Horror Movie HoF

There is definitely more cheese than good movies. I watched Child's Play a couple years ago. I was actually expecting it to be scary, but it was just boring with terrible acting.

Probably my favorite Horror film director (all of his films are horror) is the British director Pete Walker. He was most active in the 70's, but also did a few in the 60's. Die Screaming Marianne, The Confessional, and House of Whipcord are the best of what I've seen so far, and House of Whipcord is one of my personal favorites.

Nothing beats the 70's in terms of horror, in my personal opinion.

I think I have to agree that the 70's was the best decade for horror.

Yeah I agree too... but then the 1930's and 1940's had some good horror as well.

I haven't seen enough horror from those decades. Perhaps I shouldn't have spoken in that case though...

Horror movies are getting visually more frightening, but in terms of atmosphere I don't know if it can be defined by decades. It's more just a few rare individual pieces from various eras that stand out as atmospherically frightening.

Zotis,

I enjoy horror from early 1900's... to the 1940's.. then from the 1960's and 1970's.... to some in the 1990's to today.....

Have you seen Videodrome? Because David Cronenberg does great horror.

Great call on Videodrome, Cronenberg is more body horror than actual horror but from the 11 that i have seen, Ive really enjoyed them all. Dead Ringers is especially great and disturbing.

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But it's not really a horror film, is it? I like it, I like the series and I quite like the follow up film, which is basically the same, but not quite as good. But it's not really a horror film any more than an epsisode of The X Files would be if it had a vampire.

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Maybe it is not really a horror film, but on IMDb it is considered one. Plus, I'm always thinking of the subject and/or the approach when classifying a horror movie. So although the approach is not as much horror, the subject based around a vampire which is something that can not exist, and therefore I see it as a horror. But it is debatable, yes.

Woohoo, nice review MovieMeditation. Honeykid is steaming. I should get a move-on with this, been slacking.

In retrospect, I think I originally underrated The Night Stalker. I really liked that movie.

Cannibal is all ready to roll for tonight.

Again?! I thought you watched that 10,000,000 times already.

I started The Night Stalker, but the acting at the begining wasn't great. I will watch it, but I doubt I'm going to end up liking it. The story was a bit boring too, at the beginning anyway...

I got it last Friday but the DVD was broken.

Doing decades horror lists could be fun, even with limited participation. I don't know which decade is the best, but I know that each decade since the inception of film has something to offer. Post-2000 is pretty great, in my opinion. I think the 80s has the most fun horrors. The 70s probably has the most stylish and possibly deepest pool of good horror films.

I disagree about '70s horror being the best -- not that there weren't great horrors in the '70s -- Texas Chain Saw Massacre and all that.

Frankly I think the '70s decade for movies... is a little overrated.

The '70s were weird. Sometimes I feel like there's such a drastic difference between the '70s and the '80s. Like, what the hell happened in 10 years?!

To me, the '80s were better for horror. I feel like so much happened then and paved the way for all the horror nostalgia that goes on now.

The '70s may have started stuff, but the '80s went full force.

I havent seen Videodrome but I have seen quite a few Cronenberg films.. "The Brood", "Scanners", "The Dead Zone", "The Fly", "Naked Lunch" and other films that are not horror related but I have to say I think "Spider" is my favorite... Ralph Fiennes is amazing in that film.

Cannibal

I have mixed feelings about this one. I knew going in to this that it was made for video, so my biggest concern was how well made it would be. I watch a decent amount of movies like this, and my reaction was that it was made reasonably well for it's low budget. It wasn't made as well as A Serbian Film, but it was about equal to The Human Centipede 2. At times I thought it looked pretty good, but other times not so much. The acting was also about average for a movie like this, although the voice of the main character was so odd that it was startling, and somewhat annoying.

My biggest problem with this movie was the gratuitous male nudity and fondling/sex. I'm not a prude or homophobic, but with a fascinating story such as this, I definitely thought that time could've been better spent elsewhere. The scenes of the two men nude together seemed to go on forever, and with only about an 85 minute runtime, I just didn't see the point.*

I thought parts of the movie were effective, especially the last 20-25 minutes. It's definitely sick and disturbing, but by comparison, I find my nominee in the 5th Hall of Fame, Boys Don't Cry, to be more disturbing, at least in an emotional way. I put a lot of stock in how memorable I find a movie to be, and for that reason, I'll give Cannibal a slightly generous