I want to talk about horror films and why I like them and what my favourite types are.
When I was young, I watched the classic horror films like 'Nightmare On Elms Street' and 'Friday The 13th'. My mum told me that when I was about six, she came downstairs in the middle of the night because there was a noise, and it was me watching 'The Omen' on TV in the dark on my own. So I guess I've always liked horror films.
I really like what I called 'slasher films' - the really gory, bloody, violent films like 'Final Destination' and 'The Hills Have Eyes'. I just find them quite funny and I like the special effects. I don't really find them scary at all. I think the scariest sort of films are the ones that are very tense, like Hitchcock films.
I think the scariest one for me is 'The Birds' because it's just very sinister the way that the birds come and sit and look at the people. And you know that it's going to be really bad very soon.
But I think my favourite ... favourite sort of horror films are zombie movies. I've watched loads of zombie movies and I really like them. Again I don't really think they are very scary. 'Dawn Of The Dead' is my absolute favourite horror film I think. It's a film where people just wake up one morning and there are zombies everywhere. If a zombie bites you, you turn into a zombie. And the survivors end up in a shopping mall in a shopping centre and they are surrounded by zombies. And it does not have a happy ending.
There is a British comedy horror film called 'Shaun Of The Dead' which is a bit of a joke on the idea of the 'Dawn Of The Dead' which is also really great. The most recent one I watched was a New Zealand film called 'Black Sheep' which is about zombie sheep. That was pretty funny as well.
The most recent horror film I watched was on a plane last time I went back to the UK. It was a Stephen King film based on a Stephen King book - I think a short story. And it was called 'The Mist'. It was about people who lived in a small town in America and there was a hurricane, or typhoon as we call them here. And after the typhoon, they wanted to go into town to get some supplies to fix up the house. And it started to get misty or foggy. It was quite a strange mist - it didn't look normal. And these people ended up in a hardware store in the town all trapped together because there were sort of monsters in the mist - these unrealistic giant creatures that were in the mist that were killing people. There was quite a lot of blood and guts and people died in horrible ways which is what I like about horror films. I would recommend it if you like horror films as much as I do.
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It's seems that author prefer films were peoples are fell in trap and there are no help from outer world (zombie apocalypse or mystery fog). I also like this type of films. This horrors forced me to think about what I use to do if I find myself in the same circumstances. What do you think? Have you escape if blood-thirsty zombies encircle you in supermarket? ;)
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Of coarse there are people who like horror films.I think these people like these films because they control their full attention through all the length of the film.
I like comedy and drama genera not only because they entertain me but also,since they are close to the real life,they show me the different aspects of life.
About the listening activity, I think the speaker is a kind of fearless and cruel.I said this because I heard her saying horror films are not scary at all and the interesting scenes in horror films she liked is those in which people die in a horrible way.
Hi everybody, I like horror film, my favourite film are the exorcist, the exorcist of Emily rose, the grudge and there is a Italian director called Dario Argento, who made Profondo rosso, Suspiria and Phenomena that are a good film ( I don't know if this film are seen abroad).However, I think that people like horror movie, because there is a need of strong emotion like fright,love and other feeling. when the people go to amusement park to look for strong emotion as for horror film. Instead, for the film "the mist", I think that the interesting part of the film is : the failure of the faith (religion), indeed the religious woman try to kill all person that don't believe in her idea and in the failure of the atheism, indeed the last survivor kill themselves (except one), only to discover that the evil is to be defeated. It's strange, but true the truth stay in the middle ( I don't know if you'll understand)
I think this is very cool :P :D I am Turkish and 14 years old. So some times I don't understand :) But I understand now. (:
To my mind, people are keen on watching horror moves because they like thrilling with horror. As for me, I prefer comedies or action to horror as it's very merry. Besides, you have opportunity to relax watching different comedies.
It seems to me, psychological thrillers make us to think, to discuss, to draw conclusion. But horror films have only sinister zombie and so on.
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I don't like these movies... but a lot people like becouse is funny for them. people like to feel fear and cry. is it stupid? or is it funny? Make your own conclusions.
I like drama, it´s the best!!
This activity is excellent. Thank you very much for it.
Hi dear all! This lesson is good. But I don't like horror movies too much. I watch them occasionally. I would like to say, it's not a good idea to watch horror movies more and more. Because it also can effected of your feelings to be uncomfortable.
hello,i am interested in which level are these talkings?