hi im new to this group im from liverpool i love horror films

hostell is my favortive scary movie even though arts are kinda fake.. also saw
but yea new here dont really understand everything..
xx

I was checking this out on utube, \"the singing ringing tree\" spooky or what. sounds just like a horror theme.

When you look at the genre today, you see movies like "Scream" and say to yourself, "finally horror is being revitalized". But don't be fooled my friends, the future of horror doesn't rest in "Scream" , "Scream 2", or "Halloween H2O". No the future of horror might very rest in independent arena of films.

When I talk about "independent horror" I am talking about a grassroots movement whose only motivation is in trying to make a good movie. Unlike Hollywood where everything is either a sequel or a remake, these filmmakers push the envelope of freshness, originality, and good old-fashion fright. These films are being made by no named studios on shoe-string budgets. Their lack of monetary support is fueled by their creativeness to scary us.

A horror movie fanatic who repeatedly slashed his terrified friend with a home-made Freddy Krueger glove was jailed for life yesterday.
Jason Moore was obsessed with the Nightmare on Elm Street killer and spent hours crafting various recreations of his 'horrific' weapon.
His final model featured four curved steel blades - each as sharp as a cut-throat razor - that were attached to a welded brass amulet.
Deranged Moore, 37, used the glove to attack his friend John Skamarski as he slept, causing slash wounds to his face, neck and hands.
In the films he worshipped his 'hero' Krueger also struck while his victims were asleep - appearing in their dreams to maim and murder them.
Police said Mr Skamarski, 59, was 'very lucky' to survive the attack with relatively minor injuries - but added that he would be traumatised for life.
Leicester Crown Court heard how Moore had a 'morbid fascination' with serial killers and horror films, particularly the Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Balraj Bhatia, prosecuting, said: "He admitted he had watched that film on around 20 occasions and on the weekend prior to this incident.
"The central character was one Freddy Krueger, and his chosen weapon of violence was a glove which had embedded in it a number of knives.
"Such was Moore's fascination that he prepared and made a number of these gloves and took some pleasure and pride in the quality of his workmanship."
Mr Bhatia said Moore put "time and effort into his creations", adding: "It is clearly a labour of love. He practised slashing curtains with the glove."
Moore, a stonemason, told a psychiatrist after his arrest how he constructed a total of four gloves - the first in the 1980s, when the film came out.
Mr Bhatia told the court: "He said that he enjoyed how the gloves looked - menacing - and that he enjoyed 'the power' he felt when he put them on."
On August 30 last year Moore met Mr Skamarski in a park before they went back to Moore's flat in Clarendon Park, Leicester, for a drinking session.
The pair consumed around four litres of cider before Mr Skamarski dozed off after taking a sleeping tablet - only for Moore to slash him as he slept.
Mr Bhatia said: "He awoke to find Moore attacking him with a bread knife and clawed glove. He fought him off in a struggle lasting around 10 minutes.
"At one point Moore said 'I am going to do you', which he took to mean he was going to kill him. He managed to calm Moore, who apologised."
Moore - who was originally charged with attempted murder - phoned 999 himself, telling the operator he didn't know why he carried out the attack.
He said: "I almost stabbed him to death. I'm going out of my mind. For some unbeknown reason I attacked him in the chest. I tried to stab his heart."
Mr Bhatia added that when quizzed by police Moore claimed he couldn't remember the incident and said he 'came to' covered in Mr Skamarski's blood.
Philip Gibbs, defending, said: "He accepts he is a danger. He has only ever wanted to understand his actions. He is a damaged individual."
Moore, who admitted wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, was told to serve at least four-and-a-half years before being considered for parole.
Passing sentence, Judge Michael Pert QC told him: "You had taken the trouble to construct four gloves. It was plainly a labour of love for you.
"A considerable amount of work has gone into backing that glove with brass and figuring into the plates curved talons of the sharpness of cut-throat razors.
"You were fascinated with using that glove to kill someone. The person you chose was your friend, who was asleep and had no reason to expect that attack.
"You are obsessed with violence and killing and are obsessed in particular with the character of Freddy Krueger. You are an extremely dangerous man."
The court heard Moore - who was still wearing his glove when paramedics arrived - admired all the films of Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven.
Craven's other movies include Last House on the Left, which was banned in the UK for 18 years because of its graphic scenes of rape and violence.
After the case Deputy Sergeant Gary Rogers, of Leicester police, who investigated the attack, condemned horror films for their excessive brutality.
He said: "It is obvious these films influence the way people act. It gives us some concern, and unfortunately we have to pick up the pieces afterwards.
"This was probably the most horrific weapon I have ever seen. The victim could have been seriously injured and will live with the trauma for the rest of his life."

One man has bought a piratical DVD «250 new movies» in the market. He was very happy!!! He came home and began watching it. He couldn’t tear himself away from it!!! He didn’t turn up to work – he was fired. He died of starvation, but didn’t watch all the films. And DVD is handing around until now ))) And everybody, who gets it, can not turn away from watching it, and people watch it to death, these 250 top-quality films ))))))))))))

Rank Title
10 Death 4 Told (2004) 1.4/10 (253 votes)

9 Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967) 1.3/10 (351 votes)

8 Voyeur.com (2000) 1.3/10 (358 votes)

7 Girls on the Road (1973) 1.3/10 (160 votes)

6 Evil Behind You (2006) 1.3/10 (323 votes)

5 Bigfoot (1970) 1.3/10 (309 votes)

4 Terror at Tate Manor (2002) 1.2/10 (60 votes)

3 Witchcraft 8: Salem's Ghost (1996) 1.2/10 (186 votes)

2 At Dawn They Sleep (2000) 1.2/10 (259 votes)

1 Maize: The Movie, The (2004) 1.1/10 (526 votes)

Rank Title
1 Psycho (1960) 8.7/10 (94028 votes)

2 Alien (1979) 8.4/10 (115971 votes)

3 Shining, The (1980) 8.4/10 (106257 votes)

4 Aliens (1986) 8.4/10 (112175 votes)

5 Diaboliques, Les (1955) 8.3/10 (7895 votes)

6 Jaws (1975) 8.3/10 (89131 votes)

7 Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926) 8.2/10 (2364 votes)

8 Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920) 8.2/10 (9784 votes)

9 Bride of Frankenstein (1935) 8.1/10 (10078 votes)

10 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) 8.1/10 (17559 votes)

11 Frankenstein (1931) 8.1/10 (14040 votes)

12 Thing, The (1982) 8.1/10 (43087 votes)

13 Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Das (1933) 8.1/10 (2131 votes)

14 King Kong (1933) 8.0/10 (24507 votes)

15 Grindhouse (2007) 8.0/10 (50576 votes)

16 Jungfrukällan (1960) 8.0/10 (3718 votes)

17 Dead of Night (1945) 8.0/10 (1839 votes)

18 Rope (1948) 8.0/10 (17195 votes)

19 Exorcist, The (1973) 8.0/10 (65009 votes)

20 Rosemary's Baby (1968) 8.0/10 (28193 votes)

21 Innocents, The (1961) 8.0/10 (3757 votes)

22 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 8.0/10 (9471 votes)

23 Onibaba (1964) 8.0/10 (2164 votes)

24 Kaidan (1964) 8.0/10 (2220 votes)

25 Repulsion (1965) 8.0/10 (7145 votes)

26 Shaun of the Dead (2004) 8.0/10 (72674 votes)

27 Invisible Man, The (1933) 7.9/10 (4992 votes)

28 Night of the Living Dead (1968) 7.9/10 (24711 votes)

29 Batoru rowaiaru (2000) 7.9/10 (30332 votes)

30 Dawn of the Dead (1978) 7.9/10 (27190 votes)

31 Unknown, The (1927) 7.9/10 (1449 votes)

32 Yeux sans visage, Les (1960) 7.9/10 (2362 votes)

33 Halloween (1978) 7.9/10 (39367 votes)

34 Holy Mountain, The (1973) 7.9/10 (2663 votes)

35 Birds, The (1963) 7.8/10 (35354 votes)

36 Peeping Tom (1960) 7.8/10 (5398 votes)

37 Jûbei ninpûchô (1993) 7.8/10 (7871 votes)

38 Haunting, The (1963/I) 7.8/10 (7847 votes)

39 Evil Dead II (1987) 7.8/10 (28908 votes)

40 Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit (1922) 7.8/10 (1039 votes)

41 Survive Style 5+ (2004) 7.8/10 (2074 votes)

42 Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1939) 7.8/10 (2332 votes)

43 Vargtimmen (1968) 7.8/10 (2183 votes)

44 Abre los ojos (1997) 7.8/10 (14986 votes)

45 Freaks (1932) 7.8/10 (8542 votes)

46 Phantom of the Opera, The (1925) 7.7/10 (3615 votes)

47 Planet Terror (2007) 7.7/10 (22419 votes)

48 Profondo rosso (1975) 7.7/10 (5095 votes)

49 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) 7.7/10 (2091 votes)

50 Orfanato, El (2007) 7.7/10 (3906 votes)

Here are a number of pictures by S. King

Such pictures are made in such a way that they can change their look at certain angles. Imagine… Night…Huge villa … and such a picture!!! ))))

http://www.theadamsresidence.co.uk/robertson/PHANTASMOGRIA.htm

Horror films play on our secret fears. Human dreams, vision and imagination become real in many films, as for horror films, our nightmares come alive. Terrifying shadows, the moan of the wind, creak of the door frighten us from the TV screen.
Modern horror films can boast of bloody special effects.
The Phantasmagoria of Etienne Gaspard Robertson, In March 1798 a Belgian inventor, physicist, and student of optics named Etienne-Gaspard Robert presented what he called the first Fantasmagorie. It was the sensation of post-revolutionary Paris.
His multimedia Gothic horror show thrilled his audiences, his theatre an ancient chapel was dressed up and decorated to great effect, in the same way that theme parks do today, getting people to participate before the show had even started. Other showmen started to produce Phantasmagoria shows in England and America. There is some evidence that Paul de Philipsthal who presented a show at London's Lyceum theatre in 1801, may have originated the form. However no-one it seems before or after has presented such a show with such panache. Robertson used a number of magic lanterns to produce his various effects. Some were used to back project on to a large screen, thus keeping the lantern hidden from the audience, these large lanterns were known as Fantascopes and ran backwards and forwards on wheels; a device attached by pulleys to the wheels kept the lens focused. Assitants placed among the audience had small lanterns strapped to their chests, which allowed "spectres" to be projected in unusual places. Other effects were produced by projecting on to smoke and the use of a Megascope to project models and puppets.