first of all I like asian horror(western horror isnt scary, its just gory) and second of all, this thread is probably going 2 be moved
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western horror has some extremely great movies. many of which are not very well known. the shining, texas chainsaw massacre, and henry-portrait of a serial killer are all among the most haunting horror films ive ever seen. i havent seen much asian horror, ive still never seen the japanese version of the ring. but i have seen lots of euro horror, especially from italy. the likes of dario argento and lucio fulci, 2 very good directors. but from what ive seen, i think american horror movies are the best. the foreign ones are usually to artsy for arts sake, and try way to hard to be psychological, and end up just being kinda confusing and distracting. this is especially aparant in dario argentos movies. great visuals, but none are really scary, just very interesting to watch. anyways.... if you're looking for some great american horror films, there are many outside of the mainstreem, and ill happily name some if you are interested.
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Western Horror much better and most are classic and horror not supposed to be scary in a way that the differance between horror and thriller film a horror is supposed to shock you and thriller sets up to scare you there usually ghost movies smoetimes.But besides the original ring from Japan what other Asian horror films are there and BF said it right that they try to be to artsy,and sometimes I love to watch people with guns killing mindless zombies rock most of the times.
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I would say you might have an arguement with modern day western horror, it relies too much on gore and not suspense or true scares! But traditional western horror cannot be beat!
asians cant make movies, they have great storylines, great scripts but they just cant put them together , asian horror is deffaintly more haunting than western horror stories but they usually only lie in the story books and not on film come on its kind of a no contest with americas classics such as night of the living dead, exorcist, shining, chainsaw massacre, well better stop cuz to show respect id have to list all the greats and there are alot more than people think all time best though re-animator LOL LOL
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Idem. Both have good and bad examples. Asian horror seemed more fresh, although that has changed a bit. Still, I tend to enjoy them slightly more at the moment.
ya think? Asian movies dont have the censors breathing down their necks like western movies do, they get away with heaps more bloodshed than "we" do.
I find that Asian horror seems to be a little more inventive with its lights and camera work than western but westen is more happy to go with completly absurd ideas (which work from time to time).
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omg, anyone who says that american movies are more gory is just ignorant to asian horror. I only need to say 3 words to prove my point, ICHI THE KILLER
A ton of Asian horror is lost in thr translation. Their beliefs on what happens when you die or die in distress would carry more weight here in the west if we shared their beliefs, I'm sure.
While I give respect for to the Ringu movies, I think they still have a long way to go to play with the minds the way Hitchcock could.
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Asian Horror or Western Horror??
Jun 25th, 2003 12:06 AM
