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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 28, 2022 10:29:56 GMT -5
I’m thinking about doing a Halloween marathon with my wife. What are your 5 scariest movies you ever saw ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 12:13:37 GMT -5
1.) The Exorcist
2.) Amityville II: The Possession
3.) 1408
4.) Don’t be Afraid of the Dark (1973 version)
5.) The Omen
They left a bad taste in my mouth. Effective horror films, but they stayed with me, particularly the 2nd one on my list.
Incidentally, I saw 2021’s SPIRAL on Prime recently. Terrible film. The scariest thing about that film is the fact that someone actually decided to produce it…
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Post by shaxper on Oct 28, 2022 12:15:05 GMT -5
I think I can safely say that the only film that's ever truly scared me as an adult was George Romero's Day of the Dead because it depicts people being utterly savage to other people in ways that are completely believable. People really would do this to each other in a crisis. By the end of the film, it's clear that the humans are more monstrous than the zombies they are trying to outlast. It's more an existential scare than something that makes you jump out of your seat.
But, in terms of traditional horror scares, I've got nothing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 12:19:54 GMT -5
I think I can safely say that the only film that's ever truly scared me as an adult was George Romero's Day of the Dead because it depicts people being utterly savage to other people in ways that are completely believable. People really would do this to each other in a crisis. By the end of the film, it's clear that the humans are more monstrous than the zombies they are trying to outlast. It's more an existential scare than something that makes you jump out of your seat. But, in terms of traditional horror scares, I've got nothing. I don’t know how audiences in the United States felt about that film, but I’ve heard a lot of criticism over here, from film journalists and the like. Personally, I prefer it to DAWN OF THE DEAD. It is scary for the existential reasons you describe. Captain Rhodes is the true monster in that, willing to shoot dead civilian scientists. And Logan was rather scary. Did he really think that after domesticating ONE zombie, that he could do the same to hundreds of thousands? That’d take forever and a day.  |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 28, 2022 12:27:09 GMT -5
I think I can safely say that the only film that's ever truly scared me as an adult was George Romero's Day of the Dead because it depicts people being utterly savage to other people in ways that are completely believable. People really would do this to each other in a crisis. By the end of the film, it's clear that the humans are more monstrous than the zombies they are trying to outlast. It's more an existential scare than something that makes you jump out of your seat. But, in terms of traditional horror scares, I've got nothing. I don’t know how audiences in the United States felt about that film, but I’ve heard a lot of criticism over here, from film journalists and the like. Personally, I prefer it to DAWN OF THE DEAD. Oh, I MUCH prefer Dawn of the Dead, but Dawn doesn't scare me. Day makes me so uncomfortable that I have to take viewing breaks each time. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 12:39:57 GMT -5
On a personal level, DAY is the film I bought the most. I had two VHS versions, a DVD version (probably from around 2001, featuring a radio interview with Richard Liberty), a 2-disc DVD release, and the Blu-ray. So five versions in total, which is a bit sad, but probably a record for me.
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Post by berkley on Oct 28, 2022 13:25:31 GMT -5
The first two that come to mind in terms of how they scared me on first seeing them are The Shining and Carnival of Souls. I'll have to think about which ones I'd pick for the rest of my top 5. I imagine The Exorcist would have been there, because the book scared me plenty when I read it as a kid, but I never got to see the movie until it was re-released in the 2000s, I think it was.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 28, 2022 14:27:18 GMT -5
I don’t actually enjoy horror movies. Seen all the Universal classics, seen all of the “modern” classics (Omen, Exorcist, Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Hellraiser), but after the 80s, when things took a decided turn to shock and gore, like Saw and Hostel (both of which I watched and was disgusted by), I haven’t seen a “new” horror film in at least a decade.
I did enjoy Cabin in the Woods, although it’s more akin to the “modern” classics than the current gorefests.
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Post by berkley on Oct 28, 2022 14:48:11 GMT -5
the next two I've thought of are a couple of Japanese films: Audition and Ring (the first one - haven't seen the sequels or the US remake).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 15:26:50 GMT -5
My No. 1 remains The Changeling (1980). Creeped me out as a child and still does today.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 28, 2022 15:38:04 GMT -5
First one that comes to mind is “The Changeling” (1980), directed by Peter Medak and starring George C. Scott.
The wet rubber ball and the cast-iron tub.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 28, 2022 15:50:55 GMT -5
I think of any movie I've seen that legit scared me to the point I was on edge would be Ju-On.
Like The Captain was saying most modern ones just to try to disgust or gross you out as a scare tactic.
Communion, Fire In The Sky, alien abduction movies scare me but that's more my own personal irrational fear rather than the intention of such movies.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2022 17:04:50 GMT -5
First one that comes to mind is “The Changeling” (1980), directed by Peter Medak and starring George C. Scott. The wet rubber ball and the cast-iron tub. How could I forget that one? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 28, 2022 18:17:34 GMT -5
I’m very rarely scared by the movies, even though I do like horror movies and I’ve watched bunches and bunches of them.
When I was a kid, the only movie that scared me was Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? I had nightmares about the scene where Jane kills the cleaning lady with the hammer.
However, there are a couple of movies that seriously give me the creeps. Number one is Carnival of Souls. I saw it 30 years ago and I still, every once in a while, get the feeling that the dead are behind every corner, watching me, and I just can’t see them because I’m not dead ... yet!
And then there’s Repulsion! I saw that and it made my somewhat creepy apartment building even creepier!
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Post by Duragizer on Oct 28, 2022 18:27:18 GMT -5
- Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm (1998)
- The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
- Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)
- Night Train to Mundo Fine AKA Red Zone Cuba (1966)
- Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
Nothing scares me quite like bad filmmaking, and these are the worst. |
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