Any Saw Fans?

[TequilaClock]

^ and if I were to just make  money i would work in something like the food industry.

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

The last good horror movie I saw was The Mist. I'm not a huge fan of mindless slasher horror movies for the most part. The twist at the end of it was bullshit though, I wish they'd kept it like the book like they did with the rest of the movie.

One thing I've always loved about the Saw movies is the soundtrack, that's about it.

Yeah the soundtracks tend to have decent industrial music in them.

[VuBawlsClock]

The last good horror movie I saw was The Mist. I'm not a huge fan of mindless slasher horror movies for the most part. The twist at the end of it was bullshit though, I wish they'd kept it like the book like they did with the rest of the movie.



Yeah the soundtracks tend to have decent industrial music in them.

Best movie ending ever

[Thunderbolt]

Saw 1 was orginal (for an American movie)
Saw 2 was nice
Saw 3 was ok
Saw 4 and all the other parts sucked fucking balls

Best movie ending ever

You didn't even see it

[EtchASketchClock]

The twist at the end of it was bullshit though,

Isn't The Mist the one where The survivors decide to kill themselves and they run out of bullets for the last guy, and then he gets rescued shortly after?
Yeah, that was pretty shitty.

[VuBawlsClock]

Oh yes, I did. I dont have satellite when I get a dvd, I watch it about 20 times. Man kills his kid, ladie friend, and 2 old people. Army comes. Cue laughter


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[Thunderbolt]

The Shining is one of the only good horror movies because it's not stupid

HERE'S JOHNNY

[Nightmare Clock]

Saw 1 was orginal (for an American movie)
Saw 2 was nice
Saw 3 was ok
Saw 4 and all the other parts sucked fucking balls

I'm agreeing with this one.

Also, I love how technology is advancing so that now while we drag out horror movie franchises for far too long, we can also do it in THREEEEEE DEEEEEEEEEEEEE

that shit gives me a headache. Like the movie doesn't do a good enough job.

[RobClock]

Anybody else think that by having the horror films go into 3D recently the genre is taking steps backwards?

[Slurpee]

Anybody else think that by having the horror films go into 3D recently the genre is taking steps backwards?

uh yeah but not just because they used to do it in the past.

horror in film is a matter of making your audience feel fear even though they're not in any real danger (films that borrow the genre's aesthetics to ends other than fear, like the Coppola Dracula, Repo!, Twilight, or Bubba Ho-Tep, of course, Do Not Count).

good horror films use intelligent cinematic techniques to absorb audiences in similar ways to how other good cinema does, to different ends. good horror is Rosemary's Baby, maybe Suspiria, the original Halloween, I guess Poltergeist and the Exorcist, maybe the Sixth Sense... I don't know, they're kind of hard to come by. The Ring, The Blair Witch Project, and the original Saw actually had the bizarre effect of having such an infectious premise and being so confusing as to the nature of the situation that the cheap stuff actually gets under your skin, which doesn't really count I don't think, but it's pretty cool.
bad horror films, generally speaking, go for the cheap stuff- jump scares, imposing threats, blood and guts, endangering children- The Hills Have Eyes, and Pulse, and One Missed Call, and Cry Wolf and Black Christmas and... I don't know. The Hitcher. most scary movies- you see what I'm saying.

it's all more nuanced than this, but what I'm trying to say is horror movies are supposed to scare you in ways other than shouting boo or telling you a bowl of skinned grapes is actually eyeballs.

3d doesn't contribute cinematographically in any spectacular way- it's more of the cheap stuff. the chainsaw is in the audience's face, so they get an immediate, visceral reaction: fear of a fucking chainsaw in their face. it contributes and borrows nothing from the art of cinema- it's pure schlock- a technological crutch. you could probably scare your audience by electrically stimulating their amygdala, too, but that doesn't make your movie a fulfilling experience. 3d advances horror films in the wrong direction.

the question you have to ask yourself is if you're gonna wait around for another Alien or Les Diaboliques, or if you can just be satisfied with Quarantine and The Strangers. horror is a slum genre, like romantic comedy. the type of place where if the cheap stuff works on the right people in the right circles, stuff like Wolf Creek and 50 First Dates get hailed as good genre movies, when they're actually piles of shit. if you're a fan of the genre you have to wade through cinematic feces for years before somebody like Sam Raimi or Tomas Alfredson throws you a fucking bone, let far and alone a Real Motherfucking Movie like The Shining, so you kind of have to learn to enjoy the rest of it for what it is.

[Slurpee]

look at me.


posting in a saw thread.

damn.

[Thunderbolt]

are you trying to say that that line's stupid or something

No sry, that's the first thing that comes up to me when someone talks about The Shining.

[RobClock]

uh yeah but not just because they used to do it in the past.

I didn't mean it like that. I was attempting to imply, using those old slashers as examples, how 3D horror films suck ass because they're too concentrated on "the chainsaw is in the audience's face, so they get an immediate, visceral reaction: fear of a fucking chainsaw in their face" stuff.

Of course that's assuming that the person reading is immediately familiar with the films used for examples, so perhaps i should have elaborated further than one single sentence.

[Slurpee]

ok

[Silly Putty Clock]

Jaws 3D
Jsaw 3D
Saw J 3D
Saw 7 3D

[RobClock]

Jaws 3D
Jsaw 3D
Saw J 3D
Saw 7 3D

So what you're saying is that Saw 7 will be the worst movie made since 1983?

[peyoteclock]

the shining is an amazing piece of work, the sheer amount of effort kubrick put into the overlook is ridiculous, it just doesnt make sense and it's very disorienting, rooms that are in the middle of the hotel have windows, alot of shots are filmed through mirrors, the carpets are spaced gradually closer and closer to each other to induce tension through sound as danny rolls his big wheel over them, the film itself is a metaphor for the treatment of minorities, the entire paranormal aspect of the building itself shining, it's a goddamn masterpiece and probably the absolute greatest horror film of all time.

[AC Slater]

the shining is an amazing piece of work, the sheer amount of effort kubrick put into the overlook is ridiculous, it just doesnt make sense and it's very disorienting, rooms that are in the middle of the hotel have windows, alot of shots are filmed through mirrors, the carpets are spaced gradually closer and closer to each other to induce tension through sound as danny rolls his big wheel over them, the film itself is a metaphor for the treatment of minorities, the entire paranormal aspect of the building itself shining, it's a goddamn masterpiece and probably the absolute greatest horror film of all time.

I couldn't have said it better myself. It's been one of the only horror movies to actually make me feel a bit uneasy. One thing that was kind of a bother though was the whole Tony/finger thing. But that's minor.