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As you may already be aware, I am a huge horror movie fan. I used horror movies to frame certain issues: used Little Deaths to portray a violent beta male, used The Butterfly Effect 3 to frame my childhood, used Cabin In The Woods to discuss how the elites maintain the illusion of autonomy, used Shutter to discuss misogyny and how feminists get it wrong and used The Faculty to discuss narcissism and why Americans are blue-pill social zombies.
Horror movies are my favorite genre. I own an insane amount of horror movies, easily over 200. I think the genre is very diverse, as you can have brutally violent flicks, movies that toy with your psychology, movies that craft highly intriguing worlds. Horror movies are also a great vehicle for social critiques. You have more leeway in the horror movie business for politically incorrect content.
Brief Historical Review Of Horror Movies In America
Horror flicks, in America, have been around since the inception of cinema. The first horror flick in history was made by a French dude - a three minute short called The Haunted Castle.
I really don't know much about portrayals of Dracula, Frankenstein and others in the 1920's and 1930's.
Two very popular horror/thriller movies was Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Blob, released in 1956 and 1958. There were other popular films, but I have not seen them. Two themes began to emerge - which we see with the TV show "The Twilight Zone" - is fear of nuclear destruction and fear of demons.
In my estimation, the first modern horror movie produced was Rosemary's Baby in 1968. The movie was about a woman who thinks her husband made a pact with the Devil and sold the soul of their unborn son. The movie revolves around this escalation, when it is reveals that her son is, indeed, the son of Satan. The movie creepily closes with Rosemary holding her demonic son with an evil grin on her face.
Moving on the 1970's, this is when genre began to come into its own. The Exorcist was released in 1973 to much acclaim. However, in this decade, we see a shift from the obsession with demonic possession into dealing with the fruits of the Sexual Revolution was seen through our puritanical society.
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Black Christmas is my favorite horror movie. The premise is a group of young women, trapped in their sorority house by a snowstorm and they are getting killed one by one.
As you probably already suspect, critiques of this style of horror movie is criticizing for playing to men's fear of women and their changes roles in society. That is 100% off base, as these sorts of movies represent our social obsession with drowning out anti-social impulses through strict enforcement of social and legal rules.
Black Christmas reflects our social unease with the changing sexual mores of society. These young rules-violators are cavorting around with skimpy outfits, having all sorts of sex outside of marriage and all that. The killing represents our repression of sexual expression. As usual, the critiques don't even address expression of male sexuality.
Unlike previous decades, in which men and women made up main characters and villains, this decade starts to reflect the narcissistic growth of women. Women increasingly become the only ones to survive and become the people that defend groups, instead of men. They become the voice of reason over wimpy and macho men.
Movies like Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre began to embody the domestic goddess concept as women began to be treated as the foil to male evil, superior to men with respects to reason and compassion and were often the survivors at the expense of men.
Also, consider Stephen King. His horror books really boosted the genre and his 1976 film, Carrie, was a huge hit. His great writing and ability to reach audiences psychologically and emotionally put the genre on the map.
Still, this decade produced many classics. I Spit On Your Grave, The Last House On The Left, and Let's Scare Jessica To Death. The latter movie has pissed off feminists and white-knights to no end, as it involves an incredibly mentally-unstable woman. The ambiguous ending also pisses them off because they need clear moral pronouncements in movies so they can ascertain whether the movies/producers/writers love or hate women.
Moving to the 1980's, there are many classics. Friday the 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Child's Play, The Shining and a bevy of Stephen King films dominate the decade. Sam Raimi's classic Evil Dead was released in this decade. Other cult classics include The Lost Boys and Friday Night.
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My favorite movie of this decade is Pet Sematary, another classic by Stephen King. The story involves a young family moving a house in the country which is adjacent to an Indian burial ground that has the dubious reputation that anyone buried in it comes back as an evil, degraded version of themselves. The husband first tries to bring back a dead cat so his son won't have to deal with the loss of his friend. The cat comes back, engaging in weird and violent behavior. His son is tragically killed and the father buries his son in the graveyard, only to have his son come back and murder their elderly neighbor and his wife.
In his final act of desperation he buries his wife there, only to have her come back and, in a twisted ending, kiss each other as she stabs a knife into his back.
There is a lot to work with here and I have a writeup coming for RoK about the dangers of temptation. I have watched the movie several times and it always gives me a serious case of the chills.
Moving onto the 1990's, it was a little lean. There was too many sequels to popular films, like Child's Play and A Nightmare On Elm Street. In The Mouth Of Madness was a good film, another Stephen King adaption. I Know What You Did Last Summer is a good flick, representing America's unease with their narcissism - the whole concept of being exposed as a fraud is a common complaint of narcissists. Can't discuss the 1990's without talking about Scream.
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The rare popular horror flick that lives up to the hype. You probably have already seen this, so I won't talk about the plot. This movie shows a level of self-awareness about horror flicks and borders on self-parody at times but deftly manages to not let it overwhelm the movie.
As for the last decade or so, the beginning and middle of the 2000's was a fucking wasteland. You got Cabin Fever, Wrong Turn and a few other movies but, by and large, nothing big was going down.
That changed around 2006 or 2007 as the genre experienced a rebirth. We are still in this rebirth.
Short List Of 2Wycked's Horror Flick Recommendations
In general, I am a huge fan of the After Dark Horrorfest series. At worst, you will watch an average movie. They consistently put out quality horror movies. Also, check out Ghost House Underground for good horror flicks.
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Kill Theory: Great movie about vacationing college kids who get targeted by a sociopath who sets up a game that only one of them can live and they must decide who lives by sun-up. Great characters and an interesting love triangle that blows up in the end.
Prom Night: Watch the original one from the 70's. Stars the great Leslie Neilsen as the school principal. A group of young kids kill another kid and, years later, on prom night their senior year, the group starts to get killed off one by one.
From Within: A rash of suicides in a small town makes the community go crazy and they began to target some social outsiders as engaging in witchcraft. In reality, it of the sins of the parents of dead kids.
Dread: Very good movie about some college students trying to make a documentary about what humans dread. Little do they know one of their partners is a maniac who watched his parents get axed to death as a kid and wants to emulate the experience in real life.
Shutter: I have reviewed the movie, so check out that thread.
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Sorority Row: Guilty pleasure. Nothing says America quite like a bunch of young, hot women getting brutally killed one by one.
The Funhouse: Cult classic from the 80's. A bunch of kids decide to break into a funhouse and spend the night there. They get stalked by a crazy man in a Frankenstein mask whom they watched murder two people.
Bread Crumbs: Weird flick about people shooting a movie in some isolated woods when two children find them and are looking to kill people.
Bachelor Party In The Bungalow Of The Damned: A movie so fucking awful it is great. A bunch of dumbasses rent a house for a bachelor party and hire some strippers who turn out to be batshit crazy demons who are looking to slake their thirst for male blood.
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The Collector: A favorite of mine. If you love brutal kill scenes, this movie is for you. I mean, seriously, some fucking violent death traps. One dude falls onto a whole mess of bear traps and get caught in like 8 or 10 rusty bear traps. Horrifying movie.
Bloody Murder 2: The rare case of a sequel being much better than the shitty original. A direct ripoff of Friday the 13th, with a character named Trevor Moorehouse playing the Jason character. Still, it is alright with some epic kill scenes.
Red Mist: A group of young medical students spike the drink of a weird colleague nicknamed "Freakdog" while at a bar. It is a strong sedative that puts him into a coma. Instead of admitting their crime, they abandon his body on a rural road. He gets found and is put into a hospital. One of the offending student doctors, played by Arielle Kebbel, gives him a drug that inadvertently gives him the ability to control others. He uses this ability to enact revenge on the students. Some epic kills scenes - one doctor gets killed by having acid poured down his throat and his cheeks and jaw waste away.
Pig Hunt: A group of soldiers go on an adventure trying to find a mythical 3000 pound boar that is a human killing machine. They find out the boar exists, but is protected by a crazy cult of women who worship the boar as a god. They lure men in with the prospect of sex, then toss them to the boar as a sacrifice.
Death On Demand: Dumbest fucking horror movie ever. As such, I love it. Some fools agree to spend the night in a house haunted by a man who killed his entire family. The twist is the whole house is set up with video cameras that streams the night live on the web. Hilarious exchanges between a lesbian and a porn star as the porn star will get paid if she she fucks the lesbian.
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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations: Already reviewed this movie.
Tamara: A homely and nebbish nerd girl, who is a social outcast, gets killed in a prank by her classmates. She comes back as an attractive women with a taste for revenge. She ends up getting killed by the teacher she nurses a huge crush on.
The Children: Great British flick about multiple couples vacationing in a house and the children get cold-like symptoms and turn into murderous maniacs. The madness is worsened as any sneeze, runny nose or whatever immediately casts suspicion on said child.
Frozen: Great flick that depends greatly on acting. Three people are trapped on a ski lift, over 100 feet off the ground. They foolishly tried to sneak in one more run, but they gambled wrong as the ski lodge is closed over the weekend and it is Friday night. Brutal movie.
If you want more recommendations, PM me and I will try to give you some more movies.
Eventually, I will break down different types of horror movies and what that says about the psychology of America.
As you may already be aware, I am a huge horror movie fan. I used horror movies to frame certain issues: used Little Deaths to portray a violent beta male, used The Butterfly Effect 3 to frame my childhood, used Cabin In The Woods to discuss how the elites maintain the illusion of autonomy, used Shutter to discuss misogyny and how feminists get it wrong and used The Faculty to discuss narcissism and why Americans are blue-pill social zombies.
Horror movies are my favorite genre. I own an insane amount of horror movies, easily over 200. I think the genre is very diverse, as you can have brutally violent flicks, movies that toy with your psychology, movies that craft highly intriguing worlds. Horror movies are also a great vehicle for social critiques. You have more leeway in the horror movie business for politically incorrect content.
Brief Historical Review Of Horror Movies In America
Horror flicks, in America, have been around since the inception of cinema. The first horror flick in history was made by a French dude - a three minute short called The Haunted Castle.
I really don't know much about portrayals of Dracula, Frankenstein and others in the 1920's and 1930's.
Two very popular horror/thriller movies was Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Blob, released in 1956 and 1958. There were other popular films, but I have not seen them. Two themes began to emerge - which we see with the TV show "The Twilight Zone" - is fear of nuclear destruction and fear of demons.
In my estimation, the first modern horror movie produced was Rosemary's Baby in 1968. The movie was about a woman who thinks her husband made a pact with the Devil and sold the soul of their unborn son. The movie revolves around this escalation, when it is reveals that her son is, indeed, the son of Satan. The movie creepily closes with Rosemary holding her demonic son with an evil grin on her face.
Moving on the 1970's, this is when genre began to come into its own. The Exorcist was released in 1973 to much acclaim. However, in this decade, we see a shift from the obsession with demonic possession into dealing with the fruits of the Sexual Revolution was seen through our puritanical society.
Black Christmas is my favorite horror movie. The premise is a group of young women, trapped in their sorority house by a snowstorm and they are getting killed one by one.
As you probably already suspect, critiques of this style of horror movie is criticizing for playing to men's fear of women and their changes roles in society. That is 100% off base, as these sorts of movies represent our social obsession with drowning out anti-social impulses through strict enforcement of social and legal rules.
Black Christmas reflects our social unease with the changing sexual mores of society. These young rules-violators are cavorting around with skimpy outfits, having all sorts of sex outside of marriage and all that. The killing represents our repression of sexual expression. As usual, the critiques don't even address expression of male sexuality.
Unlike previous decades, in which men and women made up main characters and villains, this decade starts to reflect the narcissistic growth of women. Women increasingly become the only ones to survive and become the people that defend groups, instead of men. They become the voice of reason over wimpy and macho men.
Movies like Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre began to embody the domestic goddess concept as women began to be treated as the foil to male evil, superior to men with respects to reason and compassion and were often the survivors at the expense of men.
Also, consider Stephen King. His horror books really boosted the genre and his 1976 film, Carrie, was a huge hit. His great writing and ability to reach audiences psychologically and emotionally put the genre on the map.
Still, this decade produced many classics. I Spit On Your Grave, The Last House On The Left, and Let's Scare Jessica To Death. The latter movie has pissed off feminists and white-knights to no end, as it involves an incredibly mentally-unstable woman. The ambiguous ending also pisses them off because they need clear moral pronouncements in movies so they can ascertain whether the movies/producers/writers love or hate women.
Moving to the 1980's, there are many classics. Friday the 13th, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Child's Play, The Shining and a bevy of Stephen King films dominate the decade. Sam Raimi's classic Evil Dead was released in this decade. Other cult classics include The Lost Boys and Friday Night.
My favorite movie of this decade is Pet Sematary, another classic by Stephen King. The story involves a young family moving a house in the country which is adjacent to an Indian burial ground that has the dubious reputation that anyone buried in it comes back as an evil, degraded version of themselves. The husband first tries to bring back a dead cat so his son won't have to deal with the loss of his friend. The cat comes back, engaging in weird and violent behavior. His son is tragically killed and the father buries his son in the graveyard, only to have his son come back and murder their elderly neighbor and his wife.
In his final act of desperation he buries his wife there, only to have her come back and, in a twisted ending, kiss each other as she stabs a knife into his back.
There is a lot to work with here and I have a writeup coming for RoK about the dangers of temptation. I have watched the movie several times and it always gives me a serious case of the chills.
Moving onto the 1990's, it was a little lean. There was too many sequels to popular films, like Child's Play and A Nightmare On Elm Street. In The Mouth Of Madness was a good film, another Stephen King adaption. I Know What You Did Last Summer is a good flick, representing America's unease with their narcissism - the whole concept of being exposed as a fraud is a common complaint of narcissists. Can't discuss the 1990's without talking about Scream.
The rare popular horror flick that lives up to the hype. You probably have already seen this, so I won't talk about the plot. This movie shows a level of self-awareness about horror flicks and borders on self-parody at times but deftly manages to not let it overwhelm the movie.
As for the last decade or so, the beginning and middle of the 2000's was a fucking wasteland. You got Cabin Fever, Wrong Turn and a few other movies but, by and large, nothing big was going down.
That changed around 2006 or 2007 as the genre experienced a rebirth. We are still in this rebirth.
Short List Of 2Wycked's Horror Flick Recommendations
In general, I am a huge fan of the After Dark Horrorfest series. At worst, you will watch an average movie. They consistently put out quality horror movies. Also, check out Ghost House Underground for good horror flicks.
Kill Theory: Great movie about vacationing college kids who get targeted by a sociopath who sets up a game that only one of them can live and they must decide who lives by sun-up. Great characters and an interesting love triangle that blows up in the end.
Prom Night: Watch the original one from the 70's. Stars the great Leslie Neilsen as the school principal. A group of young kids kill another kid and, years later, on prom night their senior year, the group starts to get killed off one by one.
From Within: A rash of suicides in a small town makes the community go crazy and they began to target some social outsiders as engaging in witchcraft. In reality, it of the sins of the parents of dead kids.
Dread: Very good movie about some college students trying to make a documentary about what humans dread. Little do they know one of their partners is a maniac who watched his parents get axed to death as a kid and wants to emulate the experience in real life.
Shutter: I have reviewed the movie, so check out that thread.
Sorority Row: Guilty pleasure. Nothing says America quite like a bunch of young, hot women getting brutally killed one by one.
The Funhouse: Cult classic from the 80's. A bunch of kids decide to break into a funhouse and spend the night there. They get stalked by a crazy man in a Frankenstein mask whom they watched murder two people.
Bread Crumbs: Weird flick about people shooting a movie in some isolated woods when two children find them and are looking to kill people.
Bachelor Party In The Bungalow Of The Damned: A movie so fucking awful it is great. A bunch of dumbasses rent a house for a bachelor party and hire some strippers who turn out to be batshit crazy demons who are looking to slake their thirst for male blood.
The Collector: A favorite of mine. If you love brutal kill scenes, this movie is for you. I mean, seriously, some fucking violent death traps. One dude falls onto a whole mess of bear traps and get caught in like 8 or 10 rusty bear traps. Horrifying movie.
Bloody Murder 2: The rare case of a sequel being much better than the shitty original. A direct ripoff of Friday the 13th, with a character named Trevor Moorehouse playing the Jason character. Still, it is alright with some epic kill scenes.
Red Mist: A group of young medical students spike the drink of a weird colleague nicknamed "Freakdog" while at a bar. It is a strong sedative that puts him into a coma. Instead of admitting their crime, they abandon his body on a rural road. He gets found and is put into a hospital. One of the offending student doctors, played by Arielle Kebbel, gives him a drug that inadvertently gives him the ability to control others. He uses this ability to enact revenge on the students. Some epic kills scenes - one doctor gets killed by having acid poured down his throat and his cheeks and jaw waste away.
Pig Hunt: A group of soldiers go on an adventure trying to find a mythical 3000 pound boar that is a human killing machine. They find out the boar exists, but is protected by a crazy cult of women who worship the boar as a god. They lure men in with the prospect of sex, then toss them to the boar as a sacrifice.
Death On Demand: Dumbest fucking horror movie ever. As such, I love it. Some fools agree to spend the night in a house haunted by a man who killed his entire family. The twist is the whole house is set up with video cameras that streams the night live on the web. Hilarious exchanges between a lesbian and a porn star as the porn star will get paid if she she fucks the lesbian.
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations: Already reviewed this movie.
Tamara: A homely and nebbish nerd girl, who is a social outcast, gets killed in a prank by her classmates. She comes back as an attractive women with a taste for revenge. She ends up getting killed by the teacher she nurses a huge crush on.
The Children: Great British flick about multiple couples vacationing in a house and the children get cold-like symptoms and turn into murderous maniacs. The madness is worsened as any sneeze, runny nose or whatever immediately casts suspicion on said child.
Frozen: Great flick that depends greatly on acting. Three people are trapped on a ski lift, over 100 feet off the ground. They foolishly tried to sneak in one more run, but they gambled wrong as the ski lodge is closed over the weekend and it is Friday night. Brutal movie.
If you want more recommendations, PM me and I will try to give you some more movies.
Eventually, I will break down different types of horror movies and what that says about the psychology of America.
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