Your thoughts on The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
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Gymnopedie-De-Gnossienne — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 05:53 AM)
I haven't read Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep but I will just out of curiosity. That scene where he rang Richard Gere's character and told him that Indrid Cold was in the house with him!
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jessicafischerqueen — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 02:48 AM)
I liked it. Richard Gere is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me- I think he's underrated, and I really enjoyed him in this mystery/thriller. Is it a horror I wonder? Maybe we should suggest it for
Sham's
ongoing genre game threads.
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Gymnopedie-De-Gnossienne — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 03:53 AM)
Yeah, I like his movies. I do think he doesn't get enough praise. I haven't thought about it but I guess it does have characteristics of different genres - I think you could add drama in there too.
I'm older. The hopes are gone, but I have certainties now. -
jessicafischerqueen — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 04:50 AM)
I also like cryptids and mysterious subject matter- Mothman, Jersey Devil, "Number Stations" (like in
Banshee Chapter
), Wendigo, Slender Man, Dog Man, Chupacabra, Bigfoot and such. I like the genre so much I even watch many crappy movies in it- so when I find a well made and well acted film about a "mystery creature" I'm sure to remember it fondly. -
Gymnopedie-De-Gnossienne — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 05:05 AM)
Yeah, me too. I have shelves of books on all that stuff. I have seen my fair share of crappy movies in the genre, god knows I have, but I am always on the look out for some good ones.
I'm older. The hopes are gone, but I have certainties now. -
jessicafischerqueen — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 05:16 AM)
I recommend Larry Fessenden's
Wendigo (2001)
http://www.imdb.com/board/10275067/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I'm a fan of his movies, which always feature realistic dialogue and good acting. He's also an actor himself- interesting man. -
Gymnopedie-De-Gnossienne — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 05:56 AM)
I will give that a go, today. Speaking of Larry Fessenden, he was in a lot of great horror, like: We Are Still Here, I Sell the Dead, Session 9, Habit - to mention a few, along with other great non-horror outings. Cheers
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Gymnopedie-De-Gnossienne — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 06:15 AM)
I think you are right. I love those 90s urban based vampire films, like The Addiction (1995) and Nadja (1994). I strongly recommend you watch those if you haven't already - they are among my absolute favorite vampire films.
I'm older. The hopes are gone, but I have certainties now. -
jessicafischerqueen — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 06:25 AM)
Love them both. It seems we have very similar taste in horror movies, which is very handy for giving each other recommendations! It was you who put me on to
Sole Survivor (1983)
, if you remember. What a fabulous movie that is- a real work of art. -
Gymnopedie-De-Gnossienne — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 06:31 AM)
It is always nice to have shared tastes. I recommended you 'They have changed their face' and 'Demon' 1963 also - i think you liked them also.
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jessicafischerqueen — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 06:36 AM)
That was you! That was ages ago, thank you for the reminder. I put
They Have Changed Their Face
on my Foreign Horror list right after watching it. It's number 73 on the list:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls072494361/
I don't remember
Demon 1963
but if you recommended it I must have gotten ahold of it. Now to find out which of 39,000 horror movie folders I have. Luckily my external hard drives have a "search function," just like a regular hard drive.
EDIT
Oh my goodness I'm so dumb- I found
Demon 1963
, and not only that I just noticed I also put it on my Foreign horror list. It's number 75. I felt so bad for poor Purif in that movie- I was rooting for her. I consider that movie to be a tragedy, as well as a horror.
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Gymnopedie-De-Gnossienne — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 06:50 AM)
They both are very fine horror films. I watched another one somewhat similar to those two. Here it is
http://www.imdb.com/board/10069017/
Night of the Devils (1972) is online and
http://www.imdb.com/board/10062453/
Viy (1967) is online too if you haven't seen those. Forgive me, I hope I am not presumptuous in saying that I think those deserve to be on that list,
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tommix42 — 9 years ago(February 03, 2017 05:13 AM)
I liked it too! There are several scenes that really give me the creeps, watching it like
when Debra Messing's character's ghost walks through one scene, after asking for the Richard Gere character at the police station.
By the way, the book version of Silence of the Lambs gives you a pretty good sense of what life is like, or was like a few decades ago, in that part of the US. Anything by the author Davis Grubb is good, too.
For Grave Encounters I'm Lance Preston.