I was going to hijack the Silent Hill thread but I decided to start one instead.
Last night, I made the claim that I have never really been scared by a horror movie, I mean I have jumped here and there when something caught me off guard but never scared…as a matter of fact I usually laugh threw them…Ask Fester I would laugh hysterical at movies titles ridiculous things like pumpkin head and that fact that Freddy was in your dreams and he would want to kill me himself!
The same thing happened last night I watched the skeleton key (awful) and the suppossed classic The Birds and I couldnt stop laughing although the skeleton key was up there as an utter waste of 2 hours of my life, The Birds at least made me laugh hystericaly every time an oversized seagull or crow tried to attack someone…So, I said I will find a real horror movie that I actually think will scare me or at least make me jump a bit…Problem is I dont really know any because I think they are dumb…
I need you guys help, what are some of the better scary movies. Are some nightmare on elm streets and halloweens better then others? I recall candy man being sort of scary but I was also about 12 when it came out…I looked for a few lists of top horror movies and I got things that are so old they can’t even scare you because you are to busy laughing at all the fake scenery and props…
I doubt she’d find it scary. Seems like if you think most horror movies are a joke then you’ll be cracking up through any of the old ones - mostly for the fake special effects and the slightly silly plot lines.
I’m not a horror movie fan - I don’t really like being scared - but I still think that The Shining is pretty frightening. It was well done considering how old it is now. (though you’ll crack up at the scene with the old woman)
I might check out the shinning, I saw the exorcist for the first time last year and you are right I laughed through the whole thing…not that if I saw it when it originally came out I might have been scared it was just now seeing her crawl down the stars and swear and stuff just cracked me up!
Well I’ll warn you that the Shining is less a horror movie and more a psycho thriller - a man’s decent into madness if you will. What I really appreciated about it was the lack of a soundtrack at key parts. I hate the way movie music tries to control and dictate your emotions.
I think I’ll follow this thread… I’ve been looking for a good scare flick for a while also, like Marie, most horror flicks are pretty crappy.
The only movies I’d really want in my collection are the original Ju-on films. Though I bought Rose Red a few days ago, havent seen it yet (it’s like 245 minutes long… dang…)
go watch The Ring (japanese version) and The Grudge (Korean version)
its so scary (im not usually the scardey type and i usually laugh on horror movies too…) but these one haunted me that came to a point that i cant go upstairs alone…lol…freaky!!
To me it was both.
And yes, the Ju-on films also. Although in Ju-on it’s a different type of horror…atmosphere like. But that makes it more persistant I guess.
Some top movies comming out of South Korea the last few years, A Tale Of 2 Sisters will scare you ring style, and Oldboy will scare you shining style, couple of must see movies there…
The Ring really wasn’t that scary to me. I watched it the way it should be watched, alone at night in the dark, but it didn’t do it for me. It was more interesting than it was scary really. The only thing that made me jump up a little were the creepy faces the little girl left behind on her victims. That’s about it really, I wasn’t really scared by it - just freaked out I guess (but who isn’t after having watched that).
Ju-on on the other hand … that one wasn’t bad. Though I also found it a bit weird - I guess I’m not really used to the strange habits Japanese people seem to have. Throughout the entire movie I couldn’t get the relation between all the people right. They just walked in and out the house like crazy and didn’t seem to notice what was happening to the other guys while standing next to them
What’s really strange is that the movie that has had the most impact on me has been Final Fantasy (not FF7 Advent Children, it’s actually called ‘Final Fantasy’ and nothing more). It’s about Gaia and spirits and whatnot; that one actually controlled my dreams for a week, dreaming about spirits and gaia and all that other mental stuff …
I’m in the same boat. I’m obsessed with horror flicks but am yet to find any that haunt my dreams. I mean yeah I can be startled by something poppin out of the bushes like anyone else- but thats not being scared.
I watch most for the comedic value and unique deaths.
I found the ring pretty scary. See, horror films aren’t actually about the actual horror but the tension which builds up in the expectation of horror. I saw a good movie on TV that utilized that a lot and was pretty disturbing to boot, Jeepers Creepers I think it was named.
