oh purleeease...

 

My thoughts exactly... The PS2 generation innit...? Cant handle a film unless it's structured like a sodding video game..... <_<

My thoughts exactly... The PS2 generation innit...? Cant handle a film unless it's structured like a sodding video game..... <_<

 

Not everyone is like that though.

Psycho

and Slasher - all my other faves are from that genre. (Especially if 'Chainsaw' counts)

Not everyone is like that though.

 

People who rate the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake or the House of Wax remake over the originals, tend to be, however.....

Psycho

and Slasher - all my other faves are from that genre. (Especially if 'Chainsaw' counts)

 

Not sure you can brand TCM as a 'Slasher' film though, for a start, there's more than one of them, it's a whole FAMILY, the "Slasher" cycle tends to feature solo killers, loners, etc. TCM belongs to the cycle of late-60s/70s Horror identified as "Apocalyptic Horror" (which included "Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Hills Have Eyes, The Crazies, Cannibal Apocalypse) which showed US society in almost total collapse and decay, it is no coincidence that these films emerged out of the horror surrounding Vietnam and its aftermath....

 

I think Wikipedia said TCM was a slasher. Though you never know who wrote it...

I think Wikipedia said TCM was a slasher. Though you never know who wrote it...

 

I think I'll listen to respected Film Scholars like Robin Wood, Carol Clover and Barbara Creed who have conducted the proper research and have YEARS of experience and have written serious academic works on the subject of Horror, before I take what some random tosser on Wikipaedea (which is notoriously innacurate at even the most elementary information sometimes..) says.....

 

There is a very distinct difference in the ideology of "Apocalyptic Horror" and "Slasher", "Apocalyptic Horror" has undertones of anarchy and Socialist commentary (evident very clearly in Romero's commentary on the Consumerist Society in "Dawn of the Dead"); the "Slasher" film is reactionary - 'Sex = Death', the sexually active characters are the ones who get offed first, the "good girl" is the one that tends to survive. A very reactionary sub-text...

I think I'll listen to respected Film Scholars like Robin Wood, Carol Clover and Barbara Creed who have conducted the proper research and have YEARS of experience and have written serious academic works on the subject of Horror, before I take what some random tosser on Wikipaedea (which is notoriously innacurate at even the most elementary information sometimes..) says.....

 

Lol yeah. I had to correct some information on The League Of Gentlemen's page that people got wrong.

i thought plan 9 from outer space was really scary, tor johnson is an amazing actor

PLEASE tell me you're joking... the Texas Chainsaw remake was one of the naffest films EVER. :o :o :o :o :o

 

will the new one out be even more naff?

 

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgOraHnBgDE.swf

 

SAW III

 

[flash=450,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ScTzx7TT8.swf

Lol yeah. I had to correct some information on The League Of Gentlemen's page that people got wrong.

 

so obviously not on aol then :lol: :lol:

so obviously not on aol then :lol: :lol:

 

:huh:

 

I'm talking about wikipedia.

:huh:

 

I'm talking about wikipedia.

 

very obviously not on aol then :lol: :lol:

 

(it seems that wiki stops everyone on aol updating it as everyone's number is the ssame so they dont know who is who and who is vandalising George W. Bush's page etc etc)

Ahah omg that Texas Chainsaw film looks well daft. And especially the annoying blond boy who's basically the character that Mike Vogel played anyway!

 

 

 

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Ahah omg that Texas Chainsaw film looks well daft. And especially the annoying blond boy who's basically the character that Mike Vogel played anyway!

[i'msogoingtoseeitanyway]

 

cineworld user then :lol: :lol:

 

(yes you too can watch any old stuff just to kill some time)

You can tell there are a few favourites

A Nightmare On Elm Street is not my favourite horrorflick but out of the list above the best even thou it is a close call - several good clicks there. The only really bad ones are Japanese Ringu and The Blair Witch Project.

Nightmare on elm street is the best in my oppinion. granted, it spawned allot of cashin type sequels and the concept just got watered down to the point of where freddy was a 2 dimensional clown, but the original film - its untouchable. such an interesting and terrifying concept. Though there are some good sequels. Favourite being part 3 "the dream warriors"

 

Poltergeist should so be in the list also! Its brilliant. I always describe it as "a horror movie for infant school children" but its scary none the less.

 

"everybody knows who freddy krueger is, he's like santa clause!"

Edited October 11, 200618 yr by Ozmead

Nightmare on elm street is the best in my oppinion. granted, it spawned allot of cashin type sequels and the concept just got watered down to the point of where freddy was a 2 dimensional clown, but the original film - its untouchable. such an interesting and terrifying concept. Though there are some good sequels. Favourite being part 3 "the dream warriors"

 

 

 

I'd agree with that, the first one and "New Nightmare" where Craven reclaimed the whole concept from lesser film-makers who just watered the whole thing down, were the best films of the cycle; and really, when you think about it, "New Nightmare", NOT "Scream" is where the whole idea of 'post-modernism' was implanted into horror films, "Scream" was just a lot more obvious about it, whereas "New Nightmare" was more like "postmodernism" how it was originally theorised....

 

"Dream Warriors" was pretty good as well, the rest are just worthless trash IMO.

 

I really enjoyed "new nightmare" up untill a point. I didn't mind the slower paceing, it was very suspensfull - then the end was pathetic. Never have I seen such an anticlimatic ending before (well I have really). The ending was so lame. They took the hanzel and grettle refrence to far when freddy actually attempted to eat the child! Plus Freddy in leather pants? I could have cried!

 

I met one of the actors from Nightmare 4, Andras Jones. lovley guy! Got a signed CD by him also. He has a band! I like the movie, its more style over substance though. Its got a cool visual style. total mtv flick and freddy is just as scary as a childrens tv presenter. It's like "queen of the damned" - pretty looking movie but technically awful movie

Edited October 11, 200618 yr by Ozmead