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« on: October 14, 2008, 05:20:28 PM » |
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I love the series...watched them all. But I do wish I could get my 50 cent rental back and the 90 minutes I spent on III -- which, as Naso pointed out, had nothing to do with anything.
Is it my favorite horror series? Mmmm...I can't think of one I enjoyed more (as a series). I liked Hostel and Saw and Psycho, but their successor-movies were much less satisfying. Hated all the Friday movies. Freddy...meh...he was a "man of his times" I guess.
Zombies pretty much rock. So NOTLD and it's follow-ons should be on the top of my list. But they made a couple of them in the 80's that were more horror-comedies. No thanks. Give me Romero, not his wannabe admirers.
But I do LOVE a good scare...be it supernatural, slasher, aliens or whatever. Hell, Alien and Aliens could qualify as horror, I think. Damn scary enough the first time.
I'll never forget my first horror movie. It was Halloween Night, 1973 and it was on Network TV. Called "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" with Kim Darby. I didn't sleep for a week. And it was a damn TV movie! But I was seven for cryin' out loud. Still, I finally found a copy of it last year on DVD and watched it. Yep. Still scary. Even if the creatures are a bit silly looking by today's special effects standards...
Most underrated scarefest of all time? Well, I would name two.
One is all psychology and there is not a bit of blood, gore or the supernatural. It's called Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. It's just intense and if you put yourself in her shoes, in the time in which the film is set, you should be good and scared. Wonderful use of light and shadow.
The other -- which is almost never mentioned -- is The Serpent and the Rainbow. What's more horrifying? Zombification and voodoo? Or man's inhumanity to man? Great, great film.
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