Who The Hell Are You Weirdos ???

3 Favorite Horror Films

1. The Abominable Dr Phibes
2. Curse Of Frankenstein
3. The Haunting

Not included my all time fave movie King Kong because it's not really horror.

2 Horror Sleepers

1. Don't Worry, It's Only Your Imagination wink
2. Ginger Snaps

2 Overrated Horror

1. Friday 13th
2. Phantasm

Your Favorite Horror Decade

1960s.

3 Favorite Horror Films

1. The Exorcist
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3. The Omen

2 Horror Sleepers

1. The Ring
2. Versus

2 Overrated Horror

1. Blair Witch
2. Friday the 13th

Your Favorite Horror Decade

1970s.

- Favorite Horror Films
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2. The People Under the stairs
3. Return of the living dead

- Horror Sleepers

1. Night of the Demons
2. Highway to Hell

- Overrated Horror

1. The Exorcist
2. Dawn of the Dead (Day is so much better)

- Your Favorite Horror Decade
1975-85

- 3 Favorite Horror Films

Return of the Living Dead
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Evil Dead 2

- 2 Horror Sleepers ( Underrated )

Creepshow
Creepshow 2

- 2 Overrated Horror

Scream (franchise)
I Know What You Did Last Summer

- Your Favorite Horror Decade

The 80's foo!

on a sidenot I just woke up from a nightmare that the world was about to end due to the sun going supernova. It's good to still be alive.

Three favorite Horror Movies:

1. The Shining
2. The Thing
3. Dead Alive

Two Horror Sleepers:

1. Society
2. Session 9

Two Overrated:

I'm not sure how to answer this. Resident Evil really disappointed me as a horror movie, but was a decent action flick. I Know What You Did Last Summer and it's sequel (it DID have a sequel, right?) didn't deserve the success they enjoyed at the box office.

Favorite horror decade:

The 80's.

3 Favorite Horror Films

1. The Thing
2. Alien (I, II & III)
3. Jaws

2 Horror Sleepers

1. Le pacte des Loups (kinda horror)
2. Ginger Snaps

2 Overrated Horror

1. TCM
2. The Beyond

Your Favorite Horror Decade

1980s.

I'm new too...

3 Favorite horror movies:
(1) Dagon
(2) Bad Taste
(3) Dellarmorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man)

2 Horror Sleepers
(1) Session 9
(2) Ginger Snaps

2 Overrated Horror
(1) Blair Witch Project
(2) Scream

Favorite horror decade: the 80s.

3 Favorite Horror Films

Jacob's Ladder
Curse of The Demon
The Changeling

2 Horror Sleepers

Battle Royale (well in the UK at least)
Ginger Snaps

2 Overrated Horror

Audition
Blair Witch Project

Your Favorite Horror Decade

1974 - 1984 (de - cade n. set or series of ten; ten years)

3 Favorite Horror Films

Jaws
Halloween
The Haunting (1963)

2 Horror Sleepers

(Technically Halloween was a sleeper, but since I've listed it above...)
Tremors
Ring

2 Overrated Horror

Blair Witch Project
Don't Worry It's Only Your Imagination

Your Favorite Horror Decade

1974 - 1984 (Copying Straxboy. I'm in total agreement)

Like most people, I hate picking lists of favorites, b/c I always have to leave something out that later I feel I should have included. But here's a list of my favorites right now, at this moment: (all favorites subject to change. )

Top 3 Horror Movies

1. The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr)--the movie that made me want to watch other horror movies. I still think it's one of the best, and you won't change my mind on that!
2. The Haunting (1963) --if there's a better, creepier, more goosebump-inducing haunted house movie, I haven't seen it. Scariest Rated-G movie EVAR.
3. The Exorcist Part III I know, I know. But the acting is incredible--George C. Scott is totally great, and Brad Dourif is a god of Insanity. Plus the writing , the cinematography, genuine scares. I love, love, love it.

2 Horror Sleepers

1. Dagon --I call this a sleeper because most people haven't heard of it, present company excluded. Great, great flick.
2. The Attic Expeditions If you haven't seen this, go rent it now. Seth Green turns in a spectacular performance as...well, himself, and Jeffrey "God" Combs. What are you waiting for?

2 Overrated Flicks

1. The Amityville Horror Okay, I was just as scared as everyone else when this came out. But I went back and watched it again a few years ago and was surprised by how boring and slow it is.
2. Session 9 I know some people above have listed this as a sleeper, but I felt it wasted some great potential. Creepy set, creepy setup, yet failed to scare me. Please don't kill me.

Favorite Horror Decade:
The 30s , leaking into the 40s. Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney, Rains--where it all began for me.

Decade

Lists like this make it hard to sleep at night. I've had to agonize over this for a while before posting. Two few a number in every department (I could go tens and twenties in each), but for what it's worth, here goes:

-Three Favorite Horror Movies:
The Shining, Creepshow, Jaws
(Runners Up: The Fog, NOTLD and The Exorcist -- sorry, I had to cheat)

-Two Sleepers:
Black Christmas, Dagon

-Two Overrated:
Ring (1998/Japanese), Session 9

-Favorite Decade:
'75 to '85

Just a preface: "favorite" horror flicks to me is a different category than "scariest". My favorites I can watch time and time again...

3 Favorite Horror Flicks:
Fright Night
Creepshow
The Fog

2 Horror Sleepers
(two rather recent films that didn't get the recognition they should've)
Ravenous
Sleepy Hollow

2 Overrated Horror Flicks
Friday the 13th
Session 9

Favorite Horror Decade
'75 to '85 (just like the Inspector...rumor has it, that's why we get along so well)

3 Faves.
1. Cemetary Man
2. Return of the living dead
3. The cabinet of doctor Caligari

Sleepers.
1. Session 9
2. Dagon

Overated
1. Blair Witch Project
2. Friday the 13th (as a whole series of movies)

Favorite decade
depends on my mood.

3 Favorite Horror Films
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
JAWS
THE EVIL DEAD

2 Horror Sleepers ( Underrated )
KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS
JAWS 2

2 Overrated Horror
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
THE OTHERS

Your Favorite Horror Decade
1973-1983

Weird

Why not? Underrated, overrated, it's all your opinion.

faves:

Horror of Dracula
The Haunting
The Wolf Man

sleepers:

Cronos
The Body Snatcher

overrated:

A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Others

fave decade:

The 1960's (Haunting, NOTLD, Rosemary's Baby, Lots of Hammer stuff...)

Favorites (More than 3 of em)
- Videodrome (if that's acceptable)
- The Shining (Kubrick's)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
- The Thing
- Zombie

Sleepers (only 2)
- The Frighteners
- Nightbreed

(I'd also put Black Christmas here, as well as Sleepy Hollow)

Overrated
- The Sixth Sense
- Jeepers Creepers

Favorite Scene
The evil-priest-induced-throw-up-your-organs-while-making-out-with-your-terrified-boyfriend in Fulci's City of the Dead

Konkrete--By the Body Snatcher, you DO mean the RKO b&w with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi enacting the Robert Louis Stevensen yarn, and not the similarly named sci-fi classics, right?

If so, my hat's off to you sir. Great, great movie, with one of Karloff's best non-makeup performances.



Plus, 2 of our 3 best are the same. Will you be my friend?

Haven't seen Body Snatcher yet - it's on my shelf atring at me. However I loved "Isle Of The Dead" - creepy as all get out!

And Standridge - damn you man - can I substitute "Exorcist III" for "The Changeling" ?

And Bill, did you get my PM ?

I agree 100%. I had a hard time not putting it into either my favorites or the sleeper areas. Another good one that hurt to leave out wass The Attic Expeditions.

indeed i do mean Karloff's finest hour as mr. gray in THE BODY SNATCHER.

and as a bonus sleeper: KWAIDAN

didn't notice our top 3 were so close...

that threesome is pretty arbitrary...I could switch any of a dozen titles into those spots and still feel good about it...but you can still be my friend.

can you loan me 20 bucks?

[quote]A Konkrete's Life:
That goes for me too...amazing.

Fav. 3 Horror Flicks...
1) Jaws
2) The Shining
3) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
------->the fuggin' STAPLES dude!

Horror Sleepers
1) House By The Cemetary (that ending KILLS ME!) eek!
2) Friday the 13th Pt.5: A New Beginning (that dialogue... WHOOOOOO!!!!)
------->plus My Bloody Valentine... 'cuzz it ROCKS!

Overrated Horror
1) Convent
2) House On Haunted Hill/13 Ghosts (remakes)

Favorite Horror Decade
1981-82

3 Favorite Horror Films

Halloween
Nosferatu (1922)
The Thing (1982) (might be more sci-fi, though)

2 Horror Sleepers ( Underrated )

In The Mouth Of Madness
Leatherface: TCM III

2 Overrated Horror

The Blair Witch Project
Jeepers Creepers

Your Favorite Horror Decade

Tough one. Really two things...

Psychological Horror/Thrillers: 1970's
Slashers/Fun Gore Flicks: 1980's

3 Favorite Horror Films
'The Bride of Frankenstein'
'The Thing'(1982)
'Suspiria'

2 Horror Sleepers ( Underrated )
'Asphyx'
'April Fool's Day'
(I was going to list 'Dagon'. But I don't think it is underrated.)

2 Overrated Horror
'Army of Darkness'
'The Lost Boys'

Your Favorite Horror Decade
Toss up between the 30's and the 80's. Two totally different types of horror.

sleepers

Shit, you have to be my friend too! I should have listed MBV as a sleeper. Can't wait for the DVD!

Oh, and Konkrete, I would give you $20, but you know the old saying...nobody rides for free...

Hmmm, here in my sickly chair I thinks I'll play. Tough decisions here...

Top 3
- Re-Animator
- Night of the Living Dead
- Suspiria
(not fair not fair want to add mooore...)

Underrated/Overlooked
- Session 9 (RYAN )
- Poltergeist

Overrated/Overhyped
- The Friday the 13th Saga (which I love but it is not the end all be all of horror)
- Blair Witch

Fave:
1. Texas Chainsaw
2. Hellraiser
3. Halloween

Sleepers:
1. Real Killers-Mendez rules!!!!!
2. Terror Firmer

Overated:
1. Session 9
2. Most Brian Yuzna flicks

There ya' go! Now spread some butter on them and you got lunch!

- Fixxxer

Favorites:
1.Silence of the Lambs
2.The Exorcist
3.Hellraiser and about 20 others tied for third.

Sleepers:
1. Ginger Snaps
2. Dagon
These don't get much love except in our little area.

Overated:
1. Friday the 13th series
2. Nightmare on Elm Steet series
Although I loved both of the first ones, my interest in dead teen movies faded quickly.

Favorite Decade:
80's
I was a teen and into gore back then so I'll have to go with the 80's as the screen ran so red back then. I could go with 30's or 70's too. Oh hell, I like them all.

3 Favorites
-Evil Dead
-Re Animator
-Kairo

2 Underrated
-A Devils Backbone
-Session 9

2 Overrated
-Friday the 13th series
-Scream series

I never got the appeal of Scream other than the first one...it just became a clichéd slasher flicks after that.

Oh yeah..my fav date for horror movies

Late 90's Early..00's in Japan

Late 70's early and mid 80's America

No offense to Girl Creeture (whom I now know and love), but it is certainly a mysteriously overrated pile of dog-poop.

We're talking about a movie that was hyped up by horror fans as the real-deal: indie filmmakers making an atmospheric scare-fest, down and dirty, shot on video, new hope for horror, etc. We heard this before the movie came out and we started hearing it from the few who'd gone and seen it. That's what the "underraters" would have you believe.

Instead, the film is pretentious, amateur-hour, home video / film school nonsense, with terrible acting and a complete waste of a great location. Suspense that (more often than not) leads to nothing; idiot characters who sit around talking and then do one idiot thing after another so as to move the story forward; and a twist ending that's broadcast to the audience an hour before its reveal.

Considering the hype and the praise, I'd say it's definitely overrated on all counts.

Session 9

Re "the buzz": It got a theatrical out here in L.A. and had already been covered in Fango as well as talked about online.

It sounds like we're agreeing to disagree.

A lot.

I found Session 9 to be a very good movie, yet highly in vain of Twin Peaks. A good little flick, with good ideas even if it did have David Caruso(sp?). Had some of the great death scenes in a movie at that.

For the people that have, or at least have seen the Deleted Scenes on the DVD I just want to say: I am glad they cut those out. That whole side story would have ruined the movie for me.

This movie is like The Royal Tenenbaums for reviews. You either love it, or you hate it. I personally enjoyed it very much.

Three Favorites:
1. Evil Dead 2
2. Suspiria
3. The Brood

Sleepers:
1. Parents
2. The Last Broadcast
3. In the Mouth of Madness

Overated:
1. Phantasm
2. Phantasm 2

Favorite Decade:
80's (that's when all of the "classics" were made)

I was exposed to none of this hype, and saw it solely on recommendation from this forum. It's wasn't even available at any of my local rental outlets, I had to buy it from DDDhouse. It seems that many of your comments may be colored stronger due to the fact that it didn't live up to your expections, considering all the coverage you had been steeped in.

I venture this as your feelings for Session 9 echo some of my own for Resident Evil: I feel like I'm much more critical of the movie than it may deserve because I feel it let me down tremendously. I know if Session 9 had been presented to me the way you described it, I would have been anticipating a different movie altogether, and may have been let down by it. Viewing it with no preconceptions, not even knowing what it was about, let alone being burdened with the expectations you detailed above, had me watching this movie with wide-eyed wonder. I felt that the performances were top-notch, and the production value surprisingly high. I never for one moment was struck with feelings of pretension or amateurism, and was completely sucked in to the spiraling sense of madness that crept into the characters. The suspense generated from the outset may not have individual payoffs but are plenty creepy, and intensify the sudden flurry of activity at the end.

I had no idea it was shot on video and if so, it's the best video production I have ever seen.

It's not perfect, the ending is telegraphed almost at the very beginning, but I still enjoyed getting to the last frame. Juxtapose this with a film like "The Mothman Prophecies", with a similar pace but ten times the budget: I could hardly stay awake during that film long enough to witness it's horribly telegraphed ending, let alone be disappointed by it. (Seriously though, how many movies can we not see the ending halfway through, anyway? I'm sure most of us here are so familiar with formula and it's potential tweaks that maybe 10% offer any real surprises in the last 30 minutes.)

Anyway, I think that anticipating all the lofty ideals expressed in the coverage you described would immediately sound the cynicism siren, and make it much more difficult to enjoy the movie.

Ugly Goblin Boy - You'll be happy to know that 'Squrim' is currently being worked on by MGM DVD for release soon...

qurim

- 3 Favorite Horror Films ( yep, 3 ... not a list of like 10 or 20 )
Night of the Living Dead
Maniac
City of the Living Dead

- 2 Horror Sleepers ( Underrated )
The Vampire Chronicles - Full Moon has released a lot of shit... but every now and then they release something really good. This one got ignored for the most part, but is extremely well done. The lead is played by David Gunn (who absolutely rules in The Convent) and he's got a lot of potential to be a genre favorite.

Wild Zero - Not enough people have seen this Japanese gem. It's got rock and roll. It's got zombies. Do you really need anything else?

- 2 Overrated Horror
Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street... and all their god damned sequels. If there is a god in heaven, Kane Hodder, Robert England, Wes Craven and Sean Cunningham will burn in hell for what they created.

- Your Favorite Horror Decade
The 1970s brought out the best movies.

blasphemy!

Let me be the first to say, "Whoa."

Purgatory

Frost!!

I wanted to commend you on your eloquent and well thought-out reply. With one posting you've earned a huge amount of respect on my end. With all humility: good job!

(P.S. It didn't change my opinion of Session 9 one bit, but I found it illuminating and beautifully stated just the same. Like someone said above, "Session 9" falls into that "Royal Tenenbaums" category of love it or hate it. I loved Tenenbaums, hated Session 9. Hated it. One of the worst films of 2001, hype or no. You might have noticed the severe "video" quality had you seen it in a theater -- where digital still looks a little, well "videoee" -- I believe I had seen a video-to film transfer, which made it look like "Hoop Dreams." The praise hurt the film in only that it was wholly unfounded and utterly groundless. I would've seen the film just the same, being a horror junkie. If it had been good, I would've liked it.)

Damn, Inspector! Your exclamation just reminded me of the film I would like to have at the top of my underrated list.

'Mr. Frost'.

Thanks, your not as much of an ass as I thought you'd be. wink