Would you say that horror themes only work when the cast is stupid, make stupid choices, not acting sensibly? Like the movie above, haven't seen it yet, but the people going camping don't appear to be regularly outdoors, have zero sense of what is normal in people. That guy at the gas station, I would at least be put on guard or more likely just go somewhere else and not set up camp in a creepy house that looks like something happened that I would rather not be follow in the foot steps of. Situational awareness would solve 90% of their problems. I guess this is why I prefer either the zombie theme or the comedy edge. As long as the reason for the things happening meets some criteria I'm not sure what exactly that is yet.

I'd say that slasher movies sub-genre is the most cliched one. The characters are usually stereotypes: dumb jock, virginal heroine, stoner guy, nerd, horny slut etc. "The Cabin in the Woods" relied on horror cliches, but in a different, more sophisticated way. What if all of the stereotypes that we see in these kind of horror movies were done on purpose? What if the fact that it seems like the same cabin is being inhabited by the same stupid kids who do the same stupid things was all part of a plan? This is where "The Cabin in the Woods" works brilliantly. It's on par with very funny and gory "Tucker & Dale vs Evil".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_%26_Dale_vs_Evil

Gonna watch Spanish "Sleep Tight" today:

Tend to like the "classic" horror flicks.....the banal, some cheesey like the Vincent Price stuff from the 1950's and early 1960's. I love Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963) which really isn't a horror flick per say......but still gives me the goosebumps when the scene and editing style of the camera zooming in on the dead guy Jessica Tandy's character discovers with his eyes all pecked out......

here is the clip. So 1960's. Yeah I am biased...Hitchcock also utilized the classic "1960's" California 'dreamscape' in this flick extensively. Check out the other clips in this montage, and notice the backgroud, the sky, the beautiful hills of my beloved Golden State. Such a different time in America. Been to the schoolhouse and Bodega Bay too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0HjlCowwuM

Saw "Angelheart" in the theaters and it actually scared me for days. John Carpenter's "Prince Of Darkness" from 1987 FREAKED ME OUT!!!!!!!!!!! I saw this in the theaters when I was living in West Germany.

Then

A decade later I am living in San Francisco about FOUR BLOCKS from the church it was filmed in. FREAKED AGAIN for days when I first walked past it. When I used to be all coked and drugged up back in the day...I couldn't walk past it at night.....got tooo scared and para.

I'll say yes. Yes 'It' was a ghost. No liquor talking, or drugs. It was 1991. I was in my best friends' room in a different dorm on campus. His dormitory was built in 1874. Anyway......we were sitting in his room, chain smoking, shooting the bull listening to "Teenage Fanclub" and the door was open. It was a quiet evening and I walk into the hallway and there is a older woman standing at the end of the hallway about thirty feet away. She's dressed in Victorian garb........black, granny classes on, the high-collar blouse. A brooch. The hallway lighting is ambiet, cosmetic enhancing....she's standing there looking at me. I looking at her. I just say "Rob. Hey Rob...come here......" he frumps out of the room and says "Whaaaaa?" as he looks down the hallway, and he sees the same exact thing I am seeing. An older woman in Victorian garb.....a few uncomfortable seconds pass, we are just starring at each other. She then gently lifts her dress in the fashion of those times and walks away........

We were seriously freeaked. THEN we started drinking. Anyway, we went to the Alumni House the next day and told the archivist what we saw. She told us that it was probably "Annie-Lucy Powell...who was the "perceptress" (a dormitory director from back then, my college was a Methodist womens college for most of its history) of the dormitory from the 1870's til she died in the 1890's.

Time shift? A ghost? I know what I saw........

I took a class, actually, that covered the topics of seeing things...ghosts, what have you. It was a geography class. We looked at things in reference to where they were happening, the environment around. Insight was gained. Crop circles, it turns out, only happen in low value crops, never expensive tulips. Ghosts only show up in places with history. And then I learned from people with glaucoma or other partial vision loss, that seeing things, children at the piano, elephants in the room, is the brains way of filling in empty spaces with any known object that fills the mold.

Erebus, for some reason obvious patterns sort of bug me. I think the extrovert was the lune in days gone by. Those people didn't survive. I like how in these kinds of shows, there seems to be an emphasis on the laudi daness demeanor. A lot of the shows seem to center on entrapping them.

Erebus, I have something for you: Scenes from SAW

Come on, did I at least get a smile?

Haha, that's awesome.

well, if you're sure she was looking at you, it wouldn't be a time shift. if you were living in victorian times, saw a couple of people in clothes from now staring at you, would you casually walk away? surely she'd have a similar reaction to you.

I dont think it's applicable in this case, because you both saw the same thing, but i'd be cautious in general about "believing your own eyes". sure, you can see things very clearly, doesn't mean they are what's there. twice a week as i'm falling asleep something along the lines of a beetle the size of a shoe runs across my wall. hypnogogic hallucination.

=O! The horror...such unspeakable horror.

haha. Yeah got to put one in. Change the tone a bit.

I watched a scary movie yesterday. Prophecy: The Accent.

Creepy fucking show, made me feel sick. I'm not even sure what it was about or what the point was. End time stuff scares me. Parents got a series when I was a kid. Still gives me nightmares. The water especially. All these dreams about looking for water.

Watched this one today:

"Grave Encounters" (2011) - "Grave Encounters" by The Vicious Brothers takes place in an abandoned mental hospital called Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital which is supposedly haunted by unexplained spectral phenomena. Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson) and his crew of "Grave Encounters", a ghost-hunting reality TV show decide to spend entire night in Collingwood. Big mistake as there is evil lurking in the darkness of Collingwood's corridors. Pretty spooky and creepy found footage horror film obviously inspired by "The Blair Witch Project", "Rec" and "Session 9". Mark Danielewski's bizarre novel "House of Leaves" may be a source of inspiration too. The setting is quite eerie albeit quite clean for supposedly abandoned for years psych ward. Whilst being far from perfect "Grave Encounters" is scarier than I expected. Still nothing beats "Session 9" when it comes to eerie mental asylum horror movies.

I watched the Human Centipede a few nights ago. I don't know if I was only half paying attention. It was amusing. I was trying to do more useful things with my life with just the screams in the background. I accomplished this once, the screen had gone dark from lack of motion and forgot about it, except for the chilling noises produced intermittently that made me wonder if I had ghosts in the house. Shows just further empress how not to get away from a weirdo.