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Peeping Tom
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Classic Horror Movies

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so i was discussing movies with an artfag colleague and he told me movies today aare not traditional horror movies but instead pyschological thrillers

anyway i called him a fag and asked him what movies fall under his category and he gave me a batch of movies to watch

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Frankenstein
Nosferatu
Cat People
The Thing
Psycho
Night of the Living Dead\


now whats makes these movies so special to art fags and technical geeks?

someboidy let me know
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well they are all the classic original horror films.
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Post by StormShadow »

I'm not even sure what your art-fag's talking about.

He's got movies from the silent era going up to 1968. I'm guessing those are just horror movies that your friend likes. There's not really any kind of thread connecting them that I can see.
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dawn of the dead
cannibal holocaust
the hills have eyes
the beyond
texas chainsaw massacre
last house on the left
zombie
suspiria
the wicker man (i classify it as horror)
hellraiser I & II
dead alive (better yet, brain dead)
bad taste
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I just watched this HBO short in this class on horror im taking, but I forgot the name. It was based on a H.P. Lovecraft story. The kid rents a room and gets posessed into sacrificing the baby next door by this witch who can travel through dimenisonal planes.

It was pretty damn cool.
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reevolution wrote:dead alive (better yet, brain dead)
haha ive seen this, shits grimey, babies in blenders, shredding zombies with lawnmowers, and spine ripping. Appartently it was directed by peter jackson.
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ChristPuncher wrote:I just watched this HBO short in this class on horror im taking, but I forgot the name. It was based on a H.P. Lovecraft story. The kid rents a room and gets posessed into sacrificing the baby next door by this witch who can travel through dimenisonal planes.

It was pretty damn cool.
speaking of H.P. Lovecraft...

i can't believe i forgot:
Re-Animator
Bride of Re-Animator
Beyond Re-Animator

altho a lot of people will argue that the last two weren't all that... i fucking loved them.
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ROSEMARYS baby is CRAZY SCARY.
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Re: Classic Horror Movies

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Peeping Tom wrote:so i was discussing movies with an artfag colleague and he told me movies today aare not traditional horror movies but instead pyschological thrillers

anyway i called him a fag and asked him what movies fall under his category and he gave me a batch of movies to watch

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Frankenstein
Nosferatu
Cat People
The Thing
Psycho
Night of the Living Dead\


now whats makes these movies so special to art fags and technical geeks?

someboidy let me know
your collegue is a douchebag. psycho is the epitomy of psychological horror, caligari is surrealist, night of the living dead is gore, etc

like shadow said, all these have no common thread except being good movies, which they all are

recommend you kick him in the groin asap, hard
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Post by Reggie »

StormShadow wrote:I'm not even sure what your art-fag's talking about.

He's got movies from the silent era going up to 1968. I'm guessing those are just horror movies that your friend likes. There's not really any kind of thread connecting them that I can see.
Well, all the movies have titles.

Bucket of Blood
Bloodsucking Freaks
Last House on the Left

I like more psychological thrillers though, personally. And how is Nosferatu not a psychological thriller? It sure isn't a gore film.

NOTE: Last House on the Left also has psychologically thrilling elements.
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Post by blessingindisguise »

Suspiria and Last house on the left are overrated as fuck. Psycho on the other hand is rated just fine.
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Post by Peeping Tom »

yeah i watched these and besides psycho and land of the dead they all suck

horror movies of the past, because they are dated tend to be more comedic in nature...maybe the audiences fears are also set into a historical context thus new generations can laugh at it just as they would laugh at nuclear bomb duck and cover video's.

they all address issues of the time and while some of those issues exist today they are more accessible and as the mystery beind them fades so to does the horror impact

basically they all blew, cat people blew the worst.
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