Saw 1 was mediocre, Saw 2 was abysmal. Saw 3 could be a candidate for my top ten list (see above for the first three places).
I loved 28 Days. This was a film that had everything. There were nice citations of other horror movies, like the supermarket scene, etc.
The director found a good mixture between a good story (unusual for a horror movie) and bloody scenes.
I liked the scene when the main character acts like a zombie (killing all the others, directly or indirectly) such that his girlfriend thought he was one of them, too. THat was a fresh idea.
But I think the best horror films have nothing to do with blood and gore and zombie limbs flying around.
One of the two most impressive scenes I know was in the bbc production "Warriors" (from 1999).
http://imdb.com/title/tt0119873/It was a two episodes tv production about british soldiers in Kosovo, being forced to do nothing but watch the atrocities around them.
In one scene , after a deal with one of the partisan leaders, the main character (a British soldier) is allowed to take one survivor of a massacre from the load floor of a truck. The bad thing is that the survivor is buried
below dozens of dead, mutilated blood soaking bodies. You can see the thickenig blood drip off the load floor. The following scene when one of the fellow soldiers provokes the leader to fight against men and not grandmas and children is one of the most tense moments I know being in a movie.
Another scene is a Film about the same topic (Savior , from 1998, with Dennis Quaid).
http://imdb.com/title/tt0120070/There a Serbian leader and his fellows stop a bus with refugees. He lets them stand in a row and takes his golf bag. In this bag are several very different hammers. I won't tell what's happening then, but that scene gave me the shivers.
I want to cite another viewer:
[quote]This film is a controversial one. Sadly it feels like the producers didn't dare to take it all the way, with ONE exception. The scene by the river will definitely make your conscience feel bad, your gutter twist and you won't be able to speak for minutes![/url]
I don't want to discuss the topic of the Yugoslavian war or the correctness of the situation decribed, but only these two impressing movie moments.
We have see mutilated bodies in horror movie but if the story that's told is in a real context, then horror is something completely different. Remember the things under your bed when it was dark, and everyone knows the strange feeling being alone in a dark street with someone walking 10 meters behind you.
