anime horror

Gatsthedarksword · Post by **Gatsthedarksword** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 10:59 pm

ok, my friends and i were talking favorite horror movies a little while ago and i thought of bio hunter just because there are some creepy as hell moments in it. but i got to thinking, what would a horror movie be like, ANIME STYLE? can you just imagine how many american movie fans would jump out of their skin watching it

but i figure as i know relativly little because anime is such a broad topic as anime that i'd put it up for discusion, do you know any anime that is intented as a horror not just a scary ass movie but a horror movie.

RyanGlazner · Post by **RyanGlazner** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 11:00 pm

Um... Vampire Princess Miyu comes to mind...

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Wed Aug 14, 2002 11:13 pm

Actually, Perfect Blue was pretty violent in my opinion. It was also relatively well received by american critics. (they keep describing it disney meets hitchcock though

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If you are talking 'Fist of the north star' exploding bodies type stuff, well I don't think it has as much impact.

Watching people explode who are not very well animated sounds bad but I don't think it compares to more realistic violence. Perfect Blue had a couple drawn out murders and the people looked like people, the bodies had more realistic reactions to pain and that made it more horrific to me.

Some how it makes me cringe because I could almost imagine pain like that..but seeing bodies just twist and explode....I dunno, maybe that's just being desensitized by falling anvils and T.N.T. at work.

....my point being, I don't think too many americans would be upset. Our primary religion uses a device of excecution as it's symbol after all. Now put some gratuitous sex and there and you'll have a picket line in no time

(yeah, I once saw an 18+ sticker on a ranma video in media play)

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 12:09 am

I haven't really seen a good horror anime. But Perfect Blue is as close as it gets. I don't think I really consider Vampire Princess Miyu a horror either.

I remember I turned on Sci-Fi once and saw this really weird non-animated fantasy movie on. I was watching it for a while and they didn't give the title, but I was like, "This movie sucks, but it could make a really good anime." Well it was Fist of the North Star... so I was wrong, it didn't make a good anime.

I think anime has the potential to make a really good horror movie. They should make more in my opinion.

TekkaRepliroid Zero · Post by **TekkaRepliroid Zero** » Thu Aug 15, 2002 8:38 am

Miyu is definately dark, definately goth, but only mild horror. It is technically horror though (or at least that's how the graphic novels are classified).

Spike Spiegel757 · Post by **Spike Spiegel757** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:07 pm

You really can't classifie any anime as a horror. example: If you walk into FYE and look at the horror section you wont see any Anime, now you walk to the Anime section and see something that can be clasified as a horror movie, BUT it can't because it is already classified as Anime. However, Anime is too broad a genra for us fans so the sub-genra is created, meaning that Anime can be classifed as horror, action, comedy ect...., but only through the eyes of an Anime fan.

Do you understand???

temjin · Post by **temjin** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:16 pm

i know this strays from the original question but, the best horror movie ever was the cube. jesus that was FUCKED up. not only did it have non stop blood flow and gore, it actually had an intriguing plot. granted it made absolutely no sense, still makes you wonder. it basically was one giant metaphor that has a meaning for each person. i love those movies. i loved cube. although i doubt ill ever watch it again. beleive me, twice is enough

akatoro · Post by **akatoro** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:22 pm

'the cube' as in that movie with five or six people trapped in a cube and they don't know why? Then an autistic guy finds out a way to get out etc?

temjin · Post by **temjin** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:31 pm

you just ruined the movie for everyone, but yeah, the one where the guy gets chopped into bits at the beginning by those wires

akatoro · Post by **akatoro** » Mon Aug 19, 2002 1:39 pm

yeah. They only used one room for that movie and a couple of different coloured lightbulbs to light up the walls. Pretty nice story, though. But it's nothing compared to VANILLA SKY omg omg, it's so good tom cruise is so hot with his melted face