sefskillz said:
It's not a copout, I just don't feel like typing a list that is bound to repeat movies already posted and/or be repeated. It's a little too much effort to sift through my brain, pick my favorites and put them on paper for the few that might read it. I'd much rather discuss horror movie then get into a pissing contest.
In terms of subgenres, I probably lend myself more to the zombie and slasher subgenres, but that may just be due to the fact that those are the two most successful and abundant subgenres Hollywood has to offer to horror enthusiasts. Both are cheap and both are easily accessible to the masses. People don't like being eaten. And people don't like to be killed in creative ways by a homicidal maniac and/or supernatural killer.
My tastes run the gambit, though. I'll watch your religious horror stuff or what little of that subgenre is watchable, with The Exorcist, The Omen and Rosemary's Baby being the obvious standouts and I'll watch your monster flicks, like the Universal classics or American Werewolf in London. I'll watch 'em all.
And - yes! - I'll watch the bad stuff. Half the fun of being a horror geek is watching the bad stuff, laughing at it with friends and in the end all it cost you was 90 minutes of your time, $2.95 for a rental and a beer or two.
There are the occassional flicks that are so awful that they have no redeeming value whatsoever and Return of the Living Dead: Part III is a perfect example of those kinda flicks.
clipunderground said:
I think the Friday the 13th films, and certainly the post-Carpenter Halloween films, are all very cheesy. There just as bad as Dead Alive, except one plays for laughs and the other is unintentional.
There's no elitist talk here, that's how I feel. You're so sensitive!
