Horror fans?

[TonyH]

I started a new social group to discuss horror movies, novels etc. The link is in my signature. There's a new version of Nightmare on Elm Street coming out, and this would be a great kick off to the discussion.

 

[Miles]

I worked in the FX industry for a great many years. Made a lot of things for a number of the Hellraiser films, as well a slew of other B horror flicks. Always been a fan of the old horror movies, but most of the new stuff leaves me cold, as in "meh."

I'm down to join the group, though

 

[TonyH]

I worked in the FX industry for a great many years. Made a lot of things for a number of the Hellraiser films, as well a slew of other B horror flicks. Always been a fan of the old horror movies, but most of the new stuff leaves me cold, as in "meh."

I'm down to join the group, though

Hellraiser is my favorite horror film of all time, closely followed by An American Werewolf in London. We could probably talk for hours about this stuff!

 

[SpyvSpy]

When I had cable tv (just use netflix now) my wife and I would watch fearnet stuff. She's always buying '60 and '70's horror DVD box sets which are cheesy and quite funny IMO but heck some were pretty good.

 

[The Nid Hog]

I worked in the FX industry for a great many years. Made a lot of things for a number of the Hellraiser films, as well a slew of other B horror flicks. Always been a fan of the old horror movies, but most of the new stuff leaves me cold, as in "meh."

I'm down to join the group, though

Thank you for your part in giving me some terrible nightmares and a lingering fear of puzzle boxes!

 

[SiBurning]

Great! I'll make espresso.

 

[C Reed]

An American Werewolf in London.

This!

 

[SiBurning]

So, what's playing tonight?

I put on King Kong vs. Godzilla to start.

 

[gaseousclay]

I worked in the FX industry for a great many years. Made a lot of things for a number of the Hellraiser films, as well a slew of other B horror flicks. Always been a fan of the old horror movies, but most of the new stuff leaves me cold, as in "meh."

I'm down to join the group, though

cool, I loved Hellraiser i'm with you though, i'm a fan of old school FX, not the crappy cgi that Hollywood has been churning out in recent years.

 

[gaseousclay]

An American Werewolf in London

This!

Thirded!

 

[christhach]

Awesome! Any of you guys seen Wolf Creek? To me, it's a modern classic!

 

[Jim B.]

I've been a fan of horror films and stories for the past 50 years. I saw the Day the World Ended when I was 7 or 8 in 1957 or 1958. The creature in the woods scared me for years. It was great. My parents thought I was crazy to love horror movies and stories, and my wife of 36 years thinks the same. Post-apocalyptic zombie films and stories are my current favorites.

 

[Cuttingboard]

I'm watching the Shining now on AMC. Awesome movie!!

 

[C Reed]

So, what's playing tonight?

I put on King Kong vs. Godzilla to start.

Zombie Land, I'm working for the film festival that premiered it, so i better catch up on some ****, though I have a press copy and it has an annoying "this is a press copy not for public display" thing going on. I hate that, the discs are registered and sent back and pirating doesn't come from with in the industry (ok maybe from bloggers).

 

[TonyH]

The first FF film I took my girlfriend to was to see George Romero at his Survival of the Dead screening at FF 09. She actually liked it a lot, and she barely tolerates horror film as a general rule.

 

[SalvadorMontenegro]

I believe that Candy Man remains the scariest movie I've ever seen. I haven't seen it in, probably 15 years, so I don't know how it would hold up. It scared me so much that I think I turned it off.

I like older horror films. I haven't seen a horror movie in years. I got fed up with them when the Saw type movies started taking over.

 

[SiBurning]

Speaking of saws...

Just finished watching Corridors of Blood, one of only two movies with both Boris Karloff & Christopher Lee, the other being Curse of the Crimson Altar. It's about a surgeon that experiments trying to discover an effective general anesthesia to use in surgery. He becomes addicted to opium, and runs into some resurrectionists (think Burke & Hare). All complete fiction, according to wikipedia's entry on anesthesia. Corridors of Blood also features quite a bit of footage of a saw and other surgical instruments.

 

[C Reed]

The first FF film I took my girlfriend to was to see George Romero at his Survival of the Dead screening at FF 09. She actually liked it a lot, and she barely tolerates horror film as a general rule.

I love film festivals, I have had the privilege to work with the Brooklyn International Film Festival in the past and now Fantastic Fest Indie cinema is one of my great loves.


On that note, I'm thinking of a British indie horror/ thriller from 08 or possibly early 09 where a couples camping trip by the lake (i think they are planing on buying a house there) goes really badly when they fall a foul of the local working class youth. It was amazing and it was named after either the lake or the planed development I just can't remember what it was called.

 

[Kouros]

The best horror movie I've seen in a long time was Drag Me To Hell.

 

[Uncle Erik]

I like a lot of the classic horror - the original Nosferatu is still creepy after all these years. By the way, it's public domain and can be freely (and legally) downloaded over at archive.org.

I'm also a huge fan of Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. I haven't been through their works for a few years, but a re-read is in order.