AstralBlood: Favorite Movies

Graveyard 05.04.15	fuk yea blade runner is awesome
nakedwesmile 05.04.15	yeah man, action's king
Sevengill 05.04.15	Lord of the Rings and the Shining for the win.
Davil667 05.04.15	Some pretty solid picks on here. 1 would definitly be among my top ten as well.
apert 05.04.15	some nice films, 1 and 5 are def in my favourites
grish 05.04.15	5 is easily in my top 10 as well. nice list, still need to watch 2, 9, and 10
OwMySnauze 05.04.15	The Good The Bad and The Ugly
AstralBlood 05.04.15	Fight Club and Aliens were close runner ups. I was never really taken in by The Matrix, but the others are solid movies.
DrGonzo1937 05.04.15	Nice list.
Vakarian12 05.04.15	gremlins aliens predator babadook shaun of the dead lotr
NorthernSkylark 05.04.15	kinda boring tho
DrGonzo1937 05.04.15	Babadook, really? It was good, but with all the choice out there, a favourite?
Vakarian12 05.04.15	one of the only movies to genuinely freak me out. loved it
radkeronnie 05.04.15	Princess Mononoke m/
DrGonzo1937 05.04.15	It's good like.
guitarded_chuck 05.04.15	2001 a clockwork orange dr. strangelove barry lyndon godfather lotr interstellar the dark knight schindler's list snatch wall-e lion king toy story there will be blood no country for old men spinal tap assassination of jesse james all i can think of atm, all classics to me
NorthernSkylark 05.04.15	why no love for kubrick?
guitarded_chuck 05.04.15	hes is a fony
JoeMcSatanBalls 05.04.15	Solid
Lord(e)Po)))ts 05.04.15	weak
DoofusWainwright 05.04.15	Hot Fuzz is keeping some illustrious company these days lol
Gameofmetal 05.04.15	I digs most of these. Pans Labyrinth always freaked me the fuck out.
TumsFestival 05.04.15	picking hot fuzz over shaun of the dead tho
Snacktimeguy 05.05.15	Great list! My favorite of the list is The Shining.
DangerBatty 05.05.15	Mononokeeeeeeeeee, Hot Fuzz is great too.
Parallels 05.05.15	Better Off Dead, Hot Fuzz, Fargo, Raising Arizona, A Beautiful Mind, Alien, Aliens, Blazing Saddles, Catch Me If You Can, Gattaca, Gladiator, Groundhog Day, Jurassic Park, Misery, The Outsiders, Pleasantville, The Prestige, Se7en, The Shawshank Redemption, Signs, Spiderman 2, The Terminal, The Terminator, The Truman Show, Unbreakable, Uncle Buck, & Whiplash
Parallels 05.05.15	we cant except gifts from someone we've officially rebuked so pfff jog on
Sevengill 05.05.15	Gladiator, Groundhog Day, Jurassic park, Terminator, Whiplash, Catch Me, and Unbreakable are terrific picks Parallel. I thought everyone had forgotten about the last one.
Parallels 05.05.15	y ty but really, Unbreakable is the best movie no one seems to know about
Kman418 05.05.15	watch pi
chinesewhispers 05.05.15	6 sucks rotten donkey dick but other than that not bad
DrGonzo1937 05.05.15	Dude you are fucking trippin. Best horror film ever made.
JWT155 05.05.15	I actually prefer Eyes Wide Shut to The Shining tin terms of horror.
DrGonzo1937 05.05.15	Wouldn't say EWS was a horror, more of an unsettling thriller.
JWT155 05.05.15	I find the whole idea of sneaking into a secret society cult get together and being found out completely terrifying. Excellent movie.
DrGonzo1937 05.05.15	Oh I agree it's a classic, but it's designed more as a thriller, whereas The Shining is out to make you shit your pants at some point.
guitarded_chuck 05.05.15	lol
JWT155 05.05.15	"It's really boring." Horror has been completely distorted in recent years. Nowadays, unless there's tons of gore, teenage girls screaming and loud shrieks a flick is considered boring. The Shining is a great film and a true horror flick isn't about the cheap scares but having the viewer leave the theater perplexed and disturbed. The Shining constantly makes the viewer feel uneasy and the suspense builds throughout the film.
RadicalEd 05.05.15	Mononoke, LotR, Unforgiven, Shawshank Redemption, Million Dollar Baby, 12 Angry Men, Walk the Line, Inception, Blood Diamond. Maybe Birdman, but I've only seen that movie once, so Idk.
wwf 05.05.15	'Shining is the most overrated horror movie of all time. Other than its atmosphere and occasional imagery, it's really boring.' Yeah besides the fact that it has goat atmosphere and goat imagery it's not very good right? Oh yeah and the goat acting and the goat tension building, etc. etc...
tempest-- 05.05.15	yep shining is amazing
guitarded_chuck 05.05.15	there is not one shot or one line of the shining that is wasted, literally cannot understand the opinion that it is boring
JWT155 05.05.15	People aren't getting sawed in half so it can't be good. Yawn...
guitarded_chuck 05.05.15	wow i just spent two hours watching this and he doesnt even kill them
DrGonzo1937 05.05.15	'Shining is the most overrated horror movie of all time. Other than its atmosphere and occasional imagery, it's really boring.' And this is why we have such a sorry ass Horror genre these days. I don't even think I can name 10 decent atmospheric horror films to come out in the last 10 years, let alone any that are decent. It's all weak, shite "found footage" and supernatural garbage that badly executes jump scares.
guitarded_chuck 05.05.15	if drop dead gorgeous is your idea of classic music then good for you
DoofusWainwright 05.05.15	In no particular order... Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, LOTR trilogy, Spirited Away, Apocalypse Now, The Matrix (first film only!), Donnie Darko, Fight Club, City of God, Bladerunner
wwf 05.05.15	guys check a girl walks home alone at night if you want great recent horror babadook be damned
tempest-- 05.05.15	"Jack is just hallucinating in a creepy hotel. If that's your idea of suspense building horror, then good for you." hahahah what the fuck is this
TumsFestival 05.05.15	"Jack is just hallucinating in a creepy hotel. If that's your idea of suspense building horror, then good for you." ahahahaha go back to watching Paranormal Activity
tempest-- 05.05.15	whats your idea of a good horror movie
TumsFestival 05.05.15	Heard great things about A Girl Walks Home... I'll probably be checking it out this week. I loved Babadook
wwf 05.05.15	yeezus christ never watch 2001 then
wwf 05.05.15	do itttttttt
Alastor 05.05.15	you all need kurosawa
DrGonzo1937 05.05.15	Saw is good but The Shining isn't? Awh, jesus.
DrGonzo1937 05.05.15	And I'd personally say Silence of the Lambs leans more toward being a Thriller too.
wwf 05.05.15	nah the ambulance scene still creeps the fuck out of me to this day
DrGonzo1937 05.05.15	Thrillers can creep out too, it's just thrillers have more of a drive. I actually think Thriller and Horror are pretty similar, they just have slightly different styles of pace.
JWT155 05.05.15	Rosemary's Baby is another great film.
JokineAugustus 05.05.15	12 monkeys The Dear Hunter Leon The Professional In Bruges American Beauty
DrGonzo1937 05.05.15	^ Banging list Rosemary's Baby is another great film. [2]
Kman418 05.07.15	the only people who think that horror hasn't been good in the last 10 or 15 years are people who dont actually know much about horror at all
TumsFestival 05.07.15	i feel similarly about It Follows, I didn't have a problem with the concept though. I just really didn't like how Jay (main girl character) did the same dumb shit that main girl characters have been doing for decades (running up the stairs when "it" is in your house? really?) but it was shot and scored beautifully
deathschool 05.07.15	Cool
ViperAces 05.07.15	been planing to see 1 and 6 for a long time now. actually never seen a single movie in this list (i read lotr though, and the books are amazing)
Kman418 05.07.15	i mean if you're basing your assessment off of big budget horror movies put out in theaters then sure ur gonna think the genres gone to shit but theres probably a good 15 or 20 horror movies from the 2010s alone that are just as good as stuff from the 70s/80s/90s just in the last year it follows, the babadook, a girl walks home alone at night, housebound, and starry eyes came out which are all just as quality as older horror movies
TumsFestival 05.07.15	Babadook is becoming one of my fav horror movies and i need more movies like it in my life
Kman418 05.07.15	also under the skin but idk if that could really be classed as horror
Royl123 05.07.15	4,5, and 8 are one of my favorites
Kman418 05.07.15	house of the devil was really incredible yeah agreed. resolution is another really really amazing one that unfortunately doesnt get much attention at all
alwaysright 05.07.15	I don't watch movies. I watch porn.
TumsFestival 05.08.15	alwaysright you have the downright most clever name on this site
alwaysright 05.08.15	I know my child
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	"the only people who think that horror hasn't been good in the last 10 or 15 years are people who dont actually know much about horror at all" Worst statement of the year. Congrats.
Kman418 05.08.15	tfw drgonzo probably hasnt even seen berberian sound studio
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	No, really.
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	"tfw drgonzo probably hasnt even seen berberian sound studio" No I haven't. Are you going somewhere with this?
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	I put that as you commented Sixdegrees
Kman418 05.08.15	yeah im going to the conclusion that u dont know much about horror movies really and i was right
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	I don't need to prove myself to you, but I can tell you that if you think the Horror genere hasn't become a completely dull genre with no creativity or original ideas then I really don't think you've seen many Horror films yourself.
Kman418 05.08.15	actually ive seen way too many horror movies its genuinely kind of embarrassing how many horror movies i have seen like it is probably well into the triple digits but the fun thing about that is when ppl have just seen like paranormal activity and the purge or whatever and they're like "wow...... i CANNOT BELIEVE how all MODERN HORROR SUCKS....... LETS GO SUCK WES CRAVENS DICK FOR AN HOUR" its really easy to tell and i get to call them dummies and such but either way watch: house of the devil, resolution, berberian sound studio (as stated), starry eyes, let the right one in (not obscvre at all but whatever), antichrist, eden lake, a horrible way to die, you're next, and rec and after all that if u genuinely still think theres been any major dip in quality in the genre over the last 15 years then idk you're just being silly dont know what to tell u
guitarded_chuck 05.08.15	"the only people who think that horror hasn't been good in the last 10 or 15 years are people who dont actually know much about horror at all" ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyylmao.alien.gif.gtfo
CK 05.08.15	4 and 10 all day
smaugman 05.08.15	2 all the way
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	The horror genre is probably actually my favourite style of movie, Kman418. Don't take me as someone who spits out bullshit without backing it up, I've seen a lot of horror films myself, and the last 15 years has seen a terrible dip in quality. All horror films these days are paranormal, found footage, remakes or low budget horror films that use the "B-movie" tagline to hide behind truly shitty film making. Very hard finding a film with the same quality of suspense and tension building as something like "The Shining". I think the closest thing I've seen recently that built up a decent atmosphere was Babadook. If you like terrible generic American jump scare films that fall through in the last third of the film then good for you. I don't.
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	@Kman418 I've also seen Let the Right One In, House of the Devil and they are great films, yeah. You're Next, and REC were okay. never saw Eden Lake, but Antichrist was pretentious dogshit.
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	Nymphomaniac is the same kind of wank as Antichrist. I dunno, I just don't like Lars von Trier's style.
DrGonzo1937 05.08.15	And I agree Tresm Babadook is no masterpiece, but the sorry state the horror genre is in it was a blessing to watch.
Kman418 05.08.15	"All horror films these days are paranormal, found footage, remakes or low budget horror films that use the "B-movie" tagline to hide behind truly shitty film making" u literally just proved my point bud yeah obviously a lot of stuff that comes out now is awful but there are still consistently pretty amazing ones that come out frequently if u do like any digging into the genre at all. and im not sure why the 70s and 80s get a pass with most people either honestly like do you not realize by and large most of the horror movies released in those eras were just as shitty and forgettable. obviously a lot of classics come out of that same time period but like the large majority of stuff that came out was stuff like funhouse or my bloody valentine (and while those are fun movies there's really nothing special or very memorable about them). like the shining came out in the 80s and that was revolutionary but you're seriously using that and probably like 2 other really well known classics from the genre and using that to judge the whole period the only reason you/most other people think that the genres bad now is cos you can look back on the shining and the texas chainsaw massacre and halloween and not pay attention to any of the shitty and forgettable ones because they were shitty and people forgot about them. and that's the same exact way horror movies from the 2010s will be, no one will remember teenage found footage movies #375837 in 10 years but they will however remember stuff like house of the devil and the babadook and then we'll get a whole new generation of people complaining about this shit
DrGonzo1937 05.09.15	That's my point, these bad films these days try and capitalise on the fun yet terrible 70's films. The thing is, they were bad, but they still have a charming quality or something that still makes it watchable. Anything these days that uses the "it's going for the b-movie thing" is literally using that to try and get away with it being so fucking bad. And you seem to be forgetting that found footage films are still as strong now as they were 5 year ago, probably more so these days. I'm not saying there isn't some stuff out there that is okay, because there is, but you have to swim in shit to find it. And Hollywood has almost entirely lost its ability to create suspenseful, atmospheric films. Maybe it is me getting old, but to me it just seems horror films made more of an effort to what they do now. And for every good film that comes out there are 200 terrible ones swarming.