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On an almost related note, I realized I forget to mention one of my favorite horror movies from recent years. It's a rare case where they took a Stephen King short story and actually improved it. "1408" was great, and Cusak with Jackson were a perfect team for it. It's a great ghost story because rather than try to explain how a ghost came to be haunting some house or whatnot, they just got straight to the point. The fricking room is haunted, and it can manifest in any damn way it feels like. And the best part was that it wouldn't kill you; just try to drive you as totally insane as it could so you ended up killing yourself.
It's pretty creative for a ghost story. It never lets the victim have more than a few moments to recover from its last bit of mental chainsawing before it hits him with the next. It goes back the roots of psychological terror that Hollywood has mostly lost these days. In the spirit of full disclosure, I will admit to being a fan of Cusak's since "Better off Dead", but I still think it was a good flick.
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No! I don't understand people who say they like to be scared. Yikes! Not me. But my teen sometimes forces me to watch --- from behind a pillow.
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I find most of them entertaining. The older ones, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead .... are some of my picks. Though horror is not my favorite genre, I tend to like dramas better.
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I love Horror movies the most out of any genre. I mostly like the original movies and hate the remakes. My fav movie of all time is Halloween. Nothing can beat that movie, especially as an original. I have all the Halloween movies. I have over 6,000 movies and the majority of them are horror. When my mother died about 6 years ago, she left me two boxes of her classic horror movies that are on VHS. I want to find the machine that will help me to record these movies on DVD. You can quote any movie and most likely I have seen it and know who the actors are who played in the movie.
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I agree with Moondarlin - I enjoy horror movies - but I prefer the ghosty ones and not the slasher type string-em-up by the cojones before cutting them off types. Halloween (the original Jamie Lee Curtis wearing clogs version) kind of cross-genres in that regard and I really liked it. The Ring was good but then the horror directors got all into using that goofy - looks like the main character or ghost is having a seizure - type of imagery which became boring. I enjoyed American Werewolf in London - it was great.
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