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Good horror movies, not slasher trash.

  • Carrie, Halloween, The Exorcist, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, those are the classics. I have recently started re-watching them and they are really classics now. So much more normal and believable and down to Earth than what passes for horror today.

    Everything has to be embellished so much nowadays, almost to the point of absurdity.

    Give me the the late 70's and early 80's slashers and horror and forget the rest. Those old timers knew how to do it right. After re-watching those, delve into something like The Candy Snatchers and go full retro.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by CtrlAltDel on 6/29/2012 at 2:28 AM

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  • Hard Candy.. Seen it?

    "Get in where you fit in." Life is, Too Short TL;DR

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  • Of the newer horror titles, I enjoyed "The Strangers" for its very plausible scenario. Good flick, IMO.

    "Get in where you fit in." Life is, Too Short TL;DR

    weGO ●

  • CtrlAltDel said...

    Carrie, Halloween, Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, those are the classics. I have recently started re-watching them and they are really classics now. So much more normal and believable and down to Earth than what passes for horror today.

    Everything has to be embellished so much nowadays, almost to the point of absurdity, as if it's not even real.

    Give me the the late 70's and early 80's slashers and forget the rest. Those old timers knew how to do it right.

    Disagree. The horror movies today are much more believable than those made in the 80s.

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  • weGO said...

    Of the newer horror titles, I enjoyed "The Strangers" for its very plausible scenario. Good flick, IMO.

    Plausible scenario. Terrible execution

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  • SimplyComplex said...

    Plausible scenario. Terrible execution

    I can't deny the terrible execution aspect. I agree on that premise. I am just all about the.. "Could it really happen." Just makes any movie scarier to me.. That's just me. though, maybe.

    "Get in where you fit in." Life is, Too Short TL;DR

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  • weGO said...

    I can't deny the terrible execution aspect. I agree on that premise. I am just all about the.. "Could it really happen." Just makes any movie scarier to me.. That's just me. though, maybe.

    It's not just you, weGO. A successful movie that has any kind of long lasting appeal has to be at least somewhat believable, especially when concerning horror movies that are supposed to make you believe that it could really happen to you.

    Where is the "gotcha" factor when 29 people have already been murdered within the first 5 minutes of the show? It's boring after that. Many producers today seem to believe that a lot of deaths = being scared. They have no imagination.

    The times and the circumstances and the attitudes that enabled the great horror movies of the late 70's/ early 80's are gone forever. There is simply no way to recreate that. It can't be done because that time is gone forever.

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  • "It" we all float down here

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    "It" we all float down here

    Good one, Jbs.

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  • Aright was gonna post this one as well just couldn't remember, "Creep Show", had like four mini movies in it. Know in one there was a big wooden indian statue that came to life after people robbed the store, I go to a bar that has a smaller indian statue in it, needless to say I dont play around with that!

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  • The new amnittyville horror is the best scary movie made in the last few years...

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  • I've mentioned it before, but you should watch "Tucker & Dale vs Evil" if you love those 80's flicks.

    Actually, don't read about it. Just watch it out of the blue like I did. Best way to enjoy it.

    This post was edited by Face Stabber on 6/29/2012 at 6:30 AM

    Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010) - IMDb

    Directed by Eli Craig. With Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss. Tucker Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are attacked by a group of preppy college kids.

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  • Horror movies aren't scary anymore because we're desensitized. Most things have been done and there is more violence and gore in action movies.

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  • Knocked up.

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  • The first time I saw the first Saw movie, I was scared shitless. shrug

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  • Jbsdepot said...

    Aright was gonna post this one as well just couldn't remember, "Creep Show", had like four mini movies in it. Know in one there was a big wooden indian statue that came to life after people robbed the store, I go to a bar that has a smaller indian statue in it, needless to say I dont play around with that!

    Not scary, but a great movie for watching around Halloween is Trick R' Treat. Very similar to Creep Show in that it has 4 stories that are all linked.

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  • Re: Creepshow 2, the one with the blob in the lake is awesome.

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  • Bo Knows said...

    Re: Creepshow 2, the one with the blob in the lake is awesome.

    +1

    Was going to mention the lake slime.

    "I beat you!"

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  • Face Stabber said...

    +1

    Was going to mention the lake slime.

    "I beat you!"

    I hope he felt guilty forever* trying to sneak a suckle and getting that girl killed in the process.

    *Well, for at least the next few minutes.

    This post was edited by Mr Perfect on 6/29/2012 at 8:08 AM

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  • weGO said...

    Of the newer horror titles, I enjoyed "The Strangers" for its very plausible scenario. Good flick, IMO.

    weren't they going to make another one? i am 99% sure i read about a sequel

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  • SimplyComplex said...

    Plausible scenario. Terrible execution

    how was that movie terribly executed?

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  • weGO said...

    I can't deny the terrible execution aspect. I agree on that premise. I am just all about the.. "Could it really happen." Just makes any movie scarier to me.. That's just me. though, maybe.

    THIS.

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  • Alien, The Shining, The Thing, The Exorcist, Psycho, and Silence of the Lambs are all classics. Films like Friday the 13th, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and A Nightmare on Elm Street are all slasher movies. Classics, yes. Good movies, yes. Yet they are still slasher movies. The only real thing that sets them apart imo from those made now is that they were made when the slasher genre was really coming into its own and it was new. Personally I think that Saw was every bit as good as all those movies except Halloween. I would like to add that there have been some good horror movies made in the last decade......films like Frailty, The Mist, The Descent, 28 Days Later, Trick R' Treat, and 30 Days of Night (which in my opinion is one of the best vampire movies ever made). There are good ones out there- you just have to look (not unlike back in the 70', 80's, and 90's)

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  • The Grudge should be on this list IMO, I know its not a classic but this movie scared the crap out of me when I saw it in the theaters.

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