Period Horror Films?

[BooBerry]

What's your favorite(s) horror films set in the past? I'd say mine are The Others, Dead Birds, Sleepy Hollow. I think horror films set in the past are pretty cool usually, especially if the filmmakers take advantage of it and use excellent visuals and props.


(PS - I posted this because I remembered talking about it before somewhere. I thought it was here originally and did a search but found nothing. So sorry if this is indeed a repost.)

[Highwayman]

I read the title of the thread and thought to myself...umm the beginning of Carey? It's been a long day, lol, good night.

[skybrick]

Army of Darkness.

[Misfit]

theres a period ghost in a tale of two sisters

[Joker]

Dracula/Frankenstein

[Cataclysm]

Edge of Sanity

[koolmike]

From Hell

[FrighT MasteR]

The Woman in Black :D

[koolmike]

:noob:

[JerkyPuck]

Braindead is a period horror film....even though it's ambiguous about it's time frame, you can still tell it's the 50s.

[ASoron0424]

The Devil's Rejects - takes place in the seventies.

[Galerian]

Ravenous is a good one. Ginger Snaps 3 aint bad. Perfume is amazing, not really a horror movie though.

[holdmycock]

Braindead is a period horror film....even though it's ambiguous about it's time frame, you can still tell it's the 50s.

I always wondered what the hell was going on in the background with that movie. Seeing the cars and what not - but it takes place in New Zeland, having lived in America all my life, who knows what the 50's were like in NZ?

Dead Alive all the way.

[FreddyFreakChica17]

I loved "From Hell" and "Army of Darkness" is great too.

Worst: An American Haunting (as far as period peices that I've seen go, I'm sure many of you can think of worse films than this.)

[BooBerry]

The Devil's Rejects - takes place in the seventies.

Meh.

And yeah, Perfume was pretty crazy. I liked it.

[ASoron0424]

Meh.

And yeah, Perfume was pretty crazy. I liked it.

I hear most of the people who liked Perfume were fans of the director, that if you weren't familiar with his work it's hard to enjoy; would you agree with that?

And how can you sully the good name of The Devil's Rejects with a "meh"?

[BooBerry]

I don't even know who directed Perfume lol. I just know I liked some of the visuals the movie had and the story was crazy. Ending sucked, but oh well.


As for the Devil's Rejects "meh"-ing. I just didn't like it. Started out good, went downhill after the semi-truck "incident", then had a cool ending. Meh.

[skybrick]

I thought Devils Rejects started off poorly but got a lot better at end. Much better then that shitfest HOKC

[thrEE6MAfia]

i love horries that take plce in the late 60s and the 70s

[ASoron0424]

If any of you guys have been to metaphilm.com, they've got these analysis of movies and I've been writing one for Devil's Rejects over the past few weeks, when I post it, I'd appreciate you guys taking a look.

[BooBerry]

NEVER!



... ok.

[ASoron0424]

lol, that's right.
And if you change your mind, be sure to help yourself to a tall glass of FUCK.
jk, thanks, I'll maybe post a thread when it opens up.

[dead breed]

Ravenous
From Hell
Sleepy Hollow
Dracula
Frankenstein

a few others that probably slipped my mind

[BooBerry]

Horror flicks set in the future could also be considered period pieces I suppose. In that case though, there haven't been many good ones haha. Leprechaun In Space, Dracula 3000 (or whatever it was), Jason X....

[Galerian]

I hear most of the people who liked Perfume were fans of the director, that if you weren't familiar with his work it's hard to enjoy; would you agree with that?



I didn't know who the director was when I saw it and I enjoyed the hell out of it, even the ending.

[violent d]

Sleepy Hollow
Bell Witch the Movie(not An American Haunting that movie sucked ass juice imo)
Bram Stokers Dracula

and probably not considered a horror movie but I also liked The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer.

[desiredisaster]

I know its not really a horror film more of a thriller but I thought Zodiac did a great job in not only showing a time period but jumping around to several and staying very accurate right down to the types of cars and billboards yould see in the background. I was way impressed with that movie. From Hell was pretty good too I guess. The gore in the movie seemed to be straight from Cannibal Corpse's 'The Bleeding' cover.

[ASoron0424]

I don't know if Frankenstein is really a period movie, unless you're referring to the remake w/ Robert De Niro. The original Frankenstein was a modernization of Mary Shelly's, so it was taking place in the present, if I remember correctly the movie wasn't trying to replicate the nineteenth century.

[King_ov_Hell]

Sleepy Hollow's my fav. period film.