[The Flayed One]

I'll help coach you through this a bit. I'll answer each part of your question as it applies to this thread and HDC in general. From my POV, anyway.

Thanks to everyone who has posted ALL the info on HDC. I am so new to all of this. I thought I knew what horror was until I came here. :o

We're a very eclectic and knowledgeable group of fans. Make sure you take the time to read the stickies we've worked so hard to prepare for the newcomers. There are some of us here who are jaded to new fans asking the same questions (I was one for a time) so take the snide comments in stride. Try to learn a bit about us as well. We're a fun group in a unique situation.

Flayed, what is your favorite horror movie that does not include animal cruelty (causes RAGE in me), isn't too cheesy, and is more psychological than gory? For some reason, gore doesn't bother me. I usually think it looks ridiculously fake.*laughs*

Any ideas? Halloween is my favorite season and I'd like to have something new to watch.

Either you're barbing me, or you naively just described my favorite movie of all time, The Exorcist III. As far as animal cruelty, do you mean simulated or real? There are so few actual professional productions that feature animal cruelty in the horror genre that I know of that I can count them on one hand. I know a couple of them outside of genre (the whole Disney lemming documentary comes to mind) but for the most part, if people are talking about this they're referring to Cannibal Holocaust. See the Most Disturbing sticky above for an excellent dissertation on the film by Pr3ssur3.

If this is not in the appropriate place, I apologize. If anyone else has some suggestions, I'd appreciate them. ;)

It's actually not. We do a lot of projects around here, and have a lot of fun as a group. This thread is for speculation on the next project. Although I appreciate your asking, members will get frustrated if you're asking inappropriate questions in the wrong threads. I've recently been guilty of the same thing myself.

In conclusion, take time to read threads thoroughly and endear yourself to us. We're generally pretty friendly as long as a new member doesn't make a complete ass-hat out of themselves. Now, get to reading, keep posting and hopefully you'll be around long enough to participate in the threads namesake topic, mate:)