Greatest Horror movie

[Symmetry]

I would argue the second may be more sci-fi than horror. The first is more firmly entrenched in horror, imo.

-TG

Primary setting- spaceship
Secondary setting- alien planet
Primary protagonist- Ellen Ripley, human space explorer
Primary antagonist- alien life form

As you know, I know there's a bleed between genres, but Alien is sci fi first.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

I can't think of much that's more horrifying than a completely alien entity, who bleeds acid and spawns their young in host bodies, who go on to violently burst out of said body.

Horror is a mood, not a setting.

-TG

[Symmetry]

I can't think of much that's more horrifying than a completely alien entity, who bleeds acid and spawns their young in host bodies, who go on to violently burst out of said body.

Horror is a mood, not a setting.

-TG

That's fair argument.

The chest-burst scene is iconic, and shocking, but the real key is that you'te very much alone, with no escape, no reasoning with the monster, and your in space

No one can hear you scream.

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Precisely. You're trapped in a metal tube, in space, with a genuine monster who wants to rape and/or eat you.

-TG

[waauw]

I never understood why people liked to get scared.

[Army of GOD]

Alien is sci fi horror, Aliens is sci fi adventure


just because it happens in a space ship doesn't mean it isn't horror

[tzor]

I see a basic problem here in the confusing of "horror" and "gross out." The later is not the former. The greatest horror movies actually had very little gross out in them because the human mind can gross itself out far better than any image on the screen. People are scared of that which is just beyond the corner of their eyes, not that which lies in front of their face.

P.S. If you spend half of the movie cursing at the idiots who are in the movie, it's not horror either. Cursing at one or two is fine. The guy at the gas station who lights a cigarette in "The BIrds" and blows himself up really deserved to die and half of the trapped people were also screaming at him as well, so it's a plot device.

Answer: Any Hitchcock movie.

[Symmetry]

I see a basic problem here in the confusing of "horror" and "gross out." The later is not the former. The greatest horror movies actually had very little gross out in them because the human mind can gross itself out far better than any image on the screen. People are scared of that which is just beyond the corner of their eyes, not that which lies in front of their face.

P.S. If you spend half of the movie cursing at the idiots who are in the movie, it's not horror either. Cursing at one or two is fine. The guy at the gas station who lights a cigarette in "The BIrds" and blows himself up really deserved to die and half of the trapped people were also screaming at him as well, so it's a plot device.

Answer: Any Hitchcock movie.

Interesting- I know It's been parodied a lot, but do you see a lot of horror movies as supernatural punishment plays?

I agree with you on the gross out element though.

[muy_thaiguy]

Would Jason Voorhees be an (almost) semi-redeemable slasher/horror film antagonist?

Key word; almost.

[Symmetry]

Would Jason Voorhees be an (almost) semi-redeemable slasher/horror film antagonist?

Key word; almost.

I'm not even sure the franchise is redeemable.

[jonesthecurl]

I can't think of much that's more horrifying than a completely alien entity, who bleeds acid and spawns their young in host bodies, who go on to violently burst out of said body.

Horror is a mood, not a setting.

-TG

That's fair argument.

The chest-burst scene is iconic, and shocking, but the real key is that you'te very much alone, with no escape, no reasoning with the monster, and your in space

No one can hear you scream.

The original movie posters read "IN Space No one Can Hear You Scream. In Dolby Stereo"

[Bernie Sanders]

Evil Dead, for the tree raping scene. Very original and a true classic!

[TA1LGUNN3R]

K but you linked the shitty remake. Without Bruce it's just a regular slasher movie.

You suck.

-TG

[muy_thaiguy]

K but you linked the shitty remake. Without Bruce it's just a regular slasher movie.

You suck.

-TG

This.

[Symmetry]

I can't think of much that's more horrifying than a completely alien entity, who bleeds acid and spawns their young in host bodies, who go on to violently burst out of said body.

Horror is a mood, not a setting.

-TG

That's fair argument.

The chest-burst scene is iconic, and shocking, but the real key is that you'te very much alone, with no escape, no reasoning with the monster, and your in space

No one can hear you scream.

The original movie posters read "IN Space No one Can Hear You Scream. In Dolby Stereo"

That's awesome.