Horror fans?

[timidturtle]

You consider oldboy horror? I don't know if I can agree with that. Seemed more like a thriller, but genre disputes are always silly.

I wouldn't consider Oldboy horror, but it was a damn good movie

agreed. Anyone seen Ichi the Killer? I heard it's very similar.

Ichi the Killer is another awesome movie!

[jp1]

I've never actually played The Ring for DC. That was just a little shout out because I know how much you love it Ack.

I guess Oldboy's classification could be up for interpretation. I don't know it seems pretty horrific to me being locked up like that and then banging my own daughter. I think I would rather visit some of the other stories that ARE classified as horror than go through that shit. Still it is an awesome movie. I have seen the trilogy but honestly the rest just don't affect me the same way.

I would love to find some new horror flicks to watch but it is REALLY tough these days. If it has ever been on a list or website for recommendation then I have already seen it. I even checked a lot of the obscure lists. I am looking forward to the new "I Spit on Your Grave" though.

I remember when I was a kid (12 or so) and my local video store had a back room for horror kind of like the adult section gets these days. It was really dark and decorated kind of creepy and they had all kinds of old and niche stuff. I never even checked out the rest of the store. I miss those old rental stores that actually had some character.

Anyone got some really off the grid but amazing stuff to recommend. By the way, great taste for the most part IMO guys I love nearly every movie that has been listed.

[vash23n]

The original One Missed Call is one of my favorites. Also, here are some I have watched recently:

Sick Nurses
The Experiment
Shiver
Recycle (although the ending was kind of preachy)
Antichrist (I know many think it isn't horror)
Them (the French one, not the old classic)
The Orphanage
Dead Girl

There are a ton more I could list, but most of them are more obvious like Romero's films, Halloween I and II, Friday the 13 I and II, and Nightmare on Elm Street... see I could just go on and on and on...

[(-_-)]

I'm not familiar with that one, but do you guys know that Oldboy was part of a revenge trilogy? As we continue to move discussion away from horror

I love that director. Lady Vengeance and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance were awesome movies as well. I recently watched another one of his films called Thirst. A fairly interesting take on Vampire films. What did you not like about the ending of Oldboy?

[Gamerforlife]

I'm not familiar with that one, but do you guys know that Oldboy was part of a revenge trilogy? As we continue to move discussion away from horror

I love that director. Lady Vengeance and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance were awesome movies as well. I recently watched another one of his films called Thirst. A fairly interesting take on Vampire films. What did you not like about the ending of Oldboy?

Going on memory here as I haven't seen it in a while, but here's what I remember about Oldboy. It was a movie about a jackass who couldn't accept responsibility for his own actions and the consequences that came with them(his feelings for his sister), so instead he finds a scapegoat to torture and antaganize for the whole movie and calls it revenge. Now you'd think this asshole would get what's coming to him, but no. Right up to the very end of the movie he gets his way, after the main character who I was rooting for completely degrades himself at which point I have no respect for him at all. Then the asshole who has tormented him all this time decides he has nothing left to live for and shoots himself.

I just found Oldboy to be a very vindictive, sadistic story without any kind of satisfying ending. The movie was noted for a lot of its visual style and that one cool fight scene, and I like that stuff, but the way the story played out just pissed me off

[(-_-)]

I see what you mean. I think the other two movies sort of play out like that as well though. I think Oldboy is taken from a comic book so I'm curious about the story in that one. Did you watch Lady Vengeance or Sympathy for Mr Vengeance?

[dsheinem]

I'm a big fan of the horror film genre (and to a lesser extent horror games). I have a link in my signature which covers what I've seen/reviewed in the past year or so, but here's what I have around the house:

28 Days Later
Alien (I have all the sequels and the AVP films too, but only the first really feels like a horror film)
The Birds
The Cell
Cube
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Dawn of the Dead (remake)
Event Horizon
The Devil's Rejects
From Dusk to Dawn (this kinda counts)
Halloween
Hostel
House of 1,000 Corpses
House on Haunted Hill
Land of the Dead
Masters of Horror Season 1 Set
Night of the Living Dead
The Others
Psycho
The Ring
Rosemary's Baby
The Shining
Saw
Stigmata
The Terror
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

I also have a few horror-themed suspense films (Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal/Red Dragon, Seven, Right at Your Door, etc.) and action films (Predator, Snakes on a Plane, etc.) too, but wouldn't really count those.

In writing that up, I realized I tend to watch more horror via DVR/torrent than I do via DVD/Blu-Ray - I need to beef up my collection in the horror genre! I've seen most of the staples of the genre at one point or another, but there really is a lot of stuff to see (especially once you start including foreign cinema).

Also, I wouldn't count Assault on Precinct 13 (either version) as a horror film (despite the nod to Romero).

As for games, I have (in haphazard order):

Splatterhouse 1 and 2
Castlevania 1,2,3, 64, Chronicles, SOTN, HoD, AoS,
House of the Dead 1-3, Overkill
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
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Resident Evil 0-5 and a few spin offs (e.g. UC, CV:X) - some remakes, some originals, some of both
Silent Hill 1-3
Obscure: The Aftermath
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Left 4 Dead 1/2
F.E.A.R. 1/2/Files
Fear Effect 1/2
Dead Space
Dino Crisis 1/2
Martian Gothic Unification

I know I have quite a few others kicking around too, but off the top of my head these come to mind...

[Razzmatazz]

The Eye (Original)
Ju-On
Dark Water (Original)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)
Halloween (Original)
The Strangers (US remake, has anyone seen Them! ??)

They are all great horror films. My favourites anyway.

Games:

Project Zero 2
Condemned 2

I'm not really played many survival horror games but them two made my bowels quiver.

[Limewater]

I just found Oldboy to be a very vindictive, sadistic story without any kind of satisfying ending. The movie was noted for a lot of its visual style and that one cool fight scene, and I like that stuff, but the way the story played out just pissed me off

All movies without happy endings suck.

Books too. F'in George Orwell.

[Luke]

The Cell

*gasps*

Movies:

The Audition.
The Exorcist.
The Omen (cause it's cheesy but has monkeys in it).

That's it for me.

Scary games?

Doom 3 (pc) gave me a good jump scare or two.

I also remember liking Nightmare Creatures 2 on the DC, but it wasn't scary. In fact, I have no recollection of why I liked that game so much.