Best horror movie series

[Guest razazteca]

Worlock series and Phantasm are my favorite scary movies

 

as for the gross out appeal ever watch those cannibal movies set in South America.

[Guest Eric the Eagle]

How did I forget the Hellraiser series? I *loved* the first and though part two was really great - it fit so well with part one, and has a totally different story (the scene where the autistic girl assembles the Box gives me chills everytime I see it). I've conciously avoided the other three because absolutely everyone say they are crap, and I didn't want to have bad follow-ups detract from the brilliance of the first two.

 

It occurs to me that no one has mentioned the Poltergeist series. It further occurs to me that there might be a reason for this.

[Guest]

The only films that you listed there that I would even consider to be good horror films is the Evil Dead series but due to lack of budget the film isn't as great as it would have been given more money.  

 

Go ahead and name more because I don't get your point.

Of all those horror movie series I have listed, how many have you actually seen besides the Evil Dead trilogy?

 

So what you are saying is, because the Evil Dead films didn't have as big a budget as the Scream films, that makes them worse by comparison? To deem a movie inferior because less money was used to make it is completely ignorant.

 

I guess you won't ever get my point. Keep watching your Scream trilogy, I'll go watch some real horror movies.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

As for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original is fantastic. Considering it was extremely low budget, it was shot beautifully and is a real inspiration for other low budget filmmakers. Funny enough, I really like Leatherface: TCM 3 as well. I think it's by far the best TCM sequel (although part 4 is totally bizarre).

While I agree with you that Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a fantastic film with a wonderful, yet honestly disturbing atmosphere, I couldn't stand Leatherface: TCM 3.  To me it seemed like little more than a big-budgeted rip-off of the original that featured some enjoyable moments (I love the dark humor in the scene with the Speak-and-Say; that's easily the film's ONE redeeming scene right there) but on the whole was disappointing.  But then, I probably just feel that way because:

 

a) It has a budget (I'm terribly biased against films with budget, since I've seen so many great low-budget films, I assume that if the budget is 10 times as great, there is no legitimate reason why the film shouldn't be as well, and since it usually never is, I'm constantly disappointed)

 

b) Nobody from the original was involved with it.  TCM 2 is a love/hate sequel (which I actually haven't seen yet, so I guess this sorta invalidates my point ???), but at least Hooper was involved in directing.

 

But then those are my thoughts on TCM vs. TCM 3... is the fourth one with Rene Zelweger and Matthew McConaughey any good? A friend of mine said it was a terrible remake of the original, can I get a second opinion on this?

[Guest El Satanico]

:sheds a tear:

 

you're a true saint amongest men C.H.U.D

 

:Wind beneath my Wings suddenly starts playing:

 

:throws tape player out window:

 

nevermind that

[Guest J*ingus]

b) Nobody from the original was involved with it.  TCM 2 is a love/hate sequel (which I actually haven't seen yet, so I guess this sorta invalidates my point ???), but at least Hooper was involved in directing.

 

But then those are my thoughts on TCM vs. TCM 3... is the fourth one with Rene Zelweger and Matthew McConaughey any good? A friend of mine said it was a terrible remake of the original, can I get a second opinion on this?

TCM 2 was odd.  It was a film that just wasn't nearly as good as it should've been.  I mean, come on, you've got Dennis Hopper getting into a chainsaw duel with Leatherface in a decaying amusement park, with Tobe Hooper directing it all, so it should be awesome, right?  But it's not, it's just kinda flat.  

 

TCM 4 is one of the worst goddamned pieces of shit that I've ever seen in my life.  Badly acted, incoherently written, amateurishly directed, and with NO sense of what's scary, funny, or entertaining in any way.  And just try to explain the last five minutes to me, or anybody.  Easily one of the ten worst movies that I've ever seen.

[Guest]

Hi, new to the forum and thought this would be a good place to jump in, as horror movies are kind of my thing

 

I’ll say the best horror series is Texas Chainsaw Massacre, almost entirely on the strength of the first two movies. Most people agree that the first was great, but, personally I think part two was great as well, in a different way.  I think a lot of the strength of the first two movies was in Leatherface’s two brothers. There was the Hitchhiker, in my opinion the most insane character in any horror movie, and then Choptop who was like the Hitchhiker on acid. Choptop was just awesome to me. I think TCM 2 can be compared to Evil Dead 2... the same general idea as the first movie, but crazier. Part 3 had a couple of good aspects: The Speak-n-Spell scene, as evenflowDDt said, and the huge chainsaw Leatherface had in it with “The Saw Is Family” on the side… that was an awesome saw. Four was pretty bad, but one good thing about it was that in the final scene at the hospital, Marilyn Burns returns as Sally, gone insane and institutionalized from the events in part one, which was a good way to tie it together and close out the series. And the orderly pushing the gurney was Paul Partain who played Franklin in part one

[Guest]

Actually, the TCM 1/TCM 2 Evil Dead 1/Evil Dead 2 comparison is a good one. Both original films were low budget, serious horror films while the sequels had some money and were more like horror comedies. Did you know TCM 2 was nominated for an Academy Award for best sound effects editing or something? Whee!

 

As for TCM 4, I can't really describe it. It's as if the filmmakers were on acid when they made it. It's just completely maniacal. McConaughey was totally over the top, and what was the deal with his mechanical leg? If someone could explain the ending to me, I'd appreciate it. Who the hell was the guy in the limo? Was he paying the family to kidnap and murder people? I actually saw that movie in the theatre, and when it ended I felt as if I had taken some bad drugs.

[Guest]

as for who the guy in the limo was, Kim Henkel, the director, did an interview one time (I think it was in Fangoria) and said he was the leader of a worldwide organization of cannibals who funded cannibalistic families and he was there to check up on them. I forgot to say that John Dugan (Grandpa from TCm1) also had a cameo at the end, he was the cop interviewing Renee Zelwegger

 

it might be interesting to actually watch TCM 4 on acid

[Guest]

as for who the guy in the limo was, Kim Henkel, the director, did an interview one time (I think it was in Fangoria) and said he was the leader of a worldwide organization of cannibals who funded cannibalistic families and he was there to check up on them.

Wow, I that is pretty crazy if that is true. I can't think of any other logical explanation. I guess considering how psychotic the movie was, that fits perfectly.