horror films to ruin the mind

  On 12/22/2014 at 11:57 AM, usagi said:

I just watched Beyond The Black Rainbow. I loved it. probably the most visually striking horror film I've ever seen. want more!

One of my favourites is Pontypool. Excellent low budget horror. I also watched Chernobyl Diaries, which was fun and Inside, which was genuinely horric and gory as all heck.

I love this silent, short horror from NZ.

www.nzonscreen.com/title/natures-way-2006

Why the hate for Haute Tension?

Pontypool is one of my all-time favourites

  On 12/22/2014 at 11:42 PM, LoveRhino said:

One of my favourites is Pontypool. Excellent low budget horror. I also watched Chernobyl Diaries, which was fun and Inside, which was genuinely horric and gory as all heck.

 

I love this silent, short horror from NZ.

www.nzonscreen.com/title/natures-way-2006

 

Why the hate for Haute Tension?

The best New Zealand short film is called Kitchen Sink! I can't find the whole thing.

I don't hate Haute Tension, but I read a Dean Koontz novel called Intensity which it totally ripped off without credit. That director is also really bad now.

  On 12/22/2014 at 11:57 AM, usagi said:

I just watched Beyond The Black Rainbow. I loved it. probably the most visually striking horror film I've ever seen. want more!

Agreed, but the last 15 minutes was such a campy b-movie piss take.

the whole thing is a take on 70s horror b-movies though. what didn't you like? I did think the bit with the two heshers was a bit out of tone but ultimately not so much that it wrecked it for me.

  On 12/22/2014 at 12:38 AM, usagi said:

Funny Games is a good one.

 

I'm getting my hands on Come and See as we speak, I've been trying to 'acquire' it for a while.

Come and see is one of the best and most surreal war films ever made. Everyone in this thread should watch it. PM me if you're struggling to 'acquire' it.

suspiria/deep red/opera-most argento stuff really

kill list is pretty messed up imo

Saw this, seems eerily similar to plot of Inside, what's even more creepy is she's smiling in every picture I've seen so far:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/12/23/teen-desperate-for-baby-kills-8-month-pregnant-woman-and-unborn-child-in-mexico/

  On 12/24/2014 at 2:13 PM, sunshine recorder said:

suspiria/deep red/opera-most argento stuff really

since you mentioned it:

i quite liked it, it's kind of a new giallo, like berberian sound studio...

  On 12/24/2014 at 4:18 AM, usagi said:

the whole thing is a take on 70s horror b-movies though. what didn't you like? I did think the bit with the two heshers was a bit out of tone but ultimately not so much that it wrecked it for me.

 

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even the anticlimactic ending isn't enough to ruin it for me. I was hoping for an epic psychic battle a la Scanners. that would've been so good.

 

  On 12/23/2014 at 12:27 AM, Kooch said:

I don't hate Haute Tension, but I read a Dean Koontz novel called Intensity which it totally ripped off without credit. That director is also really bad now.

his remake of hills have eyes is one of my favorite gory/revenge movies. and i just watched his new one:

i didn't hate it, but i didn't really loved it, has its moments, felt like an 80's campy teen/horror movie... some twin peaks/carnivàle aesthetic, even Annie work on a drive in just like twin peaks...

  On 12/16/2014 at 10:07 AM, tec said:

Has anyone seen Killers? Sounds similar to I Saw The Devil which I enjoyed, disturbed individual that I am, and a few people are putting it up with The Babadook as the best of the year.

i really liked i saw the devil but killers i didn't like it very much...

babadook, what an atrocious piece of shit, i mean, besides the great photography it probably is as dumb/empty as Chucky or movies like that...

  On 12/17/2014 at 12:21 AM, Lane Visitor said:

But yes, astral projection, alien abduction, psychosis, cults.. those are horror movie subjects that ive always thought were 1000 times more terrifying than zombies, ghosts or demons. there's so much untapped in the realm of scary movies that directors and writers could be dreaming up. instead, it seems like most just want to shock with gore, or just as bad, put out the same haunted/ghost movies over and over... and as for zombie movies, ugh, what a bore for me. so uninspired.

  On 12/11/2014 at 6:55 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Cannibal Holocaust

oh yes!!! don't let yourself be mistaken by what other people say about it, most people don't understand this movie, maybe a quick read on wiki will help...

  On 12/8/2014 at 5:05 PM, tec said:

Disclaimer - If you think Haute Tension is a good film then kindly leave this thread and proceed no further.

 

Martyrs

Inside

Ebola Syndrome

A Serbian Film

Braindead

Audition

I Saw The Devil

Human Centipede 2

Irreversible

lol, like the rest of the movies you mentioned were anyway better than haute tension... they're all piles of shit, shitty shitty movies, i mean, i have fun watching them, but discerning between them is just hypocrisy...

i'll take back what i said just because of audition and irreversible, favorite movies right there!

  On 12/8/2014 at 5:30 PM, Diabrotikos said:

Also, "Cold Fish". No, wait, any film by Sono Sion.

just watched this, pretty cool in fact :thumbsup: thanks!

where these mentioned already?

Gaspar Noe's movies are all pretty good at ruining one's mind!

watched The Conjuring last night on Netflix...yeah was alright, quite scary. made my girlfriend scream a couple times...

I just saw Tusk and it was fucking worthless.

controversial i know, but i feel the same about Suspiria - load of shit.

  On 12/30/2014 at 6:49 PM, BCM said:

controversial i know, but i feel the same about Suspiria - load of shit.

these 70's giallo movies are awesome to look at, eye candy all the way, but the atrocious acting and scripts kind of ruin them for me.

in the meanwhile i've read some critics which made me want to revisit them with different eyes... i mean, it's not bad acting they say, sometimes most of what's on the screen isn't supposed to be RL but dreams and whatnot and that maybe justifies the awkwardness of some scenes...

  On 12/30/2014 at 3:42 PM, BCM said:

watched The Conjuring last night on Netflix...yeah was alright, quite scary. made my girlfriend scream a couple times...

didn't you shiver with the clap thing?

great threat title.

Snowtown Murderers is without question the qay to go

just do it

if anything else measures up please PM me but i very much doubt it

can i view this forum HTML only..? jesus christ

funny games is a masterpiece bt not mind destroying

Snowtown = mind destroying. nothing else measures up to that

not cannibal holocaust, not man bites dog

nothing ive seen

and frankly when I say "mind destroying" I mean, something you would probably decide not to watch if you could go back in time

come and see. i trust it. been putting that one off. I get snowtown vibes from that one, hence putting it off.

Kill List was kinda good. I think my appreciation may grow with repeat viewings. Emma Fryer makes me uncomfortably horny, even though she's got a chin like a dustpan.

  On 12/30/2014 at 8:14 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

 

  On 12/30/2014 at 6:49 PM, BCM said:

controversial i know, but i feel the same about Suspiria - load of shit.

these 70's giallo movies are awesome to look at, eye candy all the way, but the atrocious acting and scripts kind of ruin them for me.

 

in the meanwhile i've read some critics which made me want to revisit them with different eyes... i mean, it's not bad acting they say, sometimes most of what's on the screen isn't supposed to be RL but dreams and whatnot and that maybe justifies the awkwardness of some scenes...

  On 12/30/2014 at 3:42 PM, BCM said:

watched The Conjuring last night on Netflix...yeah was alright, quite scary. made my girlfriend scream a couple times...

didn't you shiver with the clap thing?