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thirty days of horror movies
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handful_ofdust, who had some great answers. Seriously.
Day 1- Your first horror movie: I'm sure it was some Chinese horror movie that I saw on the Indonesian RCTI channel. Something with jiang shi - jumping vampires, most likely. These guys.
Day 2- The last horror movie you saw in the theater: Either Insidious or Scream 4. Both recommended, both better than I thought they'd be.
Day 3- Favorite classic horror movie: I actually don't know that many classics, but I do like The Innocents, which is a delicate, almost "lacy" creep-fest, and The Curse of Frankenstein, which IMO depicts Victor Frankenstein as the slimeball that he is. Does War of the Worlds count? Because I enjoyed that as well.
Day 4- A horror movie you thought you'd love and didn't: This is relatively rare for me because I tend to like horror movies almost by default. But I didn't love The Prophecy (thought I would because I like religious horror and Constantine) - mainly I just couldn't retain interest in it - and I didn't love The Quiet Family (thought I would because I love Happiness of the Katakuris, Takashi Miike's bizarro remake) - I think it was almost because it didn't live up to Happiness.
Day 5- Favorite horror remake: Tough question. I absolutely love Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre. One of the first truly beautiful horror movies I saw - kind of remade what horror could be, for me. But I also really like Happiness of the Katakuris, Alexandre Aja's The Hills Have Eyes, Jack Finney's 1978 Invasion of the Body-Snatchers (Donald Sutherland's final scream? Scared. The. Shit. Out of me.), Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, the 2010 The Crazies, and of course, Thir13en Ghosts, which is just too much fun.
Day 6- Favorite vampire movie: Interview with the Vampire, probably. I also really like Blade. For some reason I don't really consider Herzog's Nosferatu to be a proper vampire movie...
Day 7- A horror movie you think no one has seen: I'm not very good with obscure movies. I think not a lot of people have seen The Ceremony, which is the best low-budget/indie horror I've seen in a while. Has anybody here seen Bungalow 666? It's Indian. Circle of Eight is a horror movie I wish no one had the opportunity to see, because it is that bad (it served as an antidote to Ju-On). Apparently Bloody Disgusting thinks that Halloween III: Season of the Witch is obscure, and that movie rocks! "Six more days 'til Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!" Yeah, I drive people nuts with this movie. I don't know, though - Screen Rant's list of obscure movies is hilariously sad (Suspiria? Audition? In the Mouth of Madness?).
Day 8 - Favorite foreign horror: Something Japanese - probably Noroi: The Curse. It's become my favorite of its ilk. I also really like Ringu (but so sad!) and One Missed Call (cheesy-wheezy, but has screams). Oh God, and Retribution. Or basically anything by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Day 9 - Favorite supernatural horror movie: What the heck kind of question is this? Pretty much every horror movie I love is supernatural. Okay, how about Candyman. There! It's my welcome-to-grad-school movie.
Day 10 - Horror movie everyone loves but you don't: Too easy: Pan's Labyrinth.
Day 11 - Favorite horror/ comedy: Probably Shaun of the Dead. This is the first horror movie I ever saw that actually made me ROFL. Me and Yue were basically going nuts while watching the scene I linked to. Runner up: Cabin Fever. Bronze: Trick 'r Treat. Tin: Infection (I know it looks like pure horror, but it's really absurdly funny). And we already know I love Happiness, right? Right.
Day 12 - Your most disturbing horror film: I agree withhandful_ofdust - Martyrs is very disturbing. Also disturbing to me were Marebito and Ju-On. Marebito is unsettling, and Ju-On just fucks me up.
Day 13 - Favorite zombie movie: Probably 28 Days Later, although I am also very fond of Pontypool and Romero's borderline brilliant Land of the Dead.
Day 14 - Favorite indie horror movie: I'm really bad at figuring out what's indie. I'll say Lake Mungo. Which I am VERY ANGRY that they are remaking for an "American audience." It is Australian.
Day 15 - Favorite monster movie: Cloverfield, or Alien.
Day 16 - Horror film with a great soundtrack: I love The Hills Have Eyes' soundtrack (the 2006 one) and The Shining theme scares me the most, but for this question I'll go with Mulholland Drive. Which, yes, counts as a damn horror movie. I really, really love Angelo Badalamenti's scores. This is Lost Highway's, and this is "Laura Palmer's Theme."
Day 17- Favorite 80's horror: Just a horror of the 1980s decade or horror that somehow represents the 1980s? The Shining, probably.
Day 18 - Favorite horror movie filmed in black and white: See my answers to the classic question.
Day 19 - Best use of gore: The Descent. I'm normally not a fan of "extreme" cinema, but it worked for The Descent, which isn't exploitative and feels realistic (the characters that manage to fight and embrace the gore are the ones with the most baggage/issues).
Day 20 - [One of your f]avorite horror character[s]: Lim Ji-oh of Whispering Corridors. A total BAMF of a high school girl (without being sexy), an artist, and an individualist of the Luna Lovegood variety. I also really like Richard Dees of The Night Flier, although he's kind of a douche.
Day 21 - Best horror franchise: I'm going to go out on a slight limb (because the third one has not been released), and say Rec. Rec 2 builds very well on its punch-in-the-face predecessor. There's no mistaking Rec world.
Day 22 - Best death scene: I'm going to say the first death from Ringu / The Ring (honestly, I like both movies). It scared the SHIT out of me the first time I saw it - and continues to scare me to this day - but I just love the transition from "two high school girls gossiping about boys and death curses while alone in a house at night" to "wait one of them really is cursed" to "the phone!" to "oh, it's just her mom" to "SON OF A BITCH THE TV JUST TURNED ON." Coupled with the actual death scene, of course. Anyway, this is what I mean. Or Ringu, if you prefer.
Day 23 - A great quote from a horror movie: "Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, come on in." - Storm of the Century
Day 24 - Horror movie character that describes you: I've always felt a little bit of kinship with Trish Jenner from Jeepers Creepers. Slightly hysteria-prone but still able to get shit done, some anger issues, willing to sacrifice herself for family members. Likes poli-sci majors. Etc. I think I also have a bit of Marlena Diamond in me, from Cloverfield. "Sarcastic outsider," you know? But I suspect that a quiz would call me Clarice Starling. We have a lot of the same issues. I think we're both deep rollers.
Day 25 - Favorite Christmas/ holiday horror movie: Gremlins! Gremlins until to the end of time. But, the original Black Christmas is also wonderful.
Day 26 - Horror movie for a chicken (subtle or non-gory horror?): The Others, The Changeling, The Blair Witch Project, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Signs, Insomnia, The Skeleton Key, Paranormal Activity. Of course, what I consider a "subtle" horror movie is usually a serial killer movie (like Zodiac, or Perfume: Story of a Murderer), and those are always gory...
Day 27- Your guilty pleasure horror movie: I have a lot of these. Silent Hill probably takes the cake though. I mean, you got the hate coming from horror movie aficionados, from the video game's fans... and I'm all "whatever." I also like the Resident Evil series more than I should. If Deep Blue Sea counts as a horror movie then that is also included. And a lot of the After Dark Horror Fest movies - Gravedancers, etc. Rose Red is another one that I really enjoy, even though I know it has serious plotting issues.
Day 28- Horror film you'd like to see remade/ rebooted: Pumpkinhead deserves a reboot. I would be willing to help.
Day 29- Worst horror movie: Well, there's a lot of dreck on SyFy, but that stuff is kind of expected to be dreck, and forgiven for it. However, I'm not a fan of the Amityville franchise. Partly because of the whole "hey this is fake even though we all said it was true" thing, partly because of the involvement of the Warrens, and partly because the story itself is just ridiculous. I also really dislike 1408. I sort of can't believe how many people think this movie is great when it reads like a bland, passionless joke of a horror movie.
Day 30- [Three of y]our favorite all time horror movie[s]: Candyman, Noroi: The Curse, and... Kwaidan, since that was really what got me started on "good horror."
handful_ofdust, who had some great answers. Seriously.Day 1- Your first horror movie: I'm sure it was some Chinese horror movie that I saw on the Indonesian RCTI channel. Something with jiang shi - jumping vampires, most likely. These guys.
Day 2- The last horror movie you saw in the theater: Either Insidious or Scream 4. Both recommended, both better than I thought they'd be.
Day 3- Favorite classic horror movie: I actually don't know that many classics, but I do like The Innocents, which is a delicate, almost "lacy" creep-fest, and The Curse of Frankenstein, which IMO depicts Victor Frankenstein as the slimeball that he is. Does War of the Worlds count? Because I enjoyed that as well.
Day 4- A horror movie you thought you'd love and didn't: This is relatively rare for me because I tend to like horror movies almost by default. But I didn't love The Prophecy (thought I would because I like religious horror and Constantine) - mainly I just couldn't retain interest in it - and I didn't love The Quiet Family (thought I would because I love Happiness of the Katakuris, Takashi Miike's bizarro remake) - I think it was almost because it didn't live up to Happiness.
Day 5- Favorite horror remake: Tough question. I absolutely love Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre. One of the first truly beautiful horror movies I saw - kind of remade what horror could be, for me. But I also really like Happiness of the Katakuris, Alexandre Aja's The Hills Have Eyes, Jack Finney's 1978 Invasion of the Body-Snatchers (Donald Sutherland's final scream? Scared. The. Shit. Out of me.), Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, the 2010 The Crazies, and of course, Thir13en Ghosts, which is just too much fun.
Day 6- Favorite vampire movie: Interview with the Vampire, probably. I also really like Blade. For some reason I don't really consider Herzog's Nosferatu to be a proper vampire movie...
Day 7- A horror movie you think no one has seen: I'm not very good with obscure movies. I think not a lot of people have seen The Ceremony, which is the best low-budget/indie horror I've seen in a while. Has anybody here seen Bungalow 666? It's Indian. Circle of Eight is a horror movie I wish no one had the opportunity to see, because it is that bad (it served as an antidote to Ju-On). Apparently Bloody Disgusting thinks that Halloween III: Season of the Witch is obscure, and that movie rocks! "Six more days 'til Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!" Yeah, I drive people nuts with this movie. I don't know, though - Screen Rant's list of obscure movies is hilariously sad (Suspiria? Audition? In the Mouth of Madness?).
Day 8 - Favorite foreign horror: Something Japanese - probably Noroi: The Curse. It's become my favorite of its ilk. I also really like Ringu (but so sad!) and One Missed Call (cheesy-wheezy, but has screams). Oh God, and Retribution. Or basically anything by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Day 9 - Favorite supernatural horror movie: What the heck kind of question is this? Pretty much every horror movie I love is supernatural. Okay, how about Candyman. There! It's my welcome-to-grad-school movie.
Day 10 - Horror movie everyone loves but you don't: Too easy: Pan's Labyrinth.
Day 11 - Favorite horror/ comedy: Probably Shaun of the Dead. This is the first horror movie I ever saw that actually made me ROFL. Me and Yue were basically going nuts while watching the scene I linked to. Runner up: Cabin Fever. Bronze: Trick 'r Treat. Tin: Infection (I know it looks like pure horror, but it's really absurdly funny). And we already know I love Happiness, right? Right.
Day 12 - Your most disturbing horror film: I agree with
handful_ofdust - Martyrs is very disturbing. Also disturbing to me were Marebito and Ju-On. Marebito is unsettling, and Ju-On just fucks me up.Day 13 - Favorite zombie movie: Probably 28 Days Later, although I am also very fond of Pontypool and Romero's borderline brilliant Land of the Dead.
Day 14 - Favorite indie horror movie: I'm really bad at figuring out what's indie. I'll say Lake Mungo. Which I am VERY ANGRY that they are remaking for an "American audience." It is Australian.
Day 15 - Favorite monster movie: Cloverfield, or Alien.
Day 16 - Horror film with a great soundtrack: I love The Hills Have Eyes' soundtrack (the 2006 one) and The Shining theme scares me the most, but for this question I'll go with Mulholland Drive. Which, yes, counts as a damn horror movie. I really, really love Angelo Badalamenti's scores. This is Lost Highway's, and this is "Laura Palmer's Theme."
Day 17- Favorite 80's horror: Just a horror of the 1980s decade or horror that somehow represents the 1980s? The Shining, probably.
Day 18 - Favorite horror movie filmed in black and white: See my answers to the classic question.
Day 19 - Best use of gore: The Descent. I'm normally not a fan of "extreme" cinema, but it worked for The Descent, which isn't exploitative and feels realistic (the characters that manage to fight and embrace the gore are the ones with the most baggage/issues).
Day 20 - [One of your f]avorite horror character[s]: Lim Ji-oh of Whispering Corridors. A total BAMF of a high school girl (without being sexy), an artist, and an individualist of the Luna Lovegood variety. I also really like Richard Dees of The Night Flier, although he's kind of a douche.
Day 21 - Best horror franchise: I'm going to go out on a slight limb (because the third one has not been released), and say Rec. Rec 2 builds very well on its punch-in-the-face predecessor. There's no mistaking Rec world.
Day 22 - Best death scene: I'm going to say the first death from Ringu / The Ring (honestly, I like both movies). It scared the SHIT out of me the first time I saw it - and continues to scare me to this day - but I just love the transition from "two high school girls gossiping about boys and death curses while alone in a house at night" to "wait one of them really is cursed" to "the phone!" to "oh, it's just her mom" to "SON OF A BITCH THE TV JUST TURNED ON." Coupled with the actual death scene, of course. Anyway, this is what I mean. Or Ringu, if you prefer.
Day 23 - A great quote from a horror movie: "Born in lust, turn to dust. Born in sin, come on in." - Storm of the Century
Day 24 - Horror movie character that describes you: I've always felt a little bit of kinship with Trish Jenner from Jeepers Creepers. Slightly hysteria-prone but still able to get shit done, some anger issues, willing to sacrifice herself for family members. Likes poli-sci majors. Etc. I think I also have a bit of Marlena Diamond in me, from Cloverfield. "Sarcastic outsider," you know? But I suspect that a quiz would call me Clarice Starling. We have a lot of the same issues. I think we're both deep rollers.
Day 25 - Favorite Christmas/ holiday horror movie: Gremlins! Gremlins until to the end of time. But, the original Black Christmas is also wonderful.
Day 26 - Horror movie for a chicken (subtle or non-gory horror?): The Others, The Changeling, The Blair Witch Project, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Signs, Insomnia, The Skeleton Key, Paranormal Activity. Of course, what I consider a "subtle" horror movie is usually a serial killer movie (like Zodiac, or Perfume: Story of a Murderer), and those are always gory...
Day 27- Your guilty pleasure horror movie: I have a lot of these. Silent Hill probably takes the cake though. I mean, you got the hate coming from horror movie aficionados, from the video game's fans... and I'm all "whatever." I also like the Resident Evil series more than I should. If Deep Blue Sea counts as a horror movie then that is also included. And a lot of the After Dark Horror Fest movies - Gravedancers, etc. Rose Red is another one that I really enjoy, even though I know it has serious plotting issues.
Day 28- Horror film you'd like to see remade/ rebooted: Pumpkinhead deserves a reboot. I would be willing to help.
Day 29- Worst horror movie: Well, there's a lot of dreck on SyFy, but that stuff is kind of expected to be dreck, and forgiven for it. However, I'm not a fan of the Amityville franchise. Partly because of the whole "hey this is fake even though we all said it was true" thing, partly because of the involvement of the Warrens, and partly because the story itself is just ridiculous. I also really dislike 1408. I sort of can't believe how many people think this movie is great when it reads like a bland, passionless joke of a horror movie.
Day 30- [Three of y]our favorite all time horror movie[s]: Candyman, Noroi: The Curse, and... Kwaidan, since that was really what got me started on "good horror."
