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  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    What's the movie?
  • pixlikesitcrazy
    pixlikesitcrazy Posts: 248 Member
    My sarcasm usually goes right over people's heads so they don't actually get pissed, so I rarely get in actual trouble on here lol
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    imclynn wrote: »
    What's the movie?

    It's a new one with Kevin Bacon, called The Darkness. Should be called The Lameness.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    My sarcasm usually goes right over people's heads so they don't actually get pissed, so I rarely get in actual trouble on here lol

    Give it time, stupidity tends to find a way to beat you over the head until you have no choice but to hit back, lol.
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    Ha! I'll steer clear. Worst horror movie I've ever seen is Wickerman w Nicholas Cage. Super lame.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    imclynn wrote: »
    Ha! I'll steer clear. Worst horror movie I've ever seen is Wickerman w Nicholas Cage. Super lame.

    The Wickerman was at least so bad it was funny. This one isn't funny at all. It's the most predictable crap ever, just jump scare after jump scare, and they're so obvious there's no actual scare. There was actually a "looking up stuff on demonology" montage, to boot.
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    edited June 2016
    Got one that really did freak you out? Mine was Blair Witch Project. Scary as hell.
  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    Speaking of horror...

    I just saw a trailer for a new show on Freeform called Dead of Summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC2HM01TUQI

    It looks SO bad...but also like I kinda want to watch it
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    Hard to say, I've been watching scary movies for so long that nothing really "scares" me anymore, sadly. I go for "unsettling" nowadays.

    If I had to pick a movie that really messed with me for a day or two, I'd say A Serbian Film and The Human Centipede II would be on that list.

    For pure scare factor, I think The Fourth Kind was pretty fun. REC was good too, as was The Descent. The Shining messed me up for a couple years as a kid.

    As a teenager, Teeth messed with me for a whole different set of reasons...
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    Reminds me...the son of my boss went swimming in the small pool of some falls in our area. Like a day later the body of a drowning victim rose to the surface right where they were swimming. He'd been there like a week I think. This trailer reminds me of that. Eewww!
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    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.
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    edited June 2016
    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. :|
  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    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 :joy:

    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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1TBlPelvbE
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    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.
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    As the world gets scarier do we try to up the ante in our movies?
  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    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
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    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.
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    edited June 2016
    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.
  • pixlikesitcrazy
    pixlikesitcrazy Posts: 248 Member
    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.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    jenmar22 wrote: »
    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.
  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    imclynn wrote: »
    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

  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    jenmar22 wrote: »
    imclynn wrote: »
    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.
  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    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?
  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    @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
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    jenmar22 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.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    jenmar22 wrote: »
    @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.
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    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.
  • jenmar222
    jenmar222 Posts: 9,271 Member
    imclynn wrote: »
    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 :joy:

    But not really...
  • imclynn
    imclynn Posts: 567 Member
    I don't go in for the slasher stuff but I thought American Mary was genius.
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    Hey normies ..tired..day 2 down..17 hours in 2 days ... :'( ..I will be glad to get there ..2 more days