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  • born_of_fire74
    born_of_fire74 Posts: 776 Member
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    You have a well-reasoned and compelling point of view. I think it boils down to a matter of personal taste. I don't care much for torture porn or gore, as can be seen by my movie recommendations. I spend too much of the movie covering my eyes and asking husband if the gross stuff is over yet to really appreciate such things ^.^

    To each his own and thankfully they don't kill animals for movies any more. Even Deodato has expressed regret over the animal killings although it's hard to know if it's due to their controversy and the resulting nuisance for him or if it's the killings themselves.
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,534 Member
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    Coffeebeenz wrote: »
    OneHundredToLose wrote: »
    Coffeebeenz wrote: »
    If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..

    I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:

    Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?

    I have seen "The Lost Boys" so many times that I pretty much know it line for line, but that doesn't exactly count as a "hidden gem". Let The Right One In is an absolute must-see but you mentioned that of course...Shadow of the Vampire is great too. Unfortunately if you don't like the glittery romantic kind of vampire, there's not a huge selection.

    Ha, yeah I love the Lost Boys. Death by Stereo. Lol. But unfortunately we've all seen that a million times. I'll check out Shadow of the Vampire, thanks!

    You'll love it as a fan of the genre. It's pretty much a "what if" scenario of the making of Nosferatu, and it has a much younger John Malkovich and Boondock Saints-era Willem Dafoe as the main roles.
  • born_of_fire74
    born_of_fire74 Posts: 776 Member
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    Coffeebeenz wrote: »
    If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..

    I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:

    Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?

    You kinda can't beat Near Dark given all the contenders you've eliminated. The love story is whatever, whatever but there's some really cool ideas that have become canon to the genre in that film. I'll ask husband if he has any ideas when he's home; he's got a much better memory than I do.
  • Coffeebeenz
    Coffeebeenz Posts: 95 Member
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    born_of_fire74 wrote: »
    Coffeebeenz wrote: »
    If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..

    I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:

    Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?

    You kinda can't beat Near Dark given all the contenders you've eliminated. The love story is whatever, whatever but there's some really cool ideas that have become canon to the genre in that film. I'll ask husband if he has any ideas when he's home; he's got a much better memory than I do.

    Thanks! And, yeah, Near Dark was pretty dope. And one of the "judges" at our Halloween shindig is a HUGE Alien fan, so ya know.... pandering :# *thumbs up* Stakeland is kind of more apocalyptic than vampire... but I kinda like that about it..
  • BaconSan2
    BaconSan2 Posts: 260 Member
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    "The Fourth Kind" and "Melancholia"
  • maeld51
    maeld51 Posts: 3,415 Member
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    "Alien" scares the hell out me,
    seems like it could happen!

    "The Ring" gave me the creeps
  • born_of_fire74
    born_of_fire74 Posts: 776 Member
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    The Fourth Kind is aliens not vampires! But if you're gonna go there, Lifeforce is pretty obscure so unlikely many have seen it and you get both in one tidy package: vampire-aliens or alien-vampires, whichever appeals to you more. With judging involved though, you're prolly better off pandering with Near Dark because Lifeforce is pretty crap LOL.
  • paul22962
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    I consider "The Exorcist" the scariest movie I have ever seen, and the new series on TV so far is pretty good. A movie I saw as a kid called "Mark of the Devil" gave me nightmares for years. The movie was played at drive-ins in the 70's and when you got tickets, they gave you a vomit bag, like the sickness bags on airlines. The movie was very graphic and disturbing. I own the dvd now and it still is a disturbing film. If you're a fan of the genre, you should find this movie and check it out.
  • maeld51
    maeld51 Posts: 3,415 Member
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    born_of_fire74 wrote: »
    The Fourth Kind is aliens not vampires! But if you're gonna go there, Lifeforce is pretty obscure so unlikely many have seen it and you get both in one tidy package: vampire-aliens or alien-vampires, whichever appeals to you more. With judging involved though, you're prolly better off pandering with Near Dark because Lifeforce is pretty crap LOL.

    Watched "Lifeforce" back in the day.
    At the time I thought it was a scary concept.
    Kinda corny now a days.
  • born_of_fire74
    born_of_fire74 Posts: 776 Member
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    So, husband is going on and on about "The Car" which is not a vampire movie at all. I don't think we're getting any suggestions out of him.

    Not a vampire movie either but [rec] is very good. The Spanish one, not the American version with Jennifer Carpenter--that one is mediocre at best.
  • IslaTiempo
    IslaTiempo Posts: 530 Member
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    Your moms
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,770 Member
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    Another vote for The Exorcist. More than just a scary movie, it's a film about faith and doubt, with the complex characters that most films of this genre lack.

    Also love The Ring, and the even better original Japanese version, Ringu.

    And any time I walk alone down a long corridor in an old hotel, I imagine those two sisters from The Shining appearing from nowhere.

  • megemrj
    megemrj Posts: 547 Member
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    I am a scary movie junky! Love them...except anything to do with curses, Satan, ghosts. They totally freak me out so my will-NEVER-watch-agains are:

    -candyman (slept with my bathroom light on for years & the door closed)
    -the ring
    -the grudge
    -annabelle
    -it follows

    I got tricked into watching some of these. I have a habit of when I start a movie I have to watch all of it. Doesn't matter if I didn't want to see it and have no interest in it. They love to take advantage! Rotten boys. (-_-)
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,503 Member
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    I'm still in therapy....





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  • grayblackmfp
    grayblackmfp Posts: 140 Member
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    @Coffeebeenz. Play them Vampyr by Carl Theodor dreyer.
  • BaconSan2
    BaconSan2 Posts: 260 Member
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    the original "Wickerman" was horrifying - when I saw that big man thing burning OMG the Nicholas Gage remake was just sad
    Also "The Dulwich Horror" in the 70's seemed pretty scary at the time - I don't think it would be now
    When I was a kid the banshee from "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" kept me awake many school nights
  • denversillygoose
    denversillygoose Posts: 708 Member
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    Coffeebeenz wrote: »
    If anyone has any ideas/suggestions..

    I attend this horror flick get together each year around Halloween. We each randomly pick a horror genre & have a year to select a good example of that movie, then we drink and show our picks & vote on em & stuff (I'm a serious horror buff). So I've never won, the closest I've come is 2nd one year when I showed Night of the Creeps for the "B-Movie" category. This year I have "Vampires." I'm thinking of showing Stakeland-- but idk. I think my competition might prefer Near Dark. I'm the one in the group who likes dark/artsy/twisted/scenic stuff, so I never consider my audience enough. Can't show Let the Right One In (dammit!) cuz it was shown another year in a different category. Also, because they've all seen it, Afflicted & 30 Days of Night are outta the running. Okay, sorry, long-winded. My question is:

    Any good Vampire hidden gems out there?

    A Girl Walks Home Alone At Midnight. I haven't seen it yet, but it's a vampire movie on my list.
  • grayblackmfp
    grayblackmfp Posts: 140 Member
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    ^ oh yeah. I've been meaning to watch that too
  • pianoplaya94
    pianoplaya94 Posts: 185 Member
    edited September 2016
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    Supernatural movies don't really scare me. The scariest movie I have ever seen was a lesser-known movie called Megan is Missing. Most people disagree that it's scary because there are very few "jumping out" parts. And I admit the acting sucks. But, what makes it so terrifying is that it can actually happen!!! It's set up in a sort of Blair Witch Project way in that its filmed through video cameras and webcams. It's basically about a girl who gets kidnapped and her friend tries to find her but puts herself in danger doing so. It's so scary that I never watched the ending because I read about what happened at the end and got too scared... that was a year ago haha!

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