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Originally Posted by frankie_fan
Constantine: Many people may hate me for liking this film because of a certain actor, but I thought this was Keanu Reeves' best performance. While I haven't read the comics that this film is based on (I'm not a comic reader), I still think it was a great film, and a great performance from Keanu.
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I actually liked
Constantine, despite how different it was from the original comics. However, I honestly think Keanu's best performance to have been in
A Scanner Darkly.
Anyway, horror films of all types are my bread and butter. My favorites are:
Child's Play 2: While the first one was much scarier, and the later ones more fun to watch, the second one was, to me, perfection in what it set out to achieve: it was able to be creepy AND campy/goofy at the same time, without sacrificing either bit. That, and I'm a huge Chucky fan, so I had to make sure on film made this list.
Tetsuo - The Iron Man: One of the most bizarre, abstract, and creepiest Japanese films I have ever seen. It has a deeply unsettling soundtrack that meshes well with the atmosphere incredibly well, and some of the most unsettling imagery I've ever seen in a film.
Ichi the Killer: Another Japanese film, and done by the David Cronenberg of Japan, Takashi Miike. Despite some lacking graphics, it remains a very disturbing film and incredibly faithful to the original source material.
Night of the Living Dead: While I love most of George Romero's films, as well as John Russo's split from the series, the first is still definantely the best. The tension and anxiety between the survivors in the farm house, as well as the horror of watching the ghouls feed and the shockingly (for the time) downer ending makes it one of the best horror films I've ever seen.
Dead Alive: One of Peter Jackson's infamous films, I personally consider THIS to be his masterpiece (while I loved the LoTR films, I'm a hardcore Tolkien fan, and nothing can replace the books in my opinion). Along with Raimi's Evil Dead films, it's a shining example of how a good horror movie can be made from an extremely low budget. That, and the fact that the ending zombie slaughter resulted in setting the record for most stage blood used is pretty interesting to remember.
Evil Dead II: Dead Before Dawn: One of the single finest horror films I've ever seen. I am, in fact, ashamed that I only saw it for the first time a week or two ago. For being made on a shoestring budget, and with how old it is, I feel the graphics still hold up today (though I must admit I'm a sucker for horror flicks that make their gore effects the old fashioned way instead of with CGI), and the acting (especially from Bruce Campbell) is superb. It is a film ANY horror fan most see. If you haven't seen it, you've missed out on a lot.
I'll have more later, my pretties. Yes, many more.
And thank you for starting this thread, M. I was going to start it in celebration of Halloween, but you beat me to it.