diego wrote: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.

Agreed, this was VERY CREEPY.

My x-girlfriend used to manage Haxan films (makers of The Blair Witch Project) whose offices were my living room. This film took those 5 guys from fresh out of college film students to millionaires.

The scariest movie experience I've ever had was Poltergiest. I was at a sleepover birthday party when I was 7 years old and this chick's parent let us stay up late and watch Poltergeist on a very large screen TV.

The fear of the bathroom mirror alone at night literally only stopped about 2 or 3 years ago. TV static still freaks me out.

Shotgun-Charlie wrote: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.

Yeah, I love this movie. It also proves that technology has very little to do with how convicing special effects can be. I love how abrupt the ending is.

gjhardwick wrote: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.

What a great, great movie. The direct, Pupi Avati, has made many fine films.

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

I'm willing to bet the U.S. version will not touch the original. I love that movie. Also recommended: Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Sweet Home, and everything else he's done.

You guys probably already know this, and I'm probably coming off like a smug prick. I am not doing this deliberately.

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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!

it sucked, but you should see it anyway. maybe you will like it?


also, kerble's Mariana Trench thread.

'Men Behind the Sun'. Gory, oh god yes. Extremely disturbing as well. Worth a look...

Elephant doesn't really fit into the horror genre, but it was one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen.

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Scariness is an equation with the maturity variable weighing heavily.

I did not see The Thing, The Shining, or Alien until I fairly recently and can now recognize them as genre-transcending masterpieces. Had I seen them 25 years ago, I'd still be incontinent. My wife and I have bonded over zombie flicks; another genre I didn't get into until later in life.

Of more recent films, The Grudge unnerved me for months. Jacob's Ladder was a great, scary mindfuck until it started to make sense. The Blair Witch Project convinced me that not only were my camping days over, neither would they ever begin. The Omen remake sucked ass, and the original wasn't so hot either. The Exorcist was mildly better.

Of horrifying, yet not strictly horror films, Kids horrified me in that I realized if my parents ever saw it, it'd be the end of my social life. Whoever said Irreversible and Salo are not date/chick movies nailed it.

I have a bootlegish DVD+R in front of me with Hostel, Silent Hill, Slither, The Hills Have Eyes (remake), High Tension, and Saw 2 on it. I'm guessing only 1 or 2 of these will be worth watching.

Finallyish, since having seen the new King Kong, I'm having a little trouble gardening, because I keep expecting giant-ass crickets to jump on my back and gnaw me. I only recently learned crickets are omnivorous.

Anyone here into recent Korean cinema? How's A Tale of Two Sisters?

Audition has to be one of the most disturbing things I've sat through in quite some time.

Don't look Now is sufficently creepy, that Nicholas Roeg guy is one helluva director, as is Roman Polanski. The first time I saw Rosemary's Baby I was scared shitless; it seems more campy and fun to me now, although I still prefer not to view that one late at night. The Tenant is also scary in a Shining kind of way.

Another ominous film is The Innocents with Deborah Kerr, had some nice ghost story type moments and head games to give a good scare sans blood and guts or color for that matter.

I remember The Believers being scary also, haven't seen it in many years...

jason smith wrote:Elephant doesn't really fit into the horror genre, but it was one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen.

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Are you talking about the same movie I watched????
It's not disturbing at all and visually it's a beautiful movie. I agree that the event in Columbine is disturbing but not the movie.

diego wrote:Are you talking about the same movie I watched????
It's not disturbing at all and visually it's a beautiful movie. I agree that the event in Columbine is disturbing but not the movie.

Well, I guess on the surface the atmosphere of the movie is aesthetically pleasing. It draws you into the movie. I only watched it once so I can't overanalyze, but I remember having this cold, detached feeling. The fact that it is so immersive makes it all the more gut wrenching when the bad stuff starts to happen. I didn't really mean disturbing as an insult. I just meant it ripped my heart out. Ahh, this is probably the wrong thread to talk about this movie.