Horror Movies

• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 10/31/2006 9:31:22 AM ORIGINAL: melindar ZOMBIE MOVIES ROCK!!  [] agreed! i like that the newer zombie movies have the zombies chasing people in a flat out run instead of slowly moving around. take a look at the remake of dawn of the dead and 28 days later. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• pofi_pasquale Posted : 10/31/2006 9:52:52 AM I'm with Mhad - The Exorcist scared me then and still has a big impact.  I think you might have the release year a little early cause I saw it on HBO when I was barely or not quite 12 and they didn't show it till midnight.  That would have been about 75 and even though it wasn't just released, it wasn't so old either.    IMDB says 1973.  I do actually remember the drama of it being shown at the movie theaters and it making the news.  I "informed" my mother I would be watching it because I loved horror (lived for Hitchcock and Hammer films) and my slightly younger cousin was staying over so her mom gave permission. My mom stayed up to watch with us.  My cuz was hiding under a blanket after about 10 minutes and I was ready to call it quits, but my mother "informed" me I had made her stay up this late and start watching it, she was going to finish and not by herself.  So we watched and my cousin peeked out every time I was really freaking so she saw all the worst stuff.   Mom jumped out of my closet at us when we were finally getting to bed that night!    We were raised Catholic, so that movie scared us to the core.  But it's also because it's well acted, well paced, well directed.  NOT that predictable.  It's even subtle, well, sometimes it is.  This is why it holds up.  I think I've watched it at least 15 times since then - I've watched it practically frame by frame -disecting it so it wouldn't be so frightening, but it doesn't have that much impact.   Only thing that has really scared me after that was The Evil Dead - love the low tech, but very effective film techniques.  I can hardly sit still watching it though - really gives me the heebie jeebies.    Like The Others - it's a good creepy film.  Also really well directed and acted.  And The Sixth Sense.  And that older b&w film, Carnival of Souls - very, very unnerving.   And The Blair Witch Project was pretty effective after the fact.  I thought it had entertained me without scaring me.  Until I tried to sleep that night. Or had to walk through a not all that quiet house (100 year old houses are never completely quiet) to use the bathroom on subsequent nights!  And when I was camping in the flat tops in CO just a few weeks ago and Pofi and I were both awakened to an echoing, unearthly, strange cry, I was so instantaneously flipped out and thinking of that movie, it was amazing.  I mean, my immmmmmmmmediate thoughts were, "What the "f*** was that?" and "It's the freakin' Blair Witch" at the exact same instant!   This, by the way is what we heard:  [link>http://www.hedgesoutdoors.com/sounds/elkwav.wav]Sound[/link][/size] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sandra_slayton Posted : 10/31/2006 9:53:06 AM I am not sure they would actually be called horror movies, but Physco made me scared to take a shower in our own house.  I love the movie The Birds and watch it every time it is on TV.  I am not much into blood and gore.  0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 10/31/2006 9:58:34 AM Zombies eh? Have you two heard of the new remake of "I AM LEGEND" with Will Smith? Interesting, that. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 10/31/2006 10:00:18 AM Sounds like a male elk bugling. [] Loons always get me freaked out. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 10/31/2006 10:25:41 AM ORIGINAL: pofi_pasquale Only thing that has really scared me after that was The Evil Dead - love the low tech, but very effective film techniques.  I can hardly sit still watching it though - really gives me the heebie jeebies.    we studied this movie in one of the film classes i took in college. this was made on an ultra shoe string budget. it is amazing what a good director/film crew will come up with when tasked with it. much better to use the imagination and inventiveness of the crew than rely on some computer effects department. [sm=2cents.gif] btw: the shot where the camera seems to be flying low to the ground and going through the woods was shot using a camera mounted inside a wheel barrow and having one of the crew run with it. i always thought that was pretty cool. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 10/31/2006 10:29:41 AM ORIGINAL: rwbeagles Zombies eh? Have you two heard of the new remake of "I AM LEGEND" with Will Smith? Interesting, that. sounds pretty cool. i am usually not a will smith fan, but might be worth it to see him fighting off zombies. [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 10/31/2006 10:36:32 AM Yeah...technically I guess they're vampires...but they attack in packs, are technically dead, and want to eat at least part of him so...I figure that qualifies? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 10/31/2006 10:40:55 AM one web site describes them as "nocturnal mutants". i wasnt sure exactly what that meant?[] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 10/31/2006 10:44:10 AM I believe the NAACP decided that was the proper way to class them. It was e[font="times new roman"]ither that or Vampire-Americans....[/font] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• pofi_pasquale Posted : 10/31/2006 10:47:25 AM Sounds like a male elk bugling. Loons always get me freaked out.   Bingo, Gina.  But we don't have Elk in MN!  Neither DH, nor the pups, nor I had ever heard one before and this was SERIOUSLY dead middle of the night (though a spectactularly full moon made it pretty light out).  Loons we are very used to!  We were also camping near Trapper's Lake which has these phenomonal rock mountain tops surrounding it and forming an ampitheater - it really echoed.  We did figure it out within a few minutes of hearing it, but it really was creepy!  Had to google till I found a .wav when I got back to high speed internet to confirm! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 10/31/2006 10:59:22 AM ORIGINAL: rwbeagles I believe the NAACP decided that was the proper way to class them. It was e[font="times new roman"]ither that or Vampire-Americans....[/font] dont you mean transylvanian-american?[] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 10/31/2006 11:05:47 AM Oh gosh no...not every transyvannian is a vampire. Some are merely human servants lol. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 10/31/2006 11:28:13 AM maybe undead-american would be better then? vampire has such a negative connotation associated with it! [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• rwbeagles Posted : 10/31/2006 11:34:06 AM Oh I don't know about negative. Women at least, tend to find them quite sexy...lol. I think there's even several lines of "vampire romance novels" out there right now. Men might also, if the given vamp is well...vampish...hehe.   I think it's the fact that they always have great hair and perfect teeth and flawless skin...once you get past the undead-dried-blood breath...I suppose it might not be that bad? lmao...   They've undergone a real positive image change since Nosferatu I think. He was one skeevy dude...that guy! 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login