Cult Horror Films

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blood sucking freaks was pretty funny s&m exploitation horror

I thought Bloodsucking Freaks was horrible by itself, but certainly worth watching to claim you bore witness to it. The same might be said of I Spit on Your Grave, except I haven't actually seen that yet.

My favorite cult horror movies are the Evil Dead films, especially the second one, and the first two zombie films of George A. Romero, especially Dawn of the Dead. Dead Alive and Re-Animator are also highly recomended.

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Loved both of those though I haven't seen The Bad Seed in ages.



For some reason, Dawn of the Dead is my least favorite of the original trio. I haven't seen the new version yet. Night of the Living Dead is just a classic and I loved Bub in Day of the Dead.

i like the movie "it"

My mother always thought BSF was a real snuff film, in particular the famous brain scene. I dunno, I find alot of horror films to be funny. Sometimes disturbing though. I Spit On Your Grave is out on DVD here, so it's a good chance you can get it in the US.

Evil Dead trilogy rocks, but I think that's like a given on every cult horror film list. The movies of Bava, Castle, Carpenter, Argento and David Cronenberg are always there too.

Others good ones:

The Golem
Cube
Halloween
Nosferatu
A Chinese Ghost Story
The Exorcist
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A Nightmare On Elm Street
Hellraiser
Rosemary's Baby
The Thing

There's heaps more but I'll limit myself for now

Dude "IT" is awesome! I also enjoy watching:

1. Evil Dead
2. Carrie
3. Dawn of the Dead (1978 version)
4. The Exorcist
5. Omen
6.The Devil's Rejects (The first one was okay)
7. Demons 1 through 4 (Dario Argento's films)

I'm never sure whether some of the films i like and consider to be "horror" films are actually considered "horror" by film critics or the majority of their audience...

one absolute cult classic tho is Tod Browning's "Freaks", a black and white film from 1932, which is the only film i know of that is regarded as a "cult classic" by film studies/cinematography students, the romantic goth scene and the disability movement...

the actors who played the circus freaks in it were all genuine disabled people who had (at least most of them) actually been exploited in circus freakshows... (useless piece of movie trivia: the knife-throwing dwarf character was played, in his first film role, by the same actor whose last film role was Master Blaster in "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome")

"Jacob's Ladder" is another one of my favourite films which i'm not sure whether it should be classified within the "horror" genre or not... it's definitely a head trip tho

(i made plans once with a few people to get together and watch "Jacob's Ladder", "Perfect Blue" (the anime), "Donnie Darko" and "Twelve Monkeys" one after the other... for some reason or other it never happened, but i'd still like to do it one day... )

for some reason the gore/slasher genre of horror films don't scare me at all, in fact they tend to bore me really... it takes trippy or monstrous/paranormal elements (demons, aliens, ghosts, vampires, psychic powers, etc) in a horror film to really interest me... and the ones i regard as true "classics" need to have an element of social satire too...

I would say most of my listed films aren't big gore or slasher films. Besides of course Dawn of The Dead which was extremely violent but also scary as well. I too love the parabnormal elements to a film than a slasher film. Actually I love a film that neutrally have both big gore and parabnormal elements working equally. A balance between the two usually result in an amazing horror film.

Freaks when it first came out was sold as a horror/early exploitation but now we look back on it with a different view. The monsters aren't the 'freaks', they're the normals. Browning in fact came to see his 'performers' as good friends and almost a tight-knit family during the production, which in itself, is another comment on this notion.

Have seen I Spit On Your Grave (back when I was with a horror movie fiend)-such an awful, excruciating flick that I blocked it all out.
Great little-known film that balances both satisfying plot & gross-out horror, along with quirky memorable characters: Ed and his Dead Mother.
Starring Steve Buscemi, Ned Beatty, John Glover, Miriam Margoles (can't spell her name-played "The Spanish Infanta" in a Blackadder episode).
I highly recommend it.

I didnt think 'I spit on your Grave' was a very good either. Intensely disturbing, but otherwise redundant. Some people argue that it raises awareness of rape, but its totally unrealistic - the first half is powerful in a 'mentally-blocking-it-all-out' way. But you couldnt possibly write a less accurate portayal of PTSD and the aftermath of violent sexual assault.

'Irreversible' is supposedly the superior film of the 'rape & revenge' genre, but ive not seen it. Sounds much the same as the above.

I think i know what you mean, i used to view certain films as some sort of challenge, or life experience. But now ive completely lost my appetite.

I think a few years ago, i was ok. But since then ive met people IRL who have been (or might again be) raped/tortured/killed or forced to watch relatives undergo the same. Its not fantasy anymore- most mainstream stuff is harmless enough, but the stronger expoitation films (or documentaries) make me feel a small part of me just died.

Fright Night
April Fool's Day-What a twist ending that was!
The Others
The Ring-that bathtub scene creeped me out!

I hate the Ring. I only got to see 10 minutes of it, though, because I was watching it with my friend who saw it in the theatres. I'm not really sure why she rented it to watch again. I think she forgot how scared got when she saw it the first time. The girl in the movie is so disgusting. I read the script, however; it was probably much worse because, usually, what I come up with in my head is way worse than the actual movie. Because of this, I am now afraid of wells, girls with long black hair, brushing my hair while looking in the mirror (I think there was a scene like that in the "video"), tvs turned to a channel which produces static, and the manga Ringu, which I flip through every time I go to Walden's book store. It's really stupid; I actually seek it out and flip through it.

I don't know if these are considered "horror movies", but I am a huge fan of M. Night Shamalyan's movies, especially The Sixth Sense. The pseudo-documentary on Shamalyan was also very entertaining. Other than that, I'm not really a horror movie fan.

The ring f****d me up. I mean, the whole thing is tolerable except for the faces of the people who got killed. I know that is what scared me to hell, because my memory has blocked it out. Ive got the video from the ring. I think in the video what is actually the scariest thing is that faint light hearted music playing in the back ground the whole time. *shudder*

The grudge screws with me because it is a horror movie where the premise is you're f****d! Usually in horror movies there is like a solution or a trick or some form of hope, but NO. That very idea screws with me.

But for me, the movie which I can't watch, kills me every time, is Cabin Fever. Every time I SEE the word cabin or fever now, i instantly get disturbed. And every time I see the cover of the movie, I am disturbed. And every time i go to the movie rental store, I can spot the cover from 100 feet away. Even when I was renting porn with my friend for a party we were having we ran across a movie called something like "Hot island fever vixins blah blah blah" and I shuddered visibly.

I got a thing about faces...