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Postby GhostontheNet » Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:14 pm

the_wolfs_howl (post: 1401562) wrote:For those who are much more well-versed in horror movies than I am, I have a request. What are some good movies that focus on a slow buildup of dread, using things other than bloody monsters jumping out at you to convey the terror, like distant sounds or slight movements at the edge of the screen? Basically, movies in the vein of Signs or The Birds or something like that? (And preferably with as little gore and sexual material as possible.)
Umm, most commentators I've seen for The Birds agree there's some kind of sexual repression/displacement going on, but I understand what you mean. Some personal favorites of mine (not counting the luscious corn syrup bloodbaths of Tim Burton, Dario Argento, and George A. Romero) are:

Nosferatu the Vampyre directed by Werner Herzog.
Let the Right One In directed by Tomas Alfredson.
The Ring directed by Gore Verbinski.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes directed by Robert Feust.
May directed by Lucky McKee.
Trick 'r Treat directed by Michael Dougherty.
Ginger Snaps directed by John Fawcett.

Of this whole list, Ginger Snaps comes closest to violating the constraints here imposed, but the horror actually develops out of relationships, and it is a very important film, not least in relation to earlier horror texts. What each of these films have in common are certain links to old-school horror (apr. 1920-1967), especially in regard to the pathos of the monster as a tragic hero. The type of horror you mention is the favored approach of this older period, and a good look through the Universal Monsters collections, films produced by Val Lewton, and things like the 50 Horror Movie pack you'll find sometimes will give you plenty to work with.
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Fri Jul 02, 2010 9:52 pm

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Postby Scarecrow » Sat Jul 03, 2010 3:57 am

Someone was looking for a good Horror movie recommendation?

Trick R Treat is pretty good. It's probably the most recent horror movie that I really liked. It's a straight up, pure Halloween movie. The atmosphere is great and I thought the part with the four kids going to look for the old school bus in the marsh/swamp/whatever was pretty tense. Really good Horror movie IMO, really recommend it. Has quite a bit of black humor as well which is always kind of a plus IMO. Here's a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jh0DwJZjz8

As for my favorite horror movies of all time:

Alien
The Terminator (yes this was more of a horror movie than an action thriller IMO)
Scream (1, 2 and 3.. 1 is the best but all are fun to watch)
Halloween (old one)
The Fog (old one)
The Fly (Jeff Goldblum version. I don't know if that's a horror movie perse but it freaked the crap out of me when I was little)
Sleepy Hollow
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Zombieland (if that counts :D)
Trick r Treat
Interview with the Vampire
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Postby the_wolfs_howl » Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:09 am

Thanks to everyone who recommended movies for me! :grin: Guess I'll have plenty to watch on Halloween this year...or for the next ten years.... XD
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Postby Okami » Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:05 am

I saw The Ring when I was a little too young....it scared the crap out of me and I was television-paranoid for some time afterwards. And what's the one with the Tooth Fairy? I believe that was my first-ever horror film. But the name escapes me.... :)

For personal convictions, I prefer not to watch horror movies anymore, though...especially after Hostel, that one put me over the edge. Don't think I've seen a horror movie since, and it's been about three or four years now.
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Postby Atria35 » Sat Jul 03, 2010 7:38 am

Okami (post: 1406278) wrote:For personal convictions, I prefer not to watch horror movies anymore, though...especially after Hostel, that one put me over the edge. Don't think I've seen a horror movie since, and it's been about three or four years now.
Oh, man. I have a friend and her father, and they thrive on horror films, and Hostel made them queasy. That is the one horror movie that really shouldn't have been made.
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Postby Wolf-man » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:17 am

Okami (post: 1406278) wrote:I saw The Ring when I was a little too young....it scared the crap out of me and I was television-paranoid for some time afterwards. And what's the one with the Tooth Fairy? I believe that was my first-ever horror film. But the name escapes me.... :)

For personal convictions, I prefer not to watch horror movies anymore, though...especially after Hostel, that one put me over the edge. Don't think I've seen a horror movie since, and it's been about three or four years now.


I believe the film your thinking of is Darkness Falls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9It5X5qtcA

I totally understand and respect the personal convictions thing. There are many Horror films I will not watch because of my personal convictions. Hostel is definitely one of them. I have a line I won't cross and that film not only crosses my line but runs about 100 miles past it. I know Grubb hates this term but I believe that "torture porn" fits appropriately with Hostel.
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Postby Okami » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:29 am

Atria35 (post: 1406280) wrote:Oh, man. I have a friend and her father, and they thrive on horror films, and Hostel made them queasy. That is the one horror movie that really shouldn't have been made.


Yeah, I had to step out eventually, because it was just too much.

Wolf-man (post: 1406289) wrote:I believe the film your thinking of is Darkness Falls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9It5X5qtcA

I totally understand and respect the personal convictions thing. There are many Horror films I will not watch because of my personal convictions. Hostel is definitely one of them. I have a line I won't cross and that film not only crosses my line but runs about 100 miles past it. I know Grubb hates this term but I believe that "torture porn" fits appropriately with Hostel.


Yeah, Darkness Falls. That is the one I was thinking of. I knew it was something like that, but didn't want to say anything in case I was wrong. ;)

I agree that "torture porn" definately fits appropriately...ugh, I mean, at the time I was struggling with that stuff anyways, but that was over the top for even my addiction. Looking back, I can't believe my parents would have allowed me to watch it at all. Or didn't make me leave the room ten minutes in or something. I think they were thinking "Aw, it'll get better soon......maybe in a few minutes.....it's got to get better soon......" and that was about when I stepped out because I couldn't handle the gore. (I've never done well with gore)

And when they made the second, I was like "WHOA, seriously?!" Obviously one I avoided after not being able to handle the first. /rant
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Postby Wolf-man » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:51 am

Okami (post: 1406291) wrote:And when they made the second, I was like "WHOA, seriously?!" Obviously one I avoided after not being able to handle the first. /rant


Yeah...the third one is going to start filming soon. Just shows where the minds of the world are.
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Postby Atria35 » Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:55 am

Wolf-man (post: 1406300) wrote:Yeah...the third one is going to start filming soon. Just shows where the minds of the world are.


That's not a fair statement to make. Hostel is really a cult movie- it just gets a lot of press because of how disturbing it is. The vast majority of people either don't care or have issues with it because of the violence.
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Postby SnoringFrog » Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:18 am

I haven't seen many horror movies, for the combined reasons of most of them coming across as comical to me (when they're not supposed to be) and for content reasons, because I always have to be wary of R rated movies for the greater amount of sexual content they can use, and it seems like the majority of horror movies get that rating (also, the private high school I attended didn't allow us to watch anything rated R, which immediately knocked out most horror movies). So now I'm looking for some recommendations. Violence and gore I'm pretty much ok with across the board, but I'd prefer very little to no sexual content, and, if possible, less profanity's always a plus, but I'm willing to look past most of it.
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Postby Atria35 » Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:31 am

SnoringFrog (post: 1406320) wrote:So now I'm looking for some recommendations. Violence and gore I'm pretty much ok with across the board, but I'd prefer very little to no sexual content, and, if possible, less profanity's always a plus, but I'm willing to look past most of it.


Well, there's always Hitchcock- Rebecca, Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, Lifeboat, North by Northwest....

Stephen King has a few films out as well, and some made-for-tv shows- Kingdom Hospital and Rose Red are my favorites of the made-for-tv ones, and one called Haven (based on The Colorado Kid) is coming out on the sci-fi channel soon- since Haven isn't out yet, I don't know what the content is like. And then there's always The Shining (brief sexual content, but that is very, very brief and quickly turns into nightmare fuel).
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Postby Wolf-man » Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:05 am

Atria35 (post: 1406306) wrote:That's not a fair statement to make. Hostel is really a cult movie- it just gets a lot of press because of how disturbing it is. The vast majority of people either don't care or have issues with it because of the violence.


Expect the majority of society has no problem with graphic sex, profanity, and violence. Think about it. If a movie like Hostel is known for being really disturbing and people don't want to see that]So now I'm looking for some recommendations. Violence and gore I'm pretty much ok with across the board, but I'd prefer very little to no sexual content, and, if possible, less profanity's always a plus, but I'm willing to look past most of it.[/QUOTE]

Ok lets see...I would say Night of the Living Dead but I remembered that it has a couple nude shots. I agree with Atria, Hitchcock is always good. The classics are great (if you haven't already seen them that is). I'm sure you probably have seen these but still...Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf-man, etc...

Infection is really good. It's J-Horror and has no sex/nudity and very little language.
The Fog (original) This has no nudity in it and has some but not too much language.
John Carpenter's The Thing - I would be cautious with this one. Whereas it does not have any sex/nudity it does have quite a bit of language.

That's all I can think of right off the top of my head. If I think of others I will tell you.
Oh and no offense to Atria but any movie on the Sci-Fi (or Syfy as it is now called) that is one of their "original" movies will suck big time so don't even bother.
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Postby Atria35 » Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:15 am

Wolf-man (post: 1406336) wrote:Oh and no offense to Atria but any movie on the Sci-Fi (or Syfy as it is now called) that is one of their "original" movies will suck big time so don't even bother.


The ones I posted are ones based off of Stephen King stories, so they aren't originals. But I do think that the 'originals' are awful- don't even bother.

[quote="Wolf-man (post: 1406336)"]Expect the majority of society has no problem with graphic sex, profanity, and violence. Think about it. If a movie like Hostel is known for being really disturbing and people don't want to see that]

While I agree that sex sells, they weren't able to make a second and third Hostel movie just because they were popular (and they weren't very...)- lots of really bad movies have sequels and third movies. Like Gremlin and Leprechaun, or even Chucky- movies that should never have had sequels. But they got their own movie series anyway!
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Sat Jul 03, 2010 1:50 pm

Wolf-man (post: 1406289) wrote:I believe the film your thinking of is Darkness Falls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9It5X5qtcA

I totally understand and respect the personal convictions thing. There are many Horror films I will not watch because of my personal convictions. Hostel is definitely one of them. I have a line I won't cross and that film not only crosses my line but runs about 100 miles past it. I know Grubb hates this term but I believe that "torture porn" fits appropriately with Hostel.


No you see Hostel is the one movie i don't mind being grouped in with that term. For those wondering "torture porn" are movies such as hostel, Saw (3-6 really) that glorify violence as entertainment some such as hostel also use sex as well. Myself i didn't hate hostel I actually found alot of the effects to unrealistic looking to be gross XD I know sounds weird but i laughed about some of it. The eye scene was a bit to much though *shudder*

Oh yeah and Gremlins and Chucky should have had sequals I love Gremlins 2 and Chucky 2 was a supperior film i my oppion
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Postby Scarecrow » Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:48 pm

GrubbTheFragger (post: 1406396) wrote: Myself i didn't hate hostel I actually found alot of the effects to unrealistic looking to be gross XD I know sounds weird but i laughed about some of it. The eye scene was a bit to much though *shudder*

Oh yeah and Gremlins and Chucky should have had sequals I love Gremlins 2 and Chucky 2 was a supperior film i my oppion


Agree, agree and agree... although I hated Hostel. Not because it was gross or anything but... I just didn't like it. Mostly because I didn't think it had one likable character. The effects were overboard to the point of non belief. I think it could have been decdent if it was done more subtly, built actual suspense rather than rely on gore, and they made at least one character actually likable. I think the only person I actually felt anything for was the girl with the eye and that was only because of the part where she sees her reflection.
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Postby SnoringFrog » Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:28 pm

I'm sure you probably have seen these but still...Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf-man, etc...
Nope, never seen any of them. When I said I haven't seen many, I meant next-to-none. When I posted my favorites list earlier in the topic, I think it covered the majority of the horror movies I've seen, minus 2-3 max. XD

Thanks for the recommendations though, I'll check 'em out.
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Postby Atria35 » Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:42 pm

SnoringFrog (post: 1406476) wrote:Nope, never seen any of them. When I said I haven't seen many, I meant next-to-none. When I posted my favorites list earlier in the topic, I think it covered the majority of the horror movies I've seen, minus 2-3 max. XD


Oh! One that I've completely forgotten, but adore beyond reason, is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Now, I'm NOT talking about the remake with Jonny Depp, I'm talking the filmed stage play with Angel Lansbury, if you can get your hands on it. I'm lucky I can, it's in my library system, but that was a fantastic horror film/play. Even though it could be a tad difficult to find...

(ps- don't be fooled by the name, there is no demon in this movie. No occult whatsoever)
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Postby Wolf-man » Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:11 pm

Atria35 (post: 1406338) wrote:While I agree that sex sells, they weren't able to make a second and third Hostel movie just because they were popular (and they weren't very...)- lots of really bad movies have sequels and third movies. Like Gremlin and Leprechaun, or even Chucky- movies that should never have had sequels. But they got their own movie series anyway!


Ok. Your argument is flawed. First of all all of those films were box office successes.
Hostel was #1 at the box office, grossed 19.4 Million dollars in it's opening weekend and 80 Million worldwide. So to say that it wasn't popular is unfair. The sequel I will give you. That did pretty bad but still...
As for Gremlins, Leprechaun, and Child's Play. Probably 95% of all Horror fans will disagree with you that they were terrible films. Gremlins was great and the sequel was even better. Leprechaun wasn't a good movie but it was fun and classic 80's Horror. I have not seen Child's Play but it is an iconic Horror film and Chucky is a Horror icon character. These films did extremely well in the box office and that is why they spawned several sequels.

SnoringFrog wrote:Nope, never seen any of them. When I said I haven't seen many, I meant next-to-none. When I posted my favorites list earlier in the topic, I think it covered the majority of the horror movies I've seen, minus 2-3 max. XD

Thanks for the recommendations though, I'll check 'em out.


O_O Ok watch those. and I'm talking about the classic films from the 40's not the remakes. Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf-man, The Mummy. All good stuff.
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Postby Atria35 » Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:10 am

Wolf-man (post: 1406533) wrote:Ok. Your argument is flawed. First of all all of those films were box office successes.
Hostel was #1 at the box office, grossed 19.4 Million dollars in it's opening weekend and 80 Million worldwide. So to say that it wasn't popular is unfair. The sequel I will give you. That did pretty bad but still...


You say the first on 'only' made 19.4 million dollars opening weekend- that's pretty mediocre for a film. And the second did worse, so when people knew what all the hype was about (I mean, people have a natural curiosity- when critics are saying it's the goriest, most horrific thing out there, people will be more inclined to go see it), they obviously stopped going to see the film. You're right, the ones I named aren't the best of examples. But what about Killjoy, or Basket Case, or Saturday the 14th? Definately not iconic horrors, did really bad at the box office. AND got sequels.

^@ SnoringFrong- agreeing about the 40's originals. Those are pretty good horror films.
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:48 am

Scarecrow (post: 1406422) wrote:Agree, agree and agree... although I hated Hostel. Not because it was gross or anything but... I just didn't like it. Mostly because I didn't think it had one likable character. The effects were overboard to the point of non belief. I think it could have been decdent if it was done more subtly, built actual suspense rather than rely on gore, and they made at least one character actually likable. I think the only person I actually felt anything for was the girl with the eye and that was only because of the part where she sees her reflection.


Yes, I gotta agree as well Hostel was one of those movies that again the torture porn thing comes to play you actually want to watch the characters die in the most disturbing ways possible it actually gives you a sense of pleasure.

@Wolf-man I gotta say Hostel was not very popular it is generally hated and panned by most big horror fans. I am a pretty big Eli Roth fan i have seen most of his films (yes even Hostel 2) so i am a fan of the director not his films. The only exception is Cabin Fever I actually really enjoyed that film because it was so campy XD

@snoring Frog, Ok so clean horror films eh? Well so question first, Do you actually wanna actually have the urge to watch them or do you just wonder what all the hype is about. So my recommendations go as follow

28 Days Later: There is two brief scenes, The very first opening scene is kinda animal cruality so tread carefully keep in mind its fake, and the next scene of some one waking up in a coma nude (male) but thats why scene skip buttons are there. Language is a bit rough but it is one of the best zombie films ever IMO
Trick r' Treat: Great film I actually wouldn't recommend it until you cheak the content. Its got some sexual stuff at the very beginning and at the very end. Fantastic movie just be warned
Pontypool: Another Zombie film, this one is different. The Zombie discease travels through sound. Its sounds corny but it is handled great. No sex or nudity at all, and very little violence. Its more of a suspense builder
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Postby Wolf-man » Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:24 am

Atria35 (post: 1406566) wrote:You say the first on 'only' made 19.4 million dollars opening weekend- that's pretty mediocre for a film. And the second did worse, so when people knew what all the hype was about (I mean, people have a natural curiosity- when critics are saying it's the goriest, most horrific thing out there, people will be more inclined to go see it), they obviously stopped going to see the film. You're right, the ones I named aren't the best of examples. But what about Killjoy, or Basket Case, or Saturday the 14th? Definately not iconic horrors, did really bad at the box office. AND got sequels.


Doesn't that kind of prove my point? If people have a natural curiosity to see the goriest most disturbing film ever then that means they want to see that kind of stuff. People have often said the more gore the better and the more sex the better, etc... I'm just saying that you can't deny that we live in a sinful society and Hollywood reflects that. The people want sex so Hollywood gives them border line pornography and people flock to see it.

GrubbTheFragger wrote:@Wolf-man I gotta say Hostel was not very popular it is generally hated and panned by most big horror fans. I am a pretty big Eli Roth fan i have seen most of his films (yes even Hostel 2) so i am a fan of the director not his films. The only exception is Cabin Fever I actually really enjoyed that film because it was so campy XD

I don't know. I mean MrDisgusting, one of the main admins on bloodydisgusting.com is very excited about Hostel 3 and looking at the comments on the article a lot of people share in his excitement. I don't know. I have never seen Hostel nor do I care to see Hostel and in the long run I could care less how good/bad it does in the box office.
You liked Cabin Fever? That was such an awful movie. XD Lets see Shawn from Boy Meets World in a graphically gory horror movie. It's just weird. XD
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Postby SnoringFrog » Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:56 am

@snoring Frog, Ok so clean horror films eh? Well so question first, Do you actually wanna actually have the urge to watch them or do you just wonder what all the hype is about. So my recommendations go as follow
I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, but I'm gonna try to answer. I've been interested in horror (moreso lately, Hellsing anime and the movie Daybreakers helped push me in the direction of horror more), but I haven't seen many that were any good.
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:09 pm

SnoringFrog (post: 1406630) wrote:I'm not 100%]

That was the type of answer i was looking for XD I didn't exactly word it right.

Wolf-man wrote:You liked Cabin Fever? That was such an awful movie. XD Lets see Shawn from Boy Meets World in a graphically gory horror movie. It's just weird. XD

That was the point, It was a horror comedy for the most part. Seeing shawn get covered in blood made me laugh (And theres a special feature were eli roth is squirting fake blood on him with a great big grin on his face). Plus 2 other good scenes the old man with the gun was pretty great. "ugh whats the gun for" thats all i'll quote but it was so unexpected i laughed really hard and well when the blonde guy walks out and is like " I am alive!!" and then gets about 80 rounds to the chest so satisfying.

And last thing ok so reedit of a previous statement, All the big horror fans i know did not like hostel and alot of reviews i read panned it way back when it came out.
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Postby Scarecrow » Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:43 pm

SnoringFrog (post: 1406630) wrote:I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, but I'm gonna try to answer. I've been interested in horror (moreso lately, Hellsing anime and the movie Daybreakers helped push me in the direction of horror more), but I haven't seen many that were any good.


Ah you like stylized horror then? I love Hellsing... Probably liked VHD: Bloodlust too? I wish I could recommend Bram Stokers Dracula... unfortunately it does have a bit of sexual content. But the look of the film is great and Gary Oldman is awesome of course. And Wynona Rider never looked better. You'd probably like Sleepy Hollow too if you haven't seen that. That's pretty clean minus a quick 5 second scene but no nudity or anything. You may like the Underworld films too. 1 is good 2 is meh and 3 is good. The first one is clean the second two have like 1 sex scene each but I don't remember them being long or graphic. Pan's Labyrinth is fantastic... nothing sexual in that at all. None of these are typical horror movies in the sense like what people think of when they think horror (nothing really scary). Just contain a lot of horror elements (blood, monsters, supernatural... not films with huge body count or anything). I mean, that's the kind of horror I really like. The Sleepy Hollow, Dracula, Pans Labyrinth like stuff... stylized, atmospheric... dark... not made to see how many times it can make you jump.

Those are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head...
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Postby Wolf-man » Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:59 pm

Scarecrow (post: 1406748) wrote:Ah you like stylized horror then? I love Hellsing... Probably liked VHD: Bloodlust too? I wish I could recommend Bram Stokers Dracula... unfortunately it does have a bit of sexual content. But the look of the film is great and Gary Oldman is awesome of course. And Wynona Rider never looked better. You'd probably like Sleepy Hollow too if you haven't seen that. That's pretty clean minus a quick 5 second scene but no nudity or anything. You may like the Underworld films too. 1 is good 2 is meh and 3 is good. The first one is clean the second two have like 1 sex scene each but I don't remember them being long or graphic. Pan's Labyrinth is fantastic... nothing sexual in that at all. None of these are typical horror movies in the sense like what people think of when they think horror (nothing really scary). Just contain a lot of horror elements (blood, monsters, supernatural... not films with huge body count or anything). I mean, that's the kind of horror I really like. The Sleepy Hollow, Dracula, Pans Labyrinth like stuff... stylized, atmospheric... dark... not made to see how many times it can make you jump.

Those are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head...


A bit? Try the whole movie. If there's not full out nudity then it's sensual imagery that might as well be sexual.
@snoringfrog: Also Sleepy Hollow has some demonic elements to it so you know
Underworld is action Horror so it's not scary. The 2nd movie's sex scene I think is pretty graphic and the third is not much better. So I would count those two out if you want to avoid sexual content.
I have never seen Pans Labyrinth but I hear that it is very disturbing just to give you a heads up.
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:19 pm

Wolf-man (post: 1406783) wrote:A bit? Try the whole movie. If there's not full out nudity then it's sensual imagery that might as well be sexual.
@snoringfrog: Also Sleepy Hollow has some demonic elements to it so you know
Underworld is action Horror so it's not scary. The 2nd movie's sex scene I think is pretty graphic and the third is not much better. So I would count those two out if you want to avoid sexual content.
I have never seen Pans Labyrinth but I hear that it is very disturbing just to give you a heads up.


Yeah Bram Strokers Dracula has one scene with nudity, but as far as sleepy hollow goes the demonic imagery is five pointed stars and its story line does revolve around the headless horseman which is a demon a which summoned by stealing his head. Its still very Tim Burtonish so i would still recommend it as well as Pans Labyrinth which is fantastic one of my favirote films ever, it has a couple disturbing parts nothing too too bad though
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Postby Okami » Sun Jul 04, 2010 8:22 pm

As far as Underworld II goes, I would say to steer clear if you want to avoid the sexuality....I got up to the sex scene and couldn't handle it, having to walk out of the room and get as far away as possible, even being years removed from my issues with that stuff.

I went into it, not seeing the first one, just wanting to spend time with my family; instead I spent time curled in a ball in my bed, sobbing and typing to my accountability partner about how badly I was shaking, after only had seen maybe thirty seconds, maybe less, of the scene.

Just...be wise going into that, I would advise. I know that stuff is okay for some people, but if you've really got an issue with it - avoid it.
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Postby Atria35 » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:39 pm

[quote="Okami (post: 1406792)"]As far as Underworld II goes, I would say to steer clear if you want to avoid the sexuality....I got up to the sex scene and couldn't handle it, having to walk out of the room and get as far away as possible, even being years removed from my issues with that stuff.

I went into it, not seeing the first one, just wanting to spend time with my family]

Oh, man... That scene was just disturbing. Seriously. The first was a great movie IMO. But the second.... *shudder*

And if that bothers you, don't touch Underworld III. You get one long, rampant sexual scene and they decided to amp up the gore times 3 from the previous films. It wasn't even funny. They RUINED my Underworld!
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Postby Chrysolite » Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:48 pm

I guess it doesn't really count as a 'horror' movie, but I think everyone should see Deep Blue Sea. The effects may be a little dated, but I think the overall quality of it was far above most thriller/monster movies of its type, and it was full of Christian undertones. Check this out if you don't mind spoilers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evazpEF1zbY
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