StephenKingman's thread of HORROR!

[hello_kitty]

i love stephen kings books so much. i could rate all with 10.

[Jacob]

^ This reminds me of Halloween, another franchise that had a glut of sequels, here is my take and rating:

Halloween 1 10 out of 10
Halloween 2 7 out of 10
Halloween 3 6 out of 10
Halloween 4 and 5 - 4 out of 10 (dire and boring)
Halloween 6- 6 out of 10
Halloween H20- 8 out of 10 (quite a decent movie for a sequel)
Halloween 8- 3 out of 10 (reality tv meets horror )
Halloween 1 remake- 5 out of 10 (too much style no substance)
Halloween 2 remake- 2 out of 10 (one of the worst films ever made)

I havent seen many of the Friday the 13th movies, bar the first two, I may check some more out.

The only decent two they I could recommend to any horror fan is Part 4 and Part 8. While Part 8 is incredibly flawed, it has some fantastic elements to it. Like he goes to Manhattan, which is great.

I almost totally agree with your list, the only thing is I don't like H20. Although Jamie Lee Curtis is back and refreshed.

[keiyona]

did any one read needful things by Stephen king it keeps u on ur toes I loved it

-- 22 Mar 2012, 09:51 --

did any one read needful things by Stephen king it keeps u on ur toes I loved it

-- 22 Mar 2012, 10:09 --

Stephen kings( the stand) was pretty good it made me cry i liked it I give it 5 stars but the book (bag of bones ) he should have burn it and then flushed it down the tolit

-- 22 Mar 2012, 10:39 --

This is not about Stephen king and I just joined this club so I really don't know what I'm doing but you want to talk about a book taking u on a ride thAt u don't want to get off ( left behind) by jerry Jenkins ; Tim lahay there are two outher books (before they were left behind ) its 14 books all together u must read you will live it its about the end of the world the aintichrist, so detailed ,scary, action,packed there is nothen like it its a high u can't explain I had to share that I had to its the best books I have ever read

-- 22 Mar 2012, 11:28 --

This is not about Stephen king and I just joined this club so I really don't know what I'm doing but you want to talk about a book taking u on a ride thAt u don't want to get off ( left behind) by jerry Jenkins ; Tim lahay there are two outher books (before they were left behind ) its 14 books all together u must read you will live it its about the end of the world the aintichrist, so detailed ,scary, action,packed there is nothen like it its a high u can't explain I had to share that I had to its the best books I have ever read

[StephenKingman]

^ Welcome to the forums, I must check out that, it sounds right up my street! And feel free to add any horror comments on this thread.

[tedfiz]

i already watch women in black.... very horor... and i never know that movie based on novel...

[Bighuey]

Anyone ever read any of Henry Sleasar's stories? He wrote some very effective horror, he had a lot of stories in Alfred Hitchcock's magazine.

[StephenKingman]

^ I havent, Bighuey, but I will keep an eye out for sure. I saw a horror movie called The Awakening lastnight about a woman who specializes in exposing fake seances taking on a case of an alleged haunted boarding school which contains the spirit of a murdered boy who cant move on from the building. All pretty standard and unimpressive stuff but the ending was woeful with a plot twist that was beyond credible, just another typical poor modern horror movie....

[RuqeeD]

^ Yeah I watched the trailer for that, it didn't impress me that much so I thought I'd give the movie a miss. Glad I did!

I'm going to start reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I've heard it's a great horror so looking forward to reading it. Has anyone else read it?

[keiyona]

There's a book called( the good house )that was really good and scary by tananarive due it was really good and I loved it and also a book called( nightfall )by Stephen leather please read these very good and scary. I joined this culb because I like scary books and I will pass on any books that I think is good please read them and tell me what you think trust me it won't be a waste of time and please pass some on to me please don't forget (left be hind ) by Tim lahay it has 14 books to it oh what a ride this it was unbeliveable I never read nothen like it please pass some books on to me thank u all

[StephenKingman]

^ Thanks for the info!

Has anyone seen a movie called "Grave Encounters", a 'found-footage' horror about a team of ghost hunters who film spending a night in an abandoned mental hospital? The trailer made waves last summer and it looked like it was going to be the next Paranormal Activity but it kind of drifted away and it certainly never got a cinema release here in Ireland! Its out on dvd in 2 weeks and im eager to see it, despite lukewarm reviews. If anyone has seen it let me know what you thought.

[Bighuey]

I saw one last night called The Wind. Kind of weird, about a girl that told three guys that this guy was stalking her, she was a manipulating slut bitch, the guys said they would rough him up, just to teach him a lesson. They meet him in the woods, and start working him over when one guy goes off the deep end and picks up a tree branch and brains the guy and kills him. It turns out that the slut bitch made up the story about the guy stalking her, she was a sicko who wants to control guys with whats between her legs. Actually all of them were not what you would call normal, one guy wants to rape his buddy's mother, and the guy who was killed has a brother who tries to blackmail the others, you can guess what happens to him. In the end only two out of the bunch of whackos were left standing. Not a bad movie, it was well made and above the usual slasher movies. 6 out of 10.

Oops, I put this on the wrong thread. Pushed the thread of horror button by mistake, Sorry.

[RuqeeD]

Finished reading House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Very very weird, frightening, thrilling, weird and did I mention weird?

The first thing that gets you is the way it's written. It is set out like a thesis, a man named Zampano has basically analysed a movie that was released called the Navidson Records. Johnny, the protagonist finds all of Zampano's work scattered about and decides to put it together adding his little footnotes as he annotates Zampano's work. Sometimes he goes off tangent and starts talking about his own life.

So the Navidson Records is supposedly a movie released a few years back before Zampano started writing his thesis. Upon its release it sparked a lot of debate and questions on whether it truly happened or if it was just excellent cinema brilliantly executed. It follows a family (the Navidsons) when they move into a new house in Virginia. The father (Will Navidson) decides to video tape his family's day to day life and puts cameras in every room of the house and gives a camera to his wife to record her thoughts (like a video diary) - think paranormal activity here. Things are going along pretty normally, they all adjust to the move etc and then they go away for a weekend only to find when they return that there is a door and a short hallway connecting the master bedroom to the kid's bedroom. They are pretty baffled, it wasn't there before, where did it come from? Will decides to measure the hallway and is even more baffled when he finds the interior measurement does not match the exterior of the house. It's longer. Finding this logically impossible he calls his twin brother (an architect) to check it out - they get sophisticated tools to measure and still find it longer so they call another guy in - it's still longer. Meanwhile, another doorway appears - this time in the living room. When they open this door and peer into what they think is a dark closet, again physically impossible to even be there they know something is up. The wife wants to leave, Will is like 'No let's investigate' and his wife is like 'I'll leave you if you go in there' so he promises he wont but of course in the dark of night (when else would you investigate a spooky closet/hallway that's pitch black and cold as death?) he decides to take a camera and a flashlight and see what's up with this. The closet is no longer a closet, it's this big yawning space of black and he actually gets lost in it for ten minutes or so before he finds himself back in the living room. So finally knowing this thing is ominous he decides to call in three experience cavers (coz that's what you do instead of getting the hell out of there and taking the kids with you) - the cavers after going a little way into this expanding hallway realise that it'll take days maybe even weeks to plumb its depths so they take provisions, food and tents and sleeping bags - flashlights and batteries and of course camera so they can record it. The three cavers go in, they stay in for about a week, Navidson stays in the living room with a radio to contact them. Then things go bad.

I wont expand too much here about that because it's hard to explain and only something that you should read. So Zampano is writing this thesis. Whilst he is, his writing becomes more erratic, according to Johnny (who is only present in the footnotes), there are bits that are scribbled out, bits that are burnt, sometimes its written upside down or back to front or slant ways (told you it was weird), sometimes there's only one word on a page. So Zampano is losing it, you also find that Johnny is losing it whilst he annotating Zampano's work. His life isn't going that well, he keeps picturing his death in pretty gruesome ways, he has hallucinations and he wonders if he is also going crazy.

The ending is quite ambiguous, a lot of unanswered questions and a whole lot of additional material displayed in the Appendix (photos of the house, the hallway, letters, that kind of thing). Danielewski goes out of his way to make this as real as possible - and it works. Sometimes you forget its a work of fiction (at least I did anyway) even though you know its crazy but I guess that's how gripping the story is, it takes you right in. And every time the word 'house' appears, because of the way it is formatted (different to the rest of the text) it sends a chill up your spine.

I definitely would recommend this book to any horror aficionado. It's well worth it. Plus I would love to hear what others think of it.

[StephenKingman]

^ Brilliant review thanks, RuqueD, I have been waiting to add a few books to my TBR list and seeing as I love unusual tales like this, especially ones involving houses, I have added this to my list and will read it once my current book is done cheers

On the subject of horror, any half-decent horror fan will want to see the new movie Cabin in the Woods. I saw it lastnight and it rates as easily the most original and bizzare horror film i have seen in years. It really does shake up the genre in that viewers expect your average slasher fare as 5 youngsters head out to an abandoned cabin for a weekend of sex, drugs and fun, but, after finding instruments of torture and long-abandoned diaries from the previous owners in the cellar, things take a dramatic and completely unexpected turn of events and the resulting film is unlike anything I have ever seen before. To say more would be to spoil it, suffice to say that at many points in the second half of the movie, i had my mouth open in astonishment as my brain couldnt quite register what I was seeing on screen! A mixture of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Scream and your worst nightmares come true combine to make this one of the darkest, funniest and downright weird horror movies in decades. Go see it you wont be disappointed, I promise you.

I rate it 8.5 out of 10.

[RuqeeD]

^ Brilliant review thanks, RuqueD, I have been waiting to add a few books to my TBR list and seeing as I love unusual tales like this, especially ones involving houses, I have added this to my list and will read it once my current book is done cheers

On the subject of horror, any half-decent horror fan will want to see the new movie Cabin in the Woods. I saw it lastnight and it rates as easily the most original and bizzare horror film i have seen in years. It really does shake up the genre in that viewers expect your average slasher fare as 5 youngsters head out to an abandoned cabin for a weekend of sex, drugs and fun, but, after finding instruments of torture and long-abandoned diaries from the previous owners in the cellar, things take a dramatic and completely unexpected turn of events and the resulting film is unlike anything I have ever seen before. To say more would be to spoil it, suffice to say that at many points in the second half of the movie, i had my mouth open in astonishment as my brain couldnt quite register what I was seeing on screen! A mixture of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Scream and your worst nightmares come true combine to make this one of the darkest, funniest and downright weird horror movies in decades. Go see it you wont be disappointed, I promise you.

I rate it 8.5 out of 10.

I think you'll enjoy it Mike.

I've been wanting to watch Cabin in the Woods. At first I thought exactly the same thing that it was some hackneyed slasher movie. But I watched a trailer and it left me intrigued. And now your review has left me even more intrigued so must try and catch that one when I can, thanks.

[Bighuey]

Cabin in the Woods sounds like a dandy. Ill watch for it.