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Spout Group Post: Scary Movies

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:34:01 GMT

Post Subject: Scary Movies
Group Name: HORROR MOVIES 101
Last Post By: Dr_Gor
Post Date: 12/5/2009 8:34:01 PM
Body: Which horror movies are truly scary? What scared you? My friend Dana enjoys watching horror movies but she has yet to see one that actually scared her. She asked me for some suggestions. I told her that WE (HORROR MOVIES 101) would try to help her. Any suggestions from my fellow horrorphiles will be appreciated. My standard answer to this question is that The Exorcist (1973) is STILL the scariest movie ever made. But the fact is that horror movies are entirely subjective. What is scary to one person might be laughable to another. Also there is this... Even the scariest movie is only scary the first time. A scary movie tends to lose it's scare factor exponentially with each viewing. Here are a few that scared the crap out of me the first time I saw them... The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Night of the Living Dead (1968) The Haunting (1963/I) The Legend of Hell House (1973) Psycho (1960) Darkness Falls (2003) And a little movie about a killer chimp called Link (1986) ... No shit. This one scared the crap out of me on late night TV one night.... of course I was pretty stoned and tired at the time... So what are your thoughts? What scared YOU? < GOR >

Spout Group Post: True Horror

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:23:04 GMT

Post Subject: True Horror
Group Name: HORROR MOVIES 101
Last Post By: Dr_Gor
Post Date: 1/4/2009 11:23:04 PM
Body: It is time. Several people have asked me to share my true life paranormal experiences over the last couple of years. I have a few experiences to share so this might take some time... This discussion is open for all of you to contribute so if you have had a paranormal or "horror movie" situation happen to you I would like to hear about it! This does not have to be a ghost story! It can be an encounter with a Monster like Bigfoot or The Lochness Monster or a giant Black Leopard or with a psychopathic killer like Henry Lee Lucas or Jack the Ripper... Mine is a ghost story and I will share it with you now... Ms. June, Froggybabe, Robert, Chris, Rizzo, Puhnner and anybody else who is curious, this is for you... (my memory of exact dates or timeline might be a little fucked up due to several years of drug and alcohol abuse) ... In the early 1980's my family moved into a large house in the Lake Arbor community in northern Arvada Colorado. I moved in with them on the condition that I would rent the entire basement for $200 per month. The basement was divided lengthwise into two rooms. One room was my bedroom that had enough room for not only my bed but a couch and chairs and a table and a huge walk-in closet and a full size refrigerator/freezer AND my own bathroom! The other room was a large finnished living-room type room with a couple of big couches and chairs and a fireplace... I slept alone in this basement for more than a year with SOMETHING that was not of this world. My first encounter with this entity was in the form of a dream... or rather a nightmare. I had the scariest dream of my life about a tall guy with dark curly hair and thick black-rimmed glasses who was attacking me in that very house and wanted only to kill me. The next morning I told my Mom that I had just had the scariest dream of my life and she said "Stop! You are giving me goosebumps!" and I said "Why?" and she said because she had had the exact same dream! It was not long afterward when I saw the exact same guy standing in the middle of my bedroom when I was wide awake! I stood face to face with this "spook" not more than three feet away one night and I am convinced that I personally met a Demon... More to come... you asked for it... < GOR >

Spout Group Post: Halloween viewing... NOTLD

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:28:23 GMT

Post Subject: Halloween viewing... NOTLD
Group Name: HORROR MOVIES 101
Last Post By: Risselada
Post Date: 11/1/2009 9:28:23 PM
Body: Every Halloween I make it a point to watch at least a couple good horror films. This year, with the popularity of Paranormal Activity following on the heels of Blair Witch , I decided to go "old-school" with the original ultra-low-budget blockbuster that started them all. Night of the Living Dead (1968) was THE drive-in hit movie of it's day that set the standards for horror movies - and ZOMBIE movies - for years to come. I first saw this at the drive-in during it's initial release (my Dad took me) and I have seen it about 100 times since then. I have no less than 6 (!) DIFFERENT copies of this movie in my collection including TWO different colorized versions and the infamous "30th Anniversary Edition" that includes newly filmed added scenes. This year I watched the original version. What a great movie. I have memorized every scene and every line of dialogue and it never gets old! I followed this up with the 1990 remake directed by Tom Savini... Night of the Living Dead (1990) ... You all know how much I dislike remakes (usually), but in this case I actually liked the remake better! Let us say that it was at least as good as the original! Filmed in color (the original was filmed in black and white simply because they could not afford color film) and with better actors and crew and a bigger budget this was simply a better film! Much more action packed and intense than the original but with the same story line this is simply a better movie! There! I've said it! You can crucify me now... < GOR >

Spout Group Post: The Gorehouse

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:36:10 GMT

Post Subject: The Gorehouse
Group Name: HORROR MOVIES 101
Last Post By: Risselada
Post Date: 8/26/2009 10:36:10 PM
Body: My friend Phantsma-gore-ia (Robert) has decided to transfer the entire contents of his most excellent websight to our group here on SPOUT. I told him that I thought he was crazy but this is what he wants... I wish him all the luck and I am behind him 100% ...

Spout Group Post: Movie classes that I'll be taking in October

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:24:51 GMT

Post Subject: Movie classes that I'll be taking in October
Group Name: HORROR MOVIES 101
Last Post By: Risselada
Post Date: 9/19/2009 6:24:51 PM
Body: I just wanted to let you know that I am taking two different classes in October and half of November. One is called Schlock Cinema which is going back to watch B rated movies and discussing what was happening at that time in history for the movie to be made. The other class I am taking is American Horror Movie and how it corrilates to history. So I will be watching movies and also learning something on every Tuesday and Thursday night next month and part of November. Yes, I really didn't think it through when I signed up for both classes, but it just sounded like something I would really like, 2 times a week might be a little much, though. I will try to post what I watch and what I learned, someone might find it interesting.

Spout Group Post: The House of the Devil

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:56:16 GMT

Post Subject: The House of the Devil
Group Name: HORROR MOVIES 101
Last Post By: Dr_Gor
Post Date: 10/19/2009 9:56:16 PM
Body: Dr_Gor Blog - Movie reviews - Spout <<< 'nuff said.... < GOR >

Spout Group Post: Bigfoot / Sasquatch / Ape Man

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:33:17 GMT

Post Subject: Bigfoot / Sasquatch / Ape Man
Group Name: HORROR MOVIES 101
Last Post By: Dr_Gor
Post Date: 9/24/2009 11:33:17 AM
Body: So my girlfriend and I have this fascination with Bigfoot, thus I rented a compilation of Bigfoot themed films from Netflix. They were all really bad as we had expected, but had some amusing moments. Here's the rundown of what we saw: The Capture of Bigfoot - the first one on the DVD. This establishes a lot of common themes in you average Bigfoot movie. The villain of the film wants to kill or capture Bigfoot for his own noteriety and riches. The good guys of the film want Bigfoot to stay free. The authorities want the problem of Bigfoot killing people to be solved so that it doesn't scare away tourists (kind of a Jaws theme). There's a pointless party. And Bigfoot likes to attack couples who have sex in the woods. The only thing here you probably wouldn't see in any other Bigfoot movie is a sheriff who likes to do impressions of famous Hollywood actors for no aparent reason. There's a sweet snowmobile stunt, but also some horrible snowmobile work too. The most interesting thing was that it was filmed very close to where my girlfriend would go camping every year growing up in Wisconsin. You can hear a lot of the Wisconsin accents. Shriek of the Mutilated - The goriest, most famous, and most exciting of all of the movies on this disc, but it's still horrible. Horrible acting, filming, pacing, and editing. But some amusingly bad characters. And an amusing and unexpected piece of violence near the beginning of the film before we even see the beast. The ending is very strange and kind of a disappointment. Search for the Beast - The most recent of all of the films on this disc and also by far the worst. Actually probbly the worst movie I've ever seen. Apparently shot on VHS or some other horrible video media from the 90s. As bad as the other films on this disc were, this one was so bad I couldn't even believe it was paired with the rest. Again, having sex in the woods means Bigfoot will come for you to kill you and fuck you. But this is the fakest looking Bigfoot EVER. There are a lot of tropes in this film mentioned earlier as well. The acting is worse here than ever!! Also like Shriek of the Mutilated, the ending would have been a disappointment if I hadn't stopped caring after the first two minutes! I challenge you to watch this film all the way without considering it torture!! You are allowed to drink like I did though. Legend of Bigfoot - I was kind of worn out by the time we got to this one. This is presented as if it were a documentary but was clearly fake. Not really a horror movie either, although there are some times I think you are supposed to feel a little scared. Nothing would make sense if it weren't for the extensive and goofy narration. It was probably just made to capitalize on the topic (well actually that's proably the reason for all of these movies). So has anyone here seen any good Bigfoot movies that they would like to recommend?

Spout Group Post: Most disturbing, discomforting scene?

Sat, 05 May 2007 20:18:20 GMT

Post Subject: Most disturbing, discomforting scene?
Group Name: HORROR MOVIES 101
Last Post By: Dr_Gor
Post Date: 5/5/2007 4:18:20 PM
Body: Just that. In horror-dom, there seems to be this mandatory bravura, this stolid attitude of "that wasn't scary" or "that was lame." I believe, however, if you can find the chinks in this armor, you can pry the plates apart and find what really gets beneath someone's skin, what really scares them. Case in point: in Saw II, one of the most squirm-inducing sequences for a lot of viewers, despite the brutal violence and gushing gore was the infamous needle pit that Xavier so courteously treated Amanda to. A lot of people simply were taken to the edge by that scene, deeply affected. I, on the other hand, didn't bat an eyelash.Now, I get through horror in part because I know it's not real (save those tasteless Italians...) and that, moreover, I know how they do it. There is one thing - only one - that puts me in my place and makes me realize I'm not invulnerable to the horrors of Horror. An instance in Dead Men Walking speaks to this end and in fact lays out my feelings perfectly while also serving as a gruesome example:0:35:40. It’s time I come clean about something here: I can take just about bloody (ahem) anything in horror films, but I’ll have to face that when it comes to crap being puked up, thrown up, chucked up, what have you, my stomach starts to loosen and it takes will power to keep it down. Mostly I’m O.K., but if I already am sick (with flu, not a biotoxin) or I’ve just eaten a big meal, the case becomes stronger to stop from hurling myself. Now, on with the gore. The other two of the infected trio earlier barf blood all over their escorts while a third (and this is where it gets really disgusting) is foaming up with a pinkish mixture of some unholy slime that oozes down his face like lava from a science fair volcano. Eventually, everybody in the mess hall, as it were, is puking blood all over everyone else, the entire affair one absolutely stomach-turning episode of ungodly sickness. SR: SSSSS I have always been gastrointestinally uneasy and when I see notable scenes like the one I'm thinking about as the subject of this particular post, it leaves me a bit uneasy. It is in City of Living Dead and it is a spot that seared itself in my memory forever. Giallo and general Italian horror fans, based on what I've already said, will know exactly what it is, but for everyone's edification (or vile enjoyment) I'll reproduce here how I said it on my site:“THE BODY PURGING” 0:31:30. A girl’s eyes start to bleed…then it gets really sick. She starts to foam atthe mouth as if rabid, the foam quickly turning red and then into strange things: intestines – yards and yards of them – and then organs of several shapes, sizes and colors. In time, the girl vomits up her innards while the specter of the suicidal priest stares her down. After the body purging, a hand reaches into the boy’s hair and grabs out a chunk of his brains, leaving a grapefruit-sized hole. SR: ããããã That left me feeling ill, like I might be sick myself. That, I must say, is rare. In fact, it never happens. Nothing I have ever seen that does not involve projectile or otherwise unusual puking has prompted a physical reponse like this. A third and final moment in this vein (ahem) in my grim horror-watching career comes from Wishmaster 3:0:54:12. Don’t eat prior to watching this scene, I really mean it. Anne befriends the Djinn, tragically unaware of course of who he really is. She wished earlier to lose some weight. If you know anything about the series, it’s that the Djinn always grants wishes, but never in the manners intended. Anne indeed loses weight, a la City of the Living Dead. Her nose and areas around her mouth start to bleed, events that the Djinn describes as “a little liposuction.” As she starts to spit up a liquid, molten mixture of fat and blood, the Djinn goes on about how she always considered her stomach a problem area. In a few seconds that too is on the floor and the waxy substance she’d been spitting up for a while continues. As Diana steadfastly refuses to make her wishes, aware of the repercussions if she did, Anne continues to waste away, her entire body’s worth of fat shriveling up, her skin taking on a gruesome new complexion. Eventually the Djinn talks her into wishing for him to relieve her of the pain, naturally intending for the process to be reversed. Instantly, however, all her joints go limp and she’s D.O.A. SR: SSSSS So, now that I've come clean about what grosses me out, how 'bout you?