I love the whole damn horror genre. When someone is getting to know me, this is something they learn very, very quickly. I love horror movies, books, comics and video games (I'm not quite as proficient in my knowledge of the video games though, but i do have a soft spot for Silent Hill. Yes, I have actually played it before.)
I talk about horror movies way too much. I've found out that if you want to make a good impression on someone, you shouldn't talk about how much you enjoy slasher films in the first conversation you've ever had with them
I just love everything about it. I even love the really horrible ones, the ones that bring shame upon the horror genre as we know it. Basically this is referring to (many) remakes that have sprouted up in the past 10 or so years. There is hardly a horror movie I have ever seen that I didn't love thoroughly.
Not to say I can't recognize a terribly made movie when I see it, I watch enough of them to know. And compared to the horror movies of the 80's and before, these current ones are abysmal at best. I just don't seem to care. Should I be ashamed to own House of Wax ('05) , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('03), My Bloody Valentine ('09), and a few of the more terrible Saw films? (I'm looking at you numbers 4-7. I am a huge fan of the first one, and other two following it were great, but that's when I got a little lost.) Of course I should be! As a horror buff I should laugh in scorn of those, compare them to the originals, or to the horror films of the 30's/60's/70's/whatever. Do the horror films of those decades prevail over (most) of the ones we have now? Of course! They run dizzying circles around movies like The Human Centipede(was this movie really necessary?), and (several, not all of) The Dawn of the Dead remakes.
Do I care? Nope, not one little bit. I don't apologize for my preferences. I love House of Wax, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, and all of the SAW films. I adore the remake of Halloween, though I wasn't quite as in love with the sequel to that one.
I'll recognize that those types of movies are pretty "bad" under most movie criticisms. But there are a few horror films that I will not budge on.
This list is not in any way complete, and may be at any time changed at my discretion, especially since currently I'm writing this at 12:30am and I can't remember every single horror film I've ever idolized off the top of my head.
Disclaimer: This list may include movies that critics hated, did terrible at the box office, or have been defined as "sucked" by my fellow horror movie fanatics. I don't really give a flying fuck.
Jenni_Allegedly's List of the best horror films ever made EVER,
-Hostel 1 and Hostel 2. I hold the Hostels in the highest esteems possible. I adore these films beyond words. I think what made them great was the different type of fear in them. It was a different type of horror. Sure there was a bunch of sex and torture and drugs and blah blah in it. But I feel as though there are very few people in the world who have watched these two movies as frequently as I. (No really, I've watched them a fucking lot.) So I've had the time to really dissect these movies down (No pun attended hahaha) Imagine being kidnapped while backpacking abroad. You already don't belong, sometimes you're slightly lost, and maybe a bit naive. (Or in the case of these tourists, fucking idiots.) You'd be easy prey. It's not only the torture that's supposed to scare you in Hostel, although it does some of the best gore scenes ever filmed, it's the feeling that if something even remotely resembling this ever happened to you, you would have no way to get out of this. You have lost control over your life.Your family and friends will never know what became of you. You would be forever missing, and there'd be no way to track you down. And it is that, my friends, is what is scary about these movies.
Anyway I could literally go on all day about Hostel, but time's a-wasting so moving right along.
-The Strangers. This movie rocks. It's horrifying and suspenseful with very little blood and gore, at least less then what I'm used to.
-Dead Silence. Maybe I just really like this movie because I hate ventriloquist dummies, so I find that it did it's job of scaring me.
-The Ring. (American Version) Yes I've seen the original, I've seen a great many Japanese horror films, and I've read a few Japense comics too. The original Ring I found to be well done, definitely not as "Hollywoodized" as the remake. But I found that the original was lacking a LOT in the major creep factor. But I don't think anyone can argue that the scenery and locations in the remake were incredibly creepy, they did a great job with that, and also with the makeup and such. The original didn't scare me at all, but I still get the creeps when watching the remake.
But the second one was pure crap, even I wouldn't defend it.
-The Grudge (American version) Pretty much ditto to everything I've said above, except I liked the Japanese original a lot more for this one.
-Stay Alive I just really like this movie. Don't have much else to say about it
-28 Days/Weeks Later Most people I've ever met agree that these movies are awesome. Talk about iconic zombie movies, those opening scenes in deserted London? Inspired
-Halloween Remake/Prequel whatever you want to call it. I mentioned it briefly before but I admire this movie a lot, and Rob Zombie as a director. It was super ballsy of Rob Zombie to build that whole back story and make it work the way he did.
Saw- The first one. 'Nough said
What was I thinking trying to make a list of all the horror films I like? Talk about lofty endeavors. Why don't I instead make a list of any of the horror films I've ever seen that I haven't liked?
-Scream 4- All my hopes and dreams were smashed with this movie. Emma Roberts as the vicious, soulless mastermind Ghostface? Really? FUCKING REALLY? Horrible.
-The Human Centipede- I also mentioned this movie briefly. I have a pretty strong stomach, so gross stuff in movies like torturing and blood don't ever bother me at all. It didn't bother me in this movie either, I just found absolutely no reason for this movie to exist. The purpose of a film like this is to simply shock people. Despite what everyone think, MOST horror films have some sort of subliminal message or SOMETHING. Like a warning to promiscuous drug and alcohol infused teen partying, or anything! I found no reason for this movie and it wasn't even scary. More then half the movie involved the "Centipede" whimpering and crying in a cage. Wow, how scary.
-Paranormal Activity 3 Again, all my hopes and dreams estinguished by one movie. I found the beginning of this movie to be super promising. I had been told that the last 15 minutes of this film was the most terrifying, suspenseful thing ever filmed. So I was extremely excited when the movie was ending, since the first 3/4 was so great.
I thought it was an honest- to- goodness joke when the movie was over. I would like nothing better in life to find the person who wrote this ending and punch them repeatedly in the neck. A monkey high on coke and strapped to a typewriter could have written a better scary ending.
The Shining- I stared at the screen wondering how the fuck someone could think this movie was scary. It's not. And anyone who thinks it is is a huge pussy. (sorry it's true)
That's about it. Guess I should have done that before writing a list of horror films I adore. (All of them apparently)
Sweet scary dreams everyone!
-The Strangers. This movie rocks. It's horrifying and suspenseful with very little blood and gore, at least less then what I'm used to.
-Dead Silence. Maybe I just really like this movie because I hate ventriloquist dummies, so I find that it did it's job of scaring me.
-The Ring. (American Version) Yes I've seen the original, I've seen a great many Japanese horror films, and I've read a few Japense comics too. The original Ring I found to be well done, definitely not as "Hollywoodized" as the remake. But I found that the original was lacking a LOT in the major creep factor. But I don't think anyone can argue that the scenery and locations in the remake were incredibly creepy, they did a great job with that, and also with the makeup and such. The original didn't scare me at all, but I still get the creeps when watching the remake.
But the second one was pure crap, even I wouldn't defend it.
-The Grudge (American version) Pretty much ditto to everything I've said above, except I liked the Japanese original a lot more for this one.
-Stay Alive I just really like this movie. Don't have much else to say about it
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-28 Days/Weeks Later Most people I've ever met agree that these movies are awesome. Talk about iconic zombie movies, those opening scenes in deserted London? Inspired
-Halloween Remake/Prequel whatever you want to call it. I mentioned it briefly before but I admire this movie a lot, and Rob Zombie as a director. It was super ballsy of Rob Zombie to build that whole back story and make it work the way he did.
Saw- The first one. 'Nough said
What was I thinking trying to make a list of all the horror films I like? Talk about lofty endeavors. Why don't I instead make a list of any of the horror films I've ever seen that I haven't liked?
-Scream 4- All my hopes and dreams were smashed with this movie. Emma Roberts as the vicious, soulless mastermind Ghostface? Really? FUCKING REALLY? Horrible.
-The Human Centipede- I also mentioned this movie briefly. I have a pretty strong stomach, so gross stuff in movies like torturing and blood don't ever bother me at all. It didn't bother me in this movie either, I just found absolutely no reason for this movie to exist. The purpose of a film like this is to simply shock people. Despite what everyone think, MOST horror films have some sort of subliminal message or SOMETHING. Like a warning to promiscuous drug and alcohol infused teen partying, or anything! I found no reason for this movie and it wasn't even scary. More then half the movie involved the "Centipede" whimpering and crying in a cage. Wow, how scary.
-Paranormal Activity 3 Again, all my hopes and dreams estinguished by one movie. I found the beginning of this movie to be super promising. I had been told that the last 15 minutes of this film was the most terrifying, suspenseful thing ever filmed. So I was extremely excited when the movie was ending, since the first 3/4 was so great.
I thought it was an honest- to- goodness joke when the movie was over. I would like nothing better in life to find the person who wrote this ending and punch them repeatedly in the neck. A monkey high on coke and strapped to a typewriter could have written a better scary ending.
The Shining- I stared at the screen wondering how the fuck someone could think this movie was scary. It's not. And anyone who thinks it is is a huge pussy. (sorry it's true)
That's about it. Guess I should have done that before writing a list of horror films I adore. (All of them apparently)
Sweet scary dreams everyone!
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