Re: Scary movies
Time to play catch up...
I keep thinking that new "Whiteout" movie is a remake of The Thing, but I'm not sure.
Whiteout is *not* The Thing. It's apparently serial killer on ice, so says my friend as we spoke about "misleading movie trailers." I don't think we were considering the "prequel" option when discussing that, though, but that just goes back to Hollywood having no orginal ideas...
Yes, and pretty much the same opinion regarding Johnny Depp, though I do like Secret Garden, though I count that as a thriller not horror.
I think you mean "Secret Window" if you're talking about Johnny Depp movies. If you are talking about "Secret Garden" wtf version did you see? *laughs*
Ah, the mutated hillbilly subgenre. I never got into that.
Maybe Rule can settle this urban legend for me. Friend claims that Deliverance (while we're on the subject of hillbillies and horror) was edited over in Germany so as to take out the references to homosexual nonconsensual so the basic plot of the movie appeared to be rafters slaughtering hillbillies. Truth?
Thats what I'd like to see more. Ambiguous horror. If its ambiguous, not in your face, you scare yourself. Good horror authors know when to be ambiguous, and when to be in-your-face. Directors need to do the same.
Indeed. James Cameron talks about that technique on the DVD commentary for Aliens. He says that his decision for very quick shots and darkened/minimal shots of the Alien Queen are to increase the tension with the scene; less is more.
The same can be said about the Blair Witch Project, where pretty much everything concerning the appearance of the witch is left to the viewers imagination.
I agree. I much prefer "horror" and "suspense" to "gore" and "violence." It's what made the first "Scream" movie good for me. Yeah, it had it's moments, but it was more "omg who's the killer?!" and less "Omg was that his spleen?" It's also what made Jaws such a raving success when it first came out. If I remember correctly, they never actually wanted to show the shark at all or at least until the very very very end which is how it played out. I'm actually a wuss when it comes to scary movies and I find it amusing that of my gaming group (two girls, two guys), me and one of the guys are the wusses of the group and the other two are "We need to go see *insert newest horror movie here*!" That being said, I have managed to get through a good few horror movies, mostly with the help of having a nice boyfriend shoulder to hide in and one who would *honestly* tell me when it was okay to look. Surprisingly enough, I can usually do anything with vampires without problems (and I've seen too many of those to list, but let's just say they run the gambit from horror to just plain horrific.)
Jaws tops out as my top favorite, as it's the only one I can really watch by myself *laughs* And yes, I've seen all 4, although I *cannot* get through Revenge without falling asleep. Every time! Pretty sure I'm overlooking stuff, but off the top of my head, I've seen Sleepy Hollow, Doom, Resident Evil, Night of the Comet, the Alien Quadrilogy, the Scream Trilogy, Event Horizon, Deep Rising, Mimic, Relic, and a surprising amount of Stephen King movies (Shining, Dreamcatcher, Salem's Lot, Maximum Overdrive, and Carrie, holy shit I watched that when I was home sick one day and I got to the end of the movie and about jumped out of my f'ing skin and had to call my mother before I freaked out any more.)
Salem's Lot brings up an interesting discussion that I've had with my mother (who watches cheesy SciFi horror and reads King, Koontz, Straub, and Saul before bed...to RELAX) was how back when Salem's Lot first came out and she saw it, it was a SCARY ASS MOVIE. She rented it for me and we watched it together and it actually made me *laugh* and go "That's not scary!" Just a sign of the times, I guess, considering I'd seen all of the later stuff and was watching worse than they had in there on primetime cable.
