The commercial for the second one has actually altered my brain chemistry. I had never seen the movie at the time, but I had a full blown panic attack when my mom drove behind a truck with logs!!!!
@@123jillbone literally every millennial has an irrational fear of log trucks specifically because of this movie. I pulled up behind a log truck while driving once and immediately missed my turn to get home, forcing me to go the long way around. No regrets.
Event Horizon, 13 Ghosts, Silent Hill, and Final Destination are like my favorite campy horror movies. I actively recommend EH to people for having immaculate vibes and some of the most fun sci-fi horror
That, and good actors, which can save so much. Good script, bad actors --> yikes. Bad script, good actos giving their all --> probably still a lot of fun. Not that I think the script was bad; I liked the whole crazy idea, the end was beautifully bitter-sweet, and it was just a fun movie.
I didn't see the original but I loved this movie! I don't know why it was panned by critics cause I couldn't see anything wrong with it. I do admit I see movies for enjoyment though, not to pick it apart. Not saying I haven't seen stinkers, just that when I go in, I'm always open to having a great time.
I know everyone loves seeing Paris Hilton’s head skewered, but for my money, the part where Jared Padalecki is revealed to be alive under the wax exterior is pretty unnerving and memorable.
The bisection kill and Matthew's acting are all I remember about 13 Ghosts all these years on. I'm a coward and don't watch horror much but I was amazed by the effects and the creativity. And of course around that same time my ex got me to watch House of Wax to see how Paris was killed off, which was a great kill in a good movie.
I love Event Horizon, 13 Ghosts, and Final Destination movies. They are all great and well worth a watch. I must have seen 13 Ghosts over 100 times when my kids were growing up.
I love that movie, always did. Sam Neil as Dr. Weir is wonderfully flawed and tormented, the family-atmosphere between the Lewis&Clark crew members is lovely, the haunted space ship is wonderfully creepy, I love that stand-off between Captain Miller and Dr. Weir ( "Your ship _killed_ its crew!" - " ... well ... now she has another crew"), I love how Captain Miller's final act fits seamlessly with everything he did before ... ... oh, and: first movie I can remember where the black guy isn't the comic relief, glory be & hallelujah! And about high time, too. And of course the "well, uhm, using laymen's terms" classic: "We use a rotating magnetic field to focus a narrow beam of gravitons - these, in turn, fold space-time consistent with Weyl tensor dynamics until the space-time curvature becomes infinitely large, and you produce a singularity. Now, the ..." --- " _Laymens_ terms." - "Do You Speak English?"
The TCM remake legitimately has one of the greatest villains in ALL of horror played by R. Lee Ermey. Like seriously one of the most despicable characters you'll ever see in a movie.
That's some interesting casting in Urban Legend with Michael Rosenbaum and Jared Leto. This means it has the best Lex Luthor and the worst Joker. In my humble opinion. 😊
I don’t think Leto was a bad joker, I think it was just a different take on the character. It was more Of a “gangster” version of the joker were we gotten all type of joker now. Nickerson as traditional joker, ledger as psychotic joker, and Leto was “gangster” joker
I remember talking with a coworker about 13 Ghosts and how my biggest complaint about the film when i watched it years ago was there wasnt enough time on the ghosts themselves. I wanted stories on them. He told me theres a fandom website built with long stories on each one. Didnt get much work done that day.
I love Event Horizon to this day, it's such a perfect mix of heart-warming (the crew!), ominous, down-right horror, heroics and humor ( _... well, uhm, using laymen's terms ..._ ) And dang it, Sam Neil still breaks my heart, being that flawed, that driven and that haunted. Also: sets are plain perfect.
Stop abbreviating stuff man.. I haven’t finished the video, what is TCM? Edit: looked up R Lee Ermey filmography and figured you must be talking about Texas Chainsaw
Honestly I have never understood why that movie got such bad reviews, it's absolutely fantastic. Obviously nothing beats the original, but for my money the remake is easily the second best entry in the franchise (with the possible exception of TCSM 2 which personally I don't care for that much, although most people seem to like it), and Ermey's Sheriff Hoyt is without question my favourite character in the entire franchise, including the originals. The 2006 prequel is also really decent and doesn't get enough love imo.
Other than the netflix one, the remake and prequel Texas Chainsaw was the worst ones of the entire franchise. They looked crappy 1.5 hour long terrible music videos. No originality at all and nothing scary about them at all.
I really liked most of these but Thir13en Ghosts is my favourite. I actually just rewatched it last month! I think the reason the first version flopped and the 2001 version was loved by the audiences is because of the cast. The 2001 casting is absolutely brilliant and they work seamlessly together. The first cast just didn't have anywhere near the same chemistry.
'13 Ghosts' and The Final Destination franchise are the only horror movies that'd make me stop whatever I'm doing and watch whenever they're on cable. I love 'em.
Absolutely delighted to see Urban Legend on the list. Rewatched it last year after initially seeing it, and dismissing it, as a child. Blown away this time. I would echo everything the review said and add that it is also gorgeous to look at and made me miss when movies were shot on film. It's a great film. And this, is another, typically great video from this channel.
The Thing (1982) got near uniformly bad reviews from critics in 1982. Rotten Tomatoes has only one review from 1982 and though it's positive, it hardly from a major critic from that time. All of the other reviews (over 80 of them) are from 2000 and later. So, can you really go by Rotten Tomatoes for this sort of thing?
I honestly can't understand how people could think "The Thing" was a bad movie. The effects alone are jaw dropping. The tension is thick enough to cut with a knife. Who's human? Who's a "thing"? We don't even know if MacReady is human until the heated wire makes Palmer's blood shriek and he's clearly the main protagonist of the film.
There are so many of my favorite movies growing up on here. Final Destination. Urban Legend. 13 Ghosts. I’m still waiting on some streaming service to jump on the idea of doing a series exploring the backstory of each of the ghosts, cause they’re cool AF
100% agree with that idea. The first time I saw 13 Ghosts I ended up going down the rabbit hole online of each ghost’s backstory and there are some great concepts there.
Going to brighten your day. Back in August of this year, dark castle entertainment announced they were making 13 ghosts into a 13 episode tv series, doing exactly what you said, doing a story for each ghost.
Yeah, the opening of Urban Legend was fire. Dourif plays the guy creepy, but at the same time there's a visible helplessness to the guy as he struggles to get his words out. We can see he REALLY wants to say something and his building frustration makes him more unsettling. We can't blame her for freaking out. Alas, this was one time where the guy was creepy looking but genuinely well meaning.
I loved 13 Ghosts. To watch Tony Shaloub go from dramedy and comedy roles to a horror role was great. He was no stranger to straight up serious sci-fi or horror being as he was in an X Files episode.
This list is exactly why I loved Ebert, Ropert and Siskel. Every review episode thingy ended the same. These are our opinions. Yes we're paid to do this but actively encourage you to try it for yourself as they were human. In fact often re-evaluted past reviews
I honestly loved all the Saw flicks. And I’ve yet to meet anyone who actually liked Halloween 2 (2009). I haven’t seen it in over a decade. Absolutely loved Silent Hill too. I thought the story was really cool tbh
This is why I don't listen to critics, i listen to fans. All critics are going to have a movie genre they don't like and when they have to watch a movie from said genre then they're gunna give it a low review
As silly as the later entries got, I’m a diehard fan of Saw and am so, so excited for the new one regardless of quality. And Silent Hill is such an underrated gem that I loved from the first time I watched it.
Event Horizon and 13 Ghosts are personal favourites and in my collection. I wish we could see the lost scenes of Event Horizon, apparently they were off the chain. And Silet Hill was a cool movie.
One of the most underrated horror movies ever made and easily the best video game adaptation of all time; I never understood the critical disdain for it since everyone I've ever spoken to who watched it loved it. Then again critics have never cared for horror game adaptations; the recent Five Nights At Freddy's movie, while certainly seriously flawed, was way better than I think anyone was expecting and didn't deserve the critical pasting it received.
Love this list. The only one I disagree with was Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2. I hated that movie lol. But I’m glad to see the love for Silent Hill, House of wax and Event Horizon. So under appreciated. And omg the love for Jason X. I remember seeing that with my sister in theaters. I haven’t had that much fun at the movies for a while. It’s so delightfully stupid and awesome
Agreed on RZ's Halloween 2. It may not be the literal worst movie ever made but it's by far the worst I've ever watched. I've seriously seen superior movies from The Asylum.
The thing def is the poster child of 'hated at the time' but is a *classic*. Jennifer's body has gotten a lot of love with people looking at it in retrospective, are two i can think of right off
I just flat out never trust professional reviewers. If you spend enough time looking at RT scores, you quickly realize that film critics and your average film goer have completely inverted tastes to one another. Everything they love, I hate. Everything they hate, I love. The better you get at critically appraising entertainment, the more out of touch you get with the experience of someone who is going to movies for the enjoyment of it.
2003 Texas chainsaw massacre is incredible! If I recall, it came out just before the rise of horror remakes. Idk when it came out it just felt different than everything else around that time. I loved how brutal and grimey it was. The exact reason why it’s still great to this day. It’s so eerie. I think it’s easily the best entry in that whole series
With the exception of the 1974 original which is one of the best movies ever made in any genre, I agree completely. The 2006 prequel set in the same timeline as the 2003 movie is also very good, one of the few other entries in the franchise worth checking out.
Other than the netflix one, the remake and prequel Texas Chainsaw was the worst ones of the entire franchise. They looked crappy 1.5 hour long terrible music videos. No originality at all and nothing scary about them at all.
Just like qll of the Horror Movies on this video list; Brynhildr in the Darkness (2014) was also hated by Critics but loved by audiences. As of 2020, Brynhildr in the Darkness (2014) became a Horror Anime Cult Classic and later as of 2022, became one of the Classic Anime Series of ALL-TIME. I love Brynhildr in the Darkness (2014) and most of the Horror Movies in this video. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I loved Event Horizon. However, when I first watched it I made the mistake of watching it back-to-back with the Fifth Element while stoned and was utterly confused, with my mind mixing up the plots and characters.
Jason X is a guilty pleasure for me and absolutely love Night of the Demons Circa 1988. Long Live Rodger. Also me and my brother had the biggest crush on Frannie.
Critics expect horror movies and comedies to be deep and complex, while some are most of us just want to be scared or laugh. We're not always looking for Oscar worthy writing.
Jason X is my favorite Friday movie! I like all these movies, I saw Event Horizon in the theater without spoilers, and I was totally shocked. I honestly thought it was a straight science fiction movie.
Im going to say it the texas chainsaw massacre (2003) is 10x better than the original because the late great R. LEE ERMEY he was amazing in his role in the film. I never got the hate of Silent Hill one of the best horror films from the past 20 years and certainly the best Video Game film ever made.
Oof. Going to have to disagree there. The original TCM achieved something extraordinary. People at the time remembered a gory mess despite there being next to no blood. The intense heat was slowly driving the cast and crew insane. And since the movie was about a trio of insane people, it really helped with the method acting, so to speak. There was a truly nightmarish quality to the film, starting with the camera taking pictures of corpses, each flash ending with this drawn out, high pitched grinding sound to the end where Leatherface dances with his chainsaw (causing the film crew to fear for their lives from how Gunner Hansen was swinging that thing around). It would be near impossible to replicate the original.
I can't imagine anyone liking Zombie's Halloween II. I mean, I didn't like the first one, so maybe I'm bias. Jason X is a huge guilty pleasure for me. It was Hodder's last time behind the mask and he was in top form. ...still would love to know how they caught him to begin with... Personally, I didn't care for Urban Legend...but the opening was fire.
My partner and I were thinking the same thing while watching this. Who are these people who liked RZ Halloween 2? The movie, as was RZ takes on part one, was pure horse sh*t. Every video on the Halloween series from fans all agree it's just not a good movie. But this stupid video makes it out to be better than the first. This is why I stopped watching these. They don't know what they are talking about.
This is why I don't trust critics. Because they don't really know what they're talking about. I don't care, they get paid to do it. They're taste and movies or not, everybody's tastes.
Nine out of ten films are amongst my favourite movies to watch. Only nine as I've yet to see Halloween two. Critics are critics but it's the audience that makes a movie. Albeit sometimes slowly...
Yo, what culture horror. You guys totally omitted John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). Yeah, I know it's a bit before your time, but it was a film that was absolutely savagely rejected by critics. And even Carpenter, at the time, felt the film was a total flop at the box office. And yet, when audiences discovered the film on home video, they absolutely loved it. And nowadays it's considered a classic of horror cinema.(✿◠‿◠)
You forgot to mention the fact that Urban Legend also happened to have Jamie Lloyd AKA Danielle Harris AKA Michael Meyers's niece in it as that goth roommate that gets killed.
Horror fans love EFFORT whether it’s special effects or creative set design ext. We’re also less judgy when it comes to a low budget and the pitfalls that are attributed (like poor acting). Some critics just don’t get it!
Reminds me of wolf of snow hollow, it's a little cheesy and the one cop is over the top and Over dramatic but I loved that character and the movie for some reason lol
Tom Savini's "Night of the Living Dead" was absolutely brilliant. It's such a shame that so much of it had to be lost due to censorship. Savini either had to cut the stuff or be stuck with an X rating.
Love most of these films but Final Destination series is amazing, Love Saw, so glad Urban Legend and 13 Ghosts got recognition but Jason X is my favourite Friday film and one my top horror films love how ridiculous and camp it is
Where to start... I loved Urban Legend and still do. I absolutely LOVE all the Rob Zombie movies and I've seen all the SAW and movies related like Spiral and Jigsaw. I fell in love with the first one and I now have to see them ALL.
When I want to watch a movie, especially a horror movie, I don’t rely on scores on Rotten Tomatoes. If the trailer draws me in, then I’ll want to watch it
13 ghost is a revolutionary story plot. Harnessing the occult, a house that's not a house but a machine powdered by supernatural energy as fuel, and a narcissistic millionaire who has it all but craves more power, and a single dad who just wants to protect his family is a stupendous equation for the horror genre. Almost wish for a more subdued remake, but fear it would be weaker by comparison
I always get so happy when I see Thirteen Ghosts and Event Horizon given love by WhatCulture. Both movies are cult favorites for me and don't quite deserve the bashing they got. I would also add Crimson Peak to the list because if ever there was a more artful love letter to the Gothic genre of horror I do not know. Guillermo Del Toro should have received far more credit for it than he did and I largely blame that on the marketing for the movie and audience expectations not aligning with what the movie actually was about (i.e. not a ghost story). Anyway, glad to see two of my favorite 90s-00s horror movies receiving appreciation again, they may not be perfect but they sure are a lot of fun!
With you on all three, and in all of them the actors make up for whatever is a bit sub-perfect in the scripts. (Which in Crimson Park very much includes the heroines dresses, oh dear.) Event Horizon for me does such a good job at mixing bitter-sweetness, humor, an ominous atmosphere and horror. I can pretty still recite that "well, um, using laymen's terms ..." speech. And yes, it holds a place in my heart for being the first movie (that I can remember) having the guts to have an Afro-American actor play the boss, and what do you know, it did not cause the immediate downfal of western civilization.
@@Julia-lk8jn The dresses in Crimson Peak certainly were more about symbolism than they were period-accurate attire. The ones Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain wore were intentionally made so tight they were sewn into them to give the impression of how dated they were and the fact they weren't tailored for them but for their parents. They released a book after the film with all kinds of notes about what went into the costume and set designs and the amount of thought and detail was honestly fascinating to me. This movie should have been released to some critical acclaim rather than be so panned. It's a shame people misunderstood it. I always felt Event Horizon suffered from the same problem, people didn't "get it" but it was actually one of the more solid scifi-horror films released. The existential horror was fantastic, there was an almost Lovecraftian-esque tone to it, and the subtle suggestion it could be linked to the Clive Barker Hell-raiser universe was super intriguing and begged for more exploration. As for Thirteen Ghosts, the set and sound department really deserve props because when you watched the movie in theaters (or at home with a good sound system or headphones) it was more of an experience and I did enjoy how they took the old Castle promotion of the 3D glasses for the original film and worked it into the movie with the "spectral viewers." That was fun and a nice nod to the original. That movie's script may not win any awards and it suffers from some of the 00s horror tropes but I still watch the movie because it's fun (and also, Matthew Lillard was able to just be Matthew Lillard which made the film).
I love love LOOOOOVED Thirteen Ghosts!!!!!!!!! Fight me on it lmao - no dont!!!! The practical make up is top tier. Especially for its time! Also I just love Matthew Lillard
Part of the reason that half of these movies got so popular is that they are staples in the AMC/Sci-Fi Channel Horror loops meaning that if you watched these major TV stations, you saw these movies all the time. Heck Thirt3en Ghosts was on there all of the time.
Not sure if audiences loved it when it came out but I've always felt that The Skeleton Key (2005) got a really bum deal. It's not a perfect film, maybe not even a gem - but it's a solid horror with some interesting twists & great performances & fits perfectly in the time it was released.
I just went back through and I actually own every single one of these movies. Most of them on Blu-Ray were available. I never listen to the critics. If they say it’s bad, then I will go watch it.
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36% for final destination is frankly outrageous. I loved this movie, and it stayed with me for months
The second one is why I still can’t drive behind a truck with logs on it.
The commercial for the second one has actually altered my brain chemistry. I had never seen the movie at the time, but I had a full blown panic attack when my mom drove behind a truck with logs!!!!
I kept waiting for Spider-Man to show up and stop Hydo-Man.
Yes!
@@123jillbone literally every millennial has an irrational fear of log trucks specifically because of this movie. I pulled up behind a log truck while driving once and immediately missed my turn to get home, forcing me to go the long way around. No regrets.
Event Horizon, 13 Ghosts, Silent Hill, and Final Destination are like my favorite campy horror movies. I actively recommend EH to people for having immaculate vibes and some of the most fun sci-fi horror
EH scared the crap out of me when I saw it initially.
Silent hill was enjoyable. Event horizon scared me shitless when I saw it
Take out Pyramid Head and Silent Hill was rubbish
@mava4584 that's like saying take out Jason or Michael and Friday the 13th and halloween are rubbish 😂
Event Horizon and Silent Hill are dark af, not campy.
I actually like the 13 Ghosts remake, it's a turn your brain off at the door and have a good time horror movie
That, and good actors, which can save so much.
Good script, bad actors --> yikes.
Bad script, good actos giving their all --> probably still a lot of fun.
Not that I think the script was bad; I liked the whole crazy idea, the end was beautifully bitter-sweet, and it was just a fun movie.
I didn't see the original but I loved this movie! I don't know why it was panned by critics cause I couldn't see anything wrong with it. I do admit I see movies for enjoyment though, not to pick it apart. Not saying I haven't seen stinkers, just that when I go in, I'm always open to having a great time.
I love 13 ghosts. It's one of my favorites. It has been since it was released. It is now a part of my families Halloween movie marathon line-up
I know everyone loves seeing Paris Hilton’s head skewered, but for my money, the part where Jared Padalecki is revealed to be alive under the wax exterior is pretty unnerving and memorable.
Agreed. It haunted me for a while after first seeing it. What a horrible fate. Didn't help that the character was a genuinely nice guy.
The bisection kill and Matthew's acting are all I remember about 13 Ghosts all these years on. I'm a coward and don't watch horror much but I was amazed by the effects and the creativity. And of course around that same time my ex got me to watch House of Wax to see how Paris was killed off, which was a great kill in a good movie.
I love Event Horizon, 13 Ghosts, and Final Destination movies. They are all great and well worth a watch. I must have seen 13 Ghosts over 100 times when my kids were growing up.
Event Horizon is one of the craziest creepy movies ever and if critics can't see that I don't even know what to tell them! 😂
The concept is good. The film execution is uneven. What redeems it is that it is unintentionally funny.
I love that movie, always did. Sam Neil as Dr. Weir is wonderfully flawed and tormented, the family-atmosphere between the Lewis&Clark crew members is lovely, the haunted space ship is wonderfully creepy, I love that stand-off between Captain Miller and Dr. Weir ( "Your ship _killed_ its crew!" - " ... well ... now she has another crew"), I love how Captain Miller's final act fits seamlessly with everything he did before ...
... oh, and: first movie I can remember where the black guy isn't the comic relief, glory be & hallelujah!
And about high time, too.
And of course the "well, uhm, using laymen's terms" classic:
"We use a rotating magnetic field to focus a narrow beam of gravitons - these, in turn, fold space-time consistent with Weyl tensor dynamics until the space-time curvature becomes infinitely large, and you produce a singularity. Now, the ..." --- " _Laymens_ terms." - "Do You Speak English?"
Dumb bastards, movie is awesome
@@audiodead7302 No, just..... No.
Where we're going, critics don't need eyes to see.
Urban Legend has always been so good. Truly scary and great kills. Also, the killer reveal was great. The intro is iconic.
No way a woman pulls those kills off, women aren’t strong enough to lift a full grown man in the air like that.
The TCM remake legitimately has one of the greatest villains in ALL of horror played by R. Lee Ermey. Like seriously one of the most despicable characters you'll ever see in a movie.
That's some interesting casting in Urban Legend with Michael Rosenbaum and Jared Leto. This means it has the best Lex Luthor and the worst Joker. In my humble opinion. 😊
Ha! Never seen that movie, but I totally agree with your assessment of Rosenbaum and Leto, I hate Leto
Best Freddy Krueger too😊
I don’t think Leto was a bad joker, I think it was just a different take on the character. It was more Of a “gangster” version of the joker were we gotten all type of joker now. Nickerson as traditional joker, ledger as psychotic joker, and Leto was “gangster” joker
I remember talking with a coworker about 13 Ghosts and how my biggest complaint about the film when i watched it years ago was there wasnt enough time on the ghosts themselves. I wanted stories on them. He told me theres a fandom website built with long stories on each one.
Didnt get much work done that day.
I love Event Horizon to this day, it's such a perfect mix of heart-warming (the crew!), ominous, down-right horror, heroics and humor ( _... well, uhm, using laymen's terms ..._ )
And dang it, Sam Neil still breaks my heart, being that flawed, that driven and that haunted.
Also: sets are plain perfect.
*Lawrence Fishburne turns off the screen*
"We're leaving."
I laugh every time.
Love the TCM Remake, R. Lee Ermey is excellent in it. Such a vile bastard in it he is. His eventual fate by the protag is beyond excellent too.
Stop abbreviating stuff man.. I haven’t finished the video, what is TCM?
Edit: looked up R Lee Ermey filmography and figured you must be talking about Texas Chainsaw
A vile bastard indeed, dominates every scene he is in with dripping tension.
Honestly I have never understood why that movie got such bad reviews, it's absolutely fantastic. Obviously nothing beats the original, but for my money the remake is easily the second best entry in the franchise (with the possible exception of TCSM 2 which personally I don't care for that much, although most people seem to like it), and Ermey's Sheriff Hoyt is without question my favourite character in the entire franchise, including the originals. The 2006 prequel is also really decent and doesn't get enough love imo.
Other than the netflix one, the remake and prequel Texas Chainsaw was the worst ones of the entire franchise. They looked crappy 1.5 hour long terrible music videos. No originality at all and nothing scary about them at all.
@@oliverholmes-gunning5372because it sucked.
I really liked most of these but Thir13en Ghosts is my favourite. I actually just rewatched it last month! I think the reason the first version flopped and the 2001 version was loved by the audiences is because of the cast. The 2001 casting is absolutely brilliant and they work seamlessly together. The first cast just didn't have anywhere near the same chemistry.
'13 Ghosts' and The Final Destination franchise are the only horror movies that'd make me stop whatever I'm doing and watch whenever they're on cable. I love 'em.
18% for 13 Ghosts is crazy! More people do need to see Urban Legends and the sequel. So many great films on this list.
Absolutely delighted to see Urban Legend on the list. Rewatched it last year after initially seeing it, and dismissing it, as a child. Blown away this time. I would echo everything the review said and add that it is also gorgeous to look at and made me miss when movies were shot on film. It's a great film. And this, is another, typically great video from this channel.
1st scene i urban legend is fantastic. Really put the willie’s up me
It’s the first shamelessly meta slasher flick. The closing scene was genius.
The Thing (1982) got near uniformly bad reviews from critics in 1982. Rotten Tomatoes has only one review from 1982 and though it's positive, it hardly from a major critic from that time. All of the other reviews (over 80 of them) are from 2000 and later. So, can you really go by Rotten Tomatoes for this sort of thing?
I'm happy to say I recognized the genius when it first came out. Still love it.
I honestly can't understand how people could think "The Thing" was a bad movie. The effects alone are jaw dropping. The tension is thick enough to cut with a knife. Who's human? Who's a "thing"? We don't even know if MacReady is human until the heated wire makes Palmer's blood shriek and he's clearly the main protagonist of the film.
There are so many of my favorite movies growing up on here. Final Destination. Urban Legend. 13 Ghosts. I’m still waiting on some streaming service to jump on the idea of doing a series exploring the backstory of each of the ghosts, cause they’re cool AF
100% agree with that idea. The first time I saw 13 Ghosts I ended up going down the rabbit hole online of each ghost’s backstory and there are some great concepts there.
Actually there's dvd extra doing exactly that just have to type it in
Going to brighten your day. Back in August of this year, dark castle entertainment announced they were making 13 ghosts into a 13 episode tv series, doing exactly what you said, doing a story for each ghost.
I love Urban Legend, that first bait and switch with Brad Dourif is just masterfull. It has it pitfalls, sure, but its still such a classic movie.
Yeah, the opening of Urban Legend was fire. Dourif plays the guy creepy, but at the same time there's a visible helplessness to the guy as he struggles to get his words out. We can see he REALLY wants to say something and his building frustration makes him more unsettling. We can't blame her for freaking out. Alas, this was one time where the guy was creepy looking but genuinely well meaning.
I loved 13 Ghosts. To watch Tony Shaloub go from dramedy and comedy roles to a horror role was great. He was no stranger to straight up serious sci-fi or horror being as he was in an X Files episode.
This list is exactly why I loved Ebert, Ropert and Siskel. Every review episode thingy ended the same. These are our opinions. Yes we're paid to do this but actively encourage you to try it for yourself as they were human. In fact often re-evaluted past reviews
I honestly loved all the Saw flicks. And I’ve yet to meet anyone who actually liked Halloween 2 (2009). I haven’t seen it in over a decade. Absolutely loved Silent Hill too.
I thought the story was really cool tbh
This is why I don't listen to critics, i listen to fans. All critics are going to have a movie genre they don't like and when they have to watch a movie from said genre then they're gunna give it a low review
Final Destination made an entire generation paranoid! I am always afraid I'm gonna trip and die in some ridiculous way 😅
I agree.
Whenever I see a log truck on the street I'm still like "uhm, can we switch lanes please?" 😂
As silly as the later entries got, I’m a diehard fan of Saw and am so, so excited for the new one regardless of quality. And Silent Hill is such an underrated gem that I loved from the first time I watched it.
Event Horizon and 13 Ghosts are personal favourites and in my collection. I wish we could see the lost scenes of Event Horizon, apparently they were off the chain. And Silet Hill was a cool movie.
I will also defend Land of the Dead. It’s Romero’s commentary on class warfare.
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Silent Hill is a favourite horror movie of mine, certainly in my top 5, and im almost 60yr old..
Me, too, didn't know a darn thing about the game (my nephew explained it). Just so creepy and nightmarish.
One of the most underrated horror movies ever made and easily the best video game adaptation of all time; I never understood the critical disdain for it since everyone I've ever spoken to who watched it loved it. Then again critics have never cared for horror game adaptations; the recent Five Nights At Freddy's movie, while certainly seriously flawed, was way better than I think anyone was expecting and didn't deserve the critical pasting it received.
Thirteen Ghost is my absolute favourite. Mathew lillard is a legend
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13 Ghosts is the first movie I watched that absolutely terrified child me, so it always holds a special place in my heart
Suggest anyone who’s not seen Urban Legend in a while , to just lookup the opening scenes . Gives me chills still
Love this list. The only one I disagree with was Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2. I hated that movie lol. But I’m glad to see the love for Silent Hill, House of wax and Event Horizon. So under appreciated.
And omg the love for Jason X. I remember seeing that with my sister in theaters. I haven’t had that much fun at the movies for a while. It’s so delightfully stupid and awesome
Agreed on RZ's Halloween 2. It may not be the literal worst movie ever made but it's by far the worst I've ever watched. I've seriously seen superior movies from The Asylum.
The thing def is the poster child of 'hated at the time' but is a *classic*. Jennifer's body has gotten a lot of love with people looking at it in retrospective, are two i can think of right off
I just flat out never trust professional reviewers. If you spend enough time looking at RT scores, you quickly realize that film critics and your average film goer have completely inverted tastes to one another. Everything they love, I hate. Everything they hate, I love.
The better you get at critically appraising entertainment, the more out of touch you get with the experience of someone who is going to movies for the enjoyment of it.
2003 Texas chainsaw massacre is incredible! If I recall, it came out just before the rise of horror remakes. Idk when it came out it just felt different than everything else around that time. I loved how brutal and grimey it was. The exact reason why it’s still great to this day. It’s so eerie. I think it’s easily the best entry in that whole series
With the exception of the 1974 original which is one of the best movies ever made in any genre, I agree completely. The 2006 prequel set in the same timeline as the 2003 movie is also very good, one of the few other entries in the franchise worth checking out.
Other than the netflix one, the remake and prequel Texas Chainsaw was the worst ones of the entire franchise. They looked crappy 1.5 hour long terrible music videos. No originality at all and nothing scary about them at all.
Grimy? It looked like a crappy music video.
Glad to hear you mention Roger Ebert. He is one of my favorites. I'm watching old episodes of Siskel and Ebert...smile. Keep up the great work!!
As my husband and I were leaving 13 Ghosts, he said in a spooky voice “I want my money back”. 😂😂😂
I’ll admit to liking that movie, but your husband’s comment was hilarious. 😂
13 ghosts was simply beautifully made. It’s definitely a comfort movie for me in Halloween. Cast is great and the story is so clever. I love it
Just like qll of the Horror Movies on this video list; Brynhildr in the Darkness (2014) was also hated by Critics but loved by audiences. As of 2020, Brynhildr in the Darkness (2014) became a Horror Anime Cult Classic and later as of 2022, became one of the Classic Anime Series of ALL-TIME.
I love Brynhildr in the Darkness (2014) and most of the Horror Movies in this video.
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I loved Event Horizon. However, when I first watched it I made the mistake of watching it back-to-back with the Fifth Element while stoned and was utterly confused, with my mind mixing up the plots and characters.
Jason X is a guilty pleasure for me and absolutely love Night of the Demons Circa 1988. Long Live Rodger. Also me and my brother had the biggest crush on Frannie.
It has one of the most memorable movies kills. When Jason dunks the girls head in liquid nitrogen and then smashes her face to pieces.
Critics expect horror movies and comedies to be deep and complex, while some are most of us just want to be scared or laugh. We're not always looking for Oscar worthy writing.
I love 13 Ghosts! It's always something I recommend on horror movie nights.
Jason X is my favorite Friday movie! I like all these movies, I saw Event Horizon in the theater without spoilers, and I was totally shocked. I honestly thought it was a straight science fiction movie.
I watched Event Horizon for the first time quite recently (I'm not into Sci-fi much) and I LOVED it
Event Horizon is one of my favorite horror films. I was obsessed with it for years and would watch it constantly.
Im going to say it the texas chainsaw massacre (2003) is 10x better than the original because the late great R. LEE ERMEY he was amazing in his role in the film. I never got the hate of Silent Hill one of the best horror films from the past 20 years and certainly the best Video Game film ever made.
Lee emery was indeed awesome in this film, made you nervous every time he was in a scene
Oof. Going to have to disagree there. The original TCM achieved something extraordinary. People at the time remembered a gory mess despite there being next to no blood. The intense heat was slowly driving the cast and crew insane. And since the movie was about a trio of insane people, it really helped with the method acting, so to speak. There was a truly nightmarish quality to the film, starting with the camera taking pictures of corpses, each flash ending with this drawn out, high pitched grinding sound to the end where Leatherface dances with his chainsaw (causing the film crew to fear for their lives from how Gunner Hansen was swinging that thing around). It would be near impossible to replicate the original.
House of Wax isn't a remake of the 50s House of Wax. They used the title, but the remade plot elements are from Tourist Trap.
Thirteen Ghosts is a criminally underrated fun time!
Good afternoon from Manitoba, Canada 🇨🇦. I loved 13 Ghosts and Urban Legend.
Thanks for the List and Video 😀
I love Thirteen Ghosts so much!
For younger folks. At one time there were actual stores that would stock video tapes for sale or rent.
I enjoyed 13 ghosts urban legend too final destination was enjoyable too 😊
I almost got up and walked out of 13 Ghosts when I saw it in theaters. Not because it was bad, but because it was very intense.
Final Destination 5 had the BEST twist ending and brought the entire franchise together.
I can't imagine anyone liking Zombie's Halloween II. I mean, I didn't like the first one, so maybe I'm bias.
Jason X is a huge guilty pleasure for me. It was Hodder's last time behind the mask and he was in top form. ...still would love to know how they caught him to begin with...
Personally, I didn't care for Urban Legend...but the opening was fire.
My partner and I were thinking the same thing while watching this. Who are these people who liked RZ Halloween 2? The movie, as was RZ takes on part one, was pure horse sh*t. Every video on the Halloween series from fans all agree it's just not a good movie. But this stupid video makes it out to be better than the first. This is why I stopped watching these. They don't know what they are talking about.
This is why I don't trust critics. Because they don't really know what they're talking about. I don't care, they get paid to do it. They're taste and movies or not, everybody's tastes.
Especially when it comes to horror
Nine out of ten films are amongst my favourite movies to watch. Only nine as I've yet to see Halloween two. Critics are critics but it's the audience that makes a movie. Albeit sometimes slowly...
Yo, what culture horror. You guys totally omitted John Carpenter's The Thing (1982).
Yeah, I know it's a bit before your time, but it was a film that was absolutely
savagely rejected by critics.
And even Carpenter, at the time, felt the film was a total flop at the box office.
And yet, when audiences discovered the film on home video, they absolutely loved it.
And nowadays it's considered a classic of horror cinema.(✿◠‿◠)
13 ghosts are one of my favourite movies❤
Rebecca Gayheart is fantastic in Urban Legend! Love that movie
X- files is legendary.
You forgot to mention the fact that Urban Legend also happened to have Jamie Lloyd AKA Danielle Harris AKA Michael Meyers's niece in it as that goth roommate that gets killed.
I was so happy and felt very nostalgic that Devon Sawa was in chucky the tv series
I loved 13 Ghosts!!! AND, Urban Legend!!
Thanks for giving some love to some of my favortite flops!
I loved all these movies!!!
everyone has different opinions; if you like it you you like it; if you don't like it you don't like it; opinions are different; taste is different
Horror fans love EFFORT whether it’s special effects or creative set design ext. We’re also less judgy when it comes to a low budget and the pitfalls that are attributed (like poor acting). Some critics just don’t get it!
Reminds me of wolf of snow hollow, it's a little cheesy and the one cop is over the top and Over dramatic but I loved that character and the movie for some reason lol
Wolf of Snow Hollow was hilarious and had really great practical effects!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 is one of my most horror favorite movie of all time!!!
I’ll be reviewing a few of these for further analysis. I’ve actually never seen the top 2 so I’m down to visit them.
I’m with you on Saw VI ! That’s my favorite one besides the original. I’m so excited for saw X !!!
Some others IMO would be Lifeforce, The Night of the Living Dead remake, House on Haunted Hill remake, Ghost Ship & Ghosts of Mars.
Tom Savini's "Night of the Living Dead" was absolutely brilliant. It's such a shame that so much of it had to be lost due to censorship. Savini either had to cut the stuff or be stuck with an X rating.
ALL movies on this list are awesome and collectable.
My favorite SAW movie is SAW 6 too!!! It's super good and still my most fave as of this day.
I've always loved 13 Ghosts, I watched that and Ghost Ship as a young teen and were my first horror loves
Love most of these films but Final Destination series is amazing, Love Saw, so glad Urban Legend and 13 Ghosts got recognition but Jason X is my favourite Friday film and one my top horror films love how ridiculous and camp it is
Event Horizon’s cut scenes being lost is one of the most tragic things to ever happen to cinema. I want to see that full scene of the Hell sequence 😂
Where to start... I loved Urban Legend and still do. I absolutely LOVE all the Rob Zombie movies and I've seen all the SAW and movies related like Spiral and Jigsaw. I fell in love with the first one and I now have to see them ALL.
13 ghosts and event horizon are a couple of my fave horror films an silent Hill was really underated
Event Horizon is one of my best loved horror movies, just superb.
Idc what anyone says about the Final Destination franchise it's awesome and enjoyable (especially the fourth one)
I looooooved Event Horizon. Saw it three times in the theater. Somebody had to see it.
Absolutely love Event Horizon and the spiritual successor Pandorum. Worth a watch.
Love to see Ryan Hollinger getting a shoutout 🥰
Event horizon, Silent Hill and Urban legends are great movies! But I do agree with Jason X, it's so terrible that even it's campiness doesn't save it
When I want to watch a movie, especially a horror movie, I don’t rely on scores on Rotten Tomatoes. If the trailer draws me in, then I’ll want to watch it
13 ghost is a revolutionary story plot. Harnessing the occult, a house that's not a house but a machine powdered by supernatural energy as fuel, and a narcissistic millionaire who has it all but craves more power, and a single dad who just wants to protect his family is a stupendous equation for the horror genre. Almost wish for a more subdued remake, but fear it would be weaker by comparison
I always get so happy when I see Thirteen Ghosts and Event Horizon given love by WhatCulture. Both movies are cult favorites for me and don't quite deserve the bashing they got. I would also add Crimson Peak to the list because if ever there was a more artful love letter to the Gothic genre of horror I do not know. Guillermo Del Toro should have received far more credit for it than he did and I largely blame that on the marketing for the movie and audience expectations not aligning with what the movie actually was about (i.e. not a ghost story). Anyway, glad to see two of my favorite 90s-00s horror movies receiving appreciation again, they may not be perfect but they sure are a lot of fun!
With you on all three, and in all of them the actors make up for whatever is a bit sub-perfect in the scripts. (Which in Crimson Park very much includes the heroines dresses, oh dear.)
Event Horizon for me does such a good job at mixing bitter-sweetness, humor, an ominous atmosphere and horror. I can pretty still recite that "well, um, using laymen's terms ..." speech. And yes, it holds a place in my heart for being the first movie (that I can remember) having the guts to have an Afro-American actor play the boss, and what do you know, it did not cause the immediate downfal of western civilization.
@@Julia-lk8jn The dresses in Crimson Peak certainly were more about symbolism than they were period-accurate attire. The ones Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain wore were intentionally made so tight they were sewn into them to give the impression of how dated they were and the fact they weren't tailored for them but for their parents. They released a book after the film with all kinds of notes about what went into the costume and set designs and the amount of thought and detail was honestly fascinating to me. This movie should have been released to some critical acclaim rather than be so panned. It's a shame people misunderstood it.
I always felt Event Horizon suffered from the same problem, people didn't "get it" but it was actually one of the more solid scifi-horror films released. The existential horror was fantastic, there was an almost Lovecraftian-esque tone to it, and the subtle suggestion it could be linked to the Clive Barker Hell-raiser universe was super intriguing and begged for more exploration.
As for Thirteen Ghosts, the set and sound department really deserve props because when you watched the movie in theaters (or at home with a good sound system or headphones) it was more of an experience and I did enjoy how they took the old Castle promotion of the 3D glasses for the original film and worked it into the movie with the "spectral viewers." That was fun and a nice nod to the original. That movie's script may not win any awards and it suffers from some of the 00s horror tropes but I still watch the movie because it's fun (and also, Matthew Lillard was able to just be Matthew Lillard which made the film).
I love love LOOOOOVED Thirteen Ghosts!!!!!!!!!
Fight me on it lmao - no dont!!!!
The practical make up is top tier. Especially for its time!
Also I just love Matthew Lillard
Part of the reason that half of these movies got so popular is that they are staples in the AMC/Sci-Fi Channel Horror loops meaning that if you watched these major TV stations, you saw these movies all the time. Heck Thirt3en Ghosts was on there all of the time.
The TCM low score surprises me. I love that film as a remake, it's really well acted and made.
Cube was another film that had meh reviews but was genuinely riveting and original
Not sure if audiences loved it when it came out but I've always felt that The Skeleton Key (2005) got a really bum deal. It's not a perfect film, maybe not even a gem - but it's a solid horror with some interesting twists & great performances & fits perfectly in the time it was released.
I just went back through and I actually own every single one of these movies. Most of them on Blu-Ray were available. I never listen to the critics. If they say it’s bad, then I will go watch it.
The one on this list that surprises me the most is the 2003 TCM. Legitimately a good movie.
I love all these movies. Pure fun.
thank you for finally giving House of Wax some credit!!!