Greatest Horror movie ever

carebears!:eek: well freaked me out as a kid!

As a 10-year-old, seeing An American Werewolf in London for the first time scared the bejesus out of me!

The sequel was crap, though!

The Hound Of The Baskervilles

The pyramid was originally to be used in Alien instead of the ship they found, but budget problems killed it off. I’ll hopefulyl see the trailer next week 😀 Yes, rumors do abound that predaliens WILL appear in the movie.

The current iteration has some scientist types exploring a pyramid thing and finding Aliens. Dunno how the Predators fit in yet.

Oh cool, the pyramid thing is a bit gripping. Was it a space ship or a pyramid building? Can you describe the trailer in detail? Any signs of Pred-Aliens?

I only hope anderson does’nt make a joke out of a very established and provocative series.

Channel 4 is showing its Top 100 Scariest Moments next Saturday… Interesting to see what they feature that hasn’t been mentioned here – or laughed off the thread!!!

Flood.

greatest horror movie? Try watching my neighbours holiday movie from Egypt! The neighbour in a bikini… 😮

I cant believe no one has mentioned “Poltergeist” scared the living $h1t out of me…”THEY’RE HERE” aaaaahhhhhh, the second and third ones weren’t that good though, other than that some of the quatermass films were good.

dezz 😮

Is that the remake, or the original Chainsaw?

The Exorcist, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead all are great flicks.

I saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre yesterday.

I recommend it to any horror fan. It’s an A film.

Seen that, but the storyline they quote is wrong. The current iteration has some scientist types exploring a pyramid thing and finding Aliens. Dunno how the Predators fit in yet.

Paul Anderson (Event Horizon) is directing

That’s a disappointment since IMO, Event horizon is one of the worst movies ever. Mortal Kombat despite the nice music, sucked as well, perhaps one of the worst directed movies of all time, terribly amateurish. You can add Soldier to the craplist as well. Resident evil was a bit of an improvement though.

Anyway, I found this (further disappointments in bold)

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,10246,00.html

Alien, Predator Get It On!

by Josh Grossberg
Jul 15, 2002, 2:15 PM PT

Forget Godzilla vs. Mothra. A far nastier fight is brewing on the big screen.

Can you say Alien vs. Predator?

The long-in-development flick combining two of Hollywood’s baddest space-monster franchises looks like it’s finally getting off the drawing board.

Resident Evil director Paul Anderson has been tapped to direct the film for 20th Century Fox, Daily Variety reports.

The tussle should be a good one. Introduced in 1979’s Alien, the jaw-dropping, acid-blooded insectoid race probably would have taken over the universe by now if it wasn’t for the heroic efforts of Sigourney Weaver. And Arnold Schwarzenegger nearly had his butt kicked before thwarting the human-hunting, Rasta-like warrior in 1987’s Predator.

The idea of pitting the two evil E.T.s against each other initially came from Dark Horse Comics, which published an Aliens vs. Predator comic book in 1990.

The series proved to be a hit, attracting the attention of Fox execs. In 1999, Fox Interactive had a huge videogame hit with Aliens vs. Predator–gamers had the choice of playing an alien, a predator or a plucky space marine–and which recently spawned the sequel, Aliens vs. Predator 2.

Still, the Alien vs. Predator film has remained on the drawing board at Fox for more than a decade, with several scripts coming and going, and producers of both Alien and Predator choosing to keep their franchises separate. (About the closest we’ve come to the battle royale was a brief shot of an alien skull among the trophy collection of the predator in 1990’s Predator 2.)

Now, Fox is eager to breathe some life into both franchises. While the Ridley Scott-helmed original Alien earned a solid $79 million domestically in 1979 and James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens grossed $85.2 million, the latter two installments underwhelmed. David Fincher’s Alien3 pulled in just $55.5 million in 1993 and Jean-Paul Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection did about $48 million domestically. Likewise, the first Predator earned nearly $60 million in North America, while its sequel managed just $30.7 million.

Overseeing the project will be original Predator producers Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon, and John Davis as well as David Giler and Walter Hill, who produced all four Alien films.

During a Q&A session at the London premiere of Resident Evil last week, Anderson revealed that he was tweaking a script, but the British filmmaker offered few details.

According to Variety, the story line will focus on a group of human scientists on a distant planet who become snacks after they decide to do a little genetic engineering on some alien and predator specimens. (AvP-2’s story)

With Alien vs. Predator getting the greenlight, the much-rumored Alien 5 seems to be on the shelf. The project purportedly would have returned either Scott or Cameron to the helm with Weaver reprising her role as Ripley. It seems doubtful the actress will have a hand in the new film.

While not a name director like the other Alien filmmakers, Anderson seems a decent fit for directing a project that has roots in a videogame. Aside from game-to-movie Resident Evil, he also adapted Mortal Kombat to the big screen. His résumé also includes the sci-fi stinkers Soldier (which, coincidentally, was turned into a videogame) and Event Horizon.

Fans, meanwhile, aren’t sold on the choice.

“I am not going to see it. It’s pathetic, Fox was bickering for so long over it, and now they get a lame director to make the movie. I am disgusted,” GWPredWarrior20 writes on an Alien message board.

“Uniting two totally unrelated alien characters in a contrived team-up scenario has yet to spawn anything truly amazing…so why should this flick suddenly turn out any different,” writes Belshy in another post. “I’ll watch it, and no, my hopes won’t be high…But if it’s good, I’ll be extremely happy and will then buy the DVD. I’ll probably buy it anyway.”

And if Alien vs. Predator doesn’t work out, there’s always Superman vs. Batman.

Originally posted by atc pal
The Sixth Sence with Bruce Willis gets my vote.

Very disturbing twist at the end. Less can be more. 😮

atc pal

If you liked “The Sixth Sense” , you should see “The Others” (Nicole Kidman), very spooky in the classic ghost story sense and a similar thing going on to “The Sixth Sense” plot wise, but different.

Tension: The Others

Disturbing: Jacob’s Ladder

Creature Feature: The Thing

Shock Value: Evil Dead II

Classic Horror: Nosferatu The Vampyre (either version)

Shlock Horror: Scary Movie

Comedy Horror: Young Frankenstein

Tension: Pyscho

Disturbing: Omen

Creature Feature: Alien

Shock Value: Halloween

If it says Alien or Predator, I try and find it. That includes the entire run of the Dark Horse comics 😀

Aliens vs. Predator has been stop and go for a while, but got greenlighted and entered production this year. Paul Anderson (Event Horizon) is directing, Lance Henriksen is in the movie, and filming commences (or commenced) sometime this month in Europe.

The Space Jockey is the generic name for the big dead guy in Alien, inside the derelict ship.

AvsP2, AvsP1, Alien Resurrection, Alien Trilogy, Alien 3…got all them games. Great fun 😀

Anyone mildly interested in the Alien series would have played AvP-2. Never could completely understand the story though.

BTW What the hell is a space jockey? Unofficial versions include explanations about the xenomorphs being engineered by them. In the boss level of AvP-2, it’s said “Whoever built this place must have been breeding them…” and you eventual do encounter another space jockey where the Queen is.

Hopefully Alien-5 will explain a lot instead of BS storylines like “cloning.”

Then there are a lot of (dark horse) comics as well – Batman vs Aliens, Superman vs Aliens, Judge dredd vs Aliens, Green lantern vs Aliens … Has anyone got hold of one of those?

The Alien vs. Predator movie trailer will be shown before it…

That age old project was supposed to have been abandoned. Does this mean that the movie’s back?

The Sixth Sence with Bruce Willis gets my vote.

Very disturbing twist at the end. Less can be more. 😮

atc pal

Alien 3 was the result of too many people trying to do too many things, and at the last minute they realized they had no script and threw that one together using bits and pieces of other ideas (one had Ripley stranded on a wooden space monastery station…). Fincher has been reviled for “killing the franchise” but when you know the story behind what he had to work with, the movie seems Oscar worthy 😀

That being said, the atmosphere and visuals in the third were outstanding, as was the soundtrack, but the model alien they used for the running shots just didn’t cut it. They tried to get a little too high tech methinks.

Now the science they based the fourth movie on, that was total BS. No way a clone has memories :rolleyes:

Traditionally the Boris Karloff Frankenstein is what they are usually judged against; it has the “authentic” look of a 1930s horror film – even if it is somewhat creaky now. Never took to Kenneth Branagh much – always seemed to be at the forefront of the new wave of British ‘Luvvies’, dahling, too into himself!
Hammer films were always amusingly ‘camp’ – but they did bring so many famous faces to the screen for (possibly) the first time(-ish!).

Have to wonder where horror can go from here, the present, now.

Flood. (Hello Anna!)