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Favourite Horror Film

rutabowa said:
I think my favourite bit in the visit, both our favourite bit, was
When the kid is on the phone to his parents and they're like "those aren't your grandparents"
that stomach lurch moment when you realise everything is terribly wrong, I LOVE that feeling in films, and we both got it at exactly the same time. I guess it has to be unexpected though.
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I thought it was one of the better found footage films and a return to form for Shyamalan. His next one Split was also very good but since then he's slipped back to his bad old ways. Glass was a mess and Old was awful.

Speaking of Shyamalan The Sixth Sense could be ok for a 12 year old, though it's themes about regret and grief may be too adult.
 
ohhh "split" might be a goer... pg-13, psychogical. I won't read any more about it.

6th sense would be just about ok, but I've seen it and I want something neither of us saw!
 
Split is on netflix. Was pretty good... not as good/fun as the visit, def not boring but it didn't quite have the dynamics of the visit.
 
Still haven't seen Terrifier 2, as Amazon immediately went out of stock the day it was supposed to be posted, and it's not available everywhere else. Must be the most successful horror release in years - evidently Art the Clown is the new Purge/Saw. Not paying ten quid for a digitial copy that I can DL for free off Sky Movies in three months time. I'm annoyed, but I have a bunch of Hallowe'en favourites I'll be watching as usual
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Just watched Speak no Evil. A middle class Danish family on holiday in Tuscany meet a Dutch family and are invited to go and stay with them for a weekend.

This is great horror with unease and discomfort that builds up so gradually and at times you might be watching a dark comedy. Then when it comes, the climax is brutal. Definitely recommend watching.
 
V/H/S/99, the 5th in the series of found footage anthology films. Not as good as the one which came before (V/H/S/94) but still decent. 3 of the 5 segments are fun, the last one, about a couple of blokes hired to shoot a black mass on video, accidentally ending up in hell, is brilliant.
 
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Went to see The Thing at the cinema on Monday. For a 40 year old film it was the most rammed I'd seen a cinema screen since pre covid.
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Fucking masterpiece and no mistake. For starters, the ultimate exponent of why practical effects rule if any scene in which they might offer a feasible alternative to CGI. And on the overall artistic merit of the film, it retains a higher degree of gripping tension and horror through great storytelling than most thriller-horror flicks can only dream of.

Countless superb scenes to choose from, and I wouldn’t even want to elect any of them above the others. But for me the one when Kurt Russell ties everyone next to each other, and draws blood from all of them to work out who among them might be the alien impostor is one of the all time greatest cinema horror scenes. I wish I could forget the outcome so I can watch it afresh again and again.
 
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Scum - Savage indictment of the borstal system and the resulting depravity that occurs within those walls.
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More social realism than horror? (as a genre. I agree it's horrific).
Halloween probably shit me up the most when I watched it way too young to be doing so. And Amityville. Black Christmas was a bit grim also. I think I'm mostly a Carpenter fan. The Fog was good if less scary. TV wise The Hammer House of Horror series shit me up a bit. As did Salem's Lot and The Shining by King.
I think by the time I watched Nightmare on Elm Street the magic had gone and it was just some guy in a costume.

I suppose now if I had a 'favourite' - I always thought Misery was pretty good. And Duel is something I'd watch forever. Although maybe that's just a thriller?
 
Soft and Quiet which made me squirm just as much as Speak No Evil, which I didn't think would be possible. It may be questionable if this even is a horror film in the conventional sense, even as it is more genuinely horrific and far more tense than most and it was produced by Blumhouse who specialise in horror. It's a "one shot" movie playing out in real time about a primary school teacher who organises a meeting of women, who it turn out to be white supremacists. They get to gripe about not being free to be as racist as they like in public and how all the black and brown people take their jobs and opportunities. Then they stop by a convenience store owned by one of the women to get wine, where they bump into a couple of sisters who are at the receiving end of their resentments and things quickly escalate. Confidently directed debut feature by Beth de Araujo, this is the rare "one shot" movie which justifies its conceit (and rather wisely wasn't entirely shot in one take)

The trailer a bit spoilery:

 
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Speak No Evil is up there now, I see it has been mentioned on the thread a few times.

Definitely not one to watch with a kid on halloween though.... that would require therapy later in life.
 
Finally watched Terrifier 2 on Sunday and loved it. Yes it's too long - some have called it the longest slasher film in history. We have a plot this time, and an actual final girl heroine! The torture porn has been toned down (with one obvious exception), despite reports of sickbags and ambulances. Would have liked (given the run time) more on how Art the Clown is still alive given all the supernatural bollocks, and WTF was with the ending with Chris Jericho?
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Smile is well made and creepily entertaining while it lasts but it feels like empty calories afterwards. The premise, about a curse which gets passed on, is too derivative of other films, in particular It Follows and The Ring/Ring and then it ends rather predictably. The lead actress is good, the score by Cristobal Tapia de Veer (The White Lotus) is probably the film's best asset and despite reservations its worth a watch.


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Skidamarink, a highly experimental Canadian horror film. It barely features actors and mostly consists of dark, grainy shots of the interiors of a house, where two small children are watching creepy 30s cartoons and where some malevolent entity appears to be taking over. At a 100 minutes this is an odd mixture of scary and boring, I nodded off a couple of times only to wake up to something rather unsettling. The film requires you to stare at long shots of video grain in the dark, where you are never quite sure whether you are really seeing something or your mind is making it up. Definitely interesting but not for all.

With Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman having just made the top of the Sight and Sound poll of greatest films of all times, this is the Jeanne Dielman of horror films.

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Reno said:
Skidamarink, a highly experimental Canadian horror film. It barely features actors and mostly consists of dark, grainy shots of the interiors of a house, where two small children are watching creepy 30s cartoons and where some malevolent entity appears to be taking over. At a 100 minutes this is an odd mixture of scary and boring, I nodded off a couple of times only to wake up to something rather unsettling. The film requires you to stare at long shots of video grain in the dark, where you are never quite sure whether you are really seeing something or your mind is making it up. Definitely interesting but not for all.

With Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman having just made the top of the Sight and Sound poll of greatest films of all times, this is the Jeanne Dielman of horror films.

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Can't be any worse than watching the kids watch videos of FGTeeV playing Bendy And The Ink Machine 😵‍💫
 
rutabowa said:
Need to find a few horrors that can be watched with a 12 year old. So no sex and no extreme gore, but also scary not stupid. We watched The Visit last year, was perfect (i do Love all m knight shyamalan films tho, particularly the "shit" ones).
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How about “Amityville Horror” - most of the horror is implied and the music is wonderfully creepy. I first saw it when I was 12 round at my mate’s house. They had a VCR and his parents were out for the day so we borrowed “Amityville” and “The Wicker Man” but the former creeped me out for weeks afterwards.
 
seeformiles said:
How about “Amityville Horror” - most of the horror is implied and the music is wonderfully creepy. I first saw it when I was 12 round at my mate’s house. They had a VCR and his parents were out for the day so we borrowed “Amityville” and “The Wicker Man” but the former creeped me out for weeks afterwards.
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It starts promisingly but it fizzles out in the second half and by the end I wanted my money back. The scariest thing about it is Lalo Schifrin's score, which deserved a better horror movie.
 
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seeformiles said:
How about “Amityville Horror” - most of the horror is implied and the music is wonderfully creepy. I first saw it when I was 12 round at my mate’s house. They had a VCR and his parents were out for the day so we borrowed “Amityville” and “The Wicker Man” but the former creeped me out for weeks afterwards.
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Yep I have the same memory... not sure I should rewatch, might ruin it. But that was the kind of thing I wanted to show him.
 
Reno said:
It starts promisingly but it fizzles out in the second half and by the end I wanted my money back. The scariest thing about it is Lalo Schifrin's score, which deserved a better horror movie.
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I’ve watched it since and I agree with you but I’m just thinking it’s a good entry level horror for a 12 year old.
 
Just rewatched The Mezzotint on iplayer from last Christmas.
Proper old style Ghost story for Christmas", by MR James adapted by Mark Gattis and starring Rory Kinnear.
I thought it was really well done

Apart from they just showed slightly too much of "creature" at the end for liking. Could have done with it slipping through the window and then Kinnear's panicked face and cut
 
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