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Good Halloween/horror films?

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    #32
    How Soon Is Now
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    Cannibal Holocaust was good also.


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    #33
    Pumpkinseeds
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    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    Off the top of my head.....

    The Omen (original)

    The Fog (1980 original)

    The Others

    The Exorcist

    The Shining

    The Ring

    Don't Look Now

    Salem's Lot (effects are now dated, but it's scary)

    Pet Semetary

    The Wicker Man

    The old ones are the best. I'd add The Seventh Seal and Masque of the Red Death to that list.


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    #34
    FatherLen
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    'VHS' is good. It's a bunch of short stories, my wife was quivering like a leaf who'd just seen a ghost.

    I think it's on netflix


    VHS 2 is just as good.
    Afflicted is another good one, handycam movie but good take on the story.


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    #35
    smash
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    The old ones are the best.

    They're not really though. Bad acting, crap effects, generally silly story lines. Nostalgic sure but good horror movies they're not.


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    #36
    Pumpkinseeds
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    smash wrote: »
    They're not really though. Bad acting, crap effects, generally silly story lines. Nostalgic sure but good horror movies they're not.

    Get out.:p


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    #37
    Shakespeare's Sister
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    Crazy sh-t is going to get recommended on this thread, like A Serbian Film.

    They asked for Halloween films remember - doesn't mean they'll be able for the extreme stuff! :pac:


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    #38
    How Soon Is Now
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    Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »
    Yeh Martyrs (terrifying, disturbing film that kept me awake that night, but it's good) and its ilk are not horror in the traditional sense (Halloween, Evil Dead etc) at all.
    "Extreme", maybe "exploitation" is the term I'd use for the likes of Martyrs.

    If I were recommending it, I'd do so with a huge "Not for everyone" disclaimer. It contains very extreme violence, and torture that I had to switch off. I didn't watch the end (I know what happens though).

    I don't usually watch those extreme movies but I decided to give Martyrs a go because the storyline did seem very good.

    See when comes to horror movies everyone's different.

    I collect horror movies and I collect very extreme ones also because I find violence in one way entertaining in a sense cause it tends to have no affect on me.

    I actually go out of my way to find the craziest films I can find!


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    smash
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Get out.:p
    No, you never get out.... you run upstairs and into a room where there's no possible escape. Preferably in your underwear :pac:
    Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »
    Crazy sh-t is going to get recommended on this thread, like A Serbian Film.

    Yet you're the first person to mention it...
    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    I actually go out of my way to find the craziest films I can find!
    ichi the killer?


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    Ush1
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    Trick r Treat is the essential modern Halloween horror movie.


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    #41
    Pumpkinseeds
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    smash wrote: »
    No, you never get out.... you run upstairs and into a room where there's no possible escape. Preferably in your underwear :pac:



    Yet you're the first person to mention it...


    ichi the killer?

    It always annoys me when they run upstairs with no escape, makes me want to bitch slap some sense into them.:D


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    smash
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    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    It always annoys me when they run upstairs with no escape, makes me want to bitch slap some sense into them.:D

    but, but , but.... hollywood, underwear, boobs! :D


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    #43
    eviltimeban
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    The Human Centipede.


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    #44
    Shakespeare's Sister
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    smash wrote: »
    Yet you're the first person to mention it...
    Deliberate missing of point. With snideness thrown in too.

    ur kule

    Right so, Cannibal Holocaust and Martyrs were mentioned. These are very much not for everyone so it's best to let the OP know this, in case they're only looking for more run-of-the-mill horror movies and don't have the stomach for the extreme stuff.


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    #45
    How Soon Is Now
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    smash wrote: »
    No, you never get out.... you run upstairs and into a room where there's no possible escape. Preferably in your underwear :pac:



    Yet you're the first person to mention it...


    ichi the killer?

    I'll raise your ichi the killer with Gozu! Lol


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    FatherLen
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    the hoard is a good french zombie movie.
    any of the REC films.
    WER is ok.
    Open grave.
    Triangle is more of a mystery film than scary but still good.
    Maniac with elijah wood is deadly.
    The rite with anthony hopkins.
    The ninth gate is again not really a horror but still a great film.


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    #47
    How Soon Is Now
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    eviltimeban wrote: »
    The Human Centipede.

    Nope but the second one ya.


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    check_six
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    Gonna quote myself here from a previous thread:
    The Descent - six ladies go caving (spelunking?) and if the claustrophobia doesn't get you, what they find down there definitely will.

    The Ring - the American version is all the best bits of the first two Japanese ones combined. Watch a creepy video and, in seven days, you die. Nb. Never never watch The Ring 2, it's frighteningly terrible, and not in a good way.

    REC - news crew follow a group of firemen around Barcelona for the night. They get a call to go to an apartment block where some of the inhabitants have started to act a little *strangely*. I like how frantic the characters sound speaking Spanish when they are just talking about their dinner, etc. and how this really amps up when things start to go horribly monstrous.

    Les Diaboliques - the wife and mistress of a school's headmaster plot to murder him and make it appear that he drowned in the school swimming pool. All goes well until the pool is emptied and he ain't in there.

    The Haunting - great spooky tension build up in a big haunted house. The nineties remake is terrible, by the way.

    Nosferatu - nearly a hundred years old, but still setting a high bar for atmospheric creepiness. How did they get such a scary looking fellow to be the vampire? Watch the wonderful Shadow of the Vampire for an entertaining explanation.


    On Netflix currently: Shadow of the Vampire is on some variety of Netflix, so is Nosferatu, and the Coppola version of Dracula.
    I saw Stakeland on netflix too. It's pretty darn good.
    Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness are bonkers and good fun.
    Zombieland is entertaining too, and it has a wonderful Bill Murray cameo in it.


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    #49
    Pumpkinseeds
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    smash wrote: »
    but, but , but.... hollywood, underwear, boobs! :D

    I know, I know, it's Hollywoods way of identifying the sluts. The sluts are always the first to be killed.:D


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    #50
    smash
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    FatherLen wrote: »
    the hoard is a good french zombie movie.
    any of the REC films.
    WER is ok.
    Open grave.
    Triangle is more of a mystery film than scary but still good.
    Maniac with elijah wood is deadly.
    The rite with anthony hopkins.
    The ninth gate is again not really a horror but still a great film.

    No, just NO.... it's pants :P


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    #51
    How Soon Is Now
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    Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »
    Deliberate missing of point. With snideness thrown in too.

    ur kule

    Right so, Cannibal Holocaust and Martyrs were mentioned. These are very much not for everyone so it's best to let the OP know this, in case they're only looking for more run-of-the-mill horror movies and don't have the stomach for the extreme stuff.

    If there looking for something they might get scare out of without them being over the top violent the two Asian films I mentioned are perfect so.

    Kairo and Dark water.


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    #52
    Digital Solitude
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    Does A Serbian Film even count as horror? Its just mental, super ****ed up.

    Mama is a bit over the top in places but its a really jumpy film
    Splinter is crap but it'll make your skin crawl watching it


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    #53
    smash
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    Digital Solitude wrote: »
    Does A Serbian Film even count as horror? Its just mental, no gore or anything just super ****ed up.
    No gore? Did you watch it?


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    #54
    How Soon Is Now
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    Digital Solitude wrote: »
    Does A Serbian Film even count as horror? Its just mental, no gore or anything just super ****ed up.

    Mama is a bit over the top in places but its a really jumpy film
    Splinter is crap but it'll make your skin crawl watching it

    Nah its not horror just extreme for the sake of it.
    The Human Centipede two similar in that sense.


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    #55
    lertsnim
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    You should watch the Exorcist if you want cheering up. It is so ridiculously funny in parts. They were really sensitive souls back in the 70's with the reaction that movie got.


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    Links234
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    I don't think I'd have agreed with How Soon Is Now about anything, but he's right about one thing, nobody makes a horror quite like Japan or Korea. They like to build things up slowly, they're creepy and atmospheric instead of relying on shock tactics.


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    #57
    How Soon Is Now
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    Links234 wrote: »
    I don't think I'd have agreed with How Soon Is Now about anything, but he's right about one thing, nobody makes a horror quite like Japan or Korea. They like to build things up slowly, they're creepy and atmospheric instead of relying on shock tactics.

    Lol!

    I dunno how I'm supposed to answer this.


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    Links234
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    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Lol!

    I dunno how I'm supposed to answer this.

    We agree on something, all the rules are flung out the window, question everything! Up is sideways, pi is exactly 3, the time to panic is now! :eek:


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    #59
    thrashmetalfan
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    nuclear war movie threads will traumatise you from beginning to end. no joke. expects sleepless night for months afterwards.


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    cloud493
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    thrashmetalfan wrote: »
    nuclear war movie threads will traumatise you from beginning to end. no joke. expects sleepless night for months afterwards.

    This. Frightened the **** out of me, and its on youtube.


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    Gabbit
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    For Halloween it has to be OTT 80's horror movies. Re-Animator or Demons should fit the bill nicely.


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