noiseredux' month of horror (movies)

[stickem]

it would be better if neve campbell wasn't in them. her acting is just annoying. i liked the first 2 but really all of them are retreads with nothing new to add after the first. you find out the killer was someone sid's mom fucked over or pissed off with no clues during the movie to point to the killer. i haven't seen 4, but i doubt it has anything different to add.

[noiseredux]

it would be better if neve campbell wasn't in them. her acting is just annoying. i liked the first 2 but really all of them are retreads with nothing new to add after the first. you find out the killer was someone sid's mom fucked over or pissed off with no clues during the movie to point to the killer. i haven't seen 4, but i doubt it has anything different to add.

4 is amazing and easily the best since the 1st (see my first post in this thread!)

[Nintendork666]

it would be better if neve campbell wasn't in them. her acting is just annoying. i liked the first 2 but really all of them are retreads with nothing new to add after the first. you find out the killer was someone sid's mom fucked over or pissed off with no clues during the movie to point to the killer. i haven't seen 4, but i doubt it has anything different to add.

Neve Campbell is a goddess.

Have you seen Wild Things? She's a wonderful talent.

[AdamGomez1987]

Not sure if this fits in the line of horror but it definitely spooked me out the first time I seen it was the movie "Paprika" with the perverseness of how eccentric the characters would act and some of the nice little animation tidbits. Not a slasher and is different from Elm St.

[KillerJuan77]

Not sure if this fits in the line of horror but it definitely spooked me out the first time I seen it was the movie "Paprika" with the perverseness of how eccentric the characters would act and some of the nice little animation tidbits. Not a slasher and is different from Elm St.

If you thought that Paprika was scary wait until you see Perfect Blue. Anime CAN be scary as hell.

[Michi]

One thing the series has done so well is this: Ghostface is the killer. But who is he? In every single movie he's somebody different. I think that's what makes him scary. That scene in the beginning of 2 where they're at the movies and everyone's dressed like Ghostface? Scary! Because he personifies the anybody-could-be-evil idea.

Definitely. Not knowing who the killer is knocks the fear factor up significantly and deviates a bit from the norm. In most slashers you know who the killer is (Jason, Michael, Freddy...) or, at the very least, know he's just some unnamed psycho. But movies like Scream let you see the killer is beforehand, even if you don't know that it's them. I think that's what makes it worse for me. It's not just that anybody-can-be-evil. It's that anybody-can-be-evil and you know them, you've met them and they hid their intentions from you so very, very well.

Honestly, I love that Ghostface has become a new classic costume each Halloween. But at the same time, it's slightly unnerving. Isn't it?

I remember those costumes before Scream came out. They were the go-to costumes at the dollar stores that people got if they couldn't think of anything else. Back then they were sorta lame. Now they have a context and they're all running around with plastic daggers with red liquid inside. It sorta creeps me out to the point that if I see one I don't want to pick up the phone on Halloween.

[noiseredux]

The Evil Dead

um. I almost don't know what to say really. One of my favorite movies since forever. In many ways Dead By Dawn is a better film. It certainly had a bigger budget, but yet the original shows that Raimi didn't need a big budget to do what he does best. And he does just that. Which is of course EVERYTHING. I mean Raimi takes the simple motif of there's-something-evil-in-these-woods and just does everything he can think of with it. Every camera trick. Every audio cue. Every low budget special effect. It's just a brilliant and perfect film. And to be quite honest, all these years later and no matter how many times I see it, I still find parts of it pretty scary.

5/5

[dsheinem]

So I just watched Nightmare on Elm Street in its entirety for the first time....and didn't really much care for it. The concept is interesting, the effects are stellar, but the directing, music, pacing, and general plot are not very good. It is most certainly a step down from Last House on the Left, and a reminder of why I couldn't really get into the series in the past. I'll persevere through a least a few more, though...

[Czernobog]

^You might actually like the Nightmare on Elm Street remake more than the original.

[noiseredux]

So I just watched Nightmare on Elm Street in its entirety for the first time....and didn't really much care for it. The concept is interesting, the effects are stellar, but the directing, music, pacing, and general plot are not very good. It is most certainly a step down from Last House on the Left, and a reminder of why I couldn't really get into the series in the past. I'll persevere through a least a few more, though...

I have no idea what you're talking about.