The Dark Corner-Discuss horror here.

[SimonDoom]

I like both supernatural/sci fi horror and real-world horror.

One of the best supernatural horror stories I've ever read was Peter Straub's Ghost Story, which was creepy and very suspenseful. Also well-written.

One of the best serial killer horror stories I've read was Dean Koontz's Intensity, a very suspenseful cat-and-mouse tale about a young woman and a serial killer, with a fun twist near the end.

 

[MillieDynamite]

The new "remake" will be based on the unabridged original, never published novel Frozen Hell, which John W. Campbell had rejected and then cut down into Who Goes There? rather than the Novella "Who Goes There?." I'm sure it will be as graphic and disturbing as The Thing was. It's a Bloomhouse movie.

One of the many things(pun!) I liked about the 1982 version was it didn't explain anything about the alien other than it took over other life forms and would spread so it was more like a disease rather than an invasion. But other than that nothing and I liked it that way.

There's a bunch of ending explained videos out there now and I never watch them, I like to make my own conclusions, not have them told to me.

EDIT: I wonder if the novel, Frozen Hell, will ever be released.

 

[lovecraft68]

The new "remake" will be based on the unabridged original never published Novel Frozen Hell, which John W. Campbell, had rejected and then cut down into Who Goes There? rather than the Novella "Who Goes there?."

Remakes are all they really have at this point and in every genre. You know the new fad in comic books is putting out "retro" covers of classic comics? Fun once in awhile and if the classic is something from the golden or silver age(40's-60's) but their doing reproduction's of things from the 90's. Same for action figures, they're now releasing versions of actions figures from the 90's with the same style packaging....

Don't get me started on the "writing' in comics these days.

Creatively bankrupt, and being AI can only pick up what's already out there, that's going to make it worse.

 

[MillieDynamite]

From what I've read, the Frozen Hell novel was even more amazing as it covered the whole expedition.

Remakes are all they really have at this point and in every genre. You know the new fad in comic books is putting out "retro" covers of classic comics? Fun once in awhile and if the classic is something from the golden or silver age(40's-60's) but their doing reproduction's of things from the 90's. Same for action figures, they're now releasing versions of actions figures from the 90's with the same style packaging....

Don't get me started on the "writing' in comics these days.

Creatively bankrupt, and being AI can only pick up what's already out there, that's going to make it worse.

 

[Voboy]

Mouth of Madness is an amazing HPL tribute, Sam Neil is great in it. He was also in Event Horizon so he has some experience with insanity

Neill was also in Dead Calm, which is freaky in its own way. He does tension well.

 

[MillieDynamite]

How do Kidman and Neil ever pull off those accents in the movie? LOL, It's almost like they were raised in Australia and New Zeeland, right?

Neill was also in Dead Calm, which is freaky in its own way. He does tension well.

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[lovecraft68]

From what I've read, the Frozen Hell novel was even more amazing as it covered the whole expedition.

I'm sure the book is great, but equally sure modern film makers are going to botch it. I expect a gore fest for the sake of gore and not being true to source material

But you never know.

 

[lovecraft68]

I like both supernatural/sci fi horror and real-world horror.

One of the best supernatural horror stories I've ever read was Peter Straub's Ghost Story, which was creepy and very suspenseful. Also well-written.

One of the best serial killer horror stories I've read was Dean Koontz's Intensity, a very suspenseful cat-and-mouse tale about a young woman and a serial killer, with a fun twist near the end.

Ghost Story is fantastic...but don't tell any LW fans there was a hot wife in it.

Intensity, if I remember right, was done in 'real time' so the start to finish of the novel encompassed every second of the story

 

[MillieDynamite]

The originally published story starts with describing the smell and dripping from the body they recovered from the spacecraft. The full novel starts with their arrival in Antarctica and covers the find, excavation, and entry into the spacecraft. I want to read it, ever so much. The one plus on the remake it's Bloomhouse. They do horror well.

I'm sure the book is great, but equally sure modern film makers are going to botch it. I expect a gore fest for the sake of gore and not being true to source material

But you never know.

 

[XerXesXu]

Could be, but it's probably because dogs figured heavily in the original story, Who Goes There?, on which The Thing is based, even though the story doesn't have the same opening scene with the dog.

You mentioned 'The Thing' in some context a year or two ago, I thought I'd better take a look. The only thing I liked about the movie was the indoor flame flowers. I thought they'd be great for home defence. I took my wife down to the arms dealer in Korea Town (she can own firearms, I can't) but they said they couldn't source any suitable for use indoors.

 

[lovecraft68]

You mentioned 'The Thing' in some context a year or two ago, I thought I'd better take a look. The only thing I liked about the movie was the indoor flame flowers. I thought they'd be great for home defence. I took my wife down to the arms dealer in Korea Town (she can own firearms, I can't) but they said they couldn't source any suitable for use indoors.

Not sure if they're still a thing, but years ago there were "incendiary bullets" which exploded and caught fire.

Then again the guy that showed them to me...I wouldn't put it past him to have made them himself, but he claimed he bought them from 'a dealer'

 

[MillieDynamite]

A can of hairspray, spray paint, or any spray cleaner with alcohol in them will make a nifty 2-foot flame thrower. But you'd have to get up close and personal to use it and have to have a way to light it. Cig or Cigar lighter would work nicely.

You mentioned 'The Thing' in some context a year or two ago, I thought I'd better take a look. The only thing I liked about the movie was the indoor flame flowers. I thought they'd be great for home defence. I took my wife down to the arms dealer in Korea Town (she can own firearms, I can't) but they said they couldn't source any suitable for use indoors.

 

[lovecraft68]

Werewolves of London with some great AI graphics, these are some stylish Lycans

 

[XerXesXu]

Werewolves of London with some great AI graphics, these are some stylish Lycans

Interesting playlist.

 

[lovecraft68]

Interesting playlist.

Do you see my play list when you click this?

It is...eclectic

 

[XerXesXu]

Do you see my play list when you click this?

It is...eclectic

It's a YouTube mix based on your preferences, it's not your personal playlist. Eclectic, yes.

 

[TallMan69]

I recall you asking me my first horror movie, and I'm pretty sure it was Pumpkinhead, 1988. My Ma was a long time lover of horror, literally until the day she died, and she especially loved old relatively cheesy horror movies, so yep, I saw that one at like four and it scared the ever lovin' shit out of me. I haven't watched it anytime recently, I'm sure it'll be nothing by comparison, so I'm going to have to revisit. Also on my early probably not old enough to watch these horror list: Pet Sematary, 1983 and Candyman, 1992.

My literary love affair with horror began with an Edgar Allan Poe Collection containing The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart and pretty much every other short story you could think of written by the late great Lord of Gothic fiction.

Anyone reading any juicy horror novels lately? I'd love some fresh recommendations.

I love the original Pumpkinhead too. Lance Henriksen was awesome in this. Anything he’s in raises the movie quality so much. I’ve rewatched it a few times. I find it campy and fun more than really scary.

Pet Semetary ranks up there with one of the scariest movies I’ve ever watched. I have not rewatched. I did really enjoy the Fred Gwynne character. “Sometimes dead is betta.”

Excited that October is right around the corner. I try to watch a fair share of frightful films the whole month. Just a great time/setting for the genre.

So had to bump this thread and get the horror movies/tv shows/video games/comic books/animation started again.

I just got done re-watching Ghost Story and The Changeling. Was surprised to see that there was an actor (Douglas Melvin) who did his last role in Ghost Story ( Dr John Jaffrey) who was also in The Changeling ( Senator Joe Carmichael). Both very creepy scary ghost stories with intriguing storylines and interesting character development.
Big Stranger Things fan so have rewatched going down 80s memory lane again. Love all the classic 80s references with movies, music, games, clothes, hair, phrases, etc. And awesome monsters, evil scientists, and underworld to battle. Bring on Stranger Things 5!

 

[AchtungNight]

I have admired some good horror stories over the years. Mostly ones where the monsters don’t triumph, though I have sat through a few of the opposite scenarios too. It should be obvious which I prefer.

I have tried to write horror stories at times. Never really liked what I put out. And Lit doesn’t accept such stories in Fanfic anyway. So it’s probably just as well.

 

[HordHolm]

I have admired some good horror stories over the years. Mostly ones where the monsters don’t triumph, though I have sat through a few of the opposite scenarios too. It should be obvious which I prefer.

I have tried to write horror stories at times. Never really liked what I put out. And Lit doesn’t accept such stories in Fanfic anyway. So it’s probably just as well.

I find that by far the best horror monsters are humans. At a stretch alien monsters can be truly 'other' - though even the best of them really only reflect (IMO) the insect world around us magnified. But in the end, what humans do to each other far outweighs anything any other 'monster' might do. This isn't, of course, an original thought and I'd hate to claim it as such. As far as horror fiction goes my favourite expression of this concept is Chetwynd-Hayes' The Monster Club, and the beautifully cheesy British film adaptation from c1980.

 

[lovecraft68]

I was excited for Flanagan's House of Usher...but after the trailer its a pass.

The Fetishizing, the family now being sleazy business types, and worse it has the 'comedy' and feel of a bad Knives Out type movie.

Poe is the godfather or gothic horror and HOU was a brooding piece it didn't need to be made into a farce

 

[lovecraft68]

I love the original Pumpkinhead too. Lance Henriksen was awesome in this. Anything he’s in raises the movie quality so much. I’ve rewatched it a few times. I find it campy and fun more than really scary.

Pet Semetary ranks up there with one of the scariest movies I’ve ever watched. I have not rewatched. I did really enjoy the Fred Gwynne character. “Sometimes dead is betta.”

Excited that October is right around the corner. I try to watch a fair share of frightful films the whole month. Just a great time/setting for the genre.

So had to bump this thread and get the horror movies/tv shows/video games/comic books/animation started again.

I just got done re-watching Ghost Story and The Changeling. Was surprised to see that there was an actor (Douglas Melvin) who did his last role in Ghost Story ( Dr John Jaffrey) who was also in The Changeling ( Senator Joe Carmichael). Both very creepy scary ghost stories with intriguing storylines and interesting character development.
Big Stranger Things fan so have rewatched going down 80s memory lane again. Love all the classic 80s references with movies, music, games, clothes, hair, phrases, etc. And awesome monsters, evil scientists, and underworld to battle. Bring on Stranger Things 5!

Henriksen was epic in Near Dark. Only thing he was ever in that I didn't like was "Stone Cold" that movie was so awful nothing could save it.

But Pumpkinhead is an all time classic. My favorite scene from the movie is this one.

 

[lovecraft68]

Tis the season, folks. Time to ramp this thing up.

These are the books I have on a Halloween rotation of reading at least three each year.

They Thirst-Robert McCammon( As good as Salem's Lot is, this to me is the best Vamp book I've read)
Ghost Story Peter Straub
The Keep F. Paul Wilson
Phantoms Dean Koontz
Eyes of Darkness-Leigh Nicols who turned out to be Dean Koontz
Necropscope-at least one of the first or second series, everything beyond is crap
Pet Sematary
Amityville Horror Jay Anson.

And the one I read every year....come on people, you know its the Exorcist

 

[lovecraft68]

A song celebrating the Great Beast himself Crowley. Original was done by Ozzy, but Cradle of Filth brings much more of a horror vibe.

 

[lovecraft68]

Tubular Bells done over a slide show from the movie that made it iconic.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Love the music, shit my panties when I watched this at 16 with my father.

Tubular Bells done over a slide show from the movie that made it iconic.