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In Reply to: Your top 15 best " horror movies " here are mine-------- posted by patrickU on July 24, 2005 at 07:15:03:
Alien & Alien 3 (2 and 4 weren't horror movies)
Hellraiser
Jacob's Ladder
The ShiningI liked John Carpenter's The Thing, I thought there was some good drama between the characters trying to figure out who was infected.
2001 really freaked me out as a kid. The big black monolith and the wierd opera music was really creepy and strange. Might be why it's one of my favorite movies now :)
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
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I think Jacob's Ladder is among the best of this so-called genre, though I think it transcends it.I find myself laughing at the Shining more than being scared by it. That's not necessarily a criticism.
I liked Carpenter's The Thing. The special effects have dated some, but I like its business-like approach to plot and characterization, and I think it creates a great mood of paranoid tension. And we all knew there was something wrong with that Quaker Oats guy.
The appearance of the monolith in the opening sequence in 2001 is, I think, one of the weirdest most unnervingly disjunctive moments in all of film. I think classing 2001 a horror film is right on. I think much of its potency comes from exploiting the fear of the unknown. I think it is, in a lot of ways, an extended exercise in clauster- and agoraphobia.
The Remake actually followed the original story "who goes there" and was a better film than the original. The Re-make could have been so much better though if they spend more time developing the characters -- which is perhaps where the first film succeeds better.I would post my list but why Victor just dumps on everybody so I suggest taking all of your opinions and going to www.rottentomatoes.com and posting on their forums -- there are a number of REAL critics and memebers of the online film critics society where not just anyone is accepted. Plus you can avoid people like this on this site.
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