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Basebf555 posted:If I'm really going to be honest about my top ten then I have to include three Carpenters, which does limit the other choices somewhat. But hey, Carpenter is the GOAT so it makes sense. Are you me? Am I you? We only diverge on a few of these and mainly because they're ones I haven't seen. 
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Basebf555 posted:I feel like the "heavy on the metaphorical" comment was really just an interviewer getting flustered and not really knowing how to explain it. I'm pretty sure most people understand that metaphor has always been and always will be a key element of what horror is as a genre. Nobody thinks A24 invented metaphor in horror. Definitely not. But I do think there’s (a) the basic human thing we do where we didn’t pick up the depth of stuff we grew up with so now we just have a bunch of nostalgia for back when things weren’t so complicated and heavy… or we just didn’t notice. And (b) some of the usual horror tribalism and jockeying for position where a bunch of people get all worked up on what’s their favorite kind of horror and why it’s not as popular as the other stuff they don’t like. So I think “elevated horror” has become something for non horror fans to rationalize the horror films they like but also for horror fans to then reject those “fad” films and non fans muddying everything up.
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STAC Goat posted:Definitely not. But I do think there’s (a) the basic human thing we do where we didn’t pick up the depth of stuff we grew up with so now we just have a bunch of nostalgia for back when things weren’t so complicated and heavy… or we just didn’t notice. And (b) some of the usual horror tribalism and jockeying for position where a bunch of people get all worked up on what’s their favorite kind of horror and why it’s not as popular as the other stuff they don’t like. I'll NOT have anything so gauche in my horror such as hockey masks and chainsaw wielding! 
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The only elevated horror that should exist is the film Hellavator. I don't even know if thats a real thing but it should be.
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Hollismason posted:The only elevated horror that should exist is the film Hellavator. I don't even know if thats a real thing but it should be. 2005 Japanese movie, used to have it on DVD lol Hellevator: The Bottled Fools to be exact
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MacheteZombie posted:2005 Japanese movie, used to have it on DVD lol I knew when I typed it out that it probably really did exist.
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Off the top of my head and In no particular order (except for thing being on top) The Thing ‘82 Suspiria (you decide. Love ‘em both) The Blair witch project Halloween Alien Midsommar Jacob’s Ladder Masque of the Red death Hausu Dawn of the dead 78
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I like seeing so many people dug Blair Witch that much. For some reason I thought it got slagged a lot. It scared the absolute poo poo out of me, and it still makes me do 'what if' when I'm camping and hear a rustling outside the tent.
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I think Blair Witch gets a bit of the Seinfeld Syndrome, it invented so many of the cliches, people watching it now after seeing all those modern found footage movies just see it as bland. Which is a loving shame, because Blair Witch is still incredible.
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Seeing the The Blair Witch Project as a kid in 1998 is also such a unique experience, a mixed media success that can probably never be captured again at the same scale, arriving at the exact right time in the internet's development. There's just never going to be a horror movie again that actually pulls off the magic trick of at least feeling like it's real if not actually convincing the audience it's real. The fact that it also had such restraint for stuff like the time travel aspect also really helped it be this living film you could build theories off of and discuss. I totally get people who didn't have that experience not ranking it as highly. Like I said, I think its ranking is more as a multimedia art piece than a singular film.
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Hollismason posted:The only elevated horror that should exist is the film Hellavator. I don't even know if thats a real thing but it should be. There was a movie but Hellevator was also the name of a short-lived horror-themed game show hosted by the Soska sisters
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You know, in hindsight maybe I shoulda went with The Shining instead of Sleepaway Camp for my top ten but, you know, gently caress it. It's "your favorite", not "the best", and I find myself thinking about Sleepaway Camp way more often than The Shining.
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Seeing the Blair Witch in a crowded theater on opening weekend with half the audience believing it was real is still the greatest theater going experience of my life. I went with my cousin who 100% thought it was real. Then at the end of the movie when he is turned back against the wall and the credits roll someone jumped up from the front row in a ghost mask and ran screaming through the theater. People lost their loving minds. Like screaming yelling, people fleeing, my cousin flipped out. It was amazing. Just hands down GOAT of theater experiences.
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Zwabu posted:Are you me? Am I you? We only diverge on a few of these and mainly because they're ones I haven't seen. The Millhouse gif is probably appropriate because I think part of it is that we just have kinda standard, "boring" taste. Is From Beyond one you haven't seen? If so just admit it so we can make sure that gets fixed.
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Hollismason posted:Seeing the Blair Witch in a crowded theater on opening weekend with half the audience believing it was real is still the greatest theater going experience of my life. I went with my cousin who 100% thought it was real. Then at the end of the movie when he is turned back against the wall and the credits roll someone jumped up from the front row in a ghost mask and ran screaming through the theater. People lost their loving minds. Like screaming yelling, people fleeing, my cousin flipped out. It was amazing. Even going to look online wasn't like it would be now. I remember going to the website after everyone had gone to bed and there'd be the backhistory clips that you had to wait for it to download and were just at that right quality to open the possibility this could be real. In a way it makes me sad that you really can't experience that degree of 'is it/isn't it' anymore.
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M_Sinistrari posted:Even going to look online wasn't like it would be now. I remember going to the website after everyone had gone to bed and there'd be the backhistory clips that you had to wait for it to download and were just at that right quality to open the possibility this could be real. Yeah and then you had news channel perpetuating that it was a real film and you had the scifi do that documentary about it that was a real film. People legit thought it was real. I mean Blair Witch was really a case of lighting in a bottle.
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Aw man, Blood Quantum/Rhymes for Young Girls director Jeff Barnaby died of cancer at 46. So heartbroken right now. RIP
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Chucky once again continues to be a home run tv series 
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Medullah posted:
You probably already know this but your friend is an idiot.
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I am absolutely no Horror film buff, but I am surprised by pretty much all the lists being very famous films I've seen or know about. I expected there to be lots of Japanese, Korean, Italian, or Spanish things I've never heard of.
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The classics are classic for a reason
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Famous horror movies are famous for a reason. No use being contrarian and hipster, we're all down in the same trenches here.
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To be fair though, this is probably one of the few corners of the internet that will as consistently go up to bat for Child's Play 2 being one of the greatest slashers of all time.
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Did anyone ever read the Koji Suzuki Ring trilogy, the three books that the original j-horror movies were based on? I found them very entertaining and completely insane, especially the last one. They are called Ring, Spiral and Loop. There's also a decent graphic novel that became a third movie called Ring 0: Birthday that's basically a manga about Sadako Yamamura's life before being murdered and thrown in a well to die.
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Demons 2 is also elevated horror because it takes place in a high rise
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If calling something elevated horror gets idiots into the best genre I’ll take it
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I still think Blair Witch is a drat scary film as long as you don’t have a thing against found footage. It’s one of my go to films to pull out the with mixed crowds of non horror fans who want a good scary horror night and it never fails. Yeah there’s no duplicating that unique moment in time when “arg” wasn’t a word and the internet and technology was just advanced enough to spread disinformation and confusion fast and effectively… wait… maybe it’s not that different. But yeah. That was a weird one because I can specifically remember the moment I was 100% sure it was a movie was seeing Heather Donahue on some morning talk show. It was a time.
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Top 10, no particular order: The Fly (1986) Killer Klowns from Outer Space Tetsuo: the Iron Man Lo Bubba Ho-tep Hellraiser (1987) The Evil Dead (1981) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Lake Mungo Poltergeist (1982)
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Elevated horror: Should've taken the stairs
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My personal Top 10, no particular order: Jaws Alien Aliens Predator The Thing (1982) Evil Dead 2 Child's Play 2 Freddy vs. Jason Re-Animator Day of the Dead Honorable mentions: Candyman (1992), Terminator 1, Doctor Sleep, Halloween 2018, Prince of Darkness, Gojira, Killer Klowns from Outer Space
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NikkolasKing posted:Japanese Good call, gonna add House to mine
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Personal top 10: The lighthouse The wicker man Dawn if the dead 78 Day of the dead Might of the living dead Return of the living dead The shining The thing Suspiria Halloween 3
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CelticPredator posted:If calling something elevated horror gets idiots into the best genre I’ll take it 
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The Thing Scream Jaws Halloween Return of the Living Dead Alien Fright Night (OG) Hellraiser (OG) The Shining Candyman (OG) Honorable mentions: Nightmare on Elm St, Child’s Play 2, Bride of Frankenstein, The Blob ‘88
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no order Rejects AUM Abominable Dr. Phibes New York Ripper Saw II Ho1k AGP: The Song of Solomon Les Yeux Sans Visages Eaten Alive Re-Animator
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https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1580608210402103296?s=46&t=HM0aOuzIVehdJgd41q0XtA I fuckin love horror films
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all horror is good horror. but not the munsters
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Is there a poll where we can input our ten favorite horrors so we can analyze results? I’m curious to know the ones that are listed the most (although I can sort of get the picture on a couple of films from reading posts here)
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Halloween Ends available to stream on Peacock in a little over an hour (8PM Eastern) apparently https://twitter.com/FreddyInSpace/status/1580654904955531264
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Chris James 2 posted:Halloween Ends available to stream on Peacock in a little over an hour (8PM Eastern) apparently Nice
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