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01-01-2004, 08:01 PM
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Have fun with this............
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
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01-01-2004, 08:50 PM
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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.
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01-01-2004, 09:21 PM
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I'm not telling you anything, the less you know when you see it the better. Rent it.
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01-01-2004, 09:40 PM
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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.
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01-01-2004, 10:04 PM
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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
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01-01-2004, 10:14 PM
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please, M is way more influential than NOTLD
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01-01-2004, 10:25 PM
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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.
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01-01-2004, 10:41 PM
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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.
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01-02-2004, 06:00 AM
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Fun
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 http://members.tripod.com/~NEWMANATOR/index.html
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