I've been addicted to any kind of film enterprise with the term 'horror' slapped on it since puberty.
I find that there are, in a very general sense, three poles these films fall into grades of:
1. Suspense/tension. These rely on instilling fear on a psychological level. Think Rosemary's Baby, The Ring, etc.
2. Visceral/'realistic'. The best ones usually fall under the 'extreme' heading...Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Flower of Flesh and Blood, Penance, etc.
3. Just damn silly. Paul Naschy is a master here. Basket Case, the Dr. Phibes flicks, etc. Lots of these.
I tend to like nearly all of them, as my taste for mindless crap - coupled with a jaded reflex allowing me to extract entertainment from appalling garbage - was well-set in me when my mother would set me in front of the TV while she did the housework.
I like all three of these general fields of film (the best of the lot use at least two at the same time, I think). I especially like ones that lie at the more 'extreme' outer edges of these three general directions.
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122Anyone see Sunshine? How about that scene where they are boarding the lost ship and there are those quick flashes of people's faces? Although I didn't think the movie was very good overall, those faces scared the shit out of me.
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123Apart from the Omen...
The Wickerman - "I've just come to police your village and now you are burning me alive." Nice.
A lot of Hammer Horror from the seventies.
The Shining, for the above reasons and the Twins.
Nightmare on Elm St - Never saw anything like it at the time.
Alien - My friends and I shat ourselves so my much that they had to build a new sewer out of the cinema.
Hellraiser - The first one is very, very dark.
The Thing - A couple of mates, younger than me, poured scorn on this film. They only saw in their twenties. Imagine watching it in your impressionable teens and you know that the Thing could be out there...
Nosferatu - Just spooky.
Eraserhead - why would anyone want to make erasers out of people's heads? I've read about it since, but it came completely out of the blue.
Psycho - check in and I'll slaughter you completely. lovely.
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer - I kept laughing and then realising they were killing people later.
Marathon Man - not a horror film, but I crapped myself, thinking, "I like my molars."
Films I've enjoyed but haven't really scared the shit out of me: The Ring, Saw, Candyman.
The Daleks will always be scary.
The Wickerman - "I've just come to police your village and now you are burning me alive." Nice.
A lot of Hammer Horror from the seventies.
The Shining, for the above reasons and the Twins.
Nightmare on Elm St - Never saw anything like it at the time.
Alien - My friends and I shat ourselves so my much that they had to build a new sewer out of the cinema.
Hellraiser - The first one is very, very dark.
The Thing - A couple of mates, younger than me, poured scorn on this film. They only saw in their twenties. Imagine watching it in your impressionable teens and you know that the Thing could be out there...
Nosferatu - Just spooky.
Eraserhead - why would anyone want to make erasers out of people's heads? I've read about it since, but it came completely out of the blue.
Psycho - check in and I'll slaughter you completely. lovely.
Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer - I kept laughing and then realising they were killing people later.
Marathon Man - not a horror film, but I crapped myself, thinking, "I like my molars."
Films I've enjoyed but haven't really scared the shit out of me: The Ring, Saw, Candyman.
The Daleks will always be scary.
dude, where's my life?
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124fedaykin13 wrote:vockins wrote:If the movie is going to keep me fearful for longer than 10 seconds after an event on the screen occurs, yes, I have to believe that what's happening is plausible.Ty Webb wrote:So something has to be real to be scary?
I'm not declaring that I didn't jump during some scene in Hellraiser or Suspiria or whatever. That's not scary to me, that's startling. Sometimes I'll be working at my desk and someone will come up and ask me a question and I jump out of my skin, too. I don't fear for my existence for a week when that happens.
Certainly we could get into the semantics about what scary means and I jumped and so I was scared and blah blah blah. But at the end of the day I just don't give a shit about some freaky rubic's cube and a dude with tacks in his face with chains and hooks all over the place.
I see what your saying
Its a very personal thing.
Things that are shown in let's say Last House on the Left
aren't scary to me because they happen every day
disturbing and depressing? Yes.
I have a very vivid imagination
so I guess certain things "scare" me.
SPOILERS for Suspiria
The scene where the piano player is walking home alone
that scared the shit out of me.
Here's something that scared me, and you can maybe play it on someone who doesn't know it.
The Ring
I was impressed with the movie
I was working on a top 10 Scary movies for a magazine a couple of years ago and I watched the Ring on recommendation.
I read something online about the DVD and something you could do.
I watched the whole movie...and really liked it.
Anyway.
This thing online said if you watch the menu and wait for the cursor to
disappear, press up on your DVD remote and then press play
This will show you just the cursed video from the movie
(which alone is cool)
but the part that really gets you is that after its over, it goes back to the menu and after maybe ten seconds
hits you with the sound effect of a phone ringing.
If your not expecting it, It will make you jump
and the phone ring was just like the one I happened to have at the time in my apartment.
I re-watched the Shining after that at like 3 in the morning
to see where I wanted to place it in my article
I did this Ring trick on accident. I watched the video and thought it was cool. I was sitting around by myself when the phone rang and I jumped completely out of my skin. Then I picked up my skin and my clothes and shit in the combination of pants and leg skin.
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125fedaykin13 wrote:
You should check out "The Descent"
I loved The Descent. Talk about a high pucker factor. And I'm not even claustrophobic. If an actual claustrophobe watched that movie, their head would cave in.
You had me at Sex Traction Aunts Getting Vodka-Rogered On Glass Furniture
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126Ty Webb wrote:fedaykin13 wrote:
You should check out "The Descent"
I loved The Descent. Talk about a high pucker factor. And I'm not even claustrophobic. If an actual claustrophobe watched that movie, their head would cave in.
Exactly. I'm not claustrophobic either, but there was definitely a moment or two where i wanted to turn away.
His first movie (Dog Soldiers) was a campy werewolf movie.
I like it.
scott wrote:It was fun. We laughed, we cried, most of us shit ourselves as far as I know. What a world.
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127Damn! Thanks for reminding me! I missed Dog Soldiers, and every time someone brings it up I intend to put it in my queue, but then promptly forget.
You had me at Sex Traction Aunts Getting Vodka-Rogered On Glass Furniture
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128Has anyone seen the movie "Possession"?
Someone put this on at a party that I attended and it kept attracting my attention. Because the audio was kinda low I didn't really get to experience it fully but I kept asking my friend what was going on. I understood that the story was about a woman (Isabel Adjani) who is becoming increasingly crazy and who gives birth to a squid creature. She then keeps the creature a secret from her husband (Sam Neill) because she is having a weird sexual relationship with the creature. It's totally disgusting but undeniably intriguing.
When you see an internationally acclaimed actress play a hysterical freak who makes love to her own monstrous, tentacled offspring when she's not vomiting and bleeding all over herself, you might take it as a sign that her career is over.
Part berserk art movie, part schlock horror...
Someone put this on at a party that I attended and it kept attracting my attention. Because the audio was kinda low I didn't really get to experience it fully but I kept asking my friend what was going on. I understood that the story was about a woman (Isabel Adjani) who is becoming increasingly crazy and who gives birth to a squid creature. She then keeps the creature a secret from her husband (Sam Neill) because she is having a weird sexual relationship with the creature. It's totally disgusting but undeniably intriguing.
When you see an internationally acclaimed actress play a hysterical freak who makes love to her own monstrous, tentacled offspring when she's not vomiting and bleeding all over herself, you might take it as a sign that her career is over.
Part berserk art movie, part schlock horror...
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129noise&light wrote:Has anyone seen the movie "Possession"?
Oh, yeah. That is a good one.
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130noise&light wrote:Has anyone seen the movie "Possession"?
This movie is spectacular and nerve-wracking. Isabelle Adjani screams most of her dialogue.
You can get this on a DVD with Schock, Mario Bava's sadly underrated last movie. I recommend this DVD!
matthew wrote:His Life and his Death gives us LIFE.......supernatural life- which is His own life because he is God and Man. This is all straight Catholicism....no nuttiness or mystical crap here.