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Post by Terrapin Station on Jul 3, 2018 18:13:11 GMT
I can't name any without searching for titles, but for the most part, I now avoid "no budget" or microbudget, made-on-weekends-by-people-with-other-full-time-jobs fare now. The vast majority of those are painful to sit through because they're so poorly made, poorly acted, etc.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 3, 2018 18:13:21 GMT
Cannibal Holocaust for sure because it only exists for the animal killing controversy. If I want a lecture on the evils of colonialism there are other things to watch.
The Human Centipede films. Plot summary was enough.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Jul 3, 2018 18:16:32 GMT
No content disturbs me. I just want to see a well-made film--something with a good story, good script, good production values, good acting, etc.
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Post by Nicko's Nose on Jul 4, 2018 3:23:51 GMT
Cannibal Holocaust for sure because it only exists for the animal killing controversy. Maybe if you actually watched it you’d realize there’s far more to it than just the animal killing controversy. The movie has a lot of fans and it has nothing to do with the animal killing (in fact most of the fans like everything about it except that), so people who haven’t seen it need to shut the fuck up about it having nothing to it except real animal killing. It’s a genuinely well made and innovative (the first found footage movie) movie with some truly disturbing and unforgettable moments (excluding the animal scenes). It also has a fantastic score that truly elevates some of the scenes.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jul 4, 2018 8:15:59 GMT
Maybe if you actually watched it you’d realize there’s far more to it than just the animal killing controversy. The movie has a lot of fans and it has nothing to do with the animal killing (in fact most of the fans like everything about it except that), so people who haven’t seen it need to shut the fuck up about it having nothing to it except real animal killing. It’s a genuinely well made and innovative (the first found footage movie) movie with some truly disturbing and unforgettable moments (excluding the animal scenes). It also has a fantastic score that truly elevates some of the scenes. The film is marketed on the animal killing. This is fact. It cant market itself on an anti-colonial message because there is nothing unique about that. Basically the filmmaker is saying: "hey dont be an asshole" when in fact he consciously decided to be an asshole while shooting the film. Like the cat in the box of rats scene in THE MEN BEHIND THE SUN, if you are claiming to take the moral high ground think carefully about what you do in pursuit of that message.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 6, 2018 16:19:49 GMT
Name a horror movie(s) that you haven't seen and refuse to watch. Here are mine: Serbian Film - No offense to those who have seen and liked this, but from what I've read this sounds really sick and reprehensible. Cannibal Holocaust - For its depiction of real animal killings. Both of these were the first to come to mind. They just don't sound enjoyable in the slightest. Also, I have no interest in pursuing Conjuring, Insidious, Paranormal Activity, Oujia or Annabelle sequels. Put all that shit to bed already.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 6, 2018 16:24:20 GMT
No intention of ever seeing A SERBIAN FILM - which I think is a far cry from a Horror film and much more akin to wanton perversion. I'd also never watch the Human Centipede movies, which again - for me - have far less to do with Horror than sexual mutilation propelled once again by gross perversion. I did see the first movie, which I thought was almost adolescent in it's attempts to offend........but it paled by comparison to the second, which I didn't finish watching because of it's utterly juvenile tactics in reaching the base depths of bad taste.........simply for the sake of it. The third movie I've not seen any of but wouldn't touch with a barge pole if it presumably seeks to progress the series in it's forward trajectory. There are a couple of latter WRONG TURN movies that are also a real TURN-off for me. One centred around a police station stands out. It's clear from the off that these are movies where the revolting Hillbilly savages are going to triumph and the only reason to watch therefore is to witness each victim tortured and slaughtered in a fashion more grisly than the last. I can't take anything from a movie that simply wallows in the misery and suffering of it's characters and almost passes the villains off as some kind of anti-heroes. It's boring, predictable and mind-numbing brutality with little other aim. For me it's just pointless viewing and practically non-storytelling. Both of Rob Zombie's grubby HALLOWEEN movies...........simply because of how awfully they were written, shot, edited and stuffed with appalling dialogue that almost made my ears bleed. The sweaty lowlife, hairy rednecks, rape, profanity and vulgar tone of each movie made me feel like showering after I'd watched them. I agree with every single word of this post. These are the sort of films that give horror a bad name.
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Post by teleadm on Jul 6, 2018 19:22:15 GMT
Watched a trailer of a Korean movie kalled Ichi the killer, and decided that that was taking tasteless too far..
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 6, 2018 19:24:24 GMT
Call me a wimp, but I probably can’t watch the majority of modern horror flicks. Ugh. I have absolutely zero interest in tastelessness, gore, or any of the rest of it.
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Post by Nicko's Nose on Jul 6, 2018 19:27:48 GMT
Watched a trailer of a Korean movie kalled Ichi the killer, and decided that that was taking tasteless too far.. It’s Japanese.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Jul 9, 2018 5:36:40 GMT
The Human Centipede.
Sounds like absolute dreck. Wouldn't watch it if you paid me.
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Post by novastar6 on Jul 11, 2018 5:24:50 GMT
Where to start?
The whole Saw franchise. The Wrong Turn movies. The Human Centipede movies. I didn't care for the first I Know what you Did Last Summer and sure as hell have no desire to see the other 500 movies in the franchise, Scream lost its appeal after the first 1 so haven't bothered watching any of those sequels either or the MTV spinoff. Rob Zombie's Halloween movies or for that matter really, anything he's made. Hostel, its sequel, Cabin Fever, does it have a sequel? The remakes of Last House on the Left, Hills have Eyes, Carrie, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, The Wicker Man, Fright Night, pretty much anything that's been remade in the last 15 years. ANYTHING that falls under the 'torture porn' category...with possible exception of Revenge of the Living Dead Girls, pointlessly barbaric, not even pointfully barbaric, just pointlessly, but it still had potential, love that ending though.
I have never seen any of the Friday the 13th movies, not for any real reason, they've just never appealed to me. I prefer Michael Myers.
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Post by James on Jul 12, 2018 0:36:59 GMT
I'm actually a fan of the Saw franchise and really enjoyed the first Hostel (yet to see the other two). The first Saw is more psychological-mystery than torture porn if that's what you're into.
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Post by Royale H. Oaks on Jul 16, 2018 2:37:57 GMT
2000 horror movies like the ring and other little ghost girl PG13 shite.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jul 16, 2018 2:52:43 GMT
All the Hammer horror films
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Post by novastar6 on Jul 16, 2018 5:34:51 GMT
All the Hammer horror films
Why?
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jul 16, 2018 20:15:45 GMT
Because I love the original Universal ones.
Saw a few of the Hammer films in my teens when they were released and did not like yjem.
Not really fond of British films.
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Post by amyghost on Jul 16, 2018 21:36:23 GMT
I used to be into horror films back in my teens, but it's a genre I've pretty much lost interest in over the years. Especially the ramped-up torture variety...and absolutely none of them that exploit the notion of animal cruelty.
At my age, I've come to the conclusion that there's more than enough infliction of brutality and suffering on the helpless in real life to take much pleasure in filmed representations of same, particularly the sort whose entire raison d'etre lies in simply depicting the deliberate infliction of cruelty for kicks. That doesn't mean I want strictly a diet of Mary Poppins for my film fare, but the egregiously over-the-top stuff I can do without.
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 16, 2018 23:18:58 GMT
I love horror films, but I am strictly pre-90s...
I saw both "Hostel" movies and they just depressed me and Lorna's kill scene was too much for me. Almost started crying. I saw the first two "Saw" movies and, though the first one was decent, I could see where the franchise was heading and there's a meanness to it that I can't take mentally. Rob Zombie = meanness X ten. I will never watch The Human Centipede movies because they sound repulsive and moronic. I did see the French movie "High Tension" and that was effective and well-done and I never want to see it again. I will never watch "Cannibal Holocaust" because I could never un-see it. I did, however, watch "A Serbian Film", out of morbid curiosity, and I thought it was one of the most idiotic, incomprehensible and pretentious pieces of shit I have ever seen. It really was just too over the top with its own self-satisfied shock value ("Hey! Everybody! Gather round! Let's rape a baby! Some pretty tacky shit going down in Serbia.) That kind of concept or premise is something that - if it must be attempted at all - really should not be done in visual terms, or, if so, it should be done as an animation. The idea that the director wanted to put this kind of thing in his movie made me just think he was a straight up asshole. It wasn't scary, it wasn't disturbing. it wasn't gross (okay, maybe it was bad taste) and it wasn't any good.
That said, one film I promised myself I would never watch is the German movie "Cannibal" (2006) based on the real life story of the two men who met on the Internet and lived out the unhealthiest of fetishes. My super hardcore horror friend, Alan, said "Cannibal" is the only movie he would never see again.
Has anybody here seen this movie?
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