Thriller and Horror fans

[Jeremy]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> The Descent was pretty good I thought

Yes I liked that too. The sequel's coming out soon...

[HonaloochieB]

Will do.

As far as thrillers go I'd have The Thirty Nine Steps either the original or the remake with Robert Powell, Midnight Run is a good thriller with buckets of comedy for good measure. Strangers On A Train is a great spooky thriller with one of the all time classic psychos in Robert Shaw.

I enjoy that Brian De Palma thriller Snake Eyes any time it's on, Nic Cage at his sceenry chewing finest.

[mockney piers]

Hard to match the Third Man in my book, and basically anything from the thirties and forties noir period is just perfect.

Ooh, White Heat, the original gangster psycho!!

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Sick.

[Keef]

jumpinjackflash Wrote:

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> Just remembered the achilles heel scene in Hostel

> - for me the most gruesome scene ever in a film,

> makes me go all funny. Crap film though.

That was horrid!!!! I thought the film was alright, in a mega gore kind of way.

Never wayched Blair witch, as my then girlfriend caqme back from watching it, and said she'd laughed all the way through it, it was so bad.

The Ring was good (Japanese and US versions), and looking forward to the upcoming third one, which apparently is a prequel.

[Jeremy]

I have the "Ring 0" DVD (Jap) - which is a bit disappointing. I don't know if the US version will stick to the same plot or not.

[mockney piers]

Oh i do hope not, it was a bit pants wasn't it.

[woofmarkthedog]

Scooby Doo used to scare me.

"If it wasn't for you pesky kids"

I never guessed that the janitor was the monster/ghost till the end.

[HonaloochieB]

Scooby Doo is a silly b@stard who couldn't find his arse with both hands. And as for Scrappy Doo in reality he's get dropkicked through the nearest window.

And to think The Flinstones Dino never got his own series, where's the justice?

[hibbs]

Wolff Creek! God just the thought of that movie scares me.

[SimonM]

>>Strangers On A Train is a great spooky thriller with one of the all time classic psychos in Robert Shaw. <<

Shome mistake shawly? (haha). Robert Walker not Robert Shaw. Shaw though was half of one of the most memorable fighters-on-a-train in "From Russia With Love".

My worst-ever single moment in horror films I think is still that scene in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" where old leatherface hangs her on a meathook.

[mockney piers]

Thought wolf creek was excellent. It had a real feel about the heydey of the slasher flick (late seventies early eighties).

The recent spate of remakes are too polished, too slick and lack any personality. The classics always had a grain of dark humour, a kernel of social commentary. Wolf Creek definitely had the former, I'll have to think about the latter. It was good though and really scary!!!!!

'that's's not a knife'

[mockney piers]

Very true Simon. Actually WMTD may think he's taking the piss, but is he aware that scooby doo is based on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

[mockney piers]

Or the other way round...

[SimonM]

Wow....so if they'd not lost their nerve the filmmakers could have treated us to Sarah Michelle Gellar being hung on a meat hook?! Where's Mr Pointy when you need him?!

[Keef]

Wolf Creek is a very very scary film! I agree with Piers about it missing (in a good way) some of the Hollywood polish of the newer slasher films. However, at times, it was just too real, very uncomfortable veiwing, and when the girl is screaming and begging him not to hurt her, whilst he taunts her, that just felt like watching some sort of snuff!

It is a very good horror film, but I had to watch it twice just to kind of get over it. Mrs Keef was genuinely effected by it, and had nightmares for a while after.

Think the fact it's loosly based on the Ivan Milat backpacker murders was what freaked me. I'd read all about them, and found that the film really upset me, because it made me think of the real victims, and how scared they must have been when they died.

Sorry, bit heavy there.

[jumpinjackflash]

Oh yes The Ring! When the little girl crawls out of the telly! I pi55ed myself at that!! It's the way she moved that did it for me. What is it about little girls in films they scare me more than any mad psychopath mass murderer!

[mockney piers]

Very true, but it's being done to death (forgive the pun) a bit, and thus has fed through to the survival horror genre in gaming too. Oh no, it's a girl with long black hair *yawn*.

That doesn't lessen the impact of those Japanese, Korean, Malay etc horrors when they broke though, chilling, intelligent and scary.

[bigbadwolf]

I couldn't have put it better myself Mockney. Chilling, intelligent and scary they most drfinately are. I've been watching mostly south Korean horror movies recently.

[jumpinjackflash]

The old man in Poltergeist 2 really used to scare me..

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/8476/rainkane2.jpg

[mockney piers]

Ooh, Exorcist 3, a far superior sequel to the woeful 2. I don't think any film has made me physically jump out of the sofa like a scene in there. Altogether a pretty good film, especially as

sequels go.

[HonaloochieB]

SimonM Wrote:

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> >>Strangers On A Train is a great spooky thriller

> with one of the all time classic psychos in Robert

> Shaw.

> Shome mistake shawly? (haha). Robert Walker not

> Robert Shaw. Shaw though was half of one of the

> most memorable fighters-on-a-train in "From Russia

> With Love".

>

> My worst-ever single moment in horror films I

> think is still that scene in "The Texas Chainsaw

> Massacre" where old leatherface hangs her on a

> meathook.

I stand corrected Simon, that's what I get for relying on my memory.

I should know better so I should.

[Keef]

How can I forgotten the old man from Poltergeist 2, he freaked me out, especially in a scene where he is seen shutting some people in a cave or something like that (was a long time ago, memory a bit hazy).

[charliecharlie]

lest we forget...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCxI_Y7h4Q4

ps when i was a kid i found this scary, still do if the truth be known... just a big baby when it comes to horror... suffer from too vivid an imagination...

[matthew123]

Two top Horror movies I've recently seen on Sky are "1408" and "Rec" - I found both very chilling!