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I know it's not exactly a tech-related story but we do have a goodly bunch of people who grew up in the 80s here, so, here it is: Wes Craven died over the weekend.
Master of the modern horror film Wes Craven died on Sunday, his family announced. He was 76 and had battled brain cancer.
Craven, the artist behind “Nightmare on Elm Street,” the “Scream” movie series and many other modern horror masterpieces, remade the genre in contemporary film.
Craven reinvented the youth horror genre in 1984 with the classic “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” a film he wrote and directed that starred a then-unknown Johnny Depp. He conceived and co-wrote “A Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors” as well.
Then after an absence of three more sequels, he deconstructed the genre a decade after the original, writing and directing the audacious “Wes Craven‘s New Nightmare,” which was nominated as Best Feature at the 1995 Independent Spirit Awards.
Gives me a sad. Wes Craven movies were some of the very few scary movies that were anything but "meh" to me.
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(Score: 1) by Francis on Monday August 31 2015, @06:11PM
It's a shame he's dead dead. Because if he jumped out of bed and killed the people in the room before dieing, it would be the most epic thing of all time.
I hope this inspires somebody out there to go back to making proper scary movies. I'm getting rather tired of all the torture porn that passes for horror film these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @06:16PM
Yes, it's a shame he's dead dead and not undead dead. If it's any consolation I did read that he died horrifically in his sleep.
(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Monday August 31 2015, @06:24PM
Yes, it's a shame he's dead dead and not undead dead. If it's any consolation I did read that he died horrifically in his sleep.
Are you sure he didn't just dream about Robert Englund?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @07:24PM
Woosh....
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Monday August 31 2015, @07:20PM
> all the torture porn that passes for horror film these days.
And the terminally-dumb-clueless-clumsy that passes for comedy
And the Blow-shit-for-bad-reasons-look-boobs that passes for blockbusters
And the meet-love-fight-regret-love that passes for chick flicks
And the point-crosshairs-and-shoot, or see-curve-and-turm-fast that passes for videogames
And the endless-mindless-pounding that passes for porn
Yeah, I know, Lack of finesse and scenario isn't exactly a novelty in the entertainment industry...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 31 2015, @07:33PM
> I hope this inspires somebody out there to go back to making proper scary movies. I'm getting rather tired of all the torture porn that passes for horror film these days.
You haven't really looked, here's a very short list just off the top of my head
It Follows http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888 [imdb.com]
The Babadook http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2321549/ [imdb.com]
The Pact http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2040560/ [imdb.com]
The Innkeepers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1594562/ [imdb.com]
The Sacrament http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2383068/ [imdb.com]
The Last Exorcism http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320244/ [imdb.com]
Lake Mungo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816556/ [imdb.com]
You're Next http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853739/ [imdb.com]
House of the Devil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172994/ [imdb.com]
The Conspiracy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2330322/ [imdb.com]
Banshee Chapter http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2011276 [imdb.com]
Absentia http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1610996/ [imdb.com]
Oculus http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2388715/ [imdb.com]
Mama http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2023587/ [imdb.com]
Red Lights http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748179/ [imdb.com]
Splice http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017460/ [imdb.com]
As Above, So Below http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2870612/ [imdb.com]
Orphan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1148204 [imdb.com]
Devil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1314655/ [imdb.com]
Housebound http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3504048 [imdb.com]
The Taking of Deborah Logan http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3504048 [imdb.com]
Burning Bright http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244658/ [imdb.com]
Jug Face http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2620736/ [imdb.com]
Contracted http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2281159/ [imdb.com]
There is gore in many of those movies, but I don't think any of them come close to 'torture porn' like Hostel, Saw, etc.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Tuesday September 01 2015, @12:40AM
Definitely recommend The Babadook and Orphan. Quite a few on that list that are new to me, so thanks for throwing those out there. Just a little while now until Halloween!
Let me also throw out there the Ju-on series [wikipedia.org] (spoiler alert).
There's some crap produced by Sam Raimi as an attempt to Americanize the story, but I'd have to say it's one of the few things he's been involved with that's crap. The original Ju-on series succeeded with the creepypasta feel, while the first two Sam Raimi adaptations aren't bad but feel like they're just going through the motions. I have no idea WTF The Grudge 3 was. I just felt confused after watching it.
See also “Ringu” [imdb.com] and contrast with the crap that is The Ring [imdb.com].
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:38AM
I tried to stick to english language films that were less than a decade old.
If you like older asian horror, Tale of Two Sisters from Korea and Audition from Japan are top notch.
(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Monday August 31 2015, @08:47PM
From Relentless by Bill Hicks [gavinsblog.com]:-
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 01 2015, @01:00AM
I'll mail you a go-pro video of a "day in the life" ... of me. You'll be sleeping under your covers with the lights on for the next few days while the devils rejects blasts on your TV to scare away the monsters.