Scary movies aren't usually my cup of tea, but bad - and I'm talking really bad - scary movies are hiiiiilarious. Those are fun as hell!

One of the worst scary movies I've ever seen - and, therefore, one of the funniest - is this piece of shit called Ghost Ship. It came out in 2000, I think, and it's just incompetent. One scene is cool, though - when 500 Italians get sliced in half with a boat cable (you'll have to see it for yourself - it's not really scary, but plenty gory). Also remember seeing a boat hook going through a woman's chin, and a gross scene where two guys are eating old canned food and the stuff that's in there suddenly turns into live maggots, I think. Aside from those things, it's hilariously awful.

connor wrote:There were a couple of parts in the otherwise lame Event Horizon that unnerved me, particularly when they find the surveilance tape of the last crew eating/gouging/raping each other to death and that one guy looks up to the camera with his eyes torn out and says something like "we have found hell" in Latin.

What Connor said. The use of silence was great - from what I can remember, because I'm never going to watch it again. Ugh.

One truly scary movie I may want to see someday is Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. It's gotten great reviews, and it's supposed to be really scary.

Everyone whose taste I usually trust is saying that the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie is very good. Haven't seen it yet...

rayj wrote:Everyone whose taste I usually trust is saying that the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie is very good. Haven't seen it yet...

I only saw the last twenty minutes of the last one (not the one with Monkey McCoughnaghy or whatever the fuck his name is) but the one after it maybe a few weeks ago and it seemed pretty good. very tense, not really cheesy, just scary.

dfg wrote:Anyone here into recent Korean cinema? How's A Tale of Two Sisters?

That movie is OK. Typical of the genre, understated, creepy...following the tradition of new Japanese horror.

'Three Extremes' is a good one, too. Can't remember if it's Korean or not...could be HK...

'Oldboy' was pretty classic, in a testosterony way...the long hallway fight scene is memorable, as is the ending plot twist...

'Burn' is the goddamn creepiest move I think I've ever seen. Cool director. Japanese director.

One of my faves is "From Beyond". An 80's H.P Lovecraft movie with Jeffrey Combs from "Reanimator" in it. I downloaded it recently and it still unsettles me. It's a story about a couple of scientists who create a machine to see into another dimension. The weird creatures that look like deep sea angler fish that are constantly swimming around us but we can't see them because they are in the next dimension really freaks me out. Well worth seeing... It;s been released on dvd recently.

I remember being freaked by the bit in "Day of the dead" where Tom Savini's character gets torn apart in the corridor by the zombies. As they pull his head off he is screaming and his voice goes up in pitch as the head separates from his body. And his mouth is still moving afterwards. brrrrr

"Don't look now" I think is the most original horror movie i've seen. The woman in the red cape. arghhhhh. Still don't want to walk around Venice at night EVER.

blinduncledallas wrote:One of my faves is "From Beyond". An 80's H.P Lovecraft movie with Jeffrey Combs from "Reanimator" in it. I downloaded it recently and it still unsettles me.

Stuart Gordon is an exceptionally good director. Most of the stuff Brian Yuzna produces is great, if you are into that slickly-produced, pulpy horror stuff.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... =nosferatu


nosferatu (released in 1922) is public domain, so you can watch the whole thing on google video

it totally rules

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