We watched Silent Hill last night. Well, tried to. The first half is incomprehensible, but replete with good special effects. The actors LOOK like famous people, and there is no nudity.
The second half is more bad acting, I mean for 5 minutes the woman cries out"Sharon! Sharon!" Looking for her daughter. The hubby cries out, “Rose! Sharon! Rose.”
Painful beyond belief, the STAR of the show is the woman who was the mother in Stephen King’s Cat People
The special effects are good, sometimes very good, but DAMN, I want that 90 minutes of life back.
Ya know, I really thought it was a pretty cool movie.
The video game plays through just like the movie.
I thought it was pretty original.
Even if the acting was slightly wooden.
oh oh … there was this one with this kid and he wore these glasses and he poked peoples eyes out with knitting needles… and and … no it was so bad I’m going to stop now… possibly bc I have blocked the rest out it was so hideous…
that and the SAw, seriously stupid bad clown movies scare me, and the saw was so ‘dull’ and just bleh I almost gnawed my own arm off to escape.
Hostel started well…people disappearing, nobody knows why, but then it devolved into a cheap gorefest.
I never saw Saw, but I notice we’re already up to Saw 3. As a rule of thumb, stay away from ANY movie where the title is followed by a number (Exceptions: Henry The Fifth and Richard The Third).
so many horrible horror movies lately, it’s hard to say which one tops them all… but one did come into mind. it’s a british film a few years earlier called “Creep” ( played by matt damon’s gf from Bourne Identity). It was so lame i almost laughed out loud when the villian came out towards the end of the film. The director probably thought of the whole plot while waiting for the subway. i don’t know, maybe it was suppose to be a black comedy of social conscience of some kind?
Yer all mental!! Hostel is great! OK, OK, I only liked it for the graphic nudity (really nice-looking women, I might add) during the first quarter, but man, was it worth it for that or what? (Actually the rest of it wasn’t so bad. I assumed is was going to be as bad as the Saw, and it wasn’t).
No kidding! What are you guys talking about?
Saw is a very highly rated movie, was original, scary, inventive, and well made.
It WILL be known as one of the great horror movies.
As for Hostel…the nudity was indeed fabulous.
It was endorsed by Tarantino!
That automatically makes it genius.
Maybe too much gore for those with weaker stomachs, but I thought it was a pretty cool movie still.
I like ‘Saw’ since it was original and could also be classified as suspense thriller. Heard the sequels are more graphic so I probably wouldn’t like to watch it (Part 4 is already announced for next year’s Halloween btw). ‘Hostel’ isn’t one for me either I guess.
Actually I prefer the subtle horror, like the classic ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ for example, you know where things are just in your mind rather than thrown into your face on screen.
However I also like the ‘Resident Evil’ (1st one only) - not so much because of the Zombies / creatures but because it’s just cool in a way. ‘28 Days’ was a kind of good, too. And ‘House of Wax’ was great, but only because it had Elisha Cuthbert in it and you could see Paris Hilton die.
Saw 1 was pretty good. 2, not bad. I’ll probably watch 3.
I do think though that the gore factor in Hostel was FAR above and beyond the norm for slasher flics. It wasn’t a scary movie, just plain stomach turning gross.
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I do think though that the gore factor in Hostel was FAR above and beyond the norm for slasher flics. It wasn’t a scary movie, just plain stomach turning gross.[/quote]
[quote=“Rascal”]Actually I prefer the subtle horror, like the classic ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ for example…[/quote] My all-time favorite movie. Nothing else comes close to this level of excellence.
The first two Saw movies are great, not sure about the third yet. Hostel turned my stomach, not sure if that’s a good thing or not. May not bother with part II.
Really sucky horror movies? Anybody seen Slumber Party Massacre II? Made absolutely no sense. House of the Dead? Or any of Uwe Boll’s crap flicks? The Blair Witch Project (though a lot of people loved that one for some unknown reason…) and it’s sequel?
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I do think though that the gore factor in Hostel was FAR above and beyond the norm for slasher flics. It wasn’t a scary movie, just plain stomach turning gross.[/quote]
Yeah, but… with boobs.[/quote]
I’d rather have seen the Japanese girls’ tiny natural titties than the big globular silicon fatbobs. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I just got the japanese girl’s eyeball hanging out and then, wretch, cut off at the optic nerve…
mesohorny…sonot…
What else did I just watch a bit of and then delete? Something like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but with a woman…equally moronic.
Where have all the good horror films or yore gone?
Anyone recall MOTEL HELL?
“It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters.” hoooaaaaa
the first half of Hostle, i thought my bf dragged me to see a “boobbie flick” disguised as a horror film. i mean, the first thing my bf and his friends said coming out the theater was " we should definitely go back-packing in Europe, tits and free pot, man!"
another wasted 2 hours of my life… and another 20 points off my bf’s IQ (great, now i’m practically dating a 3 year-old). :help:
those flashes of Satan scared the be-jeezes outta me, and i slept with the covers over my head for nearly a year. and yes, i was only in 3rd grade… thanks alot, dad.
Mia Farrow was beautiful, even tho she looked only 90lbs…
Come on… no Plan 9 From Outer Space? I still haven’t finished watching it it’s so horrible. If you want to see really, really, really sucky horror films, I can burn you a copy. It’s not worth buying even if you could buy it.
The 80s was a great decade for horror, I reckon. They’re cool beacuse of their cheeziness. Some great movies, like Nightmare on Elm Street.
Does anyone remember the Phantasm series? The Tall Man, with his undead midget zombie slaves, and his mechanical brain-sucking spheres.
