Favorite Horror Film?

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:05 am

I got freaked by the Japanese Rings.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:20 am

I think the scarriest movie I ever saw was Red Dawn. Not because of the plot or anything, but the incomprehensible idea that some one, some where out there actually thinks that the Cubans are going to invade Colorado. It gives me the willies just thinking about it

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:06 am

ahaugen wrote:I think the scarriest movie I ever saw was Red Dawn. Not because of the plot or anything, but the incomprehensible idea that some one, some where out there actually thinks that the Cubans are going to invade Colorado. It gives me the willies just thinking about it

If there's one thing we've learned from Stephen King, it's that bad things happen in Maine and Colorado.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:40 am

Jim North wrote:Third, this is a thread about horror movies, not Anarchism. If such a discussion is to take place, I'd personally prefer it to be in a seperate thread. Wouldn't y'all?

Yeah, that's fine, but I didn't bring it up, I continued from you and Tellurider.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:56 am

Tellurider wrote:If there's one thing we've learned from Stephen King, it's that bad things happen in Maine and Colorado.

i didn't need stephen king for that...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:31 am

Escushion wrote:To be more faithful to the book. But what was scary in the book doesn't really translate well to screen; Kubrick had the right idea to take the bare bones and change the rest to something that would work in a film.

I never really think that there's a point in being faithful to the book. Films that are bare rewriting rarely turn out fine, not only because some things work better in book than in film, but also because every respectful director is rather going to make his own film (based on book or not) than just repeat a book in the film form. The ones try to be much faithful to the book are usually incopetent for filmmaking.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:37 am

mcDuffies wrote:
Escushion wrote:To be more faithful to the book. But what was scary in the book doesn't really translate well to screen; Kubrick had the right idea to take the bare bones and change the rest to something that would work in a film.
I never really think that there's a point in being faithful to the book. Films that are bare rewriting rarely turn out fine, not only because some things work better in book than in film, but also because every respectful director is rather going to make his own film (based on book or not) than just repeat a book in the film form. The ones try to be much faithful to the book are usually incopetent for filmmaking.

The worst is when they *claim* to be really faithful to the book, and they're not. Like how for Lord of the Rings the cast said they carried around copies of Tolkein's book like it was their "bible" for making the movie, since it was so accurate and everything, and then... argh. Just, argh. I think I loved those books too much to be able to appreciate any movie based on them.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:29 am

Escushion wrote:
Jim North wrote:Third, this is a thread about horror movies, not Anarchism. If such a discussion is to take place, I'd personally prefer it to be in a seperate thread. Wouldn't y'all?
Yeah, that's fine, but I didn't bring it up, I continued from you and Tellurider.

It was fine until the discussion started veering away from how how Anarchy was portrayed in a horror movie specifically . . . I'd just personally prefer to keep discussions about Anarchism in a specific thread for it since such discussions tend to get long and involved after just a short bit, and I like this thread too much to see it get seriously hijacked like that.

In any case, on topic . . . does Attack of the Killer Tomatoes really count as a horror movie? 'Cause I'm totally putting it on my list of best horror movies ever. And Return of the Killer Tomatoes, too!

tomatoes!

TOMATOES!

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:31 am

Killer Tomatoes Eat France

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:35 am

Argh, no.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:36 am

but it stands as a monument to Amercia's hatred of the french

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:38 am

Well, yah, that's true.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:39 am

Tellurider wrote:
mcDuffies wrote:
Escushion wrote:To be more faithful to the book. But what was scary in the book doesn't really translate well to screen; Kubrick had the right idea to take the bare bones and change the rest to something that would work in a film.
I never really think that there's a point in being faithful to the book. Films that are bare rewriting rarely turn out fine, not only because some things work better in book than in film, but also because every respectful director is rather going to make his own film (based on book or not) than just repeat a book in the film form. The ones try to be much faithful to the book are usually incopetent for filmmaking.
The worst is when they *claim* to be really faithful to the book, and they're not. Like how for Lord of the Rings the cast said they carried around copies of Tolkein's book like it was their "bible" for making the movie, since it was so accurate and everything, and then... argh. Just, argh. I think I loved those books too much to be able to appreciate any movie based on them.

Actors doing that has nothing to do with story faithfulness. They aren't the writers. The most they would be doing is trying to stay true to the characters, and considering how few of the characters in the book even had developed personalities, I think the actors did a commendable job.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:40 pm

Jim North wrote: In any case, on topic . . . does Attack of the Killer Tomatoes really count as a horror movie? 'Cause I'm totally putting it on my list of best horror movies ever. And Return of the Killer Tomatoes, too!

tomatoes!

TOMATOES!

Return of the Killer Tomatoes is better...One of my two favorite movies that George Clooneys been in. But yeah, ALL the Killer Tomato flicks are the best!

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:22 pm

Escushion wrote:
Tellurider wrote:
mcDuffies wrote: I never really think that there's a point in being faithful to the book. Films that are bare rewriting rarely turn out fine, not only because some things work better in book than in film, but also because every respectful director is rather going to make his own film (based on book or not) than just repeat a book in the film form. The ones try to be much faithful to the book are usually incopetent for filmmaking.
The worst is when they *claim* to be really faithful to the book, and they're not. Like how for Lord of the Rings the cast said they carried around copies of Tolkein's book like it was their "bible" for making the movie, since it was so accurate and everything, and then... argh. Just, argh. I think I loved those books too much to be able to appreciate any movie based on them.
Actors doing that has nothing to do with story faithfulness. They aren't the writers. The most they would be doing is trying to stay true to the characters, and considering how few of the characters in the book even had developed personalities, I think the actors did a commendable job.

...yeah, I'll grant you that. The actors did do a fine job. The thing that bugged me about it is that I heard that they were doing that before I saw the movie, so I assumed that it was an indication that they were going to try to be really true to the book. I was just so disappointed at the way they subverted it to make it marketable to the mass public. I mean, yeah, big studios make movies to make money, but... it just hurts.

Doukasou · Post by **Doukasou** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:03 pm

saw. the first one, before [i apparently spoil a movie that came out months ago. sorry >.<]

and forgive me if im wrong, but i seem to remember attack of the killer tomatoes as a cartoon :/

Rock_dash · Post by **Rock_dash** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:53 pm

Doukasou wrote:*spoiler*

Could your please mark your spoilers from now on? I wanted to see that movie.

Aster Azul · Post by **Aster Azul** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:51 am

The Thing (the arctic one, not the bigheaded monster one) was my probably my single favorite horror film. Although I love so many it's hard to choose.

Shaun of the Dead I actually love more than The Thing, but it's sort of a spoof, so it doesn't count.

And Event Horizon was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Tue May 16, 2006 1:18 pm

I've hated just about every horror movie I've ever seen. The ring was okay (american version) enough, the sequel was awful. I recall that Cursed almost made me give up on the genre entirely.

I saw a horror movie a while back from the 1980's (don't recall the name) and the back cover promised "ectoplasm and erotic spirits". It turned out better than most any movie I'd seen recently except at the end you learn the ghost is full of such bitter, vengeful rage because...he was short...

I liked watching Silent Hill the first time because I am a huge fan of the games and many things in the movie evoked the games so well. However, I watched it a second time with a friend and it was absolute torture because of how incredibly bad the dialogue was.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:02 pm

Doukasou wrote:and forgive me if im wrong, but i seem to remember attack of the killer tomatoes as a cartoon :/

You're not wrong . . . there actually was an Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon based on Return of the Killer Tomatoes with a few alterations, like the slight de-aging of Tara and Chad, and the exclusion of George Clooney's character. There was also a vidgame for the NES based on the cartoon.

orion wrote:I liked watching Silent Hill the first time because I am a huge fan of the games and many things in the movie evoked the games so well. However, I watched it a second time with a friend and it was absolute torture because of how incredibly bad the dialogue was.

I noticed the dialouge the first time I watched it . . . however, this is actually in keeping with the generally bad dialouge of the games.