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[Launch]

I just happened to see a review for an Australian horror movie in the newspaper that unfortunately is playing at a theater that's about three hours away from me. I managed to find it online, though! Really, really good idea, but I so wish they'd shown the monster more. I think it only got a minute of screen time tops. 

 

[Big_Willie_Styles]

I'm a big fan of horror, especially the meta varieties that clearly got better writers than most horror films.

[Boo]

I hafta admit, I have a soft, squishy spot for the macabre and when it comes to my favorite slasher flicks, I think some real touch make-up beats out CGI blood and gore any day. As someone who respects a good story and can even forgive a lot of atrocities so long as the plot is solid, I can say that I don't give a hoot about the writing when it comes to a slasher flick. Thanks to that, some of my favorites are the Hatchet movies, Hostel, The Devil's Rejects, and a few of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies. I also really love a good suspense or psychological thriller but whenever someone actually uses the word horror, my mind immediately goes to the guts and gore of the slasher genre. Maybe I'm just a twisted person like that. Or maybe the rest of the world is just too vanilla. Those movies exist. I can't be the only twisted one, apparently. 

 

Oh! I also especially love From Dusk Til Dawn. I'm not so much a fan of the ones that came after but I still watch them occasionally because despite the plots being quite awful, I simply love, love, love the effects! 

[Aster1391]

I really love horror movies...when they are good. I love them even though I'm not the bravest person in the world when it comes to supernatural evil and stuff. The problem is -or at least my problem is- that in order to find ONE good horror movie you have to watch 40+ repetitive, stupid, cliché and boring movies which unexplicably are those that mostly haunt my nights after I finish watching them...see "The Ring": a whole week without sleeping, jumping at every fly I saw and putting my laptop closed under the bed every single evening until I was completely sure that nothing would crawl out of it and that I wasn't going to die and all of this for what? For a bunch of people who went like: "a CURSED videotape??? Damn, that's SO COOL! Let's watch it!!!"...yeah...hurray...

But on to the good ones, I think that when a horror movie is well done it can be one of the most amazing and entertaining genres ever. I really loved both the "Insidious" movies, they stay among my favourite movies ever and I think the plot is really something original in its kind. For the same reason I enjoyed "1408" and I was totally shocked when I discovered it has a double ending...but I won't spoiler Another movie I really liked is "The Cabin in the Woods", basically because it deconstructs the horror genre and everything what's terrific is in truth completely human. I'm not sure I enjoyed the acting/ending parts that much, but it's totally interesting and worth watching. These are my most favourite, those I insist on suggesting them also to people who don't like horrors, because I think they're just cool! Others I liked are "The Conjuring" and "The Babadook", this last one especially for all the psychological interpretations of the horror part...I find it really cool when the supernatural is somehow mixed with and based on the real. Maybe I'm just too coward

[Mister Sympa]

I just heard about "The Babadook". How was it, Launch?