Darkness Falls???
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well ... i've seen
Halloween
Friday the 13th - Pretty good
The Others - Didn't liked that one, boring
Ringu - Don't remember, seen The Ring (american version)
Night of the Living Dead - Pretty old and boring
Alien - it's more science-fiction
The Blair Witch Project - Real good first time I saw it
Psycho - Good but boring
Halloween
Friday the 13th - Pretty good
The Others - Didn't liked that one, boring
Ringu - Don't remember, seen The Ring (american version)
Night of the Living Dead - Pretty old and boring
Alien - it's more science-fiction
The Blair Witch Project - Real good first time I saw it
Psycho - Good but boring
Ringu knocks the socks off the American remake, it's pretty gripping. If The Ring got to you, Ringu will have you jumping at shadows. The only bad thing about The Others was that it came out after The Sixth Sense, so the public already had a taste of that type of horror/ghost movie and the latter movie was, to be honest, superior to the former. Alien is science fiction but who said science fiction can't be horrific? It's a good horror movie in its own right, and it's pretty reminiscent of David Cronenberg's The Brood as well. I see you don't really like the old horror movies 
but when one is exposed to today's productions, it's easy to miss the quality some of these old films had. If you were to sit down and watch Night of the Living Dead in the correct frame of mind, you'd see that it is a better movie than you at first thought (though I will admit that it IS a dated production in this day and age), and that it also carries a subliminal social message about the interactions between the different social/racial "hierarchies" at the time. Psycho is another movie that looks rather old nowadays; however, remember that it set the trend for hundreds of horror movies that trod reverently in its wake. Wasn't that Norman Bates (a truly excellent portrayal by the late Anthony Perkins) a creepy bugger or what? It's easy to imagine that there are people out there exactly like that even today - a quiet demeanor hiding the monster inside. I like to think he was the evolutionary starting point that finally led to the creation of Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter (as portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, another really good horror thriller). "Hallo Clarice" never packed so much menace. 
Hey you still have got some movies on that list to go through before I give you another one.
Try watching them alone somewhere deserted for effect. Hehehe. You might want to take Jaywooly with you tho, just in case the man who escaped from the mental asylum who has a hook for a hand is prowling outside...
Anyone else like horror movies here?
but when one is exposed to today's productions, it's easy to miss the quality some of these old films had. If you were to sit down and watch Night of the Living Dead in the correct frame of mind, you'd see that it is a better movie than you at first thought (though I will admit that it IS a dated production in this day and age), and that it also carries a subliminal social message about the interactions between the different social/racial "hierarchies" at the time. Psycho is another movie that looks rather old nowadays; however, remember that it set the trend for hundreds of horror movies that trod reverently in its wake. Wasn't that Norman Bates (a truly excellent portrayal by the late Anthony Perkins) a creepy bugger or what? It's easy to imagine that there are people out there exactly like that even today - a quiet demeanor hiding the monster inside. I like to think he was the evolutionary starting point that finally led to the creation of Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter (as portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, another really good horror thriller). "Hallo Clarice" never packed so much menace. Hey you still have got some movies on that list to go through before I give you another one.
Try watching them alone somewhere deserted for effect. Hehehe. You might want to take Jaywooly with you tho, just in case the man who escaped from the mental asylum who has a hook for a hand is prowling outside... Anyone else like horror movies here?
Great movie from the great visionary Kubrick. However, it suffered from terrible miscasting. The story is supposed to be about a man who descends slowly into madness, propelled by the mysterious evil forces of the hotel. Jack Nicholson, fresh from the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was pegged as a nutter from scene one, making the film lose a lot of its impact. Still a great movie with great camerawork and nail biting suspense however.
