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85 days ago

When I first heard about this movie I was all for watching it. Since I am a horror fan I like to psych myself up for the movie. The documentary style was not good. If someone could get car sick off the camera motions in a movie this one is it. The plot is good, however I felt that it could have been made more into a movie than the documentary.
I do not like to watch people on cameras running through the woods from a creature (witch) that you never see. I like movies where you can size up the bad guy and place yourself into the movie and see how you would kill the bad guy. There is no way that you can get completely engulfed in this movie. have to say...hated it.

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85 days ago

I love any kind of exorcist movie. My horror collection has almost all of the main ones, I think. The first time that I got to watch the original exorcist movie I was in elementary school;let me tell you it scared me to death. I remember sleeping with the lights on for over a week. As an adult I decided that the exorcist movies must become a part of my horror collection. To this day the first movie is still the best and can still make me jump. Would not recommend allowing a child to watch it, but for adults it is a cult classic....must watch.
Now if you happen to be one who is scared or grossed out easily, then this movie is probably not for you. There is gory scenes, a lot of swearing and some inappropriate scenes.

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111 days ago

Although a huge idea was formed by the thought of humans becoming zombies, in my opinion the most terrifying movie to this day is Nightmare on Elm street the first film by wes craven. In the film he puts the idea that although someone is dead, they can still haunt you and kill you for revenge in your sleep. Your article was helpful and to the point. I am a huge fan of horror films and I completely understood what you were explaining.

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113 days ago

An epidemic causing the corpses of the recently deceased to ressurect and eat the living have 7 human survivors barricaded in an old farmhouse. As the undead gather in large numbers outside, the survivors debate on how to escape and make it through the night.

As the new millenium continues to mass produce undead flicks, Romero's groundbreaking and often immitated independent film might seem outdated but still maintains it's power to terrify with it's nightmarish atmosphere and realistic depiction of a zombie apocalypse.

Even though in my opinion, "Dawn of the Dead" will always be Romero's true masterpiece, this influential classic definitely deserves to be recognized as one of the best horror films of all time. "Night" introduced a new face of terror to the silver screen and became the first modern horror feature to emerge. Considered tame by today's standards but at it's time of release, it was considered shocking due to it's realistic and disturbing violence and gore.

Despite being similar to Richard Matheson's novel "I Am Legend", Romero created a different type of monster. Instead of the usual creatures from space, vampires or werewolves, the terrifying threat in this feature are humans. Reflecting on controversial issues such as racism, the Vietnam war and cannabalism, Romero has included a meaningful social commentary on the ugliness of human nature and that the real monster is us. And by the end of the picture, as hunting parties cruelly shoot down what used to be family and neighbors, it made me think about who was actually worse, the undead or the living humans.

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134 days ago

I never understood what about this movie people found scary, boring maybe but not scary.

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134 days ago

best horror movies of all time!!!!!

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134 days ago

i havent watched it since i was a kid but it is definitely one of the best horror movies of the 80's

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240 days ago

Like any Kubrick film, it's always interesting, occasionally fascinating, brilliant here and there. I saw it when it first came out, didn't like it much, and saw it again recently after a gap of 20 years. Surprisingly, my feelings about it haven't changed significantly. Nicholson is one of the best actors America has, but I have to agree with other reviewers I've read who have said it was a mistake to have Nicholson's character start off too-tightly wrapped, and then get progressively crazier as the film progresses. Yes, King's protagonist in the book had psychic burdens (alcoholism, an abusive childhood, anger issues, etc.), but where the book was effective (and it was often effective, although I thought it had too many ineffective parts and fell apart at the end) was in showing how an essentially normal, average man (after all, how many of us have anger and/or other issues?) becomes a monster as he meets whatever it is that possesses the Overlook Hotel. Because of Kubrick's approach to the subject matter, this contrast is never demonstrated.

There was a TV mini-series that came out a few years ago, sanctioned by King himself, that actually came closer to the essence of the book, although it had none of Kubrick's style of cinematic genius in it. I'm not a big fan of either film (or the book itself, for that matter), but it rings a lot truer to what King was trying to impart, if you're a King fan, than the Nicholson film.

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240 days ago

It's ok-- nothing more, nothing less. While I've always been ambivalent about King, I'm willing to concede that he's an entertaining...if not particularly original...storyteller, but he's not really stretching his storytelling skills with this venture into prison melodrama and soap opera. It was diverting enough while I watched it, and then I forgot about most of it minutes after having sat through it (well, ok...maybe not minutes, but certainly its after-effect...which is potent in truly classic films...is negligible here). The only truly effective part of the movie, for me, was James Whitmore. The scenes where he is paroled, tries to adapt to "civilian" life without success, and then hangs himself after carving his name into a wooden beam actually had me a bit teary-eyed. It was sad, tragic, as true to the actuality of "prison life" and its aftermath as anything that appears in this movie, but that probably had a lot more to do with Whitmore, a venerable and supremely skilled character actor, than it did with King, or Frank Darabont, who directed the film.

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240 days ago

I have never watched the whole thing, but maybe I am prejudiced. I eschew prison films, Stephen King tripe, Morgan Freeman, the kindly old Negro, and other such stomach churning items.

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