THE WICKER MAN - a remake to avoid

BarTopDancer · 09-01-2006, 04:53 PM

I do not "do" horror moives and The Wicker Man (original version) is not a horror movie. Disturbing, yes. Horrific? In a way, not not gory, not a scary man is going to come kill me in my sleep sort of way.

I think you would enjoy it Alex. Give it a shot.

Alex · 09-01-2006, 05:49 PM

Well, I use the term pretty broadly. Such that it includes things like The Village of the Damned or The Bad Seed. Supernatural suspense thrillers and whatnot (or films that want you to think supernatural suspense even if it turns out not). Scary movies never scare me and supernatural suspense movies almost never suspend me. So I have a limited history with them.

I was just looking around at some lists of "top 100 horror films" and see that such things tend to define it pretty broadly and The Wicker Man is frequently categorized as horror.

But it's not important. I'm probably not going to see the new version now (when I go to the drive-in I only watch movies I would otherwise never see in the theater since the picture quality and sound tend to suck, so The Wicker Man was a good candidate) and unless someone else is watching I'm probably not going to see the old version.

Strangler Lewis · 09-01-2006, 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I do not "do" horror moives and The Wicker Man (original version) is not a horror movie. Disturbing, yes. Horrific? In a way, not not gory, not a scary man is going to come kill me in my sleep sort of way.

No, it's an "every normal person I know is going to come and kill me" sort of movie. One body is enough for a horror film, and the ending of that movie was one of the more horrifying--and, at the time, surprising--things I've ever seen.

I skip Saw, Hostel and the current breed. I'm turning into my father, whose constant refrain was "That's not entertainment."

Not Afraid · 09-02-2006, 11:23 AM

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I'm turning into my father......

Yes, we've reached that prime age where we start doing things our parents did. I yell at kids to stay off the lawn. Chris can'r hear. I like orange suddenly. How far must we go?

Strangler Lewis · 09-02-2006, 11:50 AM

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I like orange suddenly.

Suddenly? What about Fred the rose?

BarTopDancer · 09-02-2006, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

No, it's an "every normal person I know is going to come and kill me" sort of movie. One body is enough for a horror film, and the ending of that movie was one of the more horrifying--and, at the time, surprising--things I've ever seen.

I skip Saw, Hostel and the current breed. I'm turning into my father, whose constant refrain was "That's not entertainment."

Saw 2 scared the everloving daylights out of me. I bawled for about 2 hours after I saw it and didn't sleep for 2 weeks. Probably because JigSaw looks like clown and I hate clowns. "every normal person I know is going to come and kill me" is something I've come to accept

I think when I saw it the ending really bothered me. It was very disturbing and horrifying. I guess I saw horror I mean gore, which this is not.

I was wondering if I forgot about the car crash or not. Thanks Flippy.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Well, I use the term pretty broadly. Such that it includes things like The Village of the Damned or The Bad Seed. Supernatural suspense thrillers and whatnot (or films that want you to think supernatural suspense even if it turns out not). Scary movies never scare me and supernatural suspense movies almost never suspend me. So I have a limited history with them. I was just looking around at some lists of "top 100 horror films" and see that such things tend to define it pretty broadly and The Wicker Man is frequently categorized as horror. But it's not important. I'm probably not going to see the new version now (when I go to the drive-in I only watch movies I would otherwise never see in the theater since the picture quality and sound tend to suck, so The Wicker Man was a good candidate) and unless someone else is watching I'm probably not going to see the old version.
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