Movies

[House of Flies]

Don't say... I'd like to see someone try "kicking me in the neck" for watching horror movies. And then having fun watching surgeons trying to sew their legs back.

[Bojan]

There is a good group of people here who like watching horror movies and we had some good discussions here. Coming in and making such an idiotic comment is insulting to all of us who like those movies.

[House of Flies]

has anyone seen those "master of horror" movies?

i have never seen more messed up things... aborted fetuses/needles being inserted in nails/penis mutilation... brrr.

[Metaphysical]

There is a good group of people here who like watching horror movies and we had some good discussions here. Coming in and making such an idiotic comment is insulting to all of us who like those movies.

no, really?

relax, man, you'll live longer.

horror films do nothing for me. for the most part their intention is to make you jump, all is directed towards that end. or they just think of the most gruesome shit they can get away with and hammer it 'til the money stops coming. some of the japanese stuff is deep-seated psychological fuckwithyourhead stuff, but it's all the same really, quiet-quiet-JUMP! etc.

and they're so easy. that's why cinema is full of them. an incessant barrage of "scary" movies. it's become banal, if it ever was anything but. I think they appeal to a kind of postmodern judeo-christian sensibility of a cruel supernatural force tormenting poor human-kind, and ultimately getting fucked up by the plucky human. I dunno. their basic formula is too predictable for me to enjoy. and then people have big debates over what's "scarier"! lol.

I mean, really, nothing supernatural is as terrifying as human savagery. irreversible is the scariest film ever made.

although some scientists said it's the shining. and kubrick made that, so they probably have a point.

has anyone seen those "master of horror" movies?

i have never seen more messed up things... aborted fetuses/needles being inserted in nails/penis mutilation... brrr.

and then there's these kinds of horror movies, which are probably even worse.

"LOOK! BLOOD! GUTS! MUTILATION! AREN'T YOU DISGUSTED?! GIVE US MORE MONEY!"

as if I wanna watch people get mutiliated.

jesus.

(not railin' at you, J, just makin' a point).

I guess, in the end, I'm too much like tarkovsky's rublev.

[House of Flies]

boo, i love saw movies and the hostel ones too... so mutilation with a point is awesome

[Guardian]

agree with meta, most of horror movies are nothing but fountains of strawberry juice, plastic flesh and meaningless plot. What is funny, many of the movies claim to study the psychological aspect of things and the reaction of the audience, or something of the sort, but they have nothing of that. It's like playing Lev Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with Mickey Mouse as main character. Of course there are some classic horror films that are worth watching and actually have some value but only few of them I consider as classics.

Can't wait to watch Avatar, but I have to wait until next week maybe, because the prices are high and theatres are full-packed.

This night I watched one Russian film called "9 rota" or as it is known in the West "The 9th company". I was impressed of the cinematography and the brilliant acting, the special effects were also top quality as they were made in Hollywood studio. It is a story based on true events and battles during the war in Afghanistan, back in 1988-89. Check it out:



What really impressed me were the final words of the only survivor from the ninth company. He was wondering what was the point of fighting and losing so many lives for a country that doesn't exist any more, for ideals that are forgotten, the people who lost their lives are forgotten too. He believes that they won their war, but did they? It shows the true and terrible side of war as it is in reality, not that you'll see something different from the Hollywood war movies, but it was nice to see something coming from the Russian cinema.

[FlyLo]

Oh wow. I've never read a more narrow interpretation of the horror genre, ever. Clearly you don't know anything about it.

[X.A.U]

So what other movies does for you? make you laugh, make you cry, make you want to kick someone in the neck? What's the purpose of all movies? How many comedies I've seen this year that I already know the jokes or how it will end but yet we still watch them. And the problem with comedies nowadays is that they play most of the jokes in the preview that it's pointless going and watch the movie in the theater, No thank you, will wait for DVD copy! Or better go watch a stand up comedies. How about action movies? You know dam right that Jason Statham will kick everyone ass and kill the main villain at the end, and how he do it? unless your IQ is a single digit you should figure out the plot 5 minutes into the movie!

So why watch a horror movie? is it cuz we live in real world where we read terrifying stories everyday in the news so it' sort of normal? or cuz it boost my adrenaline? Maybe because generally speaking horror films fans are very imaginative? I was kid when I first watched "Evil Dead", I watched it through fingers in front of my eyes. It was so scary 10 minutes into the movie I had to leave! lol The next few weeks I had nightmares, couldn't walk alone to the grocery store a block away and my imagination ran wild. It was really about being daring, adventurous and imaginative. Still searching for those feelings while watching "fountains of strawberry juice, plastic flesh and meaningless plot".

[FlyLo]

Again, you don't know anything about horror movies. Try looking past the big budget/popular horror films from the US for a change.

Also: I don't have a favourite genre when it comes to film. I like everything, bar Westerns and romantic films.

[Guardian]

do you get personal satisfaction from blood and flowing internal organs? This is the type of movies I dislike and find them funny. The rest good horror movies are actually thrillers or action movies

[FlyLo]

Then you have a highly fucked up definition of the horror-genre.

You're referring to the slasher sub-genre (which I don't like either)

[Guardian]

so name me a few movies that are good horrors.

[FlyLo]

Martyrs, for one. I would class Pan's Labyrinth under horror too, so there's another. I'll get back to you when I know some more.

[maz]

I dont watch horror films, but i still would never put pan's labyrinth in the horror genre.

[John Antonio Bilboa]

Kidult hood a proper English movie if u haven't seen it u should.



Adulthood is the squeal and its just as good.