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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Apr 26, 2004 17:23:04 GMT -5
What's the last movie that really scared you, or just gave you that shiver-down-the-spine-looking-over-your-shoulder feeling? I guess I've watched so much horror that nothing really gets to me or scares me now. The only one I could come up w/ was "Blair Witch Project". I guess b/c it was filmed documentary style, I dunno, but I was pretty creeped out when I saw it at the theatre. I've watched it a couple of times since & the final scene where he's standing in the corner & then the camera drops....that still gives me chills. Signs gave me a couple of chills too the first time I saw it, I guess technically that's sci-fi, but hey, it still qualifies.  |
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Apr 26, 2004 18:57:01 GMT -5
I'd have to say the Shining. That was the epitome of creepy.
The last movie that scared me when I saw it in theaters was the Ring.
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Post by embalmer on Apr 27, 2004 3:21:59 GMT -5
The last two horror movies that really scared me are "The Eye" and Japanese "Ju-On".Both are extremely creepy.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Apr 27, 2004 10:15:54 GMT -5
I guess THE RING was the last horror movie that gave me "that shiver-down-the-spine-looking-over-your-shoulder feeling". But only a couple of times.
Neither it, nor the original RINGU, came close to THE EXORCIST, IMHO.
But I agree, livingdeadgirl, that last scene in "BLAIR WITCH" was pretty cool.
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Post by Bartwald on Apr 27, 2004 12:18:19 GMT -5
Blair Witch didn't work for me, even though I saw at a theatre.
The Ring had a huge impact on me, on the other hand: I thought it was going to be a common flashy big-studio horror, but what I got was pure creepiness! I know many people will disagree but myself I was just crushed by it.
The last movie that made me feel uneasy was May: it may not have many jumps but is wonderfully dark and full of suspense; didn't 'scare' me as much as The Ring, but definitely managed to give me the shiver-down-the-spine feeling!
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Post by frankenjohn on Apr 27, 2004 15:28:09 GMT -5
The Ring. I saw it in 2002.
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Apr 27, 2004 16:12:06 GMT -5
Exorcist didn't scare me.
But that's probably because I read the book before I saw the movie. And the book scared the living shit out of me.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Apr 27, 2004 16:39:45 GMT -5
Blair Witch didn't work for me, even though I saw at a theatre. The Ring had a huge impact on me, on the other hand: I thought it was going to be a common flashy big-studio horror, but what I got was pure creepiness! I know many people will disagree but myself I was just crushed by it. The last movie that made me feel uneasy was May: it may not have many jumps but is wonderfully dark and full of suspense; didn't 'scare' me as much as The Ring, but definitely managed to give me the shiver-down-the-spine feeling! I saw Blair Witch at the theatre, had to sit on the front row b/c the place was packed, which sucked. I guess that's why it made it creepy. The Ring creeped me out some too, more than any horror I've seen recently. I saw a little bit of May the other nite, but it was coming on when I was going to bed so I didn't get to see all of it. I'm just waiting for the next movie that's gonna scare me & make me hide under the chair.  |
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Post by Father Red on Apr 27, 2004 18:33:45 GMT -5
One of the only films that still manages to bother me is Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Though it's far from being a "great" horror film, the culmination of Lovecraftian activity bothers the Hell out of me - particularly the Innsmouth couple (the old lady with the tentacles holding her husband as a slave) and the spider walk of the lead actress.
On a side note, I recently picked up The Eye in a trade and was greatly disappointed. I guess it's my own fault for paying any heed to internet hype, but Christ it was bad.
People making ghost movies really need to go back to the original's and stop showing the damned ghosts. House on Haunted Hill and The Haunting both worked without some queer looking apparition or a CGI blob.
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Post by frankenjohn on Apr 27, 2004 19:08:33 GMT -5
I recently watched In The Mouth of Madness and I'm now crazy about it.
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Post by Bartwald on Apr 28, 2004 12:21:02 GMT -5
Why does everyone love In The Mouth Of Madness so much, eh? I saw it long time ago and don't remember much from it which is usually a bad sign for a horror movie!
Seriously though: I want to see it once again. When I saw it this first time I expected a completely different movie, and probably couldn't accept what Carpenter was trying to give me instead.
And The Exorcist? Ayuh, creepy stuff! Just watch in proper conditions guys. Wait for after midnight, take your DVD player to a cemetary nearby - that kind of stuff.
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Post by clifford43 on Apr 29, 2004 19:56:21 GMT -5
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Sickening, disturbing, twisted - and at the end there's no retribution, no explanation, no let-up. Delicious! Last 15 mins i was wishing i wasn't watching the movie.
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Post by clifford43 on Apr 29, 2004 19:59:01 GMT -5
I think you have to be religious to be scared by religious thrillers. I thought Exorcist was well-written, well done, but scary? And i loved Omen, but i was shocked on the DVD when Richard Donner said it was so scary because it could happen? Titter, giggle - the son of the devil coming to earth in human form, and he's saying this is scary because its REALLY possible. Which is why i say these movies are strange - b.c non-religious ppl don't really get scared, but the movies take themselves so seriously, so they're not really fun, and religious people think its really possible so they're so scared they don't enjoy it or want to watch it! A paradox, no?
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Apr 29, 2004 22:09:15 GMT -5
I think you have to be religious to be scared by religious thrillers. Not necessarily. In my case, I think it has more to do with having seen both THE EXORCIST & THE OMEN when I was quite young. A lot of those feelings I felt the first time I watched them remain to this day when watching them and I'm not religious at all. On the other hand, movies about masked psychos don't really scare me. I can appreciate one when it's well done, and the first HALLOWEEN & TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE had their moments, but overall? They tend to be mostly ways of exposing us to new and creative ways, thought up by the filmmakers, of killing teenagers. While I wasn't a huge fan of THE RING, I at least appreciated the fact that it wasn't just another retread of the slasher formula that we had seen so many times before. This isn't directed at you necessarily, Clifford, but I find that people who say they didn't think THE EXORCIST was scary tend to be younger people who maybe saw it many years after the fact, know what it's all about, have seen or heard all the spoofs, jokes, highlights and have seen so much horror and gore in movies already that by the time they see it, it doesn't have the impact that it had in the 70's for those unsuspecting audiences who definitely had not seen anything like it before. |
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Post by ZapRowsdower on Apr 30, 2004 3:35:56 GMT -5
Yeah, I saw the Exorcist a good 3 years ago. Didn't scare me, because I read the book before I saw it. But the book itself WAS scary. I suggest you read it, it's excellent.
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