View Full Version : The Importance of Horror Movies
KnightofNee
09-22-2004, 01:23 AM
I know that there are many people who don't like horror. Most think that the acting sucks and the plots are usually thin, some just can't stomach it. I am not talking the Scream series here I am talking real horror, a genre that over the years has faded into straight to DVD crap. Before people judge the importance of horror I think that we should all look at the careers that were started because of the genre. I am talking actors directors and others who made their start in horror. I will start:
Francis Ford Coppola-Dementia 13
Garfield83
09-22-2004, 05:36 AM
Tarantino
Speilberg
Thats all I can think of off the top of my head! :)
KnightofNee
09-22-2004, 04:16 PM
Tarantino? Wasn't his first movie True Romance?
MetalMan713
09-27-2004, 12:16 PM
Romero - Night of the Living Dead
Carpenter - from Dark Star to Assault on Precinct 13 to HALLOWEEN.
Tarantino - Reservior Dogs
Spielberg - Duel
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That Kid
09-27-2004, 03:59 PM
Wait. Reservoir Dogs was a horror? I thought it was a drama that was just very bloody.
MetalMan713
09-27-2004, 04:38 PM
Most Correct - Reservoir Dogs is a (very bloody) drama. Not Horror.
My comment on RD was to KnightofNee's question of True Romance being Tarantino's first movie.
Quentin wrote that one & it was directed by Tony Scott - TR was made after Dogs.
Here's one to replace Tarantino: James Cameron - Piranha 2
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Here's one to replace Tarantino: James Cameron - Piranha 2
NO anything But that! what a useless waste of Garbage of a movie if you want to call it that.
That Kid
09-27-2004, 05:31 PM
Yeah, but it got the director of Aliens and Terminator his start. Come on, at least he did something bad first in his career, and not have a flop that would've turned out to be good, later.
KnightofNee
09-28-2004, 02:02 AM
Pretty sure Ridley Scott did Aliens, Cameron did Titanic.
Jamie Lee Curtis-Halloween(Josh Hartnett also owes his start to the series).
godzilla slayer
10-11-2004, 01:53 AM
Ridley Scott "Alien", James Cameron "Aliens"
That Kid
10-11-2004, 08:32 AM
Pretty sure Ridley Scott did Aliens,
Ridley Scott did the first Alien movie, simply titled ALIEN. Cameron made the sequel, ALIENS, which some believe to be superior, if not equal to the first.
And about Titanic, I understand if you think it sucked, because I do too, but you have to admit it was very well directed.
hollowpoint1
10-11-2004, 11:33 AM
Sam Raimi - Evil Dead
Tom Savini - Dawn and Day of the Dead
Kevin Bacon - Friday the 13th
Corey Feldman - Friday the 13th part 4 I think
KnightofNee
10-12-2004, 03:39 AM
Johnny Depp- Nightmare on Elm Street. I liked Titanic, but I have never met a girl that I would die for after three days, anyone who says they would is full of shit. Leo should have used her chubby ass as a life preserver.
Il Duce 9999
10-14-2004, 03:51 AM
Peter Jackson
Laurence Fishburn
Patricia Arquette
also i think its healthy for people to experience a wide range of emotions in day to day life and horror movies are one way to get their fear "ration".
Garfield83
10-14-2004, 05:48 AM
True Romance is not a horror! HAhaha!!
I would clas Aliens as a horror either, the first one yeah b :P ut the second was more sci fi thriller in my opinion.
TeenageProdigy
10-14-2004, 09:11 AM
I would say that M. Night Shyamalan got his start in the horror genre - but I'm not sure if he counts because he hasn't moved away from the genre.