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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.

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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.

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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.

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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'

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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.

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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.

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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.

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