Horror Movie Recommendations

[Denny Crane]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM @ Jan 3 2008, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I don't know if One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is horror per se, though it's immeasurably scarier than the splatter crap that's currently in vogue.</div>

Frankenstein is horror, I think Cuckoo's Nest is, too. It is probably the scariest movie I think I've ever seen, yet it has a lot of other qualities. Great cast, great acting, humor, Nicholson at his best...

The fact that it's a true story makes it even scarier.

 

[Moo2K4]

I would check out The Descent. That's one of my favs.

 

[AEM]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jan 3 2008, 09:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM @ Jan 3 2008, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I don't know if One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is horror per se, though it's immeasurably scarier than the splatter crap that's currently in vogue.</div>

Frankenstein is horror, I think Cuckoo's Nest is, too. It is probably the scariest movie I think I've ever seen, yet it has a lot of other qualities. Great cast, great acting, humor, Nicholson at his best...

The fact that it's a true story makes it even scarier.
</div>

The thing about it for me is that the fear comes from such a real place. Rather than looking to instill horror from external sources, it becomes more and more frightening because of how the people act - 'normally.' I see it as a petrifying psychological film (and the book even moreso), without the trappings of even a Frankenstein or a Macbeth for that matter, where the psychological undertones are amplified through the fantastic elements.

Scary, yes. I just see it as 'more' than horror, I suppose.

 

[Denny Crane]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM @ Jan 3 2008, 08:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane @ Jan 3 2008, 09:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM @ Jan 3 2008, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I don't know if One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is horror per se, though it's immeasurably scarier than the splatter crap that's currently in vogue.</div>

Frankenstein is horror, I think Cuckoo's Nest is, too. It is probably the scariest movie I think I've ever seen, yet it has a lot of other qualities. Great cast, great acting, humor, Nicholson at his best...

The fact that it's a true story makes it even scarier.
</div>

The thing about it for me is that the fear comes from such a real place. Rather than looking to instill horror from external sources, it becomes more and more frightening because of how the people act - 'normally.' I see it as a petrifying psychological film (and the book even moreso), without the trappings of even a Frankenstein or a Macbeth for that matter, where the psychological undertones are amplified through the fantastic elements.

Scary, yes. I just see it as 'more' than horror, I suppose.
</div>

For me, it was that RP McMurphy and The Chief were like the only two sane people there, including the staff.

I would classify giving a sane man shock treatment (as punishment) and then a lobodomy as horror. It just wasn't filled from near start to near finish with some freaky monster going about his business.

 

[AEM]

^ Yeah, I see what you're saying. That's what I was getting at by saying it's 'more' than horror. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it's horror, but transcends itself.

 

[Denny Crane]

Silence of the Lambs

"Entrails in, or entrails out?"

OUT!

 

[Denny Crane]

^^^ speaking of which, look for my post in this thread, and at the ads between the posts:
http://www.basketballforum.com/political-e...m-hanged-2.html

 

[Denny Crane]

Grossest movie of all time would be Clive Barker's "Hellbound: Hellraiser"

 

[AEM]

Hellraiser was pretty nasty all right, but would you say it was 'grosser' than today's splatterporn?

 

[Belarus]

The Grudge is good one, but to me "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" had the most profound effect: I couldn't sleep the whole night! And as stupid I am, I googled exorcism and found audio record of actual event in russian orthodox church, where mother brought her 13 y.o. daughter for exorcism to be performed... this girl was making unhumanlike sounds. after that I went to bed...

Now, no more horror movies for me. Feels great