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Blair Witch Project also started the whole hand-filmed home video movie fad. It didn't invent it but definitely made it mainstream and was the first contact with this kind of thing for the average viewer so yeah people were blown away by it.
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blair witch is good and it has one of the best third acts of any horror movie
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Jul 28, 2014 18:15
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Alien is a great movie, probably my favorite. But I also like The Thing for how insanely gory it was. I think I might try The Mothman Prophecies.
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Jul 28, 2014 18:17
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Idiot Syncratic posted:Frankenstein Theory and YellowBrickRoad are other good found footage horror movies. I really likes those. YellowBrickRoad isn't found footage. It's about a documentary crew, but they filmed it like any other "normal" film. Also, it's pretty great.
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Jul 28, 2014 18:25
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The knocking on the walls gave me goosebumps.
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Jul 28, 2014 18:32
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Choco1980 posted:YellowBrickRoad isn't found footage. It's about a documentary crew, but they filmed it like any other "normal" film. Also, it's pretty great. The best found footage I've seen recently was on Netflix called devil's pass. It had some really neat ideas imo.
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Jul 28, 2014 18:35
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Portable Staplefrog posted:Gremlins might be the best horror film if it wasn't busy being the best Christmas film. Gremlins can be the best horror film because Die Hard is the best Christmas film. Choco1980 posted:YellowBrickRoad isn't found footage. It's about a documentary crew, but they filmed it like any other "normal" film. Also, it's pretty great. This is true, my bad.
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Jul 28, 2014 18:53
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MegaGatts posted:The best found footage I've seen recently was on Netflix called devil's pass. It had some really neat ideas imo. This one is also pretty great.
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I saw that The Thing, Hellraiser, Sunshine, Event Horizon, Pandorum, and Alien were already listed, so most of my work is done... I would mention that I like Hellraiser II: Hellbound at least as much as the original. The only other Hellraiser film that's any good is Hellraiser: Inferno, which is Hellraiser 5. Recently, the Evil Dead remake is surprisingly good. In the slasher/home invasion genre You're Next is great, but may or may not count as horror depending on how you define movies like that. I liked Quarantine, but haven't actually seen [REC]. The best found-footage horror film I've ever seen is probably Grave Encounters. This film is great because it follows a bunch of wanna-be "Ghost Hunters" and both really effectively creepy and really good at parodying "Ghost Hunter" bullshit.I highly recommend it if you like found-footage and haunted hospital type poo poo. The second one is terrible though. The Last Exorcism is also a pretty good found-footage film if you prefer the exorcism genre. Again, the sequal is beyond terrible, not only because it's a bad movie, but it basically completely fucks up the ending of the first one. I liked Lords of Salem, but it's definitly a matter of taste. Your mileage may vary. Almost forgot, Tucker and Dale Versus Evil is probably the best comedy-horror I've ever seen. Definitly heavier on the comedy side than say, Cabin in the Woods, but there is significant violence and gore. Best horror-comedy (more horror than comedy) would be Cabin Fever. People who wanted this movie to be serious really hated it. I thought it was hilarious. Never saw the sequel, but there's a pattern with these things. If amazing practical gore-effects are your thing, Laid to Rest is pretty great. People get hacked up a lot. In no particular order and off the top of my head, here's a bunch of movies that I thought were crap: The Rite - Anthony Hopkins cannot save this garbage. Sinister - this movie is beyond dumb. The "twist" is spelled out in the movie and it's completely impossible that Ethan Hawk could not have noticed this since he is researching the events for his loving book. Also it's boring The Devil Inside - generic and unengaging exorcism fluff. Watch The Right instead. or don't. The Conjuring - "Based on actual events" crap, not scary, not engaging. If you liked Sinister and Insidious, but wanted them to be more boring and less scary, this is the movie for you. The Woman in Black(remake) - This is the best possibly film you could make using only jump-scares and jump-scare fakeouts. All kinds of fakeouts: ones where nothing happens, ones where it's a bird, one's where it's a fakeout and then a real jump-scare, one's where it's a fakeout and then something in the background happens... It's an entire movie jump-scares and not a single part is unpredictable... The Thing (sequal) - I wanted to like this, but remember how the best part of The Thing was that you could never be sure who/what/where the monster was? Well in this movie it's easy: it's right in front of the camera being cgi in almost every scene.
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Jul 28, 2014 19:15
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i like Ti West's horror movies The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers
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Jul 28, 2014 19:36
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snoop doggs hood of horror
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Jul 28, 2014 19:37
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Some great opinions here, I'd agree that The Shining is the best horror film overall. I feel Jaws and Cube belong on any list of great horror films, although they're not in my top 3.Das Boo posted:Non-horror: Come and See Certainly the most horrifying and disturbing movie I've ever seen.
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Jul 28, 2014 19:38
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kazr posted:Check out Pandorum if you haven't already. Surprised the hell out of me how not terrible it was. Also Sunshine. Smoking Crow posted:there's an alien ripoff called dark side of the moon that i enjoyed a whole lot thanks ill check em out
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Jul 28, 2014 19:42
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I avoided Blair Witch Project for a long time because it was parodied to hell and back and I just assumed it was poo poo. It's actually pretty awesome, but then again I don't mind the handheld shaky cam documentary shtick.
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Jul 28, 2014 20:13
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i didn't watch blair witch when it was new or pay much attention to the media coverage, but a bunch of my friends at the time thought it was legit real
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Jul 28, 2014 20:18
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kazr posted:I avoided Blair Witch Project for a long time because it was parodied to hell and back and I just assumed it was poo poo. It's actually pretty awesome, but then again I don't mind the handheld shaky cam documentary shtick. Ditto. I finally watched it this year. I didn't really care for it, but that was more because I hated all the characters. They were actually pretty realistic, I've met people just like that. The ending basically made the whole thing worth it. I actually like the sequel, but I'm not sure I would call it "good"...
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Jul 28, 2014 20:18
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The original version of Quarantine - the Spanish movie REC loving owns. As does the sequel which has a better trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGKNxtZLXIE
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Jul 28, 2014 20:23
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Blair Witch was cool but it also spawned an endless stream of really boring found footage type horror movies. Can someone point me to a better horror flick than The Thing Or Alien? noyoucan'tshutup I absolutely do not know what's been up with major horror movies recently, it's like they're not even bad in a way that's fun to watch any more.
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Jul 28, 2014 20:29
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Didn't get very good reviews but I found The 4th Kind to be scary as gently caress. That moment when she's playing the tape back and hears herself get abducted is loving creepy. Also, the "real footage" of her levitating like some sort of monster is pretty scary, too.
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Jul 28, 2014 20:34
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1408 was pretty decent IMO
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Jul 28, 2014 20:41
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Goobish posted:The mothman prophecies is the only movie that gives me actual chills and goosebumps. It's not even that scary, but I got goosebumps again by just reading about it in this thread. Something about the dude getting in his car and doing that time warp thing just freaks the hell out of me. I can't seem to convince my brain that the mothman doesn't exist actually, Indrid Cold and other beings like him DO exist if you believe in samoan/pacific islander type shamanism. yeah yeah i know goons don't believe in the supernatural whatever, but anyone who is interested in the Mothman Prophecies should pick up a book called Spiritwalker for more of the same
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Jul 28, 2014 20:49
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Idiot Syncratic posted:Gremlins can be the best horror film because Die Hard is the best Christmas film. I've even heard of Jurassic Park being a horror movie, and I can somewhat see it. Monsters, a little gore, shittons of screaming, and the humans don't even really win, the survivors just survive and run.
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Jul 28, 2014 20:53
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If your looking to watch a recent horror movie you could do a lot worse than "You're Next".
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Jul 28, 2014 20:53
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What do other people think about Shadow of the Vampire? Willem Dafoe in that movie creeped me out BIG-TIME.
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Jul 28, 2014 20:58
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Overall I'd say The Thing although you'd get different answers if you break it down into subcategories. Evil Dead II is probably my favorite horror comedy although I don't know if its the best.
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Jul 28, 2014 21:05
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Tales from the Hood is a legitimately good horror anthology.
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Jul 28, 2014 21:07
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it's either Alien or The Thing. i say The Thing, because Alien loses some of its punch on a rewatch, while The Thing is always great. I will say tha Alien was the first and only horror movie that actually made me kind of scared of walking home and going to bed (I was something like 12-14, don't quite remember). And I wasn't really afraid of the alien appearing out of nowhere to get me, it was just so god drat scary that it kind of clung to everything for a while and drained your spirit.
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Jul 28, 2014 21:09
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I also love the original House on Haunted Hill although its not actually scary at all but it has Vincent Price in it. Vincent Price horror films need to be their own subcategory.
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Jul 28, 2014 21:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnFc7D0ZoCc
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Jul 28, 2014 21:15
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I'm telling you people; Hour of the Wolf is the best horror movie ever made.
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Jul 28, 2014 21:15
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The Thing prequel isn't that bad. There, I said it. And the monster scenes are pretty creative.
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Jul 28, 2014 21:18
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Palpek posted:The Thing prequel isn't that bad. There, I said it. And the monster scenes are pretty creative. I don't think it's really bad, it's just also not very special.
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Claven666 posted:actually, Indrid Cold and other beings like him DO exist if you believe in samoan/pacific islander type shamanism. yeah yeah i know goons don't believe in the supernatural whatever, but anyone who is interested in the Mothman Prophecies should pick up a book called Spiritwalker for more of the same indrid cold, if u actually know mothman lore, was an alien that gave a man special knowledge about the mothman i don't think the samoans had aliens
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Jul 28, 2014 21:29
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Smoking Crow posted:indrid cold, if u actually know mothman lore, was an alien that gave a man special knowledge about the mothman besides, john keel speculated that cold and the mothman may be tibetan tulpas run amok as far as conventional new age explanations for the phenomena
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Jul 28, 2014 21:34
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The answer is Videodrome. Here's a super 80's trailer which cuts out all the freaky stuff like snuff television and chest vaginas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFHey3utk0I
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Jul 28, 2014 21:34
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Gaunab posted:watch abc's of death and stay at least until f Quoting way back in the thread but the ABCs of death is amazing. A through E are ok horror attempts and then bam, first movie from Japan.
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Jul 28, 2014 21:42
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Oh also I thought The Conjuring was actually pretty creepy and scary. The ending was loving retarded but I guess you can't really make a good ending to a possession movie. Except for the Exorcist but that was really original. Every possession movie nowadays has pretty much the same ending.
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I saw Cube back when I was in 6th or 7th grade and it creeped me the gently caress out. Something about the utter helplessness of their situation. I remember I had a nightmare about it a almost eight years after I saw it.
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Jul 28, 2014 21:49
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Everyone not saying The Thing has never seen The Thing
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