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Horror movies and TV horror shows don't scare me much anymore, because they've mostly devolved into pointless gorefests. Does anyone have any scenes that are actually scary or at least creepy?
Allow me to share my personal favourite, which contributed to my fear of statues.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I wasn't sure about that. The spider walk and rotating head were creepy scenes, but I don't know why the Exorcist is regarded as one of the scariest movies ever. I suppose Satanic influence was considered a much more frightening theme when it was released.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
Understand, much of what made that film great has been used in other movies at this point.
1. When it came out it was inspired. 2. You should watch it in the dark. Especially exorcist III. FOr proper effect unlock and open your front door.
Poletergeist had a similar effect when it came out. I heard drag me to hell is quite good.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Original Japanese version of the Grudge, I watched it at 3am in a storm slightly drunk, after the movie, the wind caught the roof hatch and blew it up into the attic and I nearly cacked myself.
John Carpenter's The Thing and Ridley Scott's Alien. But, I think they creep me out more from the 'use your body against you' or even the 'my friend may kill me or spawn something that does' perspective.
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I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Thing is, the Mayans didn't predict an apocalypse. That's just when their calendar ends and restarts, because they were apparently looking foward to a royal celebration sometime in the 4000s. It's just fearmongering, like with the Y2K bug and the beginning of the second millennium.
People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made.
No horror movie ever freaked me out before ,
not sure if Arachnophobia count , since im sure even discovery channel's spider episode would freak me out the same...
Cheese Elemental wrote:Thing is, the Mayans didn't predict an apocalypse. That's just when their calendar ends and restarts, because they were apparently looking foward to a royal celebration sometime in the 4000s. It's just fearmongering, like with the Y2K bug and the beginning of the second millennium.
I know this Cheese,the "mayans may be right" comment was just my sense of humor,but hey you have to admit the scenes were pretty scary (more humor).
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
1408 was pretty effective. I was scared nearly out of my seat by the scene in Signs when the kids are sitting there with the dog and it goes from sitting calmly to growling as hard as it could in a tenth of a second.
Cheese Elemental wrote:Horror movies and TV horror shows don't scare me much anymore, because they've mostly devolved into pointless gorefests. Does anyone have any scenes that are actually scary or at least creepy?
Allow me to share my personal favourite, which contributed to my fear of statues.
Man that episode was creepy, it actually made me jump.
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1408 was alright. Scared the crap out of my friends, and I thought it was alright. Creepy at times, but meh.
Only movie that really scared me was Mars Attacks when I was about seven.
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When I was a very very young kid, there was a series on tv called 'Chocky' about an alien influencing a boy, I can't really remember the series but it was a kids show. I DO remember the intro and how much it used to scare me, take a look and remember I was about 7...
Cheese Elemental wrote:Thing is, the Mayans didn't predict an apocalypse. That's just when their calendar ends and restarts, because they were apparently looking foward to a royal celebration sometime in the 4000s. It's just fearmongering, like with the Y2K bug and the beginning of the second millennium.
I think everybody knew that about 7 years ago when the joke was catching fire.
Yes, that episode with the statues was awesome. Scary, definately.
Steven Moffat is one of the best creepy writers. Clever story, too!
If you want weirdness, just plain weirdness, that is just so weird you find it actually creepy, try watching the Prisoner. Not remotely scary, really, but totally weird.
Mind you, I agree, The Ring was seriously scary.
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John Wyndham. That name seems familiar but I've never seen that show. I guess I'll have to look him up.
That episode (Blink) of Doctor Who was a great one!
Movies may scare me but they don't really creep me out anymore (at least not in a long time) or stick with me past the original scare.
This may sound silly but the bathtub scene in the Kubrick version of The Shining still creeps me out and I have trouble watching it. Objectively it is not even creepy but I saw it when fairly young and I guess I was permanently scarred by it.
Evil Dead II - The part when Ash just starts wigging out all alone and the lamps, books, furniture and everything else starts laughing at and/or with him sticks with me. I love the movie but that scene will still give me goosebumps. Great cinematic interpretation of a man going mad with a LOT of help from the demonic. I guess I feel his utter isolation (to him anyway) and sense of fraying reality in that scene.
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You give me lame-o statues from Doctor Who, I give you the two little girls with the big foreheads in the hallway. Advantage, Gorgon.
Not sure anyone does "unsettling" like Kubrick. Although David Lynch might be in the ballpark. As an example, Lost Highway, while not a horror film, has some unsettling stuff.
And some of you will scoff because you didn't experience it the right way, but The Blair Witch Project was one of the more interesting movie experience I've had. The catch is that you had to have seen in on the big screen on opening night, when half the audience was convinced it was real. The film itself isn't that terrifying...it was the hoax surrounding it that made it scary.
gorgon wrote:...The Blair Witch Project was one of the more interesting movie experience I've had. The catch is that you had to have seen in on the big screen on opening night, when half the audience was convinced it was real. The film itself isn't that terrifying...it was the hoax surrounding it that made it scary.
I think that film only works if someone is naturally prone to panic. And yes, the 'real' aspect is a gimmick that is/was easily ruined. I personally felt those kids were mostly just naive, relatively stupid and inexperienced in general (i.e. prone to panic). This is why what happened to them, happened. Oddly enough, I felt the Sci-Fi (as it was still called back then) documentary on that film to be much scarier. Not sure if that's saying much.
Yeah, Lynch, Kubrick and let's not forget Cronenberg. Modern masters of unsettling.
Audition is a creepy one. Ichi the Killer (or Killer Number One) stands out for its visceral portrayal of sadomasochism on many levels. The blonde joker guy's (Kakihara) fear and excitement of fighting Ichi was fantastic. He was not afraid of anything until Ichi came along and he was damn near orgasmic about it. Weird and creepy.
Me and my mother usually watch horror films when I come back from University, and as such, I've seen a fair number in my time.
Whatever anyone says, the Japanese version of the Ring was terrible. Seriously, it was the worst horror film I've ever seen. There was very little actually scary in it, and the only good part that was even vaguely impressive happened 5 minutes before the end. I almost fell asleep, and my mother did.
The Japanese version of The Grudge on the other hand was quite good. It's very disjointed, and in the first viewing, you tend to lose track of which character is which, but it has some very good psychological stuf in there.
The new film Drag Me to Hell was decent. Filled with moments to make you jump, even if it's not too scary in itself. A lot of cliches in it, but like Watchmen, those only serve to enhance it. A good all round solid horror, if nothing particularly new or innovative.
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