The Horror Thread [ARCHIVED] Movie • Page 112

awesome, thanks! just doing some reading online and i saw that the recent ones were much more comedy than horror.

 

Yea, it definitely followed the Freddy Kruger route of having its villain crack jokes. Brad Dourif is excellent in all the movies but I would at least check out 2 and 3 since they follow the Andy Barclay story arc.

 

I never saw any of the Child's Play movies, just remember seeing parts of it on HBO or whatever as a kid and thinking it was so depraved, haha

 

i read that it caught a lot of flak initially and many people tried to have it banned due to it potentially encouraging violence in children which i never knew

 

also! the original story line that portrayed andy as more villainous and acting out all of his insecurities through chucky sounded super cool

 

Child's Play 3 used to be one of my favorites. Vividly remember being a little kid and having my dad make me watch the scene where he loads the guns with real bullets. One of the first times I heard an uncensored Fuck. Scarred me for life

 

The first three Child's Play movies are all great, worth the watch. 2 was the first film I saw as a kid and it scared the crap out of me. I think the follow up films are still pretty solid as long as you know what you're getting into with the shift in tone. I think the most recent was supposed to go back to pure horror, but I haven't seen that one so I'm not 100% on that.

 

I'm not even sure if I've seen that. I might have rented it from netflix but if I did it definitely didn't leave an impression on me

 

I finally watched The Orphanage this weekend--it was actually a really beautiful movie, I liked it a lot

 

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child's play is kind of like the goofy horror movie yeah. it's fun enough but i don't have much direct love for it

 

Child'a Play doesn't quite get as much respect as I think it deserves now a days and I do think it's because of the humorous approach the films of late 90's and 2000's. The first three films were right in vein with the great horror films of the late 70's and 80's. Filmmakers started taking horror into places we previously viewed as sanctuaries. Halloween in the suburbs, NoES being killed in your dreams while sleeping, etc. Chucky being a kids toy coming to life with the soul of a serial killer and tormenting a child/family. Messed up stuff and it was effective.

 

re watched TCM this weekend, it's just soo good. When that girl gets thrown on the meat hook still makes me cringe out of my body

 

I watched it for the first time alone in my dorm room freshman year with the lights off... I did not sleep well that night.

 

Bride of Chucky is actually really funny, Seed tried way too hard.

 

Don't know if you guys were into the Goosebumps books as a kid. I was a huge fan, but I only just got around to seeing the film last night and I surprised at how great I thought it was

 

my dad loves it and insisted I watch it when I was in like 4th grade or something. Was traumatizing

 

My parents didn't mind me watching Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm St. movies around that age.

 

Yeah mine either, I just think it's funny looking back now. Any time I heard a noise outside the window I was shook though

 

The ending of that movie really messed with me for days.

 

Just showed two of my friends Drag Me to Hell. So fun watching their reactions

 

Haha, I watched Child's Play 2 and 3 when I was in third or fourth grade. I was obsessed. One of my best friends, whom I wasn't close with until college, loves to share her first memory of me: we were in art class in elementary school and she asked what I was drawing. It was a Chucky factory.

My mom likes to talk about the time I embarrassed her at the barber shop when my barber asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. Apparently I told him I wanted to own a barber shop in which all the barbers were possessed dolls that cut through to people's brains.

Incidentally, I recently found a short story I wrote in fourth grade called "Possessed Dolls." It's a work of genius, I might add.

 

Child's Play gave me nightmares until I was 13. Ill still have a doll-based dream, but as an adult it's no big. I remember the child's play 3 poster was hung really low at my local Blockbuster..literally turned the corner and there it was. Pretty much had Chuckaphobia for 8 years.

 

haha, I still remember the Childs Play 3 poster used to hang behind the register at my local Blockbuster

 

I've just been getting into horror movies this past summer after not being a huge fan of them for a while. I've seen and enjoyed The Blair Witch Project, Blair Witch, The Conjuring, Annabelle, Unfriended, V/H/S, Would You Rather, Drag Me To Hell, The Unborn, and a vast majority of the classics. I have a list of ones I want to see which include Clown, The Conjuring 2, It Follows, The Visit, You're Next, Hush, and a few others I can't remember.

Basically I'm wanting some suggestions for other movies to watch in the spirit of October. Looking for something around the likes of The Blair Witch Project, Blair Witch, The Conjuring, It Follows, or Drag Me To Hell. Good or bad movies, I really don't care.

EDIT: I have Netflix and Hulu also so especially if there are movies on those services.