I am so psyched.
Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --
'Serenity'
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§ ita § - Oct 28, 2010 6:30:59 am PDT #11766 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Oct 28, 2010 6:31:20 am PDT #11767 of 30000
Because books.
Oh, and the original Wicker Man! That was fantastic, too.
I haven't see Freaks either. Or Phantasm, mostly because I remember the commercials from childhood and they freaked me right out.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 28, 2010 6:31:31 am PDT #11768 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Freaks is creepy as all get-out, but I don't think it's too scary for a die-hard horror fan. Hell, there were episodes of Carnivàle that were more traumatizing.
erikaj - Oct 28, 2010 6:32:41 am PDT #11769 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
It's a disability-rights-movement touchstone, ita.(Not sure if that is a rec or a diss, but, you know.)
- Every* crip at the protest knows about "Freaks"
Tom Scola - Oct 28, 2010 6:33:28 am PDT #11770 of 30000
hwæt
25 Best Horror Films of All Time
NSFW.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2010 6:38:26 am PDT #11771 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
NSFW.
Oops. Thanks for catching that.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 28, 2010 6:40:40 am PDT #11772 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's a good list, but while I like most of the modern horror films listed I think they should be replaced by some classics like The Bride of Frankenstein and Curse of the Demon. No way should Return of the Living Dead be ranked as better than those.
Fred Pete - Oct 28, 2010 6:44:52 am PDT #11773 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Freaks is creepy as all get-out, but I don't think it's too scary for a die-hard horror fan.
I think it qualifies as revenge-horror. And it does get scary. When you think about how they must have transformed her....
(Or maybe it's just a fine line between creepy and scary.)
DavidS - Oct 28, 2010 7:06:36 am PDT #11774 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Freaks is definitely a horror film, not only in its lineage through Tod Browning (who directed all of Lon Chaney's horror silents, but also directed Lugosi in Dracula). But also as a touchstone of Body Horror, a long-running strand through horror films which emerges in sixties gore (Blood Feast), post Night of the Living Dead zombie films, Cronenberg's early movies and the recent round of torture horror (Saw, Hostel, et al.)
In Stephen King's taxonomy of scares laid out in Danse Macabre he specifically notes that Horror (as distinct from Terror) must involve some deformation or violence to the physical body.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2010 7:19:27 am PDT #11775 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hey, I just watched Evil Dead on Tuesday and Evil Dead II yesterday! I was going to skip Army of Darkness since I've already seen it, but it's been a while, and I need to complete the trilogy. Evil Dead was incredibly gross but often pretty terrifying in its low-budget glory. Evil Dead II was pretty hilarious and has the best Hemingway-related visual gag ever.