Horror Fans - discuss the genre

28 days later was pretty good. it reminded me of dawn of the dead a whole lot -- same basic premise really.

i think there's nothing better for a horror movie than not knowing what's going on. it really adds to the sense of confusion and fear if you've got only as much knowledge as the characters you're watching. 28 days later was great that way -- they didn't know much, so you didn't know much.

night/dawn/day of the dead is the same thing. the dead are coming back, don't know why, run like hell.

 

I watched that about ten times on Cinemax last month. :xyzthumbs

 

i expected more from the ring but as far as the movies released in the past few years it was good. whoever brought up the vincent price thing ohhh you are right.

someone mentioned the guinea pig series from japan, DAMN they were deep. not so much scary as they were realistically brutal but wow they sure did make you take a breath and hold it. i have never seen them in entirety but DAMN.

seriously realistic bloodshed was in the passion movie, but i still cannot say it was good. nothing is good when you know the person who is being portrayed in the film.

 

you know james caviezel?

 

Agreed on 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead remake. Then again, I actually enjoyed the Texas Chainsaw remake as well. A lot of the Old Hands have yelled at me over that one; what can I say... I guess I'm too young to understand.

Try to keep us posted on your horror class. I'm a believer in knowing the history of your genre, but I still have some ground to cover. The essay/book "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft is an outstanding reference to have laying around; it would be hard not to mention King's "Danse Macabre" too.

I'm also very glad I'm not alone in being sick of the teen slasher epidemic... that's one horror aberration that should be laid to its grave for all time.

 

scream was supposed to be the "genre killer". ironic that it would go on to spawn a new wave of this crap.

 

That's the thing. Scream on its own was innovative and fun. The trouble is, creators don't seem to get that you don't break new ground and create sleeper hits by copying what someone else has done. Thus the copycat syndrome. You saw the same thing with Anaconda and Twister. Hit movie, followed by a stream of impostors. The glut had nothing to do with creative inspiration. It was all about cashing in. The real keepers are the ones that rise above the crowd through original ideas and storytelling integrity.

 

The other day I watched a version of The Hills Have Eyes II that had pig latin subtitles. It was very hard to follow.

 

Geez man, love story touched my being in such a way that I've never been to the movies again since.

 

If the book comes first, that's almost always the case.