5 Best Horror Movies

[EXTR3MIST]

Oh really?

Do tell.

Hold on, didn't you say you were actually a magician or somesuch as well as a big lizard expert?

You'll get booted out of the magic circle!

[Gojira]

Intersting I dont ever recal me saying I was a big Lizard Expert But I have said I am an expert in Giant Japanese monster movies. Heck probley all Giant monster movies. Well Nemesis to answer your question as to why it is that the older horror movies seem to have that certain magic as you put it. Is because film makers of the day were concentrating more on a good story and less on special effects. Movie studios hired good actors back then and not tv sitcom stars for their movies. Just on this board alone one of the fave horror movies of the 70s is the Exorcist and thats because the cast of the Exorcist were all good actors and the movie was very well made. The same can be said with the Omen movies good cast good directors good script. I see Hammers Dracula movies and with little specail effects they knew how to make good Dracula movies. In the late 70s and early 80s Jason and Myers and Freddy movies were just movies with kid actors many from tv sitcom movies. These movies had beter specail effects but not better acting. In other words they lacked that magic that Nemesis talks about. Scream I know what you did last summer basicly the same teen flicks. In film movies I noticed that in the 80s horror movie quality movies were declining but scifi movies were on the uprise seen that alot of better scifi movies were now being made. Its a real treat when a movie like Bram Stokers Dracula in 1992 was made a very well made Dracula movie with top notch actors great script etc. That movie had the magic. The reason less of those type of horror movies are made here in the USA is because movie studios dont want to spend the money on horror movies. This is very sad indeed if you remember it was horror movies that saved Universal from going bankrupt decades ago. The problemin horror today is that the movies are not rated R and because they arnt the studios are forced to make kiddiehorror movies like Chucky and thats sad. How I miss the old days and Drive ins. And lets not forget it was a former Magican that made the very 1st horror and scifi movies his name was Georges Melies and he was one of the founding fathers of movie making as we know it today.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by Gojira
Intersting I dont ever recal me saying I was a big Lizard Expert But I have said I am an expert in Giant Japanese monster movies. Heck probley all Giant monster movies. Well Nemesis to answer your question as to why it is that the older horror movies seem to have that certain magic as you put it. Is because film makers of the day were concentrating more on a good story and less on special effects. Movie studios hired good actors back then and not tv sitcom stars for their movies. Just on this board alone one of the fave horror movies of the 70s is the Exorcist and thats because the cast of the Exorcist were all good actors and the movie was very well made. The same can be said with the Omen movies good cast good directors good script. I see Hammers Dracula movies and with little specail effects they knew how to make good Dracula movies. In the late 70s and early 80s Jason and Myers and Freddy movies were just movies with kid actors many from tv sitcom movies. These movies had beter specail effects but not better acting. In other words they lacked that magic that Nemesis talks about. Scream I know what you did last summer basicly the same teen flicks. In film movies I noticed that in the 80s horror movie quality movies were declining but scifi movies were on the uprise seen that alot of better scifi movies were now being made. Its a real treat when a movie like Bram Stokers Dracula in 1992 was made a very well made Dracula movie with top notch actors great script etc. That movie had the magic. The reason less of those type of horror movies are made here in the USA is because movie studios dont want to spend the money on horror movies. This is very sad indeed if you remember it was horror movies that saved Universal from going bankrupt decades ago. The problemin horror today is that the movies are not rated R and because they arnt the studios are forced to make kiddiehorror movies like Chucky and thats sad. How I miss the old days and Drive ins. And lets not forget it was a former Magican that made the very 1st horror and scifi movies his name was Georges Melies and he was one of the founding fathers of movie making as we know it today.

I know you don't care for Halloween much but could you please reframe from putting it in the same category with I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream.

[slasherman]

Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
I know you don't care for Halloween much but could you please reframe from putting it in the same category with I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream.

Why not ? They are all slashers..:)

[Gojira]

Austin who says I dont like Halloween? I saw it back in 1978 and I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed the 1st 2 Jason movies. It was after that they just started to rehash the same stuff over and over again. Jason movies imo became more of movies where goodlooking babes could be seen not that thats bad if you like hot chicks but the movies were just repeating themselves. That gets boring after a while and the acting was not very good One of the Halloween movies I liked alot was Season of the Witch Halloween 3. I liked it because it was diffrent and for a while I thought Halloween was going to be a series of diffrent characters 1st Myers in 2 movies then another character in 2 more movies etc. imo that would have been a great idea. But after 1978 there was a decline in good horror movies thats for sure I was greatful when movies like the Howling were made. If there is one thing I hate it would be campy movies yuk.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by slasherman
Why not ? They are all slashers..:)

I know they're all slashers but I thought he was putting them in the same category of quality and that's just wrong.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Originally posted by Gojira
Austin who says I dont like Halloween? I saw it back in 1978 and I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed the 1st 2 Jason movies. It was after that they just started to rehash the same stuff over and over again. Jason movies imo became more of movies where goodlooking babes could be seen not that thats bad if you like hot chicks but the movies were just repeating themselves. That gets boring after a while and the acting was not very good One of the Halloween movies I liked alot was Season of the Witch Halloween 3. I liked it because it was diffrent and for a while I thought Halloween was going to be a series of diffrent characters 1st Myers in 2 movies then another character in 2 more movies etc. imo that would have been a great idea. But after 1978 there was a decline in good horror movies thats for sure I was greatful when movies like the Howling were made. If there is one thing I hate it would be campy movies yuk.

The idea was to have Halloween to be a series of different movies but after the third people were mad because they ecspected Myers and he obviously wasn't in the film so they desided to go back to Myers.

[Gojira]

If you just want to talk Slasher movies in that case alot of them today are just boring. I think I out grew Slasher type movies when I was maybe 20.

[slasherman]

Originally posted by Gojira
I think I out grew Slasher type movies when I was maybe 20.

I guess I never will ;)

[DRAGGOON]

5. LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT

4. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

3. SUSPIRIA

2. THE HILLS HAVE EYES

1. TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE


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