horror movie snobs

if there are any other horror movie snobs out there, what do you think about HALLOWEEN being re-made?

personally, i like (the original) HALLOWEEN 1 & 2 (did you know that it's all actually one movie, but it was thought to be way too long so they found a good end point and made it into two movies?), & i think rob zombie makes great movies (i liked house of 1,000 corpses and the devil's rejects, at least) so i'm not all that upset that he made the movie. however i think that there are wayyyy too many weak-ass remakes made lately of really good older horror movies.

sorry, but if it's rated PG-13, it ain't a horror movie.

here are some of my favorite classics, what are yours?

1. all the Friday the 13th movies, I love me some Jason Voorhees.
2. Sleepaway Camp trilogy, who doesn't love a transexual 11 year old for a killer?
3. Evil Dead, the first movie to ever scare me.
4. Return of the Living Dead (c'mon! talking zombies! "i can feel myself.... rot!")
5. Dead Alive

and for new(er) horror movies...

1. Dead Meat (zombie cows!)
2. Dead & Breakfast (wicked funny, think Shaun of the Dead but even funnier and more gory)
3. Feast (I can't type my favorite line from this movie on here, let's just say if you have seen it it's the part where the male creature gets his sexual organ slammed in the door and what the bartender yells)

hello fellow horror snob.  i'm really hating all these remakes.  the Hills Have Eyes remakes are terrible, but of course I still watch them.  it seems like horror movies that actually have a bigger budget all suck.  i still want my money back from Jeppers Creepers and Boogeyman.  hopefully rob does it justice.  it's sad when a good movie gets runined by a remake

Fave horror
Evil Deads/Army of Darkness
Night of the Living Dead (and all similar titles, zombies are my favorite)
Friday the 13ths
Nightmare on Elm Streets
Freaks (the Browning orignal)
Re-Aminmator
Undead (Scifi Zombie movie, it's so f'ing awesome)
Blood Ranch (low budget but well made)

there are SO many others that I love, just wanted to make this list short

zombie movies are my favs in the genre, too. you gotta give big props to george romero for night of the living dead and casting the first black male lead ever! incidentally i can't hear the name "barbara" without going "they're coming to get you barrrrrrrbarrra!"

did you like land of the dead? i liked it but the husband hated it, thought it was too different from the others. well... um YEAH. it's set in a world where the zombie's won, duh. there were a few cameos of actors from the remake of Dawn of the Dead in there as zombies. that remake wasn't too bad, except for the "fast zombies" and knowing that all the noises they made were big cats! lion and tigers and stuff. pretty lame.

we have undead! i thought it was a cool take on zombies, something different from the whole "virus" back story.

so, have you seen redneck zombies? troma put it out and i think it was literally made on a camcorder so super low budget but soooooo awesome if you can find a copy!!

ah, there's a slaughter house five image in your profile, i see.  oh mr vonnegut, so it goes.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." -KV

no, i haven't heard of redneck zombies.  it sounds really good though.  i liked dawn of the dead.  it was cool that the zombies were smart, but this whole fast zombie thing it kinda weird.  not too sure I like fast zombies.

Cabin Fever, Blair Witch 2, The Shining, Nightmare on ELm ST., The ring, el intermedio, room 6

about 6 years ago one of my friends somehow got kurt vonnegut's phone number! we tried calling him at 3 in the morning when we were super drunk, i'm actually pretty sure he would've talked to us even if we woke him up, but sadly, no answer. haha.

I love horror films! And sometimes the B movies are the best! I never found any of the Halloween films scary (infact i've never found any film scary, just made me jump sometimes). But a remake? What's the point? Though the remake of The Wicker Man was better than the original IMHO.

Though with some horror films i would imagine a remake would be more scary (like Pet Semetary for example, having better effects may make it more realistic and scary).

I just got Rogers DVD direct (like Netflix) and I need some horror recommendations.

Jewelsmcblah,

Check out this new take on an old but favorite horror flick:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rgPSA

Ive basically had to write off horror because of my squemish nature and it gets old watching them through slivers of space between my fingers.  Poltergeist was the one notable that was pretty innocent graphic wise, outside the mirror scene. 

omg, that was awesome!  i loved it, thanks!  yeah, i like poltergiest too (1 and 2, and I can't stand underground parking because of 3).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O0Tl69II3w

Here's my personal top 10:

• Poltergiest
• House
• I Spit On Your Grave
• The Exorcist
• Rosemary's Baby
• The Omen
• Night of the Living Dead
• Texas Chainsaw Masacre
• Hostel
• The Hills Have Eyes (Newer Version)

I am a huge horror movie buff.  I love them...especially if they have some kind of mind games with them, I'm thinking Seven here.

My favourites:  (...and I *hate*hate*hate zombie movies so unfortunately, there won't be any on this list)

• The Changling
• Resurrection
• Devil's Rejects
• Halloween (1-4 and the new one by Rob Zombie...but then again, I'm also a huge Rob Zombie fan, both his movies and his music)
• Wrong Turn 2 (Henry Rollins is in it...I couldn't help but love it)
• Exorcist (original one only)
• Amityville Horror
• House on Haunted Hill (the original one)
• Texs Chainsaw Massacre (both the original one and also "The Beginnging"...I thought it was executed perfectly)
• Rosemary's Baby
• Tale of Two Sisters (japanese flick..not sure this really classifies as "horror")

I'm sure I have more, but now I'm off to check out that link! :)

If you're going for psychological horror vs blood & gore I would suggest

Session 9

It stars David Caruso (Miami CSI) and is awesome!

I'm also w/ Tat on the Changling.  Cool movie w/ George C. Scott

OMG...that looks so good.  (Gotta love IMDB.)  Maybe we'll have a horror fest this weekend.  :)  Thanks Chris!

jewels, wow!  They nailed it with music and editing.  Both examples demonstrate the power what the right soundtrack can do.

Ive a friend whos a huge fan of the movie so with halloween upcoming, will send them this to enjoy the twist.

cool sun, hope your friend enjoys it as much as I did.

curlygirl, I put I Spit On Your Grave on my list the other day.  I hope it is as good as i've heard.

tatjanaturtle, is Wrong Turn 2 better than the first?  the first one (IMO) was kinda like a knock off of TCM (or all other films that follow similar TCM storylines).

OMG someone else saw session 9 and liked it! My husband and I did too. Also liked Vacancy. I like some of the old school horror films like Rosemarys Baby and the original When a Stranger calls. Loved Blair Witch Project - we went to see it at the theatre. Love anything Stephen King - though I read all the books and they are always way better! I like zombie movies, too. (My cousin lives in LA and just put out "A Zombie Survivor's Pocketbook" - it was very cool!!!) I think that the psychological thrillers can be better than the really gory ones - and typically lower budget movies are better than big hollywood ones. We loved Devil's Rejects and Gothika also the Messengers was pretty good. I like ones that deal with supernatural events......ghosts, demons, poltergeists, etc.....You never know what's really out there. Darkness wasn't bad.
FYI - we rented something called Jekyll and Hyde over the weekend - it was really predictible and kinda dumb.

 

jewelsmcblah, I never saw the first one...only the second one and really only because Henry Rollins is in it.  The second one was quite a knock off of Deliverance...also another fantastic horror flick IMO. :)

i've heard good things about it, and i like movies with crazy hill-folk so I put it on my list.  thanks! =)