Good Horror Movies?

[Isidour]

I know there`s an Uncut edition, what I meant it was an edition "without having cuts"

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ok, forget it, it was a lame joke

[anger is pointless]

what about the mummy the new one of corse with brenden fraiser (HES SO CUTE)

[Alan]

what about the mummy the new one of corse with brenden fraiser (HES SO CUTE)

I don't consider those movies horror perse, more like action movies...

[SuicideSeaside]

I heard that a Tale of Two Sisters was really good. It came out in the US last summer.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1000404 ... o_sisters/

[Zoltack]

Darkness Falls

I thought it was a pretty intense movie, they needed better actors but besides that it was ok.

[Alan]

Is The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) very gory, because I'd love to see it and Stanley Kubrick is a great director. I did see one scene of the shining on tv, it was when the girl has the bat and jack nicholson is following her up the stairs and she swings the bat at his head.

[orestes.]

The Shining isn't too bad in my opinion but others may differ.

I don't know if they have been mentioned yet since I haven't been paying full attention to this thread but two movies I really like around Halloween especially are...

The Frighteners
Beetlejuice

[Isidour]

well, when I saw "The Shinning" more than terrified or even scared I was pretty bored.

Yes, Jack Nicholson´s mad-man face is something you don´t want to watch right after you woke up, but is not enough in my opinion to watch it again

[Alan]

Just saw Halloween recently, how gory is Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) compared to Halloween?

[Escapay]

My god, the prodigal slipcover king returns!

Halloween was artistically gory and yet at the same time, hardly gory compared to slasher films today.

I haven't seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet, though.

Escapay

[Lazario]

Just saw Halloween recently, how gory is Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) compared to Halloween?

• Technically there is more blood (than Halloween), but only caked on a girl's face and a little trickles from a girl's finger when it is cut with a knife.
• There is blood in a bucket and on a man's white aprin - but it's too dark to see these.
• A few people are hit over the head with a hammer / sledgehammer but it's done very quickly and nothing comes out of their heads. One person has a little blood on a part of their head hit by the hammer, another person has a nervous system spasm after being hit.
• A man is run over by a truck - no gore or blood.
• A man chainsaws his own thigh and we something what sort of looks like couch stuffing coming out of his pants - but it is not explicit.
• One person is killed by a chainsaw but we see absolutely nothing. One dead person is sliced up with a chainsaw and we see absolutely nothing.
• One person is hung on a hook and we know where but the camera doesn't show the wound, just the person hanging there alive, screaming.
• Dead animal corpses lie in the road
• Many human corpses (as skeletons / individual bones) are seen throughout the film

Is The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) very gory, because I'd love to see it and Stanley Kubrick is a great director. I did see one scene of the shining on tv, it was when the girl has the bat and jack nicholson is following her up the stairs and she swings the bat at his head.

There is very little violence in The Shining whatsoever - a low bodycount total.

• One scene shows blood pouring out of elevator doors.
• One scene shows quickly flashing shots of two murdered children with blood all over the place, but they're already dead so there is no gore.
• One scene has a dead ghost with his head split in half right between the eyes and we see blood that looks fresh but I'm not sure if it spurts a little or not.
• One scene shows a man being killed with an ax. It's fairly bloody for 1 shot. It's a short shot, but you can almost feel it happening to you, it's very graphic and disturbing.
• And yes, Jack is hit in the head with a bat (ouch!). As well as he has his hand cut into with a knife. We see some blood, I think, but not a lot.

[Caballero Girl]

I just scanned through everyone's suggestions and can't believe that no one mentioned the Thing (John Carpenter, 1982). Or if, anyone did, I must have missed it (apologies in advance).

I get turned off quite easily by blood and gore in movies, so I'm not a huge fan of the whole horror movie genre (not to suggest that all horror movies need depend on gore to make their point, but an awful lot of them do) but I really loved this one. It's often referred to as a remake of Howard Hawkes' the Thing from Another World, but really it's much fairer to think of it as a more faithful adapation of the same short story, Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. The storyline is simply brilliant, and keeps you guessing all throughout. I ended up getting really involved in it, to the point where even the occasional glimpses of gore and gruesomeness had me completely enthralled. And the special effects, though vaguely dated, still hold up pretty well to this day.