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Stompy · 08-20-2004, 05:31 PM

I'm bored with horror movies. The genre has totally been pissing me off lately because it seems that no matter what comes out, if it claims to be "horror", it utterly sucks and seems to cater to 13 year olds (like The Ring).

Does anyone have any good recommendations?

I love stuff like Evil Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), The Shining, and the Night of the Living Dead trilogy (the remakes were good too).

The Exorcist was boring to me, so don't recommend that or anything like it

I want something hardcore terrifying. Something that really makes you feel scared... something that will make an impact, and more importantly, something that will give me a creepy feeling if I watch it in the dark.

So far, the only things in the entire history of entertainment that have been able to scare me are: Silent Hill 2 and Doom 3. Maybe Resident Evil remake for GameCube, but after the first 2, it seems kinda dumbed down.

In other words: I want pure, raw horror. It can even be an older movie, just as long as it's truly HORROR.

I've really been scratching my head at this and researching movies for a while, and I'm just at a loss. For example, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things... I don't know whether to see that or not because IMDB rates it as a 4.2, which means it's not really good at all.

I normally trust IMDB, but looking at http://imdb.com/chart/horror makes me laugh. There isn't ONE movie in their top 20 that's horror to me with the exception of The Shining. The rest of em are jokes. Silence of the Lambs? Nice crime movie, not scary. Alien? Good sci-fi, wouldn't call it horror. Jaws? Hahaha... that's about as scary as Jurassic Park

And nothing PG-13

Yes, that's my strict horror policy.

08-20-2004, 05:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
Stompy Banned from being Banned Location: Donkey	Horror challenge: give me a good scary movie recommendation! I'm bored with horror movies. The genre has totally been pissing me off lately because it seems that no matter what comes out, if it claims to be "horror", it utterly sucks and seems to cater to 13 year olds (like The Ring). Does anyone have any good recommendations? I love stuff like Evil Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), The Shining, and the Night of the Living Dead trilogy (the remakes were good too). The Exorcist was boring to me, so don't recommend that or anything like it I want something hardcore terrifying. Something that really makes you feel scared... something that will make an impact, and more importantly, something that will give me a creepy feeling if I watch it in the dark. So far, the only things in the entire history of entertainment that have been able to scare me are: Silent Hill 2 and Doom 3. Maybe Resident Evil remake for GameCube, but after the first 2, it seems kinda dumbed down. In other words: I want pure, raw horror. It can even be an older movie, just as long as it's truly HORROR. I've really been scratching my head at this and researching movies for a while, and I'm just at a loss. For example, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things... I don't know whether to see that or not because IMDB rates it as a 4.2, which means it's not really good at all. I normally trust IMDB, but looking at http://imdb.com/chart/horror makes me laugh. There isn't ONE movie in their top 20 that's horror to me with the exception of The Shining. The rest of em are jokes. Silence of the Lambs? Nice crime movie, not scary. Alien? Good sci-fi, wouldn't call it horror. Jaws? Hahaha... that's about as scary as Jurassic Park And nothing PG-13 Yes, that's my strict horror policy. __________________ I love lamp.