Fun Your Top 5 Horror Movies

[chainsaw_metal1]

Does John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) qualify as horror?

Oh hell yes.

 

[TheSowIsMine]

And for you (if going this far off topic is allowed) how does the film compare with the telly series?

PS - although you have quite possibly the most enigmatic user name of all time we might just have a Buffy-shaped conversation going on here and I can't call you Sow, so, how formal are we being here?

You can call me Sow if you like, its just a username.
As for Buffy, Chainsaw_metal1 summed up my thoughts.

Funny story. I saw this in the theatre with friends when it came out, and we loved it. Several years later, the television series started, and I never watched it. I had it in my head that the studio took a horror-comedy classic and made it all emo, so I eschewed it. I then learned that Whedon had written the original script for the movie, and that they studio actually messed it up, and that he did the show to make his actual vision. I then watched a few episodes and fell in love with it. I still really dig the movie, but the show is so much better.

I too thought it was stupid that they made a show, but after catching a few glimpses and then really watching it, I found out it was so much better.

Terror Vision. OTT 80s cheese-fest.

I love this movie and also the song by The Fibonaccis.

 

[Janine The Barefoot]

Ooh! I Ed and His Dead Mother is so much fun!

I like Zombi 2 for its zombie vs. shark underwater battle. So original!

I'll see you your zombie vs. shark and raise you with Rubber (a tire run amok, "road rage" film) and....
Black Sheep (out of New Zealand I think) about toxically/gengineered sheep who run around the countryside eating unsuspecting humans... one of whom pleads for mercy because: "...I'm a vegan!"

It takes every urban legend and bad joke about "animal husbandry" and throws them in a wood-chipper just to see how bloody it will all come out... come to think of it, it also references The Fly!

 

[TheSowIsMine]

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
This is one of my favourite cheesy 80's b-horror films. It stars my favourite b-horror cream queen Linnea Quigley.

 

[Hux]

The original Dawn of the Dead (78).

Watched it a million times but on each new viewing I still want to believe that Roger won't be bitten.

 

[Carol]

Today I can think of these:

The Haunting (original version)
The Wicker Man (ditto)
Carry On Screaming
The Exorcist (sneaked in to see it well underage; that'll have an effect on a growing girl...)
Alien

 

[The Seeker]

Killer Klowns from Outer Space

 

[duzit]

The scene's from Braveheart where Wallace was drawn, hung and quartered. Because of these scenes, I have only watched the movie 1 time. Gibson made these scenes so true to life (I'm guessing) that once was enough for me...

 

[sleepyjack]

Robocop 2 when they take Cain's brain out and you see it in the jar with the eyes and the brain stem still attached, freaks me out just thinking about it, seriously messed up

 

[Janine The Barefoot]

Yeah, they usually overdo it. But I can tolerate human waste produced by the lower half of the body a lot easier than most of what comes out of the upper half, for some reason.

Totally agree s-jack!
"Oral diarrhea" as my Mom used to refer to it, appears to have become a widespread affliction in the 21st century! It offends me as well.
[insert the meme for any group of two or more arguing BS here] [insert one person pontificating here] [insert boot kicking anyone up their arse for pontificating here].... What can I say? I'm highly imaginative and often run short on appropriate memes when I need them most. So I make them up, visualize them, and then insert the descriptions myself!

 

[DeJoHnNiE]

Well, it may not be a film, but when I heard about this new series called: Sense8, I was hoping to see a good series. But I was really grossed out after seeing the first episode that had a lesbian love scene that ended with a wet strap-on dildo being thrown on the ground and pretty much took the whole screen to show this.

I've seen a lot of crazy stuff over the years, but thát is something I just don't need to see ever in a movie or series or anything else that is not porn related. I mean, seeing it being throw or from a distance whatever is ok for me, but a clear widescreen shot of a wet one is just taking it too far in my opinion and made me stop watching it.

Just ew

 

[Hux]

The whole of Suicide Squad made me feel sick.

 

[High Plains Drifter]

Have you ever speed up a movie on your dvd player if so what was it?


BTW Thanks @Carol for the idea.


On my old dvd player I had a speed up/down thing on it. Lets just say if Harry Potter is speed up it's Alvin and the Chipmunks. If Harry was slowed down it was a Barry White movie. After that Harry Potter was a good comedy.

 

[Carol]

Funniest thing I've read all day!

And although I'm not saying they are bad films, just both painfully slower than I'd hoped, both Chaplin's Modern Times and 2001: a Space Oddesey might benefit from your suggestion.

 

[TheSowIsMine]

So, what are some of the most nastiest horrors you have seen?

 

[ant-mac]

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) would have to be amongst one of the nastiest horror films I've seen. Along with EVIL DEAD (1981) and EVIL DEAD II (1987). In fact, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE is the only film I can ever remember that actually put me off my spaghetti...

 

[TheSowIsMine]

The first one that comes to my mind is A Serbian Film(2010).
Also Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom(1975).

 

[Elliot Thomas]

It's not a horror film, but THE KILLER INSIDE ME gets very very nasty. Poor Jessica Alba, and that lovely face

 

[TheSowIsMine]

Day of the Woman(I Spit on Your Grave) (1978) also comes to mind. The 30 minute rape scene is nasty.

 

[Carol]

120 Days of Sodom(1975).

Any takers for the very cheap remake - the 111 days (so far) of Trump?

Actually haven't tried the film - must've read about half the book before deciding it wasn't going to get any more uplifting...