The Horror Thread - Part 3

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Watched Camp Dread (2014) a film that proves that Eric Roberts and Danielle Harris will appear in front of any camera.

First of all, the idea is absurd. A bunch of trouble-making "kids" (they are all in their twenties and NOT playing teens, as that is made clear in the film itself) have a choice...jail, rehab...or star in a reality tv show produced by a slasher Horror movie director where the winner gets a million bucks if they win a Horror Camp type show. In what universe is that an actual option for jail time? Besides...most of them haven't done anything illegal. One girl, who is an adult, is there because she is a lesbian who came out at her parents Christmas party. How can an adult be forced into therapy/reality tv for being gay? Meanwhile, some of them DO face serious criminal charges. When even the set-up makes no sense, you know the movie will suck.

Anyway, they start to actually get killed.

Some of the kill scenes are actually better than I imagined they'd be. The mystery is pretty weak, and ultimately nonsensical. The premise is that there are cameras everywhere filming them for what they believe is a tv show...and at least one of them decides to start actually killing people so they can win??? That doesn't even get into the sheer number of accomplices the killer would have to have to pull this stunt off.

Oddly enough, I enjoyed it more than I should have. Don't get me wrong...this movie is terrible...it just never really had any chance of being good, so the fact that I laughed a few times and the kill scenes were reasonably acceptable for a low budget film makes me like it more than a movie that is hyped to be good, should be good, and falls on its face.
 
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What's going on with Friday the 13th currently? They made a re-boot in 2009 and it made $ 91 million worldwide , so whether or not you liked it, you would at least assume it was guaranteed to get a sequel. Its 2014 and nothing has followed. After searching the net, the only thing I found was they were tinkering with a 'found footage' style ala Paranormal Activity for it. Say it ain't so.
 
Peyton Westlake said:
What's going on with Friday the 13th currently? They made a re-boot in 2009 and it made $ 91 million worldwide , so whether or not you liked it, you would at least assume it was guaranteed to get a sequel. Its 2014 and nothing has followed. After searching the net, the only thing I found was they were tinkering with a 'found footage' style ala Paranormal Activity for it. Say it ain't so.
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I think the found footage idea was for the original "continuity", not the crappy remake. If done right, it could have potential to be good. But odds are they're gonna find some way to f**k it up.

(I put "continuity" in quotes because there's very little by way of continuity with the original franchise, especially after Part 6)
 
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redhawk23 said:
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3281073/a-double-does-of-the-quiet-ones-tv-spots/

Trailers for The Quiet ones. This looks like it may be decent. I like the cast.
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Yeah that looks really good and thank Christ a new take on ghosts.

I'm not sure what to think of a found footage F13th movie. It could easily go the way of a bonus feature but if done right it could be pretty cool. I think the best way to do it is found footage within a movie. Something more like Curse of the Blair Witch instead of Blair Witch itself.
 
66 Face said:
Yeah that looks really good and thank Christ a new take on ghosts.

I'm not sure what to think of a found footage F13th movie. It could easily go the way of a bonus feature but if done right it could be pretty cool. I think the best way to do it is found footage within a movie. Something more like Curse of the Blair Witch instead of Blair Witch itself.
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Curse Of The Blair Witch wasn't found footage at all. I think a better analogy would be Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon. That one was a movie about a bunch of film students/documentary film makers (I can't remember which) doing a documentary on a guy who wants to be the next "it" mass murderer after Jason & Michael Myers. It was a mix of actual movie footage and their documentary footage. That could work.

Or they could do my idea, which is a mix of Paranormal Activity 2 and The Blair Witch Project. Film students are doing a documentary on paranormal investigations and accompany a team of investigators to Camp Crystal Lake to document their investigation. The investigators set up "ghost hunting cameras" around the camp grounds. Then the rest of the movie is a combination of the student's documentary, the investigators' ghost hunting footage, and home movies some of the characters are shooting just for fun.

Just as long as it isn't done like that last PA movie, because that just sucked.
 
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I liked all parts of it, even the golf sequence:hehe: a special edition of it was just released on blu-ray and DVD in the UK.

A movie that reminds me a bit of Dead of Night is "Three Cases of Murder". It's also scary, but not like today's horror movies. Orson Welles plays the badguy in the third and final story...he's suffering from nightmares. Some of them are pretty funny:woot:

The best (and scariest) story is the first, about a guy that walks into a painting. I won't spoil it...:woot:

I wish more movies could be like Dead of Night and Three Cases of Murder. Ugly guys jumping at the screen and buckets of blood doesn't scare me. I try to stay away from movies like that, because they always disappoint me. I prefer strange and nightmarish tales of the supernatural...I'm not afraid of inbred cannibals when I take a walk in the woods, but the Blair Witch. The thing in my attic isn't a zombie, but a Japanese ghost lady.
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is 3 cases one of those Edgar Allan Poe retellings? there are a ton of anthologies that use those stories; just watched Argento's "Two Evil Eyes" this weekend.
 
gwynplaine said:
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My favorite ventriloquist tale with "Magic."

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the only problem i have with it is that they took a story that had traditionally been told in under 30 minutes and stretched it to feature length. generally, that's a mistake; for scary stories in particular.
 
Alright guys! For the hell of it, I'm setting up an ultimate poll for all those interested.

I've got my Excel spreadsheets open, and I'm ready to get down to business.

I am going to compile SuperHeroHype's 100 Greatest Horror Films.

What YOU are to do for me is this:

Provide me with two lists.

List #1: Your 20 Favorite Horror Movies of All-Time. These are your 20 personal favorites, not necessarily in order - any way you like.

List #2: Give me what you BELIEVE to be the 20 Greatest Horror Movies of All-Time. These don't have to be your favorites... You don't even need to like them. Any order you like as well.

If you have movies repeated on both lists, this is A-okay. You do not necessarily have to give me a list of 40 separate films... just 2 lists of 20.

Once we have 20 people contribute to this, the polling will be closed, and I will tally up the winners and share the finished list, counting down from #100 all the way to #1.

Annnnnnnnd... BEGIN.
 
1. Alien
2. Nightmare on Elm street
3.Night of the Living Dead
4. Halloween
5.The Thing
6.Pan's Labyrinth
7.Nosferatu
8.Frankenstein
9.Bride of Frankenstein
10.The Blair Witch Project
11.Silence of the Lambs - I've seen it categorized as such enough
12. Reanimator
13. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
14. Psycho
15.The Shining
16. Hell Raiser
17. Evil Dead 2
18. Dawn of the Dead
19. Jaws
20. American Werewolf in London

Go ahead take the above for the Best of list though it is also my favorites list.

Can't think of much I'd include on a Best of list that isn't also on my favorites list other than sequels and guilty pleasures.

With further expansion I'd included possibly Day of the Dead, Nightmare on Elm Street 3,4 and 5 also the first Saw film, Cabin in the Woods, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, both versions of Maniac, the original My Bloody Valentine, and Videodrome, the original Carrie and the the original House on Haunted Hill.
Edit: Definitely 28 days later.

Oddly I've somehow never seen the The Exorcist all the way through, shameful I know.
 
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Rocketman’s 20 Favorites

Psycho
The Thing
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
The Shining
Carrie
The Fly
The Ring
Insidious
Sinister
30 Days of Night
1408
Candyman
The Strangers
Quarantine
The Ruins
The Descent
The Mist
Frozen
Bug

The 20 Greatest of All-Time

Psycho
The Shining
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween
The Thing
Alien
Night of the Living Dead
The Exorcist
Dawn of the Dead
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Rosemary’s Baby
Jaws
Nosferatu
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Friday the 13th
Carrie
The Birds
Hellraiser
28 Days Later
 
Ant-manic said:
the only problem i have with it is that they took a story that had traditionally been told in under 30 minutes and stretched it to feature length. generally, that's a mistake; for scary stories in particular.
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Funny you say that. A few weeks before that box movie with Cameron Diaz came out, I watched the 80's Twilight Zone version of the same exact story. All I could do was laugh at the saps who paid to see the movie.
 
Personal:
Jaws
Gremlins
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Alien
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
Black Christmas
Halloween
Bride of Frankenstein
Psycho
The Shining
The Evil Dead
Return of the Living Dead
The Exorcist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing (Carpenter)
Jacobs Ladder
Shaun of the Dead
The Fly (Cronenberg)
Poltergeist




The Best/Most Important:
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Nosferatu
Dracula
Frankenstein
Psycho
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
Halloween
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jaws
The Shining
A Nightmare On Elm Street
Night of the Living Dead
Alien
Carnival of Souls
Peeping Tom
The Evil Dead
The Birds
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (50s)
The Haunting (OG)
 
Blitzkrieg Bop said:
Funny you say that. A few weeks before that box movie with Cameron Diaz came out, I watched the 80's Twilight Zone version of the same exact story. All I could do was laugh at the saps who paid to see the movie.
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I had the same reaction. but i rented the movie because i was curious how they would manage to stretch it out. i guessed correctly that they sort of failed at it. would have been fine as a short movie in an anthology, though. :woot: i actually wouldn't have any problem with someone retelling the same old stories from Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales from The Darkside, etc but with different actors (story changes where needed).
 
dammit. i hate making lists like this yet i feel compelled to do them!
 
^ Do it! The results are getting very interesting already.

3 people down, 17 to go!

Thanks for the responses guys!
 
In no particular order or ranking:

Dracula
Frankenstein
Wolfman
The Mummy
Nosferatu
London after Midnight
Psycho
The Birds
Rosemary's Baby
Hammer's Curse of Frankenstein
Hammer's Dracula
Night of the Living Dead (Original)
Dawn of the Dead (Original)
Day of the Dead (Original)
Halloween
Halloween II
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Carrie
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part II
Friday the 13th Part III
Jason goes to Hell: The Final Friday
A Nightmare On Elm Street
A Nightmare On Elm Street 3
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Wes Craven's A New Nightmare
Child's Play
Child's Play 2
Child's Play 3
Bride of Chucky
The Shining
Videodrome
The Vanishing/Spoorlos (Original)
Cujo
Jaws
Scream
The Omen (original)
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
A Clockwork Orange
Silence of the Lambs
Manhunter
Hannibal
Freddy vs. Jason
Hostel
Halloween (Remake)
Dawn of the Dead (Remake)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Remake)
An American Werewolf In London
The Howling (Original)
Hellraiser
The Hitcher (Original)
House of Wax (Original)
Jeepers Creepers
The Amityville Horror (Original)
The Fly (Original)
The Fly (Remake)
The Blair Witch Project
Quarantine
The Grudge (Original)
The Grudge (Remake)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army of Darkness
Evil Dead (Remake)
Saw
Saw II
Saw III
Saw VII
The Strangers
When A Stranger Calls (Original)
The Crazies (Original)
Mother's Day (Original)
Children of the Corn
Cabin Fever
Stephen King's IT
Candyman
Final Destination (First film)
Final Destination 2
Gremlins
Gremlins II: The New Batch
Critters
It's Alive
The House on Haunted Hill (Original)
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Christine
Last House On The Left (Original)
 
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