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I have nearly every top ten horror film since 1922...

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Post by Grace in the Dark » Mon Jun 05, 2023 10:49 am

My sources are from the Variety magazine in the US. They began gross reports for movies beginning on 3 March, 1922.

This website is also very useful. :cool:

http://boxofficestory.com

I have about 20 to go, or something.

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Did this come through okay? I had a small technical problem earlier on...

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Mon Jun 05, 2023 10:27 pm

Hi Grace, welcome to VGF!!! *gives you marshmallows*

And, what are your favourite horror films?
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Post by Grace in the Dark » Wed Jun 07, 2023 5:09 pm

* Saw
* Creepshow
* A Nightmare on Elm Street
* Psycho

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Post by Heroine of the Dragon » Thu Jun 08, 2023 1:59 am

Nice!!

What do you like about the horror genre?
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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Jun 08, 2023 3:52 pm

Grace in the Dark wrote:
Wed Jun 07, 2023 5:09 pm
* Saw
* Creepshow
* A Nightmare on Elm Street
* Psycho
The first Saw is actually pretty good. I think it descended into mindless violence afterwards, but I feel like due to that the first one has become underrated. It's one of my favorites too, but I'm not much for the horror genre in film overall.

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Post by Booyakasha » Thu Jun 08, 2023 6:40 pm

I haven't seen any of the Elm Street or Friday the 13th movies. Saw the first two Halloween flicks, and...like, those are really good, but slasher flicks just aren't my thing, I think.

I like a good psychological thriller (like 'Silence of the Lambs', or 'In the Line of Fire'), I love kaiju flicks, and the old Universal monsters, but I don't think any of those really count as 'horror'.

Is 'The Thing' horror? How about 'Alien'? Sci-fi is kind of horror-adjacent.

...some koo-koo cats made a pretty great 'Call of Cthulhu' movie about twenty years back. It's a short watch (maybe forty minutes?), a silent film. They took great pains to make it look like it was made in the 1920s, using all old fogey cameras, black-and-white filmstock...actors hamming it up a bit in pancake makeup, filters to make it look a little grainy, intertitles and all...even some Harryhausen-style stop-motion for the creature effects. I wonder if it's streaming anywhere (I got my copy on DVD courtesy of eBay back around 2004 or so).
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Post by I REALLY HATE POKEMON! » Thu Jun 08, 2023 6:53 pm

I'd definitely say Alien is a horror film, but the sequels aren't really. I'd classify Terminator the same way. ...Well, the last Terminator movie was a horror film too, but unintentionally.

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