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Man, there aren't even words to describe how much I love horror movies. I think it's the one genre that evokes truly visceral emotion in the viewer. Our fears as humans reveal so much about our cultural and biological evolution. It's interesting to see what people can come up with to try to scare each other.1
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I've only seen the picture like on Netflix or something for that Human Centipede. Cannot go there. To afraid of what might be to icky. Yeah, teeth can be reeaallly weird. I can see how young guys could have extra trouble with teeth.
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The Strangers really creeped me out. I was at my old house alone when I watched it. And I felt like I wanted to call someone to come stay with me
I find it matters where you watch a movie. The house where I grew up was deep in the middle of the woods. It makes a big difference watching a horror movie in a setting where the events could hypothetically take place (like deep in the woods where your nearest neighbor is a mile away) verses in the suburbs/city.
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OneHundredToLose wrote: »Man, there aren't even words to describe how much I love horror movies. I think it's the one genre that evokes truly visceral emotion in the viewer. Our fears as humans reveal so much about our cultural and biological evolution. It's interesting to see what people can come up with to try to scare each other.
The best are the super scary suspenseful ones. The less hype too the better. That's why Blair Witch worked so well when it came out.
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As the world gets scarier do we try to up the ante in our movies?0
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I though The Human Centipede was stupid. Not good as a film. And not gross/exploitative enough to be a good exploitation film. I found the first one so bad that I didn't even bother with the sequels....
And REC is good...it was remade as Quarantine.
I also really like Touristas, Wolf Creek, and 24 Days Later
I actually just watched Cabin Fever last night...that's pretty good too1 -
I find that home invasion / body horror movies do it best for me. I'm not a believer in the supernatural at all, so ghost movies don't give me that sense of realism needed to put me off balance.
I also really like the "torture porn" subset of horror, like the I Spit On Your Grave movies. I have to say that as a guy, there were some scenes in those movies (especially the third) that made me prettty uncomfortable. I love it.1 -
Oh hell yes! Some things I wouldn't dream of watching when I lived out in the country. I did have escapes plans though, just in case.
I still remember scary things from when I was a kid. I think things get too burned in if it's too imagery based.
Psych is best. Scary but not in images necessarily.
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My most recent favorite was The Babadook, I watched it with my older kids and it was fascinating to discuss the psychological implications of it with them when it was over, it really did get in your head.0
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I though The Human Centipede was stupid. Not good as a film. And not gross/exploitative enough to be a good exploitation film. I found the first one so bad that I didn't even bother with the sequels....
And REC is good...it was remade as Quarantine.
I also really like Touristas, Wolf Creek, and 24 Days Later
I actually just watched Cabin Fever last night...that's pretty good too
Give The Human Centipede II a try. Trust me. I agree 100% with you about part 1, but the second one is a lot different.1 -
As the world gets scarier do we try to up the ante in our movies?
How do you decide when the world "gets scarier"? Just curious... Statistically, the chances of one dying earlier in life are much slimmer now than ever before? Isn't that less scary...
But, no, I just think are sensory expectations become accustomed to what we've already encountered and it takes more to keep us entertained/surprised....or at least that's the thought of entertainment producers
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As the world gets scarier do we try to up the ante in our movies?
How do you decide when the world "gets scarier"? Just curious... Statistically, the chances of one dying earlier in life are much slimmer now than ever before? Isn't that less scary...
But, no, I just think are sensory expectations become accustomed to what we've already encountered and it takes more to keep us entertained/surprised....or at least that's the thought of entertainment producers
Agree. The world is actually the most peaceful it's ever been in humanity's entire history right now. I think that we'll see a resurgence of subtle horror soon enough. To me, Nosferatu remains one of the scariest movies of all time, mostly because of how it was shot and the fact that it has no sound. Watch that movie alone late and night.
Being desensitized to horror kind of sucks actually.It's led me to seek out darker and darker stuff, always striving to have that visceral gut reaction like I used to. I remember when The Hills Have Eyes left me unsettled for days. Makes me feel like some kind of a horror junkie, always trying to find a stronger dose for the next one and usually being disappointed.1 -
OneHundredToLose wrote: »I find that home invasion / body horror movies do it best for me. I'm not a believer in the supernatural at all, so ghost movies don't give me that sense of realism needed to put me off balance.
I also really like the "torture porn" subset of horror, like the I Spit On Your Grave movies. I have to say that as a guy, there were some scenes in those movies (especially the third) that made me prettty uncomfortable. I love it.
Yeah, me too. Not a fan of supernatural horror movies.
In addition to your list...I love a plain ole slasher.
I can't remember the third "I spit on your grave."
The first one was the girl who goes to work on her novel at a cabin and encounters those red neck guys...the second is the model in New York who ends up in Russia or something like that. What was the third?0 -
@OneHundredToLose Have you watched any Gaspar Noé films? They're a bit artsy and foreign... but he's big on the body horror and the visceral1
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OneHundredToLose wrote: »I find that home invasion / body horror movies do it best for me. I'm not a believer in the supernatural at all, so ghost movies don't give me that sense of realism needed to put me off balance.
I also really like the "torture porn" subset of horror, like the I Spit On Your Grave movies. I have to say that as a guy, there were some scenes in those movies (especially the third) that made me prettty uncomfortable. I love it.
Yeah, me too. Not a fan of supernatural horror movies.
In addition to your list...I love a plain ole slasher.
I can't remember the third "I spit on your grave."
The first one was the girl who goes to work on her novel at a cabin and encounters those red neck guys...the second is the model in New York who ends up in Russia or something like that. What was the third?
The third stars the character from the first film again, and picks up where she left off a couple years after her ordeal. She's still haunted by the memories and is trying to live with them, but circumstances force her back into a situation where abusive men are trying to take advantage of her. She decides to take things into her own hands again.
Let's just say there's a scene where a guy gets pretty violently and brutally separated from his...manhood in a way that was so good I rolled the scene back a good 3 or 4 times and was literally jaw-dropped.1 -
@OneHundredToLose Have you watched any Gaspar Noé films? They're a bit artsy and foreign... but he's big on the body horror and the visceral
I haven't, actually. Awesome, something new to binge at work tomorrow.
I just remembered about Maniac with Elijah Wood though, check that one out if you haven't seen it. I ended up watching it first thing in the morning one day as I ate my cereal, and it left me feeling unsettled for most of the day.1 -
I think that's what I mean. Maybe it's the scary reality of the real stuff that's bad, war & boko haram etc that makes us need our entertainment even scarier. Or so we think. And we further desensitize ourselves.2
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Oh hell yes! Some things I wouldn't dream of watching when I lived out in the country. I did have escapes plans though, just in case.
I still remember scary things from when I was a kid. I think things get too burned in if it's too imagery based.
Psych is best. Scary but not in images necessarily.
It's funny you mentioned about the escape plan... I would always dream up how I would react if I encountered the situations in the horror movies I watched.
I think a part of me secretly wanted to be in the middle of a horror movie, just so I could test out my "escaping a slasher killer" strategy
But not really...1 -
I don't go in for the slasher stuff but I thought American Mary was genius.0
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Hey normies ..tired..day 2 down..17 hours in 2 days ...
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