Comments on: Riding the See-Saw of Horror

By: Scot

Scot — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:29:00 +0000

If you wanna see some classic horror check out the following to see how the Eli Roth’s and James Wan’s were weened !!! Sleepaway Camp (what a corker, quite clearly one of my fave endings to a movie ever !), Massacre at Central High (top revenge flick) , Rawhead Rex (great title that kinda speaks for itself) , Re-Animator, The Howling, From Beyond, The Anthropophagus Beast, Nightmares in a Damaged Brain !!!!!! Oh I could go on all day, but I will reign myself in and just raise my hand and salute the eighties as being quite clearly one of the most glorious times for the horror genre !!!

By: milo

milo — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:13:26 +0000

Nik!

You sat through 3 saw movies in the same sitting? I take my hat off to you, and lay it on my mahogany desk next to my portable typewriter and ivory-handled revolver.

I think whole books could be written on horror movie titles. Black Christmas is a doozy, though it would work better as a blacksploitation!

By: milo

milo — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:37:57 +0000

Fans of 30 Days of Night would do well to check out Frostbite (2006), which has almost exactly the same plot, but it’s set in Northern Sweden. Whilst it’s obviously low-budget fare, Frostbite is imaginative and witty, and I think it far more effectively explores the horror potential of the snowbound setting. And there’s a great scene with a dog.

By: Nik

Nik — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:26:30 +0000

Milo me ol’ mucker! Hello you!
I sat through the first three Saw films on dvd yesterday, and have to say I was pleasantly surprised at how good the films are, though have yet to summon the will to sit down to a hearty breakfast this morning…

Ah, eighties horror….I was always very fond of April Fool’s Day (currently undergoing the remake treatment in Hollywood - spits!!!). Not terribly popular, I think a lot of people feel cheated when watching it. But I say, if you can’t fathom what’s going on from the title then the fault lies with the viewer not the film…great suspense, and very quotable:

“Sometimes, it can take someone alllllll night to get here from the mainland. And even then, sometimes…they don’t make it.”

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:28:35 +0000

Oh, by the way, if you want some quality axe-ery, you should try the upcoming vampire flick, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT. This contains a large amount of non-discriminatory decapitations taking in vampires, small children vampires and large beardy vampires, including the most realistic cinematic beheading I have ever seen. I know Milo differs with me insomuch as I thought the film was great and he thought is was pasty-white bloodless poo, but he is wrong (a rarity, I admit).

If you are a believer in horror being at its best when it leaves everything to your imagination (and I am one of these, counting THE HAUNTING as one of my top 5 films ever), I would heartily recommend the criminally overlooked THEM, a little French thriller from last year. No axes, but one of the few horror films out there that made me nervous walking home from the cinema.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:16:52 +0000

I saw Saw, saw Saw 2 too, but did not see Saw 3.

I ran out of puns by the time I got to Saw 4.