I want to talk about, erm, horror films and why I like them and what my favourite types are.
When I was young, I watched the classic horror films like Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th. My mum told me that when I was about six, she came downstairs in the middle of the night because there was a noise, and it was me watching The Omen on TV in the dark, on my own. So I guess I've always liked horror films.
I really like what are called 'slasher films' – the really gory, bloody, violent films like Final Destination and The Hills Have Eyes. I just find them quite funny and I like the special effects. I don't really find them scary at all. I think the scariest sort of films are the ones that are very tense, like Hitchcock films. I think the scariest one for me is The Birds because it's just very sinister the way that the birds come and sit and look at the people. And you know that it's going to be really bad very soon.
But I think my favourite, favourite sort of horror films are zombie movies. I've watched loads of zombie movies and I really like them. Again, I don't really think they're very scary. Dawn of the Dead is my absolute favourite horror film, I think. It's a film where people just wake up one morning and there are zombies everywhere. If a zombie bites you, you turn into a zombie. And the survivors end up in a shopping mall ... in a shopping centre and they're surrounded by zombies. And it does not have a happy ending.
There's a British comedy horror film called Shaun of the Dead, which is a bit of a joke on the idea of the Dawn of the Dead, which is also really great. The most recent one I watched was a New Zealand film called Black Sheep, which is about zombie sheep. That was pretty funny as well.
The most recent horror film I watched was on a plane last time I went back to the UK. It was a Stephen King film, it was based on a Stephen King book – I think a short story – and it was called The Mist. It was about people who lived in a small town in America and there was a hurricane, or typhoon, as we call them here. And after the typhoon, they wanted to go into town to get some supplies to fix up the house. And it started to get misty or foggy. It was quite a strange mist – it didn't look normal. And these people ended up in a hardware store in the town, all trapped together because there were sort of monsters in the mist – these unrealistic giant creatures that were in the mist that were killing people. There was quite a lot of blood and guts and people died in horrible ways, which is what I like about horror films. I would recommend it if you like horror films as much as I do.
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I wanna answer text's questions.
Who like horror films? and why the people like horror films? I don't know really. Horror films are really disturbed me.
I like comedy films or romantic films. Because, I like smiling and I like laughing. Laughing and smiling reduce your stress level and they keep your healty.
I have never seen Hitchock's film. But I konw that, he was the doyen horror film's
:) i think u can try watching "Ringu"- a great horror film manufactured in Jappan, i think u'll change ur idea after watchin it..:)
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I'm new here and i really like this site.
I don't like horror films at all, i have never watched one of them, maybe because i don't like violence or just because i can't support the sight of blood. I really have no idea why some people like watching them: they are brave or just to prove they are so.
However, i prefer watching comedy films and drama films if they are based on real stories.
Whatever your favorite film genre, enjoy it
Aloha to all of you horror movies fans. I find most of the horror movies nowadays very stupid and boring, of course there are some exeptions.
Best horror movie of all times, in my humble opinion, is "The Shining" with remarkable Jack Nicholson.
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I agree with the protagonist of the story in some of the aspect, but not in others. In first play i enjoy too some of the horror film I have seen with special efects and tense, but I definitely don´t enjoy another which show you too much blood in my opinion. Well to be honestly I think my favorite film genre is psychological thrillers with authors like Coppola o Histkotch, indeed we can consider this last as one of the great in this subjet. When I was a child there was a series on tv of mysterious stoies and I always was looking forward to see the next chapter. I love the tense from the beginning to the bottom¡
Yeah I have to agree with the rest of you guys Horror Movies are very exciting however I'm not really into those kind of Films. My favorite types of movies are romantic comedy and Kung-Fu movies...
i don't like horror movies
i like this type of films"horror films" because i find them very interesting and amusing ......the most beautiful film for me is "paranormal activities" that is because it is very simple but at the same time it is scary enough which means that the writer or the author is very talented person .....:))))
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