Do you like horror films and TV shows?

Sparky said:
I'm not a fan of horror films, but I did like The Changeling with George C Scott and Trish Van Devere.
I class that as more of a 'creepy' film.
A locked, boarded up door leading to a hidden attic bedroom, why would anyone want to go in there...:eek:
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We watched that not too long ago, good movie; I thought that scene with the staircase and the ball was pretty scary.
 

not really a sci-fi or horror fan. they just scare the bejeezus outta me and give me nightmares.
 

For the most part, I find horror movies and some Sci-Fi to be just plain stupid. Geared to frighten and that's it.

I did like Silence of the Lambs as far as horror movies are concerned. The psychological aspects fascinated me.

My favorite Sci-Fi is, and always will be, 2001 A Space Odyssey. That also moved me since I love considering theoretical, "what ifs."
 
squatting dog said:
My favorite was the Attach of the Crab monster.

The crab monsters, made of fiberglass and operated by crew members like Ed Nelson (who admitted to being inside one), were notoriously clunky, with visible wires, wobbly legs, and, apparently, dozer tracks in some shots to help move them along. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Ed Nelson himself recalled a blooper where his feet were visible under the crab in a still photo shown in the film.
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My favorites for the title of "worst special effects/costumes/etc." are:

Day of the Triffids. Not altogether a bad movie but the triffids look like haystacks and you can see the tennis-shoe-clad feet underneath when they are scurrying across the fields.

Attack of the Killer Shrews. The giant shrews are actually dogs wearing shaggy bathmats.

Third place: I can't remember the name but the aliens were guys in gorilla suits wearing old diving helmets. The story is that the director ran out of money and got hold of some gorilla suits with no heads and some old bronze diving helmets for free and decided let's put them together and VOILA! we have aliens from the planet Stoopid.

I have a soft spot for really, really bad old sci-fi and horror movies.
 
I do not watch scary movies! The scariest movie I ever saw was Night Of The Hunter, with Robert Mitchum and Shelly Winters, and a couple of very talented young kids.
 
I like some horror. I used to love the stuff, but today I find most horror rather boring. I hardly ever choose a horror flick that comes to the theater. Sci Fi is my favorite genre, because I like science, but introduce horror into Sci Fi and I don't care for it as much. Horror wanders too much from reality. Zombies have been done to death. I don't bother with zombie films. Vampires the same way.
 
I’m a sci fi fan, and an action/suspense fan. Don’t care for horror movies, though sometimes the genres collide.

The recent popularity of zombie type movies and tv show is of no interest to me, though to my surprise I did enjoy World War Z with Brad Pitt. A friend asked me to go with her or I would never have bothered.

I resent the gratuitous violence and gore that are frequently used for shock value in otherwise good movies. The storyline is every bit as interesting without the gore!
 
My favorites are the Australian Wolf Creek movies and series. Mick Tayor is far and away the scariest and at the same time funniest serial killer ever. :)


 
Saw the new 'Nosferatu' available for me yesterday. Didn't choose it for yesterday but really like, get scared, at creepy Vampire movies. Like the horror genre, but not the bloody slasher films. Prefer mysterious over terror.
 
jujube said:
Third place: I can't remember the name but the aliens were guys in gorilla suits wearing old diving helmets. The story is that the director ran out of money and got hold of some gorilla suits with no heads and some old bronze diving helmets for free and decided let's put them together and VOILA! we have aliens from the planet Stoopid.

I have a soft spot for really, really bad old sci-fi and horror movies.
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Ahhh, that would be the 1953 classic "Robot Monsters". :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:



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I think the newer (and I mean starting a couple of decades ago) are gorier than the old films. They seem to focus on how much they can creep people out with blood and guts than with good, suspenseful story lines. Today's writers leave a lot to be desired, especially the ones that have to include vulgar language in every scene. @Cornhusker when so many people I knew were raving about The Walking Dead, I tried watching it. After about 7 minutes, I knew it wasn't for me.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
@JustDave : That is so interesting! Did you watch any of the filming? And, I'm just curious, did you find the movie unbearably suspenseful I almost destroyed my boyfriend's arm, I was so crazed.
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No I didn't watch any filming, but where they filmed was just a hundred yards off the highway. I did see a lot of crew doing stuff as I drove by. Where they filmed was in a canyon below, and there was no way the highway could visually impair the sense of deep woods. But right next to the river was the Great Northern Railroad, which they managed to keep out of the film.

I wasn't that impressed with the film. I was hoping I would be, but I don't even own a copy of it. I suppose I was spending my viewing time imagining how they filmed this and that. I was more enchanted with the idea that Hollywood came to our town than in the final product.
 
Rich said:
Dexter was a psychopathic serial killer. His father recognized this when he was a young boy and, knowing it wasn't a curable affliction, trained/taught Dexter to only murder people that really deserved to be killed. It made him a dangerous and yet sympathetic character.
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Thanks for the explanation Rich.......but he's still creepy/scary.😨
My cousin loved the show.
 
dobielvr said:
No, not a fan. And, I don't understand the fascination w/Dexter? Seems a lot of people were really in to that show. He'd pick up people to take them home and kill them??? I know there is a story behind the reason he does this, but I just can't go there.
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Just yesterday, I finished binge watching the original Dexter Series for the 10th time. Talk about coincidence. I only do that once a year. I'm so totally fascinated by it that I bought a whole series and had it shipped to a movie watching friend. Big mistake! He and I have very different tastes, but I used to try to get him interested in things outside his limited but not understandable tastes in film. He told me he couldn't get through the first disk because he didn't like it.

I get it. How could an eight season series about a serial killer be anymore than a feast of blood, gore, and a haphazard investigation of a twisted mind? Well, that's what you think it will be if you only watch the first half of the first episode. Now I don't want to sell this series to anyone, but the killing part, which is it is bloody intense I admit, is actually a smaller part of the drama. Yes, there's more, like very intense romance, friendship, bonding, unbonding, and a cast of characters who may not kill, but some who are willing to totally destroy anyone else's life for their own gain. There's a lot of psychological investigation going on and is not limited to Dexter.

Sometimes I think the writers take a lot of liberty. We get to kind of understand what drives Dexter, but is it an accurate description of how such a person thinks? Maybe, but who can understand that kind of thinking in the first place? During the episodes, I find myself both cheering and booing different characters. I'm continually on the edge of my seat, even when I know what's going to happen.

I like unique scripts, and this one is far outside the common formula for crime and mystery drama.
 
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JustDave said:
Just yesterday, I finished binge watching the original Dexter Series for the 10th time. Talk about coincidence. I only do that once a year. I'm so totally fascinated by it that I bought a whole series and had it shipped to a movie watching friend. Big mistake! He and I have very different tastes, but I used to try to get him interested in things outside his limited but not understandable tastes in film. He told me he couldn't get through the first disk because he didn't like it.

I get it. How could an eight season series about a serial killer be anymore than a feast of blood, gore, and a haphazard investigation of a twisted mind? Well, that's what you think it will be if you only watch the first half of the first episode. Now I don't want to sell this series to anyone, but the killing part, which is it is bloody intense I admit, is actually a smaller part of the drama. Yes, there's more, like very intense romance, friendship, bonding, unbonding, and a cast of characters who may not kill, but some who are willing to totally destroy anyone else's life for their own gain. There's a lot of psychological investigation going on and is not limited to Dexter.

Sometimes I think the writers take a lot of liberty. We get to kind of understand what drives Dexter, but is it an accurate description of how such a person thinks? Maybe, but who can understand that kind of thinking in the first place? During the episodes, I find myself both cheering and booing different characters. I'm continually on the edge of my seat, even when I know what's going to happen.

I like unique scripts, and this one is far outside the common formula for crime and mystery drama.
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Geez, now I really feel out of the loop! Lol 10x 😲
And, you know what's so weird???..Is that I love watching true crime dramas. I've got bunches of them saved on my TV watch list. Whether it's Dateline, Killers Among Us, City Confidential etc, I'm watching it. 🫣
 
dobielvr said:
Geez, now I really feel out of the loop! Lol 10x 😲
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You never know when and if that might happen. I totally missed every episode of Stargate SG1, because I didn't care for the first full length film, Stargate with James Spader. I finally picked up on it years after the last season (#10), and it blew my mind. What great story telling that seems to endure the years. The first disk is a slow start that just reworks overworked social memes, but it finds it's stride shortly after, and it keeps getting better with each passing year of the series. The special effects were evolving during that time, and the series evolved along with the new technology.
 

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