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[Signs515]

Voice your opinions :) , these all pertain to horror movies

Scariest Movie Ever- The Exorcist
Scariest Movie as a Child- Leprechaun
Best Movie With Lots of Gore- Se7en
Best Movie With no Gore- Stir of Echoes
Movie you Wish was Never Made- All sequels of Halloween
Movie you Wish was Made- Starship Troopers II
Favorite Director- M. Night Shamyalan
Favorite Actor- Bruce Campbell
Least Favorite Actor/Actress- (Tie) Both in Jeepers Creepers
Biggest Dissapointment- Psycho (remake)
Biggest Surprise (enjoyed)- Wrong Turn
Most Influential Film- Friday the 13th
Farthest Ahead of it's Time- The Exorcist
Best Low Budget- The Evil Dead
Most Underrated- Night of the Living Dead
Most Overrated- Nightmare on Elm Street/Friday the 13th
Best Scene- Exorcist III (hallway scene)
Best Movie With Twist- Donnie Darko
Most Disturbing- Ravenous
Movie That Made People Paranoid- Psycho
Best Series- Silence of the Lambs
Best Book to Movie- It
Worst Book to Movie- Salem's Lot
Best Movie With Humour- Army of Darkness

[Sam The Egg]

Scariest Movie Ever- Audition. I'm not dating anybody after seeing that.

Scariest Movie as a Child- Halloween (Didn't help that I was 5)

Best Movie With Lots of Gore- This is a complicated question. What exactly makes a movie eligable to be best movie with lots of gore? What's the scoring like? Is a great movie with a lot of gore more worthy of being best movie with lots of gore or should a movie that's not quite as good but has more gore be the best movie with lots of gore? Suicide Circle is great and has tons of gore, but Evil Dead is a bit better, but isn't as gory. There's my answer.

Best Movie With no Gore- Kairo

Movie you Wish was Never Made- All sequels of Halloween

Movie you Wish was Made- This is another tough one. The Inferno wouldn't have worked period as much as 5 years ago, but could be done visually now. But I'm not quite sure it would work story-wise. There would be trimming of course, but then a lot of symbolism and context would be gone. Also, it would bomb because modern movie-goers would shit on something as deep as The Inferno, and literary snobs would shit on a movie made from The Inferno, so the only ones who would go are people like me, who can see how it might work or at least want to know if it did, and there are few people like that. It would bomb, but it bombing would not be justified. I don't know that I would want this movie made.

Also, what about those movies where the casting was originally way different? Sean Connery as Morpheus and Johnny Depp as Neo would be way different. Jake Gyllenhaal starring in Moulin Rouge? Way different. But the movies were made nonetheless. Does this count? Are these things eligable?

I am vehemently against sequils in general, much more so...so much more so...after I saw a poster...for a SEQUIL, a fucking SEQUIL GOD DAMNIT...to Dirty Dancing...SHIT I'm about to have an anneurism (sp?) from being pissed off so much about this movie...

So what's left? Book adaptations? They've all pretty much been done. I hate remakes. I just want a movie with Christopher Walken being waaaaaaaay evil, with Billy Crudup in it because he's tragically underused, Jason Lee, Jake Gyllenhaal for the same reason as Billy Crudup, and maybe Colin Farrell, but he's used a lot recently. I want the movie to be good, but not 'Best Picture' at the Oscars good, because those usually aren't the best movie of the year anyways, but maybe 'Best Actor' good.

Forget it, I just want them to make more good movies, but that's too much to ask.

Favorite Director- Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Favorite Actor- Bruce Campbell

Least Favorite Actor/Actress- I don't know.

Biggest Dissapointment- Uzumaki

Biggest Surprise (enjoyed)- The Ring

Most Influential Film- M

Farthest Ahead of it's Time- well, 2001: A Space Odyssy would be my usual answer, but since this is horror, I'll go with either M or Faust

Best Low Budget- Here's another long answer, bitches. Are basing this on quality or on how much money it made for being a low budget? On the latter, nothing will touch Blair Witch Project. It was made for like $20, but it made millions because the general populous is stupid and thought it was real. Based on quality, it's tough because there's a lot. But I'll go with Last House on the Left or Versus or Donnie Darko

Most Underrated- The Ring (I'd add Ringu, but that's highly rated in it's mother country, so it's out)

Most Overrated- Texas fucking Chainsaw Massacre remake

Best Scene- The scene at the beggining of Versus. The mobster gets shot, turns into a zombie, Lead prisoner and mobster cohorts shoot zombie mobster until he's dead again. Lead mobster looks at his fallen cohort and thinks. Then he turns to the non-helping prisoner and shoots him to see if he turns into a zombie as well. It's not scary, not artistic, not flashy or deep or gorey or any of those things...it's brilliant.

Best Movie With Twist- Well, all the good twists have been clichéd into common knowledge, from the Planet of the Apes (the real one) being Earth to the identity of Keyser Soze, and especially all the horror movie twists, so what's an egg to do? Memento isn't a horror movie, Fight Club isn't either. I'll go with 28 Days Later.
"OMG THAT DIDN'T HAVE A TWIST DUMBASS LOL!!!"
Shut your mouth. The twist was subtle. They didn't have a big scene to reveal it and have all kinds of mellowdrama built around it. They mentioned it, the twist occurred, they moved on. The end did involve it, and I disagreed with that. It should've ended with the crash at the gate.

Most Disturbing- Paradise Lost: The Murders at Robin Hood Hill

Movie That Made People Paranoid- Jaws

Best Series- I dunno

Best Book to Movie- Battle Royale. I don't care if it's not horror, fuck you bitches. It's close enough.

Worst Book to Movie- Dreamcatcher

Best Movie With Humour- Versus. The humor wasn't really humor, but the movie wasn't really serious.

[agoniste]

i never heard of this movie(audition) before coming to this forum.
what's this movie all about?

[Sam The Egg]

I'm not telling you anything, the less you know when you see it the better. Rent it.

[orangestar]

Scariest Movie Ever- Pet Sematary

Scariest Movie as a Child- The Exorcist

Best Movie With Lots of Gore- Candyman

Best Movie With no Gore- Rosemarys Baby

Movie you Wish was Never Made- I Still Know what you did last summer

Movie you Wish was Made- The Forsaken 2

Favorite Director- George Romero

Favorite Actor- Vincent Price/Anthony Hopkinds

Least Favorite Actor/Actress- Jerry Oconnel in Scream 2

Biggest Dissapointment- The Ninth Gate

Biggest Surprise (enjoyed)- Joy Ride

Most Influential Film- Night of the Living Dead

Farthest Ahead of it's Time- Night of the Living Dead

Best Low Budget- Night of the Living Dead

Most Underrated- Cherry Falls

Most Overrated- TCM *Original*

Best Scene- Original TCM Dinner Party Scene

Best Movie With Twist- The 6th Sense

Most Disturbing- TCM

Movie That Made People Paranoid- The Ring

Best Series- Scream

Best Book to Movie- Pet Sematary

Worst Book to Movie- Rose Red

Best Movie With Humour- Scream



I love to make lists like these! Nice thread to start, it actually made me go back and think of all the horror movies I have ever seen.

[Dr.Kelvinstein]

Scariest--Halloween

Scariest as a Child--Phantasm

Best Movie With Lots of Gore--Zombi

Best Movie With No Gore--The Wolf Man

Movie You Wish Was Never Made--The Guardian

Movie You Wish Was Made--House Of Usher or
Wuthering Heights directed by Tim Burton

Fave Director--Sergio Leone

Favorite Actor--All depends on concept and director, but I think Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, and Barabara Steele worked best inside the genre.

Least Favorite--Jay-Lo or any other pretty boy/girl flavor of the month.

Biggest Disappointment--Blair Witch 2

Biggest Surprise--TCM remake (thought I'd loathe it)

Most Influential--NOTLD (duh)

Farthest Ahead Of Its Time--NOTLD (again, duh)

Best Low Budget--NOTLD (getting tired of typing that)

Most Underrated--Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (yes, I'm very serious!!!)

Most Overrated--Silence of the Lambs and/or The Exorcist (mainstream horror even sounds like a joke)

Best Scene--"They're coming to get you, Barbara..."

Best Movie With a Twist--end of NOTLD, when Ben is shot

Most Disturbing--Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Movie That Made People Paranoid--The Exorcist, all those soccer moms thinking their children were about to be possessed

Best Series--Romero's Dead Tilogy

Best Book to Movie--I am Legend, as NOTLD

Worst Book to Movie--Queen of the Damned

Best Movie with Humor--ROTLD

[Sam The Egg]

please, M is way more influential than NOTLD

[orangestar]

please, M is way more influential than NOTLD

Its all in how you look at it. "Most infulential" is impossible to define. I agree with Dr. K on the NOTLD thing because it was one of the first (if not the very first) real zombie movie.

And it was the first horror movie to use a black man as the lead actor, I dont know if that was "infulential" but it was ahead of its time, thats for sure.

[Dr.Kelvinstein]

I love M. Lang's roaming camera and the stuff he did with sound was way ahead of their time, but it hardly influenced any American horror films of the period. The roaming cameras and long pans in American horror films came from another German expressionalist--the cinemantographer and later director Karl Freund. Visually, American horror films didn't really start moving until Hitchcock.

NOTLD redefined what a horror film was capable of, not to mention taking violence to a whole different level without the childish Grand Guignol absurdity of H.G. Lewis. It was also a horror film that spoke to Americans--here's a film in 1968 in which a black man is shot by a posse of rednecks and thrown on a fire. In that final frame, we know who the real threat is, and it's certainly not the walking dead.

[dmihatmttl]

This does sound like fun! I'll play . . . .


Scariest Movie Ever- tie: THE EXORCIST/THE EXORCIST III: LEGION
Scariest Movie as a Child- John Carpenter's THE THING
Best Movie With Lots of Gore- DAY OF THE DEAD
Best Movie With no Gore- THE RING (both versions)
Movie you Wish was Never Made- SCREAM 2 and 3 (because I admit I did really enjoy the first one)
Movie you Wish was Made- a really good adaptation of Richard Matheson's I AM LEGEND
Favorite Director- John Carpenter
Favorite Actor- don't really have one in the horror genre
Least Favorite Actor/Actress- don't really have one
Biggest Dissapointment- tie: THE HULK; HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES (though I did enjoy HOUSE somewhat, it fell far short of my expectations)
Biggest Surprise (enjoyed)- tie: WRONG TURN
Most Influential Film- HALLOWEEN
Farthest Ahead of it's Time- THE TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (IMO few CGI effects have come close to those in Cameron's film)
Best Low Budget- THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Most Underrated- PHANTASM
Most Overrated- FINAL DESTINATION
Best Scene- tie: EXORCIST III (hallway scene); EVENT HORIZON (green corridor scene)
Best Movie With Twist- SE7EN
Most Disturbing- tie: AUDITION; THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Movie That Made People Paranoid- JAWS
Best Series- THE EVIL DEAD series
Best Book to Movie- ROSEMARY'S BABY
Worst Book to Movie- THE LAWNMOWER MAN (wtf?)
Best Movie With Humour- RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD




James
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[avenger00soul]

How can Friday the 13th be the most influential and the most overrated?

Anywho, I just thought I'd add that Starship Troopers II is/was in development.

[Signs515]

The reason I have Friday the 13th as the most influential and the most overrated is because it was the movie that seemed to start all the teen slasher/horror movies. I say it's overrated because.......well.........I don't think it's that great of a concept and I don't find it that interesting, I know lots of other people do though.

[Sam The Egg]

there's no way NOTLD was the first zombie movie. Did it pretty much reinvent the zombie movie sub-genre? Yes, but the Zombie movies were old news at the time, going at least as far back as the early 1930's. On the other hand, one could make the argument that M influenced the entire 'chasing the serial killer' thriller sub-genre, and that covers a lot of ground.


And Halloween, or maybe Black Christmas, started the teen slasher movies.

[bloodygurl02]

Originally posted by Signs515
Voice your opinions :) , these all pertain to horror movies

Scariest Movie Ever- The Exorcist
Scariest Movie as a Child- Leprechaun
Best Movie With Lots of Gore- Se7en
Best Movie With no Gore- Stir of Echoes
Movie you Wish was Never Made- All sequels of Halloween
Movie you Wish was Made- Starship Troopers II
Favorite Director- M. Night Shamyalan
Favorite Actor- Bruce Campbell
Least Favorite Actor/Actress- (Tie) Both in Jeepers Creepers
Biggest Dissapointment- Psycho (remake)
Biggest Surprise (enjoyed)- Wrong Turn
Most Influential Film- Friday the 13th
Farthest Ahead of it's Time- The Exorcist
Best Low Budget- The Evil Dead
Most Underrated- Night of the Living Dead
Most Overrated- Nightmare on Elm Street/Friday the 13th
Best Scene- Exorcist III (hallway scene)
Best Movie With Twist- Donnie Darko
Most Disturbing- Ravenous
Movie That Made People Paranoid- Psycho
Best Series- Silence of the Lambs
Best Book to Movie- It
Worst Book to Movie- Salem's Lot
Best Movie With Humour- Army of Darkness

scariest movie ever
exorcist

scariest movie as a child: practically evverything but Nightmare on elm street scared me the most
best moview/ lots of gore- not sure can't think of any
best movie w/ no gore: stir of echoes
movie wish was never made: halloween the year of the witch
movie wish was made: its not horror but there should b a mario bros. part 2 cuz of how the movie ended
to manny catergories and i am too tired to type the rest.
god i am so lazy