As I was reading over this I started to wonder: The beginning scenes in Night of the Living Dead where Babs and Johnny are wondering in the graveyard... Johnny's a smartass, right, and then he starts picking on Babs, the whole "They're coming to get you Barbara" scene. That movie came out before I was born and I'm wondering, putting it to question: Was any of that supposed to be amusing, maybe in a dark sort of way?"
As for serious horror... I can't get into the the Saw stuff anymore, the gore shit is old hat. It doesn't give me the "uber creepy" vibe. I like films with a good creepy story. That's often hard to do, however. House on Haunted Hill was a great story, because of how Shirley Jackson wrote it. However it was not a good movie. I really got into The Ring. I thought it had a great story, it was a very creepy film.
@ Lady Frost- I know what you mean by sci-fi horror not being your thing, because hack'n'slash horror isn't mine unless it's is done superbly.
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