What is your favorite horror movie and why?

Boring thread, I know, but I think it makes sense to make it today.

You don't have to say why if you don't feel like it.

Mine is Dawn of the Dead (1978) because it's very entertaining, it has great likeable characters, it has some of the most memorable zombies of all time, it has a lot of great gore and the music is awesome. Also it offers everything you could possibly want from a movie: horror obviously, suspense, action, drama, comedy and even romance. I could watch it everyday and never get tired of it. Not only my favorite horror movie, also my favorite movie of any genre. 10/10

Sharon Mitchell (WIP)

Sorry, that's Work In Progress, not Sharon Mitchell with a whip.

8x10, mechanical pencil, 15 hours in. I'm having to do repair work, my original attmempt at capturing the look of black leather made it look more like a pea coat. I can do about two to three hours at a time before getting an eye strain headache.

Christian horror movies

A lot of the old stories about werewolves, vampires, ghosts, etc, have some kind of supernatural element, obviously. Often, the way to fight the evil monsters lies in some kind of Christian symbol, like a cross, or maybe a pre-Christian symbol that has been co-opted by Christianity, like... OK, nothings coming to mind, but I'm sure we can think of a few kajillion examples.

Anyway, in modern times, there are plenty of horror movies and franchises that have moved away from explicitly Christian ways of fighting the monsters, or they have somehow de-Christianized the Christian symbols... even in the original Fright Night, they do fight Jerry with a cross, but if you watch carefully it's more like the vampire killers have faith in themselves than in Jesus. I don't think they even mention Jesus... Peter Vincent can only fight Jerry with the cross after he has faith in HIMSELF, having succeeded in battle against Evil Ed. It's not really religious at all, it's just a weapon that only has power if you believe in yourself. I think pre-vamped out Evil Ed says to Charlie at one point "You must have total faith in it for it to work," referring to the cross... thats not exactly the same as having faith in yourself, but it's not explicitly about Jesus either.

But, of course, this is a much larger topic than Fright Night. What comes to mind, for examples of modern horror movies that are overtly Christian? I personally think that this could be a pretty disturbing trend, if it started really taking off in a big way, because it could be linked to a broader cultural shift toward a more medieval way of thinking, which, of course, we see all around us, in many ways.

Soooooo anyway, any thoughts on this?

Making 50 Shades sexy again!

Got my tickets for TX Frightmare Weekend 2017

Me and my DerTables will be going on Saturday, May 6th.

Here's the guest list:
https://www.texasfrightmareweekend.com/guests/


I definitely want to meet Argento, Henenlotter, maybe Claudio Simonetti (Goblin), Michael Berryman, Debi Sue Voorhees, Michael Pare, and Ted Raimi.

Body Melt

This movie was wack. It reminded me a little of Street Trash. I welcome any comments or opinions... because of shit going on in my personal life I'm having a hard time focusing, so I probably missed some of the goodness, but enjoyed what I absorbed.



This was probably my last view for the Trash Challenge... thanks for starting the challenge Troma! 🤮
...and I just put in notice at my job. Good grief. 🥴

Blatant EVIL DEAD Rip-offs

I'm reviving this thread from the horror board. I suppose the main ingredients are the isolated setting (usually a cabin), and surviving the horde of undead or possessed people.

Night of the Demons (1988) https://trashepics.com/forum/724/
Things (1989) https://trashepics.com/forum/17/
Demon Wind (1990) https://trashepics.com/forum/2225/
Dead Snow (2009) https://trashepics.com/forum/1414/
Wither (2012) https://trashepics.com/forum/1322/

Less Blatant rip-offs, though heavily inspired by it:

Cabin Fever (2003) https://trashepics.com/forum/966/
Evil Dead Inbred Rednecks (2012) https://trashepics.com/forum/519/
Zombeavers (2014) https://trashepics.com/forum/1490/
Deathgasm (2015) https://trashepics.com/forum/1611/


While I've never seen it, I hear that evil dead itself was a rip-off of Equinox (1970) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067055/ , featuring a forest, monsters, and the necronomicon.

USA UP ALL NITE

Are you guys old enough to remember some of this shit?

I have seen tons of Bad Horror/Exploitation/Sexploitaion/Women in Prison.

A question...

Is there a feminine equivalent to the "macho hell" subgenre of cinema? That is, films like Deliverance, Joe (!970), Southern Comfort, Wolf Lake, Shoot! or La Traque, where "tough" guys get in bad situations and turn them progressively, violently worse through constitutional inability to just back down or be reasonable.

How eclectic is your music taste?

I'm not terribly open-minded when it comes to music. I tend to stay within a range of decades I know and trust, and while it can encompass a lot in itself, I tend to stick with classic rock.

I guess I'm not so into music of these days because I don't have the ear for it yet. I'm kind of primitive when it comes to trends and stuff. I only get to this stuff about ten years down the line, when nobody cares about it anymore. I think a lot of my dislike is how overproduced some of it can get. You couldn't go into a garage and reproduce it without electricity. Music today is too dependent on it, I think, but I digress...

Like I said, I go for the the stuff I know and trust to be good. I don't know... there's just something about songs by actual talented groups that makes their replay value never fade away. Plus, classic rock is great to zone out to when you're high, because that was encouraged for these groups.

Nowadays, kids don't even know how to get the most out of their marijuana, and don't even know how to get high properly. Damn whipper-snappers!

I was listening to The Doors a minute ago, and I had an idea where I was going with this post, but I lost it. It... is... gone. I'm trying to get back into a music habit and write some new songs, hopefully for new videos. I've been slacking this year...