28 Weeks Later

[Guy Fawkes]

I think that the Japanese are so much better at Horror movies, with films like the Grudge, the Ring, Phone, etc..

 

[algie]

I think that the Japanese are so much better at Horror movies, with films like the Grudge, the Ring, Phone, etc..

Thats what the Japs thrive on.They love it.It's the same with computer games.They love survival horrors more then any other.

 

[El Presidente]

I know what I like thanks. I like a DECENT horror film with a proper storyline, not just a straightforward, brainless splatterfest that covers up its lack of a decent plot by plastering as much skull and crimson all over the screen as possible.

I watched The Thing the other week again (the John Carpenter one). Now THATS a damn good horror, and has probably the greatest non-cgi effects I have ever seen in a film. Gory as hell, but simply brilliant. Garbage like Saw 3 can't hold a candle to something like that.

The Thing and Halloween are two of my favourite films of all time. It's a shame that JC went a bit shit after that.

As for Saw, it's embarrassing shit, a classic example of gore over substance.

If you want something to scare you witless, try The Orphanage

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Its NOT all about blood and scaring you shitless. One of my all time favourite horrors is The Shining, and there's barely any gore in that at all. I just thought 28 Weeks later was particularly effective because instead of lining up a series of completely one-dimensional cardboard nobodies to be eaten, they actually shaped proper characters with back-stories, so when they DID meet their (inevitably grisly) end, it had that much more impact.

Saw 3 was just a load of basic, contrived horror porn setting out purely to disgust. There was nothing clever in it, no suspense or tension. 28 Weeks Later was very well crafted, and I thought genuinely unsettling as a result.

Maybe you would enjoy the Descent (2005) or Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

 

[Easy 10]

The Thing and Halloween are two of my favourite films of all time. It's a shame that JC went a bit shit after that.

As for Saw, it's embarrassing shit, a classic example of gore over substance.

If you want something to scare you witless, try The Orphanage

Forgot about Halloween, that was indeed a cracker. Them were the early days of VHS if I recall, and Halloween was one of the MUST SEE films of that time.
As for Saw - I liked the first one a lot. The second one was naff, the third one was just pathetic, so I've not even bothered with the fourth. Not come across The Orphanage. As always, I shall bear your tip in mind.

Maybe you would enjoy the Descent (2005) or Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

I liked The Descent, thats another pretty decent horror flick. Didn't think much of 13 Ghosts, a bit gimmicky for my liking. Ooh, quite enjoyed CREEP though, that was pretty nasty.

28 Weeks was head and shoulders above that lot though. Might even watch it again this week.

 

[keaton]

13 Ghosts is one of the worst films i've ever seen

 

[captainmorganrum]

13 Ghosts is one of the worst films i've ever seen

True, but there was...

 

[Gazwag]

Forgot about Halloween, that was indeed a cracker. Them were the early days of VHS if I recall, and Halloween was one of the MUST SEE films of that time.

I remember watching Friday 13th on VHS (came before DVD's kids) hired from our local video shop and that scene at the end when they were in the boat in the lake made me jump more probably that any other film I have seen.

 

[Easy 10]

I remember watching Friday 13th on VHS (came before DVD's kids) hired from our local video shop and that scene at the end when they were in the boat in the lake made me jump more probably that any other film I have seen.

My early VHS joy was being able to pause Trading Places on Jamie Lee Curtis's boobies.

(so what if the remote control had a WIRE ? You could actually PAUSE a film !)

 

[El Presidente]

Not come across The Orphanage. As always, I shall bear your tip in mind.



The only 'issue' with The Orphanage is that it is in Spanish, about a woman who buys the orphanage where she was brought up a child. It all seems to be normal, until her son meets an imaginary friend, and then it becomes genuinely chilling, a true spine tingler (as opposed to the other Spanish film I have in my collection Andalucian Anal Babes 14, which is more of a knee trembler than spine tingler).

 

[Les Biehn]

Porn with the word Babes in it always disturbs me.

 

[Seagullible]

Ooh, quite enjoyed CREEP though, that was pretty nasty.

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as in the one in the underground? thought that was very badly written despite a good basic idea. When you saw the killer he was limping and slow yet when not on camera was fast and agile, just didn't make sense. Probably the most dissapointing film for what it could have promised

 

[Easy 10]

as in the one in the underground? thought that was very badly written despite a good basic idea. When you saw the killer he was limping and slow yet when not on camera was fast and agile, just didn't make sense. Probably the most dissapointing film for what it could have promised

By no means a classic, but I enjoyed the tension and claustrophobia of it. Those were some pretty nasty tools he was playing with as well - made the missus cross her legs when she was watching it, I can tell you.

 

[Albion Dan]

The shining isn't a scary film or infact that good.

Oh dear, what you are in fact saying is you dont have a clue about good Horror films or about what makes a good film scary.

Films like saw are just Hacker movies, not scary, just loads of gore to shock. I think anyone half interested in Horror films would disagree with everything you have written in this thread.

 

[Seagullible]

By no means a classic, but I enjoyed the tension and claustrophobia of it. Those were some pretty nasty tools he was playing with as well - made the missus cross her legs when she was watching it, I can tell you.

fair enough, did have it's moments but it felt like someone had the great idea, wrote some great scenes, then got bored and asked their 14 year old to fill in the blanks. With a bit more time in the writing and more thought it could've been a classic

 

[Les Biehn]

Some of the best creepy films I have seen

The Witchfinder General - Odd film
Don't Look Now - I actually felt sick at the end through the pure unsettlingness of it
Exorcist - The main scene that gets me is the spinal tap. Sent a shiver down my spine
The Shining - Some absolutely chilling scenes (the lift/blood combo), Jack's performance and that end shot
The Thing - A proper brooding, masculine horror
Society - Social commentary body horror film with Billy Warlock of baywatch fame. say no more
Audition - One of the most gruelling films I have ever seen and definately the scariest japanese horror film

 

[Monsieur Leclerc]

How did the remakes of Ring score better on IMDB than the Japanese originals?

 

[Gazwag]

(so what if the remote control had a WIRE ? You could actually PAUSE a film !)

Our remote control had a pause and a frame advance. Unfortunately the picture went really unsteady and blurry when I was trying to find the exact point that the bad guy on the motor bike hit the massive lorry in Mad Max trying to spot where a dummy replaced the real man.


It's funny what you remember isn't it

 

[Les Biehn]

Remote control, pause, scene advance, Jessica Rabbit thrown out of car legs akimbo. Say no more.

 

[Easy 10]

It certainly is Gazwag.
I can also remember being round a friends house (he had a video before we did ), and pausing / frame advancing Star Wars to get a good look at the bloodied stump on the severed arm after Obi-Wun Kenobi had performed his expert lightsaber manouevre in the bar.