thetruth4 Wrote: Texas Chainsaw Massacare - Just downright scary for its time, + insipred by a true story so created more tension.

Hmm not a bad idea for a moring thread. But before I respond I'd like to clarify that little tibit about the Texas chainsaw Massacre. Yes it was inspired by real events. But not what everyone thinks.

TCM was inspired by Ed Gein, not some random chainsaw murdering freak like everyone seems to believe. There never was a house full of jars filled with random bones. The truth is that Ed Gein was a man who killed his parents and kept some of their body parts in his fridge. He also went on a bit of a killing spree killing gay men that he lured back to his apartment. The parts that "inspired" TCM was the fact that he kept and ate body parts of his victims.


Anywho...

Halloween - Although many of it's sequels are hit or miss, Micheal Myers was the original silent slasher.

Nightmare on Elm Street - Another series with some lackluster sequels, but my favorite of all of the slashers. Freddy was the man, is the man, and will forever be the man.

Friday the 13th - Like you said, he owns the body count record. But thinking about it, the fact that he took the hockey mask in part 3 is really what made him an icon. He probably wouldn't have had as many movies if he had kept the potato sack from part 2.

Hellraiser - This movie kind of made horror movies into a twisted form of art. It was probably one of the first horror movies I ever saw that used religion in a way that wasn't cheesy.

Se7en - Although rather recent and not really a horror movie, it did provide hope that the genre still had life left in it. Plus, I doubt a movie like Saw wouldn't have been made without the inspiration of Se7en(seeing has how the murders are almost a complete rip off from Se7en).

skeletonofsociety Wrote: thetruth4 Wrote: Texas Chainsaw Massacare - Just downright scary for its time, + insipred by a true story so created more tension. Hmm not a bad idea for a moring thread. But before I respond I'd like to clarify that little tibit about the Texas chainsaw Massacre. Yes it was inspired by real events. But not what everyone thinks. TCM was inspired by Ed Gein, not some random chainsaw murdering freak like everyone seems to believe. There never was a house full of jars filled with random bones. The truth is that Ed Gein was a man who killed his parents and kept some of their body parts in his fridge. He also went on a bit of a killing spree killing gay men that he lured back to his apartment. The parts that "inspired" TCM was the fact that he kept and ate body parts of his victims. Anywho... Halloween - Although many of it's sequels are hit or miss, Micheal Myers was the original silent slasher. Yeh thanks for the scope on TCM, and yeh the first Halloween owned.

the exorcist, and the omen 1,2,3? demons, devils and so on...

Predator- Just a classic sci-fi/horror flick

Halloween- Micheal Myers is my favorite horror icon

Hellraiser- Great horror scenes

Wrong Turn- No where close to being up to par with the rest of my list, but it was just an all around hilarious and sometimes suspensfull movie

Nightmare on Elm Street- Classic... great horror flicks

(SOME)Friday the 13th- Like some (not all) of the Friday the 13th movies
Edit: Thanks to whoever messed the format of the thread up.

Ohh add The Shining to my list. Let it not go unsaid that Jack Nicholson can be the scariest man alive if he chooses.

UREIKO Wrote: Wrong Turn- No where close to being up to par with the rest of my list, but it was just an all around hilarious and sometimes suspensfull movie

I remember that half-cap scene with the axe quite well. It was pretty sweet. Actually it could make a good Kung Lao fatality now that i think about it.

I can't believe nobody has mentioned the classics yet! Dracula, Frakenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc. I know they're not scary or gory, but without them we probably wouldn't have the modern classics we all know and love.

Wolfman still kicks some ass!

The Exoricst

Nighmare on elm street

evil dead

friday the 13th

Halloween

All the old classics (noferaru and frankenstein and stuff)

DrCube Wrote: I can't believe nobody has mentioned the classics yet! Dracula, Frakenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, etc. I know they're not scary or gory, but without them we probably wouldn't have the modern classics we all know and love. Wolfman still kicks some ass!

I can't believe he's the only one that mentinoed the classics! Let's not forget Nosferatu! Without these classics, all these other movies wouldn't have come to pass.


GD

Don't cry everyone cause I know this is the ALL TIME SCARIEST!!!!!!!!!!!!GILI!!!!AAAAAHHHHHHHHH.

But seriously for me the less talking the killer does the scarier they are so Jason and Friday the 13th are my runner up (just cause they got campy du dun dun ting **sorry bout the play on words) to the Movie that scared and still scares me the most. Halloween and Michael Myers. Maybe cause he's never "DIED" and that it is from a real story of a guy in Illinois that did the same thing (Original of course) and is still alive in a looney bin. I'm from Illinois and close to where the story originated. **Whether it's true or not I don't care cause it makes me more scared and I love it.

The Shining was horrific. And I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, but I think that the Blair Witch Project is quite influential on the horror genre. There truly is no movie like it, and very few that play on the fear of the unknown that exists in the human psyche the way it did. It's strange to me that so many people hated it. I was scared out of my mind!

Psycho- A classic and forever altered that way people took showers. It's theme music has been copied and immitated for years. Actually, to this day.

Exorcist- Although it may seem tame now, back then this was a fucked up movie. Set a new standard for horror movies.

Halloween- Although I personally didn't care for any of the Halloween movies, it did start the slasher genre and Myers was the first modern "monster."

Friday the 13th- Halloween started the slasher genre, Friday the 13th set the standard. Just about every lovable, cheesey slasher cliche can be traced to these classics of the 80s.

Shining- I think should mentioned because this movie was so scary with so little. Nothing would be happening, but you were freaked out.

Alien- Before this the sci-fi horror movies were mostly giant insects or giant globs of jello. After watching this you think maybe we don't want to know what's out there.

Scream- The first of the "smart ass" slasher movies. For better or worse, IMO for worse, this was THE influence of just about every horror movie to come after it.

Halloween Series

Friday The 13th Series

Hellraiser Series

A Nightmare on Elmstreet Series

The Original Psycho

The Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Evil Dead

Evil Dead 2

Army of Darkness

Night of The Living Dead

Dawn of The Dead (Original)

Day of the Dead

Phantasm

skeletonofsociety Wrote: TCM was inspired by Ed Gein, not some random chainsaw murdering freak like everyone seems to believe. There never was a house full of jars filled with random bones. The truth is that Ed Gein was a man who killed his parents and kept some of their body parts in his fridge. He also went on a bit of a killing spree killing gay men that he lured back to his apartment. The parts that "inspired" TCM was the fact that he kept and ate body parts of his victims.

What the hell are you talking about Ed Gein never killed his parents. First off Ed Gein worshiped his mother and feared her but when she died he started to steal bodies from the graves and cut parts of there body off and use it for decorations. He really only killed two people in his life and they were women. He also live in a farm house and never lured gay men into his apartment(he didn't even have one).

Here is more about him.
In an interview whilst under investigation in 1957, Gein stated to Earl Kileen, the District Attorney, that after his mother died he began to have strange visions. He confessed to wanting to see a woman's body. So he went to the cemetery to talk to his mother. He then dug up the body of a woman who had just been buried, and took it home. He stated that after that, he would watch the newspapers for obituaries of woman and go and open their graves. He did this for around 10 ten years, and raided many many graves.

During this time Gein became virtually a total recluse. It has been said that Edward had been experiencing signs of agoraphobia.

On December 9 1954, Mary Hogan, a 54 year old tavern owner of Pine Grove, Wisconsin disappeared. She was never seen alive again.

On November 16 1957, Edward Geins farmhouse was entered by Law Enforcement Officers. They were investigating a disappearance of another woman. They were then joined by the Pine Grove Police, who were still working on the case of Mary Hogan.

Edward Gein was locked up while the officers entered the farmhouse. Led by Sheriff Arthur Schley they found what appeared to be masks made out of human faces. There was also many heads, some stuffed with newspaper, some soaked in oil. The police thought that the oil was to keep the skin from decaying. Then in a brown paper bag a deputy found the head of Mary Hogan.

The Sheriff from nearby Portage County was convinced that Gein was a mass murderer, saying that even though the masks had traces of formaldehyde on them, so did Mary Hogan's and they knew he killed her. He also raised the point that Gein could not have moved the heavy headstones to get to the caskets.

The Portage County D.A. Kileen then ordered a body of Mrs Eleanor Adam's, who was in the grave next to Augusta Gein exhumed. They found the casket had been placed in a much larger box starting two feet underground. They concluded that the grave had been tampered with. They conceded that Gein would not have had much trouble digging up the casket if the grave had been freshly dug.

Other things reported to have been found at the house included the genitalia of many women (which he kept in salt); a can of Doctor Pepper containing congealed liquid believed to be blood; a belt made of nipples; a skull made into a soup bowl (Gein claimed to have got the idea from a Norwegian custom); and a mobile made of noses. There were also lampshades and chair seats made from human skin.

I have read that the fridge was stocked with human organs. The sensationalists of the day claim that Gein would eat them. However, when asked about cannibalism Gein is quoted as saying
" Eating the flesh and drinking the blood? ..... I never felt capable of doin' that. That's a catholic thing isn't it? I don't think my mother would have approved."

No doubt it's Michael Myers!!! Best Horror Character EVER!!


Also has anybody seen Hell's Night with Linda Blair That's a great Horror Movie!

Psychokinesis Wrote: skeletonofsociety Wrote: TCM was inspired by Ed Gein, not some random chainsaw murdering freak like everyone seems to believe. There never was a house full of jars filled with random bones. The truth is that Ed Gein was a man who killed his parents and kept some of their body parts in his fridge. He also went on a bit of a killing spree killing gay men that he lured back to his apartment. The parts that "inspired" TCM was the fact that he kept and ate body parts of his victims. What the hell are you talking about Ed Gein never killed his parents. First off Ed Gein worshiped his mother and feared her but when she died he started to steal bodies from the graves and cut parts of there body off and use it for decorations. He really only killed two people in his life and they were women. He also live in a farm house and never lured gay men into his apartment(he didn't even have one). Here is more about him. In an interview whilst under investigation in 1957, Gein stated to Earl Kileen, the District Attorney, that after his mother died he began to have strange visions. He confessed to wanting to see a woman's body. So he went to the cemetery to talk to his mother. He then dug up the body of a woman who had just been buried, and took it home. He stated that after that, he would watch the newspapers for obituaries of woman and go and open their graves. He did this for around 10 ten years, and raided many many graves. During this time Gein became virtually a total recluse. It has been said that Edward had been experiencing signs of agoraphobia. On December 9 1954, Mary Hogan, a 54 year old tavern owner of Pine Grove, Wisconsin disappeared. She was never seen alive again. On November 16 1957, Edward Geins farmhouse was entered by Law Enforcement Officers. They were investigating a disappearance of another woman. They were then joined by the Pine Grove Police, who were still working on the case of Mary Hogan. Edward Gein was locked up while the officers entered the farmhouse. Led by Sheriff Arthur Schley they found what appeared to be masks made out of human faces. There was also many heads, some stuffed with newspaper, some soaked in oil. The police thought that the oil was to keep the skin from decaying. Then in a brown paper bag a deputy found the head of Mary Hogan. The Sheriff from nearby Portage County was convinced that Gein was a mass murderer, saying that even though the masks had traces of formaldehyde on them, so did Mary Hogan's and they knew he killed her. He also raised the point that Gein could not have moved the heavy headstones to get to the caskets. The Portage County D.A. Kileen then ordered a body of Mrs Eleanor Adam's, who was in the grave next to Augusta Gein exhumed. They found the casket had been placed in a much larger box starting two feet underground. They concluded that the grave had been tampered with. They conceded that Gein would not have had much trouble digging up the casket if the grave had been freshly dug. Other things reported to have been found at the house included the genitalia of many women (which he kept in salt); a can of Doctor Pepper containing congealed liquid believed to be blood; a belt made of nipples; a skull made into a soup bowl (Gein claimed to have got the idea from a Norwegian custom); and a mobile made of noses. There were also lampshades and chair seats made from human skin. I have read that the fridge was stocked with human organs. The sensationalists of the day claim that Gein would eat them. However, when asked about cannibalism Gein is quoted as saying " Eating the flesh and drinking the blood? ..... I never felt capable of doin' that. That's a catholic thing isn't it? I don't think my mother would have approved."

Sorry, must have gotten Jeffry Dahmer mixed with Ed Gain....I've gotta stop posting when I'm deprived of sleep.....

Friday The 13th - Jason = PWNAGE!
Halloween - More on the "realistic" side horror, especially parts 1 and 2. Great films.
Nightmare On Elm Street - Different horror style than theothers, thats why i love his movies alot.
Hellraiser - What more can i say besides BAD ASS? Gore, disturbing scenes, voilence.....everything i'd expect in a horror movie.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original and one of my favourites. Its based on true events which makes me like the series even MORE.
ChildsPlay - Chucky's movies inspired alot of the doll and killer puppet movies. Like Freddy, different from the others. Despite what anyone sais, i love chucky's movies.
Children Of The Corn - R0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0x0z0z0z0z0rz!
Living Dead - T3h Zh17x0rz
CandyMan - Old classic, another favourite. Great plot.
Psycho - I liked the original. This movie inspired Halloween.
Black Christmas - Another great movie i like. Also inspired Halloween
Dawn Of The Dead - One of my favourite Zombie movies.
Hannibal - See Leatherface.