I understand what you mean. I definitely liked the book better but still felt that the movie was great in its own right. I think we can all agree that the t.v. adaptation they came out with was complete crap even though it was closer to the book.

What is your favorite Kubrick movie? A Clockwork Orange for me!

2001 is my favourite.

Yes it's pretentious but on a technical level it's staggeringly impressive. It's barely aged! Not to mention the really ambiguous ending. I love it when films leave you with unresolved questions.

Shining spoiler alert!









That's actually one of the few things I didn't like about The Shining. I thought the ending spelt it out too much about the Overlook being haunted whereas I think it should've been left to the audience to decide whether that was the case or Jack had just gone crazy.

I agree completely with saw and final destination, it is just really really repetative :S seems more like a list of all the different ways people can get killed.

One that let me down a bit majorly was paranormal activity, rated really well but was the worst horror film ive ever seen :l and the only movie ive actually wanted money back for as it seemed a complete waste of time.

The only Kubrick film i like. One of my favorite movies.

Best Kubrick movie and imo the best film ever is Dr. Strangelove. It's so funny, but scary in a way too. Great characters, great cast...Dr. Strangelove all the way.

Shining is my second favorite and as far as the end, I def think he went crazy. There are a lot of ways to interpret that photo. I'm not sure it definitively says either way whether it was a strict haunting or insanity.

I honestly hated The Exorcist. I can watch cheesy horror movies; they're entertainig. I thought this movie was funny, but not in a good way if that makes any sense?

I love movies about exorcisms, and I know that this is considered a classic but it just doesn't appeal to me at all. I heard stories about how terrifying a movie it was and was expecting something pretty scary but was super dissapointed. I think for it's time it may have been scary, just not in this generation so much.

Not saying it's a bad movie, I just personally didn't like it.

Dr. Strangelove would definitely fall into my third favorite, so as it goes here are my top five favorite Kubrick movies:

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Shining
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Believe it or not, Eyes Wide Shut

I know you are all saying how could I choose Eyes Wide Shut over 2001: A Space Odyssey. Look, Eyes Wide Shut had more ambiance to it, more intrigue, more Kubrick than any of his others, I love it.

Eyes Wide Shut has some amazing scenes but it's quite messy. I think I'd like it more if it didn't have Kidman and Cruise in it. Terrible actors Kubrick must've been ripping his hair out dealing with those two. The scene with Kidman smoking a joint is one of the most laughably SHIT performances to ever hit the screen.

...but you hate The Exorcist? Weird. For me I think aside from The Exorcist that subgenre is rubbish.

I didn't think it was scary at all till I saw in on the big screen where it kicked my ass and made me really unsettled. It really did deserve the Oscar for best sound... it was incredible in the theatre and tripped me right out.

Some of the movies I liked a lot, I'm really interested in real stories of that stuff though. Not sure if I believe in it but I think it's kind of fascinating. I know about the real story The Exorcist was based on, which is pretty creepy, I just didn't like the movie of it

The first movie that pops into my head is The Blair Witch Project. I tried to like that movie. I really, really did. Didn't find it scary or well acted or any of the things normally attributed to it. I also laughed at the ending, which I guess wasn't the proper response because people gave me the evil eyeball.

An older one that comes to mind is The Legend of Hell House, man that movie might be considered a haunted house classic by some, but I thought it was ridiculously silly and funny as hell. Also Nightmare on Elm Street never grew on me. I don't get what people see in that movie. Don't Look Now and Sweet Alice both sucked.

Newer ones would have to include the entire Saw franchise, the entire Hostel franchise and that awful Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.

1. The Exorcist - saw this with my family when it first came out. We just sat there laughing our asses off. I watched it years later to see if I just didn't get it. It still wasn't scary. But, LINDA BLAIR is HOT.

2. The Blair Witch Project - The only way this crap could be scary or entertaining is if the footage was actually real. It wasn't. It doesn't look authentic, and anyone who is being chased by a creature and holds onto the camera deserves to die.

3. Every Rob Zombie movie. He replaced character with fuck. He replaced plot with mother fucker, and he replaced fright with fuck, fuck, fuck. After 25 fucks, I'm no longer intimidated, I'm bored.

I'm very glad I was not in the theater that day.:mad:

I didn't like 28 days later either, but there isn't many new horrors I think are great anyway....I prefer stuff like The Sixth Sense

Sorry. I was 13 I think when it first came out. It was hyped up the wazoo. It made the top news story for days: people fainting, nurses needing to be in the lobby. People running out of the theatre screaming. Not for our family. Even on a religious level it did nothing for us. I did like her head going around. For the time, the sexual aspects (especially it being a child) were breaking boundaries. But, just not scary.

You hurt my heart.

I watched The Exorcist for the first time at an early age, probably around 10 or 11. I hated it, I remember thinking it was boring and not the least bit scary. Keep in mind this was on like a 19 inch tv in the 80's.Recently I rewatched it on my big screen with surround sound and was blown away. I couldn't believe I had been hating this movie for so long with it being such a masterpiece. Hell, I think I mentioned this movie in this thread before I had watched it again.

Which version did you watch? The Original theatrical release or The Version You've Never Seen.

The version on Netflix, the theatrical version. Did I miss much?

The Version You've Never Seen does add extra atmosphere and one scene in particular that was left out of the original is, IMO, one of the freakiest parts of the movie. Check it out, see if you agree.

Knock the Exorcist and you're in for hell. I still don't get it. BUT, for all you EXORCIST and TCM fans who haven't seen Us Sinners. I'm gonna plug it again. One person from here did check it out and loved it. Becky.horror. But, she left in 09. Here's a list I found from a guy in England. Check out his Top Horror Movies of ALL-TIME.

You know what the difference between Us Sinners and all his other faves? Us Sinners had a budget of nothing.

JONESY says:
1)Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)
2)The Exorcist
3) Dawn of the Dead (Original)
4) Inside
5) Suspiria
6) Cannibal Ferox
7) Frontiers
8) Wolf Creek
9) Visiting Hours
10) Black Christmas ( Original)
11) Murder Set Pieces
12) Evil
13) Timber Falls
14) Inferno
15) Us Sinners
16) Death Weekend
17) Nightmare Maker
18) The Vanishing
19) Buio Omega
20) Straw Dogs

And yet you still haven't hunted Us Sinners down. Shame Shame Shame.

EXACTLY how i feel about "IT".

Also a fan of the shining miniseries. I actually own it on DVD it was pretty hard to find.

Really? I found it in FYE one day without looking for it

I'm not sure what an FYE is but I'm pretty sure I've seen it in the Wal Mart $5 bin. This has been some time back though.

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