Horror Movies

[Seil]

Halloween (http://youtube.com/watch?v=dtR9Fxz2lng)
Nightmare On Elm Street (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Adgp0v_mfTk)
Firday the 13th (http://youtube.com/watch?v=uEgahzAwOy8)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (http://youtube.com/watch?v=iMiYjJqx8m0)
The Exorcist (http://youtube.com/watch?v=jGdbbVcKJlc)
The Shining (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vrfiCAEUxXw)
The Amityville Horror (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Hs5RySxz1Y)
It (http://youtube.com/watch?v=DAJK5iVsios)
Psycho (http://youtube.com/watch?v=P6YLm--bgaI&feature=related)
The Omen (http://youtube.com/watch?v=3PuIBNLOeEU)
Child's Play (http://youtube.com/watch?v=lGaC4EoOiw8&feature=related)
Hellraiser (http://youtube.com/watch?v=CTe032Uw718)

I decided to pick up Nightmare on Elm Street recently, and I've gotta say that for its time? It was really good.

For some weird reason, I love games like Silent Hill. I like scary movies. I read Hannibal Lecter. I check out serial killers on Wikipedia. It might be weird or twisted, but I'm curious. I think it keeps me balanced. If this level of pain and fear is capable, than the level of happiness opposite is, too - and since I dun like causing pain, I think it's nice to know that I can make people feel really happy. (=3)

That being said, horror movies have been around forever. Why? Because people like to be scared. Why is that?

[TDK]

I think its something like fear releases adrenaline, which causes a sort of "high".

[Seil]

Science says "excitement" or "relief." (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070725152040.htm)

[Regulus Tera]

Cloverfield is recent and really good. Buy it, but take with you a bottle of dramamine if you are prone to dizziness.

Or maybe that doesn't count as a horror movie? I'm not a fan of the genre so I don't know.

[EVILNess]

Or maybe that doesn't count as a horror movie? I'm not a fan of the genre so I don't know.
I suppose it would if you considered Godzilla, or Jurassic Park horror movies.

Honestly though, its just so damn hard to find a good horror movie. The last movie that actually made me jump was surprisingly the Silent Hill movie, in my opinion a more than adequate movie adaptation.

[Seil]

Silent Hill movie, in my opinion a more than adequate movie adaptation.

It's like.... it's like I don't even know you anymore, man.

[NonCon]

I liked that movie, but for the most part, movies haven't been very scary for a long time. Now that we have the ability to make movies really gory and violent, most horror film makers think that extreme gore and people running through the woods equals scary. I haven't been properly scared by a movie for a long time, while video games have been doing a much better job. WTF Hollywood?

[Savage Thinking]

I don't particularly like movies that are just blood and gore. I only watch it more for the entertainment than actually being scared. What I like are the ones that try to psychologically mess with you. Trying to get that "What the..." reaction from the audience. Classic examples being the Shining, It, and to a lesser extent, 1408.

So I like Steven King... >>

[RickZarber]

For recent good movies, I really liked The Orphanage. Though I guess that was more Ghost Story and less Horror Movie. Still, it was wonderfully shot and paced and was more about the psychological than violence.

And speaking of Stephen King, The Mist was really good.

[Masked Jedi]

The Evil Dead may just bee the greatest horror movie ever made. It excels in both psychological and jump out horror. Plus: Bruce Campbell

[Mike McC]

My favorite horror movie would have to be Poltergeist. It's simply fantastic for the atmosphere it sets up, and the characters are top notch.

Steven Speilberg needs to make more horror movies.

[Torque]

Come ON people! Alien! No greater horror movie has ever been made to date.
(This is not to say that all horror movies suck, even by comparison, just that it is numero Uno)

[Magus]

I don't really like slasher flicks, but the Hannibal series is very good horror series. Unfortunately, I think that "horror" is so synonymous with "over-the-top gory slasher flick" that series like Hannibal are stuck into something called "thrillers". I'm not sure what a "thriller" is, but really boring movies that have nothing to do with serial killers are always getting called "thrillers", as well, so I guess it is a very broad genre.

I think for its time Alien did a much better job at being suspenseful than, say, Friday the 13th Part 2, which had Jason Vorhees wearing a potato sack over his head and stabbing wheel-chair bound college students in such a manner that they roll down a flight of stairs as well as get stabbed (if I remember correctly).

[Hawk]

Alien never really scared me to be honest, even when I was younger. Event Horizon on the other hand scared the living shit out of me back in 1999.

I think the only movies that can really get to me are the ones where the threat is something intangible, like pure evil, or ghosts. If the horror is something physical, like an alien or some psycho with a chainsaw then I don't fear it, because I know that those things can be killed.

[Torque]

some psycho with a chainsaw then I don't fear it, because I know that those things can be killed.

you've clearly never seen Friday the thirteenth 2-60.
Or Nightmare on Elm Street 1-29.
I mean those fuckers are like the energizer bunny from hell. Or a Timex... takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'

[Seil]

Dude - don't diss the classics. Freddy is beyond awesome, no matter what you may throw at him. It's true, their means of "reincarnation" (read: WE NEED MORE SEQUELS, CAP'N! SHE CAN HOLD 'EM!) the movies themselves are kinda neat.

[Torque]

Oh you misunderstand.. I LOVE Nightmare.
Friday not so much. But Freddy is the most awesome slasher movie villain evarz. My only problem with him is that his body count isn't NEARLY as high as Jason Vorhees'.

[Savage Thinking]

One movie that really impacted me was the first Child's Play. Of course, the whole "voo doo" thing comes off as a bit cheesy, but it's the concept of Chuckie that gets me. When he hides, the anxiety and suspense of not knowing where he's at would be overwhelming for me. Those quick glimpses of him scurrying from one part of the room to another would make it worse.

Then again, I was six when I first saw it, so I could easily relate with that kid and took it a bit too personally...