abdulmuhsee
07-13-2010, 10:53 AM
I've seen quite a few horror flicks (50+), and there are only a few that I actually enjoyed; the genres that I don't like (and please don't be offended if you do like these) are movies that are based on a deranged lunatic/monster killing people, such as Halloween, Darkness Falls, Nightmare on Elm Street, or Dead Silence. Some might be classics, but I really disliked them. The other genre I dislike are movies that rely on excessive disgusting acts of gore and cruelty to rattle you, like House of 1000 Corpses, Hostel, or The Devil's Rejects, which didn't scare me, but definitely disgusted me. I also don't like nudity or sex scenes, which really have no reason to be there.
The two movies I have liked so far are The Ring (Hollywood version) and Dead End. The Ring I liked because the beginning had you completely scared and bewildered as to what was going on; the glimpse of the 'video' was bizarre, mysterious, and frightening, and even more-so when seen in full. It bottomed out when the well-girl came out of the television though.
Dead End I liked also because of the bizarre mystery involved, which left you on the edge of your seat wanting to know what would happen next; I specifically liked the scene where they turned on the radio, and every channel featured eerie, crying infants in unison, making you wonder what was going on.
I also enjoyed REC and The Mist, simply because they were well-made, though I would classify them more as sci-fi than horror, and movies that I should have liked since they were in the right genre but didn't would be The Grudge and The Devil's Backbone; they were really boring to me for some reason :-/.
So are there any suggestions based on that? I think that the prerequisites would be that it can't be made before 1995, the horror has to be based on something unnatural and not mundane human insanity, like Saw, The Shining, or Misery, and it can't be something that makes sense where you know exactly what is going on and the only thing left is to hope you're frightened by something jumping out or being overly disgusted, or even worse, that 'something terrible happened at the house oh so long ago in X year and now weird things happen there which is how we're explaining this with ghosts and spirits and whatnot and we'll show you some old photos of the people that were involved now. :-/'
I hope those conditions aren't too stringent, and maybe you can see why I'm having trouble finding anything, though I'm sure there's lots of people that think exactly like me when it comes to this :-).
The two movies I have liked so far are The Ring (Hollywood version) and Dead End. The Ring I liked because the beginning had you completely scared and bewildered as to what was going on; the glimpse of the 'video' was bizarre, mysterious, and frightening, and even more-so when seen in full. It bottomed out when the well-girl came out of the television though.
Dead End I liked also because of the bizarre mystery involved, which left you on the edge of your seat wanting to know what would happen next; I specifically liked the scene where they turned on the radio, and every channel featured eerie, crying infants in unison, making you wonder what was going on.
I also enjoyed REC and The Mist, simply because they were well-made, though I would classify them more as sci-fi than horror, and movies that I should have liked since they were in the right genre but didn't would be The Grudge and The Devil's Backbone; they were really boring to me for some reason :-/.
So are there any suggestions based on that? I think that the prerequisites would be that it can't be made before 1995, the horror has to be based on something unnatural and not mundane human insanity, like Saw, The Shining, or Misery, and it can't be something that makes sense where you know exactly what is going on and the only thing left is to hope you're frightened by something jumping out or being overly disgusted, or even worse, that 'something terrible happened at the house oh so long ago in X year and now weird things happen there which is how we're explaining this with ghosts and spirits and whatnot and we'll show you some old photos of the people that were involved now. :-/'
I hope those conditions aren't too stringent, and maybe you can see why I'm having trouble finding anything, though I'm sure there's lots of people that think exactly like me when it comes to this :-).