REC] and [REC]2.

[REC] is the Spanish movie that Quarentine was based off of (the directors of the remake were EXTREMELY true to the original.)

The sequel came out not long ago and I managed to get a copy....OMFG...seriously....

What they did (it was the original directors and writers that did the sequel) was take us into the same building, moments after the end of the original with a new set of people. One of them is supposed to be someone from the CDC, ends up being a priest... the 'contagion' isn't super rabies, it is in fact the blood of a possessed little girl and if the blood or saliva of the infected touch you, then you become possessed as well....yea.. um...wtf? LOL I laughed so hard when they gave that explination that I'm pretty sure my neighbors thought that I was having a seziure.

Oooh! I LOVED [REC]! I saw Quarantine in theaters a few years ago and when I found out it was an American remake of a Spanish film, I looked up the original. LOVED it even more. I found the explanation to what was going on a little more exciting in the Spanish version. I haven't seen the sequel yet, but am looking forward to it. The foreign language sequel is apparently being released (limited, I assume) to US theaters this July! Also, I heard news that a Quarantine sequel is in the works, but it won't be a shot-for-shot remake of [REC]2 -- it's going to have an original storyline that will (from what I've read) take place at an airport. :drool: I'm looking forward to both these movies.

Woofer
06-03-2010, 06:30 AM
Woofer: enjoyed your review, agree with everything, only don't understand how you could watch it twice? it's boooooooring.......

(will watch the sequel, though, for the same reasons as the ones you mention)



Jean! I didn't even see the thread has moved.

Re: The Human Centipede: I have watched it twice now, and I'm going to watch a third time before I decide how I feel about it. The main squick factor is the premise, so it doesn't get any worse than that. In that sense, Jean is correct that it is merely mediocre; however, there are moments of brilliant cinematography and glimpses of what could've been a much better movie behind the one we're watching. Will the second sequence be that movie? I'm not hopeful, but I would be pleased.

Our crazed German doctor waxes comedic at times and at other times appears so twisted that you wonder why the detectives don't arrest him on the spot - evidence to be found later.* We're not given much background on him, but we don't really need much more than we're shown. What we do need is an emotional connection and that is not possible with what we're shown. Like most horror movies of this nature, how the good doctor came by the means to have fully equipped operating room in his basement is never explained, nor is his ability to operate successfully with no OR team. Even allowing him the strength and ability to handle the individual "segments", he would be physically incapable of manipulating the completed centipede without ripping apart his own work. Indeed, the logistics problems abound in this movie, but they are not insurmountable given a little more thought and another writer. For the purpose of the movie, however, we overlook that and stare, gape-mouthed as the mad doctor screams for segment one to "feed" segment two. 'Nuff said.

There’s little character development given to the people who are to be the centipede’s segments. In all, the doctor kidnaps four victims, two of which literally stumble into his home. Victim one is a truck driver who is quickly replaced by victim four (“a Japanese man”) when he jeopardizes the project. Victims two and three are a couple of young ladies from New York who (surprise) experience car trouble en route to a swinging party. With so little information, it’s difficult to feel much of anything for the victims, yet the horrific nature of their later predicament elicits a surprising amount of sympathy – particularly as one “segment” becomes ill. As the disappearances are noted, the authorities become involved and the movie grinds toward its bleak and hopeless conclusion.

It’ll be interesting to see if the proposed second sequence would address the scientific and logistical shortcomings of the first movie. Executed properly, this premise could render a much creepier and much more disturbing film.


*NOTE: I don't actually advocate this practice.

I agree entirely and couldn't have said it better. It's sort of like once you get past whatever shock value it has everything else is just fluff. The premise in the right hands though does have potential.

Well, the first watch was just absorption. The second was to look more at the cinematography, costuming, locations, etc. without watching the movie per se. The third watch will, again, be for pure "entertainment" but I don't see my initial perceptions changing, e.g., I don't think I'm going to like it as much as I like the idea of it.

Brice
06-03-2010, 06:42 AM
My first watching of any movie is purely for entertainment. Subsequent watches are for that other stuff...oh, and when possible furthur entertainment. :)

Woofer
06-04-2010, 11:41 AM
LOL! Well of course, but I was planning on writing a review. :) I don't think it merits much longer than I already wrote, though. I figure that it's worth a shot to see if I can get some freelance writing work reviewing horror again. Deja vu.

Woofer
06-13-2010, 05:00 PM
http://ugliesttattoos.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/129199730252851199.jpg?w=500&h=375

Savvy
06-14-2010, 06:25 AM
:wtf:

Dagavidiab
06-14-2010, 07:45 AM
http://ugliesttattoos.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/129199730252851199.jpg?w=500&h=375

This is sick.....

turtlex
06-14-2010, 08:14 AM
Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

Woofer
06-14-2010, 08:45 AM
Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

May is awesome. Go rent it right now. Srsly. Why are you still reading posts?

In fact, I need to watch that again tonight. Long time.

ETA: I'd loan you my copy via mail, but no postage. :(

Sickrose
06-14-2010, 08:54 AM
Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

I have also seen this one - it's a quality film, nicely done.

turtlex
06-14-2010, 02:13 PM
Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

May is awesome. Go rent it right now. Srsly. Why are you still reading posts?

In fact, I need to watch that again tonight. Long time.

ETA: I'd loan you my copy via mail, but no postage. :(



Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

I have also seen this one - it's a quality film, nicely done.

:grouphug:

Oh, cool. I knew you all would know about it. It's on Logo this month, so I'll probably catch it there!

Thanks for the reco !!

Woofer
06-14-2010, 06:45 PM
Uzumaki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzumaki) trailer?

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/6/14/129210235229382516.gif

Heather19
06-15-2010, 02:15 AM
:lol:

That was a good film. Have you seen it before Woofer?

Brice
06-15-2010, 03:32 PM
Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

May is awesome. Go rent it right now. Srsly. Why are you still reading posts?

In fact, I need to watch that again tonight. Long time.

ETA: I'd loan you my copy via mail, but no postage. :(



Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

I have also seen this one - it's a quality film, nicely done.

:grouphug:

Oh, cool. I knew you all would know about it. It's on Logo this month, so I'll probably catch it there!

Thanks for the reco !!

I LOVED May. Lucky McKee is great.

I've never heard of that one, Woofer.

Tomorrow night I finally get to see Trick R' Treat. :excited:

Woofer
06-15-2010, 05:08 PM
:lol:

That was a good film. Have you seen it before Woofer?





Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

May is awesome. Go rent it right now. Srsly. Why are you still reading posts?

In fact, I need to watch that again tonight. Long time.

ETA: I'd loan you my copy via mail, but no postage. :(



Hey All - Has anyone seen a horror film called "May" starring Jeremy Sisto?

Thoughts?

I have also seen this one - it's a quality film, nicely done.

:grouphug:

Oh, cool. I knew you all would know about it. It's on Logo this month, so I'll probably catch it there!

Thanks for the reco !!

I LOVED May. Lucky McKee is great.

I've never heard of that one, Woofer.

Tomorrow night I finally get to see Trick R' Treat. :excited:

I have! I love Uzumaki. Brice, if you can stand YouTube, here's the link to my Uzumaki playlist: Uzumaki (http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=E2EE4493D04BAB46).

Is this Trick 'R Treat a new one? Curious wolf is curious.

Heather19
06-15-2010, 05:28 PM
I think it came out a year or two ago.

Enjoy Brice, I know you'll love it.

Ricky
06-16-2010, 10:47 AM
I just watched The Children after hearing everyone in this thread talking about it. I thought it was okay, nothing spectacular. Would've liked a bit more character exposition though.

Woofer
06-16-2010, 12:42 PM
Really? I was tense as hell throughout. Tired, even, when it was over. Then again, I don't care for kids in the first place... :P

DoctorDodge
06-16-2010, 12:51 PM
And I'm a big fan of The Children because it's British! :lol:

Seriously though, I found it refreshing to watch a film that was heavy on building up atmosphere instead of focusing too much on gore and torture. Having the film set at xmas was a nice, unsettling contrast, too. It's not exactly the best horror film I've ever seen, and it's quite predictable, but it was a very enjoyable one to watch.

Ricky
06-16-2010, 01:07 PM
Really? I was tense as hell throughout. Tired, even, when it was over. Then again, I don't care for kids in the first place... :P

Really? I actually found myself bored at times throughout. I know when I haven't enjoyed a movie when I'm not thinking about it afterwards.

By the way, I'm not a fan of kids either. I thought it was sort of comical when the kid was impaled on the glass. Am I a horrible person? :lol:


And I'm a big fan of The Children because it's British! :lol:

Seriously though, I found it refreshing to watch a film that was heavy on building up atmosphere instead of focusing too much on gore and torture. Having the film set at xmas was a nice, unsettling contrast, too. It's not exactly the best horror film I've ever seen, and it's quite predictable, but it was a very enjoyable one to watch.

I think you liked it for all the reasons I didn't! :rofl:

For some reason, the British accents felt fake to me. It was really annoying to have to listen to them all go at once.

There's been a ton of movies set around Christmas time (most of which are horrible so that was a huge turn-off for me when reading the plot synopsis. I was actually okay with it when watching though, as it wasn't something like Santa's Slay, where it's just stupid.

For the record, I did like that it wasn't focused on gore so that when it came, you were shocked.

DoctorDodge
06-16-2010, 01:54 PM
For some reason, the British accents felt fake to me. It was really annoying to have to listen to them all go at once.


Really? A bit odd considering everyone in the film really is British! I recognised a few of them off the telly. Nothing good, I'm afraid, just a couple of soaps, one medical and one aimed at teenagers. But definitely very, very odd the accents felt fake to ya! :lol:

Brice
06-16-2010, 01:59 PM
Heather is right. Trick R' Treat came out sometime in the last couple years. I've heard nothing but good things about it.

Woofer, that link isn't taking me to your page. :unsure:

Woofer
06-16-2010, 02:11 PM
Try this one Fangboner Manor (http://www.youtube.com/TheCuteWoofer).

Ricky
06-16-2010, 02:17 PM
For some reason, the British accents felt fake to me. It was really annoying to have to listen to them all go at once.


Really? A bit odd considering everyone in the film really is British! I recognised a few of them off the telly. Nothing good, I'm afraid, just a couple of soaps, one medical and one aimed at teenagers. But definitely very, very odd the accents felt fake to ya! :lol:

Yeah, maybe it's because I usually only hear British accents from people playing British roles so it's what I've accepted as the standard?

Heather19
06-16-2010, 02:19 PM
Try this one Fangboner Manor (http://www.youtube.com/TheCuteWoofer).

Thanks Woofer. I think I'll go back and rewatch it soon :)

Woofer
06-16-2010, 03:09 PM
Try this one Fangboner Manor (http://www.youtube.com/TheCuteWoofer).

Thanks Woofer. I think I'll go back and rewatch it soon :)

Glad to help. My good friend GoblinXXX also has a lot of awesome horror playlists at his channel, Midnight Movie Massacre (http://www.youtube.com/user/GoblinXXX), so swing by if you get a chance and let him know the Woofer sent you. He also has pages for MST3K episodes and classic TV. Plus, Serious Cat helps sort the movies, so you can't beat having Serious Cat on your side.

http://www.seriouscat.com/serious_cat.jpg

DoctorDodge
06-16-2010, 03:15 PM
For some reason, the British accents felt fake to me. It was really annoying to have to listen to them all go at once.


Really? A bit odd considering everyone in the film really is British! I recognised a few of them off the telly. Nothing good, I'm afraid, just a couple of soaps, one medical and one aimed at teenagers. But definitely very, very odd the accents felt fake to ya! :lol:

Yeah, maybe it's because I usually only hear British accents from people playing British roles so it's what I've accepted as the standard?

Well, that's understandable. Unfortunatly, most Brits don't sound like Hugh Grant or Hugh Laurie, making it occasionally difficult to understand a word we say. The fact is, there's no such thing as the standard British accent: we're about a tenth the size of America, and yet we've got about as twice as many accents! :lol:

Heather19
06-16-2010, 05:02 PM
Try this one Fangboner Manor (http://www.youtube.com/TheCuteWoofer).

Thanks Woofer. I think I'll go back and rewatch it soon :)

Glad to help. My good friend GoblinXXX also has a lot of awesome horror playlists at his channel, Midnight Movie Massacre (http://www.youtube.com/user/GoblinXXX), so swing by if you get a chance and let him know the Woofer sent you. He also has pages for MST3K episodes and classic TV. Plus, Serious Cat helps sort the movies, so you can't beat having Serious Cat on your side.

Humanoids from the Deep! I've been wanting to see that one. Thanks, I'll definitely be watching some of them.

SynysterSaint
06-16-2010, 08:13 PM
Heather is right. Trick R' Treat came out sometime in the last couple years. I've heard nothing but good things about it.

I love that you guys are still talking about Trick 'r Treat. It does my heart proud :cool:

Woofer
06-16-2010, 09:38 PM
Any time. :dance:

Jack Torrance
06-16-2010, 09:57 PM
Don't ask me why, but the only movie I can remember that scared the hell out of me was "House On Haunted Hill"
LOL

I think "Fourth Kind" was pretty messed up. However I didn't necessarily agree that it was "Alien" at all. I think Demonic

Brice
06-16-2010, 09:58 PM
Okay understand that I watch a LOT of horror films. Now understand that Trick R' Treat is definitely one of the smartest/funnest ones I've seen in a long time. And these people have a wonderful sense of comedic timing too. I just loved it. I could watch it 20 more times back to back.

SynysterSaint
06-16-2010, 10:32 PM
Okay understand that I watch a LOT of horror films. Now understand that Trick R' Treat is definitely one of the smartest/funnest ones I've seen in a long time. And these people have a wonderful sense of comedic timing too. I just loved it. I could watch it 20 more times back to back.

I had no idea that you liked it so much! I'm still going around and showing it to all of my friends who haven't seen it yet. I've seen it more times than I can count, and it's still as entertaining every time. And I agree; the comedic timing is fantastic. I love the one-liners they throw in there, too ("My, my, what big eyes you have." *shiver runs through SS's spine*).

Woofer
06-17-2010, 05:35 AM
Okay understand that I watch a LOT of horror films. Now understand that Trick R' Treat is definitely one of the smartest/funnest ones I've seen in a long time. And these people have a wonderful sense of comedic timing too. I just loved it. I could watch it 20 more times back to back.

I had no idea that you liked it so much! I'm still going around and showing it to all of my friends who haven't seen it yet. I've seen it more times than I can count, and it's still as entertaining every time. And I agree; the comedic timing is fantastic. I love the one-liners they throw in there, too ("My, my, what big eyes you have." *shiver runs through SS's spine*).

Now I have to bump it to the top of the queue.

Brice
06-17-2010, 05:41 AM
Okay understand that I watch a LOT of horror films. Now understand that Trick R' Treat is definitely one of the smartest/funnest ones I've seen in a long time. And these people have a wonderful sense of comedic timing too. I just loved it. I could watch it 20 more times back to back.

I had no idea that you liked it so much! I'm still going around and showing it to all of my friends who haven't seen it yet. I've seen it more times than I can count, and it's still as entertaining every time. And I agree; the comedic timing is fantastic. I love the one-liners they throw in there, too ("My, my, what big eyes you have." *shiver runs through SS's spine*).

You had no idea...because I hadn't finished watching it until about ten minutes before that^^^ post.

Charlie Brown is an ASSHOLE! :rofl:

Heather19
06-17-2010, 03:09 PM
I loved the premise of the movie. It kind of reminded me of those older horror films from like the 70's and 80's for some reason (and I mean that in a good way). And that creepy principal :scared:

Brice and SS, have you guys seen Drag Me to Hell?

Brice
06-17-2010, 03:37 PM
Oh yes! :D

Heather19
06-17-2010, 03:49 PM
Good! I thought you had, but I couldn't remember. That's probably one of my other recent horror films favorites :D

Brice
06-17-2010, 03:51 PM
I liked it a lot. I may have to rewatch it again soon. :)

SynysterSaint
06-18-2010, 12:33 PM
Charlie Brown is an ASSHOLE! :rofl:

Speaking of the principal's son: was I the only one freaking out when he brought the kid down to the basement with the butcher's knife? "Don't forget to help me with the eyes . . . "

"Coach Taylor was in a hot dog costume, buttfucking a pig." :wtf:

SynysterSaint
06-18-2010, 12:34 PM
Brice and SS, have you guys seen Drag Me to Hell?

I haven't seen it yet, no. I love Raimi, and I love campy horror films, so I plan to see it very soon; I can't find anything about it I would dislike.

Heather19
06-18-2010, 01:14 PM
Brice and SS, have you guys seen Drag Me to Hell?

I haven't seen it yet, no. I love Raimi, and I love campy horror films, so I plan to see it very soon; I can't find anything about it I would dislike.

Check it out as soon as you can. I guarantee you're gonna love it :D

Brice
06-19-2010, 03:29 AM
Yes, absolutely! :D

And no, you were not alone in that, Syn.

Woofer
06-23-2010, 06:52 AM
http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo194/TheCuteWoofer/Horror/tumblr_l4g031fiVS1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg

candy
06-23-2010, 10:31 AM
:wtf: the mind boggles!!!

Melike
06-23-2010, 10:38 AM
:rofl:
I want one for the clinic I work. :ninja:

Brice
06-23-2010, 03:40 PM
:scared: So wrong! :rofl:

Woofer
06-23-2010, 03:41 PM
And yet hysterically funny at the same time!

Brice
06-23-2010, 03:42 PM
Indeed!

I wonder if they sell many.

Sickrose
08-11-2010, 04:53 AM
Hey, any of your horror buffs heard of a film called The Last Exoricism? Anyone planning on seing it? i think I might. Its only PG13 but Exocism and supernatural films scare me more than other types.

Also, anyone seen a film called The House of the Devil? It's derivitive and supposed to be, I beleive, sounds alright to me.

Heather19
08-11-2010, 01:46 PM
I've been waiting for The Last Exorcism to come out. It looks pretty good to me, but then again, I get excited for most new horror films :lol:

And I actually just saw The House of the Devil a few months ago. It was ok. I did love the 80's vibe to it though. It reminded me of all those horror films from that era. Have you seen it yet?

Ricky
08-11-2010, 02:11 PM
The trailer for The Last Exorcism looked pretty good, but I'm wondering if there's anything that makes it stand out from other exorcism films, or if it's just a re-hash of previous films. Based on that, and the fact that I'm not too keen on Eli Roth, I don't know if I'll see it. It might be a DVD rental one day.

Mattrick
08-11-2010, 07:23 PM
Guys, we've got an incredible horror gem due out next year. I am beyond excited. I haven't been this excited to see a horror movie since The Mist.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi921503257/

Jean
08-11-2010, 11:03 PM
looks good, but I'd rather it was directed by del Toro. On the other hand, he didn't direct El Orfanato either (again, only produced), and it is my top 1 of the horror movies

Sickrose
08-12-2010, 12:32 AM
I've been waiting for The Last Exorcism to come out. It looks pretty good to me, but then again, I get excited for most new horror films :lol:

And I actually just saw The House of the Devil a few months ago. It was ok. I did love the 80's vibe to it though. It reminded me of all those horror films from that era. Have you seen it yet? Nah not yet, thinking I might watch it over the weekend. I like the idea of the 80s vibe to it


I too am pretty excited about The Last Exorcism, I love a good supernatural/possession type horror film.

Mattrick
08-12-2010, 02:30 AM
looks good, but I'd rather it was directed by del Toro. On the other hand, he didn't direct El Orfanato either (again, only produced), and it is my top 1 of the horror movies

I'm assuming that is the Spanish for The Orphanage which I really loved.

Jean
08-12-2010, 03:50 AM
it is! http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif

disel24
08-12-2010, 04:11 PM
Has anyone else seen 'Teeth' it's a few years old now but i was able to watch it on Netflix streaming and I've never been as amused and horrified at the same time. Anyone else?

Woofer
08-12-2010, 06:47 PM
House of the Devil was not bad. It did what it set out to do very well.

Teeth - Love it. Very funny.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - The original was great - especially for the time and especially for a made-for-TV movie. Seriously creeped me out as a kid (about 9 when this aired on TV). I love del Toro, so that's the only thing that's keeping me from slamming this one sight unseen. Really sucks to have the huge ass spoiler in the trailer, though. That was part of the atmospheric awesomeness of the original. Interesting side note, the husband in the original was played by Jim Hutton, father of the actor who plays Thad Beaumont (and George Stark, natch) in The Dark Half.

Sickrose
08-13-2010, 12:36 AM
Has anyone else seen 'Teeth' it's a few years old now but i was able to watch it on Netflix streaming and I've never been as amused and horrified at the same time. Anyone else?

I remember Teeth coming out and meant to watch it. Is it kind of like 'Slither' a horror comdey kind of thing?

The Human Centipede is out near me at the moment. Dunno if i can stumach it. A lot of your guys seem to have seen it and I wonder, is a good horror film in the sense that it's scary or is it just gross. Is it true that there are supposd to be sequels ans the first one just prepares people in a sense.

Jean
08-13-2010, 12:48 AM
and I wonder, is a good horror film in the sense that it's scary or is it just gross.
It is neither. If you know what it is about, it is the same as if you'd already seen it. They don't show anything special. Bland, boring, especially when the expectations were high.

Brice
08-13-2010, 03:21 AM
Yeah, the basic premise is unfortunately all there is to it. In retrospect I agree on it's mediocrity. You would not really be missing much to be missing it.