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kerble wrote:And there's also Open Water, which preys on my personal fear of being in the middle of the fucking ocean:
http://www.openwatermovie.com

This "being in the middle of the fucking ocean" is also my drummer's deepest personal fear. When he's drunk, he can go on for hours about it, while I sit by and feed his anguish by making comments about such dreaded things as the Mariana Trench.

We must see this movie!

sunlore wrote:

kerble wrote:And there's also Open Water, which preys on my personal fear of being in the middle of the fucking ocean:
http://www.openwatermovie.com

This "being in the middle of the fucking ocean" is also my drummer's deepest personal fear. When he's drunk, he can go on for hours about it, while I sit by and feed his anguish by making comments about such dreaded things as the Mariana Trench.

We must see this movie!

getting drowned is one of mine fears. i once freaked out my friends by talking how must it feel... you hold your breath for as long as you can but there is moment when you're still concious but you feel your chest is about to explode so you (or your body) make the decision to breath with water. it seems to me you're concious for a while after that, with lungs full of water. yikes.


as for horrors , i higly recommend dead end. before i had watched it, i expected it be silly evil dead/brain dead kind of movie. so i was even more scared when it turned out to be non-f/x old school type of horror with an pretty clever plot hidden undearneath what is going on in the main lights. (i am not gonna say more as i hope some of you will watch it). plus, it was really scary. the whole vibe was heavy (even though there are some trulely hilarious moments) plus it had some heart-stopping moments (and a few cliche scenes, but hey, it's a low budget horror movie).


i also feel 28days after was underrated, i really liked how this film was made from technical point of view, how anger was the zombie virus etc. plus, the ending was brilliant! not the last scene which seemed attached cause one of the producers wanted a happy end, but the last 10 (or so, it's been a while) minutes of the movie. at one point there was a big change in how camera was working, music got lauder, and it all turned into a very stylish dance macabre. has anyone noticed that? to me, it was one of the coolest things about that movie.

it was probably the scariest movie i ever saw, and it's probably gonna stay this way as i watched for the only time when i was about 11 (i haven't watched it since, so it may actually suck, but it surely had given me creeps many days after i watched the movie). a mysterious force who wears a clown costume and kills kids at my age, that was too much for me at the time. in this movie, before clown kills someone, this persons notices something strange (like a photo winking at this person). i was affraid this is going happen to me - i was affraid of looking through the window cause i thought i will see clown's face there. i was scared of looking at pictures of my family. for good few days i was scared of everything. however, the ending totally sucked! oh boy, it was bad! this mysterious, terryfing force materalized it self in a shape of a giant spider! how can a giant spider be more scary then a clown killing kids.. when you know this creature is million times scariers than a real clown would be? how?


also, when i watched casino at the age of 13/14 i was absolutely shocked about the scene in which two brothers are beaten nearly-to-death with baseball bats and than burried alive. it blew my mind, i was thinking what i would do in this scenario (helplessly looking at your brother getting beat and than buried, only to join him a few moments later...)
sad thing is, i watched this movie yesterday. i noticed those two are not beaten very heavily and blood is obviously fake... and i felt nothing. i'm affraid it means i was a better as a human being 10 years ago.

The House With The Windows That Laugh - low key Italian movie from the late 70s. Not outright scary but is really, really creepy and sinister.

The Shining - already been mentioned. One of my favourite films

The Vanishing - already been mentioned. Very unsettling

The Descent: Recent film directed by Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers) about a group of young, attractive women who get lost underground on an ill-advised pot-holing expedition. Sounds like crap on paper, but Marshall's unrelenting cruelty, the unbearable atmosphere of the craves and the great, edgy script make this borderline traumatic viewing.

The opening scene is genuinely shocking, but it's the closing scene that's the real killer.

I would not watch this film again.

Shock Corridor: Reporter goes undercover in mental institution to solve a murder. Reporter goes mental. Strange, disturbing film.

Apart from the classics like The Exorcist, The Shining, Ring and other japanese creepy movies you all mentionned above, I remember watching on TV The Kingdom which is a TV show directed by Lars von Trier.
One of the fucking creepiest thing I ever watched!!!!!

Check it there.

I seriously advise anyone to watch that show, it's fantastic and really scary.

I was 5 and my Mom let me watch An American Werewolf in London. Up until that point, the only horror flicks I recall having seen were of the "Abbott and Costello Meet-" variety. This thing scared the shit out of me. The whole metamorphosis didn't look comfortable in the least, and I remember getting as far as David's face getting all stretched out before running from the room.

Years later I watched the movie without blinking, but I also picked up on the nuances and subtleties of that particular scene, like THE SOUNDS OF THE GUY'S FUCKING BONES CRACKING.

John Carpenter's THE THING completely freaked me out for years afterwards. I wish Carpenter would make another flick as upsetting (in a good way, not in a VAMPIRES kind of way, which was upsetting because it sucked like a goddamned Hoover.)

SHOCK CORRIDOR is another awesome movie, but I don't find it scary. I am a Sam Fuller nut to begin with, so I guess I am the target demo.

The Japanese version of PULSE completely creeped me out, and I wonder if the US remake will do the same.

OK, now this is the scariest thing I have seen in a long while:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 1013011299

2) Fire in the Sky. I saw this in the theater in '93 when I was 12. Every scene involving abduction and experimentation freaked my shit.

Yes! I know so few people who remember this movie. I've seen it multiple times... the alien scene is a total freakout.

Did no one mention "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer"? Did I miss that?

I no one mentioned it, I'll give it my vote for the scariest movie. There's a scene when Henry and Otis are in the living room of a suburban family, videotaping one another rape/torture them that makes you think "why am I watching this for entertainment?" It's really disturbing.

Movie trivia - H,POASC was orginially assigned an X rating, and so was released "unrated" instead.

What that movie as fucked up as I remember it? Yikes.

= Justin