Has anybody mentioned "The Omen" yet?
Has anybody mentioned "The Omen" yet?
Kingspoint (10-18-2019),marcshoe (11-01-2018)
It was on the list I whittled down, but ended up being cut because I've seen it too many times for it to be that scary to me anymore. It probably still deserved a spot. This was a tough list.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
Assembly Hall (11-02-2018)
I always loved Stephen King's "One for the Road."
cinredsfan2000 (11-09-2018)
cinredsfan2000 (11-09-2018)
Don't know if they've been mentioned, but no list is complete without the original The Shining and Psycho. Perkins and Nicholson Wow!
I'd also have to add Rosemary's Baby and Night Of The Living Dead. That one freaked me out.
Last edited by GAC; 11-02-2018 at 05:32 AM.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Assembly Hall (11-02-2018),cumberlandreds (11-02-2018),marcshoe (11-02-2018)
JMO, but I think it does desensitize people. Doesn't really matter as much how good/bad the plot is - you know people are going to get their throats cut, diced up, with plenty of blood everywhere. Pretty repetitive and predictable.
I've never seen any of the Saw movies, and have no intention to. But a couple of my kids watched them (and Mom too) when they first came out, so I watched certain pieces of the first couple with the kids explaining to me what was going on, etc, and it really bothered me that they were finding enjoyment in a movie where a killer doesn't kill his helpless victims outright, but likes to put them in "games" where they are tortured, mutilated, and very few escape these brutal mechanical traps.
I'm one who believes that the movies a respective generation watches/popularizes is somewhat reflective of that society. And when it comes to the horror genre, we've come a long way since the 1931 Frankenstein to today. And I guess there is no line we dare not to cross. There is for me though.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Assembly Hall (11-02-2018),cumberlandreds (11-02-2018),marcshoe (11-12-2018)
Another one that I had forgot about that was based on a true story is "The Entity". Good read and a good movie.
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For me, it will always be the original "Night Gallery". Don't even want to talk about it any more than this.
"One problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."
919191 (10-17-2020)
bumping this so I can find it tomorrow.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
I'm going with, "Something Wicked This Way Comes".
"One problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."
Horror I consumed this year, thanks to Goodreads and Letterboxd I can actually remember:
The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...the-gone-world
Highly recommend if you like noir or enjoyed the first season of True Detective
The Institute by Stephen King
Eh, it was fine for late career King
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
Extremely scary, will not discuss further since this isn't a political thread
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...osemary-s-baby
First time I'd read it, the takeaway is the gaslighting more than the satanic stuff. Little antiquated, but interesting.
Movies:
The Blackcoat's Daughter - Very good, so long as you're comfortable with atmospheric
Train to Busan - About as good as a zombie movie can be in 2019, worth watching
Bone Tomahawk - About 10 minutes of movie in 2 hours and 20 minutes of runtime. Sucked, despite some good acting performances, should have bailed.
Midsommar - Very good, was it really horror though?
Us - An all timer
The Autopsy of Jane Doe - Actually scary at times, which I don't think too often. But not sure if I would recommend or not, still am not 100% sure what I think of this one, I can see it being polarizing.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Don't know how much time I'll be able to put in, but here are a couple from Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror that stuck with me:
Where's the Harm by Rebecca Lloyd, This story about Wyrd sisters could have come from a Robert Aickman collection
The Starry Crown by Marc E. Fitch - you can't go wrong with a rural cult, no matter what Nicholas Cage might tell you. More later, I hope.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
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