When I was a kid.... Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
As an adult... the first "Halloween". It's kind of quaint now... but in context of the times it was the first real "slasher" flick and was very well done. I remember a moment in the film where the entire theater was on it's feet shouting at Jamie Lee Curtis to turn around... that's a well made flick.
Only scene that's really ever truly stayed with me was when in The Exorcism of Emily Rose there's the moment when her boyfriend wakes up and can't find her. Then when he turns around...
Horror doesn't really scare me now. I'm pretty much always aware that I'm watching a movie. I get startled, sure, but that's not nearly the same thing.
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I agree. I hate Saw, Hostel and the plethora of others. They're just not good.
As for the scariest films, I always jump at alien, even though i know what's coming, but what truly scared me, was Drag me to hell, simply as it really was jumpy, and ofc dead silence, cos that had ventriloquist dummies in, and they are known to terrify everyone who moves.
Ringu (The Ring), Ju-on (The Grudge) and Dark Water are great examples of psychological horror, which the Japanese revived in the late 90s while Hollywood was resorting to messier and messier slasher flicks.
The only horror movie I was unable to finish because of how scared I was is Pumkinhead. I was a lot younger but that movie is intense. Jaws did more permanent damage though, since even now I'm nervous in the ocean and I saw that film for the first time almost 25 years ago! For a few years when I was a lot younger I was pretty sure Jaws was going to kill me when I was in a pond, lake, or occasionally a swimming pool! Irrational, I know.
I haven't been genuinely scared by a movie in a long time. The 'Blink' episode of Doctor Who freaked me the hell out when I first watched it though.
The Human Centipede wasn't scary at all, just utterly repulsive (but lulz-worthy). I watched it with a couple of friends and we were laughing our arses off.
Hmmm thats a hard one as horror movies have yet to scare me at all , but good for excitement.
One movie i find sort of disturbing was House on Haunted Hill , but wasnt the ghost or death parts that scares me ,
its the flashback when the doctors were abusing the mental patience ( and they rebel shortly after )
I agree with KK psychological horror is the way to go but The Ring and The Grudge were buried too deep in the Japanese culture to translate to me that's why I nominate 'Hardcandy'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424136/
The only film that to this date I cannot finish watching. I'm 23 by the way. The Human Centipede thing just looks gross, like dookie fetish gross.
IMBD wrote: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
Exactly what I would do...
Spoiler:
The summary seems to indicate it is a movie centering around torture?
'After three weeks chatting with the thirty-two years old photographer Jeff Kohlver in Internet, the fourteen years old Hayley Stark meets him in the Nighthawks coffee shop. Hayley flirts with him in spite of the difference of ages and proposes to go to his house. Once there, she prepares screwdriver for them and Jeff passes out. When he awakes, he is tied up to a chair, and Hayley accuses him of pedophilia. Jeff denies, and Hayley begins to torture him, in a mouse and cat game.'
I also enjoy The Fly . When it started going down hill for the main char and his attempt to cling on his last
remnant of humanity i really feel sorry for him.
Then he snaps... embraces the monster he turns into ( and melts off a guy's arm and leg with his corrosive barf )
A long time ago...The ring.
That chit made me have serious delusions and paranoia. Not joking.
Also, there was a movie called "the darkness" or something that was scary as gak. Crazed mutant farmers in a dark house in the middle of the mountains attacking you by pooping out of the shadows. They were climbing all over the walls and stuff..AAAAAAHHHH!!
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Soladrin wrote:The Fly, cause I was like 6 or 7, and had snuck down to watch it. Never again. Inside out monkey(or was it a dog? can't remember) nearly made me hurl.
^^;
When i was little i saw Alien , but i never knew what i was watching so it wasnt really scary , but a few thing caught my interest and i wasnt able to find out what exactly i saw
till years later. I kept asking my parent if they know a movie where the walls are all plastic , and something melted the floor ( and they were all like wtf? )
There isnt really any movie that grosses me out , like you i was watching The Fly marathon on Halloween week , the barf part + the inside out dog ( his pet )
almost made me threw up ( because i was eating dessert tofu ) the color + texture + the coldness of it sort of turned my stomach simultaneously lol
Hardcandy was a pretty interesting film with some nice twist in it.
I almost felt sorry for the guy...almost.
The Fly...Now this is a great example of a well done remake,in many ways surpassing the original film.
It really allowed you to "get to know" the "monster" and even care about him.
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Monster Rain wrote:The only horror movie I was unable to finish because of how scared I was is Pumkinhead. I was a lot younger but that movie is intense. Jaws did more permanent damage though, since even now I'm nervous in the ocean and I saw that film for the first time almost 25 years ago! For a few years when I was a lot younger I was pretty sure Jaws was going to kill me when I was in a pond, lake, or occasionally a swimming pool! Irrational, I know.
I definitely understand where your coming from with JAWS ( or as I like to refer to it,"the best movie ever made about a couple of guys fishing")
I actually was scared to take a bath after I first saw JAWS( I was 5), and as far as entering a large body of water...not for years after seeing it.
Personally Ju-on was the one that did it for me. It was pretty scary watching it, but the after effect was what did it for me. Im a grown ass man, and for over a month I had to turn lights on before entering rooms, and for some incredibly LAME reason, anytime Id be showering, Id panic and grab the back of my head It wasnt even like OH MY GOD scary....but it just murdered my brain
KingCracker wrote:Personally Ju-on was the one that did it for me. It was pretty scary watching it, but the after effect was what did it for me. Im a grown ass man, and for over a month I had to turn lights on before entering rooms, and for some incredibly LAME reason, anytime Id be showering, Id panic and grab the back of my head It wasnt even like OH MY GOD scary....but it just murdered my brain
If you think about it though , IF ghost exists or w/e like in Ju-on , whats the worst that can happen? It'll kill you?
But does it really want to kill you though? what if you die and turn into a ghost that is scarier then them lol xD
The Grudge was pretty scary. The scene where that door is open a crack and the ghost-thing's face is back there in the dark... Oh man that image stuck in my head something fierce!
Snikkyd wrote:The Thing, and to some extent, The Shining.
The Shining was a good suspence film,plus watching Jack Nicholson sink lower and lower,and get crazier and crazier as the film progressed,you could feel the tension building.
Nothing beats the Exorcist!!! I saw that movie in the theater when I was just a little kid, and I'm sure it damaged my psyche something fierce. The last horror movies to actually affect me were the Blair Witch Project, and the original Asian version of Pulse, which starts out with a nearly overpowering tension and slides almost imperceptibly into overpowering hopelessness. Movies like the Final Destination series are pure comedy, like a live-action Bugs & Daffy. The second one is the best, near the end when that woman is saying that her son narrowly avoided death, then he walks over to the gas grill, and BOOOM!!!, he's blown to bits. Then his smoking, bloody arm falls on the table, right in front of mom. Priceless!!!
When that one chick gets hit by a bus in the first Final Destination... That was probably the most surprised I've ever been watching a film. I was absolutely blindsided.
Monster Rain wrote:When that one chick gets hit by a bus in the first Final Destination... That was probably the most surprised I've ever been watching a film. I was absolutely blindsided.
Really? I thought it was funny myself.
I though Final Destination was scary at first but some of the deaths are really just funny, for different reasons. Actually, alot of horror movies are actually more funny than scary. Ever seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2?
IGLannister wrote:EraserHead.
The Thing.
Alien.
Jacob's Ladder.
That is all.
EraserHead makes me feel not good.
Jacob's Ladder...I heartily agree.
The man in the elevator scene in both the eye and it's hong kong predecessor...I live a huge nice apartment building like that in downtown seattle....I HATE getting on the elevators late at night...
Blaire Witch Project. scariest movie of all time...and not *surprise!* scary either....I just read a lot of the fluff they made up for the movie, and the legends that it is loosely based upon...and put myself in their shoes....eugh....the children outside the tent, and when the kids put their hands against the tent wall....god...
According to my family the first thing to ever scare me was a moment in one of the Puppet Master movies when a guy got burnt to death with a flamethrower, after that I went downhill until I was 6. Even the old B-movies scared me until I was 6.
I would have to say that The Thing was one of the best horror movies I've ever seen. Psychological horror, thy name is Stephen King. If he gets a movie properly made it would be amazing.
Me and the college friends rented a house on the bay in Stone Harbor, NJ. At around midnight we pushed a tv cart out to the dock and watched Jaws while sitting on floaties in the water. Most frightening moments of my life.
It always scared me when I was little, but I was already mildly unsettled by clowns.
Slasher films never bother me (I'm fairly certain that I can run for more than thirty feet before falling).
Aliens was one of my favorite films when I was a wee lad. I've never really thought of it as a scary movie. My brother was scared of it; he'd get incredibly upset whenever I watched it.
I watched a short video on youtube the other day about a women who cleaned up crime scenes. It kept me nervous for a week.
Spoiler:
Kept expecting a hammer to the back of the head whenever it was dark.
I made a point about not watching anything to do with the human centipede. I only know the storyline vaguely, and im not gonna watch anything about it.
Slasher films are certainly a bore. They're only good if they are meant to be funny.
If anyones seen the cottage, well, thats funny, and stupidly violent. And it works.
That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.
I don't really get scared by most horror films anymore. For a while there I though J-horror was going to save the genre, but it's gotten a little repetitive and almost become a parody of itself.
IG_urban wrote:Blaire Witch Project. scariest movie of all time...and not *surprise!* scary either....I just read a lot of the fluff they made up for the movie, and the legends that it is loosely based upon...and put myself in their shoes....eugh....the children outside the tent, and when the kids put their hands against the tent wall....god...
and the clacking sound....
If you saw that movie on DVD in the comfort of your own home after all the hype had passed, it wouldn't be scary at all. If you saw it opening night in a theater when it was in full-on hoax mode and most of the audience thought what they were watching was *real*...well, it was a different experience.
The sound editing in that film is underrated, IMO.
A little known movie called 'The Changeling' starring George C. Scott from 1980. A psycological thriller about the ghost of a little boy in a wheelchair that was murdered. The image of that old-time wheelchair rolling around by itself still creeps me out everytime, as does the scene with the ball bouncing down the steps.
IG_urban wrote:EraserHead.
The Thing.
Alien.
Jacob's Ladder.
Oh wow, I watched Alien for the first time while being babysitted when my mums two friends let me stay up late with them as a secret, so I was too psyched to be frightened, but I still love it.
The thing scared me crapless when I first saw it which was around when I first saw Alive, and I put 2 and 2 together for a while and thought how lucky the people who survived in Alive were to not have been killed by the Thing too.
Jacobs ladder I saw when I was about 12 and need to watch it again, I remember it being really disturbing though, in the true nature of the word.
Gitkikka wrote:That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.
If your referring to the original Trilogy of Terror ( from the 70's),then I agree 100%,even more scary than the doll ,was the expresion on Karen Blacks face, right after she calls her Mother on the phone and tells her to come on over ...
Gitkikka wrote:That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.
If your referring to the original Trilogy of Terror ( from the 70's),then I agree 100%,even more scary than the doll ,was the expresion on Karen Blacks face, right after she calls her Mother on the phone and tells her to come on over ...
Gitkikka wrote:That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.
If your referring to the original Trilogy of Terror ( from the 70's),then I agree 100%,even more scary than the doll ,was the expresion on Karen Blacks face, right after she calls her Mother on the phone and tells her to come on over ...
Saw it when I was about eight.
I had nightmares for two weeks.
I was around 8 the first time I saw it as well,had about the same reaction to it that you did.
Another thing that used to creep the feth out of me when I was a kid ,was the narratives Darren McGavin would do in his series " Kolchak: The Night Stalker (That's circa 1975 for you kids out there).
The narratives always went something like
" Tuesday,june 7th 1:45 am....Judy was rushing to get to the airport on time,her family had a big reunion planned for the weekend and she didn't want to be late...(GROWL ROAR)...Judy would be very late...the family did gather together,not for a reunion...but for a funeral."
I used to always imagine somewhere he was doing a narrative about me.
I don't really get scared by most horror films anymore. For a while there I though J-horror was going to save the genre, but it's gotten a little repetitive and almost become a parody of itself.
IG_urban wrote:Blaire Witch Project. scariest movie of all time...and not *surprise!* scary either....I just read a lot of the fluff they made up for the movie, and the legends that it is loosely based upon...and put myself in their shoes....eugh....the children outside the tent, and when the kids put their hands against the tent wall....god...
and the clacking sound....
If you saw that movie on DVD in the comfort of your own home after all the hype had passed, it wouldn't be scary at all. If you saw it opening night in a theater when it was in full-on hoax mode and most of the audience thought what they were watching was *real*...well, it was a different experience.
The sound editing in that film is underrated, IMO.
I agree about J horror....Suicide Club is one of my J favs. I also like Ichi the Killer, Ju On, and Ringu.....
but yes...its has become a stagnant market now...
and about BWP....I totally agree, I saw it on the way home from a camping trip the day after it opened...I own it, and I use it as a study/inspiration for my creative work when I need dread/suspense.....
once again...it's the scariest movie I have ever seen...
Also, go play FEAR the game... That's a different level from any movie.
I startle pretty bad (or at least find it very unpleasant and annoying), and a lot of directors rely on that likea crutch, so I don't really enjoy horror as a result.
Phryxis wrote:
Also, go play FEAR the game... That's a different level from any movie.
Yeah, FEAR was scary as hell, but the problem was that you had to be looking in a certain direction to get the scares. Sure, you'd still see bloody dripping down the walls, but no corpses jumping up and yelling at you.
Gitkikka wrote:That damn little Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror gave me screaming nightmares for a few nights. Not sure what my parents were thinking, letting a six year old watch that.
If your referring to the original Trilogy of Terror ( from the 70's),then I agree 100%,even more scary than the doll ,was the expresion on Karen Blacks face, right after she calls her Mother on the phone and tells her to come on over ...
Well, huh - didn't even realize that a sequel was made; time to turn in my B-movie aficionado card in shame. What really hit me about that movie was that the first two stories really weren't all that scary - then BAM - the intensity flies off the meter.
I love how Hollywood can remake any horror film into a bland jump-fest. The Ring was brilliant with a rubbish remake. I'd recommend seeing the Spanish version of 'Rec' for a suspenseful and interesting take on a rather generic topic.
I saw it at a friends house at night in front of his massive TV after he had gone to bed. Soul chilling. I guess your mileage varied .
My environment and state of mind massively changes my reception of scary films. I saw 'Don't look now' with another friend who complained the whole way through that nothing was happening and then laughed at the end. I also saw 'The woman in Black' at the Belfast opera house which was ruined by screaming 12 year old girls. I'm sure I would agree with Frazzled if the first time I saw the Ring I was with a crowd of hostile friends (if you know what I mean).
No it was at the house with appropriate Rum and popcorn. I was looking forward to it as I thought it would be really good.
But movies are like everything and to each person's taste. I absolutely love Cloverfield, but most people on this board hated it.
How scary the movie is depends on the time frame you watched the movie. The unknown is always the scariest so something new and well made will scare you more than something old and repeated. The first time you saw Halloween you were scared. The 20th time, after many copies, it isn't as scary. It's still a good movie though.
I was 8 when I first saw Poltergeist. At the time there was a storm outside so severe that tornado warnings had gone out for the area and the hail was the size of half-dollars. The scariest moment was when the little girl was watching the tv, it was just static, and she turns to her parents and says "they're here".
Jeepers Creepers 1 .. .. .. oh wait .. I thought you meant comedy
On the whole I'm not scare by horror movies, of course I jump at certain parts but thats just shock factor rather than being scared. So the only one that has ever really freaked me out a bit was House on Haunted Hill, I love that film
The clock tower game (on playstation) scared the living pooh out of me. Damn now Im going to see if I can download it or something. Its probably terrible now but when it came out, that game left me freaked for a good while.
I also find it kind of cool, how some people thought Event Horizon was really freaky, and others think it was a comedy. I was one of the freaked out types when I first saw it. Damn thats a good movie.
Paranormal Activity has got to be the worst movie ever made.
With all the hype around I thought it would be something special, and wasted 2 hours of
my life watching some hidden dude pulling strings attached to doors.
Ediin wrote:Paranormal Activity has got to be the worst movie ever made.
With all the hype around I thought it would be something special, and wasted 2 hours of
my life watching some hidden dude pulling strings attached to doors.
and you play with bits of metal and plastic glued together and call them *insert army name*.....
When I was young i walked downstairs when my parents were watching the mummy. Those beetles scared me so bad i was terrified of anything that size for about a year...
Prawnkus wrote:When I was young i walked downstairs when my parents were watching the mummy. Those beetles scared me so bad i was terrified of anything that size for about a year...
I feel your pain. I used to have terrible dreams about those scarabs eating me from the inside.
Imagining what it would feel like is the worst part.
I think that what defines a horror movie as being scary, to me, is how much the fear imprints on me/sticks with me. So, on that basis alone, White Noise. Not because the movie itself scared me, but the idea did. And that little info screen at the end of the movie about how there is X number of EVP recordings made every year, with over half of them being overtly threatening. Since that, I haven't let a TV or radio broadcast static for any longer than the length of time it takes me to cross the room (at top speed) and shut it off.
However, a lot of movies have made me scared of stuff in normal life. (I like to be scared, and I have an overactive imagination...)
Frailty. This is one of the few examples of a twist ending I did NOT see coming.
Not the part where it isn't the brother you think it is, I mean. The fact that God really DID give them these powers. Very disturbing...
Critters 2. I still won't put my foot down next to the bed when the lights are out, unless the bed frame goes all the way to the floor with no space underneath.
The Strangers. This movie freaked me out. It wasn't terrifying, but I found it suspenseful all the way through. I wanted to know...why? Why?! And of course, there is no reason. That's the scariest part about it.
Mr. Brooks. This movie was disturbing.
The Ring. I saw the American version. It was a pretty scary movie, I thought. I did NOT see the twist coming. (Which is rare for me.) Every time I open a closet door when I am alone in the house, I am afraid I am going to find someone inside like the parents of that girl from the opening scene did.
The Prestige. Whenever I think about the water tanks and what it must have been like to go through that night after night...it sends my mind reeling.
I have others, but this is a list of the ones that I thought of off the top of my head.
Prawnkus wrote:When I was young i walked downstairs when my parents were watching the mummy. Those beetles scared me so bad i was terrified of anything that size for about a year...
I feel your pain. I used to have terrible dreams about those scarabs eating me from the inside.
Imagining what it would feel like is the worst part.
when i was five i watched independence day,i know it sounds lame but it was more my imagination that scared me but still >.<
i couldnt sleep for a month
i loved the thing and the exorcist, house of a thousand corpses was hilarious as well as the much loved evil dead series, man i love those movies.
any tips on what to watch if you are just getting in to horror movies?
Jimsolo wrote:The Ring. I saw the American version. It was a pretty scary movie, I thought. I did NOT see the twist coming. (Which is rare for me.)
I saw the American version first too. And like you, I actually missed the twist. I might have literally slapped my head after the twist was revealed. Beautifully plotted story, IMO.
I usually nail those twists. I had The Sixth Sense right at the beginning, which kind of made it interesting viewing but gave me none of the experience that most people had with that film. And lacking that I was never as high on the movie as critics and fans. So I guess I probably wouldn't have liked the The Ring as much if I'd figured that one out.
halonachos wrote: Psychological horror, thy name is Stephen King. If he gets a movie properly made it would be amazing.
He did, actually. It was the TV-movie version of the The Shining. It was a big pet project of King's, who badly wanted to get the story "right." And of course it was about 1/100th as scary as Kubrick's version. This is because no one did scary and disturbing cinema quite like Stanley Kubrick. And because while King's books seem so ready-made for TV/feature films, they tend not to translate all that well.
Probably a tie between Cube and (I believe) a movie called Warlock. Don't remember the name, I just remember it being vaguely scary when the main villain killed people in some very torturous ways. Same with Cube - I just remember being terrified of being in a huge cube with no way out, death traps all over the place.
And while Saw has basically descended into the torture porn genre, the first movie was still a fantastic suspense/thriller movie. Just that scene at the end when Jigsaw stood up and locked Eric in the room, all while Hello Zepp was playing in the background...I just loved that twist ending.
Scariest when I was a kid (I was 8) was the original Predator movie, I wasn't meant to watch and was sneaking a look throught he kitchen door just as the camera pans up to the skun bodies hanging in the trees and my friends older brother snuck up behind us and grabbed me! I nearly shat myself! but the scariest movie I can think of now is most def Pin head inferno! that is one bizzare movie still creeps me out now! faceless creatures with tongues that burn you that float and don't walk, monsters that are just two arms with a gaping jaw in the middle and a quietly spoken bad guy with a penchant for tearing peoples bodies apart with hooked chains....
I saw a thread like this on giant bomb, so let me think....
Today I am completely amazed and happy to watch horror films- hostel,saw,dark floors, human centipede, and all of those movies that disgust everyone. I was playing silent hill when it first came out, I was pretty young back then.. and it didn't scare me..But the one thing that did was
Chucky (yes, chucky -.-) scared me until I was in 8th grade. Beyond belief:fact of fiction had this one episode with a girl that used make-up or something rather, and she looked in the mirror and was mutated and stuff, that really got me. I know, I typed an entire story of me being scared, oh well..
Scary enough that every time I am at Half Price books, I move any copies from the "Comedy" section (where it has no business being) into the "Horror" section.
Hmm, genuinely scary as opposed to just startling me would probably be:
Event Horizon - A very messed up situation
The Shining - The feeling of constant dread and pacing in this movie are just so top notch.
The first 1/2 of Jeepers Creepers - always feel like I have to justify this by saying I was doing a LOT of long, country driving at the time, but it really struck home when I saw those desolate, empty roads and realized how plausible a serial killer hunting them would be.
The first and second Silent Hill video games were far and away the scariest things I ever experienced though. I had to turn off the playstation when I realized I had to go into the basement of that hospital so I could relax and work myself up to it.
It wasnt even like OH MY GOD scary....but it just murdered my brain
