By the way, I'm watching this now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_W ... 76_film%29

Don't judge me.

lol.

It's actually really hilarious.

It's actually weird looking at these ol' school pornos. I mean, for one they try to be artsy and tasty... um... tasteful, and all of the sex just seems more natural, intimate and passionate than the stuff you see now. Even the penis sizes seem more normal.


Not that I know anything about pron

Fallible wrote:I envy people who can say what their favourite film is.

Mine is Dead Man, with Johnny Depp, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Brilliant.

We were in the middle of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire when the little one's friend rang the doorbell wanting to play.

Will, if you're reading this I'm still mad at you for spoiling Harry Potter for me.

NamelessFaceless wrote:
Mine is Dead Man, with Johnny Depp, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Brilliant.

I've never heard of this film, but looking at the link, the poster intrigues me.

Animavore wrote:

NamelessFaceless wrote:
Mine is Dead Man, with Johnny Depp, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Brilliant.

I've never heard of this film, but looking at the link, the poster intrigues me.

Yes, please give it a go. I'd love to get your opinion of it.

NamelessFaceless wrote:

Fallible wrote:I envy people who can say what their favourite film is.

Mine is Dead Man, with Johnny Depp, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Brilliant.

We were in the middle of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire when the little one's friend rang the doorbell wanting to play.

Will, if you're reading this I'm still mad at you for spoiling Harry Potter for me.

As the wise Germans put it, "Wie schade."

But in all seriousness, did I serious spoil it in a world where people scream that line on internet forums?

Animavore wrote:The Fly is probably my favourite film, and the film as a child which defined me

It came out of the middle of the 80s surrounded by all these cheesy horrors, but Cronenberg managed to pull the rug from everyone's feet at the time by delivering a horror which was quite horrific. It kind of gets under the skin.

What makes it great is that it looked like another cheesy 80's horror movie from the outside. And I think that's what got me this time. I had watched this many times before but it has been a few years. My girlfriend bought the movie and wanted to watch it with me. I normally love effective horror, but I've been avoiding it more lately because even a half a year after, I'm still reeling from the hard time I was going through when my mom had open-heart surgery... but I thought this would be pretty tame. I forgot how much it can get to you in the right mood. I think the last few times I watched it, I was not reeling back from anything depressing and fearful and wasn't effected by it. I was watching some hardcore shit like Cutting Moments and Cannibal Holocaust too.

Sadness mixed with horror is potent for me. The movie isn't as effective, but Stephen King's Pet Sematary novel gets to me for that reason.

Fallible wrote:I envy people who can say what their favourite film is.

Same here... or fuck, a top 10 list at least. I'm never satisfied with mine... anything I love actually.

My favorite comedy now is probably Nat'l Lampoon's Vacation. For serious movies, Goodfellas and Star Wars do come to mind, but I don't feel it in my heart.
If The Sopranos was a movie it would be my favorite without hesitation. What a production.

Last night we watched



Across the River, a low budget, slow burning Italian affair.

Also more mainstream



Oculus, with an American accented Karen Gillan (Amy Pond, Dr Who). I say more mainstream, but it still had its effective, creeping moments.

Recent re-watches -

Skinwalkers




The Dyatlov Pass Incident



The Banshee Chapter

Last night I fell asleep at 8pm in front of the computer.
I have little tolerance for cheap horror movies. "The producer of Paranormal Activity" on the box pretty much ensures I would rather sleep in a computer chair. How was it?
I remember the fly was good though. When I was 11. I don't think I've seen it since. I saw a black and white one before that one. I don't know what was up with my parents, but they let us watch pretty much anything. And the candy store used to give us matches to play with.

I like the Paranormal Activity films, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask. I am a big fan of low budget/foreign/found footage/slow burning horror films - in fact the lower budget and slower burning they are, they more I seem to like them. We have a huge collection of such films. Horror isn't about big budget jump scares or HD gore for me. It's about a Lovecraftian creeping sense of unease, a just-right juxtaposition of imagery/sounds and what's lurking just out of view. I found Oculus to be at the more mainstream end of the spectrum of what I like, up the same end as Paranormal Activity. It's not found footage, and it's in the fairly well explored area of 'cursed or evil object that must be destroyed before it kills more people', but it is capable in parts of fucking with your senses and having you question what's real and what's illusion. I'd probably watch it again. Also it's not all wrapped up in a tidy little pink bow at the end, which I also like out of a film. I like being infuriated.

I'm glad you enjoyed them. It's not you it's me. I generally don't like any horror movies, and the rest of that list I used to post here, which includes super heroes. I like boring movies.

Well we can't all be perfect.

Fallible wrote:I envy people who can say what their favourite film is.

In my mind they're akin to the monstrous people who can define which one of their kids is their favourite...

willhud9 wrote:

NamelessFaceless wrote:

Fallible wrote:I envy people who can say what their favourite film is.

Mine is Dead Man, with Johnny Depp, directed by Jim Jarmusch. Brilliant.

We were in the middle of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire when the little one's friend rang the doorbell wanting to play.

Will, if you're reading this I'm still mad at you for spoiling Harry Potter for me.

As the wise Germans put it, "Wie schade."

But in all seriousness, did I serious spoil it in a world where people scream that line on internet forums?

Actually yes. I've never seen it anywhere before. I never paid attention to anything on the internet about Harry Potter because I really didn't plan on reading it. So even if I did see it it didn't mean anything to me because I didn't know any of the characters any way. But then my little one wanted us to read it together so I bought him the entire box set last summer and we've been reading about half a chapter every night before bed. He got the DVD box set for Christmas so every time we finish a book we watch the movie. It's been lots of fun. I just wish I didn't know . . . THAT now.

I liked The Paranormal Activity series too. And Blair Witch Project is in my Top Ten. I may not be as devoted as Fallible though. I'm currently watching the Rec series and I'm not impressed. I also don't like the really campy low budget horror like Evil Dead.