[joshaube]

So, due to school being cancelled this Friday and Monday, I have an extra long weekend. Extra time translates into... a horror marathon!

Now, I'm not an expert in the genre, nor do I know anyone WITH TASTE to reccomend me films (my friends hate CRASH, love DOOM - what does THAT tell you?) so I was wondering if anyone could suggest me a few films to watch.

I'm looking for anything good, whatever the era. Anything you might think I'd enjoy (which is pretty much anything half-decent).

A big thing for me is atmosphere. Films with that dark, gritty setting, silence, edge-of-your-seat tension. Stuff like that.

The Blair Witch, Wolf Creek, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and House of 1000 Corpses are all examples of films I liked due to this reason.

I like smart movies, psychological movies. Movies that make you think, and have multiple twists. Movies that jerk you around and leave you with your mouth hanging open. I can say I am a big fan of SAW & SAW II, take that how you will. Not saying it's smart, but it fills the other category.

What I hate mainly is slashers. A film with an "icon" that kills a person here, a person there, and another person a little ways over there. One character lives, escapes, and the killer survives. I cannot express how much this bores me to death. I turn most of them off. Friday the 13th just got pointless halfway through the series.

I'm planning to rent two or three, if I don't already have them in my "unwatched" collection. So reccomend away. And thanks. :)



Oh, and I haven't seen a LOT of the popular ones. The Omen, original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (*) ... etc :(

* Order it off ebay, and low and behold I ended up getting a burnt DVD-R with coppy video, blockage going on left right and center, and fuzzed audio. It was unwatchable to all degrees.

PS - I'm also wondering if kairo / Pulse is availible on DVD. Really want to see it.