Recommend some genuinely terrifying horror films?

[Laszlo]

Yeah, that bit stayed with me for years

[pete_bubonic]

Event Horizon I wouldn't call torture porn, it's just really creepy in the same way Hellraiser is.

Kinda true, the horror isn't in the torture porn for this film, but damn, in that uncensored directors cut, there's some fucking grim bits.

The bits where they show footage from the dark side on the computer screen are pretty farked up.

DO YOU SEE!!!!!!!!??????

[deadly_habit]

Event Horizon I wouldn't call torture porn, it's just really creepy in the same way Hellraiser is.

Kinda true, the horror isn't in the torture porn for this film, but damn, in that uncensored directors cut, there's some fucking grim bits.

The bits where they show footage from the dark side on the computer screen are pretty farked up.

DO YOU SEE!!!!!!!!??????

Yea but it's not torture porn like say Hostel or Saw. It's a bit of gore to add to an already unsettling environment.
Gore like I said can be used as an addition to an already scary setting when done right, just most modern films don't and use it as their primary focus.

[wolf89]

Yeah Event Horizon has some cool bits in it. Not sure why so many people seem to think it isn't very good

Also please stop using the phrase torture porn people. It's a dumb term invented by people in the media like the Daily Mail to drum up interest in their stupid shock stories about horror films by picking the most intentionally offensive sounding term to describe not overly shocking films that became popular for a while a few years back. Movies like Saw and Hostel are not literally toruture porn and neither are they even that extreme compared to loads of other films about. It's a meaningless phrase that is only used by dumb moral crusaders or the films themselves (as claiming to be extreme or causing controversy is one of the longest running and easiest tricks in marketing horror there is)

[pete_bubonic]

Event Horizon I wouldn't call torture porn, it's just really creepy in the same way Hellraiser is.

Kinda true, the horror isn't in the torture porn for this film, but damn, in that uncensored directors cut, there's some fucking grim bits.

The bits where they show footage from the dark side on the computer screen are pretty farked up.

DO YOU SEE!!!!!!!!??????

Yea but it's not torture porn like say Hostel or Saw. It's a bit of gore to add to an already unsettling environment.
Gore like I said can be used as an addition to an already scary setting when done right, just most modern films don't and use it as their primary focus.

I agree mate, that's a quote from the film!

[pete_bubonic]

Yeah Event Horizon has some cool bits in it. Not sure why so many people seem to think it isn't very good

Also please stop using the phrase torture porn people. It's a dumb term invented by people in the media like the Daily Mail to drum up interest in their stupid shock stories about horror films by picking the most intentionally offensive sounding term to describe not overly shocking films that became popular for a while a few years back. Movies like Saw and Hostel are not literally toruture porn and neither are they even that extreme compared to loads of other films about. It's a meaningless phrase that is only used by dumb moral crusaders or the films themselves (as claiming to be extreme or causing controversy is one of the longest running and easiest tricks in marketing horror there is)

I'm sure it has been hijacked by the Daily Mail brigade, but everyone knows what you mean when normal people say it, just like food porn or gear porn!

[deadly_habit]

It's one of the easier ways to categorize those style films though as they're not traditional slasher gore fests and have more akin to pseudo snuff films.
I'd say stuff like Hostel, the Saw series, Men Behind the Sun, Philosophy of a Knife etc fall in the same category, and it's convenient to call them torture porn, though the Saw series had a little bit of a thriller/mystery aspect to them it was often downplayed.

[deadly_habit]

I agree mate, that's a quote from the film!

Doh how did I forget that bit where he's holding his own eyes out and that line, I've watched that movie a gazillion times!
Time for coffee.

[TopManLurka]

It's one of the easier ways to categorize those style films though as they're not traditional slasher gore fests and have more akin to pseudo snuff films.

and on that topic i feel to watch this 'cannibal holocaust' ting just to see what the hype was about. anyone seen?

[pete_bubonic]

I agree mate, that's a quote from the film!

Doh how did I forget that bit where he's holding his own eyes out and that line, I've watched that movie a gazillion times!
Time for coffee.

The eyes... bllllueeergh

[deadly_habit]

I agree mate, that's a quote from the film!

Doh how did I forget that bit where he's holding his own eyes out and that line, I've watched that movie a gazillion times!
Time for coffee.

The eyes... bllllueeergh

It's all about the airlock scene.
Also what is it with Sam Neill only being in great horror flicks?
Omen 3
Possession
In the Mouth of Madness
Event Horizon

[wolf89]

Nah, torture porn is really not used in that sense though. The phrase torture porn was invented in the media when Saw was a surprise hit as it became an easy target to outrage people over for papers like that. It's a phrase that has huge negative implications. When you say the phrase torture porn when describing a film it suggests a perverted enjoyment of violence in a possibly even a sexual sense. Gear porn and food porn sounds harmless. Torture porn is just a sensationalist term to describe a wave of saw rip offs. I mean Hostel for example is just a shit horror movie with some torture in it. It doesn't stand out unless you describe it with such ridiculous terms.

See my mum knows that I own literally hundreds of horror dvds as I would have them back at her house when I was home from uni and sees nothing wrong with it. However she will still get all up in arms and angry that "torture porn exists" which I swear is purely from the way the phrase sounds and not that she's seen any movies that people described that way.

It's not a good way of categorizing films anyway. It's just a new way of marketing exploitation films. I'm sure if Bloodsucking Freaks came out now people would call it that despite it never being called that in the past

Also there are films much more fitting of that description (flower of flesh and blood is literally a woman being butchered for 45 minutes) that don't get called it.

Saw and Hostel are just shock based horror. Philosophy of a knife is just thinly veiled exploitation cinema

[Electric_Head]

Not sure how anyone can say Event Horizon is bad.

[pete_bubonic]

I agree mate, that's a quote from the film!

Doh how did I forget that bit where he's holding his own eyes out and that line, I've watched that movie a gazillion times!
Time for coffee.

The eyes... bllllueeergh

It's all about the airlock scene.
Also what is it with Sam Neill only being in great horror flicks?
Omen 3
Possession
In the Mouth of Madness
Event Horizon

BRO! TWO WORDS.

JURASSIC PARK.

Not sure how anyone can say Event Horizon is bad.

innit. I don't anyone who has seen who didnt enjoy it!

[BonerJams04]

anyone else seen conjuring yet?

[Laszlo]

Not sure how anyone can say Event Horizon is bad.

The cgi is super, super dated.

Which is why I always seem to prefer animatronics.

[ehbes]

Your all making me look like a huge pussy I hate horror movies.

+1 on the insidious demon not being scary doe it was fucking dearth maul with male pattern baldness

[BonerJams04]

male pattern baldness is my number one fear.
god help me if i ever lose my luscious locks

[nousd]

I've had an aversion to brunettes with long fringes
since I saw the Japanese original of The Ring.
Watching tv's never been the same.
Now, I suspect, that having watched an episode of The IT Crowd, I'm fated to die a horrible death.

It's like an update of kiddies' paranoia about Freddy Kreuger...
the ever-present possibility of him springing from within oneself;
true horror instilling a lasting impression on the psyche.

[wysockisauce]

Check out Cube if you want to see people get killed in odd ways. (That sounds so wrong )
The movie isn't particularly good, but it isn't a complete waste of time either.

I noticed The Exorcist hasn't been mentioned. I really enjoyed it.