Horror Movies
 

Halloween
Nightmare On Elm Street
Firday the 13th
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Exorcist
The Shining
The Amityville Horror
It
Psycho
The Omen
Child's Play
Hellraiser

I decided to pick up Nightmare on Elm Street recently, and I've gotta say that for its time? It was really good.

For some weird reason, I love games like Silent Hill. I like scary movies. I read Hannibal Lecter. I check out serial killers on Wikipedia. It might be weird or twisted, but I'm curious. I think it keeps me balanced. If this level of pain and fear is capable, than the level of happiness opposite is, too - and since I dun like causing pain, I think it's nice to know that I can make people feel really happy. (=3)

That being said, horror movies have been around forever. Why? Because people like to be scared. Why is that?

I think its something like fear releases adrenaline, which causes a sort of "high".

Cloverfield is recent and really good. Buy it, but take with you a bottle of dramamine if you are prone to dizziness.

Or maybe that doesn't count as a horror movie? I'm not a fan of the genre so I don't know.

I suppose it would if you considered Godzilla, or Jurassic Park horror movies.

Honestly though, its just so damn hard to find a good horror movie. The last movie that actually made me jump was surprisingly the Silent Hill movie, in my opinion a more than adequate movie adaptation.

It's like.... it's like I don't even know you anymore, man.

I liked that movie, but for the most part, movies haven't been very scary for a long time. Now that we have the ability to make movies really gory and violent, most horror film makers think that extreme gore and people running through the woods equals scary. I haven't been properly scared by a movie for a long time, while video games have been doing a much better job. WTF Hollywood?

I don't particularly like movies that are just blood and gore. I only watch it more for the entertainment than actually being scared. What I like are the ones that try to psychologically mess with you. Trying to get that "What the..." reaction from the audience. Classic examples being the Shining, It, and to a lesser extent, 1408.

So I like Steven King... >>

For recent good movies, I really liked The Orphanage. Though I guess that was more Ghost Story and less Horror Movie. Still, it was wonderfully shot and paced and was more about the psychological than violence.

And speaking of Stephen King, The Mist was really good.

The Evil Dead may just bee the greatest horror movie ever made. It excels in both psychological and jump out horror. Plus: Bruce Campbell