Comments on: Horror Roundtable - Week Forty-Seven

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:23:54 +0000

Intriguing answers. This was sort of a hard question because there are so many films that divide people, particularly anything contemporary — take all the negative responses to Haute Tension, for example.
Subjective nature of the beast; people that I know who were raised Catholic respond much better to The Exorcist than non-Catholics, and ditto for Halloween and growing up in the suburbs or Blair Witch and having camped in the woods, I believe.
I’ve gone camping a lot, sleeping outside in a tent at night, and I really felt the characters’ fear of being lost, cold and hearing strange noises. It’s just one reason I think Blair Witch is one of the greatest modern horror films.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 19 May 2007 03:27:21 +0000

There are some interesting answers… and it’s always good to see I’m not alone in my disappointment at The Exorcist, as well as the multiple mentions of Haute Tension, a sharply directed version of one of the worst horror scripts this side of a direct-to-video company.

What’s disappointing about the list is how few raise my hackels to complain about, even the ones I basically enjoyed.

Oddly, the only one I’m tempted to start a fight over is “Jenifer”, which I think I love even more than most of its other defenders.

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By: evanpeterson

evanpeterson — Sat, 19 May 2007 06:37:47 +0000

I have to chime in with those others who mentioned the Exorcist. It’s the one movie that has consistently bored me rather than scared me. I’ll watch it when I’m having trouble sleeping.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 19 May 2007 09:31:14 +0000

April Fool’s Day, first off. It wasn’t even all that scary, but the ‘twist’ ending ensured I would forever hate it. Also, Saw was so terrible in so many ways-hammy acting, noticeably cheap production values, the worst ‘car chase’ I’ve ever seen, and a downright stupid script-that I still want my $10 back.

And I have to third Halloween. Not that I think it’s bad-but I saw so many of its imitators before I saw it, that it’s hard not to knock it down a peg or two as a result.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:19:06 +0000

Totally agreed on High Tension and Saw. Garbage. But the one I most agreed with was The Ring. The original was very good. The remake was dogshit. I had a friend who said she couldn’t sleep for two nights after seeing that movie and when I saw it with a friend we were the only ones there (so it probably should have enhanced the scary) but… yeah. Boring. I fell asleep at the cinema during the second one (I was tired, but nevertheless, I’ve only ever fallen asleep at the movies three times and that was one of them)

I’d throw Miike’s Audition as my most hated. Hate it. HATE. The first 3/4s are so utterly boring and then the final quarter is just irritatingly violent. Like, not the good way.

And while I really like Halloween, I too saw it after I’d seen all the immitators so I knew what was going to happen and such. Diluted it for me. But it still shits on most movies of the genre.

By: ppiper

ppiper — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:24:51 +0000

Saw didn’t do it for me at all.

And never understood why everyone seemed to go for Cabin Fever.

By: Crazy Ivan

Crazy Ivan — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:00:47 +0000

I’m sorry, but The Sixth Sense didn’t do it for me at all (in fact most of M. Night Shyamalan’s stuff is borderline scary at best). Everyone said how mind blowing the end was, but I had the premise figured out about 15-20 minutes into the movie. In my opinion, Jacob’s Ladder with Tim Robbins did a much better job in the “Oh, he’s dead… I get it know” endings.

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