Go Back   Horror.com Forums - Talk about horror. > Horror.com Lobby > Horror.com General Forum
Register FAQ Community Calendar

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #11  
Old 12-02-2005, 10:34 PM
The STE's Avatar
The STE The STE is offline
The Emperor of America
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Dr. Zaius
Posts: 7,670
Send a message via AIM to The STE
Metropolis wasn't a horror movie.
__________________

===

WATCH MY MOVIES(UPDATED: 5/7/08, "No Exit")
RING OF HONOR: BEST WRESTLING IN THE WORLD


TOO GOOD FOR THE HDC BATTLE ROYALE
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 12-03-2005, 12:37 AM
slasherman's Avatar
slasherman slasherman is offline
.
 
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Norway
Posts: 4,026
Quote:
Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
60s- Psycho
70s- Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Halloween*
90s- Sixth Sense
2000- Ringu**
I would have placed "Ringu" in the 90's....
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 12-03-2005, 03:15 AM
komi's Avatar
komi komi is offline
Evil Dead
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Bosnia => Sarajevo
Posts: 117
metropolis horror??? maybe for capitalists :D :D :D

for me most influential movie is scream in 90. Freddy in 80. texas chainsaw in 70. NOTLD in 60.
__________________
Dr. Obrero: The patient's screaming disturbing me, performed removal of vocal chords.
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 12-03-2005, 04:24 AM
Inspector Abber's Avatar
Inspector Abber Inspector Abber is offline
Spirit Hunter
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 262
60's Dracula by Hammer, brought the genre back to life
70's Exorcist, no Q, even though there was stiff competition from Omen, TCSM, Alien
80's I' say American Werewolf in london.
90's Ringu
00 - Too early to say yet.
__________________
It's Abberline! AbberLINE!
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old 12-03-2005, 05:15 AM
zwoti's Avatar
zwoti zwoti is offline
Super Moderator


 
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 9,971
where to start

Quote:
Originally posted by Inspector Abber
60's Dracula by Hammer, brought the genre back to life
1958, sequels pale in comparison to the first

Quote:
Originally posted by slasherman
I would have placed "Ringu" in the 90's....
1998

Quote:
Originally posted by The STE
Metropolis wasn't a horror movie.
he's right

Quote:
Originally posted by The STE
Nosferatu and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
he's right again
Reply With Quote
  #16  
Old 12-03-2005, 01:47 PM
Zero's Avatar
Zero Zero is offline
whatever gets you through
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In a big tree
Posts: 7,871
i've mentioned this one before but. . . one of my favorite books about horror films talks about exactly this question. the book is titled Projected Fears and the list of most "influential" horror films in american history is:

Dracula (1931)
The Thing (1951)
Psycho (1960)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Exorcist (1973) & Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 - the book actually talks about these two together)
Halloween (1978)
Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Scream (1996)
and, The Sixth Sense (1999)

it wouldnt' have been my list, but the book makes a very compelling case for each.
__________________
Winner HDC Battle Royale I & HDC Battle Royale IV
Reply With Quote
  #17  
Old 12-03-2005, 02:55 PM
Sukie's Avatar
Sukie Sukie is offline
Undead
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Orange, Califronia
Posts: 53
Maybe not the most influential, but Alien was for me because Ripley fought instead of being the victim, and she won. Really really dug that.....................
Reply With Quote
  #18  
Old 12-03-2005, 02:57 PM
filmmaker2's Avatar
filmmaker2 filmmaker2 is offline
Backyard Waterfall
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Horrorwood, Karloffornia
Posts: 3,401
from the 20's and 30's, I'd mention...

Nosferatu
Phantom of the Opera
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
King Kong
Frankenstein
Freaks

Couldn't really name any movie that was "most" influential because it's a continuum...We wouldn't have NOTLD had not other stuff come before it and paved the way, for example. We wouldn't have had Star Wars without Flash Gordon and King Kong, etc. But it's nice to make lists of things that were ALL influential in their own individual ways...
Reply With Quote
  #19  
Old 12-03-2005, 06:27 PM
Doc Faustus's Avatar
Doc Faustus Doc Faustus is offline
Mephistophiliac

 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 4,999
Send a message via AIM to Doc Faustus
I guess you're right about Metropolis. I thought Caligari was before the 20's, which is why I hadn't thought of it. I think we can pretty much say Germany in the 20s was changing every genre out there. I can see where the book is coming from on Sixth Sense. It revived PG-13 horror, and that has been something of a force to be reckoned with at the box office in recent years. I don't know if I'd stand behind Scream, though. It states the obvious a lot.
Reply With Quote
  #20  
Old 12-11-2005, 03:57 AM
Thomasgeorge's Avatar
Thomasgeorge Thomasgeorge is offline
R.I.P NUTS ARCADE
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: In hell waching shitty movies for life
Posts: 2,330
Send a message via MSN to Thomasgeorge Send a message via Yahoo to Thomasgeorge
i liked scream
__________________
vote for me in the irrelevent poster
vote for slasherman for president


achivments:
Im the most irrelevant poster of 2005 oy yeah
Im the most irrelevant poster of 2006 oy yeah
Im the most irrelevan poster of 2007 oy yeah
Reply With Quote
Reply


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 11:37 AM.