Horror and Thriller Thread

I was thinking for two days before opening this. I was checking General Forum and I think there's no thread like this (I can still hope, lol). Anyway, I want to gather all horror and thrillers watchers in one place and discuss anything connected with those two genres. Recommendations, opinions, films we want to watch or which is better to avoid, discussing upcoming projects or oldschool, favourites and not so favourite etc. It's not only for Japanese, Korean or Chinese, but any Asian horrors and thrillers. I put horror and thriller in one thread because from the beginning those two genres can be pretty connected. I think we have enough examples of mixes like "I Saw the Devil". So enjoy :)

I am sure I saw an horror thread somewhere but I forgot where it is. Anyway, I disagree that horror and thriller are similar Maybe they connect at some point but they're not the same because while I am obsessed with Thrillers, I avoid horror at all costs. I only saw few of them and I have no intention of increasing my list. Now let's talk about thrillers; the ones who make outstanding thriller movies in Asia are without doubt Koreans, it's their strongest genre in films' industry. Then comes Hong Kong and China but they haven't been doing it for a long time. In a decade, you will all witness HKC strength in thrillers. Then comes Japan with its own type of thrillers that I kind of dig. While Japanese are known for their horror films, I think that they would do great of they focus a little more on thrillers as well because psychos made in Japan are so twisted and fun. Also, the few Japanese thrillers produced every year are seriously good.

I like all kind of thrillers but horrors....horrors = 80% chance of disappointment :p

CheerfulSoul wrote: Nah, that wasn't the thread I was talking about. I will stop being lazy and search it up :D
And no, it can be kept like this because the thread you linked only asks about the scariest horror films, it doesn't suggest a discussion or include all Asian films.

Hmm if you do find that thread, we may be able to merge the two together and make it a joint thread about both genres. ^^


*edit* It's in the non-Asian section. We'll make that one for the Western movies and this will be for Asian cinema.

CheerfulSoul wrote: Okay, my bad! The one I was talking about was created in the "Non Asian" section: Here but since they talked about Japanese movies in it, I thought it was about Asian movies :D

lol! We discovered it at the same time. xD

Anywho, back to the discussion on horror and thrillers. Confessions is rated pretty high on this site. Is it good? I'm thinking of watching it.

CheerfulSoul wrote: I am sure I saw an horror thread somewhere but I forgot where it is. Anyway, I disagree that horror and thriller are similar Maybe they connect at some point but they're not the same because while I am obsessed with Thrillers, I avoid horror at all costs. I only saw few of them and I have no intention of increasing my list.

I used word "similiar" and it's not good to describe what I think. Anyway, I think horror and thriller are crossing the lines together. Horror doesn't need to have, for example, something supernatural - it can be just full of violence and gore (like some HK Cat III films "Men Behind the Sun", "The Untold Story", Japanese "Guinea Pig" series). And the same with thrillers - they can also use gore ("I Saw the Devil). Korean film "Tell Me Something" is considered as a thriller and horror, all depends on your interpretation. Thrillers and horrors are crossing each other so I decided to make them together anyway (and we have exploitation horrors which can be also thrillers etc.). And also it's my very own and subjective interpretation. But I really see where you stand @Cheerful and understand it.

wrote: Now let's talk about thrillers; the ones who make outstanding thriller movies in Asia are without doubt Koreans, it's their strongest genre in films' industry. Then comes Hong Kong and China but they haven't been doing it for a long time. In a decade, you will all witness HKC strength in thrillers. Then comes Japan with its own type of thrillers that I kind of dig. While Japanese are known for their horror films, I think that they would do great of they focus a little more on thrillers as well because psychos made in Japan are so twisted and fun. Also, the few Japanese thrillers produced every year are seriously good.

True, Koreans are the best in thriller genre. But (as always, there must "but") there's something which I don't like about them (and make me more into horror genre). They're very "American Style". As person who from childhood was watching all kinds of thrillers and horrors from US, while watching Korean ones I feel this Western touch in them. It's purely subjective but I never can shake off this feeling. Even their horrors seems Western to me and inspired by Japan. Maybe it's awful to say but I think there's not much Korean in Korean thrillers and horrors. Lately, I saw "The Red Shoes" which was based on fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen - and it has no Eastern touch, only inspiration from the fairytale wrote in Danish. Just to make you sure, I don't mean to offend Korean cinematography in this case - I really admire their talent to mix so many inspirations from all over the world. But still, I'd rather Japanese who were always giving horror something more, from their culture - or to say, they're creating horror 'cause they have pretty nice tradition of it.

And about thread: Please, let it stay ;) I think it was made a lot of similiar threads but none of them wanted to put all Asian films.

That's good, now I feel better xD I just started by myself - only check HK ones: "Red to Kill", "Awakening" and segments of "Three" and "Three... Extremes". "Awakening" is more comedy horror, "Red to Kill" had some deeper message but got lost with some scenes (to warn, two scenes of rape, they're really long, so it deserved Cat III label). "Three" and "Three... Extremes" anyway are pretty good to watch ;)

Sleepninja wrote:
Anywho, back to the discussion on horror and thrillers. Confessions is rated pretty high on this site. Is it good? I'm thinking of watching it.

It's worth checking. But I think this ending was too long and not necessary. But overall, I was satisfied.

Betty_Boop wrote: I agree Horror & thriller definitely not the same,Horror most of the movie i've seen are not to satisfaction. while thriller gives you the anticipation of suspense.

Of course they're not the same, they just meet each other at some point. Some time ago extreme violence was connected only with horror, now it's taking its part in thrillers. Now it's really hard to put film in just one category. Well, I think it's alwasy like that but when we talk about some genres (horror or thriller here) we don't "like" to put them somewhere else, horror have one label and this is the end of story. In my opinion, it's not exact true anymore.