What horror film should I watch?
The only horror movie I’ve ever seen is The Shining and that’s actually one of my favourite films (but that might be just because I love Jack Nicholson). But right now I really feel like watching a horror film and have no idea which one so it’d be cool if somebody told me what their favourite horror film is.
What is lacking in today’s horror films?
Today any two bit filmmaker can make a horror film because it doesn't take a lot of investments with Money. Your city movie slasher is the most prevalent kind of movie out there. While Our special effects on mutilation are growing more and more realistic they have enabled incompetent filmmakers who have no idea what sustains a movie to exist. Cheap thrills and grotesquerie have what plot and great acting to fall to the wayside. This is just a little of what's missing in today's horror genre. Truly the saddest thing that's missing in today's whore is the variety. Big box office but Hollywood studios won't take the risk on a horror film usually so we're left with only a handful every year. Studios without the resources to make amazing special effects involving ghosts vampires werewolves or some bizarre monster are left making some super predictable slasher with subpar acting and minimal plot. The 80s and 90s were the pinnacle of horror, especially in the monster genre. They couldn't rely on computers to give them special a fax so they had to actually put in hard work. They had to rely on sculpture, plaster, latex, with amazing animatronics to convey the stuff of nightmares. American werewolf in London a great example of this. Today's era Hollywood's too scared to do a werewolf movie, we haven't seen a good one in probably seven years. Monster movies are scarce today and one that actually evokes an impression of realism is truly rare. It's easy to put in a couple plastic teeth and call the villain a vampire or tie a string to a chair make it move and call it a poltergeist movie. It's really hard to discern the quality of a horror movie by its title today but most of these B or C rank movies just aren't worth watching. It truly is a sad time for the horror genre.
Why do some people watch horror films?
Simply, because of the thrill it gives you while watching it. If it is well created, then a horror movie will never bore you. Moreover, watching them with your friends can also be fun. I am fond of watching them, and so are many of my friends.For me, it all started in the 1st year of my college, when I and some of my hostel friends decided to watch The Conjuring 1 and went asking for it in the whole hostel. Actually, that time only some of the people in the hostel had LAN connection, and so we had to ask them to download it for us. Neither me nor any of my friends had laptop, so we loaded it into one of my friend's mobile that had 5 inch display, we connected a good quality mobile speaker to it, kept it on a table, and arranged ourselves in a semicircle, ready to watch it. There were 5 of us watching the movie in that Android phone. Yes, that small display served 5 of us!!. The way we arranged ourselves to watch it was truly a fun. In spite of being 5 of us, we all got very scared and were literally jumping on each other at each scary scene.Source: InternetThus, the momentum continued, and in the upcoming days, in similar fashion, we saw many of the horror movies together like Grudge series, Oculus, The Mirror, Insidious series, Annabelle, Conjuring 2, etc.I like to watch them because you have all the needed elements in that to entertain you, be it suspenses, thrills, jump scares & screams, and more especially the after movie discussions, teasing the friend who got more scared and also the coincidental scary experiences we may face due to the nostalgia created by that movie.Source: InternetThe memories associated with watching these movies are one the best experiences for me and thats the reason I love to watch them.
What is it like to work with children on a horror film? Do they get scared while filming?
Ethan Hawke r/IAmAQuestion: When making a horror or scary movie with children, what do they do to keep the kids (younger ones) from being completely messed up from the really dark stuff? Do they just do some sort of interview and casting stuff to make sure the kids are mature enough and realize it's all made up? Is it just not that creepy while actually shooting the creepy stuff? — FoxtrotUniformCharliAnswer: GREAT question! As a child actor myself, I'm incredibly sensitive to this and kind of hate acting with kids for all the same concerns that are present in your question. But with a scary movie, it surprised me, because kids love to play. They love costumes, they love Halloween. The kids on-set treated the making of the movie as if we were all doing an elaborate haunted house; think about it, kids love to play Hide & Seek, they love to scare you and each other, and I was really relieved to see them all playing and laughing and understanding the spirit of a good ghost story. It really wasn't difficult for them at all. — iamethanhawkeReply: You also have to realize that a movie set is entirely different than watching the movie. There is a lot of editing that often goes into making a movie genuinely scary. — EarthboundCory
Want to find the name of an old horror film. Could have been in the 50's 60' or 70's or even 80's.
The film was about a wealthy man who chopped off a poor woodcutters hand after he had an affair with the wealthy mans wife (one of these men had a big wine mark on his face, cant remember who). This hand haunted the man and his wife in their home e.g. creeping up the stairs. All you could hear was the tap tap of the hand moving about the home. I don't remember much of the middle of the film but at the end, the wife has a baby and the baby has a missing hand and wine mark on its face. I really want to know the name of the film so that I can buy it! Someone told me the film is a hammer house of horror film, but I have searched their website and not found it and it is definately not the hand that rocks the cradle or the michael caine film called 'the hand'. Is there anyone out there that knows this film? I would be so grateful if anybody can help me!
When did horror films rise in popularity in the US?
Horror films go up and down in popularity; there has been a few major waves, though.The 1930s were probably the first major rise, with the Universal Horror films: Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Dracula (1931) and The Mummy (1932), as well as King Kong (1933) made by RKOThe next real wave of horror films, shifted away from monster movies, to psychological tales, starting off with the brilliant Cat People (1942), but also I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Ghost Ship (1943) and Bedlam (1946). There was also horror series on radio that were frightening like Lights Out and Inner SanctumThe 1950s was a more conservative time period for horror, and according to people like Stephen King and George Romero, the movies were not that great — but horror comics, on the other hand, were as frightening as hell! But it was also a time of television, and all the classic Universal films started getting shown again on Saturday night horror specials — leading a new generation to rediscover them.In the sixties, it was Psycho (1961) at the beginning of the decade — and then Night of the Living Dead (1969), as well as Rosemary’s Baby (1968), which in a way, kicked off a wave of Satanic horrors during the seventies with The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976).The rise of Stephen King in the 1970s, as well as directors like Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, John Carpenter, John Landis and George Romero, led to a major rise of horror films in the late seventies/early eighties. To me, this was the greatest peak of horror — and it died down again at the end of the eighties, thanks to over-exposure: too many sequels for the Freddy, Jason and Michael Myer movies, and gore reaching its peak as a shock value in these films.The early 90s was quiet until the Scream films, and then the genre was re-invigorated by many horror films from Japan and Asia.At the moment, we seem to be going through another peak.But it is always hard to tell.A friend pointed out recently, that American horror films are usually at their greatest, during low times in society; this is something that horror film researchers have pointed out in books.But also, economic factors has a lot to do with it: if one horror film is successful, and proves that it can make a lot of money, then many other studios and producers will try and jump on the bandwagon — and that can be the cause of a sudden rise in the number of horror films around.