What was the last Horror Movie to REALLY scare you

[JohnShaft]

O.K. figure I'd put a post up to follow up the idea behind the current poll on the main HE page. It is a topic I am really interested in, and not just a shallow attempt at generating more posts. Honest!

It's been a long, long time since a Horror Movie really scared me. I wonder does *everyone* become utterly jaded (with age) watching Horror Movies or is it just me? It's not that I don't enjoy them, hell no. It's just that I don't really feel that adrenaline rush of fright anymore. At all.
I can enjoy them on an intellectual level as being scary, just not on an emotional one. Going from the results of the page it seems most are the same way. Some echo that they are *still* scared. Allowing that we have the same concept of fear I consider them the lucky ones. Is that what, at some level, we are all trying to vainly recapture? That last, or first, time a film had such an impact on our emotions?

I'm starting to go all philosophical now so instead I'll tell you the last time I was truly scared from watching a Horror Movie. And why.

At the age of about 11 or 12 I sat down, for the first time, to watch what I thought would be a pretty ordinary, perhaps boring film. I knew absolutely nothing about it at that time. I don't even think I knew it was a horror movie at all. The 78 remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
I won't review the film here (I think I'll save that for the next time I watch it) but just say what, I guess, got to me about it then:
The rubbery look of the pod people.
The *great* siren call (not to mention the look on their faces) the Snatchers make to alert others of their kind to an outsider.
And, coincidentally but perhaps most importantly, the fact that the main protagonist (played by Donald Sutherland) was named Matthew. My name.
I've since watched the film many times and, while I haven't counted, it always seems the name is said an incredible amount of times over the course of the film. It's almost like a mantra. I think that repetition is strangely what, at the time, personalised the film, and the character to me.

*25 year old SPOILER*
The very end is what utterly freaked me out though. Matthew and Nancy (Veronica Cartwright) meet up in the open after getting divided earlier in the film. Nancy calls Matthew's name. And he turns. Pauses. Opens his mouth. And out comes *that* sound... The look on his face, with Nancy repeating his/my name until the screen goes black... :cry:
I can watch that ending to this day and I am still completely gripped by it, almost remembering it as the 11 year old I was when I first saw it. :erm:

That was the last time I was scared witless by a Horror Movie. The kind that after the film has finished, the TV is turned off, and you are all alone in the dark STILL scares the living daylights out of you. I'm sure most (if not all) of you know what I mean.

Well there's my last cinematic "scared into a nervous wreck" moment. :cry:

Let's hear everyone elses, so I don't feel a big girls blouse on my own!

[ampleparking]

i dont ever remember being scareed by horror or even gore movies as a kid but always trying to rcreate it with my toys maybe its my damn generation desentized to scary stuff or maybe im just fucked but ive always longed for more more more except this one movie with ed wood in it....you may have seen it plan nine from outer space. yeah it was scary, especially about a year later i saw ed wood in the theaters man oh man

[JohnShaft]

Wow ample. Never EVER scared by a horror movie. There is certainly no way I can make that claim.
Watching scary horror movies at the age of 10 at night, alone, I can definitely own up to being really scared. I think it's ideas/themes that always affected me more than gore though. Though if I'd seen Hellraiser back then (before it was made) I would have been a nervous wreck for weeks I reckon.
I think the current generation have become much more desentized to horror compared to "when I was a lad". Violence, hell we got that back in the late 70's/early 80's. But we just didn't get the kind of horror that comes out now...

I remember an episode of the TV series of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles that really affected me. It was about an astronaut who went on a mission to Mars. When he got there he found that he actually hadn't taken off and he was still on earth. He then went home and found everything was normal.
That night he was sharing the same room as his brother who said "wouldn't it be really strange if you actually had taken off. And you were on Mars. And we weren't all humans, but martians pretending to be people you know..."
Well of course that was what had happened.

Great episode at the time.

[Gary]

The Exorcist, 2 years ago when I was 16. Don't laugh at me. Well it didn't scare me it just disturbed me. I don't get scared by anything else at all.

Edit: I added a comma in after The Exorcist just in case it looked like I was scared of the Exorcist 2. What a shite film that was!

[Hern]

I saw the Exorcist at the Cinema when I was maybe 19 or 20, and that scared me. This was a few years before it was finally given a certificate in the UK. Going to the Cinema as billy-no-mates probably helped the scary factor too.

[dhrupick]

I guess the last movie that really had an effect on me was "Jaws" I know that it's stupid, but I have weird fear of being in water without being able to see what's underneath me. Thanks Jaws!!!

[ampleparking]

yeah i remember always being intrigued by them, what my dad thought was a harmless movie turnined into a hobby for me, and if i was scared maybe i was too young to remember, but hell as soon as i graduate film school ill make the damnest horror flicks this side of the mississipi

[Scott W. Davis]

Okay, another wuss statement here. Horror films still scare me. Maybe not to the degree of having to see shrinks and all, having mommy and daddy tell me, "Don't worry, no monsters here," - but they scare me all the same. When they're done right, that is.

Of course, the more horror you see, the harder it is to scare you. That said, I finally got around to watching THE CHANGELING a few months back. For some reason, I had just never bothered. Scared the ever-loving crap out of me! One of the greatest haunted house movies ever, going on a short list that includes the original HAUNTING and THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE. I actually had trouble catching my breath after this one.

Just goes to show, some of the simplest things can be the most effective, when they are handled with the best of skill.

[Monkeysmasher]

Eh,
I am not really 'frightened' by horror movies, more along the lines of 'disturbed' by some situations. Movies such as the Hellraisor series tend to get to me, with the victims never being able to escape. Not even death is a release, 'cause they still getcha.

'Jacob's Ladder' is another example of one that gets to me. Basically an average Joe who is tormented, and his reality starts turning all nasty. Throw in some demons, bloody VA Hospitals, and a chiropracter who may be an angel, and there you go.
I suppose 'Blair Witch 2' Techniquely creeps me out by having thier video change from what they know happened to something else, but the characters were so unlikeable that i could feel no sympathy for 'em. I was kinda happy to see them die or go to prison.

[LivingDeadGirl]

The last movie to really scare me was The Exorcist(the version you've never seen). The original version freaked me out as it was but I was watching this one at a friends house and everyone was asleep. I was sitting at the bottom of the stairs and then came the crab-walk scene. I nearly had a heart attack as I kept one eye on the stairs for the rest of the movie.
:D

[JohnnyAlucard]

2 spring to mind:-

Zombie Flesh Eaters - I watched this at a friends horror birthday party. I went dressed as a mummy, and at the end of the film, where the people are being attacked by the zombies in the barn really freaked me out. I spent most the last 30 mins taking my bandages off so I didn't have to look at the screen! Still, I was only about 10 years old:)

Salem's Lot - Was about 12 I think and found this to be REALLY scary. The images of vampires appearing through the mist and scratching at bedroom windows will stay with me forever :)

[the blair witch]

The Evil Dead! Especially the part where the demon was in the cellar..
* shudders* :cry:

[dmihatmttl]

Hi, everyone . . . I'm new here, hope you don't mind me joining in . . . .

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS '78 is a *fantastic* movie, Matthew. One of my favorites, and I'm with ya -- I remember it really scared me when I was a kid.

That was a long time ago, though. :( I'm 29 now, and as for the last time a horror movie really *scared* me . . . hmmm . . . .

Got some great chills from THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. I'll probably get flamed endlessly for that, 'cause I know a lot of folks hate that one, but I thought it was a great movie, a real breath of fresh air for the genre. I remember seeing it on its initial limited release with some friends in the middle of summer. I'll never forget walking out of the theater, into the blazing sunlight, and feeling so *cold*. I looked around, at my friends, and they've all got goosebumps as well. And we all just started smiling.

What a great feeling. Wish I got it more often.

Most recently, it was the original Japanese version of THE RING which scared me. This was a little less than a year ago. And yes, it did really *scare* me. The wife was out of town that night, first time I watched it, and I'll never forget how I could *not* go to sleep that night thinking about that movie. I kept imagining Sadako standing over me, that one fucked-up eye glaring at me from behind her thick black hair.

Loved it.

And I actually had similiar feelings after watching the American remake, believe it or not. Not quite the same, but some nice chills nonetheless.


God, I wish I wasn't jaded. Being scared is so damn *fun,* isn't it?


Oh, to be a kid again . . . .




Thanks for listening,





James N.

[JohnShaft]

Originally posted by dmihatmttl@Mar 25 2003, 11:09 PM
God, I wish I wasn't jaded. Being scared is so damn *fun,* isn't it?

Hell yeah!

Like I've previously said isn't part of our fascination with Horror in later life to recapture the scares these movies gave us as youngsters? I'm really envious of anyone that can get that type of thrill from movies now. Really envious.

Ringu I also loved James, hell what genuine horror afficianado doesn't?

Now on to The Blair Witch Project you are right that a lot of people didn't get it. I must admit to being one of them, but I completely put that down to the outrageous promotion and hype the film received before I had chance to catch it. Going into films with elevated expectations is a real bugbear of mine, as anyone who reads these boards will know.

In fact as powerful as Ringu is I've recently seen a number of latecomers to it echo similar comments as those later viewers of BWP, "Is that it? God, I thought it was supposed to be great or something?!".

Thankfully I saw Ringu early enough that I can judge it pre-hype. I fear though that Blair Witch will never be something I can appreciate as those early viewers did.

It would be great if we could all view new movies in a vacuum of opinion.

Thanks for the contribution James. It's great to see a knowledgeable new face on the boards.
"Stay a while. Stay Forever..." Muhahah

[jsix]

My facination with horror started off at a vey young age. I remember having nightmares about that damn claw hanging out of the baby stroller from the It's Alive trailer. I think I was maybe 6 or 7 at the time and I was an only child. You can imagine the thoughts that went through may head when mom told me I was going to have a little brother or sister.
When I was in 4th grade, I snuck to the local theater to see the Exorcist, and it scared the Holy Shit out of me!!! Maybe not exactly "scared" me, but it creeped me the hell out. Made the skin crawl, and it still does. It got me again when it was re-released with the added footage. When Reagan did the "crab walk" down the stairs, licking at the back of that ladies ankles. AWESOME!!! I can't wait for the new one. Hopefully it will bring a little bit of that good ol' creepy sensation back.
I guess I've become somewhat numb to horror over the years. I still love them, but they don't truly "scare" me anymore. I think I look to be more disturbed now. I don't want the cheap loud noise make you jump kind of stuff. I want the eyes wide hand over mouth that is some jacked up shit thrills.

[chuk hell]

Probabably the best scary movie I've seen is ( surprise!) The Exorcist.

I recently got a chill from The Ring ( American), The Others and Haunted. Mute Witness is good for a few scares ( wish it was on dvd!)

I recently watched THE LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET and found it to be a bit disturbing...as was Audition.

Probably the most disturbing film I have seen is IN A GLASS CAGE.....mostly from the dialouge!

Scary and disturbing are different things to me.

[shadow]

I haven't really been scared in a LONG time. Guess when you have watched horror movies since the late 70's ...you get kind of immune to the scare-factor. Although...when I first watched Friday the 13th (alone..late at night) it scared me a little bit.... ;)

[Bruce Dickinson]

One of the most disturbing scenes in movies recently, is the pipe scene in Jeepers Creepers. The one where the sister is holding the brother by the feet, the brother sees a rat and screams, and the sister lets go. The brother slides down the pipe and falls to the floor below. This is the lair of the Creeper.

The brother dusts himself off, and picks up his flashlight. At first he can't see anything so he shines his light around him. In Hitchcockian fashion, the camera slowly pans the tables, beakers and shows the walls and ceiling of the lair, covered with human bodies. A sistine chapel of humanity, very scary stuff I thought.

[Paul Chenault]

Originally posted by chuk hell@Apr 30 2003, 08:32 AM
Probabably the best scary movie I've seen is ( surprise!) The Exorcist.

I recently got a chill from The Ring ( American), The Others and Haunted. Mute Witness is good for a few scares ( wish it was on dvd!)

I recently watched THE LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET and found it to be a bit disturbing...as was Audition.

Probably the most disturbing film I have seen is IN A GLASS CAGE.....mostly from the dialouge!

Scary and disturbing are different things to me.
How is Audition? Is there a review?

[Paul Chenault]

Originally posted by Hern@Jan 14 2003, 12:03 AM
I saw the Exorcist at the Cinema when I was maybe 19 or 20, and that scared me. This was a few years before it was finally given a certificate in the UK. Going to the Cinema as billy-no-mates probably helped the scary factor too.
It scared me too.

[JohnShaft]

Originally posted by Paul Chenault@Jul 22 2003, 03:18 AM
How is Audition? Is there a review?
Actually no. As it's on UK TV (Sci-Fi) I've been meaning to check it out myself lately.

Tom has a review of it on his site here (http://www.geocities.com/lordretsudo/reviews/auditionuk.html) though.

[DevilMan]

There's a fine thin between a "scary" moment, a "startle" moment, and a "chunkblow" moment.

As for scares...

My most recent scare came from 28 DAYS LATER. It's an early scene where Jim is in the church and he calls out "Is anybody there?". Suddenly, a couple open-mouthed "zombies" pop up from the pile of bodies. What a great visual?!

But, of course, THE EXORCIST claims the title of "KING OF SCARES" because I still won't watch the damn thing in it's entirety. Give me cannibalism, necrophilia, body mutilation, what have you, but NO EXORCIST!

As for startles...

It came from a Japanese scarecrow flick called KAKASHI. It's one of those scenes where the main character looks at an empty blackened doorway and then turns away from it. The person then turns back to the doorway only to come face to face with an evil and wicked looking creature. And at that exact moment, the music booms in to give you a jolt. Good stuff indeed.

As for the chunkblowers...

There's a-plenty. The two NEKROMANTIK films come to mind first. The endings for both movies will NEVER leave my memory, and that's a guarantee. I'll NEVER forget them and I'll NEVER forgive them!

The Chinese "C3" films of DR. LAMB with it's "de-breasting" scene, HUMAN PORK CHOP with it's feces scarfing, and THE EBOLA SYNDROME with it's "meat fucking" are all truely worthy of spew.

And not to mention the TAKASHI MIIKE uber-sleazoid VISITOR Q with it's fecal necrophilia and breast milk feedings!

-Steve

[JohnShaft]

I've avoided all them Chunkblowers movies so far, which, right about now, I'm thinking is a good thing. :sick:

Though I'm intrigued by the NEKROMANTIK movies, I don't know if I'm brave enought to watch them. :blush:

And THE EXORCIST. While I still really like the film, I must admit it never "got me" like that. I saw it so late in life (Mid-20s?) that it would have been almost impossible for it to live up to the 20 year old hype. Still for a movie so old I was still amazed by the power it had.
28 DAYS LATER I'm really looking forward to watching. All the more after reading reviews of it here.

[Scott W. Davis]

Well, I loved both EXORCIST and 28 DAYS LATER. And yes, 28's scene in the church. That exact moment has to be one of the greatest of the film. Just a terrifying image and the one that followed with the rushing priest wasn't too shabby either. :devil:

As for the others, I've wanted to see them all for a very long time, and just have not gotten to them yet between my huge stack of unwatched DVDs and the stuff I have to review for CultCuts. But, I'll get there, believe me I'll get there.

[Hedgecore]

one scene of the ring scared me the closet scene. the ring is a cool movie buts its not very scary.

[DevilMan]

Originally posted by JohnShaft@Aug 3 2003, 08:27 PM
Though I'm intrigued by the NEKROMANTIK movies, I don't know if I'm brave enought to watch them.
Oh man, do yourself a favor and watch the pair of sicko treats. They're, for the lack of a better description, the "must-see of necrophilia flicks", whether that being a good thing or a bad thing, ya know.

-Steve

[iamnoone]

I think the last movie to scare me was the remake of The Ring (haven't seen Ringu yet, so can't compare. I had a feeling what was coming at the end, but when it happened...yeah, freaked me out. My wife and I were watching it in bed with all the lights out, and we both sat bolt upright when the big scene came. Loved it! Another one that recently got under my skin (in that wonderfully crawly way that makes us good love horror movies so much) was Session 9. The movie takes its time, building and building, and the last couple of minutes are reminiscent to the last five of the Blair Witch Project in their intensity. Session 9 is a great film if you aren't too jaded to appreciate characterization and a slow building story.

Nice to see someone mention The Changeling, too. That flick kicks ass. I love so many different horror movies for so many different reasons, but if I had to go strictly with what "scared" me and made me lose sleep, I'd have to go with:

1) The Exorcist
2) The Shining (1980 version)
3) The Blair Witch Project
4) The Ring
5) The Sentinel (fairly goofy looking these days, but when I was a kid...damn!)
6) 'Salem's Lot
7) Pet Sematary (mostly freaked out by Zelda)

Later,

[Replica]

From the recent year(?), I'd have to say Hideo Nakata's "Dark Water".

Another one of those movies that slowly gets in under the skin. Definitely one to watch late at night...

And - "28 Days Later" was great too. Brilliant first half - very good second half. But all in all a great horror movie.

[Scott W. Davis]

Originally posted by DevilMan+Aug 10 2003, 10:54 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DevilMan @ Aug 10 2003, 10:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--JohnShaft@Aug 3 2003, 08:27 PM
Though I'm intrigued by the NEKROMANTIK movies, I don't know if I'm brave enought to watch them.
Oh man, do yourself a favor and watch the pair of sicko treats. They're, for the lack of a better description, the "must-see of necrophilia flicks", whether that being a good thing or a bad thing, ya know.

-Steve [/b][/quote]
Actually, I just got NEKROMANTIK 2 to review for CultCuts. Guess that means I should probably get NEKROMANTIK 1 too. I will be buying that one in the next day or two. B)

[DevilMan]

Yeah, NEKROMANTIK 2 is a better "made" movie than the first installment, if that makes sense. But I think the original NEKROMANTIK is the better "chunkblower" of the two.

-Steve

[zardoz]

Takashi Shimuzu’s Ju-on 2 rates, after nearly thirty years of watching horror movies, as being one of the most effective flesh-creeping, disturbing genre flicks I’ve seen (and to answer John Shaft’s question, “do we become jaded as we get older?�; the answer is “no�—not if we embrace the vision of a tented writer/director).
Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later may have freaked me out with its nihilistic, adrenalated post-apocalyptic rush, but this movie provoked genuine goose bumps and bad dreams.
Ju-on 2 is the second theatrical outing for Shimuzu and his franchise (Ju-on was originally made as a direct-to-video feature in Japan, the success of which immediately led to a theatrical feature, the success of which spawned a fast follow-up, Ju-on 2, another direct-to-video flick; now we have the *second* theatrical sequel/remake/expansion of Shimuzi’s haunted house mythology, the forth Ju-on, all within three years).
If you are confused by the above, sorry, but that’s the basic history (for real confusion, check out the entries on the Internet Movie Database).
In short, Ju-on 2 (I believe Ju-on translates as “Vengeful Curse�), is a Val Lewtonesque study in subtle—although sometimes crass—scares which brings to mind “The Sixth Sense� but, pardon the pun, runs rings around that western homage to Lewton. If it’s blood n guts you expect in a horror movie, you’ll be disappointed, although this film does have its share of red vino-soaked moments; this is psychological horror of the first stripe, but supernatural in origin and design.
Not having seen either of the video versions of Ju-on 1 and 2, or Ju-on, the theatrical version, I can’t compare this latest endeavor to its progenitors. Some of the “commentators� on the IMDB accuse All I can say is, a week after watching it in a Tokyo theater, I’m still dreaming about it…especially Toshio, the blue-skinned dead five year-old with no eyes, who is one of Ju-on’s main unearthly protagonists.

[DevilMan]

Hmmm, which JUON are you speaking of?

I borrowed the first JUON flick from a buddy of mine and I was getting ready to watch it the other day but I thought I better check a few things out concerning the other flicks in this series.

There were the two straight-to-video horror films, JUON and JUON 2. Then came JUON: THE GRUDGE which, to my knowledge, is a big budget theatrical motion picture that's kinda made up of parts from both of the other two flicks.

http://cinemabizarre.blogspot.com/Juon%20DVD%20Cover.jpg

JUON: THE GRUDGE
Written by Hiroshi Takahashi (writer of The Ring) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa (writer of Cure) and directed by Takashi Shimizu and starring Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, and Misa Uehara

"Juon" is a curse of dead people which haunts the place where they used to be when they were alive. The curse kills new people, only to create more "Juons."

A whole series of people die or have gone missing from a house full with a strange atmosphere in the suburb of Tokyo. It is said that the owner of the house murdered his wife, before he was committed suicide. Their 6-year-old son has never been found. It is the angry and growing spirit of the wife's vengeance infects the house, and the horror eventually widening to include all who enter the house?A volunteer home-care worker, Nishina Rika (Okina Megumi) comes to the house and finds a mysterious boy, who then suddenly disappeared. Then more terrible things happen and all the persons related to her died one after another. The horror keeps growing?

And now the brief outlines for the two earlier JUON films:

http://cinemabizarre.blogspot.com/JUON%201%202%20DVD.jpg

JUON 1
The ghosts of a murdered family are still haunting their former home and a supernatural force, seen only as a strange black smudge, is on the loose, killing everyone who ventures into the building. When the force begins to spread, no-one in the neighborhood is safe...

JUON 2
This sequel features a new family moving into the same house occupied by "The Grudge".
Anyway, the question I've got is whether or not I should watch the first JUON which will more than likely spoil the motion picture (which is supposedly a better movie) since I'll already know the basic story and how it all ends. Or should I just put the first JUON down and wait to watch JUON: THE GRUDGE instead? And then go back and watch the others next?

Any advice on this? And again, which version are you talking about? Thanks.

-Steve

[JohnShaft]

Confusion reigns!
Talk about messing with our minds, making Ju-on, and Ju-on 2. Then remaking them for the Big Screen as, erm, Ju-on and Ju-on 2. Jeez.

It sounds like Zardoz has definitely only seen the last of the four.

Myself I've only seen the first. Which must be the video you are talking about Steve. If it clocks in it just about an hour (and looks like it was shot for TV) it's definitely that.

It was Tom's Review on HE that got me interested in the whole Ju-on thing, and I have to say that even the TV Ju-on was effective. Did it blow me away? Hell no (Sadly what does?).
But I think if you'd seen this on TV in the early days in Japan you would have been raving about it. Considering it's low budget origins there really is something creepy about it. The idea and execution are refreshing, and I'd really recommend someone seeing it.

Anyway, the question I've got is whether or not I should watch the first JUON which will more than likely spoil the motion picture (which is supposedly a better movie) since I'll already know the basic story and how it all ends. Or should I just put the first JUON down and wait to watch JUON: THE GRUDGE instead? And then go back and watch the others next?

Good question Steve. Having not seen the Theatrical version I can't offer a fully informed opinion. If the Cinema version is really thoroughly special then waiting may not be a bad idea. But all things consdiered I don't think it's a case of 'spoiling it'. The TV Ju-on is all about atmosphere and creating a mood and setting, rather than telling an involved story. It certainly has no SIXTH SENSE style ending.

The far East really does seem light years ahead in it's efforts to create truly effective, and somewhat original horror.

[KayleighJolie]

Ok, i've been a lifelong fan of horror movies and i've become mostly desensitized to them. I can usually predict what is coming, etc. There are, however, a handfull of movies that had an effect on me as an adult. First, the Blair Witch Project scared the absolute shit out of me. I am no wuss mind you but I'm glad I did not see this movie at night. There is a patch of woods right behind my house. I actually sat in my car for a few mintues before going to the door. (I was 33 when I saw the movie) I totally agree with the review that it was given on the main movie index page. The movie is a total mindfuck. It's what YOU DON'T SEE that scares you. I thougth the movie was ingenious and very orignal. The Last Broadcast is along the same lines but the ending just sucked. The Ring creeped me out big time. I wasn't scared, per se but the creep factor in this movie is off the charts. My fav horror movie to date. Another original idea in my opinion. Ju On is another movie with major creep factor. The girl and that damned croaking noise!!! Great horror flick if you don't mind reading subtitles. Final Destination was neither scary nor creepy but it gave me that "woah, that was freaky" feeling. Hard to explain but it was one of those movies that when it's done you just sit there for a minute waiting for reality to come back. Everyone has something different that scares them. That is why it is hard to recommend a horror movie to someone. Unless you know what scares them. I know people who hated the BWP and thought it was totally lame. :::::shrugs::::: What can I say?
Kayleigh

[JohnShaft]

Hi Kayleigh, welcome to the forums. :D

I must admit to not being affected by the Blair Witch Project. I think a big part of the problem for me is that I had fallen victim to all the hype of how scary it was WELL before I had chance to see it. I always much prefer to go into a film knowing very little about it, and I think that hype is more detrimental to my enjoyment than knowing too much about the story itself. BW had a pretty amazing impact considering it's Zero budget origins, that no-one can deny.

The Last Broadcast I've been meaning to see for the longest time. And The Ring (the remake) I've still yet to see. Did you prefer it over the Japanese original yourself?

[Oh and check your Private Messages if you haven't already. I never notice those things myself! :blink: ]

[KayleighJolie]

Luckily, I didn't see alot of hype before BWP but I knew it wasn't real. Go rent the Last Broadcast. I saw it on tv late at night after I read about it on a forum. It's a decent flick. It's shot in the same fashion as BWP. BW was better in my opinion. I preferred The American version of The Ring for a couple of reasons. First, the whole "ambiance" of the movie. The feel of it, that is. In Ringu, it is bright and sunny the whole time. In the Ring, it's dark and raining thru the entire movie. Gives an extra creep factor. Second, when you have to read subtitles, the film sort of loses something. I might have enjoyed Ringu better if I had seen it before the Ring. I definitely recommend you seeing the Ring. I think Samara is scarier than Sadako and the "Samara crawling out of the tv screen" if one of the best horror scenes ever. Thanks for the welcome!!! By the way, i answered your private message.
Kayleigh

[jester21]

Session 9 is probably the last one I can remember that really messed with me.

[JohnShaft]

Originally posted by jester21@Dec 5 2003, 03:43 AM
Session 9 is probably the last one I can remember that really messed with me.
Great film Jester. I love it on a number of levels.
It's subtle as hell, especially until late in the film, but I found it totally refreshing. I found it one of those movies that, immediately after it finished, I just had to sit there and think about it. Even the second time I was like that.

Which reminds me I was meaning to write a review of SESSION 9. It's a film that TOTALLY deserves wider appreciation than it has received (outside of horror fans at least). Though I still think it has one big caveat going into watching it. You HAVE to appreciate how subtle it is. That is it's power.

[jester21]

Originally posted by JohnShaft+Dec 5 2003, 03:59 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JohnShaft @ Dec 5 2003, 03:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-jester21@Dec 5 2003, 03:43 AM
Session 9 is probably the last one I can remember that really messed with me.
Great film Jester. I love it on a number of levels.
It's subtle as hell, especially until late in the film, but I found it totally refreshing. I found it one of those movies that, immediately after it finished, I just had to sit there and think about it. Even the second time I was like that.

Which reminds me I was meaning to write a review of SESSION 9. It's a film that TOTALLY deserves wider appreciation than it has received (outside of horror fans at least). Though I still think it has one big caveat going into watching it. You HAVE to appreciate how subtle it is. That is it's power. [/b][/quote]
This movie should be seen by more people. I have talked some people into watching it and almost all of them have liked it.

[Caleb Goodwin]

Originally posted by JohnShaft+Dec 5 2003, 03:59 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JohnShaft @ Dec 5 2003, 03:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-jester21@Dec 5 2003, 03:43 AM
Session 9 is probably the last one I can remember that really messed with me.
Great film Jester. I love it on a number of levels.
It's subtle as hell, especially until late in the film, but I found it totally refreshing. I found it one of those movies that, immediately after it finished, I just had to sit there and think about it. Even the second time I was like that.

Which reminds me I was meaning to write a review of SESSION 9. It's a film that TOTALLY deserves wider appreciation than it has received (outside of horror fans at least). Though I still think it has one big caveat going into watching it. You HAVE to appreciate how subtle it is. That is it's power. [/b][/quote]
Go for the Session 9 review!!! I found it very refreshing also. It managed to creep me out also which is really quite an accomplishment. You are right. Session 9's potency is in its subtley.

[Scott W. Davis]

Kayleigh, while I loved BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, I also liked LAST BROADCAST. However, I am sooooo glad someone else out there thinks the ending stunk up the place. :fart:

I will not spoil it for anyone else, but basically they take an intriguing premise and they throw all logic out the window. They mess with the format so as to strain any credibility and it's really not all that surprising either. A big, big dissapointment. A shame too since the rest of the film was so eventful. It's like a faux IN SEARCH OF... episode. Or THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (which I do prefer, if only because as a recent Communications graduate when it was released, the group dynamics were fascinating) with more breakneck pacing.

[Alucard]

HOUSE OF THE DEAD..... :lmao: just kidding , the first movie scared me most Alien i was afraig of the dark for a few weeks 'cus i was imagining that from THAT darkest corner the maggot will jump on me grab my throat and put the egg in me :shock: and before the lil alien bastard tears me open from outside :cry: the other alien, lil bigger one will rip my all limbs before the lil one devours outta me :censored: RIP :ghost: :ghost: :ghost: Well it was back then :P But now i haven't seen any THAT scary movie, hmmm <_< ...atleast i can't remember anythin that scared shit outta me recently :woot:

[Supercool]

The Blair Witch didnt scare me (but I still thought it was brilliant), whereas The Last Broadcast scared the hell out of me. First time I watched it I had the house to myself for a week, it was late at night, and it was one hell of a freaky film. Each time I watch it Im impressed.

Session 9 was proberly the only other western flick to have any real effect on me. It had that great creepyness to it.

I will admit that the effects for the victims of Samara in The Ring freak me out a bit, well, a lot (the first time anyway).

Uzumaki had me freaked out because its such a trip. My favourate Eastern "horror" at the moment.

Ringu and Ringu 2, I watched them in order, one after the other, at midnight when I got them. I was scared for at least a week! Those images realy stayed with me, and considering I had to be alone late at night for work I had plenty of time for my imagination to run.

Dark Water was quite effective, and had a beautiful conclusion.

The Eye had some extremely freaky scenes. I mean, realy freaky. So effective.

Jason X scared me when I sat down and watched it earlier this month... because Id paid £8.99 for this piece of :censored: !!!321"£!£124!!@1'12''12!!#1#12!! I hated it :whistling:

[Supercool]

Originally posted by JohnShaft@Jan 13 2003, 07:39 AM
The 78 remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
I won't review the film here (I think I'll save that for the next time I watch it) but just say what, I guess, got to me about it then:
The rubbery look of the pod people.
The *great* siren call (not to mention the look on their faces) the Snatchers make to alert others of their kind to an outsider.
And, coincidentally but perhaps most importantly, the fact that the main protagonist (played by Donald Sutherland) was named Matthew. My name.
I've since watched the film many times and, while I haven't counted, it always seems the name is said an incredible amount of times over the course of the film. It's almost like a mantra. I think that repetition is strangely what, at the time, personalised the film, and the character to me.
Invasion of the body snatchers is an amazing film, and that ending ALWAYS manages to get to me. Classic.

[JohnShaft]

Originally posted by Supercool@Dec 14 2003, 02:17 PM
The Last Broadcast scared the hell out of me. First time I watched it I had the house to myself for a week, it was late at night, and it was one hell of a freaky film. Each time I watch it Im impressed.
Ya'know I've never seen this. And the number of people I've heard say how good it is, even recently, makes me think I'm really missing out on something...
Uzumaki had me freaked out because its such a trip. My favourate Eastern "horror" at the moment.
Uzumaki? That's a new one on me. Definitely not heard of it.
What type of movie is it Supercool?

[Supercool]

Originally posted by JohnShaft+Dec 15 2003, 10:40 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JohnShaft @ Dec 15 2003, 10:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Supercool@Dec 14 2003, 02:17 PM
The Last Broadcast scared the hell out of me. First time I watched it I had the house to myself for a week, it was late at night, and it was one hell of a freaky film. Each time I watch it Im impressed.
Ya'know I've never seen this. And the number of people I've heard say how good it is, even recently, makes me think I'm really missing out on something...
Uzumaki had me freaked out because its such a trip. My favourate Eastern "horror" at the moment.
Uzumaki? That's a new one on me. Definitely not heard of it.
What type of movie is it Supercool? [/b][/quote]
You must see the last broadcast! Im fairly sure that you can get it cheap, for like 5.99 or something from HMV. Well worth it... hold, no, thats woolworths :lol

Uzumaki. Well... where to start? lol Its actually based on a graphic novel, which I havent read. The basic plot is that people start becoming obsessed with spirals, the main girl and her boyfriend become aware of the dangers of this obsession as wierd things start happening. Im not sure exactly where it is, but its somewhere between horror and head-f*ck. I came away from my first viewing happy that this is the best asian horror Ive seen so far (though it is possibly more of a head-f*ck than horror).

I picked it up from amazon, but if its in stock (it wasnt when i wanted to order it) at play.com, then its cheaper there. I honestly couldnt wait for it to get back in stock at play.com because I had seen the trailer. The trailer freaked me out so much I had to buy the film immediately, and I wasnt let down. Great film, absolutely mental, and also very stylish.

[DiamondRaine]

The last film to scare me whilst watching it was probably The Thing with Kurt Russell as i was only 11 at the time (20 now) or The Ring (original). However, probably one of the creepiest films was The Mothman Prophecies with Richard Gere not really because of the film but if you read into the real events which happened the year the film was based it certainly makes me want to avoid ever going to that part of America. I'm not sure if anyone has seen the film but it is basically about a man whose wife dies in hospital after a terrible car accident in which she appears to hit a black creature. All she does before she dies is draw pictures of a strange black object with red eyes. Her husband (played by Richard Gere) then pursues a seemingly hopeless crusade to find out why his wife died. Gere is endlessly persuaded not to dig into the events he uncovers and when he finally discovers what he believes to be the truth after receiving strange phone calls. I'll say no more as it may spoil it for potential viewers.

The actual events happened in Point Pleasant where several sightings of a large human shaped object with large red eyes plagued the area. November 12, 1966 near Clendenin, West Virginia was the first recorded sighting. The sightings died down towards the end of '67 until the fateful day of December 15, 1967 when the bridge connecting Point Pleasant to Ohio just fell down. 46 people died but two of them have never been found.

No one has ever explained the events but there have been several attempted explanations. UFO sightings, the Cornstalk Curse that was placed on Point Pleasant in the 1770's maybe a simple coincidence, no one knows.

--[Diamond Raine]--

[rusty nails]

darkness falls it shocked and the suspense was great but did not scare

[Head(H)unteR]

The last one to really scare me was............................aa................. was it?......no....A YES!! DellaMorte DellAmore,me like it,me love it,me go watch it now (again).No really it's a good movie! :teeth:

[GoredMike]

The Entity, when I watched it a couple of years ago. Holy $hit it was freaky...nothing scares me anymore, just like Shaft said.

[REfan]

The last film that scared me was the fog

[TCMRfan]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake scared the crap out of me, I would say that movie is the scariest, I've really ever seen.

[Irene]

Hey Steve, I was wondering if you know where I could get the NEKROMANTIK 1 movie without having to buy it? Does anyone know if I can d/l it anywhere or something like that cause I've seen it on video, but that was in a different country. Does anyone know if regular video stores have the movie or does is it too gorey :sick: for them?
I've seen it and it's sick! :crazy:
Also if anyone else knows any Necrophilia movies and how I can get a hold of them please let me know cause I have to do a presentation on Necrophilia for a course I'm taking and some video examples would be really good!

Thanx!
[FONT=Geneva]IRENE

[Caleb Goodwin]

Originally posted by Irene@Jan 23 2004, 08:01 PM
I have to do a presentation on Necrophilia for a course I'm taking and some video examples would be really good!

Thanx!
[FONT=Geneva]IRENE
WOW!!!! What kind of class is that? Visitor Q and an indie film I'll Bury you Tomorrow all have a dose of corpse lovin. Vistor Q's would probably be a little on the graphic side for a class room (especially if it is not a college class room!) I would imagine. I have had a rough day and I know that I am missing some obvious ones. Oh well....

[twistedserialkilla]

ju-on: th grudge fucking scare me to death while watching it on the big screen! :devil:

[Irene]

Hey Caleb!
thanx for replying, my class is a University class and it Abnormal Psychology, so Necrophilia would be catagorized under sexual disorders.
So the movie names you gave me can be found in regular video stores or do I have to go somewhere speacial to get them? and if yes, so do you know where, maybe I can d/l it somewhere? :erm:
So if you know, please do tell me! :teeth:

Also if you or anyone else remember or know any other titles of Necro movies please let me know!

It's a big help,

Thanx!

[EDward the Great]

I've only ever been scared by one horror film and that was A Nightmare On Elm Street. But I was about eight so I have an excuse.

[umapuma]

what do you mean by scared? a genuine fear, paranoya etc. or rather an entertaining simulation of these feelings. there are different types of fears. i don't think a film or a video can scare me, or ever did. but memories and self imposed fantasies have, as have real fucked up possibilitites.
i think peopel are attracted to horror because it allows us to explore these primal feelings and express them with the knowledge that nothing will happen.
why would anyone want to feel something as repulsive as fear. maybe a bit of emotional/spiritual S&M has'n hurt anyone just yet.
Sex is another reason why people watch a horror movies. not only does gushing blood scares and disgusts peopel, it also turns people on. i don't know about you, but i've had some pretty hot moments to mario bava or argento, or cronenberg for that matter only more intellectual. david gronenberg's movies are like extremely hot dates with extremly hot brainy guys who really know how to use their dicks. too bad that only happens in the movies. anyway. videodrome startled me more than once. just the sheer unpredictability of it.

[Supercool]

Originally posted by umapuma@Feb 4 2004, 06:13 PM
videodrome startled me more than once. just the sheer unpredictability of it.
Videodrome is such a classic movie! Sometime's it can be quite unsettling.

[lucio_fulci]

..THE LAST MOVIE TO SCARE ME?...AHAHAHHAHA FRIGHT NIGHT ....VAMPIRES DO WALK THE EARTH....MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR...*JERRY*<<<< (NAME MADE UP FOR LEGAL REASONS)...IS A VAMPIRE!!...I SWEAR HE IS...WHEN I WAS BIRD WATCHING AT 12 MIDNIGHT,I SAW HIM ABOUT TO GET BIZZY WITH A YOUNG LADY...HE HAD FANGS AND HE BIT HER ON THE NECK!...MY MOM DOSENT BELIVE ME...MY BEST FRIEND *EVIL* <<(NAME MADE UP FOR LEGAL REASONS)DOSENT BELIVE ME...MY GIRL FRIEND DOSENT BELIVE ME!!!AND PETER VINCENT IS DEAD!!(RIP FEARLESS VAMPIRE SLAYER :( )....WHAT AM I TO DO!?!?...OH WELL I GUESS ILL KEEP DOING WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST 18 YEARS.....

[UnclePoe]

Its tough to really be "scared" by things you enjoy so much (horror movies).

The last time I literally jumped was long ago, the final scene of CARRIE when something happens at the grave (avoiding any spoiler for those who have never seen). It caught me off guard and I really jumped with no control. Lame perhaps, but that was it.

But one of my favorite films has a "scary" quality of sorts that goes throughout the film.

Everytime I would see Stan Winston's PUMPKINHEAD moving around, I just calmly acknowledged that it was the scariest :censored: thing I could ever imagine. The white eyes took it to whole other level.

When the first Jurassic Park was in theaters, I took two of my young cousins to see it, a girl and a boy. As the Raptors chase the kids to the kitchen, the girl cousin was looking to the back of the theater, and I just thought she was bored and not paying attention. I said "you're missing the movie, turn around" and she moved her eyes just enough to look at me and tensely nodded her head NO. LOL, classic horror movie experience. (ofcourse, when I asked if they wanted to leave, they responded with a resounding NO).

[TCMRfan]

The last movie to actually make me jump, would have to be the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That is why it one of my favorite horror movies. :shock:

[werwulf]

O.K. all,
Let's sit aroung the campfire and old Wolfy will tell you a story that will... Make you laugh hystericaly. We all remember "The Blair Witch Project", right? Well, I was watching the "Space" Channel up here in Canada. I had not heard about this movie at all. I rememeber seeing the Trailer on SPACE and thinking, is this REAL! I was positive this was real, 3 kids doing a documentry on a legend and vanish, it's possible, right. People disapear everyday, this will be Cool! Space then decided to play the so called Documentry "Sticks and Stones", which was a brilliant seller on the part of the directors. I saw this documentry, and it scared the hell out of me, so badly in fact, I couldn't sleep for days. I'm 25 at the time! I was convinced that these kids were eviscerated and taken to hell by a witch form the 1800's. I had planed on seeing the movie after the documentry, but due to the fright I experienced, I put it off and went with a friend, during the day no less. It was finally revealed to me that it was all fake, my friends laughed at me, I felt like such a fool, BUT I experianced something I had not since I watched Alien or The Exorcist for the first time when I was but a youth. It was great to get that back.
The only other movie that has done that for me in present years was "The Ring". This was a movie I just bought when it came out, didn't see the hype and didn't read the back of the DVD case, just popped it in the DVD player, and started it up. Now I am one who quests for easter eggs, and I got a bit over-eager with this disk. I found the easter egg and when The ring popped up I nearly wet my pants! I watched the minute film and at the end, heard the phone ring, that scared me a bit, but I had no Idea what the Hell it meant. The other bit that threw me off was the distortion during the Warning Screen and the Dream works intro, I thought there was something wrong with my DVD player. Well needless to say I found out what the ringing phone was about, and I couldn't get to sleep that night either! I didn't watch or open the damn case for about 2 month's, watched it again and asked myself afterwords, what the Hell was I scare off?
Now after you have all finished jeering and snickering, the movie that still gives me the creeps, when I watch it, is The Exorsist. This is a movie that I still hesitate to watch in the dark. This is also a movie I get "LUCKY" with every time I watch it on a date, Go Figure! The reason I still am frightened to watch The Exorsist? I think it's because it deals with forces you have NO control over, how do you fight a Demonic presence? How do you know if God really existes to combat such a force, and will it! These are the types of movies that scare me. Thanks for listening to my pathetic horror life story.

[Supercool]

House Of 1000 Corpses unsettled me a bit. Especially when I watched it for the second time and was a bit stoned :paperbag: Rate that film very highly :)

[jasonvoorheesX]

Tha only movie 2 eva scare me waz tha Shining wen i waz bout 12 noffin really scarez me anymore...... i live a sad life :cry: most horrors bore me nowadayz the best are Stephan King 1s they're the only 1s that will make u turn ur head at every creaking floorboard u hear!!

[hypothesis]

Donnie Darko. I guess it's probably not a horror movie, but they just set this great, creepy atmosphere. I love movies like that. Yikes! It's so creepy. When I first heard Frank's voice I freaked out. It's so scary.

[Supercool]

I got The Phone in the mail yesterday, watched it, and it scared the shit out of me! A must see for anyone who wants some good scares :woot:

[Supercool]

A Tale Of Two Sisters had some very effective scares, and a generally amazing atmosphere. The scenes in the bedrooms got me good (and as I was writing this I thought back to them and got a shiver down my spine!). Argh, and the kitchen... and the... :erm: :wacko:

[TwiztedNightmare223]

To be Completly honest no horror movies have sver really scared me. I started watching horror movies when i was around 5 or 6 and ever since then nothing can really scare me anymore. Like everybody says the Exorist was scary. I have no idea why! that movie did nothing to me. to me the more blood, the more guts the better the movie.

[Mrrygobyby]

I think I can honestly say that the last horror movie to truly scare me was Deep Red. I don't know what it is about it, but the score by Goblin and the scene with the hidden drawing really got to me. Deep Red is definitely the one movie that I'd give anything to experience again with a clean slate. I remember the unbelievable exhilaration I felt after first viewing it, and I'd love to be able to give myself selective amnesia every time I watch it

[Supercool]

I watched The Phone again with My brother and one of his friends and it still scared me. Heh, you should have seen them, they were FREAKED OUT!

And last I watched Juon The Grudge last night, man was that scary! And nothing is sacred in that movie! It'll make a scare out of anything!

[Rat_bytes]

Aaaargh, The Ring, The Ring!!! (the gore verbinski version)

Forgive me, but I was absolutely SHITTING myself when I saw this movie. I had to sleep with the door open for weeks afterwards. :shock:
I can safely say that no other horror movie has really scared me, except this one. And possibly the shining as well. Something about evil little girls which scares the crap outta me.
It's like, when you're watching Evil Dead, it's scary, but it's a fun kind of scary.
The Ring isn't fun at all, it's just unpleasant scary. It leaves you with a horrible feeling in your stomach, and makes you wish you'd never seen it. Even now, two years later (or something) I still get a chill when I think of Samara.

my girlfriend at the time would have thought I was a real wuss, except she was clinging to me as much as I was clinging to her.

[Rat_bytes]

Nah, The Exorcist wasn't a bit scary, except for maybe the crabwalking bit. Something about Satan and all that which makes me yawn. <_<

[Supercool]

Originally posted by Rat_bytes@Mar 24 2004, 11:37 PM
Aaaargh, The Ring, The Ring!!! (the gore verbinski version)

Forgive me, but I was absolutely SHITTING myself when I saw this movie. I had to sleep with the door open for weeks afterwards. :shock:
I can safely say that no other horror movie has really scared me, except this one. And possibly the shining as well. Something about evil little girls which scares the crap outta me.
It's like, when you're watching Evil Dead, it's scary, but it's a fun kind of scary.
The Ring isn't fun at all, it's just unpleasant scary. It leaves you with a horrible feeling in your stomach, and makes you wish you'd never seen it. Even now, two years later (or something) I still get a chill when I think of Samara.

my girlfriend at the time would have thought I was a real wuss, except she was clinging to me as much as I was clinging to her.
I have to say that the make-up effects for that realy impress me! Even after seeing it a million times (Im writing my coursework based on it) they can still spook me. Apart from that I dont find it scary, though I do think the atmosphere is realy effective. I've realy started to hate Samara's emerging from the TV screen, seeing her face realy takes away from it IMHO. Still, good movie.

[insanedan]

i guess it would be the new texas chainsaw massacre

[Dawn of the dead]

The Ring. :woot:

[Nisei]

Dark water.
Unbelievable unsettling atmosphere. :unsure:

[Rat_bytes]

I gotta agree with you on the "seeing samara's face" thing, although I really don't think it matters since the rest of the movie really makes up for it. Also the way she drags herself along with her fingers, and the way she spontaneously appears and disappears like a bad TV picture.

[Supercool]

Originally posted by Nisei@Mar 27 2004, 10:30 PM
Dark water.
Unbelievable unsettling atmosphere. :unsure:
Yeah, the atmosphere in that movie is realy good. Need to watch it again soon, haven't seen it since I baught it.

Oh, and if people haven't seen it and are interested, you can pick it up VERY cheap through www.yesasia.com

[DARRENYVONNE]

I remember watching my first horror movie which was Horror Express with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, although there was a lot of blood and effects for its time i think that it was the actual music that scared me more..I can still see the monsters one red eye looking at me.

Having been brought up on the Exorcist and the Omen films from my sick mother i find that it takes a lot to scare me now, i think that the blood and gore helps movies but its the things that you cannot see that scare me more. :devil:

[Scott W. Davis]

Originally posted by DARRENYVONNE@Apr 14 2004, 08:23 AM
I remember watching my first horror movie which was Horror Express with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee...

Good choice. :teeth:

[Supercool]

Originally posted by Scott W. Davis@Dec 9 2003, 10:25 AM
Kayleigh, while I loved BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, I also liked LAST BROADCAST. However, I am sooooo glad someone else out there thinks the ending stunk up the place. :fart:

I will not spoil it for anyone else, but basically they take an intriguing premise and they throw all logic out the window. They mess with the format so as to strain any credibility and it's really not all that surprising either. A big, big dissapointment. A shame too since the rest of the film was so eventful. It's like a faux IN SEARCH OF... episode. Or THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (which I do prefer, if only because as a recent Communications graduate when it was released, the group dynamics were fascinating) with more breakneck pacing.
LAST BROADCAST was brilliant. Like most people, I came accross it randomly on late night TV. It actually scared me a lot. I realy enjoyed the ending though, I liked the point they were making :)

[Rat_bytes]

What's Last Broadcast?

[The Disciple]

Audition gave me the creeps in the scene with the tongue but that was only the first time I saw it.

(Horror Express is a great film along with Revenge of the Zombies and Creeping Flesh)

I'm a fan of Rob Zombie but House of a 1000 Corpses was too much like loads of other horror films (TCM being the main one) I did like his Dr Satan tho, he looked damn cool. The Remake of TCM was a good film, but shouldn't have been made.

I love the Blair Witch Project...it's an underated film in my mind.

But scary...I don't honestly know, I'm still looking.

[Fear]

ive been watchin horror movie since i was small and never been bothered by gore but there is one film i remember being really afraid of it was called DONT BE AFRAID OF THE DARK not to be confuced with the kids series are you afraid of the dark it about a young women who moves home and remove this sheet of metel from the boiler or something and these strange creatures come out and it not the creature them selves that scare me it there voices so if anyone else has seen this film let me know where i can get it so i can face my FEAR :woot:


its the things you dont see that scare you

[Unconscious]

Dolls.

That was the only ever film that freaked me out.

The lightning, the thunder, the darkness...

*shivers*

[Dead_Gurl]

I don't get really scared very easy but I would say May was the first movie I ever saw that actually scared the hell out of me there are only three things that really scare me Clowns,Cockroaches and Dolls and this brought in the doll fear I usually steer away from movies with those things in it but May was a movie that I couldn't help but watch and yet I so wanted to change it it was a pretty messed up movie :) LOL
~Dead Gurl~

[Evil Twins 666]

Greetings Dead_Gurl
there are only three things that really scare me Clowns,Cockroaches and Dolls
This sounds alot like my daughter she's a real sweet kid but jumpy as Hell she also doesn't like being alone in the house she turns on ALL the lights and locks all the doors and windows. :rolleyes:

[DevilMan]

I absolutely love the avator you picked, DEAD GURL. Without a doubt, MAY is a much underrated horror flick that's soooo much better than most big budget Hollywood romps in the same genre. I can't wait to see director LUCKY MCKEE's next film.

For what it's worth and for those curious about the movie, check out my review of the film here at HE...

>>> MAY MOVIE REVIEW (http://www.horrorexpress.com/filmreview.php?id=310) <<<

-Steve

[Dead_Gurl]

Thanks Devil Man it took me forever to find. I agree this movie was awesome and I hope to see the next movie that he comes up with :)

[Evil Twins 666]

:shock: Personally I found "The Sound of Music" to be absolutely HORRIFYING.. :shock:

[Scott W. Davis]

Originally posted by Evil Twins 666@Oct 20 2004, 04:24 AM
:shock: Personally I found "The Sound of Music" to be absolutely HORRIFYING.. :shock:
And for that, I give you a little song... Feel free to sing along... *ahem* :whistling:



Vampires and zombies and knives stuck in kittens
Slashers and werewolves and ghouls wearing mittens
Innocent victims lynched with razor string
These are a few of my favorite things

Mummies and reptiles and crazed rabid poodles
Blood and intestines pouring out in oodles
Demons that fly with blood-tipped wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Killers slice and they dice and make some slashes
That Argento film where they tape up eyelashes
Giant bugs with the deadliest stings
These are a few of my favorite things

When the Ceno-bites
When the beast sings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad



Be sure to tip your waitress, ya bastards! :devil:

[voorheesx]

texes chainsaw mascre not the original the remake in reasent years its probaly the only film ever to scare me but i was waching it alone at 10:30 pm so maybe it was that :shock: :afro:

[Supercool]

Nothing new, but I watched Kairo again... damn that forbidden room... so simple, yet so effective!

[Ganon]

Hey
Ganon here, i couldnt think of any really scary movies, but I like that movie THE GRUDGE.
it wasn't scary but i liked it.i guess the EXROCIST 1. But ill just watch movies and get spooked



GANON :devil: [FONT=Times][SIZE=7][COLOR=red][COLOR=blue]

[vampire queen]

The question for me should be "when was the last time you were NOT scared by a movie?" LOL! I have THE most overactive imagination ever! Not that every horror flick has scared me, but I seem to have quite a few more than everyone else. The video for Thriller scared me! The DOTD remake scared me. Ater I watch the movie, I start thinking about what if that really happened? Then I start hearing things....I know, silly!
I am just that way. I even made my husband get up with me in the middle of the night to walk me to the bathroom because I was scared by The Exorsist, and that was hardly the first time I had saw it!! LOL

[Scott W. Davis]

Originally posted by vampire queen@Nov 14 2004, 01:04 AM
The question for me should be "when was the last time you were NOT scared by a movie?" LOL! I have THE most overactive imagination ever!
Behind you... :devil:

[vampire queen]

:cry: :o :o :whistling:

[Elias]

Hi,

I'm new to this group. I'm a horror fan and filmmaker. Please accept my two bits on this topic as well;)

About a year ago I saw the UK made for tv movie "The Woman in Black". Great film! There was one point where I actually felt truly scared and chills ran up my spine, what a great feeling:)

The original "Haunting" as well as the '78 "Body Snatchers" are also right up there for me.


Elias

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-Home of LovecraCked! The Movie-

[Unconscious]

Originally posted by vampire queen@Nov 16 2004, 09:52 PM
:cry: :o :o :whistling:
Oooh Spam, Can I help?

[bryan2004]

That would have to be THE LAST HORROR MOVIE (2003) which should be watched at home alone, preferably on VHS and without having read any spoilers beforehand!

This movie was sooo scaaary that I invited a friend around the next day and watched it again without warning her about the two twists.

You should have seen the look on her face at the end :shock:

[Supercool]

What have I watched recently? hmmm.
Dead End had me bricking it.
Vampyres creeped me a bit. It's always the same with old British horror. I just get so much more out of spooky countryside scenes, over urban locales. I guess it's just because I'm a bit of a country lad =/
Evil Dead Trap was pretty creepy. Great movie.

[versus]

Last year, in febuary, it was 16.00, my freind lent me two evil dead films, i watched the first one by myself.I was a nervouse wreck(Sounds silly) when the girl in the basement looked nasty, and at the end when the demon goes through the cabin and... watch evil dead 2 and find out. When i was 9 i bought Nosferatu, and i was scarred so much, i tryed to burn the video, years passed i'd seen versus, evil dead(came over my fear),the shinning, but still nosferatu lurked in the cupboard. Like in the movie when count Orlock called to Ellen. In the summer, i sat down with a cup of tea, and i put the video in the machine, the grainy sepia credits appeared with it's droning techno like music, and i thureley enjoyed it, but when Hutter hides in his bed as the door opens, and the ivory like figure of orlock comes in, i still felt extremley uneasy.So theres my scary experiences pretty sad to be scarred of a 1920s film.

[spiritual boxer]

I don't really get scared watching horror movies anymore, maybe its because i've seen so many, and as a result have become desensitized throughout the years. Recently though, I picked up two Korean horror films titled, FACE, and PHONE. I ended up watching them back to back, and I must admit that there were some scenes in both films that had me shaking like a pretty boy in a jail cell full of sodomizing convicts. I also picked up two old horror movies titled, SUPERSTITION A.K.A. THE WITCH, and THE UNNAMABLE; both were uncut, and even though they weren't as scary as the two former Korean films, they were both still pretty damn good.

[Unconscious]

Never get scared by horror movies anymore.

Unless I've chosen some sad ass movie.

But I'm not scared as in horror... Scared as in... Mentally XD.

[JohnShaft]

Originally posted by spiritual boxer@Jan 27 2005, 12:21 AM
I also picked up two old horror movies titled, SUPERSTITION A.K.A. THE WITCH,
SUPERSTITION scared the hell out of me when I was about 12. I'm talking "watched it round my mates house and had to *pretend* I was looking at the TV all the time" scared. Didn't see it for a decade after, and when I finally did I wondered what the hell had scared me, hah.

[spiritual boxer]

Originally posted by JohnShaft+Jan 28 2005, 08:45 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JohnShaft @ Jan 28 2005, 08:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-spiritual boxer@Jan 27 2005, 12:21 AM
I also picked up two old horror movies titled, SUPERSTITION A.K.A. THE WITCH,
SUPERSTITION scared the hell out of me when I was about 12. I'm talking "watched it round my mates house and had to *pretend* I was looking at the TV all the time" scared. Didn't see it for a decade after, and when I finally did I wondered what the hell had scared me, hah. [/b][/quote]
Yeah! I remember watching it when I was young, and at the time, I thought it did a great job in the suspense department. It still is pretty suspenseful, but after years of watching countless horror films, I don't get scared easily as before. I still consider SUPERSTITION a great witch/horror film though, not as good as SUSPIRIA, but good nontheless.

[monstermom]

Originally posted by DARRENYVONNE@Apr 14 2004, 08:23 AM
I remember watching my first horror movie which was Horror Express with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, although there was a lot of blood and effects for its time i think that it was the actual music that scared me more..I can still see the monsters one red eye looking at me.

Having been brought up on the Exorcist and the Omen films from my sick mother i find that it takes a lot to scare me now, i think that the blood and gore helps movies but its the things that you cannot see that scare me more. :devil:
That movie raises the hair on the back of my neck--even now, after I have watched it so many times the tape is fuzzy. And yes, I think the music has a lot to do with that. That and the eyes looking like they have been boiled.

But the movie that stands out for me as maybe not the LAST one that scared me, but the one that I most remember being scared by is Five Million Years to Earth. I first saw it when I was maybe 12 or so. Channel 5 out of NY used to run some old horror flicks back then and I remember it was nighttime and I was the only one in the house still up.

Workers doing some excavation in an underground station in London find some ancient skeletons that look like humans or apes with exceptionally large skulls. That is nothing much, but sets the atmosphere. Then they go on to find what they think to be an unexploded bomb from WWII, but find it to be something much more interesting. When the finally do open it up, they find some dead locust-looking creatures that start to decay rapidly—into a nice gooey mess. But the thing about the creature that is interesting is its resemblance to the “devil.� Also looks a lot like “gargoyles.� Which gets them thinking that it could have been the inspiration for our vision of such things and of evil itself. Ok, so far not that scary really.

But things start to happen that are a bit eerie at this point. Some people are driven from the tunnel by an amazing and unexplained wind that has people being thrown about. One of the guys who opened the ship (they decided it was that) reacts as if he is terrified on a very primal level. Gets a bit creepy at this point. And mention is made of the fact that the old name for the place was “Hobbs Lane,� “Hobb� being apparently an old name for the devil. So coincidences are flying everywhere.

This is all from memory, so hopefully it is reasonably accurate—but I know it is probably out of sequence. At some point, the scientists (there are always scientists) put this sort of “thinking cap� type thing on the head of this guy who has had visions of what they have decided are “Martians� and he gets this horrified primitive fear look on his face and says he saw them “hopping and leaping� all over. And we get to actually see the “memory� which shows what looks like a bunch of grasshoppers all headed in one direction and they look disturbing as hell. We find out that apparently the memory was of the “cleansing of the Martian hives.� Apparently this is a “genetic memory� that all humans have. And why do we have it? Because the “Martians� apparently came to earth while we were just ape like creatures and must have done something to make us view them as evil (hence the “devil� and the “gargoyles�).

And apparently this genetic memory gets unleashed on all of London and people go around trying to kill everything that is “different.� Meaning that the “cleansing of the Martian hives� was a mass extermination of anything that was not “perfect.� And what the Londoners start killing are animals, people with glasses, people who are in any way “sub-standard� or “different.�

What really got to me about this movie, what made it linger in my head for YEARS are these things:
The idea that we might have a genetic memory that has given us our images of evil and the devil.

That our genetic memories might include an imperative to exterminate all that is different. And this one got me because it seems to be a strong possibility. On a daily basis we see this played out. People are excluded from social groups because they are different in some way. It starts when we are very young in school and continues through life. And on a larger scale, we have seen this in history—the Holocaust being just one example—a very extreme one. IS it our instinct to exterminate anything that is not “genetically pure�? Gave me chills.

And honestly, the locust-type creatures gave me chills. Maybe I was responding to some primitive genetic memory because they gave me honest-to-god chills. They weren’t THAT frightening looking. Other movies have MUCH more terrifying monsters, but they touched something instinctive. Maybe their resemblance to the devil and gargoyles…

I have watched this movie fairly recently—and I have picked it apart and laughed at some of the special effects. But honestly, it still creeps me out.

*goes and watches something nice and warm and fuzzy, like Nightmare on Elm Street, to feel safer*

[Unconscious]

*goes and watches something nice and warm and fuzzy, like Nightmare on Elm Street, to feel safer*

Nightmare on elm street is a laugh! :woot:

[Red_Rapids]

I'd say the last movie to freak me out would have to be John Carpenters "Prince of Darkness". I remember Alice Cooper had a cameo in that. Good movie, still gives me the heebie jeebies.
Another one was "Tourist Trap". That gave me the willies a little too. Also a good movie.

One that my Mom and I watched together back in the 80's was "Motel Hell". We still joke about it to this day. "It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters". If you haven't seen it, get it. It's a classic in my opinion.

-Bob

[Death Grim]

Ive got to be honest, its been a long time since a film SCARED me. Theres been films that make you jump with a loud noise or a sudden appearance of someone, but thats not scared thats shocked. When i was younger I was scared by the Childs play series, i was about 8 when i saw the first one and it freaked me out, i hated all doll type things for years, then i saw Dolly Dearest which didnt really help, lol. For years i hated anything from Pot dolls to Action Man but i can watch them now and laugh at Chucky, hes a pussy cat.

[versus]

At first veiwing, the grudge(jap version) really scared me, but i watched it again it rocked, it makes you think about it afterwards, like when you look up a flight of stairs or look in your bed, there the films that scare me.

[DevilMan]

Originally posted by versus@Mar 2 2005, 10:45 AM
...it makes you think about it afterwards, like when you look up a flight of stairs or look in your bed...
That's exactly it. You nailed it right on the head perfectly!

I mean, after I first watched JUON THE GRUDGE (late at night all by myself), I just knew that Kayako's bloody face was gonna appear in the darkened doorway of my bedroom as I walked down the hall. Or I was gonna turn and see Toshio sitting right next to me on the couch, drumming his fingers on his knees. Quite unsettling, and I'm a grown man saying that.

But ya know, even after watching all the JUON flicks (and all the various Asian movies that are similar), the images of evil-eyed pale ghostly faces with long black hair and the sudden startling jolts that accompany them, still to this very day spook me. And that's a fact because I just recently finished up DEAD FRIEND (a Korean horror film) and DOLL MASTER (another Korean horror film) and they both worked their rollercoaster scare-magic on me.

I gotta give it to the Asian cinema, they sure know how to make a good supernatural ghost movie.

-Steve

[Red_Rapids]

Yes they do Devilman. Ju-Rei still scares me.

-Bob

[kelly]

my last scariest movie i've seen is the grudge...well i've seen more others that's scary but this one is even scariest i've seen...cause i don't watch any other scary movies but asian horrors...but i'm looking forward on seeing the wishing stairs and the ring 2... :lol:

[spiritual boxer]

Originally posted by kelly@Mar 11 2005, 09:38 PM
my last scariest movie i've seen is the grudge...well i've seen more others that's scary but this one is even scariest i've seen...cause i don't watch any other scary movies but asian horrors...but i'm looking forward on seeing the wishing stairs and the ring 2... :lol:
Yeah, JUON: THE GRUDGE scared the living crap out of me when I first watched it. I haven't seen WISHING STAIRS yet, but it seems to be getting some positive feedback here on this forum. Another film that recently freaked me out was the Thai film, SHUTTER. If you haven't checked out that film yet, then I suggest that you do cause it is pretty scary and the story is really good. By the way, welcome to the forum, the people here are all pretty nice and informative.

[Raven]

Channel 4 have just had a banned season on recently and they showed the original and uncut version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Even though TCM is the most ungruesome film ive ever seen its also one of the most disturbing films. Its the ONLY film that makes me feel uncomfortable watching it.

[Unconscious]

TCM was pretty disturbing... Although, I think Dolls won the title of an disturbing movie. ;)

But then again, I was 10 when I watched it... Maybe Dolls really isn't that scary? :S

[JohnShaft]

Originally posted by raventt@Mar 31 2005, 05:52 PM
Even though TCM is the most ungruesome film ive ever seen its also one of the most disturbing films. Its the ONLY film that makes me feel uncomfortable watching it.
Absolutely amazing atmosphere Raven, I agree.

I didn't see it until about 5 years ago, amazingly enough.
I was expecting it to be thoroughly dated and nothing to write home about (particularly as I'd just seen 'Driller Killer' for the first time, which I thought was a poor film).
So I was amazed by it. It's just so fucking dark and opressive and disturbing. It's a film that's enjoyable because it's not enjoyable. I taped it on C4 and am going to find time to watch it soon.
I've also gotta get round to watching the remake. That suprised me too by not sucking (by all, and Scott's accounts) half as much as I expected it too.

Atmosphere makes up for a lot of failings in horror, there is no doubt.

[thingmaker]

I'm in my late 40s now and hoping that I'll see another movie to scare me... Most aren't even close.
The Dawn of the Dead remake was no big deal but images from it (the cruddy, sooty looking, late stage zombies surging down a city street) appeared in a memorable nightmare so I guess something worked on me.
I got a bit of a chill from The Ring (less from Ringu, partly due to cultural differences and subtitling).
Occasionally something will have an unexpected effect. A few years back I scared myself a bit watching the Outer Limits episode "Corpus Earthling" which is a creepy Invasion of the Body Snatchers kinda story.

The last time I was really scared while watching a film was Alien, when it first opened. I remember when Kane finds the egg chamber the suspence built to a point where I was honestly asking myself if I should, maybe, leave the theater before something really awful happened. Naturally I stuck it out and the movie never got scarier than that sequence.
About that time I also saw Dawn of the Dead which, since I chose to take it seriously, left me jittery and uneasy but never quite scared me.

[Thule818]

There are three...and for three different reasons.
First and the least scary but still enough.....Event Horizon..I was sick, and had a fever...and that going through hell thing did a freakin number on me.

Oh well.
Dead birds really creeped me out........actually there was one scene in the American Ring....you know when she first comes out of the tv.....very creepy I was playing on the computer in another room and watching and then that scene happened...grr..

But finally one that actually freaked me out kept me in suspense, and then made me cry...A tale of two sisters,....had everything a little horror, tons of suspense, drama and a mystery...very good.

Knocked me over...didnt see it coming...but freakin the sink scene...ARGHH so freakin scary..

oh and a creepy side note...I have been daydreaming, those dreams you dream right before you sleep...often I replay horror movies in which I am the hero..welll I was thinking about an old film...creepshow 2...and the one about the pond sludge.....very eerie..anyone watch that?
and finally sorry i know going on and on...ginger snaps..there is something that freaks me out about the dog house and the back yard...hmm.

cheers

[ltv1]

Scariest - Burnt Offerings when I was a little kid. Every noise I heard after that movie was the guy pushing the coffin at me.

Second scariest was again as a youngster - The Shining. It was the most eerie too.
"You are the caretaker here, you have always been the caretaker here"

[Juan Rayo]

Hello everyone. New to the site, loving it!

The thing with me and horror movies is, when I go to the movie theather or rent one, I put myself in a state of mind that's kinda "I WANT to be scared into a crying, trembling pulp" (heh, english is not my first language, sorry). That's how I enjoy horror movies.

With that in mind, RINGU is the last one that REALLY, REALLY scared me. See, I had seen slasher picks, so the guy with the chainsaw I can stomach. I had seen tons of monster flicks as well and I feel most of the "creatures" are funny looking (exception of "Aliens". I RESPECT those mean bastards).

However, I had NEVER seen an asian "ghost story". To me, it was totally new. I did not expect that THING to come out of the tv. I didn't see it coming, not like that. And it SCARED the living lights out of this 32 year old sociologyst.

Before that, I am glad someone else saw "prince of darkness" and I am not the only one to think it has some very effective scenes (tho, seeing it again.. it has not aged well...). Of course, "the Thing" and "Ju ON" both worked. "stupid teens in the woods being chased and killed one by one by monster-inbreed-serial killer" I pretty much despise.

Now, for sheer "disturb" factor, to me nothing beats "Audition" or"Irreversible". Both movies gave me headaches, fever and put me in a very sour mood.

Of course, being smack in the middle of the third world, it's hard to actually SEE any movies. Only ones in the theaters are Hollywood blockbusters. Sometimes, if looking hard, one finds a gem in and old, dusty, dark videoclub that only carries Betamax format and is attended by some old, evil looking hunchback with a creepy smile. So my choices are not that big. Latest "horror" movie I rented was "The Chupacabra terror" (with Jhon Rhyes Davies!!!!) and the emotional scars left by such a bad, bad, terrible movie will remain with me forever.

Anyway, great site, great reviews.
Juan Rayo

[Dr West]

The first Horror film that made an impact on me was Stephen Kings IT.

[redroulettequeen]

The last movie I was actually scare by (because it surprised me)... was The Toolbox Murders...

I like that it had me jump and the killer was hilariously scary.!!. :whistling:

[DevilMan]

Originally posted by Juan Rayo@Jun 10 2005, 11:34 PM
...RINGU is the last one that REALLY, REALLY scared me.

However, I had NEVER seen an asian "ghost story". To me, it was totally new. I did not expect that THING to come out of the tv. I didn't see it coming, not like that. And it SCARED the living lights out of this 32 year old sociologyst.
I definitely agree with ya there.

I saw RINGU first myself too, and while it had a very powerful effect on me, it wasn't until I hit my second Asian ghost movie that everything changed. And that was the Japanese film, JUON THE GRUDGE. I mean, even to this day, I still can't calmly look into a darkened doorway and not expect to see a pale ghostly face peering back out at me.

Still, after putting away about a dozen or so of those kinda films now, the Asian ghost movie genre is hanging tight as my favorite horror category of all time. I just can't get enough of 'em.

-Steve

[Red_Rapids]

I agree with Thule about Dead Birds. That creeped me out a little. Prince of Darkness did too.
There's a scene in the newer uncut version of The Exorcist that made my spine tingle. It's the one where she walks down the stairs on all fours backwards. That one did it!!

[Mickey Tadanaki]

The last movie I saw that creeped me out was DEAD END. And I was home all alone. Usally am, being 28 and living on my own. But I think it scared me because it was taken place at a two way road in the middle of a forest of freaking shit was happening and the family tried to turn around but they didn't find the turn off for the highway! It gave me nightmares!

[Tab]

Bloody Murder Two! That scared the :censored: :censored: outta me! :cry:

[Juan Rayo]

Well, I oficially have to add "Shutter", and very recently too. Only last night this movie scared at least 10 years off my life expectancy.

[Bloody Mary]

I saw RINGU first myself too, and while it had a very powerful effect on me, it wasn't until I hit my second Asian ghost movie that everything changed. And that was the Japanese film, JUON THE GRUDGE. I mean, even to this day, I still can't calmly look into a darkened doorway and not expect to see a pale ghostly face peering back out at me.

Still, after putting away about a dozen or so of those kinda films now, the Asian ghost movie genre is hanging tight as my favorite horror category of all time. I just can't get enough of 'em.

-Steve

The last movie that scared me was 'RINGU' and "Ju-On" (The Grudge). :censored: I saw the "RINGU" when I was 14 at my aunt's house when she says that the "Ring" was scary, which I thought it wasn't. But, as I was folding her laundry a scary violin kind of noise struck me in the nerve and I actually dropped the f-bomb (or word) out loud. After that, all the lights were turned off and I was laying in bed with the TV across me. :censored: , I couldn't even sleep. So I tried to walk out of my room and get a glass of water with the whole room eeriely darkened and there was that :censored: ing black TV screen gleaming right at me again. :cry:

I'd say 'RINGU' was one of the best horror movies I've seen.

Also, Ju-On really got me big time. That unforgettable croaking noise from Kayako who you would find somewhere trying to get you. It didn't matter where they would try to get you whether it's at day or night. But, :censored: I too scared to even go somewhere by myself. I saw the Japanese trailer for 'Ju-On 2'. It was some how different and it was more agressively scary than the first . There were some teasers of Kayako and Toshio with their scary, pitch black, and hollow eyes. Still, I'm looking forward to the movie waiting for me in the shadows. :paperbag:

[Samhain]

Audition

Not scared in the way I was like looking over my shoulder or laying there awake after or something, but the thing in the bag suddenly jerking up while she's on the phone made me jump about a foot when it happened. The final emergence from the bag was scary too.

The one movie I can safely say has progressively scared me the most in my entire lifetime tho is "Salems Lot".

[Freakychick]

When a Stranger Calls scared the living hell out of me. Of course it didn't help that I was watching the movie while babysitting at night and the kids had gone to bed. :ph34r:

[Red_Rapids]

Was that the one where the guy is actually calling her from inside the house?

[Freakychick]

Originally posted by Redrapids@Sep 9 2005, 03:28 PM
Was that the one where the guy is actually calling her from inside the house?
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Yeah, he was up there killing the kids while he called her.

[versus]

Event horizon scared the shit out of me i recomend it.

[Freakychick]

Originally posted by versus@Sep 27 2005, 11:52 AM
Event horizon scared the shit out of me i recomend it.
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Yeah, that one is a gooder too. :D

[toni55]

I just watched The Ring and it was so scary!

[Bloody Mary]

The Eye 2. HOLY :censored: ing shit! The way babies are born really scared the living :censored: out of me. It was so unbearable to watch how the ghosts get into the womb of the pregnant mothers. "Shudder"...Makes me not want to have a baby. :shutup:

[Angelic76]

Ringu scared me as many of you have mentioned, I just didn't expect her to crawl through the damn TV. Also Ju-on was damn good too, it was so creapy when the ghost comes from beneath the 'blanket' while the girl was going to sleep !!! My 15 year old brother had trouble sleeping for a week after that :)

But most recently I watched 'A tale of two sisters' and that sink scene made me jump. I was watching it and telling myself 'somethings gonna happen now, I know it. Just about kn... Nautch... (pulling feets from the floor and looking left - hopin I didn't wake up my brother sleeping in the next room)'. I'm defenately gonna do this again, watch 'scary' movies alone at night, everything very dark and quiet hehe... :)

[spiritual boxer]

I just revisited the 1973 film, DON'T LOOK NOW, which stars Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. I wouldn't consider this horror, more of a psychological thriller, but right from the beginning, the film was able to create a strong sense of dread that was layed throughout the film. You can't helped but be glued to the screen. The film was wonderfully shot and scored with the setting being set in Venice. I thought the two sisters were very creepy, especially the blind psychic one. Also the ending was very creepy. I'll tell you one thing though, I will never look at a red raincoat the same way again. Also I've heard that Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie were supposedly dating at the time this film was being made. Rumor has it, that their love scene in the film was suppose to be real, and boy does it look convincing.

[Tenebraeuk]

I was scared by the fact I paid good money to see Land of the Dead! Other than that Horror movies don't really scare me, but Cannibal Holocaust still makes me feel uncomfortable.

[Raven]

Originally posted by Tenebraeuk@Feb 8 2006, 11:38 PM
I was scared by the fact I paid good money to see Land of the Dead! Other than that Horror movies don't really scare me, but Cannibal Holocaust still makes me feel uncomfortable.
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you just said a keyword, i haven't seen Cannibal Holocaust yet but i had the very same reaction to the original TCM. I didn't scare me as sucj just made me uncomfortable. i have no idea why i mentioned that just making chit chat lol

welcome to HE

[Tenebraeuk]

Get Holocaust watched, man! Its essential for any serious horror (or movie) buff. Its not enjoyable, its good for all the wrong reasons and its more of an experience than a movie. Watch it uncut and don't blame me if your harrowed or disturbed by it, unlike most of the video nasties in the 80s this one was probably banned for a good reason!

[spiritual boxer]

I got a chance to watch CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST on the big screen at the Parkway Theatre in Oakland. My friend who has never seen the film before went with me to watch it, and boy did it mess him up.

[Tenebraeuk]

Ha ha, thats what I like to hear. It aint lost any of its punch and probably never will. There is no way a mainstream director these days could make a film anywhere near the intensity of Deodato's masterpiece!

[Unconscious]

Man, you guys are lightweight. Try watching some iraqi beheading videos, and then tell me Cannibal Holocaust makes you feel uncomfortable.

[JohnShaft]

I still haven't seen CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, and that's partly deliberate. I've sort of avoided hunting it down. Sure I want to see it for the movie part, and all the gore in the world is fine by me. But the animal stuff just really turns me off. I have zero tolerance for that shit, and that's the way I want it really.

Reading Scott's Review (http://www.horrorexpress.com/filmreview.php?id=348) doesn't exactly make me change my mind either. In fact it just affirms it. It's a shame though because I really want to see it to see what all the fuss is about.

[Carmilla]

I recently watched The Emily Rose Exorcism and I was freaked out by the 3 AM thing. I finished watching the movie at around 3 AM, which didn't help ;) I'm an idiot, I know.

[SUPREME]

DEAD BIRDS (the grim, howling atmosphere in the house, the unpredictable events), DEAD END (great use of darkness with very limited sets and locations) and just one bit in EMILY ROSE (where her college-pal wakes to see her stuck contorted and... staring!...in the corner of the room).

[SUPREME]

MY LITTLE EYE.

This was played totally straight, and featured some very shifty characters indeed.

A particularly chilling moment: when the guy who has come in from the cold suddenly looks at the camera, "Should I kill her now?".

Sound is also subtly effective throughout, and there is a downbeat ending to top it all off - excellent horror film.

[Trioxin245]

Tough subject. Evil Dead and Blair Witch Project comes to mind.

[pmshayley]

STIR OF ECHOES. Just watched that one again on Friday night, and even though I know it's coming...

When he leans forward to grab the remote to the TV, and sits back and that crazy ghost is sitting right the hell there and she wasn't there 2 fricking seconds ago!!!!

Anyways, sorry, that part gets me every frigging time.

[Stoopid Preacher]

I'm gonna agree with alot of people and say that I find it hard to be scared by things that I like to much. I'm always up for a scare though. I remember when I was seven or eight years old, maybe even younger, I saw The Fly (Cronenberg, 1986), and it freaked me out a little, I remember feeling slightly weebed by the finger-squeezing in the bathroom scene, lol. Besides that, I was scared by the window scene in the original Amityville Horror, where the Priest is changing, the flies gather at the window, the door swings open and "GET OUT" booms over the speakers, fuck....that spooked me when I first saw that.

Recently, I haven't really be scared by anything, I thought A Tale Of Two Sisters had some genuinely spooky moments, and Ringu was atmospherically frightening, I rely on Asian Horror Cinema for scares these days, they do it so well.

[Raven]

I was scared by the window scene in the original Amityville Horror, where the Priest is changing, the flies gather at the window, the door swings open and "GET OUT" booms over the speakers, fuck....that spooked me when I first saw that.

Same here. I caught on tv a couple of weeks ago and that point (the only really frightening point) scared the hell out off me.

[Hauntful]

Well I have watched so many Horror movies. My mom got me into it, and I've been watching them ever since I was 8 and my first glimpse would be 5 or 6 (Cujo).

But for the scariest of them all I would have to pick Halloween. Michael Myers was terrifying and he is what scary movies about along with Jason and Freddy right?

Also this movie was scary for it's dark spaces where Myers appeared out of no where in the night of relentless terror, the freaky music of symphony of horrors, the script, and it had a great cast.

John Carpenter did a good job on this film. It sure will having you holding the edge of your chair with fright.

[Tenebraeuk]

I don't really think the Halloween/Friday 13th type movies are especially scary. The main thing I remember about that genre (being slashers) as a kid is that we kind of judged them on "jump" value, as in how many times you jumped at scenes during the movie. I prefer the early Jason movies to early Mike Myers films. I do not find them anywhere near as scary or disturbing as Cannibal Holocaust, the Exorcist or any good zombie movie.

[Unconscious]

The last horror movie I had watched was Silent Hill- Christ, it was £7 for a cinema ticket.

Well worth the money though, even if the ending was a little shoddy.

[R@6£]

It's a little unusual not to consider Halloween a scary film, loaded as it is with very effective moments where Carpenter makes such excellent use of the darkened corners of the screen and his devastating soundtrack.

'Mechanical' jolts are an old favourite in horror, and if they are executed well like in Halloween and Salem's Lot they do not breed the same sense of tiresome manipulation common in many of today's teen shockers.

Like the creeping sense of dread in films like The Blair Witch Project and Ring, jumpy moments are an art to perfect and are just as welcome as any other fear factor.

[Carmilla]

I was reading about The Nun yesterday and one thing led to another (the Nun's director was this film's editor) and I remembered this spanish jewel: The Devil's Backbone. It's probably one the best films I've seen in a reaaally reaaaally long time. It's very well rounded.

[BlackWidow]

Last film to scare me was The Grudge... I was sitting in the dark with my boyfrien holding his hand and I squeezed is thumb so hard that I almost brake it .. hihihihi he doesn't want to hold hands anymore while watching horror movies LOL

Black Widow

[Aylmer]

One movie that freaked me out is called Beyond the Darkness. I rented this movie under its U.S. moniker "Buried Alive" and I was completely in the dark about what I had rented. A perverse and gory film it caught me completely off guard and I am still not really sure whether I liked it or not. The main character's Maid was particulary disturbing....

[Aylmer]

I still haven't seen CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, and that's partly deliberate. I've sort of avoided hunting it down. Sure I want to see it for the movie part, and all the gore in the world is fine by me. But the animal stuff just really turns me off. I have zero tolerance for that shit, and that's the way I want it really.

Reading Scott's Review (http://www.horrorexpress.com/filmreview.php?id=348) doesn't exactly make me change my mind either. In fact it just affirms it. It's a shame though because I really want to see it to see what all the fuss is about.

The fuss takes away from the movie and the animal cruelty makes it a total turn off. The hype surrounding the movie made it seem like it was such a big deal but apart from the animal gore it was nothing that hasn't been seen or done before. It was kind of interesting in a Nat'l Geographic sort of way when they are talking about the tribes other than that it wasn't really worth the fuss. From everything I had heard about it I was expecting way worse, but if you could get past the animal thing I would advise watching just for to sate your own curiousity

[Crystal]

the exorcist scared me really bad...especially those eyes and just the blank stares on her face. creepy.

[spiral]

MY LITTLE EYE.

This was played totally straight, and featured some very shifty characters indeed.

A particularly chilling moment: when the guy who has come in from the cold suddenly looks at the camera, "Should I kill her now?".

Sound is also subtly effective throughout, and there is a downbeat ending to top it all off - excellent horror film.

I'd agree... that was a truly harrowing flick.

The Descent was similarly chilling...

[DJ CLUE]

"EVIL DEAD" without a doubt was the scarest ever.

[Z Day Survivor]

The last one to scare me was Ed Gein. It was one scene that got me.

After abducting the local barmaid he has her tied to the bed in his house. Then it cuts to a scene where he is pinning a little pink ribbon on to some hair on a piece of card. the angle of the shot does not show you what it is but you can see the ribbon and the hair.

I don't know why, but at this point I thought "oh, he's made a dolly" (?).

Then they show it from another angle. He has skiined the lips of her vagina and pinned it to the card, and he is putting the ribbon at the top.

:shock:

As a woman, all I can say is "clench".

As far as the scariest ever, I'd have to go with the adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe Story The Pit and the Pendulum (the 1961 Vincent Price one). As a result of this film I will be cremated and NOT buried.

Also 10 Rillington Place. Proof that you don't need gore, sometimes all you need is the mood.

[PhilnEdee]

Not sure about being really scared, but the newest TCM-the begin movie kind of left us with that vulnerable feeling walking to the car.
I remember being actually scared when I was little and flipped it over to HBO to see the Amytiville Horror in the late 70's.

[The_Thing_82]

I'm 35 and the Exorcist still friggin scares me...really! LOL

[Scott Norton]

I'm 35 and the Exorcist still friggin scares me...really! LOL
Heh...me, too. But I have to give Session 9 serious props.

"Do it, Gordon!"

[jigsaw]

i naven't been scared by horror films for as long as i can remember. when i was 9 or 10, i managed to get my hands on ALIEN, which i did not find scary, but instead, rather exciting. in the years that followed i became accustomed to "the exorsist" "the ring"(original japanese version), and various ohers. i miss the feeling of "fear" i found it rather *fun*. nowadays, i simply watch horror films for the hell of it . the flicks i find disturbing these days are :
_ house of wax
_ hostel
_ the grudge
_ creep

[beautifulnightmare]

The Exorcism Of Emily Rose
found a movie that finally really scares me..

[Vampix]

Horror films don't really scare me nowadays,the last one I watched which made me feel slightly uneasy was the original Black Christmas.When I was younger films that scared me a little included The Evil Dead,The Exorcist,Salem's Lot,The Changeling,and Threads (the BBC's nuclear holocaust drama).

[Myke]

Exorcist (since I was 15). This film is totally out of this world &
still from this day I still get gooesbumbs in thinking of such a movie.
I mean, how would you ever forget the spider-walk that Ragen did as
she climbed down the stairs? :shock:

[ZARCULA]

The Movies that really got me was The Exorcist...I had nightmares for 3 nights.I woke up during the night,and could not go back to sleep.I sat up in the bathroom with the lights on .I read all the ingredients on shampoo bottles and shaving cream..ect...so I wouldnt fall asleep again it scared me that much....I was 14 when i saw it the first time....To this day there is still a scene I cannot watch...

[Adonais]

The Exorcist still gets me a little. . .though today the hospital scenes disturb me more than the possession.

I finally got to see The Devil Rides Out a year or two ago, and that raised a few hairs on me. . .a welcome change.

The last all-out scare-me-like-I'm-still-a-kid came, I think, from a memory-reflex. I got my first really good exposure to movie horror from a New York station that used to run horror films on Saturday nights. On Saturdays, when my parents were out and my sister and I could con the baby-sitter into letting us stay up, we'd watch that and be scared to death. You know, when you're 6 or 7, it doesn't take much. I remember Dr. Terror's House of Horrors turning my blood cold. . .and I couldn't get enough! But the creepiest thing to me was the show's opening. . .a clawed, six-fingered hand coming up out of the ground (it was claymation, and pretty cheesy, probably, but I was the right age). So about a year ago, I'm surfing around the Web, and somebody's put up a page in homage, complete with a Quicktime capture of the original opening. http://www.dvddrive-in.com/Chiller/chiller.htm Rationally, I knew it was nothing, but that didn't change the fact that I simply couldn't move!

But anyway, back to John's original question: what is it we're looking for? Well, that complete and utter suspension of disbelief is part of it, I think. It's hard to get back to a point where monsters are really out there, and they really could get you (and who's to say they can't see you through the screen? After all, you can certainly see them). The other thing, perhaps, is a subconscious nostalgia for the innocence we once had. Just conjecture on my part, but horror works a lot better when you're not necessarily rooting for the "bad guy."

Take vampires, for example. Actually, today, you don't much see vampires in horror movies; they're much more likely to be protagonists in romantic adventures. Today's filmmakers and their audiences seem to have fixated on the vampire's Byronic sex appeal to the exclusion of all else. The original idea was that the vampire is tempting you to a fate worse than death, not better than life. It's a different world today. Life sucks. If somebody's got a better idea on offer, we're listening. Even if you have an ugly, bestial vampire, it's really no better. The angular, rat-faced look worked for Max Schreck, but it really doesn't cut it when others try it. It comes off more as a joke than anything. At best, he's just another variation on the slasher. And who today believes that God's going to protect you? Especially if we're talking about the trappings of established, organized religion (things like crosses, for example)? Montague Summers, call your office.

In short, as the saying goes, "we have met the enemy, and he is us." I wonder if, perhaps, part of us doesn't long for something simpler, where Good and Evil were readily identifiable. . .and we wanted to be good?

[michaelmyerslives07]

I don't really get scared by movies really, but one film scared me for about 4 hours after I watched it was called The Descent. Who agrees with me?
If you haven't seen it I advise you watch it because it was brilliant.

[Scream Queen]

Film that scared me? it's been a while....

A film that did un-nerve me was "The Eye". The Asians certainly have a unique way of setting you on edge.

[JohnShaft]

A film that did un-nerve me was "The Eye". The Asians certainly have a unique way of setting you on edge.
The Eastern stuff is close to the only thing that has any power in this regard lately for me. It's because they seem to be able to evoke such an air of menace and of "things just not being right". THE EYE is a great example, as is THE RING.

The only US film that's done that to me in the last decade is SESSION 9.

[Raven]

A Tale of Two Sisters. Watched this again last night and it's still terrifying

[Scream Queen]

A Tale of Two Sisters. Watched this again last night and it's still terrifying

Ooh yes...I forgot about that one...sends shivers just remembering.

[Frank Zito]

2 titles come to mind...

The Descent pretty much scared me when I first saw it. I was alone in a hotel room and it was effective for some reason, being in a strange environment.

Halloween 4 - SCARE is a big word but that final scene gave me goosbumps literally... and it has been very rare for a horror film to have such an effect on me. Great :-D

[Tenebraeuk]

I watched Hard Candy about a month ago and was scared that I might not have been able to sell it on via Ebay! I hated it mainly due to that bloody annoying MTV style camera work and the bloody awfull music! I was almost rooting for that irritating kid to get it from the word go!!

[Scott Norton]

Hard Candy really disturbed me, so I have to give it lots of credit. The leads were extremely well directed. Had me completely fooledd a few times, tool, but I didn't like nor believe the ending.

I would say that it was probably the last film that made me forget I was watching a film and played my emotions like virtuoso.

[Tenebraeuk]

I just don't see what people rave about with Hard Candy, maybe I was expecting too much and as a consequence was quite let down. I thought Wolf Creek was at least 100 times better and more effective than Hard Candy. I had some sort of sympathy and empathy with characters in Wolf Creek, much more so than I did with characters in Hostel and SAW and certainly more than the extreme irritation I had with both of the characters in Hard Candy! I felt that its direction was poor as you never at any point felt as if the girl was at all sincere, or even at threat from the photographer, and the photographer was getting what he deserved so what the hell did it matter? I liked the ending because it meant that the whole mess was over and I could stick it on Ebay for somebody else to buy it, view it and, most probably, rave about it.

[Hades]

There have been many movies that made me feel chills down my spine but rather than being afraid i was happy to feel that way... it meant it's a good movie and i was enjoying it, so i guess the last movie to REALLY scare me was... well... i don't think there was one, if there was, it must have been a long time ago because i don't remember it =?

[Honey23]

It wasn't that scary but it waz extremly weird, A Clockwork Orange. I dont have alot 2 say about thiz movie but so weird and creepy.

[redruM]

House On Haunted Hill back in 2000 (and some times after that:D)
The Saw series in the theatre.
Not much more than that really.

[spiral]

A Tale of Two Sisters. Watched this again last night and it's still terrifying

FECKIN' BEST flick in the whole wide world for EVERY reason! :dribble:

(Excuse my enthusiasm)

[Davids]

It's been a looong time since a horror movie frightend me. When i was about 10-11 i found i hidden tape in my sisters room. I put it on to see what it was, and it was Peter Jackson's Braindead. I was more shocked than frightend so i turn it off after about 30 min. Around that age i also remeber watching The Fly alone in the basement. That made me almost wet my bed 3 nights in a row!

[HorrorChick]

I haven't been scared by a horror movie since I was a kid but I sometimes jump at parts that surprise me. I watched Candyman yesterday, I haven't seen it in a long time and I jumped at a few parts...

...I know dorky :unsure:

[555sicksicksick]

when a stranger calls remake the reason is because i exprianced something like this and the guy go arrested fucking nut job, how much of a chicken shit hides in houre house and makes prank calls to you. lol

[HorrorChick]

he was hiding in your house?! :blink: That is pretty scary.

[555sicksicksick]

in my bathroom it was fucked up at the time but i just laught at it now cause he is halmless just a fucking divvy

[calibelle82]

Saw 3



Jane!

[Carmilla]

I watched Three Extremes (http://www.brns.com/pages4/horror35.html) and it was nausating. I wouldn't say scary, but really disturbing. Fruit Chan's Dumplings freaked me out quite a bit.

[funky88]

Yeah, Dumplings was definitely the best out of the three. I thought it was really well done.

28 Weeks Later provided extended non-stop arousal for me recently. I also really like Robbie Carlyle (althought I can't spell his last name correctly) and I enjoyed seeing him acting like a rat!

[morguelight]

i think i was about 10 and a nightmare on elm street but nothing since movies have becaome more juvinile and to easely predictable

[Maddux]

Wolf Creek

I was always hoping for the women to kill or flee from the backpack killer, especially since the first half of the movie got you involved in their story. It was also far more real then most cheesy teen slasher films.

[Serpantine]

Actually, 1408 scared me - I guess I have experienced some of the same things and that FREAKED the hell out of me!

[Tea-Time-Havoc]

Yeah, Dumplings was definitely the best out of the three. I thought it was really well done.



That film bored me...it didn't even seem like a horror film..




Last film i watched was Night of the Living Dead in B & W

[Serpantine]

It seems to be getting that response - some people really liked it, some people were bored to tears.

[Scott Norton]

I found the opening sequence to the Dawn of the Dead remake so scary, I've yet to revisit it. I feel like a big wuss, actually.

[Raven]

I liked the first 10 minutes to the Dawn of the Dead remake. I was almost willing to forgive the running zombies (god I hate that concept lol). Unfortunately once they get to the shopping mall the whole film becomes an intolerable joke

[JohnShaft]

I liked the first 10 minutes to the Dawn of the Dead remake.
I LOVED it. Saw it on terrestrial TV here as a Preview, which was a great idea.

The zombie girls attack sets it off. But what really hits home is the drive round the estate which has gone all to hell. That's when you know you ain't in Kansas. I think it does a great job of putting across what it would be like if we all woke up one morning to a world gone dead.

Scott, you've gotta rewatch it, wuss or not. :teeth:

I never felt it became intolerable after that (that's Raven and his old "running zombies" axe!) but I did feel it became painting by numbers. Just a modern refilming of the original. Not bad in itself, it just had none of the impact the beginning promised.

[Raven]

To be honest John, the running zombies were only a minor annoyance. It was the characters. They were so two dimensional and some were just plain stereotypes (not a bad thing if it's a comedy). The only characters that, I felt, were ever remotely developed were Ana, Michael and CJ.

Ana (although didn't seem that upset that her boyfriend/husband had just tried to kill her) became the voice of reason of the group and when she needed help she turned to Michael. Michael (imo) seemed unwilling to become the groups leader, all the qualities were there but the convinence of having a cop there seemed like an easy way out.

CJ. The only character who dramatically changed while remaining sarcastic and doubtfull still ceased being a bossy, tyranical arsehole and became alot more willing to help the survivors. He went on to make the ultimate sacrifice to achieve this.

The others never really changed or grew at all. It even became far too easy which members of the group were going to die.

[Scott Norton]

Scott, you've gotta rewatch it, wuss or not.
Heh, I know. But that little girl. Nothing creeps me out more than little fucking girls gone all murderous.

The DOTD remake was pretty good, I thought. All involved seemed to really have a respect and passion for the source material and the genre in general. But is it me, or is horror kind of ruined when it's shot with too good a film stock? The Shining made use of it, as did The Others, but when it comes to stories about societal collapse, I like a grainy filmstock. Backing off the professional look seems to capture the mood better. Even The War of the Worlds remake seemed to blow out a lot of the look, which helped.

[Raven]

The DOTD remake was pretty good, I thought. All involved seemed to really have a respect and passion for the source material and the genre in general. But is it me, or is horror kind of ruined when it's shot with too good a film stock? The Shining made use of it, as did The Others, but when it comes to stories about societal collapse, I like a grainy filmstock. Backing off the professional look seems to capture the mood better. Even The War of the Worlds remake seemed to blow out a lot of the look, which helped.

I completely agree with you. The improvements made to cameras and other film making equipment has deffinately made films far more pleasing to simply look at. But with horror, especially "end of the world" themed horrors, it makes everything look too "shiney".

When you compare the opening of Day of the Dead to the ending of Resident Evil, there is a huge difference. RE has alot more destruction on screen than DOTD but it doesn't have the same gritty, armageddon feel.

[Highwaymen]

Actualy i can't rember the name it was a Asian horror movie were the docters and nurses in this hospital mistreat the patants cause there"understaffed" and when they get infected with this spirt sorta speak they start bleeding green and Maul themselfs it didnt really scare me but it has been the first movie in years to get my nerves going in a good way

[Darryl Mathe]

Apocolypto was scary as hell.

[Darryl Mathe]

Anyone played this nighmarish game yet:

http://nocountrymovie.com/game.php?utm_source=offpage&utm_medium=other&utm_term=none&utm_content=none&utm_campaign=lci2

[Highwaymen]

One of the best dam horror movies out there now its asian and its called infection it will flip anynes shit

[Sipes13]

Event Horizon back in '97

[Phantom Stranger]

Not quite sure.. maybe Audition.

[Pyramid Head]

Hellraiser.

I dunno why, but the last scene messed me up a little.

Namely, the rip and tear moment. :lmao:

[Phantom Stranger]

"Jesus Wept." love that shit!

[Pyramid Head]

"Jesus Wept." love that shit!

I was also high as a kite while watching that movie.

That was pretty much the icing on the cake.

I instantly slapped on the second movie and was instantly dissapointed.

[Leatherhead]

I loved all the Hellraiser movies up to part 4. Parts 5 onward weren't Hellraiser flicks.

[Beast]

'The Descent' was the last movie to truly freak me out. That movie really got under my skin and creeped the hell out of me; it delivers the psychological horrors by introducing the characters to us and letting us get to know them first, and also delivers the visual horrors such as the cave beasts.

[Matthew Williams]

The Descent for me too!

[vanlutz]

Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

[V'nessuh]

Movies about bugs scare me.

Even though it wasn't really supposed to be that scary "They're Creeping Up On You", the last vignette or Creepshow, scared the crap out of me.
http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/creepshow-bugs.jpg

[noddyfry]

I don't think I've ever been 'chilled' by a horror for longer than 5 seconds, but the movie I still can't re-watch is 'Sixth Sense'.

I know, I KNOW - not sure why but I could not sleep for a WEEK after seeing this. Weird.

[demons88]

The last horror movie that scared me was DEMONS i was six years old and my sister had rented it from the movie shop it scared the hell out of me that was the last horror movie that scared me no horror movie scares me now.

[TheCarnal]

I'll have to go with Hostel...

I do alot of traveling and I've been to countries where you realize you could just "disappear".

[ometiklan]

Have to go with the first Saw film.

[zombielover]

Agreed - first SAW was terrifying... all the rest afterwards have been lame lame lame.

[NurseMcTavish]

I think the last movie to really leave a lasting impression was Jaws. I saw it when I was young (about 5) and it literally scarred me. I wouldn't even go in the deep end of a swimming pool for a couple of years after that one. To this day, I won't go in the ocean past my waist and it took me 12 years just to get to that point!

The last movie that scared me was definitely The Blair Witch Project. The gore/bloodfest movies never scared me. It was always the stuff that really seemed real that freaked me out. It didn't help that we went camping the very next night after seeing the movie.
= )

I'm not afraid to go in the woods, though, so it doesn't even compare to the impact that Jaws had on me.

[SomewhatDamaged]

I don't know about scare but the last 10 minutes of [REC] had me on the edge of my seat & also jumping out of it on a couple of occasions.

[Raven]

I don't know about scare but White Noise certain gave me a few chills. An entertaining little flick that gets slammed an awfull lot, but you know what? It actually has quite alot going for it

[NurseMcTavish]

I don't know about scare but White Noise certain gave me a few chills. An entertaining little flick that gets slammed an awfull lot, but you know what? It actually has quite alot going for it

I agree, Raven. I don't know why that movie got such a bad rep. It's rare that movies even give me the chills anymore, but this one did!

[JohnShaft]

The last movie that scared me was definitely The Blair Witch Project. The gore/bloodfest movies never scared me. It was always the stuff that really seemed real that freaked me out.
Given that I'd say you definitely need to take a look at REC, and less so CLOVERFIELD.
BWP we've had arguments about here, many a year ago. It is one of those movies that almost everyone falls into one of the two camps on ("best, or most overrated, movie ever!11!"). Myself I was a little blah about it. Expected way too much (the insanely pro advertising/word of mouth took care of that) and I just felt really underwhelmed. I know it was less about actual substance and more about creating a mood, but many other films have done that and had a story too. I don't want the creators shot or anything, it just wasn't my cup of tea.

I don't know about scare but the last 10 minutes of [REC] had me on the edge of my seat & also jumping out of it on a couple of occasions.
In lurk mode, I've seen you recommend this a couple of times SD, and I've meant to say "preach on brother!". It does what I expected BWP to do. Bring scares and horror by seeming so believable (and being so well executed). I don't know the last film I saw that had so many "jump scares" (particularly as they aren't of the cheap "cat jumps out of the cupboard" variety). How about the first one with the girl huh? That's a real moment when you're suprised as fuck, not just by the reveal, but also what the movies bringing to the plate.

I liked CLOVERFIELD, but REC to me is much more effective at exploiting the "movie with a cheap handheld camera" appeal, and on a fraction of the budget. And don't get me started on DIARY OF THE DEAD, which I've just seen. (I feel a post brewing already)

It is underrated, deserved way more word of mouth, even outside of the horror community (ala BWP). And doesn't deserve to have it's corpse pissed on by the American remake. Read some fucking subtitles people!

[NurseMcTavish]

Cloverfield was too much for me. By the time the end of the movie was coming I had to periodically look away from the TV because the constant shaking of the camera was giving me the worst headache. I felt like I was trying to read a book in a car. Honestly, I didn't think the movie was good enough to warrant me going through that again. Once was enough, thanks.

I'm definitely going to check out REC. I'm looking on EBay now for a used copy.

[SomewhatDamaged]

In lurk mode, I've seen you recommend this a couple of times SD, and I've meant to say "preach on brother!". It does what I expected BWP to do. Bring scares and horror by seeming so believable (and being so well executed). I don't know the last film I saw that had so many "jump scares" (particularly as they aren't of the cheap "cat jumps out of the cupboard" variety). How about the first one with the girl huh? That's a real moment when you're suprised as fuck, not just by the reveal, but also what the movies bringing to the plate.

I liked CLOVERFIELD, but REC to me is much more effective at exploiting the "movie with a cheap handheld camera" appeal, and on a fraction of the budget. And don't get me started on DIARY OF THE DEAD, which I've just seen. (I feel a post brewing already)

It is underrated, deserved way more word of mouth, even outside of the horror community (ala BWP). And doesn't deserve to have it's corpse pissed on by the American remake. Read some fucking subtitles people!

I will bang on about [REC] to anyone that will listen as I truly believe it's the best horror movie in the last 20 odd years. As you say the scares are no cop out "cat jumps out of the cupboard" The second fireman's arrival in the lobby just had me out of my skin & by the time Angela & Pablo reach the top apartment I was pearched right on the edge of my seat. I can't bring myself to watch the remake. [REC] is a classic & stands just fine on it's own. A masterpiece of a scary movie.

[NurseMcTavish]

STOP! STOP! LOL...I just ordered it off EBay. No spoilers!!!

[michaelmyerslives07]

I can honestly say that no horror movie has ever scared me and im 14 I think i am just fucked up becuse everyone else i know gets scared shitless from crappy horror films.
Well actually, There is 2 films that hae everscared me and they would be Eight legged freaks and Arachnaphobia, but only becase i have aracnaphobia. I try my best to keep away from tose ind of films though. I likewatching all the old horor movies. I remember gtting scared of the trailer fr dracula (the orignal) hen i was 5. LOL, but i was a pussy when i was 5. It was when i was 7 i truely started to enjoy horror movies.

[woodenheart]

nothing, I need something to scare me....gimme something!!

[SomewhatDamaged]

nothing, I need something to scare me....gimme something!!

High School Musical? :teeth:

[michaelmyerslives07]

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, too scary for me.Can you imagine, singing and dancing and bad acting. How can people actualy like thesemovies??

[Sipes13]

Shuttle was decent :-) SomewhatDamaged, I like the sig :-)

[Neo]

I like movies with thriller treatment and like many of you I am not scared of horror movies but movies like jaws can really make an impact on a child and I am scared while I swim in the sea. Thanks to JAWS

[cwh_112]

I have been hiring horror movies for years and seem only to be affected by the possesion genre, the exorcist did scare me but the most disturbing would have to be the movie the antichrist its not a popular movie but if u get the chance to watch it defenantly do it the effects are old and somewhat fake but the movie has a very sinister tone about it.

[Jack Skellington]

Not quite sure.. maybe Audition.
Might I ask you what horror that clown in your signature is from? It fascinates me. I would love to see it for myself.

[accurseddotnet]

I really wish I could say one honestly scared me. I love horror movies, especially ones about the supernatural or possession. I always wanted to make a ghost movie so scary that it actually scared someone to death. Is that sick? Id go see a movie with a rep like that.

[Jack Skellington]

I always wanted to make a ghost movie so scary that it actually scared someone to death. Is that sick?
Not at all! It is the state of mind of all those who desire to scare. If you don't think like that, generally, why bother making horror? The idea is to get as horrific as possible.

[accurseddotnet]

Not at all! It is the state of mind of all those who desire to scare. If you don't think like that, generally, why bother making horror? The idea is to get as horrific as possible.

True...

Just wish had the $$$$$$$ to make it happen. I got the ideas, just not the money.

[axeline]

So far, I think this film is considered as the best film I have
watched, and that is " The Exorcism of Emily Rose"...
And as I've read that it's really a real story.. that gives me
really the chills..and seeing her face while she is in the state
of being exorcised.. I was really afraid to look at her face..

And the story is nice too.. Like the way how it goes..but I was
sadden for the trial makes the family guilty of negligence for
which I see..no truth about it..

But I was a bit confuse of what was really the real deal about
her death.. Was it really the exorcism..? the family's negligence.?
the hospital and doctors medication..?

[Jack Skellington]

True...

Just wish had the $$$$$$$ to make it happen. I got the ideas, just not the money.

Same here. I have a horror movie idea I wrote back when I was at high school, but no budget to do it with. Maybe one day though. We musn't give up.

[kostiakot]

The Exorcist

[Prospero]

Nothing really scares me, but the last movie that caught me off guard was probably White Noise 2: The Light. It's not the greatest movie, but I applaud it for being a fairly decent film!