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So what horror film are you watching?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Ice Storm


    The Omen is on Netflix (the original).

    One of my favourites; it terrified me as a child!


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    eternal wrote: »
    IT is awesome. The book wasn't bad either.

    They all float down here...

    http://youtu.be/OPdDdC4go6c


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,541 ✭✭✭anothernight


    Watched Babadook tonight. We really liked it though it's not really a horror film.

    We're probably watching El Orfanato tomorrow.

    A Tale of Two Sisters

    If you have to beg, borrow or steal it, if you have to download it illegally or get a pirate copy from an organisation that funds gangsters or terrorists, just watch it.

    That's one of my favourite films of all time. It really is a masterpiece, and absolutely beautiful too. It was available on Amazon Prime up until a few days ago, when they removed it from Instant, but it's still available to rent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Ice Storm wrote: »
    The Omen is on Netflix (the original).

    One of my favourites; it terrified me as a child!

    Yeah second that bad memories of this

    Was watching "you're next" until the missus turned it off :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    That's one of my favourite films of all time. It really is a masterpiece, and absolutely beautiful too. It was available on Amazon Prime up until a few days ago, when they removed it from Instant, but it's still available to rent.

    Yup, easily one of my favourite horrors ever. And you know, that's one reason to have DVDs, because with more niche stuff, you often times can't get it on streaming services.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭OffalyMedic


    Onto 'The Ring' now for second horror movie of the night....ashamed to say have never seen it before :) let's see what all the hype was about 13 years ago :)


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    shaunac93 wrote: »
    Onto 'The Ring' now for second horror movie of the night....ashamed to say have never seen it before :) let's see what all the hype was about 13 years ago :)

    American remake?

    Don't bother, it's not bad but it will ruin the original for you. The Japanese original is one of the best horrors ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    shaunac93 wrote: »
    Onto 'The Ring' now for second horror movie of the night....ashamed to say have never seen it before :) let's see what all the hype was about 13 years ago :)

    The original was way, way better, so seriously worth a watch if you can find that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,826 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Settling into Re-Animator, not my favourite but it's been years since I last watched it.

    Watched the very film tonight


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Watched Insidious 3 earlier.

    Some good hops. Not as good as the first 2 though


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Decided to rewatch silence of the lambs. Hopkins is a much better Hannibal than the guy in the series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,787 ✭✭✭✭Charlie19


    Freddy V jason is starting to kick off now, though I can see why Kelly Rolands acting career didn't take off.

    I did like this line from her "what sort of a fagot runs around in a Christmas sweater?" whilst talking to Freddy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭Polo_Mint


    Went to see "The Birds" tonight


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭OffalyMedic


    American remake?

    Don't bother, it's not bad but it will ruin the original for you. The Japanese original is one of the best horrors ever.

    Links234 wrote:
    The original was way, way better, so seriously worth a watch if you can find that.

    It's the 2002 version, presume that's the remake?? Either way I'm going to be freaked out going to bed tonight 🙈🙉


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    sugarman wrote: »
    Well, that was ****ing terrifying!:o

    Yeah, really wasn't expecting it to be as scary as it was. Didn't know anything about it before watching it but felt like taking a valium afterwards.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭yerwanthere123


    'It Follows' is terrific, great for those who favour suspense over gore/jump scares.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    shaunac93 wrote: »
    It's the 2002 version, presume that's the remake?? Either way I'm going to be freaked out going to bed tonight 🙈🙉

    Yeah, that's the remake. :( Pity, the original is so much better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,340 ✭✭✭deco nate


    shaunac93 wrote: »
    Onto 'The Ring' now for second horror movie of the night....ashamed to say have never seen it before :) let's see what all the hype was about 13 years ago :)
    If it's the original, and not the US remake. You will not sleep for a week!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Partner was going to be away over Halloween so we had a bout of Halloweenish movies beforehand! I'll be the first to admit that none of them were particularly -scary- but they were fun to watch.

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - more sad than scary. Good movie though, although I don't think I would watch it again.
    Ghostbusters!
    The Haunting - not that scary, and some rather cringey acting here and there, but the house is just sooo pretty. I watch that film for the set. Nom.
    Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula - If I never watch that piece of tripe again, it'll be too soon. I was so bewildered by his interpretation that I read the book again to see was I misremembering. I wasn't, he just had a drastically different read of it. O.o


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,784 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Watched Ghostbusters I & II.

    Weren't that scary tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Watching Scream at the moment, have actually never seen it before. A bit of harmless fun


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,902 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Cannibal Holocaust (1980), The Shining (1980), Carrie (1976). All good in their own way.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Oh, and The Frighteners. I first watched that when I was still a (very) easily scared kid, and that scene at the beginning of the movie, with the thing chasing her through the walls scared the bejeepers out of me for several years.

    S'good movie though, I'd recommend it to anyone who's looking for elements of mild creep, but doesn't want gore galore.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Cannibal Holocaust (1980), The Shining (1980), Carrie (1976). All good in their own way.

    Re cannibal holocaust isn't the music in that to die for. One of the most beautiful musical compositions I have ever heard.

    Personally I have been watching Friday the 13th movies this
    Last few nights. Perfect Halloween movies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,795 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Watched Doomsday (2008) yesterday. Pity Neill Marshall hasn't directed anything major recently.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    Off the top of my head here are some of my favourite horror/supernatural films in no particular order:
    (I'm leaving out the seriously obvious Shining, Omen, etc etc that I'm sure have already been mentioned, also I find slasher films boring so none of them on my list)


    The Haunting (1963 version) - The classic haunted house film.
    The Changeling -The George C. Scott one, really creepy and powerful.
    Session 9 - Great location, strong cast even if the main guy kind of looks like G.W. Bush
    Lake Mungo - I found this film deeply disturbing, others got nothing from it...

    Somewhat cheesy but still fun:

    Grave Encounters - not exactly original but well put together and I dunno, it just really worked
    The Legend Of Hell House - Actual Quote: "Drug addiction, alcoholism, sadism, beastiality, mutilation, murder, vampirism, necrophilia, cannibalism, not to mention a gamut of sexual goodies. Shall I go on?" Please Do!
    Stay Alive - Haunted Vidja Game gonna KILL UUUUUU!
    Dead Silence - Its got lots of ventriloquist dummies which is always a plus for me.
    House on Haunted Hill (both versions) - The Vincent Price one is great because it has Vincent Price and the remake is great fun, which is only gets even funnier when you realise that Geoffrey Rush spends the whole film doing a great James Woods impression.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,651 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Just sitting down to Bloodsucking Bastards. I'll let you know if it's any good.

    I know the guy who directed the movie and co-wrote it. How was it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Watched Doomsday (2008) yesterday. Pity Neill Marshall hasn't directed anything major recently.

    He's been directing a few episodes of Game of Thrones, he did the battle of Blackwater, and the siege on the wall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 411 ✭✭blackbird 49


    Went to see paranormal activity, the ghost dimension in the cinema last night, it was in 3D, such a load of cramp, very boring and slow moving acting wasn't great but no doubt there will be another one


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    We watched Trick r Treat, which was a really fun little movie.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Links234 wrote: »
    We watched Trick r Treat, which was a really fun little movie.

    Is that the heavy metal one with Alice cooper???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    timthumbni wrote: »
    Is that the heavy metal one with Alice cooper???

    No, its with Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin and Brian Cox.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Links234 wrote: »
    No, its with Dylan Baker, Anna Paquin and Brian Cox.

    Interesting.. Any good???


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    timthumbni wrote: »
    Interesting.. Any good???

    Yeah, it was a bit silly, but very fun. The plot was kinda all over the place, just different crazy stuff happening to people on Halloween.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭Heisenberg1


    I watched Halloween followed by The Fog last night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    I watched Halloween followed by The Fog last night.

    That sounds like an excellent Halloween.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Bullocks wrote: »
    Where can you see the 3rd Purge movie

    Its not even out in cinema in america until july so unless he has some links to hollywood I dont think he's seen the third purge


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Just sitting down to Bloodsucking Bastards. I'll let you know if it's any good.

    Well what did you think of it?

    I only lasted 20 minutes, thought it was dreadful stuff.


  • Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭Arytonblue


    Think some people on here are really just negatively reacting to the popularity and attention The Babadook got by saying it wasn't 'really scary'. The reason so many people were ecstatic with a film like that was because it was a huge breath of fresh air in a genre that has become saturated with jump scare, Paranormal Activity type rubbish or torture porn, Eli Roth tripe. It ain't a perfect movie and the little kid's performance is at times grating (though I think that was intentional) but it's such a simple but effective film that has such a horribly bleak and dreading atmosphere. The main actress' performance is great and there really are some seriously disturbing and terrifying moments, even though most of the horror aspect is insinuated and psychological instead of it being splattered all over the screen. It was, for me anyway, the best actual 'horror' film I've seen in years.


  • Registered Users Posts: 49 gherkin


    คนเล่นของ เต็มเรื่อง The art of devils


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    Arytonblue wrote: »
    Think some people on here are really just negatively reacting to the popularity and attention The Babadook got by saying it wasn't 'really scary'. The reason so many people were ecstatic with a film like that was because it was a huge breath of fresh air in a genre that has become saturated with jump scare...

    I did appreciate its originality...but didn't find it really scary!

    I fully agree about the jump scare tactic and don't like Wan and Roth efforts. But I like being filled with unease, if gore is involved I don't mind it, I just don't like when I think it's gratuitous. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is full of jump moments...but none of it was that gory or gratuitous, it was just central to the whole premise, the noise of the generator, the heat, the feathers...and then Leatherface slamming back that steel door. The Asian ghost story efforts in the 00s were good for that dread too, in a very different way.

    I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but A Tale of Two Sisters really works in the uneasy eerie stakes, and it ramps it up wonderfully.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    I did appreciate its originality...but didn't find it really scary!

    I fully agree about the jump scare tactic and don't like Wan and Roth efforts. But I like being filled with unease, if gore is involved I don't mind it, I just don't like when I think it's gratuitous. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is full of jump moments...but none of it was that gory or gratuitous, it was just central to the whole premise, the noise of the generator, the heat, the feathers...and then Leatherface slamming back that steel door. The Asian ghost story efforts in the 00s were good for that dread too, in a very different way.

    I mentioned it earlier in the thread, but A Tale of Two Sisters really works in the uneasy eerie stakes, and it ramps it up wonderfully.

    Isn't that scene in Texas chainsaw massacre horrible though
    where the girl is under the table and there is a guy on top of the table and the killer just saws off his face and puts it on his own then.
    .


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    fin12 wrote: »
    Isn't that scene in Texas chainsaw massacre horrible though
    where the girl is under the table and there is a guy on top of the table and the killer just saws off his face and puts it on his own then.
    .

    Is that actually in the original? Can't say I realised he did that...don't remember him taking off his own mask.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Is that actually in the original? Can't say I realised he did that...don't remember him taking off his own mask.

    No its in the newer version one, its disgusting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Watched Spoorloos late on my own one night. Very very unsettling. Did not sleep well after.

    Not strictly a horror film is it? But I completely agree, its really unsettling. I had nightmares after it anyway. Its an absolutely brilliantly made film and excellent story and I will never, ever watch it again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭PressRun


    Went to a party last night, so did the horror film binge on Friday. We watched The Descent, REC and Let The Right One In. All three were excellent. The first two were very claustrophobic, full of jumpy scares, and were fairly thrilling to watch. I was on the edge of my seat watching both of them. Let The Right One In isn't quite so "scary" as such, but it has a beautiful, eerie atmosphere, an interesting plot and two very good central child performances. It was a good way to wind down the heart rate at the end of the night.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Let the Right One In is excellent.


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    fin12 wrote: »
    No its in the newer version one, its disgusting.

    Didn't bother with the new one tbh...but the Tobe Hooper original is a stand out in the horror genre. I think people kinda dismiss it as a slasher when in fact not too much gore is shown, it's the setting, the heat, the claustrophobia, the shocks...it was a brilliant effort, almost perfect horror. And like all great horrors, relying on simplicity, the hum of the generator and the dirt, the mask, the brutality...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,934 ✭✭✭✭fin12


    Didn't bother with the new one tbh...but the Tobe Hooper original is a stand out in the horror genre. I think people kinda dismiss it as a slasher when in fact not too much gore is shown, it's the setting, the heat, the claustrophobia, the shocks...it was a brilliant effort, almost perfect horror. And like all great horrors, relying on simplicity, the hum of the generator and the dirt, the mask, the brutality...

    Ya I think Ive seen the orginal one as well,
    is that where a load of college kids go stay in this house in an remote area and only the girl survives, she gets away in the car and his running after her
    .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    This is the movie I was on about earlier:



    It was silly and camp as hell, but ridiculously fun :pac:


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