Horror Films: PG & PG-13

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Horror Films: PG & PG-13

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2011		Beastly		PG-13
2010		Devil 		PG-13
2010		The Last Exorcism 		PG-13
2009		Carriers 		PG-13
2009		The Uninvited		PG-13
2009		Coraline		PG
2009		Drag Me to Hell		PG-13
2009		Knowing		PG-13
2008		Alone in the Dark II 		PG-13
2008		Cloverfield		PG-13
2007		Skinwalkers 		PG-13
2007		Bone Eater 		PG-13
2007		1408: Theatrical Version 		PG-13
2007		Disturbia		PG-13
2007		I Am Legend		PG-13
2006		Bacterium 		PG-13
2006		The Messengers 		PG-13
2006		Monster House		PG
2005		The Cave 		PG-13
2005		Boogeyman 		PG-13
2005		Bloodthirst 2: Revenge of the Chupacabras 		PG-13
2005		Sea of Fear 		PG-13
2005		Monster Beach Party 		PG-13
2004		Gamebox 1.0 		PG-13
2004		Tremors 4: The Legend Begins 		PG-13
2004		Glass Trap 		PG-13
2004		The Black Gate 		PG-13
2004		The Off Season 		PG-13
2004		The Grudge 		PG-13
2003		Willard 		PG-13
2003		War of the Planets 		PG-13
2003		Darkness Falls 		PG-13
2002		Creepy Crawlers 		PG-13
2002		Eight Legged Freaks 		PG-13
2002		Boo! The Movie 		PG-13
2002		Fear of the Dark 		PG-13 
2002		The Ring 		PG-13
2001		The Brotherhood 		PG-13
2001		Fangs 		PG-13
2001		Knight Chills 		PG-13
2001		The Others		PG-13
2000		What Lies Beneath		PG-13
1999		Believe 		PG-13
1999		The Haunting		PG-13
1999		The Sixth Sense		PG-13
1998		King Cobra 		PG-13
1998		Bug Buster 		PG-13
1998		Starved 		PG-13
1997		Bugged 		PG-13
1996		Shadow Zone: The Undead Express 		PG-13
1996		Sarah's Child 		PG-13
1995		Immortal 		PG-13
1993		The Mummy Lives 		PG-13
1993		Hocus Pocus		PG
1993		Fire in the Sky		PG-13
1991		Critters 3 		PG-13
1991		Critters 4 		PG-13
1990		Tremors		PG-13
1990		Arachnophobia		PG-13
1989		The Return of Swamp Thing 		PG-13
1988		Lady in White 		PG-13
1988		Killer Klowns from Outer Space 		PG-13
1988		Critters 2: The Main Course 		
1988		Lady in White		PG-13
1987		The Gate 		PG-13 
1987		House II: The Second Story 		PG-13
1987		Howling 3: The Marsupials 		PG-13
1987		Jaws: The Revenge 		PG-13
1987		The Monster Squad 		PG-13
1987		Monster Squad		PG-13
1987		The Gate		PG-13
1986		Troll / Troll 2: Double Feature 		PG-13
1986		Raiders of the Living Dead 		PG-13
1986		Critters 		PG-13
1986		Troll 2 		PG-13
1986		Critters		PG-13
1985		Bloody Wednesday 		PG-13
1985		Stephen King's Cat's Eye 		PG-13
1984		Night of the Comet 		PG-13
1984		Gremlins		PG-13
1984		Ghostbusters		PG
1983		Twilight Zone: The Movie		PG
1983		Something Wicked This Way Comes		PG
1982		Poltergeist		PG-13
1981		Dawn of the Mummy 		PG-13
1981		House by the Cemetery 		PG-13
1980		The Watcher in the Woods		PG
1977		Sisters of Death 		PG-13
1975		The Hatchet Murders 		PG-13
1974		The Thirsty Dead 		PG-13
1970		Count Yorga, Vampire 		PG-13
1969		Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed 		PG-13


Horror Comedy
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2012		The Cabin in the Woods		Sci Fi
2012		Dark Shadows		Vampires & Witches
2011		Fright Night		Vampires
2011		Rubber		Supernatural
2010		Tucker and Dale vs Evil		Killer
2009		Jennifer's Body		Supernatural
2009		Drag Me to Hell		Supernatural
2009		Zombieland		Zombies
2007		Sweeney Todd		Killer
2004		Club Dread		Killer
2004		Shaun of the Dead		Zombies
2002		Eight Legged Freaks		Monsters
2002		Bubba Ho-Tep		Supernatural
2002		Shadow of the Vampire		Vampires
1999		Idle Hands		Supernatural
1999		Sleepy Hollow		Supernatural
1993		Army of Darkness		Supernatural
1992		Buffy the Vampire Slayer		Supernatural
1992		Dead Alive		Zombies
1992		Death Becomes Her		Supernatural
1991		The Addams Family		Xenophobia
1990		Arachnophobia		Monsters
1990		Tremors		Monsters
1989		The 'Burbs		Xenophobia
1988		Beetlejuice		Supernatural
1987		Evil Dead II		Supernatural
1984		Ghostbusters		Supernatural
1984		Gremlins		Monsters
1981		The Evil Dead		Supernatural
 
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DeJager said:
What about them?
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Before working on a screenplay in a genré and tone I'm interested in executing I put in some research into what has already been done to both avoid and emulate some of the material.

CF just remarked that he had checked out 'Tremors' and I thought he and anyone else interested in what's available in this/these group(s) might want to save themselves some hassle of looking up what I already have on a spreadsheet.

Nothin' else. :)
 
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Horror films are like the Rap/Hip-Hop Songs of film genres. There's too many of them, they're usually ridiculously explicit, only one out of seventy-four are decent and the only good ones were from decades ago.
 
fernando97echeverria said:
Horror films are like the Rap/Hip-Hop Songs of film genres. There's too many of them, they're usually ridiculously explicit, only one out of seventy-four are decent and the only good ones were from decades ago.
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Yup.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/horror
The highest rated horror film from the last decade is #16 'Shaun Of The Dead' which I happen to totally enjoy (along with Edgar Wright's 'Hott Fuzz'.)

The next? Coming in at #31 'The Cabin in the Woods'.
Ha!



Yeah, here's the deal: When it comes to professional film financing that actually requires an attorney(s), even for low budget <$4m films, you gotta have a foreign market pre-sell marketable, bankable star or director.

If you're a no-name schmuck with no connections the only no-name bankable no-budget film that you could hope to foreign market pre-sell over seas is horror.
For all the other genrés the audience requires recognizable talent, preferably on screen - but not always.
But with horror... the audience doesn't care.
It is a unique genre.

Marketable horror is not about buckets of blood and a cross demographic of teens going to their slaughter in a cabin in the woods. (HA!)
No.
You gotta have a good story. And even with a no-name cast IN A HORROR FILM there is the potential of pre-selling this thing over seas - and THAT'S the beginning of the pro-financing sequence.

If you ain't got a marketable name you can't get financing for your drama, or comedy (which also won't pre-sell overseas), or thriller, or anything - OTHER THAN HORROR.
(You can try to make a low/no-budget SciFi flick, but I advise against it. Good luck! :lol:)

And that's my 2pesos on the matter.
 
Cracker Funk said:
It's hilarious! AND scary. AND ridiculously smart satire. Pure genius.
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Seconded! I can't imagine liking anything this year as much as I liked Cabin. A movie that revels in everything we love and everything we hate about horror movies, and where the two overlap.

Oh, and Evil Dead (and 2) and Dead Alive should be on the horror comedy list! Bubba Ho-Tep and Shadow of the Vampire are both much drier comedies, but both very very funny!
 
That imdb chart is bogus, as the votes are surely influenced by people wearing rose-colored nostalgic glasses. The horror genre is just as strong as it's ever been, which is to say that most horror movies suck, but every now and then we get a gem. Cabin in the Woods is one such gem. It is also true that in the 70s and 80s, most horror movies were horrible.

Red State is pretty badass. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is hilarious. Insidious is scary as shit. Let the Right One In is chilling, and the American remake ain't bad, if unnecessary. Rec is great. Saw is great. Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead are great and great. Drag Me to Hell is a fun time. I've heard The House of the Devil is scary, and I'm about to watch it.

My list only takes us back 2.5 years. There aren't any good horror movies being made?! Nonsense.
 
Cracker Funk said:
That imdb chart is bogus, as the votes are surely influenced by people wearing rose-colored nostalgic glasses. The horror genre is just as strong as it's ever been, which is to say that most horror movies suck, but every now and then we get a gem. Cabin in the Woods is one such gem. It is also true that in the 70s and 80s, most horror movies were horrible.

Red State is pretty badass. Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is hilarious. Insidious is scary as shit. Let the Right One In is chilling, and the American remake ain't bad, if unnecessary. Rec is great. Saw is great. Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead are great and great. Drag Me to Hell is a fun time. I've heard The House of the Devil is scary, and I'm about to watch it.

My list only takes us back 2.5 years. There aren't any good horror movies being made?! Nonsense.
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Valid points - except for "Insidious is scary as shit." :hmm: I don't think so, or I'm outta Kool-Aid.

If only we could get CinemaScore to release a historical record: http://cinemascore.com/





Edit: EXCELLENT additions, guys! Added and Thank you!
 
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Cracker Funk said:
The horror genre is just as strong as it's ever been
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I've gotten used to statements of yours like these, but you're just pushing the envelope there. Are you serious about the horror genre still being as strong as the decades with films like Alien, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween and The Shining? Really?

Insidious was cheap scary fun, but had no artistic value. Let the Right One In was pretty good, as was Shaun of the Dead (which doesn't really count) but Let Me In sucked, Cabin in the Woods is overrated garbage and I know of almost hundreds of cheap direct-to-DVD horror flicks, as well as all the Saw films, the Final Destinations and Wes Craven's recent failed attempts at his former glory. Paranormal Activity is gimmicky trash and the only "great" horror film of the last two decades is Blair Witch Project.

And sure, there were a lot of corny B-movie scary movies in the Golden Age, but at least they too had artistic value. Even Manos: The Hand of Fate is a good watch. But the "B-movies" of today are just one-dimensional terrible.
 
fernando97echeverria said:
But the "B-movies" of today are just one-dimensional terrible.
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Yep.

There's a lotta cr@p horror films being put out that most folks have never heard of.

I've been hitting the FearNet on demand and on line list lately and these are mostly sh!t films.
Code: 
2011	[COLOR="Red"]Hyenas - Sucked REALLY BAD[/COLOR]
2010	[COLOR="red"]The Killer Inside Me - Slow and strange[/COLOR]
2010	Julia's Eyes
2010	Burning Bright 
2010	[COLOR="red"]Virus X[/COLOR]
2010	Psych:9
2009	Saw VI
2009	Summer's Blood/Moon
2009	The Collector
2009	[COLOR="red"]Carriers [/COLOR]
2009	Night Train
2008	The Attic 
2008	Insanitarium
2008	[COLOR="Indigo"]The Ruins - Fair, but not great[/COLOR]
2008	Parasomnia
2008	[COLOR="Red"]Lake Mungo[/COLOR]
2008	Restraint
2008	The Broken
2008	[COLOR="red"]Dying Breed - Pure sh!te[/COLOR]
2008	[COLOR="red"]The Midnight Meat Train - Missable, (except for Leslie Bibb's side boob!)[/COLOR]
2007	The Descent Part 2
2007	From Within
2007	Dark Rising
2007	Voices
2007	Lake Dead
2007	The Deaths of Ian Stone
2007	The Substitute
2007	[COLOR="red"]Borderland - Very strange[/COLOR]
2007	Tooth & Nail 
2007	Unearthed
2006	Crazy Eights
2006	[COLOR="red"]The Marsh - Hallmark channel director does horror[/COLOR]
2006	[COLOR="red"]Population 436 - Rubbish[/COLOR]
2006	When a Stranger Calls
2006	Nightmare Man
2006	[COLOR="red"]Penny Dreadful - Cr@p[/COLOR]
2006	The Hamiltons
2006	[COLOR="red"]Bug - Over rated[/COLOR]
2006	[COLOR="red"]Unrest - Cr@p[/COLOR]
2006	Wicked Little Things
2005	[COLOR="red"]An American Haunting - Snore[/COLOR]
2005	Boy Eats Girl 
2005	Doll Graveyard
2004	Murder-Set-Pieces
2004	[COLOR="red"]Dead Birds - Boring[/COLOR]


And recently I caught both the Hong Kong original and Americanized remake of 'The Eye.'
http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?p=278779#post278779
Meh... missable.

And 'The Host' had a goofy story, as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Host_(2006_film)
 
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fernando97echeverria said:
I've gotten used to statements of yours like these, but you're just pushing the envelope there. Are you serious about the horror genre still being as strong as the decades with films like Alien, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween and The Shining? Really?

Insidious was cheap scary fun, but had no artistic value. Let the Right One In was pretty good, as was Shaun of the Dead (which doesn't really count) but Let Me In sucked, Cabin in the Woods is overrated garbage and I know of almost hundreds of cheap direct-to-DVD horror flicks, as well as all the Saw films, the Final Destinations and Wes Craven's recent failed attempts at his former glory. Paranormal Activity is gimmicky trash and the only "great" horror film of the last two decades is Blair Witch Project.

And sure, there were a lot of corny B-movie scary movies in the Golden Age, but at least they too had artistic value. Even Manos: The Hand of Fate is a good watch. But the "B-movies" of today are just one-dimensional terrible.
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Well, I was okay with us just having different tastes in films. But if you insist on speaking in such authoritative tones, I think I might advise you that while your opinions are perfectly okay, and yours to have, they are WAY OUT OF TOUCH with what most fans of the genre feel.

I get it. You're like the hipster who liked everything before it became cool. Except, you only like stuff that is vintage. For your sake, I'm sorry that you've got that mindset. Because there are plenty of great artists doing all sorts of wonderful things in the here-and-now. And that includes the horror genre.
 
Woohoo, this is starting to get interesting.

Look, I have absolutely no problem with modern filmmaking. In fact, steadily, the last decade has already produced an incredible amount of great films. More so than any other, in fact. But the horror genre is almost like the porn genre: It had its time of brilliance (although admittedly and quite obviously horror's was longer), and it passed. Scary movies, like nude flicks, had a period of being artistic and creative (around the seventies and then the early eighties). But then they became cheap entertainment (more so than they already were) and were mass produced for cheap fare, making its category a cinematic joke. The only difference is that there is still the occasional good horror film.

All I'm saying is the horror genre had its time of being and it is for the most part now terrible. Excellent dramas will always exist, great comedies will always exist, good documentaries will always be made and great action films are made every year. The horror film is just no longer a regular canvas for good filmmaking. Because all the tricks of scaring people out of their minds have been made and used and now the directors of the genre are lazy, re-using the same things over and over for, what, a brief jump or maybe, just maybe a sleepless night? What happened to horror scenes that were so unique that you remember it forever?

May I remind you, the last horror film (not counting The Sixth Sense, a thriller) nominated for Best Picture was Silence of the Lambs. In 1991. And the last one before that was The Exorcist... in 1973.

What does that tell you about the quality of this genre?
 
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So, the Oscars are your measure for how good the horror genre is? That's dumb.

Besides, your distinction between Silence of the Lambs (which you apparently accept as "horror") and Sixth Sense (which you call "thriller") is equally dumb.

Instead of speaking in vague generalities, can you list some specific movies that you think are examples of how horror used to be "artistic"?

In addition to simply making a list of movies that you approve of, can you list specific qualities, maybe cite specific scenes, that you think make older horror more "artistic"? And how is it any different from what people are doing today? Again, I would ask for specifics, not vague generalities.
 
I don't use the Oscars to measure anything. But the fact that the genre hasn't been honored for that long or that often ever says something.

The Silence of the Lamb was scary as hell, revolved around psychopathic cannibals, mass murderers and had graphic scenes involving deaths as gruesome as possible. The Sixth Sense had a creepy atmosphere but for the most part was a tense drama about a broken psychiatrist and a confused boy. While it involved ghosts and some disturbing visions, it didn't match all the requirements for it to be a "horror" film.

Hitchcock, one of the best directors of all time, as early as the forties created scary, tense trademarks that are now staples in horror films (creating a tense situation unknown to the characters, hiding the killer for the whole film, cutting to sudden horrific images to cause jumps). He made one of, if not the most memorable murder in screen history, which is the shower scene from Psycho.

Polanski's horror films (Repulsion, Tenant, Exorcist) had amazing cinematography, Oscar-nominated performances and great stories, all of which were used to scare the hell out of the viewer. The films today rely almost solely on cheap jump moments.

Alien remains the best monster film of all time, and had an atmosphere NEVER before seen or created. No horror films these days have original atmospheres.

Blair Witch used the amazingly inventive found-footage technique for the first time in horror history, and once was enough. But it has been emulated endlessly but never matched. Paranormal Activity came close but ultimately it's lame and forgettable.

DePalma's classic horror Carrie is the ultimate revenge film and its main actress is scarily good, whose performance scares the living daylights out of viewers. Good performances in a horror film are rare nowadays.

The Shining was beautifully shot and thought out, and incredibly deep once you think about it. All this unnerving psychosis made the film twice as scary.

As for citing scenes:
-The chest-bursting scene from Alien
-The shower scene and dead mother discovery from Psycho
-The babysitter chase in Halloween
-The opening swim from Jaws
-The the creature-mutation in The Thing
-Regan's twisting head, cross mutilation in The Exorcist
-The Satanic rape scene in Rosemary's Baby
-The ending hand-burst in Carrie
-Drew Barrymore's torment and death in Scream
-The TV scene from the Poltergeist

Those are the best examples of horrific scenes that stay with you for a long, long time, because of their uniqueness and the way they were shot, acted or put together, which is elegantly.
 
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I asked for examples of how horror allegedly used to be "artistic". Is that all you've got? Not sure how any of your examples differentiate classic horror from modern horror.

I'm about to smash your argument into pieces. Won't be difficult.
 
Awww…. Late to the party….

Fernando, you’re very opinionated (which is fine), but you don’t speak for the majority of genre fans. Your opinions certainly don’t match mine. The scenes you’ve listed are all great, but I could name a hundred more, all from films released in the last decade. And although I loved ‘Blair Witch’, most people weren’t as enthusiastic. And... are you aware that Polanski didn’t make ‘The Exorcist’?

Also, got to say, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ is a thriller (like Se7en, for example) and ‘The Sixth Sense’ is a horror, and does, without question, feature all the elements required to make it a horror. It was marketed as a “supernatural thriller”, I assume because the studio was scared of using the word HORROR.

The horror genre is alive and well, great horrors are always being made. And genre fans like myself… we’ll watch any old crap anyway.

Cracker, did you watch ‘The House of the Devil’? What did you think? I loved it, probably my favourite horror in a long time.

Can I also recommend ‘Kill List’ to any horror fans. Very strange, but definitely worth a watch.
 
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