HDC Presents: 100 Years of Horror

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ANNOUNCEMENT


The scope of this project was originally intended to be really huge (in terms of the now-defunct The A to Z Encyclopedia of Horror), and so, to respect Flayed's original vision, I am stretching this project to 200 of the finest films of our genre, stretching over NINE periods (and THREE eras) of horror movies.

This will be followed by 55 Honorable Nominations, hopefully with equal representation from all periods mentioned above.

So, if you can do the math, you might have an idea of the "delightful twist" I mentioned to Giganticface yesterday. ;)



Send those 2000s list of 22 choices soon, folks!

[neverending]

Yipes!


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[Giganticface]

Hey, ho! I love it!

Working hard on the 2000s. Really tough because there are a lot of great choices, and unlike the 90s the list is deep. Right now, my 80th ranked film is honestly not that far off from my 23rd. The top 22 is starting to become clear though. The fact that I have it ranked through 80 (actually more like 150) tells you a bit about my process... I already have an ongoing list that I keep up to date with each movie I watch. (Nerddom.) The challenge, of course, is picking the right ones for this particular project.

[Straker]

Originally Posted by The Villain

I have never seen Cronos but have meant to as i am a fan of Del Toro. I just havent gotten around to it. However i will back it based solely on your recommendation

Definitely give it a watch if you get chance, such a great twist on the vampire tale and as well written as anything Del Toro has done. :cool:

[The Villain]

Originally Posted by Straker

Definitely give it a watch if you get chance, such a great twist on the vampire tale and as well written as anything Del Toro has done. :cool:

I'll move it up on my movies to watch list

[metternich1815]

I am going to re-watch Sleepy Hollow right now and I will order Cronos on Netflix. I think in the end, we got a pretty good list for the 1990s. At least, in my opinion. I will have to agree, while Leprechaun is entertaining and may have represented where horror was in the 1990s, it does not really deserve to be on a top 20 list of the 90s.

[metternich1815]

After re-watching Sleepy Hollow, I have to say that I agree that this film definitely deserves a place on the top 20. It is a very well done film. One of Tim Burton's best. I will say that I am disappointed that Natural Born Killers did not make the list. I thought that was a very well done film as well. Overall, I think the list for the 90s is pretty strong, at least in my opinion (no offense, but it was definitely strengthened when Leprechaun was removed).

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by neverending

The re-emergence of supernatural storylines, over slashers, is a contributing factor... (to better horror films in 2000's)

Horror is back on track, after some dismal times.

Completely agree. Supernatural and new sci-fi storylines, depth of story, depth of characters and development, heroes that change/develop/mature in the movie, has brought horror back on the map.

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by Kandarian Demon

"My kind of horror" was pretty much dead in the 90s, and I hated how traditional special effects were replaced by, at the time, extremely fake looking CGI.

Very true. For instance, I think most of the non-CG special effects of the creatures in The Thing 82 are still better than most in the 90s and 2000s. The CG backgrounds of today's movie are fantastic, but still most of the 'living' CG creatures are still have something 'off' about them, in a bad way. Of course, all non-CG creatures of the 80s, and CG creatures 90-00s, have something 'off' about them, but former is in a good effective way, and the later in a phoney 'take you out of the suspension of disbelief' way.

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by Giganticface

...The story is brilliant, consisting of two excursions -- the second team setting out to solve the mystery of the first team's disappearance, a story which is revealed incrementally via footage that the second team found. The footage revealed that the true horror was just as much due to human nature, of which the exploitative and, eventually evil, Westerners are bound to, as it was to the cannibalistic nature of the natives. It should also be mentioned that the found footage aspect of this film predates the "original" found footage film, The Blair Witch Project, by nearly 20 years, and that it was so well executed that Deodato was actually tried in a criminal court for suspicion of killing his actors. ...

Fascinating, and well said. I really like the perception you bring to film in your critiques. Aspects of Horror films can have an extremely destructive effect on us when it has us concentrate on things that are bad, horrible and evil, in place of things that are good, noble and lovely. But a story can always remind us of (or reveal) our evil natures that continually needs treatment, healing and maturing.