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terminal pharmacy 01.09.2010 06:30 PM

i put serial killers mostly because of henry: portrait of a serial killer with michael rooker and kalifornia with brad pitt (still his finest performance)...

Genteel Death 01.09.2010 06:40 PM

I like it when the villain's victims turn into murderes themselves. Or something goes wrong, like a vampire sucking blood off someone with AIDS. Also, animals and cars. Zombies often get on my tits because they look like twats.

automatic bzooty 01.09.2010 11:46 PM

zombie apocalypse y'all

phoenix 01.10.2010 12:17 AM

not a fan. horror movies gross me out and I dont get the point.

GeneticKiss 01.10.2010 12:29 AM

I picked vampires because I think goth chicks are sexy, and I like goth music.

However, Twilight is slowly but surely beginning to ruin the subgenre...

I'm not sure what Yureis are...

Toilet & Bowels 01.10.2010 08:17 PM

i like occult/religious horrors, so i guess that means demons, witches, satanists etc

Dead-Air 01.10.2010 08:20 PM

ghosts will always be the scariest because they are less obvious. really good serial killers can do that too, but movies about serial killers generally focus on the obvious ones.

Lamont Cranston 01.11.2010 03:29 AM

Body Horror

Toilet & Bowels 01.11.2010 05:30 AM

yureis are japanese ghosts

pbradley 01.11.2010 05:31 AM

I was mostly won over by the zombie archetype at some point in high school when I read Franz Kafka's *Metamorphosis* for the first time. At that point, and pretty much ever since then, I became fascinated with the idea of the inexplicable event. An event for which there was no cause. An event of absolute absurdity.

Romero's Night of the Living Dead immediately appealed to me on this intellectual level. Despite the characters attempt to give a cause to the apocalypse in order to satisfy this dimension of meaning, there simply wasn't one. The dead got up and began to eat the living.

This is why I have a strong aversion to zombie films that present contagious virus explanations or the like. Really, what's the point?

wellcharge 01.11.2010 06:05 AM

i think there's a pretty large surplus of quality zombie related films

werewolves are the coolest but there really aren't many great films about them

does serial killers include like michael myers and that type of thing? if so then that's def. number one.

i voted for werewolves because i want more of them

GeneticKiss 01.11.2010 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
yureis are japanese ghosts


Oh yeah, I should've picked up on the "rei" part...

Maybe I should change my vote to that, because it seems like a lot of Japanese spirits that hang around the Earth realm don't have good intentions for the living (cases in point: The Grudge, The Ring, Bleach, Fatal Frame)...

A Thousand Threads 01.11.2010 10:41 AM

Due to my current fascination with the figure of Lilith
i voted for Vampires.

!@#$%! 01.11.2010 11:46 AM

the only people who really scare me are the rich beyond the reach of the law (e.g. prick cheney) and real-life mafiosos. when they are combined in a single person (e.g prick cheney) their existence is truly nightmare-inducing. basically because no matter how much you could personally kick their ass and rip their pacemaker off their chests with your bruce lee fingers, fat chance even laying a hand on them before their minions get you like they got scarface.

 

nicfit 01.11.2010 03:51 PM

dolls?

SONIC GAIL 01.11.2010 04:20 PM

Serial killers. Vampires are stupid. I don't understand the facsination. Why would you want immortality? After awhile you gotta just get bored.

Keeping It Simple 01.11.2010 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SONIC GAIL
Serial killers. Vampires are stupid. I don't understand the facsination. Why would you want immortality? After awhile you gotta just get bored.


Teenagers always complain they're bored. So why not reduce the lifespan of a human to just several years to avoid the onset of boredom?

jon boy 01.11.2010 09:23 PM

anything to do with the sea or sharks and things like that gives me the chills like nothing else.

 

wellcharge 01.12.2010 10:54 PM

what movie is this from?
 

alteredcourse 01.13.2010 12:42 AM

..Total Recall ?


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