fav setting for a horror movie??

[tsmooth31]

i have always loved movies that take place in the woods, whether its at some secluded cabin, a camp or just out in the woods/forest

what about you guys??

[piggsy]

I made a poll asking this same question quite a while ago. But anyway, I agree with you. A wooded area is the perfect horror setting. The trees can be imposing and hide an unseen terror. Proof of this can be seen in Blair Witch or Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Another favorite setting of mine is the desert. It's a villain with itself. The temperature is high, there is little water, and most of all, an unnerving sense of seclusion. Craven's The Hills Have Eyes makes great use of this setting.

[shunty]

Yeah, the woods are good, but a castle has to be my favorite.

[lazario]

I like any setting that the filmmaker can make look really good onscreen.

Usually, I guess I prefer woods or forests. And small towns that are mostly woody. Movies that make excellent use of wooded areas at one point or another include: the first seven Friday the 13th films, The Evil Dead, The Last House on the Left, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Frogs, Squirm, Phenomena, The Company of Wolves, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Sleepaway Camp, Just Before Dawn.

But there are also other movies that make great use of natural locations. Such as Dust Devil and The Hills Have Eyes (ORIGINAL only!) in the desert, Zombie and Island of the Alive: It's Alive III on deserted islands, The Fog (ORIGINAL only!) and I Know What You Did Last Summer for that coastal ocean-view sea-breeze small town.

[tsmooth31]

another one i like is on a boat/ship out at sea

[lowkey]

I'm going to have to go with shopping malls, since Dawn of the Dead is my favorite horror movie. I guess you could say that I like claustrophobic settings, which is what Romero went for in Night, Dawn, and Day. Alien and [REC] are very claustrophobic too.

[lazario]

I've recently noticed there's a very interesting kind of similarity between Dawn of the Dead's mall and The Shining's hotel. I don't know if I'd call it claustrophobia... Maybe instead it's the vastness and the emptiness of living people the places in these movies have that helps create a mood that people have so responded to.

[tsmooth31]

i like movies with a claustrophobic feel too, which is why i liked the descent, because no matter how bad it got for the characters there really was no escape, unlike most movies

[lazario]

That's the idea that is supposed to make the movie work. But did you honestly feel boxed in yourself? Did that movie scare you?

[tsmooth31]

i wouldnt say it scared me, but it did a great job of making the characters feel helpless and trapped, alot of movies like that dont have that feel which is why they fail, the descent while i didnt care for the ending was still a very good movie

[malbowski13]

Any snowy, wintery setting. Not really a "horror" film but the setting in Ravenous is to my liking.

On the other hand, I am sick of deep-sea or deep-space settings. It's fairly obvious what will happen eventually, doesn't matter what monsters or nutty crewmen you throw into the mix. Either way they always have the old oxygen problem.

ie. The Abyss,Leviathan,Deep Star Six,Event Horizon,Sunshine,etc.

[lazario]

I'm tired of anything that has to do with crews of people in a tight place. Like, The Descent and The Cave. But also, anything to do with monsters - the monsters just look like crap. And I'm tired of things set in a dirty chamber. Which they're clearly still making.

[malbowski13]

I am a fan of The Descent but part 2 looks like it will fuck up everything about the 1st one. Different director too so...

[lazario]

It's a sequel to a new horror film. Designed to be ignored.

[tsmooth31]

i have no prob with sequels, i just hate when they use a diff director, if the director doesnt want to make a sequel or they dont want him back why not just make a completely diff movie, i will still check it out tho since i did like the first