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Worse Type of Horror Movies

post #1 of 24
7/17/03 at 4:53pm
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For me its Slashers. Some looser nut job goes killing because people in there past did em wrong. How many good ones are there Sleepaway Camp Halloween and Friday the 13th
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post #2 of 24
7/17/03 at 5:24pm
I agree, actually. Mostly because back in the 80s, in the early days of home video, my friends and I watched, like, every. single. one. It's like working at an ice cream parlor and getting sick of ice cream--I could go the rest of my life without ever seeing another slasher again. Also, there's less imagination to a slasher films compared to other genres of horror. I like monsters.
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post #3 of 24
7/17/03 at 7:40pm
It's unfair to generalize and lump all "slashers" into one category ... PEEPING TOM, PSYCHO, DEEP RED, BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE, and FRENZY are all great great films about "slashers" , and cannot be lumped onto the pile ..

I personally love "slasher" films, but I tend to stay away from catagorizing them ... From the mean spirited ones ( MANIAC, TORSO ), to the classics ( HALLOWEEN, PSYCHO ), I love 'em ... Much more interesting, disturbing and real than monster films IMHO ...

I suppose the only thing I don't care for is insincerity ... If a so-called horror films bails on the "horror" element just to get a larger audience, that sucks ...
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post #4 of 24
7/17/03 at 7:46pm
I thought you were talking about that goofball "Japanese Game Show" movie. I loved it and it had nothing to bo with being previously wronged by someone. So yeah, slashers rock.
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post #5 of 24
7/17/03 at 9:14pm
I need to get the $LA$HER$ DVD if for nothing else than that soundtrack. As fucked up as it is, i was doing the theme songin my head for three days!
I won't go as far as to saythe worst kind, butthe ones i enjoythe least is the ghost/supernatural ones. I love ghosts and supernatural stuff, but its a very rare time that i actully enjoy a movie aboutthem. Only a couple that i have truly appreciated (Ghost Story, Amityville Horror, can't really think of any others....)
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post #6 of 24
7/20/03 at 10:15pm
For some reason, any aquatic horror movie seems to grab my attention less than any other style of film. I liked "Jaws" but I still have yet to own it. I've never even recorded it. I thought "Ghost Ship" was o.k. but I seriously doubt I'll ever buy it unless I get a hell of a deal on it.

Also, and this may be splitting hairs, I like a good movie about a serial killer but indestructible slasher films get old pretty fast with me also. I loved "The Ugly" and I hope there is NEVER a sequel. The first 2 Friday the 13th films rocked but I couldn't care less about the rest. Ironically, I've seen the rest, but I'd never buy them.

Just my Widow's Mite's worth
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post #7 of 24
7/20/03 at 10:22pm
"Worse Type of Horror Movies"

One of the best titles of a thread ever. Everytime I see it, I do a double take.
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post #8 of 24
7/21/03 at 7:29am
Ghost movies
Aquatic movies
Real killer urban movies (WHY GOD? We don't need those people, shoot them for christ sake!)

Egyptian Horror or Mummy Movies (BO-RING!)
Frankenstein movies (nothing like the book)
Thriller-or-suspense-tagged-as-horror movies
Splatter comedies
Nature-went-wrong movies (except the seventies classics, like that giant rabbit movie set in Australia and Bruno Mattei's RATS... )
Old-style Vampire movies

Hum, I think that's it.
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post #9 of 24
7/21/03 at 9:05am
Any vampire movie wherein the vampire is portrayed as a tortured new romantic fop.

Give me Barlow for Salem's Lot any day. Or Nosferatu.
Vampires should be damn scary for more reasons than just 80's hair.
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post #10 of 24
7/21/03 at 3:58pm
Those cannibal movies. You know em.
Bad horror sequels to good horror movies (Urban Legends, I´m looking at you).
Those no-budget-no-interest-in-doing-a-halfway- serious movie- movies like Spiders or Octopus.
Horror movies that feature an exorcist.
Leprechaun in space. In da hood. Says it all.
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post #11 of 24
7/21/03 at 4:02pm
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The Myers Revolutions:
Horror movies that feature an exorcist.
Does that include The Exorcist?
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post #12 of 24
7/21/03 at 4:28pm
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Fett:
Does that include The Exorcist?
Does The Exorcist feature an exorcist ? You get it.
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post #13 of 24
7/21/03 at 4:58pm
Since I grew up during the era of the slasher movie, I have a nostalgic fondness for them.
I generally don't like Giallo or Nature Gone Wild horror movies.
I don't even consider giallo horror. Just cheap crime thrillers.
Animals attacking people is never very scary unless they turn said animal inside out like the Prophecy bear. But I did like Squirm. So those are the two execeptions. Any other animal horror movie is painfully dull.
I tend to like anything else if it's done well.
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post #14 of 24
7/21/03 at 7:03pm
I'd probably have to vote those damn cannibal movies!!!
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post #15 of 24
7/21/03 at 9:39pm
I don't like the cannibal movies either.

I like pretty much all genres of horror.
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post #16 of 24
7/22/03 at 6:33am
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Give me Barlow for Salem's Lot any day. Or Nosferatu.
Vampires should be damn scary for more reasons than just 80's hair.
I think I love you. If there's any kind of horror movie that pisses me off, it's the ones with the Anne Rice style vampires.

Aquatic horror does nothing for me, either, and animal horror just irritates me. -Especially- if it's about bats, spiders, or sharks. Arrghh..
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post #17 of 24
7/22/03 at 11:31am
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BobClark:
Since I grew up during the era of the slasher movie, I have a nostalgic fondness for them.
I generally don't like Giallo or Nature Gone Wild horror movies.
I don't even consider giallo horror. Just cheap crime thrillers.
How can you love slashers and not Giallos? I mean Giallos are basically American slashers ony WITH A STORY! Take Tenebre for example... very atmospheric, brutal, very gory, but with a very well done 'who-dun-it'.

It just seems like a contradiction to me.

I really can't stand killer animals and anything that involves nature gone wild.
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post #18 of 24
7/22/03 at 11:38am
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ZombiePie:
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Give me Barlow for Salem's Lot any day. Or Nosferatu.
Vampires should be damn scary for more reasons than just 80's hair.
I think I love you. If there's any kind of horror movie that pisses me off, it's the ones with the Anne Rice style vampires.
Ah, you've just hit the nail on the head. It was indeed Anne Rice who I was thinking of specifically. I just didn't want to mention her name as it tends to make me gag like I'm bringing up a hairball.
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post #19 of 24
7/22/03 at 11:46am
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ZombiePie
Aquatic horror does nothing for me, either, and animal horror just irritates me. -Especially- if it's about bats, spiders, or sharks. Arrghh..[/QB]
Some types of aquatic horror I like. Primarily seabound ghost stories (admittedly a genre better served in stories than film).
But I loved The Fog. Especially the story right at the beginning. And I just find the creaking of ship and sails plain evocative.

However that does not mean I liked Peter Benchley's "The Beast"?

Was that its name. The TV movie about the squid. Boy did that suck!
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post #20 of 24
7/22/03 at 5:50pm
Torture movies. I hate 'em. But here's another opportunity to go on about Pirate of the Caribbean! Man, was that good!!! I'm quitting my job and touring with this f*cker!
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post #21 of 24
7/22/03 at 6:10pm
Exploitation horror.
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post #22 of 24
7/22/03 at 6:30pm
Horror films where it looks like they yanked the cast off the WB network
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post #23 of 24
7/22/03 at 6:32pm
I personally hate splatter flicks...
kinda like bethoven or sid vicious
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post #24 of 24
7/22/03 at 7:09pm
Those crappy 'horror' movies you see on sci fi a lot like the 'when animals attack' and crap like project viper

my personal favs are zombie and monster horrors, slashers are accually my 2nd
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