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The other day, my friends were arguing about horror movies in a video store. We were talking what movies scares you most. And then one of them said zombies, cause they are everywhere and just keep coming. My other friend was like laughing at him, she said zombie is not scary, they too slow, you can outrun them, you'll be in the next town before they even catch you.
And then they asked me what scared me most. I said the little girl in horror movies with the happy smile and singing a happy tune while carrying a big kitchen knife. I got laughed alot there, i can't argue with their logic, the little girl still scares me. >_<
Just wondering if anyone has their own favorite horror movies, well not just favorite, but something that really scares you and make you cannot sleep and stuffs. ^^
MikoKikyo
2004-04-09, 21:11
I luv scary movies, but I have yet to find one that trully scares me.... (otherwise I probably wouldn't like them). The Exorcist and The Ring are my favorite scary movies.
By the way, if you like zombie movies, try 28 Days Later. It's pretty good.
Lexander
2004-04-09, 21:20
The scariest to me is the innocent looking little girl around 10 years old in a nightgown. This character is a theme in a few horror or semihorror movies I've seen and it scares me shitless. I tried to avoid eyecontact with little girls for a week after seeing the ring.
Evil kids, who still have their general human feautures are the worst.
Zombies are generally not scary to me.
Drunken_Boxer
2004-04-09, 21:22
i like horror movies too, but theres so many upsets that it well...upsets me.
House on Haunted hill, The Exorcist, Poltergiest.
now a good horror movie that i found thrilling was 'Event Horizon' Now THAT'S a horror movie.
i like horror movies too, but theres so many upsets that it well...upsets me.
House on Haunted hill, The Exorcist, Poltergiest.
now a good horror movie that i found thrilling was 'Event Horizon' Now THAT'S a horror movie.
The gory stuffs?
mantidor
2004-04-09, 21:45
Horror movies!!! this bring back memories 'cause this was the genre of my childhood...
Nightmare on elm street movies: Freddy is the best. Period. I had a nightmare with him and that can be really scary, it made me pray every night for a whole month! my favorites are the fourth and the six( the one with freddy's past, that was cool)
Night of the living death: my favorite is the first, the B&W and the remake, they are very psichological IMO, the others are just zombie fests but still fun to watch,
Friday the 13th: i actually didn't watch this series a lot, i remember i watched the first one and like it, but the others were pretty silly...
Childs play: which is know here as "chuky, the diabolic doll" :heh: really! when they bring movies here the translators change the titles completly! "chuky, the diabolic doll" sound very stupid to me. i just love the whole trhee movies, haven't seen bride of chucky though
Dracula: the francis ford coppola one. This wasn't scary for me, but i jumped in the part when dracula comes out like a were-bat (if there is such a thing), my dad took me to the theater as my 11th birthday present!! OMG this is as nostalgic as the "my first anime" thread in the general anime forums
those (and many,many more) are my childhood horror movies, the more recent ones...
the ring:this wasn't scary for me at all, but after you saw Nightmare on elm street when you were six, what else would you expect?? what i really like about the movie is the suspense and detective work from asakawa, i like this movie a lot.
The others:Amazing movie, far better than the sixth sense, and besides amazing performance by every actor and actress.
i don't recall others, but if i remember i'l tell you
any grammar/spelling erros feel completly free to say so :D
Drunken_Boxer
2004-04-09, 21:46
not just the gorry stuff, but the....how could i explain...quiet climax/errie-ness like...
the scene in the medic room with the son scraping on the body bag
that kind of stuff is horror, horror isnt based upon decapitations and guts flying. (that's why Freddy and Jason are considered comedy horror)
horror is when u get chills down to the bone marrow. sadly alot of movies lack in that part, or dont show much of it.
I think the scariest character is "Night of the Hunter"
Who the hell wouldn't be scared of a preaching priest carrying a knife stalking you?
Worst off he's a priest the supposed holiest humans there are.
Vampries from chinese movies are hella freaky too.
All they do is stick their hands out and start jumping at you. I mean WTF? Who wouldn't run from that?
Nightmare on elm street movies: Freddy is the best. Period. I had a nightmare with him and that can be really scary, it made me pray every night for a whole month! my favorites are the fourth and the six( the one with freddy's past, that was cool)
Oh God, that bring back bad bad memories and lost sleeps. ^^
How about The Blob? everyone got scared of that one? I remember for a while after watching the Blob, I wouldn't dare touch the kitchen sink. >_<
Drunken_Boxer
2004-04-09, 21:53
hey mantidor have u seen 'Ringu'? that was descent, its the acutal movie of the ring. (japanese) and in my opinion, better then the ring.
actually now that i remembered, has anyone seen 'The Eye'? its a japanese movie and i saw the trailer when it was coming to N.America. the trailer was interesting.
[edit] the blob! Yes! i saw that when i was young! I was scared to eat jello for months.
mantidor
2004-04-09, 22:07
hey mantidor have u seen 'Ringu'? that was descent, its the acutal movie of the ring. (japanese) and in my opinion, better then the ring.
actually now that i remembered, has anyone seen 'The Eye'? its a japanese movie and i saw the trailer when it was coming to N.America. the trailer was interesting.
[edit] the blob! Yes! i saw that when i was young! I was scared to eat jello for months.
that's the one im talking about! if you read carefully, you'd noticed i mentioned asakawa, instead of "what's her name" from the american version. I saw both actually, and of course i like the japanese more, but the other one wasn't that bad...
I just remember other Bloody birthday probably is not the original name, as i told you every title gets changed here. Is about three children born the same day, in an eclipse, when they are like 12 years old, they kill everyone in their birthday party by putting ant's poison in the cake, pretty silly story.
And the Exorcist and the prophecy series, oh and Poltergeist series, me and my cousins gathered together and saw ALL those movies, my older cousins were probably between 13 and 15 years old, but me and the other little cousins were 8 years old! my older cousins were evil!
EDIT:
I saw recently Dark Water. Is a japanese movie, anyone has seen it????
ShinDragon
2004-04-09, 22:07
Hm..... talk about horror movies...
I want to see Dark Water (Hollywood's remake version). The original Japanese version was OK, not scarey at all.
Another movie, that I'd like to watch is "Ju-On 2" (AKA: The Grudge). My friend told me it was better than the 1st one.
And here's the last one I want to watch. => CHAKUARI (Directed by Takashi Miike, same director who did "Koroshiya")
Official Website
http://www.chakuari.jp/
i love horror movies, i grew up with them and i never get tired of them. when I was a kid, zombies scared me the most. it isn't the fact that they are so goddamn many of them, or the fact that they eat people, it isn't the fact that they keep coming... what scared the shit out of me was that these things were dead, lifeless corpses. you look at a dead body and it will haunt you to remember that person as a living thing.... but memories are just memories and dreams are just dreams.... for that person to come back and walk around in the lifeless shell is pretty twisted like a bad nightmare.
another thing that scared me as a child were serial killers... those silent stalkers like michael myers and jason vorhees. they were out their, they didn't want to talk to you, they didn't want to reason with you, they didn't want to change who you were... they just wanted you dead. no reason to kill you, no motives at all, you could be a fucking saint and this complete stranger would rip you open....
The absolutely most terrifying movie I ever saw was Tremors
Really old, so for those who don't remember it, its about giant mutated earthworms that can hear you walking on the ground, and then they burrow through the ground and come up and eat you from below. I saw it when I was like 5 or something. For a whole damn week I was so scared to walk on the floor, and I stayed in the second story of my house as much as I could. The movie still scares me!!!..........Don't laugh at me! *cries*
Nothing Special
2004-04-10, 06:40
… horror is when u get chills down to the bone marrow. sadly alot of movies lack in that part, or dont show much of it.
w3rd. Atmosphere is critical to a horror movie. If a movie loses its atmosphere and pacing, I won't be scared as much.
Another reason why I'm not scared nowadays is because I'm so desensitized that my reaction is usually, "Whoa, that was a cool death," instead of horrified shock.
Movies I like:
They
Session 9 (not really horror but it's very eerie)
28 Days Later
Nightmare on Elm Street (this was my first horror movie)
Jeepers Creepers (the sequel really sucked though)
The Puppet Master
Hellraiser
The Ring
I haven't seen The Others yet. :(
Drunken_Boxer
2004-04-10, 12:59
going to rent 'Texas Chainsaw Masacre' tonight, want to see the difference between the old one and the current one.
also i want to see if Blockbuster has 'The Eye'
do i expect Texas Chainsaw to be scary? we'll see soon enough.
Movies I like:
They
Session 9 (not really horror but it's very eerie)
28 Days Later
Nightmare on Elm Street (this was my first horror movie)
Jeepers Creepers (the sequel really sucked though)
The Puppet Master
Hellraiser
The Ring
28 days later was pretty good for a low budget brit movie.
but of course no low budget movie could beat..................... THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT! :heh:
MikoKikyo
2004-04-10, 13:11
28 days later was pretty good for a low budget brit movie.
but of course no low budget movie could beat..................... THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT! :heh:
OMG THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :heh: :heh: :heh:
Everyone watch "Sleepwalkers"!! It's supposed to be a horror movie, but it's sooo funny....I watched it with my friends and we were cracking up the whole time :heh: :heh: It's hillarious in so many ways :heh:
Sleepwalkers....isn't that the movie with the catpeople?
Anyway, Jeepers Creepers isn't at the least bit scary, the credibility is taken when the murderer with the axe turns out to be some sort of winged monster...BORING. Axes are way cooler.
The movies that scared me the most where:
The Ring
Puppet Master.... :uhoh: Horror movies with dolls are always freaking me out, though Chucky doesn't. The Chucky movies are just weird.
And Tremors??? I didn't found that movie the least bit scary, I actually like the worm thingies, the one that raced of the cliff the most of cource :)
Black Jaggan
2004-04-10, 18:12
The most scary persons are the ones that are just walking around and acting suspious, while you're not sure they are important. The ones of which you think at every step they take : "What is he doing? Why is he acting all weird?"
I like the fairytales horror stuff...like... "In the company of wolves". That one freaked me out, cause I hate animal/human transformations...well, when they look like that that is. And it has an open ending...which sux, cause i like to get the answers...
I actually watched Chucky, the last one was hella weird where he got married and they have dolls sex scene. >_<
umm.. what everyone thing about Silence of the Lamb and Hannibal? I watched and survived but lost food apetite for weeks. t.t
MikoKikyo
2004-04-10, 18:34
hahaha dolls sex scene = extremelly disturbing and psycho
Silence of the lambs was awesome, I didn't really consider it horror....It was more like suspense to me. Hannibal was gruesome :eek: there was too much unnecessary gory, not thing.
really? i had a full coarse steak dinner (medium raw) after seeing those movies.... i guess some people don't apreciate fine meat.
the ring
thirteen ghosts
scream
those really artn't that scary though... :/
SimplyEd
2004-04-10, 21:01
really? i had a full coarse steak dinner (medium raw) after seeing those movies.... i guess some people don't apreciate fine meat.
You too? I swear, i always get hungry after a lovely, virtual gore-fest, be it movie or game. It's a good thing i have enough work-out and a reliable metabolism to counter the *effects*^^
mantidor
2004-04-10, 21:38
I actually watched Chucky, the last one was hella weird where he got married and they have dolls sex scene. >_<
umm.. what everyone thing about Silence of the Lamb and Hannibal? I watched and survived but lost food apetite for weeks. t.t
Silence of the lambs is one of the best movies i've seen, the performances of clarice and hannibal were spectacular. I didn't like hannibal and red dragon that much, is soo much better with the original clarice...
Sh1ka9on
2004-04-10, 22:04
i know this is kinda off-topic because i don't have any 'favourite' horror movie, but i think that the most scariest game i've ever played is the Silent Hill set, made by Konami. Boy... the first, second, and third are all pretty heartpoundin'.... But i'm planning to get the fourth, 'The Room' which kinda has a weird ring to it but whatever... The main thing that scares me the most in the SH games is the crazy music.... and it's always foggy and you're always alone in the misty town... and then the radio scratchin' is hella scary..
boy.. i can't even believe i bought the Silent Hill 1 OST...
I luv scary movies, but I have yet to find one that truly scares me.... (otherwise I probably wound't like them). The Exorcist and The Ring and my favorite scary movies.
Yup, I myself love a good ol' horror flick here and there. The Exorcist and the Ring were very good scary movies.
I saw the japanese "Ringu" long before I saw the americanized "The Ring" and I actually liked the american one more. I like zombie flicks and some gorefests. I recently saw the texas chainsaw massacre which was pretty freaky :twitch: . But, I learned one important thing in that movie... JESSICA BEAL IS HOT! :heh:
Oh ya, if you folks like comedy and zombie and action flicks. In fact anyone of those genres... watch
http://free.one.picturehost.co.uk/vs_dvd.jpg
A RYUHEI KITAMURA'S --VERSUS--
It's got comedy, it's got action and it's got lots of zombies. Imagine using guns, martial arts and katanas to take down zombies :D . That's good fun. You can rent it at your local blockbuster. Give it a look see, it's entertaining.
i know this is kinda off-topic because i don't have any 'favourite' horror movie, but i think that the most scariest game i've ever played is the Silent Hill set, made by Konami. Boy... the first, second, and third are all pretty heartpoundin'.... But i'm planning to get the fourth, 'The Room' which kinda has a weird ring to it but whatever... The main thing that scares me the most in the SH games is the crazy music.... and it's always foggy and you're always alone in the misty town... and then the radio scratchin' is hella scary..
boy.. i can't even believe i bought the Silent Hill 1 OST...
yea, horror games are like a fucking drug to me... i haven't been scared horror movies in so many years that when i started to play games like resident evil about 3 years back (i FIRST played them when i was still a little kid, maybe 12 years ago, but i was always too scared to finish the games) that when my heart began to race, i felt young again (i am 18 years old now, but i mentally feel like i'm 50... being cynical does that to ya) like when I first started to watch horror movies. I always redo the game after i've beat it... i like to think of myself as the more EVIL monster who kills all the other monsters. :D
MikoKikyo
2004-04-11, 00:00
Sleepwalkers....isn't that the movie with the catpeople? :)
catpeople! YES! Indeed that is the one. You've seen it, you lucky dog :D :D
thirteen ghosts
oh my god I have a story to tell about that one, just in case anyone's interested. I know this movie isn't THAT scary or anything, but I was watching that at my house with some friends, and at the part when the jackal popped up on the screen, the lights on the movie blinked. what happened was, the light of the little lamp in my room that was on flickered at the exact same time lol it was SO weird! We were all like "WHOA" and started laughing but it was pretty freaky....later that night they made me walk them to the bathroom n kichen :eyespin: and to this day they suspect my house is haunted (which might be....... *twitches* but I doubt it)
Slade xTekno
2004-04-11, 00:11
I don't like scary movies and horror films. I'm the only guy I know who doesn't like scary movies....
I don't like being scared...
People make fun of me, but I really don't care. Maybe I'm too soft...
MikoKikyo
2004-04-11, 00:32
Tekno:
aw how cute. *poke*
Yea I feel ya actually. On an inverse sense......some of my friends are scared shitless of scary movies and I'm like :eyebrow: *why?* ......so I make fun of them anyway. Even though they're girls *poke*
Yes I feel you..... I'm the only girl I know (in real life) who watches naruto, it's quite sad lol. really I'm not a tomboy in any other aspects of my life
:twitch: whats with the poking?? gee whats wrong with me today :help:
I don't like scary movies and horror films. I'm the only guy I know who doesn't like scary movies....
I don't like being scared...
People make fun of me, but I really don't care. Maybe I'm too soft...
Did you watched something really scary or something? or had a bad experience with a horror movie?
Slade xTekno
2004-04-11, 01:30
No. For some reason, I just don't like that feeling...
/me sighs.
Lu lu lu...
anime_luver
2004-04-11, 02:09
hey mantidor have u seen 'Ringu'? that was descent, its the acutal movie of the ring. (japanese) and in my opinion, better then the ring.
actually now that i remembered, has anyone seen 'The Eye'? its a japanese movie and i saw the trailer when it was coming to N.America. the trailer was interesting.
[edit] the blob! Yes! i saw that when i was young! I was scared to eat jello for months.
jus wanted to point out that The Eye was a chinese movie. main character is played by Angelica Lee Sum-Kit, check out this site for info bout the movie
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/eye.htm
There a sequel coming too starring Shu Qi, as some may know. i haven't seen it, but heard it was good.
srry if some1 has already said this. pls dont flame me!
Lst2touchdasky
2004-04-11, 02:46
"It" scared me shitless...
I don't like scary movies and horror films. I'm the only guy I know who doesn't like scary movies....
I don't like being scared...
People make fun of me, but I really don't care. Maybe I'm too soft...
don't feel too bad about it, without people like you who are too scared to watch horror movies, there would be nobody for people like me to tease. :D
oh, and btw....
BOO!!!
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v67/HoboGod/wolfman.jpg
Slade xTekno
2004-04-11, 02:55
Hobogod: Lol!!! Don't do that again!
No. For some reason, I just don't like that feeling...
/me sighs.
Lu lu lu...
Actually I used to hate horror movies. ^^
When I was small, my aunt used to take me to watch video together. But she never told me if we were going to watch something scary. She would say something like "oh we gona watch your favorite cartoon" or "today we gona watch that comedy movie you like." And then when the video started, it turned up to be Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street and stuffs
For a long long time I got suckered in like that. (T . T)
Until she got married away. \ (^ ^) /
I didn't watch horror movies for a long time after that. But when I got into college I actually meet some people in the film club that just loves horror flicks. Seeing them talking about all those old tittles just make me feel nostalgic and bring new perspective on horror movies. They got me interested in watching horror flicks again and I'm glad I did. Because I get to see movies like The Ring or Blair Witch Project and know what the hype was all about. >_<
Altho Jason in space was the most ridicilous thing I ever saw. ^^
Hobogod: Lol!!! Don't do that again!
hehehehehe, sorry, i just couldn't resist. :D :D :D
don't feel too bad about it, without people like you who are too scared to watch horror movies, there would be nobody for people like me to tease. :D
oh, and btw....
BOO!!!
http://img22.photobucket.com/albums/v67/HoboGod/wolfman.jpg
Haha, he looks like a Wookie for Star Wars :)
catpeople! YES! Indeed that is the one. You've seen it, you lucky dog :D :D
I did only watch half of it, catpeople having incest and looking like slimy blobs in the mirror didn't really interested me. :uhoh:
mantidor
2004-04-11, 12:44
"It" scared me shitless...
OMG i saw that when i was 8 years old!!! i'm clown-a-phobic because of that! i recently saw it, and it was like the most stupid movie ever, it sucks to grow up and loose innocence...
catpeople! YES! Indeed that is the one. You've seen it, you lucky dog
I saw that too! i was little, so it wasn't such a bad movie for me...
MikoKikyo
2004-04-11, 13:33
I did only watch half of it, catpeople having incest and looking like slimy blobs in the mirror didn't really interested me. :uhoh:
lol that's the joke silly ;)
(It takes some twisted sense of humor, but I have it and I found it hillarious :p )
mantidor: have you read the book "It"? someone gave it to me but I haven't found time to read it yet......I can't imagine how it could be bad. It is Stephen King we're talking about here.
If you haven't watched it, I recommend The Ring, a great movie with an open question end! Seriously, if you like horror movies, you have to watch The Ring, I don't only like the scary part of it, but it also has its mysterious storyline which kept me in a open-mouth-face all the movie long, especially in the end.
I really mean it, it's one if not the best horror movie ever!
OMG i saw that when i was 8 years old!!! i'm clown-a-phobic because of that! i recently saw it, and it was like the most stupid movie ever, it sucks to grow up and loose innocence...
I saw that too! i was little, so it wasn't such a bad movie for me...
omg "IT" that movie scarred me as a child, I couldn't see clown the same way anymore after watching that.
Clown from Hell.. ^^
<xellos>
2004-04-11, 15:26
nothing really scares me anymore, im 18 and have watched horror movies my whole life. i just recently watched The Exorcist, sure i liked it, but i didnt find it scary. Ive always loved Stephen King, but im not much of a reader, so i only watch the movies. Some good ones by him are; the afformention It, Pet Cemetery 1 and 2, The Stand, The Shining, Carrie, Storm of the Century, and Sleepwalkers(the least scary out of all of them IMO) and thats all i can think of from him right now.
some others i have liked are Bram Stoker's Dracula, Ghost Ship, i get a good chuckle out of the Friday the 13th series, ummm...omg im surprised i cant think of anymore right now.....OH YEAH, Poltergheist...that movie F'in ruled, the second one was ok, the third one kinda sucked, Nightmare on Elm Street, Prom Night 2 Hello Mary-Lou(cheesy name but its actually pretty cool) oh...im stuck again...i know theres more....maybe ill edit them in later when i think of them
Chechirom
2004-11-01, 01:03
What's your favorite scary movie?
Just got finished watching Scream 1 and 2 on tv :) (It's midnight on Halloween).
Anyway I'm getting back into anime and thus back into the anime forums thus my posting.
Anyhow whats your fav scary movie and why?
Mine would have to be "The Omen". If no one has seen it its about the early life of the Anti-christ. It's not the slasher genre in horror movies but rather it gives the same scary movie of the Shinning sort of. You know what is happening and its less dynamic if you know what i mean.
Diplomat
2004-11-01, 04:52
my favourite scary move is to sneak into a girl's bedroom and hid under her bed til she changes into her pjs, and then i jump out whilst she's nakes and do my "i was hiding under your bed" dance.
7thMethuselah
2004-11-01, 05:10
the original Alien : that movie had all a good horror scifi needs, a dark atmosphere, a distant location, an unknown deadly opponent, anyway I saw it the first time when I was like 10 and it scared the ** outta me :)
Another great horror movie was "the Thing" basically it has the same qualities as alien, remote location, weird events and scary :D .
Ambience Blue
2004-11-01, 13:12
the original Alien : that movie had all a good horror scifi needs, a dark atmosphere, a distant location, an unknown deadly opponent, anyway I saw it the first time when I was like 10 and it scared the ** outta me :) Hehe. Though it was a great film, I never found it that frightening. I suppose that's because I'd already seen the sequels first and was too seeped in the Alien x Predator x ET x Superman bastardization of the genre. A great movie though.
Another great horror movie was "the Thing" basically it has the same qualities as alien, remote location, weird events and scary :D . Wow, The only other person in the world who has seen the Thing!! I saw it after playing the game and found it quite creepy.
As for scary movies, I just saw "Dawn of the Dead" last nite (yes for Halloween) and found it rather amusing all the way through. The sheer stupidity of the movie made me wonder if it was really a horror movie or not. There was one scene, however, that disturbed me beyond belief. The one scene with Luda and the baby... I wasn't sure whether to throw up or cry, it was soooo messed up. Not even scary, just f***ed up... I'm quite annoyed with the whole Hack'n-Slash genre that horror has been taking in the US. Instead of working out suspense or atmosphere into such films, the objective has become a challenge to show off how much gore or disturbing imagery can be poured into a single hour-long debacle. I'm quite glad that Hollywood has begun to shift back to the thriller class of horror movies like those of foreign origin (starting with the Ring, working through The Grudge, etc.) On that note, the scariest I can remember is probably this one old black-and-white Korean movie I saw when I was in third grade. I couldn't sleep for weeks after it!! (still can't recall the name, though the one scene of a pale woman in a white dress floating towards a hapless woodcutter is forever bruned in my memory :( ).
Another great horror movie was "the Thing" basically it has the same qualities as alien, remote location, weird events and scary :D .
I'm sure you mean the John Carpenter's version of "The Thing" and not the original 50's film.
The remake with not knowing who might be the thing and with body parts and such running around did make for a good movie. The original with a lumbering plant monster that couldn't move faster than a crawl, was rather boring.
I would also have to go with "The thing" and "Alien" also.
LoveOfAnime
2004-11-01, 14:17
When I was like 4 years old my parents took me to the drive in and we watched "The Incredible Melting Man". The title seems harmless enough but this movie scared the sh*t out of me. I couldn't sleep thinking this thing was coming to get me. And the scene with the Photo shoot and the hand still freaks me out..........
Short Synopsis
Shortly after returning to Earth from a dangerously botched space mission, an astronaut discovers he's contracted an illness that causes his flesh to melt. As he slowly transforms into a mass of walking muck, he turns resentful towards humans and sets out on a ruthless killing spree, while government scientists race to stop him. This bizarre, gory horror movie is a must-see for any fan of the genre.
hobobaggins
2004-11-01, 21:25
Twister. I was like 5, it was late, and I got the shit scared out of me.
i dont think anything can compare with the mental scarring that that movie inflicted. even "the ring" seems tame, primarily because i knew the plot :( .
StoneColdCrazy
2004-11-02, 00:18
Wow, The only other person in the world who has seen the Thing!! I saw it after playing the game and found it quite creepy.
Heh, are you kidding? Millions of people have seen that, it's a classic John Carpenter piece, much like The Fog, another of his films. Personally, I prefer The Thing of the two of them. Hopefully, more and more people will keep watching it too, as long as each generation remembers to look at more than just what's about today - too many people are dismissive of past or things that existed before they themselves existed, as if they're irrelevant or unimportant. :twitch:
I'm quite annoyed with the whole Hack'n-Slash genre that horror has been taking in the US. Instead of working out suspense or atmosphere into such films, the objective has become a challenge to show off how much gore or disturbing imagery can be poured into a single hour-long debacle. I'm quite glad that Hollywood has begun to shift back to the thriller class of horror movies like those of foreign origin (starting with the Ring, working through The Grudge, etc.)
Well, there was a time when Hollywood produced some fantastic thriller and/or horror movies - film noir titles like The Third Man and Touch of Evil were examples of master suspense storytelling and Hitchcock did a great job of mixing thrillers with horror, making films like The Birds and Psycho, where it was all about atmosphere and pace. As the realm of the thriller seemed to shift to spy movies, and censorship became less of an issue, much horror started to be about gore and body counts, or sudden shocks rather than slow build-ups. Perhaps the MTV generation prefers a sudden boo to having to concentrate too much.
I have a list somewhere of the amount of horror remakes that are drifting about at the moment, I know Tom Cruise bought the rights to The Eye, The Ring has been remade, Ring 2 is being remade, Dark Water is being remade, The Haunting was (terribly) remade a few years back, Psycho was remade (quite badly too), Rear Window was remade a few times, Les Diaboliques was the subject of a terrible remake... There's plenty of good horror out there, but much of it isn't that modern or that recent or is foreign, and what is recent is less about atmosphere or suspense and more about shock, gore, or a metamorphasis of reality. If anyone out there wants to watch some good horror I simply recommend turning back the clock a little or heading abroad. Just because something's older than you or in another language doesn't mean it's not worth investigating.
SCC
The scariest movie I've seen would be It, based on a book by Stephen King. I was 6 years old when I saw it (Coincidentally, many posters on this thread watch the scariest movies they've watched to date when they were kids :) ) and it scared the crap out of me...Oh my gosh, I could remember a period (About a short week) where I didn't dare to trust anyone for fear that they may suddenly turn into a balding middle-aged clown and kidnap me >_<;
Ambience Blue
2004-11-02, 08:44
Well, there was a time when Hollywood produced some fantastic thriller and/or horror movies - film noir titles like The Third Man and Touch of Evil were examples of master suspense storytelling and Hitchcock did a great job of mixing thrillers with horror, making films like The Birds and Psycho, where it was all about atmosphere and pace. As the realm of the thriller seemed to shift to spy movies, and censorship became less of an issue, much horror started to be about gore and body counts, or sudden shocks rather than slow build-ups. Perhaps the MTV generation prefers a sudden boo to having to concentrate too much. Exactly. I'm well-aware of some fantastic older movies that do an amazing job (in fact, prior to the said development of slashers, that was standard fare). I also agree w/ u on Hitchcock. Birds and Psycho are some of the most amazing cinematic works I've seen, not to be placed on the same scale as the shallow gore-fests we see lately.
I have a list somewhere of the amount of horror remakes that are drifting about at the moment, I know Tom Cruise bought the rights to The Eye, The Ring has been remade, Ring 2 is being remade, Dark Water is being remade, The Haunting was (terribly) remade a few years back, Psycho was remade (quite badly too), Rear Window was remade a few times, Les Diaboliques was the subject of a terrible remake... There's plenty of good horror out there, but much of it isn't that modern or that recent or is foreign, and what is recent is less about atmosphere or suspense and more about shock, gore, or a metamorphasis of reality. If anyone out there wants to watch some good horror I simply recommend turning back the clock a little or heading abroad. Just because something's older than you or in another language doesn't mean it's not worth nvestigating.
SCC I'm totally looking forward to Dark Water, and yes, the Haunting remake sucked amazingly. :p
I always though of the Thing was a very popular horror movie, especially having Kirt Russle in it.
Anyway....
Man there's so many bad horror's, less good horror's and even fewer great horror's
But my all time favourite scary movies have to be... In no particular order.
Hellraiser.
The Shining.
Event Horizon.
Children of the corn.
The Hitcher.
Alien.
Poltergeist.
Mind ripper.
The Omen.
There's a lot more but I can't think right now. After seeing this thread I've just decided to stay in this weekend and have a Horrorthon!
:)
I always though of the Thing was a very popular horror movie, especially having Kirt Russle in it.
Anyway....
Man there's so many bad horror's, less good horror's and even fewer great horror's
But my all time favourite scary movies have to be... In no particular order.
Hellraiser.
The Shining.
Event Horizon.
Children of the corn.
The Hitcher.
Alien.
Poltergeist.
Mind ripper.
The Omen.
There's a lot more but I can't think right now. After seeing this thread I've just decided to stay in this weekend and have a Horrorthon!
:)
I didn't really care for Event Horizon, but I think that came from the fact that how it was advertised I went to see it expecting a "hard" sci-fi move and it ended up being a horror movie. That and I can't watch Sam Neill now without expecting him to wig out and start eviscerating people.
mantidor
2004-11-02, 20:59
Coincidentally, many posters on this thread watch the scariest movies they've watched to date when they were kids :)
Coincidentally? after reading all this threads about movies Ive come to the conclusion that thsi horror flicks are aimed at kids, as everyone else I was a horror film junkie by the age of eight ^^ and imo its the only way to really enjoy this movies, with that childish innocence. I rewatch Nightmare on Elm Street, the Omen, It, etc, etc, and I found them dull and plotless, and I felt bad, I was like " I want to get scared again!, why oh god, why?" :(
But of course with this process I also could enjoy more other movies, like "psycho" or "the night of the living death" (both the original and the remake), when I watched them young, all I did was being scared, (not with psycho anyway, just shocked at the plot twists) but now I understand more little things, like how the most important thing in "the night of the living dead" wasnt the zombies, but how the protagonists acted and thus this actions lead them to their fates, I mean that girl has to have one of the best character devolpment Ive seen in a horror movie. And I also concluded that secuels = crap.
I couldnt pic a favorite, I couldnt! I have fond memories of all those clasic horror movies. From the recent ones I would only pick "the blair witch project", only because its format was orginal (at least for me, I dont know if there are many movies done that way) and I admit a got scared, and I liked that, rembering why I was so scared about horror films in the past.
StoneColdCrazy
2004-11-03, 09:24
...when I watched them young, all I did was being scared, (not with psycho anyway, just shocked at the plot twists) but now I understand more little things, like how the most important thing in "the night of the living dead" wasnt the zombies, but how the protagonists acted and thus this actions lead them to their fates, I mean that girl has to have one of the best character devolpment Ive seen in a horror movie. And I also concluded that secuels = crap.
Yes, many horror films have a subtext as well, such as Invasion of the Bodysnatchers being about the loss of identity and freedom that many people feared from Communism.
I agree about sequels too. There are very, very few decent horror sequels, most of them seem to degenerate into a terrible franchise that just won't die.
SCC
I have two favorites actually....
My favorite horror film is Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the scariest film i've ever seen was Serpant and the Rainbow (1985).
Night of the living dead was just a pure classic, i honostly don't think any other zombie movie has done a better job than it has.
Serpant and the Rainbow.... I admit that i was pretty young when i saw this, but it was FAR from the first horror film i've seen. When i first saw this, i was pretty confident that no horror film could scare me anymore... i was wrong. So much shit in here that crosses the line between what's good and evil and not in the satanic way that has been overdone since the exorsist.
xxxButterfliesxxx
2006-07-18, 23:57
Does anyone out there watch Japanese Horror Films...I do. Anyway if you do, what are your favorite ones? Mine are in order from favorite, to least favorite.
Premonition --Norio Tsuruta
Ringu 0 --Norio Tsuruta
Pray --Not sure on the Director
Ju-on --Takashi Shimizu
I’ve seen others but they didn’t make the list.
Ooh, I might be interested in checking those out. Mind giving a few discriptions/thoughts on them?
Shini_GamI
2006-07-19, 04:35
OmG, horror movies are just freaking me out.... to be honest, everytime i finishes watching a horror movie, i would be freaked out for about a month! couldnt get a good sleep lol. Take "House of Wax" as an example, i couldnt sleep for about 3 weeks! you might say that it isnt scary at all! but it freaked me out badly lolz! Maybe I'm just too vulnerable
xxxButterfliesxxx
2006-07-19, 08:35
Ooh, I might be interested in checking those out. Mind giving a few discriptions/thoughts on them?
Premonition--While driving through the countryside with his wife and daughter,Hideki Satomi stops at the phone booth to send an email.There he discovers a scrap of newsprint with his daughter's picture on it,and an article describing her death in a traffic accident.With a sense of horrible premonition and foreboding,he witnesses the terrifying automobile accident that had been accurately described in the article.The grieving father becomes obsessed with uncovering the mystery of the newspaper.
Thoughts -- This movie was amazing. If you truely like a gripping story and being scared then you'll love it. The director did a great job, it's not that hard to follow if you pay attention to it.
Ringu 0 --Combining elements of drama and horror, Ring 0 is a very worthy installation of the indie horror franchise. This film really starts, though, as a drama, telling us the story of Sadako in a very linear fashion (which, deliciously, has become the more difficult and confusing path to take, since we already know the end of the story). We see Sadako as a human (!)
Thoughts --Norio Tsuruta did another fantastic job. During this movie (which I watched with a friend) I actually felt bad and by the end I was rooting for the bad guy, while being scared of her at the same time. LOL. This is kind of a coming of age (and killing everyone) kind of story.
Thanks. I'll check them out :)
kira_lacusXX
2006-07-19, 14:59
i dont do scary movies...especially the ones that can be true. i know they are probably really good, and i wish im able to watch them, but i get so scared id hide behind someone or a pillow whenever i watch a scary movie. blood freaks me out, disgusting things freaks me out, gory dead bodies freak me out...anything freak me out. except for the really fake things that i know wont happen, like aliens and zombies, i can just laugh at how fake they look ^^ anyways, ALL nowadays scary movies scare the hell out of me.
The exorcism of Emily Rose was the first real scarey movie that I watched... I hate Scarey movies. Even though you tell yourself "thats retarted, im not going to be scared" That night you will be up till 5 because you think somthings going to pop out of your closet.
After I watched Emily Rose, I could not go to sleep till after 3. In the movie...this spirit would come after you at 3 o clock for some w/e reason. I laughed at it at first, but sure enough that night....I had the jitters. It's been 6 mounths and everytime I go to bed around 2:30 I will NOT go to sleep intill after 3.
I also watched The Village and Sighns, but those made me laugh ^^.
Legend Ver 2
2006-07-19, 23:40
I don't really have a scary movie that I'm super afraid of, but I am afraid of zombies. For those who said zombies are stupid ad move too slow to even atch you, you're right, but I'm not talking about those zombies. I'm talking about the ones in Dawn of the Dead. Theses bi***es can run, maybe even faster than you can. If those ever came into real life, we're screwed.
@Secca
yea... i hate movies with little evil happy girls... im fine with blood and gore... and heads and guts flying everywhere... mayb from too much shooting games... but happy twin girls in the same clothing.... *shivers*
I forgot the name of the movie but there's this one that has been haunting me... well... not really HAUNTING... but like... if i hear or see something similar... there was this scene... with these two expressionless twin girl wearing white pjs and both saying "redrum"... or "run"... or "come stay and play with us forever and ever and ever".......... holy shit man... i get chills...
there was this day when i was driving... turned on radio... and they had this commercial with something about saving the environment or something... starts of with a girl saying some facts... then 2 girls start saying it togheter... then more and more ppl... I was like OH SHIT!!!!! and almost crashed into a lamp post... lol...
yea... u can see how much i hate it...
usually... i try not to watch as little scary movies as possible... cuz yea... as kira_lacusXX said... the ones that have the possibility of coming true... yuck... lol
dragonz20
2006-07-23, 23:36
you're talking about "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson. It is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. One of Stan Kubrick's best films ever.
I forgot the name of the movie but there's this one that has been haunting me... well... not really HAUNTING... but like... if i hear or see something similar... there was this scene... with these two expressionless twin girl wearing white pjs and both saying "redrum"... or "run"... or "come stay and play with us forever and ever and ever".......... holy shit man... i get chills...
you're talking about "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson. It is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. One of Stan Kubrick's best films ever.
I first saw the Shining when I was five years old (five years old is my shorthand for "I remember it, but I wasn't in kindergarten yet"), and I refused to go to the bathroom by myself for the next two months. It's amusing to me what parts out of a movie will be deemed scary by a little kid. Blood rivers flowing down the hall? No problem. Creepy twin girls? No problem. Jack Nicklaus running around with an axe? No problem. Hot naked lady in the bathtub turning into evil old lady and choking kid to death? BIG PROBLEM!
I also saw Alien and Cujo in the same general time period. Cujo never did much to me, but Alien contained the only scene in any visual medium ever that gave me nightmares. For weeks after I saw the movie I would have nightmares of Ash (the android) laying in a pool of white liquid (I'm assuming it's his internal lubricant or something) after he'd been bludgeoned to pieces. The part that scared me? The head continued talking as if everything was fine. Literally freaked me out so badly I couldn't sleep for days at a time. Giant alien hunting down people? No problem. Head talking in a pool of it's own blood? BIG PROBLEM!
I've had far more scary experiences with books though. I lived a large part of my formative years in Lake Tahoe (that's a ski resort in the mountains between the US states of Nevada and California) and I lived within walking distance of a ski resort - so you can imagine that I grew up in an area that saw a very heavy snowfall multiple times in the year. The first time I read the Shining I was 14. I was home alone, and by the time Jack is tearing out the wires on the snowmobile and casting it into the snow an enormous snowstorm hit. I was sitting with a table lamp on, in a recliner facing a wall of windows that looked out over Nevada (that place had a gorgeous view, though I couldn't see any of it that night) watching the snow fall. By the time I finished it that night, snow was piled up in front of my door two or three feet deep. I sat there, in the dark except for the one little table lamp, with my back facing the rest of the house listening every creak and noise - too afraid to get up and turn around to walk to where the light switch was. :)
Evil happy little girls *shivers* Someone mentioned Juon. There was a dead little boy that suddenly show up under the blanket. Scared me the hell out of me. Couldn't sleep at all after that one. That movie is so evil. >_<;;
There this memorable site that discusses and talks about horror-movies 24 hrs. a day/7 days the week.
House of Horrors | Terror Awaits You in Every Room! (http://www.houseofhorrors.com/)
The webmaster of that site, named Caretaker, listed the movies that screwed up our minds as children and left their mark on USA cinematography history.
Ranging from the 50's to the 2000's films.
-KarumA-
2006-08-01, 02:55
"It" scared me shitless...
agree, i saw it when i was about 6 years old, my sister and father rented it and were watching it and i watched allong not knowing what it was about, ever since ive never been to a circus or even near clowns :twitch: even now when i watch it it scares the hell out of me, right till the ending scene.. which isnt scary at all
other movies i saw that scared me to death, Dawn of the Death, the remake version of it, i didnt see the original but hell i didnt leave my house for like 4 days and i got funny dreams about it... what if somehting like that happened... damn id rather shoot myself int he head if it were to happen
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the remake i saw first i later bought the original which wasnt scary at all if you compare, but the remake is just juckie and scary blaa! i didnt wanna leave the house after that
and The Grudge, the original version, it was on TV so i watched it, late in the evening ofcourse, but i couldnt leep, i couldnt get that sound out of my head and the thought of the thing hanging over you while you lie in bed sleeping scares the hell out of me
and then the Ringu 0 Birthday, not really scary but at the end i cant stand to see that dress with long black hair covering the face while everyone is running away from her yet always come across her again, that scene is just freaky
the Excorcist, nothing much but a 2 seconds scene of the woman walking through the living room and in a flash you see the devil's face on the wall when she just passes, that face hauntd me for days
and last one, Blair witch project, first time i sawit the ending scared the hell out of me, i just cant see the ending scene where she suddenly drops dead and one of her friends is standing int he corner, Blairwitch 2 wasnt as good as the first one, wasnt scary enough. now if i watch it again i just keep in mind that they deserved it for destroying those graves / little hump of rocks even if it were on accident, but i cant see that final scene in the house nada!
i saw the Shinning several years ago when i was 14 i think while we were gone on holiday, my mom is a big Jack Nicholson, i watched allong for awhile, didnt find it mucho scary, i found it awsome really
everytime i see a horror movie i just keep in mind.. its far far away.. nothing's gonna happen.. im gonna stab anyone with my large butcher knife that comes in to do scary things and it will be fine again :P with that meaning the evil horror movie people such as Jason and such, after seeing some werewolf films i read up about those htings to be 'prepared' thats what i did when i was younger, pretty silly isnt it
im gonna stab anyone with my large butcher knife that comes in to do scary things and it will be fine again :P
Wouldnt that constitute Horror? :p :)
I dont particularly look for Horror's to watch, why should I pay to get scared silly?, and I hate it when they show trailers for Horror's at the cinema, before a cheerful show like Cars or Pirates. (I want to close my eyes but I'm scared that pretty babe two rows up will think I'm a coward :heh: - I am, really.)
I have, however, watched 28 Days Later, not too sure if that is Horror, but anyway while I didnt exactly enjoy the scary ride, it was a very good movie. I also remember that talking head scene from Alien. Not good.
SweetHoney
2006-08-01, 03:40
Hmm lol probaly the first horrow movie I watched when I was little it was the Childs Play Movies
Childs Play
Childs Play 2
Childs Play3
And the other two are jsut god damn funny
The bride of Chucky
The Seed Of Chucky
Lol in fact I wanted to get over that fear I got the movies now I just laugh my head off at Chucky,Tiffany(Bride of chucky) and Glen(Seed of Chucky) So yeah for awhile I was terrified of dolls :heh:
-KarumA-
2006-08-01, 11:22
Hmm lol probaly the first horrow movie I watched when I was little it was the Childs Play Movies
Childs Play
Childs Play 2
Childs Play3
And the other two are jsut god damn funny
The bride of Chucky
The Seed Of Chucky
Lol in fact I wanted to get over that fear I got the movies now I just laugh my head off at Chucky,Tiffany(Bride of chucky) and Glen(Seed of Chucky) So yeah for awhile I was terrified of dolls :heh:
that reminds me of when i was like 7 years old and my dad would take me to the video rent store to rent a good blockbustr movie for saturday night, when he would pay for the renting and suh i would sneak off and go look at th horror movie section :D i loved the creepy covers and scary pictures on the back but some eventually scared me to death as did the ons of Childplay, a doll looking like its about to kill you while using a siccors to cut the head of a jack in a box off, not good, i kicked all my dolls out of my room at that time :heh:
I just watched this British horror film "The Descent." It's about six women went to explore a cave as sports. The horror starts when the entry is sealed off because of a collapse and they have to find their own way out. Then they discover that there is something lurking in the dark. It may sound cliche but it sure does give horror films a new meaning. Of course, it does help when I watched it around mignight. I couldn't finish it because it was too scary, even the bathroom looks like a cave to me. :heh:
Actually, what realy makes me feel horrified and sad at the same time, is, why is that time and time again, it has been proven that, intentionally or not intentionally, the most horrible thing is the evil of human heart?
Actually, what realy makes me feel horrified and sad at the same time, is, why is that time and time again, it has been proven that, intentionally or not intentionally, the most horrible thing is human heart?
I don't get it, are you referring to the actual human heart or the mental idea?
Well I've watched plenty of scary movies, but to my memories the scariest movie I've seen so far was The Eye. I saw it in the theater and holy crap I had to cover my eyes for about half of the film (not really, was looking through fingers with one eye open). Damn those asian ghost films, they don't even have to show the ghost. The whole sound effect and atmosphere got me turning my head to the side. I've saw Juon (prefer Japanese version), The Shining and all those other films their good just not as entertaining. The Eye have a larger selection of ghost.
Well the 6th sense scared the crap out of me as well.
I have seen a lot fo horror movie as a kid my dad was Horor movie Fanatic . Though I am indiffrent towards Horror Movies my pick would be an evil dead type New Zealand movie called
Brain Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_(1992_film)) ( Clickie )
Has anyone else seen this one its a cult classic directed by Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame . A lil parodfic but still a classic
I don't get it, are you referring to the actual human heart or the mental idea?
Sorry about that. I did mean the idea, not the actual thing. :heh:
The scarriest movie I ever seen is Speilberg's Poltergeist Series. As a kid I had a tree in my backyard right next to my window . Thats scared me so much, oh boy after watching the movie as a kid took me a whole lot of time to recover . Poletregeist was the scarriest movie of the triology and the scarriest movie I ever watched
Poltergeist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist_(1982_film))
the Alien trillogy (aliens 4 dosnt count..)
I remember seeing the first in the cinema and it terrified me like no other movie has.
hands down my fav movies ever.
Bandersnatch
2007-01-01, 23:12
No ones mentioned Jacob's Ladder! :( Awesome story that leaves some aspects open to interpretation. Really disturbing, felt emotionally drained after, movie stays with you for awhile after. Geniuinely freaky demons, settings, and effects, no CG. It's a must see especiallly for fans of the Silent Hill games since Silent Hill ripped off some aspects of it. WAR + HORROR + DEMONS + BOOBIES = PWN.
The Eye as some mentioned was pretty good.
Exorcist, just see it if you haven't.
Hostel was suprisingly good I thought. The ending...
...freakin ruled!!!!!!!!!!!!11111one
Ghostbusters 2 scared the piss out of me when I was like 5.
No ones mentioned Jacob's Ladder!
You know I've heard of that movie a while back. Never saw it, sounds interesting though. Then again I might have seen parts of it. About that Vietnam Vet. Hmm... can't remember.
Well anyway I've only seen half of The Exorcist, I couldn't stand watching the entire movie cause I know it's based on a true story. Creeps me out.
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