SailorMoon said
Lol. That's hilarious. x] I generally only say that after horror movies, because they get increasingly worse. Everything else though, I'm cool with it.

As the biggest horror fanatic ever....I have to agree. Thanks alot Eli Roth -_-*

Rusalka said
As the biggest horror fanatic ever....I have to agree. -_-*

While Eli Roth wasn't responsible for horror movies being devolved to crappy schlock (seriously, say what you will about the guy, it's clear he loves his old school horror flicks), word on the grapevine is that his latest, The Green Inferno, is actually good. I mean, it's inspired by Cannibal Holocaust so there's that.

Really, my thoughts on horror movies is this: The fact that a movie like Paranormal Activity can be praised and regarded as one of the scariest movies ever proves one of two things. That people are easily scared by nothing, hence the recent trend of horror movies being nothing but 'quiet quiet quiet quiet LOUD NOISE quiet quiet quiet LOUD NOISE' or that standards are so low, that a movie where nothing happens for 80 minutes and then the ultimate loud noise at the end counts as genuine horror.

Then again, I hate it when horror movies rely on gore, since that's not horror.

Fabricant451 said
While Eli Roth wasn't responsible for horror movies being devolved to crappy schlock (seriously, say what you will about the guy, it's clear he loves his old school horror flicks), word on the grapevine is that his latest, The Green Inferno, is actually good. I mean, it's inspired by Cannibal Holocaust so there's that. Really, my thoughts on horror movies is this: The fact that a movie like Paranormal Activity can be praised and regarded as one of the scariest movies ever proves one of two things. That people are easily scared by nothing, hence the recent trend of horror movies being nothing but 'quiet quiet quiet quiet LOUD NOISE quiet quiet quiet LOUD NOISE' or that standards are so low, that a movie where nothing happens for 80 minutes and then the ultimate loud noise at the end counts as genuine horror.Then again, I hate it when horror movies rely on gore, since that's not horror.

I find the first two and the last paranormal activity to be fun to watch, but it's not scary. I like Insidious though. :3 There are a couple that came out that were good, but I can't even remember all the titles at the moment.

I think if you're going to the movies with a critics pov then you'll find it's not a good movie, but most people go to enjoy themselves and they are pretty enjoyable.

I have yet to see The Green Inferno, but after hearing its inspiration is Cannibal Holocaust, then I definitely need to check it out. And while I am harsh on Roth for some questionable things, I will say I did enjoy the first Hostel and Cabin Fever. My view is Roth being one of the directors responsible for the apparent increase in Torture Porn movies, which some were enjoyable, but others were just too idiotic and overly-cliched. The first Paranormal Activity scared the shit out of me, so I will vouch for that, but everything else that followed was just rotting fish in the barrel. Seriously, the movie would've done best as just ONE SINGLE MOVIE instead of a series, same way I feel about the SAW franchise. Gore in a way is essential to horror. It's that part of us that makes us question the human heart, how far a person is willing to go, but that's only to some extent in movies. If gore is done right, by either portraying it realistically or shying away from it, only leaving the mind to wonder and conjure our own interpretation of the horror, then yes I agree with that totally, but.....when you're flinging organs and brain matter at the screen for the entire duration of the film *coughFinalDestinationcough* then yes....I'm going to brutalize you with a golf trophy for being stupid and unoriginal. <.<

This is mostly why I stick to horror games, and by that I mean NO RESIDENT EVIL....except for 1 and 4 which were the best out of the series IMO.

Rusalka said
I have yet to see The Green Inferno, but after hearing its inspiration is Cannibal Holocaust, then I definitely need to check it out. And while I am harsh on Roth for some questionable things, I will say I did enjoy the first Hostel and Cabin Fever. My view is Roth being one of the directors responsible for the apparent increase in Torture Porn movies, which some were enjoyable, but others were just too idiotic and overly-cliched. The first Paranormal Activity scared the shit out of me, so I will vouch for that, but everything else that followed was just rotting fish in the barrel. Seriously, the movie would've done best as just ONE SINGLE MOVIE instead of a series, same way I feel about the SAW franchise. Gore in a way is essential to horror. It's that part of us that makes us question the human heart, how far a person is willing to go, but that's only to some extent in movies. If gore is done right, by either portraying it realistically or shying away from it, only leaving the mind to wonder and conjure our own interpretation of the horror, then yes I agree with that totally, but.....when you're flinging organs and brain matter at the screen for the entire duration of the film *coughFinalDestinationcough* then yes....I'm going to brutalize you with a golf trophy for being stupid and unoriginal. <.<This is mostly why I stick to horror games, and by that I mean NO RESIDENT EVIL....except for 1 and 4 which were the best out of the series IMO.

I love most of the Resident Evil Games. 6 was pretty good imo. Also like Clocktower and Haunting Grounds. :3

SailorMoon said
I love most of the Resident Evil Games. 6 was pretty good imo. Also like Clocktower and Haunting Grounds. :3

Clocktower and Haunting Grounds was about the only time Capcom ever made damn good horror games IMO, and I could care less for RE: 6, but to each their own. Of course my personal favorite is Silent Hill, but currently I got into playing Condemned and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, both which have kept me up for nights on end. Spec Ops: The Line (Yes I'm gonna keep harping on this game bc EVERYONE NEEDS TO PLAY IT!!) to me could be classified as horror, since most of its overall story and characters meet the criteria for a perfect horror game.

What did you two like in Paranormal Activity? The movie was so boring. It's a movie where nothing happens and then sometimes a door closes. That's the whole movie. Well that and one of the biggest douchebags ever put to film being a total douchebag the whole time. On the tenth time something was about to happen and then nothing did, I literally shouted in the theater. In frustration. Most found footage movies are by design really stupid because they are based on the conceit that you know the ending going in (the one with the camera is dead) but they all have to drum up excuses for why the person is still holding the camera instead of doing the smart thing. It even happened in Chronicle, where "Oh by the way I'm making the camera fly with my superpowers, whatever, it's cool."

As far as Saw goes, Saw was fine before they tried to get smart with it. When it was just the first guy doing his whole 'I'm teaching people to appreciate their lives' thing, that was a neat little twist on the evil serial killer. Once they started adding in helpers and it just became a vessel for traps and 'twists' it lost all of its heart and charm, The more convoluted the movies/traps got, the less interesting the movies got as a result.

And with Final Destination, with the exception of 4 and 5, I genuinely liked those movies. For different reasons. The first one, like Saw, was just an interesting concept and featured creative, but still sort of plausible deaths to fit its narrative. The second was more of the same. The third I liked because of three reasons. Mary. Elizabeth. Winstead. The fourth one was just ughhhhhhh and the fifth one tried to be cute with its ending.

There's a trend there. The trend is that the first movies in long running franchises are the 'best'. Probably because they are the most pure. Once the series goes on, it falls victim to its own expectations.

As far as horror games go...I liked Outlast before it got dumb at the end. I like my horror games to be more atmospheric, like Silent Hill. That game is so effective as a horror game because it uses its environment to create tension, which is what you want. Something like Resident Evil doesn't get me in terms of horror because they give you ammunition to deal with things. Resident Evil 6 is an action game. An action game that tries to be a greatest hits of events from its own series. Like the whole Nemesis thing from RE3 being re-used in RE6.

FATAL FRAME 2, BEST HORROR GAME.

Fabricant451 said
What did you two like in Paranormal Activity? The movie was so boring. It's a movie where nothing happens and then sometimes a door closes. That's the whole movie. Well that and one of the biggest douchebags ever put to film being a total douchebag the whole time. On the tenth time something was about to happen and then nothing did, I literally shouted in the theater. In frustration. Most found footage movies are by design really stupid because they are based on the conceit that you know the ending going in (the one with the camera is dead) but they all have to drum up excuses for why the person is still holding the camera instead of doing the smart thing. It even happened in Chronicle, where "Oh by the way I'm making the camera fly with my superpowers, whatever, it's cool." As far as Saw goes, Saw was fine before they tried to get smart with it. When it was just the first guy doing his whole 'I'm teaching people to appreciate their lives' thing, that was a neat little twist on the evil serial killer. Once they started adding in helpers and it just became a vessel for traps and 'twists' it lost all of its heart and charm, The more convoluted the movies/traps got, the less interesting the movies got as a result. And with Final Destination, with the exception of 4 and 5, I genuinely liked those movies. For different reasons. The first one, like Saw, was just an interesting concept and featured creative, but still sort of plausible deaths to fit its narrative. The second was more of the same. The third I liked because of three reasons. Mary. Elizabeth. Winstead. The fourth one was just ughhhhhhh and the fifth one tried to be cute with its ending. There's a trend there. The trend is that the first movies in long running franchises are the 'best'. Probably because they are the most pure. Once the series goes on, it falls victim to its own expectations.As far as horror games go...I liked Outlast before it got dumb at the end. I like my horror games to be more atmospheric, like Silent Hill. That game is so effective as a horror game because it uses its environment to create tension, which is what you want. Something like Resident Evil doesn't get me in terms of horror because they give you ammunition to deal with things. Resident Evil 6 is an action game. An action game that tries to be a greatest hits of events from its own series. Like the whole Nemesis thing from RE3 being re-used in RE6. FATAL FRAME 2, BEST HORROR GAME.

I liked Paranormal Activity because it makes me personally want to know more, and it's jumpy... I like being jumpy lol. x] The first one scared me a lot. I like the found footage movies USUALLY, like Cloverfield... I loved Cloverfield. I also like Jeepers Creepers(just throwing that out there). >.> I just don't have a specific taste in movies, certain things just appeal to me randomly. Final Destination was good, the fourth one was really bad though... Seemed like a Low budget Syfy film honestly.

The thing about Paranormal Activity is that (if you believe in that stuff) if a ghost or poltergeist was haunting your home, it might go a lot like that. doors closing, strange sounds, foot steps... Stuff like that.

Well the thing with Paranormal Activity is I actually experienced that stuff in my old house, so I know alot how that goes. Plus PA for me was good because it knew how to build the tension to the point of making you jump at just a little sound or disturbance. Oh and HELLS YEAH to Fatal Frame 2

I... can't handle horror stuff. ^^;

... I play a couple horror games though even though I can barely handle horror...

I couldn't handle Dead Space. :<

Also, still have not played Fatal Frame. I really want to.

Rusalka said
Well the thing with Paranormal Activity is I actually experienced that stuff in my old house, so I know alot how that goes. Plus PA for me was good because it knew how to build the tension to the point of making you jump at just a little sound or disturbance. Oh and HELLS YEAH to Fatal Frame 2

If you want tension, the first Halloween is a good choice. The original, that is. Or watch The Descent. But not the sequel. Or pick a Hitchcock movie. Or do what I do and watch Audition again. Kirikirikirikiri.

Audition is an excellent movie for tension building in horror films. The whole movie is a build to the final scenes, but the way it builds them is genuinely unnerving. You never know what is truly going on, only that something is very suspicious. And then that last ten minutes happens and it's so good.

Fabricant451 said
If you want tension, the first Halloween is a good choice. The original, that is. Or watch The Descent. But not the sequel. Or pick a Hitchcock movie. Or do what I do and watch Audition again. Kirikirikirikiri. Audition is an excellent movie for tension building in horror films. The whole movie is a build to the final scenes, but the way it builds them is genuinely unnerving. You never know what is truly going on, only that something is very suspicious. And then that last ten minutes happens and it's so good.

I love the descent! I think the sequel was pretty alright, too. :3

To speak of how good Audition is: Eli Roth finds it hard to watch.

If Eli Roth can barely watch a movie with not a lot of gore in it, it's worth watching. Seriously, Audition is such a creepy horror movie.

SailorMoon said
I couldn't handle Dead Space. :<Also, still have not played Fatal Frame. I really want to.

I bitched out on the second Dead Space after a demo, so don't feel bad. And you need to play Fatal Frame, one of the greatest Japanese horror games EVER!!! \m/ And yes I have to agree fully with Audition. Even I can't watch it, same with Ju-On.

Rusalka said
I bitched out on the second Dead Space after a demo, so don't feel bad. And you need to play Fatal Frame, one of the greatest Japanese horror games EVER!!! \m/ And yes I have to agree fully with Audition. Even I can't watch it, same with Ju-On.

So I've heard hehe. Guess I'll need to get that.

I actually found Dead Space not scary at all. Other than some mild jumpscares. Probably because in the first game Isaac was silent and I just kept imagining him as a space badass flipping off all the monsters.

Second one sorta proved my point since the first thing he does is headbutt a monster right in the face. Though the eye part freaked me out cause I have a phobia when it comes to things going in the eye. Luckily, I got that part first try.

Its weird cause video game horror Im fine, but movies I always get nightmares which makes whatever the movie is ten times worse.

I hate stuff going in the eye as well but moreso in real life.

Deadspace is scary to me because unlike a lot of horror games things didnt just come from anywhere. Like when you walk through a hall and an alien comes from the ventilation ughh omg. That game...

SailorMoon said
I hate stuff going in the eye as well but moreso in real life. Deadspace is scary to me because unlike a lot of horror games things didnt just come from anywhere. Like when you walk through a hall and an alien comes from the ventilation ughh omg. That game...

I found it fairly predictable

It's safe to say I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to horror games. That's honestly why I prefer to play horror games than to watch horror movies if I truly want to be frightened.