The Horror Thread - Part 3

[PalmerTheThing]

Thundarr that's some creepy stuff.

I remember my Dad and I, lived in a realllly old house in the country, and a farmer passed away in it like a couple years before we moved in.

After a month of living there, we both heard someone walking around downstairs sometime, and we would wake up and our doors would be open. No pets or anyone else that lived with us. I was like 12, so I didn't get too scared.

One day my dad ran into my room and told me if I did anything to the lights in the basement because one exploded above his head when he was fixing a pipe.

A couple weeks before we moved (we hateeed the place due the fact it just had bad vibes, and my dad got a new job too) and I remember I was home alone and the power went out. So I went into the pitch black basement at like 2 AM to check the generator, and I remember one light bulb turned on and instantly exploded/shattered into tons of pieces. So I raaaaaaaaan upstairs as fast I could in the dark of course, and the door was locked from the inside, so I had to re-unlock it.

It was really weird because I'm 99.9% sure I didn't lock the door. Why would I? So i can have a harder time coming back up the stairs? Like no reason on earth why a 12 year old would lock that door going into that pitch black basement while the house has no power while I'm home alone.

I'd say the scariest part was my dad called me last summer, and told me the new farmer who moved in right after us, hung himself in the basement (I'm in my twenties now, so he lived there for a couple of years before he killed himself). Who knows why he killed himself.


Really spooky stuff.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Creeeepy! Got tears in my eyes when I read that story, Palmer! not because I'm crying...it just happens when I read bone-chilling stufft:

This is more "weird" and funny than scary:

One day when my wife took a walk early in the morning (we almost live in the woods) something strange happened. She was walking along the path, when she saw something running very fast along the plain. It ran on all fours, like a big, furry dog...but then it was suddenly walking on two legs. It was a man.

How that guy could run so fast on his arms and legs, we don't know. But we call him "the shapeshifter"

 

[Keyser Soze]

It's very dated now, and probably a bit British and twee for American audiences, but watching this remains one of my all-time favourite horror experiences. The genius of Ghostwatch was that it was presented like a real-life documentary, a 90-minute BBC special about the phenomena of hauntings aired on Halloween night, with live broadcasts from a "real haunted house" airing throughout the event. And to seal the deal, they filled the cast with familiar TV personalities - including that most trustworthy of British TV institutions, Michael Parkinson - to give everything an added veneer of credibility. A lot of folk were duped into thinking this was really happening, and so it scared quite a lot of people!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHVqzRyaByM

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Heard about Ghostwatcht: looks creepy.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I watched the 1990 remake of Night Of The Living Dead for the first time last night, it actually wasn't bad but it wasn't that great either.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

I think the original Night of the Living Dead is the best of Romero's zombie movies. It's still scary...

Dawn of the Dead disappointed me very much, since I heard so many positive things about it. It was just boring. Same with Day of the Dead.

But most zombie movies are boring anyway!

 

[Thundarr]

Thundarr that's some creepy stuff.

I remember my Dad and I, lived in a realllly old house in the country, and a farmer passed away in it like a couple years before we moved in.

After a month of living there, we both heard someone walking around downstairs sometime, and we would wake up and our doors would be open. No pets or anyone else that lived with us. I was like 12, so I didn't get too scared.

One day my dad ran into my room and told me if I did anything to the lights in the basement because one exploded above his head when he was fixing a pipe.

A couple weeks before we moved (we hateeed the place due the fact it just had bad vibes, and my dad got a new job too) and I remember I was home alone and the power went out. So I went into the pitch black basement at like 2 AM to check the generator, and I remember one light bulb turned on and instantly exploded/shattered into tons of pieces. So I raaaaaaaaan upstairs as fast I could in the dark of course, and the door was locked from the inside, so I had to re-unlock it.

It was really weird because I'm 99.9% sure I didn't lock the door. Why would I? So i can have a harder time coming back up the stairs? Like no reason on earth why a 12 year old would lock that door going into that pitch black basement while the house has no power while I'm home alone.

I'd say the scariest part was my dad called me last summer, and told me the new farmer who moved in right after us, hung himself in the basement (I'm in my twenties now, so he lived there for a couple of years before he killed himself). Who knows why he killed himself.


Really spooky stuff.

Wow, that is creepy. Could be the spirit of the old farmer that died in the house before your parents bought it just really wanted to be left alone. Sometimes that's the whole reason why people buy houses out in the country in the first place, they like to be left alone.

As for the guy who hanged himself a couple years after you moved out? Could be he was always suicidal. Or it could be that the spirit of the old farmer pushed him to it. Maybe pay the place a visit with a ouija board and ask him.

 

[Thundarr]

I watched the 1990 remake of Night Of The Living Dead for the first time last night, it actually wasn't bad but it wasn't that great either.

I liked it up until that stupid "They're us, we're them" line at the very end. If I had the technical skill, I'd edit that scene out of the movie. That would make it a near perfect remake.

 

[KevanG]

I enjoyed the NotLD remake. I thought it was well done and a better remake than the Dawn one.

I prefer slow zombies.

 

[Thundarr]

I enjoyed the NotLD remake. I thought it was well done and a better remake than the Dawn one.

I prefer slow zombies.

Agreed. It's just that one, stupid line at the very end of the movie I didn't like. I think it was supposed to be "deep and meaningful", but I think it came off as just being lame and corny. It should've been cut from the film.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

Night and Dawn are both great remakes. Dawn I think gets better with age.

The NOTLD remake does something I didn't think would be possible: It captures the eerie, isolated creepiness of the original. And in color no less.

 

[Thundarr]

Night and Dawn are both great remakes. Dawn I think gets better with age.

The NOTLD remake does something I didn't think would be possible: It captures the eerie, isolated creepiness of the original. And in color no less.

I kinda like how Dawn was more action packed than the original. However, I agree that zombies should be slow and shambling.

If they want to have fast moving zombies, I'd suggest using Max Brooks' book Zombie Survival Guide as a guideline. It says that zombies are fast and coordinated when they first rise. But the more decayed and/or chewed up they are, the slower they become. This would give you a combination of both fast and slow moving zombies in the same movie, which I think is a fair compromise.

 

[Figs]

Watched The Lords of Salem a few days ago. I don't know where to begin.

My wife and I both hated it and I still don't know what the hell that chicken tentacle thing was supposed to be. Satan reborn?

 

[Ant-manic]

I kinda like how Dawn was more action packed than the original. However, I agree that zombies should be slow and shambling.

If they want to have fast moving zombies, I'd suggest using Max Brooks' book Zombie Survival Guide as a guideline. It says that zombies are fast and coordinated when they first rise. But the more decayed and/or chewed up they are, the slower they become. This would give you a combination of both fast and slow moving zombies in the same movie, which I think is a fair compromise.

technically, we didn't stick with the fast moving zombies of Dawn of the Dead to see if they were going to slow down, at some point. i really loved the Dawn remakes opening. it was hard to not to feel that nurse's terror as they chased her out of the neighborhood.

 

[Ant-manic]

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i loved that episode of Twilight Zone; mostly because they actually "went there" and didn't give the kid a happy ending. he never acted again, strangely.

 

[Figs]

Anyone else like the recent Texas Chainsaw movie? The original is one of my favorite horror films and I hated the remake, never bothered with the remake's prequel. This wasn't all that bad for being a somewhat "true" sequel to the original.

 

[Ant-manic]

Anyone else like the recent Texas Chainsaw movie? The original is one of my favorite horror films and I hated the remake, never bothered with the remake's prequel. This wasn't all that bad for being a somewhat "true" sequel to the original.

are you talking about the one with Jessica Biel as the heroine? yeah, i liked that one. but, to be brutally honest, i was never a fan of the original.

 

[Figs]

are you talking about the one with Jessica Biel as the heroine? yeah, i liked that one. but, to be brutally honest, i was never a fan of the original.

I'm talking about the one that came out last year. The main girl was played by Alexandra Daddario.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Watched The Lords of Salem a few days ago. I don't know where to begin.

My wife and I both hated it and I still don't know what the hell that chicken tentacle thing was supposed to be. Satan reborn?

Ahh and if I remember correctly weren't you the one defending Mr Hack Zombie himself a few weeks ago? The man doesn't know how to properly direct a picture.

 

[Senator Pleasury]

Alice Sweet Alice.

Low budget, 1976, Brooke Shields, it has it all.

 

[Figs]

Ahh and if I remember correctly weren't you the one defending Mr Hack Zombie himself a few weeks ago? The man doesn't know how to properly direct a picture.

Apparently you don't remember my posts well enough. I put it all in spoiler tags to not take up a lot of room on the page for everyone else.

Spoiler

Right here I mention that I was happy at the news where he said he was done making horror films, which of course didn't pan out. When I originally typed that post I should have mentioned that by long time fan that meant since his music days and not with all of his films.

I'm happy about this. Long time fan of his and have read interviews way back in the past where he says that despite his music being horror themed, that he loves most other genres of film. I look forward to see what he does next. Last I heard he is working on a Hockey film based on a true game/story.

Here I mention that I'm not exactly excited or looking forward to LoS but will give it a chance anyways.

I still want to watch LoS but after all the hate I'm not too excited for it. I might bump it up on my Netflix cue just to get it out of the way.

Right here I mention I only liked two of his films. I hated his Halloween movies and as you now know, I really didn't like LoS.

Apparently he's going to do another horror film before his hockey movie. I've been a long time fan but when it comes to his films I really only like two. I enjoyed House of 1000 Corpses and loved Devil's Rejects.

This last one was me arguing with you that it's a bit ignorant to judge a film before seeing it, let alone before it's even started production. Not just towards a Rob Zombie film but any director's film.

No it doesn't mean that he's magically a good filmmaker but it's still ignorant to judge a film that hasn't even started to film, hell I don't think it's even really in the pre-production stages yet. Regardless of the director.

In short, although I've been a fan since his White Zombie days, I don't like most of his movies. Three I hate and out of the two I liked, one of those(House)was definitely far from being great.

 

[StarLord]

I watched the 1990 remake of Night Of The Living Dead for the first time last night, it actually wasn't bad but it wasn't that great either.

This was the first '...of the Dead' movies I ever saw and I still love it to this day.

In fact I'd say it's my #2 of the series, with Dawn of the Dead '78 being #1.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Anyone else like the recent Texas Chainsaw movie? The original is one of my favorite horror films and I hated the remake, never bothered with the remake's prequel. This wasn't all that bad for being a somewhat "true" sequel to the original.

I liked that it was a sequel to the OG and Bill Moseley was perfectly cast. However, the movie was ******ed and there's no better word to use than ******ed. The cop just lets the psychopathic mass murdering, grave-robbing cannibal go free? And we, the audience, are supposed to feel good about this? Like, "Yeah, go Leatherface! ****in' chainsaw the **** out of that guy!"

 

[Figs]

I liked that it was a sequel to the OG and Bill Moseley was perfectly cast. However, the movie was ******ed and there's no better word to use than ******ed. The cop just lets the psychopathic mass murdering, grave-robbing cannibal go free? And we, the audience, are supposed to feel good about this? Like, "Yeah, go Leatherface!"

It wasn't the right thing to do on the cop's part obviously but he was sick of the mayor who was corrupt and also started the **** storm back when he brought the lynch mob to the family's house. That and he knows the girl will watch over Leatherface like her grandmother did and when her grandmother was watching over him, he knew to stay in the basement. I agree that it's still a wtf kind of moment when the cop walks away telling them to clean up but it didn't ruin the entire movie for me.

 

[HighFivingMF]

I liked that it was a sequel to the OG and Bill Moseley was perfectly cast. However, the movie was ******ed and there's no better word to use than ******ed. The cop just lets the psychopathic mass murdering, grave-robbing cannibal go free? And we, the audience, are supposed to feel good about this? Like, "Yeah, go Leatherface! ****in' chainsaw the **** out of that guy!"

And finding a baby then flashing forward 40 years to when she's 18.