If Human Centipede were gross fun, I'd have enjoyed in more. As it was, it was just sort of queasy. It never really had the balls to stand up and be revolting, and it settled for a weak sort of "Yuck." It truly is a film that would have been better if it had been mentioned but not made.

If you're looking for "gross fun", try Feast, in particular part 2 and 3. Oh boy.

Edit: Drag Me To Hell also seems worth mentioning, although it's not quite as over the top.

The Human Centipede 2 is absolutely gross and revolting. It makes the first one look like a children's movie by comparison. I don't know if it's true, but I read that the director made the first movie intentionally tame so people could get used to the premise before pulling out all the stops in the sequel.

Drag Me To Hell was an easy one! Also, it doesn't stand up to repeat viewings, which surprised me. I have heard of the Feast movies, though I haven't seen them.

Truth is I'm not that much of a gorno person. I understand the gross out/funny aspects of it, and the FX-for-the-sake-of-FX glee, but they don't really interest me that much. The only one I recently out-and-out liked, where I felt that the violence was not only justified but was intrinsic to the story (as opposed to being the whole story) was The Loved Ones.
I'm not sure that sounds entirely fun!

It's not fun. Human Centipede 2 is a really bad movie, but it delivers all the explicit gore and shock value that people were missing in the first one, and then some.

Then I guess you won't be coming over to watch "Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence" which I just picked up today on Amazon. :D

On that note, anyone ever see Cannibal Holocaust? I got it a few years ago thinking it would be revolting which I'm sure it was 30 years ago. Now it's just Blair Witch WAAAAY before Blair Witch, but has a nice little surprise morality tale stuck into it.

BTW TinyE, your avatar is green again, is the gray campaign over?

No, I don't think so, I just bored of gray.

oh ok. great choices for terrifying movies btw. :) How's a possible 50 Shades of Grey as a terrifying movie?

I think it is still kind of revolting because of how real everything looks and feels. You might go into a movie called Cannibal Holocaust expecting ironic, over-the-top gore, but you actually get some serious, very realistic violence, rape and actual animal cruelty.

Blair Witch was Blair Witch waaaay before Blair Witch, and was better.

:-)

(couldn't resist)

Yeah. It's a movie without any redeeming value. For all the explicit schlock, there's no camp, no humor, or artistic intent (that say, Haneke or Pasolini would do). Just relentless nihilistic digestive gore shot in queasy black-and-white security camera styled footage. My friend forced me to sit through it.

I'm trying to decide if it was the worst movie I ever saw, or if that honor belongs to Trash Humpers. It's a close call.

You never saw The Wraith. XD

Quickly, cause half asleep.

1) Yes. Angel Heart is one of my favorite (no pun intended) movies. Actually i always liked pseudo-voodoo movies, even when they are "politically incorrect" (that is, anthropologically incorrect, and politically harmful), which they basically always are. I just like the voodoo synchretism style, this mix of exotism and familiar.

2) Ravenous is great, as i've mentionned already, and its soundtrack is a good contender for the best in history of cinema ever (invoking the leone/morricone collaboration is deemed cheating). Its postulate is just a bit too fairytalish, pushing it more towards allegories à la Company of Wolves than pure thriller, though. But the carlyle-in-front-of-the-cave scene is fantastic.

3) Noroi aka The Curse is a nicely creepy slow burn effect movie.

4) God the Hellraiser series is bad. Which is bad, for such a nice concept and design.

5) Into the Mirror is a clever movie, with a cunning use of all things mirror-y. And a very nice ending. Just like endings can ruin a horror movie by admitting there was no plot intended, endings can also make a good horror movie on their own.

6) This almost saved Reincarnations. The ending made the film way better than it felt during the whole viewing. Still, no thrill during two hours still make it hard to redeem retroactively. Almost succeeds to, though.

7) Yeah, Ils is on my list (if just to check if the current trend of awful french acting is also noticable in 'genre movies'), but without anticipation, as pure slasher siege things plots tend to bore me almost as much as the complementary vigilante movies.

8) Don't know what else i wanted to add but i'm asleep anyway. Something about limited interest for the is-it-demonic-or-psychological trend of possession movies, as i have limited interest for this pseudo question. So i kinda expect my movies to be about magic and stuff, instead of trying to represent some false debate on screen. Still, i don't remember if this applies to Emily Rose or to The Last Exorcism, of both. And anyway, those that have sequels (is it both?) kinda answer the question in a cinematographically satisfying way, i assume...

9) Note to self: Must totally make a two-entries table, tomorrow, about which modern flick is a combination of which classic. With stuff like The Conjuring at the intersection of the Amytiville row and the Exorcist column, Noroi at the intersection of Blair Witch and The Omen, etc...

10) Is blair witch a classic, actually? It's sufficiently referenced, i guess, and it did work on me pretty well, to be honest.

I know something that might scare you, even if not in the conventional way:

Attack of the Killer Condoms

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, it's not a scary movie at all but it most certainly is terrifying.
Here's the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1EpTe2lOf8