Avid Horror Movie Fans Tribe PART II - Page 2

[Channelle]

I LOVE Horror movies!

Becoming-Don't Go to Sleep is a favorite of mine! I ordered it about a year ago from a website (http://www.myhouseoffilms.net/). They are really great about communication, and I believe it cost me $20 in total for shipping and everything! Also here are two websites where you can watch it-(http://www.mininova.org/tor/1930429) and (http://cultrararevideos.com/tvmovies.html).


I am a HUGE Zombie lover! I LOVE the Resident Evil movies (though really action/horror), 28 Days/Weeks Later and the Dawn of the Dead.

I also loved:
Village of the Damned (the original is best)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Frailty
Poltergeist
Amityville (The original and the remake were both really good!)
The Thing (I prefer the remake to the original)
The Sixth Sense (though not really scary)
The Shining
Pet Semetary
The Langoliers-(Ok so it was a horribly done movie, but I still love it!)
Misery
30 Days of Night
The Ruins
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Omen
Child's Play
and The Exorcist (which I'm watching right now)
and any haunted house type movie.

Ones I didn't like:
HALLOWEEN! I don't know why people like this, it's so boring to me, I've tried to sit down and watch it like 80 times, and I always fall asleep! I've never seen the Rob Zombie version.
The Others-quite boring to me
House of a Thousand Corpses-UGH! I didn't bother w/The Rejects after this!
Any of the Hostel shows-I think there is a fine line between a great horror movie and a sadistic director trying to show as much gore as possible into a movie. I like mental scariness, ones that make me think, not just being grossed out.
It-wonderful book, movie scared the bejeezus out of me as a child, now it's just a horrible movie...though I've heard they are going to be making a remake of it.

I've never seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original or remake), which I regret. Psycho was good. I enjoyed the Saw, Ring, and Grudge movies OK, nothing to get super excited about, but enjoyable.

When I was four I was babysat for a family, and we sat down and watched It, then Child's Play, and the Nightmare on Elm Street, leaving me shaking with fear! I was so scared of clowns, dolls, and freddy for a LONG LONG time! That was my first exposure with horror, but I appreciated it as I grew up, loving to read the Goosebump books, and any ghost story. Halloween is ok for me, I don't really get into it, though I love going to haunted houses/forests.

[becoming]

Originally Posted by Channelle

Becoming-Don't Go to Sleep is a favorite of mine! I ordered it about a year ago from a website (http://www.myhouseoffilms.net/). They are really great about communication, and I believe it cost me $20 in total for shipping and everything! Also here are two websites where you can watch it-(http://www.mininova.org/tor/1930429) and (http://cultrararevideos.com/tvmovies.html).

I LOVE YOU FOREVER! :

Thank you so much, seriously! You just made my day, my week, my whole Halloween season!

You NEED to see the Rob Zombie Halloween movie. I hate all the original Halloween movies, too--boooring. The Rob Zombie one is great. Very, very scary.

I loved the Amityville remake, too! I couldn't believe Ryan Reynolds was so good in a villain role. I actually loved pretty much every movie on your list, although I haven't seen The Thing (old or remake).

[ibahippiemama]

you have got to see the thing. get the john carpenter's version. the dog seen always gets us. naking. i will have to get the new holloween movie. i hope that they are remaking it the movie. the book had me scared out of my mind for weeks.

love and blessings
angie

[SAHDS]

Originally Posted by becoming

The Descent

NO WAY. There is absolutely, positively no way anyone in the entire world could even like that movie. Are you serious?

Okay, obviously I'm not a fan, LOL. That was one of the top 5 worst movies of all-time. So cliche, boring, fake, uncreative. Not even semi-scary. And the ending... Sweet Lord, they owe me 90 minutes of my life back.

Funny story, one of my best friend's husband rented it because he thought it was The Departed (with DiCaprio and Nicholson).



Needless to say, he's banned from ever picking out movies again.

As for the Resident Evil movies, I'll watch them but only because the video games are our FAVORITE! DH and I played them together when we were dating for hours on end. We have almost every single one and our fav, right now, is RE4 on the Wii (Mercenaries!).

OH, I forgot about the Hostel movies. WTF? Gruesome, yes. But there was nearly no plot (and what plot there was didn't even make sense and I found a huge flaw that made the entire movie ridiculous). Even the gore was a joke because I wasn't mentally intimidated or scared in the slightest. Blah. Wake me when it's over.

What was that movie... When a Stranger Calls Back...? That was pretty scary.

[becoming]

Originally Posted by SAHDS

What was that movie... When a Stranger Calls Back...? That was pretty scary.

I forgot about that one! Loved it. I want to watch that again. I've not seen that one 500 times like most of the others I mentioned!

I downloaded "Don't Go To Sleep" and now I'm too scared to watch it. I'll have to wait until DH is home and make him watch it with me.

[becoming]

Oh, and I think the reason I thought "The Descent" was crazy scary is because I am *terrified* of caves. OMG. Claustrophobia and things trying to eat you all rolled into one. Horrifying.

[fivi2]

Originally Posted by becoming

Oh, and I think the reason I thought "The Descent" was crazy scary is because I am *terrified* of caves. OMG. Claustrophobia and things trying to eat you all rolled into one. Horrifying.

I agree with you on the first part of The Descent. All the cave/claustrophobia parts got to me. But once they introduced the critters... it went downhill for me.

[Pariah]

Wow, I haven't seen this tribe before!!!

So, what makes your hair stand up? Favorite horror movies, books, personal stories of spookiness?

My absolute favorite is the Halloween series. Halloween was the first horror movie I ever saw, and I was hooked from there! I love the older movies (even silent...the 1923 Nosferatu is a favorite). I'm not sure if this is totally related, but I love scary urban legends and lore from our local area, too. I like The Shining, but I like reading the book better because my imagination made it scarier than the movie. I liked Suspiria a lot...Zombie by Fulci, Dead Alive was just ridiculous! LOL. I love the original House on Haunted Hill, mostly because I can totally picture myself taking up an offer like that! I will (and have!) dive right into anything paranormal. I would die of happiness to go on one of those tv shows where they lock everyone in a haunted abandoned castle/hospital/whatever for a night.

How did you get into this?

I guess I sort of answered that above...I loved Halloween so much, and my friends and I kept getting together for years for more after that first scary movie! Previous to that, I read the RL Stine books, Fear Street, etc. and lots of Stephen King started around middle school age.

Any remakes or originals you hated?

I don't like most remakes at all...I promise I'm not as smug as that makes me sound!! I'm really not a movie snob...I just feel like the classics are classics for a reason and don't need any improvement or work. I also like the sort of dingy look to older movies, like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The new one is so...clean and modern looking, that it doesn't have that dirty, aged sort of atmosphere to it. That feeling makes it really scary, IMO. That movie seriously scared me the first time I saw it! I'm terrified of Leatherface actors at haunted houses, too, LOL...DH and I went to Halloween Horror Nights when we lived in Orlando, and a guy dressed up like that with a chainsaw scared me so bad that I sent DH's drink flying!

Other than that, I think my dislikes have been mentioned already...Hostel-types aren't my thing. That movie TOTALLY did not live up to the hype, and it was super predictable.

Halloween one of your favorite holidays??

Halloween is the only holiday as far as I'm concerned!

Okay, horror mamas...here's a question for you! Many years ago, I rented a vampire movie that I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. The main character was a (I want to say blonde) woman who was a piano player. She was playing a concert and the vampire was after her in a hotel? I wish I could remember more...I rented it probably 8-10 years ago...

Is anyone going to see Repo! The Genetic Opera? The closest place it is playing to me is Pittsburgh, and I can't exact take a road trip just for a movie right now! Looks like I have to wait until I can buy it... I found out about it because I've been a huge Skinny Puppy fan for 10+ years now, and I'm really excited to finally see Ogre in a horror movie (veering off-topic here, but is anyone going to see him on his tour this fall/winter? I've already bought our tickets for a December show!!!). I've watched the released clips a million times so far, and it looks like it will be AWESOME... They're on YouTube, if you do a search for the movie...the content is definitely not safe for work or kids, so I won't link it here.

[becoming]

Originally Posted by Pariah

Okay, horror mamas...here's a question for you! Many years ago, I rented a vampire movie that I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. The main character was a (I want to say blonde) woman who was a piano player. She was playing a concert and the vampire was after her in a hotel? I wish I could remember more...I rented it probably 8-10 years ago...

Is it Vampire Journals?

[Pariah]

Wow, that looks like it! I'll have to rent it ASAP, thank you!

[Leenie]

William Peter Blatty's the Exorcist part III

Its not a sequel like a regular sequel, it is a very smart and scary movie. I am a huge fan, this is one of my all time favorites

[SAHDS]

Originally Posted by Pariah

I'm terrified of Leatherface actors at haunted houses, too, LOL...DH and I went to Halloween Horror Nights when we lived in Orlando, and a guy dressed up like that with a chainsaw scared me so bad that I sent DH's drink flying!

Here's my "Worst Mother of the Year Award" story:

Okay... so... has anyone been to Universal Studios? Well... they have the House of Horrors, right? I totally though it was just a museum that documented horror films and had artifacts so, naturally, I wanted to go and look with DH... and my 6 and 8 yr old... ummmm... it's NOT a museum. I think I realized that when the guy at the entrance looked at my kids, then at me, back to the kids, back to me and said "illuminated exits are placed all throughout in case your children get frightened"... huh? That place is terrifying! I was SOOOO scared! People jumping out from behind shower curtains dressed as the "mother" and holding knives from Psycho, a full-on Chucky room, Frankenstein, mummies, you name it. I screamed so many times, I even kicked my flip-flop INTO the air and had to crawl around to retrieve it. Anyhoo, by the end my children were less than jolly (but there was no way any kid of mine was going through one of those emergency exits... ) and the very last person was Leatherface (my fav). He walked right by us and waved at DS who, probably, lost about 10 years off his life.

Anyway, yeah... I didn't know!

http://www.thestudiotour.com/ush/att..._photos2.shtml

Where was that warning about children under 13 when I was there...

Ooooh, and I forgot about the body bag room...