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I guess 'the ring' could be considered a ghost story...or 'white noise'...
But I'm talking a traditional haunted house type of ghost story or flick...
I miss those...
Yeah man, see The Orphanage! It has all the elements. It was creepy, smart, and the story makes sense. Plus the ending is top notch and does not dissappoint. It is sad-I cry- which I dig, because a true ghost story should be sad instead of the typical "angry" hollywood ghosts...
I think that and Poltergeist are the only really good ghost movies I can think of at the moment...
i think the nineties and the 2000's saw a resurgence in teen screams because they were selling. sort of like the "porkys" films were in the eighties, that is the way horror is being marketed now, to the young'uns.
i have always been a huge horror movie fan, or rather, suspense. i love "halloween" and all the old chestnuts, but that's the thing- the good ones are the old ones. "black swan" was fantastic, and really a rare-ity, and i was a huge fan of "blair witch project" but alot of people weren't.
anyway, one movie i RECOMMEND HIGHLY to all you thirty-something suspense hounds out there is "the innocents". one of the best films ever, with one of the most haunting opening sequences EVER. even if you have heard about the film and don't think you will like it, watch it. ohhhhhhhh, its wonderful. as is "the others". those two together make for a wonderful evening. : )
The Cube 1 and 2 are kind of forgotten 90's classics...but they are good...
The reason the Cube movies work..is because of the diverse personality pool each movie has...and it's done deliberatly...
Different people, different backgrounds, careers, ethnicities, all find themselves mysteriously trapped inside a giant rubics cube..(don't laugh)...
But it's a deadly rubics cube...with traps and other dimensional doorways...
and these people, regardless of their differences, have to learn how to get along and combine their strengths, if they ever hope to escape...
To go slightly off on a tangent, one thing I've noticed in the last few years is that American made horror movies are hardly worth watching. As I recall, the Cube series was Canadian, REC was spanish, District 9 (ok, that's really sci-fi), was, I think, South African.
I really wish that all of these 80s remakes were decent, but the writers seemed to have turned everything that made the original interesting, to a bland paint-by-numbers story with cardboard cut-out characters.
The first couple of Saw movies set the trend for horror films this decade. I didn't really find the first movie to be all that violent, though. The first two were more about the twist at the end and how people react in certain situations.
Saw 3 is when it really became torture porn to me. I haven't really cared much for the series past that point.
I think we all go through phases when it come to movies. Sometimes you get sick of a genre for a while, much of that having to do with the direction said genre's taken here lately. You can only watch so many movies that are basically the same thing before it gets tiresome.
I still occasionally enjoy watching stupid teenagers getting slaughtered, but I'm more into the horror stuff like The Orphanage and Session 9 these days. Jacob's Ladder is also a good classic to check out.
i really hate the torture porn stuff. ANYONE can come up with new ways to mutilate. i weep for the generations before us as they have no idea just how scary a film like "halloween" really was. as i am sure the generation before ours weeped that we didn't understand how brilliant hitchcock was. well, i do, i love me some hitch....
As a 30 year old adult, I still love to go to the movies to see scary movies. I like the suspense, the plot, but not the gore of these films. As a child, I was forbidden to see them...they became a "forbidden fruit" in which I was couldn't wait to get older to see them. However, the interest in seeing horror films did not go away. I still watch most that come out in the theatre. As someone afriad to go on roller coaster rides at the amusement park and engage in a lot of other adventures, I like seeing these movies because they are not TOO intense and I can simply look away. Horror/suspense movie-watching is something I am willing engage in for the suspense would not scare me hysterical. Basically, it is a mild form of intensity that I can handle.
Now, it appears that most people who like scary movies are teens or college aged kids. I know that there are some people much older than me who love scray movies...but do people have a general tendancy to "outgrow" these movies when they age? When do people lose their interest in these films? Does what I said make sense on why I enjoy these films? Or am I too old to be enjoying the intensity?
Nope - I am much older than you and Horror is still my favorite genre I love it ALL, gore, slasher, ghost, exorcisms, etc. etc. Why should there be an age limit on any type of movie. See what you enjoy and that's all that matters.
i really hate the torture porn stuff. ANYONE can come up with new ways to mutilate. i weep for the generations before us as they have no idea just how scary a film like "halloween" really was. as i am sure the generation before ours weeped that we didn't understand how brilliant hitchcock was. well, i do, i love me some hitch....
I like Hitchcock AND I like 'torture porn'. Love both Hostel films and count them as among my favorites.
The good ol' fahsioned horror flick has become sort of a lost art over the past 20 years, replaced by slice-and-dice gore fests for the braindead, tech-addled, zit cream set. I'm talking about stuff like the moronic "Saw" and the "Hostel" franchises, as well as o****less others. Sure, there's been a few decent horror movies since "Silence of the Lambs" but not many. For awhile I thought that M. Night Shamyalan might be the new horror king, as he showed some early promise, but thus far he has failed to impress like he did in his debut, "The Sitxth Sense." (which was actually more of a thriller than a horror flick, I reckon."
Anyway: Good News!! A movie called "The Rite" is coming out this Friday, with Anthony Hopkins and, judging by some trailers I've seen, looks as if it might be a good "Excorcist"-type movie. I for one am gonna check it out.
I like Hitchcock AND I like 'torture porn'. Love both Hostel films and count them as among my favorites.
Than you will enjoy 'Last neighbor on the left'...or something like that...
It was to gory for me...but you might like it...
It's about some deranged guy who preys on a couple who moves into an abandoned sub division...
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