Horrorfest!
Version 1.9.0 of 5/10/2011-10:00 p.m.
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Movies
The Adjustment Bureau : The most ingenious explanation for paranoid and delusional instances of people who are pushed towards cultural success. Have plans for going to the top? Get ready to meet them.
The Thirteen Floor : VR levels, up and down.
The Poughkeepsie Tapes : Hard to decide if this is real or fake.
Whatever Works : Ingenious people being forced by fate and life to associate with imbeciles. The HORROR!
Evidence : What the...? I mean seriously what the f*#%?.
The Theatre Bizarre : Make sure you are on an empty stomach when you see this film.
From Hell : Jack The Ripper a Freemason?
The Revenant : One of ten films you should see before you die. For the other nine, see below.
Game of Death : The Mission!
Harold and Kumar : The hilarious results of a little... irresponsible Cannabis use!
The Wackness : The hilarious results of a LOT of irresponsible Cannabis use!
How High : Cannabis to the rescue of Harvard undergrads!
Grandma's Boy : Thank goodness for grandmas!
Pineapple Express : New ganja strain causes...problemo.
Rolling Kansas : Somewhere deep and hidden in the US lies a forrest of kush. Truth? Hoax? You tell me.
Supernova : Ship makes the jump seconds before everything is incinerated!
Sunshine : HUGE heat shield!
The Tapes : Looking for swingers lands them into the hands of satanists. It figures...
The Mechanic : Difficult job: Doesn't do mistakes. Can train at will. Don't betray.
Assassination Games : Jean-Claude Van Damme at what he does best!
Drive Angry : The Accountant: Takes care of unfinished business.
Final Destination 1-5 : The most famous game in town: The Game of Death .
Headspace : Exponential increase of intelligence has... "minor" side effects.
The Tunnel : One of the movie documentary film crew meets 总矧 in abandoned train tunnels and transforms into the Beast.
Seeking Justice : The hungry rabbit...jumps!
Hackers : A little unrealistic, but still the first good film about it.
30 Minutes or Less : Amateur Conspiracy galore.
Red State : Diabolical preacher obsessed with faggots. He's good at what he does, too!
The Lincoln Lawyer : It's hard to be good at what you do. But it's also very rewarding.
The Departed : What the...?
Where The Wild Things Are : Big, hairy, furry, horned and cuddly wild things: When they get angry, they want to eat you!
Clash of the Titans : Release the Kraken! Best depiction ever of The Stygian Witches!
Source Code : Being persistent in trying to correct your mistakes, can save your life. Literally.
Funny Games : It pays to be polite, particularly when your visitors are not quite what you'd expect. It doesn't pay to slap them on the face.
Eastern Promises : Meet the family's driver.
Apollo 18 : There's a reason the Apollo missions were discontinued and US never went back to the Moon. Is this reason true? You decide.
The Jacket : Sensory deprivation with straight-jacket causes time jumps galore.
From Paris With Love : Personal aid to the U.S. Ambassador in France wants in Special Ops. And gets what he wants.
The Mist : The Jewish god turns out to be a giant tentacled beast, towering hundreds of feet tall. Wait! That's not the Jewish god! That's Cthulu !
The Messenger : Trying to inform relatives of dead soldiers. Difficult job, but somebody has to do it.
The Company Men : Nothing more relevant than that at a time of economic recession.
Inside Job : Excellent documentary on how the big banks and sharks created the recession and how they got away with billions of dollars.
Kill List : Warning page says don't see this movie stoned, because you'll puke. Second that.
Candyman : Chicago!
In Time : Time is money.
What Lies Beneath : What LIES beneath, indeed!
A History of Violence : Silent, quiet and friendly restaurant owner, can be a very efficient murderer, when the time calls.
Thor : Always listen to your father , FIRST.
House of Games : A sucker born every minute!
The Perfect Host : What the f*** is going on here?
The Guard : Funny and unorthodox Irish cop takes on whole drug smuggling ring singlehandedly. Not to be missed!
Serenity : The Alliance. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Spawn : Evil, satanic clown giving instructions for successful completion of Faustian deal!
Priest : Tremendous special effects and what priests should be like!
Ink : Arguably the best depiction ever of what may happen to you if you successfully attempt suicide . Don't do it.
16 Blocks : The simple task of moving an inmate to court proves to be inordinately difficult.
red : Retired End Dangerous.
Running Scared : Difficult thing to hide a gun well.
I Saw The Devil : Somebody doesn't quite understand what the punishment for murder is.
Sucker Punch : Alice In Wonderland suffers a lobotomy.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2 : It's a difficult thing to cheat Death .
Training Day : Rarely, if ever, a film portrays accurately how ugly life is. This is one of those times.
The Machinist : In Hell, until you remember that hit-and-run and pay for it.
The Objective : Special CIA ops send to Afghanistan to find source of radioactivity, end up finding something much worse.
Lord of War : Only the Arms Dealers will inherit the Earth. Cause everybody else is busy killing themselves.
The Social Network : ELO algorithm for rating girls! CoOL!
Michael Clayton : The Truth can be adjusted.
Primer : Time Travel can be tricky .
See No Evil : Abandoned hotel-devil's maze, as experimental ground for delinquent rejects! Tremendous!
The Hole : On the basement of a nice suburban home, lies the abyss. Been there for a long time.
Blade Runner : Ridley Scott on dystopian Los Angeles 2019! Not to be missed.
The Hitcher : Still can't figure out if the character portrayed was simply insane or had a point to make, but would probably vouch for the latter.
Spartan : Not quite Spartan, but Spartan enough.
The Devil Wears Prada : No matter how hard they try, the stupid cannot compete with the smart. That's a given.
Dawn of the Dead : When Hell gets full, the dead will walk the Earth.
Unleashed : Only when you train Jet-Li as a dog he can be controlled. Otherwise, he wreaks havoc. See below.
Sherlock Holmes : Behind the best and smartest criminal investigator of his times, hide at least three , infinitely more devious such minds.
Bunraku : For any man, there's always somebody more powerful.
Echelon Conspiracy : The Perfect Gift: Too bad its benefits don't last too long.
Identity : And suddenly, everything and everyone is related. Through murder!
The Town : Blessed are the ones who have friends. Cause the rest are doomed.
Die Hard 1-4 : Rarely, if ever, a man can survive such a brutal set of circumstances.
Dark City : Very dark. And very far away .
The Transporter 1,2 & 3 : Huge black dude almost beats the sh*t out of Jason Statham .
Surrogates : Nasty Rasta Prophet advocates freedom from and destruction of all surrogates. But he, himself, is a surrogate. What the...?
Sleepy Hollow : The Tree of the Dead. Convenient portal between our world and... um, a world you wouldn't want to be in.
We Own the Night : After his father died, Bobby joined the police force to avoid the worst.
The Ring : Before you die, you see. What do you see? The cap of the well you were thrown into.
Limitless : Using only 20% of your brain is a myth, but there is a drug which allows you to access 100% of it. You figure out what it is.
The Number 23 : Nasty , evil number: No matter who you are and what you do, it will eventually find you .
11-11-11 : Have you been "activated" yet? If not, see this film.
Angel Heart : Do you know what day is today? Wednesday. Wednesday is anything-can-happen day. Including meeting the DEVIL.
Bad Santa : Evil, demonic and satanic little black person, coaching loser to success! Tremendous!
Mindwarp : What may happen to you if you start asking too many questions. Best horror science fiction story of all times. Precursor to The Matrix!
Fire In The Sky : Perhaps the definitive movie tutorial on how horrific it can be to be implanted by aliens.
Idiocracy : What will happen if natural selection became indifferent to intelligence. Wait: What HAS happened already.
Dread : What is your worse fear?.
Kill Theory : Would you kill everybody just to stay alive? If you do, the psychologist was wrong.
Four Brothers : Always trust your brother(s). IF you have any.
Cube Zero : An example where humans can be much more freaky than any kind of alien.
The Hills Have Eyes 1 & 2 : Family asks for road instructions and friendly gas station attendant sends them into abandoned Nuclear Test Site.
Chaos : No matter how smart you are, there's at least one person infinitely smarter than you.
The Last Exorcism : Incest can produce some fairly interesting aberrant behavior. With some help from red-neck locals, of course.
Time Bandits : Abode of Evil is in 总矧 . Quite appropriate!
The Seventh Seal : Good chess players may be allowed to live a while longer .
Black Death : Originated in France, where all foul things emerge.
Fargo : A little bit after pregnancy licenses expired. Gives you a taste of what's required to get a new one.
Tormented : Bullying and tormenting obese and asthmatic student, results in cut body parts.
Bug : Paranoia or thousands of blood sucking aphids in your blood-stream?
Silent Hill : Who/what the f*** was that guy with the pyramid mask?
Hellraiser 1-7 : Only the very smart can solve the little toy-box. And when they do, various portals open. Nasty portals.
V for Vendetta : The Wachowski Brothers : Magicians of reality and illusion!
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus : What's up Doc?! HA ha ha!
Saw : The intruder in Adam's apartment turned out to be a big, nasty puppet, sitting on the sofa, laughing. Not good.
The Brave : Strange hobby: Find out someone's limits on fear and pain.
Alien : Perfect horror? If not, 99% perfect.
Predator : "What the hell are you?"..."What the hell are you ?".
Split Second : Something that moves faster than a Predator.
The Blair Witch Project : WTF?!
Mystic River : Three happy little kids in Boston, playing in the neighborhood. And then, something bad happens to one of them.
In The Mouth of Madness : Something coming up from somewhere dark and below. Very below.
The Twelve Monkeys : You think Time Travel is fun? See this movie for a taste of what's to come.
The Matrix : The apotheosis of sci-fi. The surprise after taking the Red Pill caused Neo to puke.
Dark Corners : Psychological pressure. Lots of it.
Insanitarium : If you don't puke on one famous scene, you are immune to horror.
Brazil : Prophetic. Pipes and cables everywhere.
Jacob's Ladder : Interesting theory about Death .
Knowing : Fortunately the aliens are friendly here.
K-Pax : Psychosis or possession by alien?
Outlander : Satisfying on all counts, particularly on what the humans have done to the home-planet of the aliens.
Beetlejuice : Prepared for what awaits you in the afterlife?
The Rundown : If you think your kid is unruly and rebellious, watch this movie.
Open Range : No matter how much power you have, someone will eventually come and take it away from you. Particularly when you are an asshole.
Horsemen : "We are the nothing". Good, but too bad 总矧 came first.
Signs : When the reverend's wife dies in an accident, he loses his faith. When he sees who made those crop-circles, he regains it, QUICK.
Assault On Precinct 13 : Hard to implement an escape strategy, when the plan always changes.
Monster : Fall in love with one Hollywood Goddess: Charlize Theron .
Feast : Sexually aggressive, fast and hungry little animals.
Poltergeist II : Artistic Director: H.R. Giger . Need we say more?
Death Note : When you write the name of a person on the notebook, the person dies.
The Hit List : There are always penalties to be paid for our indiscretions.
Shooter : Try to figure out who's framing whom.
Pandorum : Claustrophobia Majestatis!
Requiem for a Dream : This is your brain on drugs.
Suspect Zero : Remote viewing targets serial killers. For real.
Shrooms : They make you see things.
Desperation : Conspiracy Galore.
Unknown : Trained assassin who has forgotten that he is an assassin.
The Dark Side of the Moon : Something's there. Hiding.
Ghost Rider : As if dealing with the Devil was not enough, you now have to deal with the Devil's son. Go figure.
House of 1000 Corpses : That's one nice, big and cuddly family.
The Devil's Rejects : That's the kind of clown I want my kids entertained by.
Hell Boy 1-2 : Having a demon as an ally. Cool.
Stigmata : Possession!
The Devil's Advocate : Call me dad !
Silence Of The Lambs : Not all doctors are friendly to humans.
The Signal : Do you have the crazy?
The Time Machine : Everybody wants a Time Machine. Question is, do you know how to make one?
Ruins : No birds ever near the pyramid. Tells you something about its age.
Wishmaster : Wes Craven director. Enough said.
The Hidden : Disgusting alien life-form that likes loud music and expensive cars.
I Come in Peace : Right. So do we.
Lifeforce : FX!
Beyond The Wall of Sleep : H.P. Lovecraft . Enough said.
The Collector : Collecting humans as trophies. And he's not a Predator.
Brainscan : Reality or Illusion?
Brainstorm : Playing back one's recorded death? Uh, thanks but no thanks.
Communion : I am the Dreamer, you are the dream.
Altered : You know what happens when aliens abduct humans. Here's what happens when humans abduct an alien.
The Net : Big Brother can do horror with a vengeance.
Punisher: War Zone : Believe me, you don't want to make this man angry.
The Broken : When a mirror breaks, it's seven years bad luck. When a mirror gets angry, it's Hell on Earth.
Mirrors : Make sure you don't end up on the other side of a mirror.
Nothing : Scary but also funny.
One Missed Call : Imagine calling someone on your cell-phone, only to find out that the voice at the other end of the line is yours.
Triangle : Abusive mother's punishment is a time-loop. Good luck getting out.
Prince of Darkness : Something coming out of a ... mirror. Can't be good.
Organizm (aka Living Hell) : Growth Rate = Constant.
Warlock : He likes collecting stuff. He doesn't like humans.
The City of Lost Children : Freaky and surreal.
300 : See section below on The Greek Warriors.
The Astronaut's Wife : Dangerous job, but someone has to do it.
The Deaths of Ian Stone : One death is enough. Imagine many and continuous deaths.
The Thing : John Carpeneter classic.
Unearthed : It holds and commands a facehugger . You figure out what it is.
The Fifth Element : Bad guy here is very evil. And very big .
Men In Black 1 and 2 : A taste of things to come? Succulently interesting!
Room 1408 : Check in for an exciting night!
The Dark Crystal : State of the art puppet animatronics, but big puppets and dolls give me the creeps.
Contact : What's scary in this movie is the fact that the time machine works .
The Antichrist : 总矧 Reigns! Of course it does.
The Fourth Kind : Psychologist communicates with something angry which claims to be God. Can't be good.
Abduction : Who'd suspect?
Moon : Waking up and finding out you are not alone and that the other guy is another version of you.
The Man from Earth : One of the best science fiction stories ever written. Gives new meaning to the Greek catchphrase "I saw the Christ Soldier".
The Book of Eli : Even the scenery is totally and irreversibly depressing.
The Crazies : When George Romero puts his hand on something, the result is a masterpiece.
Cypher : Looking for some excitement, until you discover that you are the central character of the game.
π : Those who know math, know what the film tries to say. Those who don't, watch this film.
A Beautiful Mind : What can I say? Math and paranoid schizophrenia have an tenuous connection.
The Arrival : If you cannot tend to your own planet, none of you deserve to live here.
Avatar : Strange the humans didn't manage to wipe out Pandora.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy : After watching this trilogy, some people have an insatiable desire to wear a certain ring.
Predators : Humans: The most relentless murderers in the universe.
Apokalypto : Before the pilgrims set foot on America, things were a bit rough.
eXistenZ : Game or reality?
Terminator 2 and 3 : AI machines made of liquid metal! Cool!
The Ninth Gate : Searching for a book. A book written by the Devil.
Shrink : Things can be a little tough when your wife commits suicide.
Law Abiding Citizen : Anger and intelligence together can be very dangerous.
Star Trek : I want a drill like that!
2012 : Gigantic Tsunamis!
88 Minutes : Pacino at his best, yet again!
Brooklyn's Finest : Cop prays and counts the days to his retirement.
Mr. Brooks : Some days a ruthless killer, other days prays to God for forgiveness.
The Langoliers : 总矧 comes from afar and munches on the past using spherical beings with razor-sharp teeth.
The Descent 1 and 2 : Huge underground cave full of animal bones. Somebody or something 's been hungry.
Se7en : Punishment for the seven sins!
Lucky # Slevin : The wrong man gets into trouble.
Stay Alive : If you die in the game, you die for real.
Slither : Large, slimy, slug-like aliens, going for your mouth.
Fantastic Four : Fire, Stone, Rubber and Light. Not to mention a fairly big intergalactic black-hole, ready to devour Earth.
Pulse : Beings who absorb your life-force. Not good.
Stranger than Fiction : Imagine living your life inconspicuously, only to find out that your are just a character in someone's book.
Stay : Psychiatrist trying to help suicidal artist ends up understanding full-well why the artist is suicidal, all in a dream world.
Inception : Nested dreams and many Architects!
The Mothman Prophecies : Don't stare for long at little red lights. There's a reason they are RED.
Shutter Island : Can't tell whether you are insane or it's a conspiracy? Martin Scorsese gives you the answer.
Push : Watchers, Movers, Pushers, Bleeders, Sniffs, Shifters, Wipers, Shadows and Stitches. A bright future!
Alice in Wonderland : Nothing is what it looks it is but there are at least five impossible things before breakfast!
Devil : How many people have dreams being in elevators which fall into the abyss?
Amadeus : Someone scared the living daylights out of poor Mozart and he sure as heck wasn't Salieri.
Agora : Angry, fanatic, illiterate and filthy dressed-in-black Christian hordes subdue the last Hellenistic scientific voices.
After Life : Funeral Home director uses Hydronium Bromide to anesthetize people for a long time. Long enough to bury them alive. Or not?
The Sorcerer's Apprentice : You want that girl? Boy, are you gonna have to do some serious work for it...
The Box : Don't press that button!
Hancock : Drinks a bit much. Can stop an entire freight-train. Last of a kind.
The Ugly : Bad childhood years. Very bad childhood years.
The Road : Something dangerous and big , yet unspecified, wiped out civilization.
Mr. Nobody : No matter which reality you choose, there's always someone who will find you and kill you.
The Fighter : Date with that cute bar girl implies nasty beating on the finals. Try again, sport.
Tron: Legacy : Dad escapes into the grid, to find peace with his other son who doesn't like his brother very much.
Objects
The Implant : One application is enough to make you change your mind. For Good . Literally.
The Pentagram : Scares the living daylights out of me. Don't know exactly and cannot remember why and that scares me even more.
The Corinthian Helmet : Fighting in battle and seeing someone wearing this? Oh, I'd run... FAST.
The Mandelbrot Set : Still looks totally alien to me.
The Element Mercury : Ukranian housekeeper: "This, not good", upon seeing some spilled Mercury on the author's floor.
M22 : My impression is that someone or something is there. I feel an insatiable desire to go there and examine it scientifically .
The Galactic Center : The strength of the signal emanating from it is so unimaginably huge, I cannot even start to think what's there.
The Music Box : There is something about music boxes, isn't there? Something funny.
People
The Titan of 总矧 : The thought of ever hearing his voice or seeing his face again, paralyzes my knees, mind and heart with terror and fear.
Steven Seagal : Absolutely love him. If I could, would pay him to teach me. Anything. This man is a constant Source of Wisdom.
Jet Li : The only person who would probably be able to contain him is Steven Seagal. Otherwise, he seems unstoppable. Who would be able to contain Seagal? Don't know, but suspect it would have to be non-human. A Predator maybe. I may even be wrong.
Hugo Weaving : All he needed to play was just one role (Agent Smith) and fame followed.
Rutger Hauer : Whoever hasn't seen The Hitcher, ought to take a closer look.
Michael Riley : He managed to scare me as Mr. 'Jax' in Cube Zero. After he did, I got scared again, when I saw/heard him addressing someone else on the phone as 'Sir'. I dare not think who this 'someone else' might be.
Bob Hoskins : Holy Cow! This man can talk some serious shit. Don't believe me? See Unleashed, above.
Al Pacino : Tremendous acting. He can be totally terrifying, as in, for example, The Devil's Advocate.
Johnny Depp : His looks are scary. I think he knows this and takes only appropriate roles.
Christopher Walken : His acting potential is so insanely huge , to the point where I am not sure he is acting anymore. He is always taking these crazy roles and what's scary is that he plays them perfectly well. Like the magician in Communion.
Ron Perlman : He is really scary as a bad guy, and a really terrific actor as a good guy.
Paintings
H.R. Giger's Paintings : Creations of a sleep disorder. Can't be good.
Music
J.S. Bach 's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor : Probably the most likely composition to be remembered in conjunction with any kind of horror. Even more scary is the fact that Bach composed it when he was around 18-19.
W.A. Mozart 's Dies Irae from his Requiem: Something scared the living daylights out of poor Mozart towards the end of his life. Nobody knows exactly what it was, but it couldn't have been good.
Sergei Prokofiev 's Montagues and Capulets : Sort of like "The Inevitable", approaching .
Jerry Goldsmith 's music for the film Alien : Rarely, if ever, somebody has composed music which represents so well the horror of the film story itself. That's one of those times.
Mark Isham 's Score for Fire In The Sky: Still trying to figure out what instruments he used.
Hans Zimmer 's Score for The DaVinci Code & Angels & Demons: Think God Particle!
Hans Zimmer 's Score for Inception: Think Dream Particle!
Eric Serra 's Score for The Fifth Element: Funny how a composer can oblige both the very horrific and the supremely good.
Tyler Bates ' Score for 300: Strange how a non-Greek composer could come so close to the Greek spirit.
Trevor Jones ' Score for Dark City. Kept listening to it over and over for some reason.
Miscellaneous
Planet Earth : A planet where corruption, lies, fraud and Death reign supreme. A planet where everyone's looking to sucker other people in. A planet where in order to survive, you have to learn yourself to sucker other people in. A planet where no single attribute is a guarantor of survival. A planet where any positive attribute can be turned into an impediment. A planet where only the emotionally strong can survive. The most horrifying place in the entire universe. Literally, Hell .
Playing Chess With Death : It's less painful for someone to brutally murder you, than to lose a game against him.
Bungee Jumping! : Good remedy if you are afraid of heights.
The Derelict : Huge and supremely evil hollow wish-bone-like shell, making funny sounds when explored inside. And full of eggs. Fortunately dead.
The Predator Species : Try to convince yourself that this species is fictional. Go ahead. See how well you do.
The Greek Warriors : They report only to The Gods. Which Gods? You are better off not knowing.
The Gospel According to John : Most religions specify a good God. Imagine the opposite.
Christian Greeks? : WTF?!
The Evil Clown : Clowns are supposed to entertain children but sometimes they have different agendas.
Search Phrases of the Stupid : Imbeciles with computers searching for stuff. The HORROR 2!
Web Pages of the Stupid : Imbeciles with web pages! The HORROR 3!
The Lord of Dreams : If He decides to give you nightmares, you'll be in for a rough ride.
The Arrival of 总矧 : Beware of that day , when it comes.
总矧 : Black, infinite and empty void . Imagine being thrown in it, suddenly. Permanently.
General Anesthesia : Good remedy if you are afraid of 总矧.
Death : He can come from anywhere or anything .
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