Best Horror films 2000-2009
DC
Selecting horror films from any decade is a daunting task;
so much of them is wrapped in the visceral elements of
childhood fears and obsessions, which tends to make for
close guardianship and fierce debate among those who follow
and admire the genre. Horror is also a deeply fragmented
genre, with countless subdivisions that hew along lines of
decade, country, filmmaker, amount (or lack) of violence
and suspense, and so on. So in picking the best horror
films from a decade, one also has to choose a path to
follow - is it the elaborately grisly "torture-porn" of the
Saw series and its spin-offs, or the army of living dead
pictures that sprung up in the wake of George Romero's ever-
expanding zombie universe?
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Avoid normal situations.
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"Shaun of the Dead (2004) -- This admirably loopy tribute/parody of the
zombie subgenre proved that horror and comedy could co-exist in the same
project..."
*slaps forehead* Like that's something new. There's the stop-reading point,
right there.
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Special Forces
"Let's face it: intellectual achievement and the intellectual elite are alien
to the mainstream of American society. They are off to the side in a sub-
section of esoteric isolation labeled 'oddball', 'high brow', 'egghead',
'double-dome'." -- Elmo Roper in 1958
moviePig
<byend.removethisbityousillyper...@eskimo.com> wrote:
> In rec.arts.movies.past-films DC <remai...@reece.net.au> wrote:
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> "Shaun of the Dead (2004) -- This admirably loopy tribute/parody of the
> zombie subgenre proved that horror and comedy could co-exist in the same
> project..."
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> *slaps forehead* Like that's something new. There's the stop-reading point,
> right there.
Regardless, his list was solid enough that I hoped to find something I
hadn't yet seen. I didn't, of course, but neither did I disagree with
any entry...
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Offramp
<byend.removethisbityousillyper...@eskimo.com> wrote:
> In rec.arts.movies.past-films DC <remai...@reece.net.au> wrote:
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> > Continued:http://xrl.us/HorrorF
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> "Shaun of the Dead (2004) -- This admirably loopy tribute/parody of the
> zombie subgenre proved that horror and comedy could co-exist in the same
> project..."
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> *slaps forehead* Like that's something new. There's the stop-reading point,
> right there.
That's right. Most good horrors have some humour in them. Even Macbeth
has the Porter scene.
Shaun of the Dead was a piece of poo. About as funny as a child
molester farting in a space suit. I couldn't watch the whole thing.
Ravenkult
You're joking right?
Obveeus
"Offramp" <alane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Shaun of the Dead was a piece of poo.
I found it to be quite entertaining. I suppose it was more comedy than
horror, but it was well worth watching.
Offramp
Gaaaaah!
No I am not joking; I detest that film. That fukcer Pegg and his fat
cunt friend can fuck their bollocks off. Pegg got his cuntish friends
from BBC to appear in the shit film. That film was a child-molesting
shit cunt paranoia bollocks twat fucking twat motherfucking
cocksucking piece of vagina pussy cunt arse tits poo.
Watch it again.
moviePig
And much of the reason it was quite entertaining was that it managed
to be *both*. (No mean feat.) Still, for anyone who doesn't, say,
crack-up at Bill Nighy's frenzy in the Fiat, SHAUN might be a slog.
But, that's what makes hearse-races...
Sir Blob
i agree, it was a pieceashit, whoevers got its humour is pretty damn
challenged