All About Horror
Welcome to the All About Horror guild webpage.
This guild is dedicated to people who are fans of the horror genre in various medias.
Discuss your favorite movies, talk about theme explorations, explore the history of horror, anything related to this genre really.
Please be nice and considerate of the members here. If you discuss horror involving serious or mature topics, place content warnings beforehand.
What's your favorite scary movie? Responses from the guild members
" Hard for me to pick here but I think I will go with John Carpenter's The Thing.
It is both grotesque and stunning with its practical effects. I am sensitive to body horror so seeing a lot of transformations happen on screen freaks me out, because you can't escape the body you live in.
I also love the character dynamics within it too. Everyone's paranoia builds and it gets difficult to watch the crewmates turn on each other.
Also the atmosphere and music compliments the movie well too."
-Indigo, Guild Mod
"Hello! I'm a big fan of the saw series! I've only watched up to the 3rd movie and plan on jumping around the future entries. I think the first 3 movies are neat, but honestly the 4th one was kinda boring, and I felt like it overcompensated with the gore. Hence me wanting to jump around.
For starters, I just really like aesthetic and vibe of it. It's all green, gritty, grimy... There's some nice transition shots in there and some like fast-paced flashing scenes which I find cool.. The acting is also fantastic! I love Shawnee Smith in this series!
I find it way scarier with it being more grounded in reality than other horror movies that has supernatural stuff in them. I had a habit of watching true crime when I was younger and it really reminds me of the series at times."
-Rotting_Heart, Guild Member
"Hey there, I'm schlime and I'm a BIG fan of John Carpenter's Halloween. I believe the film does absolutely everything right, and is not only my favourite horror movie, but my favourite movie of all time, period. The score, the suspense, the characters, The Shape itself, the lighting, cinematography, setting, all of that makes for a terrific and terrifying movie that shaped the future standard for horror movies going forward, laid the conventions for a new subgenre, "the slasher", and skyrocketed the career of my favourite director!
The midnight blue lighting during the indoor night scenes are iconic, and so is the score, when you hear that theme song, you know exactly who is to appear on the screen. Jamie Lee Curtis' portrayal of OG final girl Laurie Strode showed just how talented an actress she is. While there's little practical effects or much gore than some of Carpenter's other films (see above for The Thing) the film makes up for that fact with iconic, classic kills and a final act that has you on the edge of your seat.
I believe I'd always wanted to be a filmmaker, but it was definitely this movie that put the idea firmly in my head."
- schlime9k, Guild member
"I don't think I necessarily have a favorite but I have to second @Indigo on The Thing. I am not very familiar with John Carpenter's work but I thoroughly enjoy that movie.
Truly though, in my heart I think my favorites have to be from Alfred Hitchcock as they are quite timeless, I haven't seen his entire filmography but Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Rear Window are some that I have seen. I think his movies are essential viewing especially if you are a fan of queer history or queer horror because almost all the actors Hitchcock had cast for his films were queer in some form, as well as his work under the Hayes code and his use of queercoding."
-dotmidi, Guild Member
Note from Indigo: I wasn't able to get the video link to work that dotmidi shared.
if you are interested in the queer history of Hitchcock films provided by dotmidi, check out "The Secret Gay Love Affair Behind Alfred Hitchcock's Rope" by Matt Baume on YouTube.
"I definitely don't have a single scary movie I would call my favorite, but if I had to pick one movie that I would want to watch most frequently it would probably be the original The Evil Dead.
It's obviously not particularly deep (it barely even has a plot) but it's so fun and creative in execution. I love how it was filmed chronologically and made by a relatively inexperienced cast and crew so you get to see them figure out their own styles as it goes along. Seeing how Sam Raimi starts to just go wild with the camera and how Bruce Campbell figures out how to play the role he's going to spend the rest of his life in is so much fun. The sequel is more impressive and has more really out there gags, but I really enjoy the first one being rougher around the edges and so obviously cheap. There's obviously the one major controversial part, and that is definitely unfortunate, but if I couldn't get past potentially upsetting content like that I would be a lot less into horror."
-sloth_army1, Guild Member
