The cheesiest scene is when they hold down the poor girl and try to get “Grampa” to chop her head off with an axe.

Holy shit, I’m still laughing out loud when I think of this. Grampa is so feeble, sitting in his chair, he can’t even hold the axe. He drops it after barely touching the girl, who continues to over-act and scream.

Doing this once would be fine. But they put the axe back in his hand and make him try again. And again. And again…(I forget HOW many times). The old mummified coot keeps dropping the axe, and nothing is really happening to the victim.

Suddenly the bad guys don’t eem quite as scary. Now they’re just kinda stupid and pathetic. It’s almost like a bad SNL skit. …Classic!

Still, I really enjoyed the movie when I saw it for the first time.

Throughout all this, the victim is screaming and overacting. But

Where’s WPB’s The EXORCIST? HALLOWEEN? NOTLD ’68? SUSPIRIA? BLACK CHRISTMAS ’74? SILENT NIGHT BLOODY NIGHT? Ok, I’ll stop now, but some, if not all of those films should have been listed.

The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (1993)
Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (2006)

I was also perhaps sort of getting at and wondering if maybe a well known Hollywood or international actor would ever take on the Dahmer role if there would happen to be one in the works sometime, since the movies we’ve mentioned here, the actors in them aren’t actors familiar or well known to me at least.

(Jaden, yes as the director, you would certainly have to make Mr. Clooney realize and coach him on the fine art of undressing slowly….much more seductive indeed, and would certainly play out very well onscreen! LOL)

Yeah, even the zombies of I Am Legend were total Meth-heads.

The American version of The Ring I didn’t find very scary, but the Japanese one was scary. Also, the Japanese version of Dark Water was super creepy. I don’t know specifically what it is about American films makes them so light and fluffy, maybe too much life comfort for the makers and fear of public backlash so they walk a more careful line, even remakes of old American films don’t strike the right chord.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285728/

I seem to remember the lead actor being on a reality television show on E! that filmed a group of actor hopefuls.

However, this film did not traumatize me. I left that to The Ring. I now cannot watch a television that is projecting a staticky mess for fear of Amanda creeping out of my television. Walking into a closet will never be the same, either, now that I can only envision a mummified Amber Tamblyn, a loud screeching noise, and the ruination of my alligator pennyloafers.

But now that has me thinking of what you are all talking about, which is that Amer. horror is greatly inferior to that of the Jap. horror. This is merely a remake, albeit good, but still only a remake of a wickedly terrifying original Jap. scary movie.

I wish someone would come up with the next Evil Dead type originality. The problem with this genre is that you have to pretty much follow the standard stereotypes of horrors unless you do something unique as Evil Dead had and infuse something different into the culture (in their case – comedy). Anyways, it is all just blood and gore nowadays, that and speed. Zombies seem to have gotten quick and the “rage virus” storyline is being grossly overused. Think about the old days when running through a woods was scary. Nowadays a powerdrill through the calf is scary and it is, just not in the same way that sticks with us and haunts our dreams and our thoughts when we are alone. It is now a quick scare, a fright, a “what was that.!!” type of deal.

anyone else see that trend?