Oh, The Horror!

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

All shall now take a knee to the king of the monsters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irm3KfaqVfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=broPmKFqmpI

 

[FknNemesis]

When it comes to zombies we all owe one George Romero. Night of the Living dead got the ball rolling, but my fav has always been dawn of the dead.

The remakes of each were good, but the originals I saw when I was a kid so they stayed with me more.

Saw this when I was 10 and it was creepy as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uiuVW3bhXw

Romero is GOD.

Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead remakes rank high on the list of not catastrophic remakes. But I've had it with zombies for a couple of decades to be honest. Same as I had my 'ork fatigue' after too many PC-RPGs, now it's zombie fatigue.

Except for any Romero classic. I will always make time for him.

Unfortunately, I did see that atrocious pile of rubbish
Hubby laughed his ass off through out it though, over how bad it was, so that's technically entertainment value...right?

I did think it wasn't scored too badly and actually did enjoy it, mostly because I had no expectations whatsoever. Perfect brainless background noise and visuals delivered in a non-disruptive way Tarantino couldn't.

I think I had picked up both Zola and Beckett again around the time I saw it, so light material was welcome. Yes, I read and watch/watch and read simultaneously.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Yes, I read and watch/watch and read simultaneously.

Hubby has severe ADHD, so I'm familiar with this tactic...don't understand it...but am familiar with being exposed to it.

 

[lovecraft68]

Hubby has severe ADHD, so I'm familiar with this tactic...don't understand it...but am familiar with being exposed to it.

Is that why we get along? I have it bad. My night online is writing a new story, flipping over to editing another, listing on e-bay, then bouncing here to a board.

I did a contest a couple years ago where two authors were randomly selected to write together and my partner said trying to follow along with me was like wrestling a bag of cats.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

...because Dahmer was just mentioned in another thread...
http://www.darkvomit.com/images/uploads/dahmerderf1.jpg

They were handing out free copies of the uncorrected proofs at the NYC comic con in 2011, so you bet I grabbed one.

 

[lovecraft68]

Romero is GOD.

Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead remakes rank high on the list of not catastrophic remakes. But I've had it with zombies for a couple of decades to be honest. Same as I had my 'ork fatigue' after too many PC-RPGs, now it's zombie fatigue.

Except for any Romero classic. I will always make time for him.

What did you think of the long awaited final installment, Land of the dead?

I thought it was a bucket of suck. The foragers-or whatever they called themselves, let a bunch of zombies break into Hoppers building and kill people, then left them alone to 'make their way'....what?

 

[lovecraft68]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=broPmKFqmpI

Being this is lit I can mention I was quite taken with the two oriental girls. The lot bunnies were strong in me even back then.

 

[lovecraft68]

As we drift about I want to mention probbaly the two most iconic horror novels ever in the sense they established long running 'franchises"

Stokers Dracula and Shelly's Frankenstein.

I don't recall a definitive Werewolf book, but my personal fav is Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon. Great spin on the myth.

 

[lovecraft68]

Werewolves and...creature double feature.

Oh, Michael Landon, you bad boy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEU6boS46cg

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Lon Chaney Jr...prettier than his dad, but sill playing monsters...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsrFMBWRC1M

 

[EverLux]

I am 100% not a fan of horror. But I do have fond memories (and creepy nightmares) of sneaking into my dad's massive comic book collection in the attic to read his many issues of Tales from the Crypt.

There was another comic, too, but I can't remember the name of it. It was very much like this one, but with more sex. If someone has any idea what it was, I'd love to know


http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h61/ivyjanic4u/TFtC_zpsj6hsocol.jpg

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

As we drift about I want to mention probbaly the two most iconic horror novels ever in the sense they established long running 'franchises"

Stokers Dracula and Shelly's Frankenstein.

I don't recall a definitive Werewolf book, but my personal fav is Wolf's Hour by Robert McCammon. Great spin on the myth.

I mentioned Frankenstein as a pop-up graphic novel on the first page.

werewolves are one of the oldest mythological creatures going all the way back to ancient Greece with the story of King Lycaon.
http://en.wikifur.com/w/images/d/d4/Lycaon.jpg
I don't recall a definitive book for them either...they just have always been present in one form or another.

 

[FknNemesis]

What did you think of the long awaited final installment, Land of the dead?

I thought it was a bucket of suck. The foragers-or whatever they called themselves, let a bunch of zombies break into Hoppers building and kill people, then left them alone to 'make their way'....what?

It was a good mix of his by then already classic technique to instill fear, added now with *gasp* political criticism. Plot wise it was absolutely poor but the cinematography has always been more important for me with Romero than plot to be honest. Universal allowed him to do more for Land of the Dead, I guess attention went to honing camera work even more now he finally had the tools.

If I want plot I'm going to spin up a Kubrick. If I want a good thriller, mindfuck because of cinematography Hitchcock and Romero. Romero is the last of all three I would go to for plot. I may be tempted to even first opt for Goyer before I go with Romero because of plot.


Yes, I just did say that. :barf:

 

[FknNemesis]

As we drift about I want to mention probbaly the two most iconic horror novels ever in the sense they established long running 'franchises"

Stokers Dracula and Shelly's Frankenstein.

Penny Dreadful, the series... yay or nay?
Note that it actually introduced me to the concepts of the Penny Dreadful prints. A lightbulb went up relating it to the thousands of mashups there are at the two largest comics publishers.

 

[lovecraft68]

Penny Dreadful, the series... yay or nay?
Note that it actually introduced me to the concepts of the Penny Dreadful prints. A lightbulb went up relating it to the thousands of mashups there are at the two largest comics publishers.

Penny Dreadful I say Yay.

I also give serious props to American Horror Story. My daughter got me into that, I'm on season three. Good stuff.

 

[lovecraft68]

Because I have this thing about creepy old ladies(interesting fact about LC...I fear old age homes) The movie the Taking of Deborah Logan was pretty damn scary, but that may be because it played into my phobia.

 

[lovecraft68]

I am 100% not a fan of horror. But I do have fond memories (and creepy nightmares) of sneaking into my dad's massive comic book collection in the attic to read his many issues of Tales from the Crypt.

There was another comic, too, but I can't remember the name of it. It was very much like this one, but with more sex. If someone has any idea what it was, I'd love to know


http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h61/ivyjanic4u/TFtC_zpsj6hsocol.jpg

That magazine and a slew of others were produced by Eerie Publications in the late sixties to late seventies. Known for over the top cheesy covers(and endless reprints with telling you so you'd keep buying) they were kind of low quality stories, but the covers were great.

One of my favs from them.

 

[lovecraft68]

I forgot to mention that Creepy featured some great covers by some guy named Frazetta.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

This will sound weird, but I loved the old Swamp Thing comics. People don't think of it now, but they were first-rate creep-style horror, and the swamp in which they took place was one of the best settings for atmospheric horror I ever experienced. More than that, they had a strange moral center, which I think lies at the heart of all the very best horror.

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

I also give serious props to American Horror Story. My daughter got me into that, I'm on season three. Good stuff.

'Coven'? In my opinion, that season was the best, followed by 'Freak Show' and 'Murder House' almost in a tie; though if I had to pick one over the other, it would be in that order for me. 'Asylum,' so far, has been my least favorite. I haven't seen 'Hotel' yet, but I'll end up binge watching it once it hits Netflix.

'Penny Dreadful' is in my queue for after I have finished with 'Ripper Street'...

 

[J_R_Ashunwhy]

Because I have this thing about creepy old ladies(interesting fact about LC...I fear old age homes) The movie the Taking of Deborah Logan was pretty damn scary, but that may be because it played into my phobia.

We've been over this: yes only because of your phobia, it is scary, to you.

 

[EverLux]

'Coven'? In my opinion, that season was the best, followed by 'Freak Show' and 'Murder House' almost in a tie; though if I had to pick one over the other, it would be in that order for me. 'Asylum,' so far, has been my least favorite. I haven't seen 'Hotel' yet, but I'll end up binge watching it once it hits Netflix.

'Penny Dreadful' is in my queue for after I have finished with 'Ripper Street'...

I made it three-fourths of the way into Murder House before I moved into my current apartment, all by myself...in a basement. The scariest thing I'll watch these days is Law & Order: SVU--and even that is a bad idea.

I hope to pick it up again someday, because I'm in love with Evan Peters and Denis O'Hare.

 

[OliviaM]

I have not much to add to this thread except that I LOVE old horror comics. There's a certain feel they create, a type of dread at the situation itself that doesn't show much in modern horror because it's all been-there-done-that. Vincent Price movies capture the same sort of feeling.

I would recommend Iron Spike's horror anthology but it trends more toward body horror, which is not my thing. There are a few good pieces, though.

Has anyone read Junji Ito's horror manga? Now those are creepy.

Here's a fun read for anyone who hasn't seen it. I love all of her stuff. http://emcarroll.com/comics/faceallred/01.html

 

[Bramblethorn]

for when the little ones wanna get in on the horror graphic novel fun...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzOVphObMfs

Frankenstein! As a pop-up!

I got my sister a Dracula counting book for her baby. "Three vampire brides!"

 

[Bramblethorn]

29 years today since "The Lost Boys" came out. Saw that about five times in my misspent youth, one of my formative experiences.

"Lair of the White Worm". Not really horror-horror but cheesy fun. Considering how shit the book was, the film was a great improvement. Plus, Amanda Donohoe.

"Dagon". Spanish adaptation of "The Shadow over Innsmouth". HPL wrote a lot of stories about people who discovered something inhuman in their ancestry, but TSoI is different; it's the only one where the protagonist ends up embracing that.