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And nobody brought up this scary slice of cinematic heaven?
Also, Bergman's The Virgin Spring isn't a horror movie; just Craven's retooling of it as Last House on the Left. Bergman's only true venture into horror was The Hour of the Wolf.
The plot leaves something to be desired but technical aspects and production design are close to flawless. I think that's one of the main reason people respect it so much. You can sit and watch 10 minutes of that film and see that it's a cut above most horror films in those areas.
ALSO, I don't know what kind of issues I had above but those broken image links were Eyes Without a Face and The Innocents. The Innocents was the main reason I even posted. That's one of my favorite horror films. Watch if you haven't.
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Post by FuzzyWarbles on Aug 6, 2012 23:42:25 GMT -5
They're not really scary, but I used to love to watch those old Edgar Allan Poe movies starring Vincent Price. I especially loved the one on Tales Of Terror where him and Peter Lorre meet in a wine tasting contest only for Lorre to later enclose both his wife and Price behind a brick wall. A young Jack Nicholson is good in The Raven.
Post by FuzzyWarbles on Aug 6, 2012 23:49:52 GMT -5
The Exorcist is probably the movie that scared me the most. Has anyone ever seen the cult movie from the 90's , Highway To Hell? I must have watched that 20 times back in the day
They're not really scary, but I used to love to watch those old Edgar Allan Poe movies starring Vincent Price. I especially loved the one on Tales Of Terror where him and Peter Lorre meet in a wine tasting contest only for Lorre to later enclose both his wife and Price behind a brick wall. A young Jack Nicholson is good in The Raven.
Fall of The House of Usher staring Vincent Price was the first horror film I ever saw when I was like 7 (it was on TV, I'm not THAT old!). I watched it while hiding in another room peeking around the corner because it was so terrifying to me at the time . Hooked for life! Over the next 3 years I think I saw just about every Werewolf, Dracula and Frankenstein movie ever made prior to 1970.
The Thing, Jacob's Ladder and Alien are pretty awesome. The Thing does such a good job building suspense. I knew what happened in the blood testing scene, but it still made me jump. If the hospital scene in Jacob's Ladder doesn't do it for you, i don't know what will.
Has anyone seen In The Mouth of Madness? Overall, it's not a great movie, but there are certain scenes that stuck with me. For example, I cannot drive down a back road at night without being terrified that we are going to pass someone on a bike.
Also, The Grudge. I don't know if it is legit scary to me or if it was just because I saw it with Abra and she was scared out of her d*mn mind. My hand/leg was sore for a week after that movie.
When it came out, my hometown got the rights to screen the movie at the community pool (which is effing huge). They set the screen up at the edge and expanded the island in the middle to accomodate more people, so basically, you watched Jaws in the middle of a huge pool and had to swim back to the edge after the movie. He said he had never been more scared of swimming in his life.
The Shining and Alien are classics that I will watch again and again, and pick up on something new each time. Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman as Dracula was also well done.
Jeepers Creepers, although kinda stupid, scared the pee out of me for some reason!
Although I'm not really grossed out by blood and gore, the movies that really get under my skin are those with a psychological bend. And some of the luster always seems lost in sequel(s).
You guys, I'm going to love reading this thread, but I wont have too much to contribute - as my rule for watching horror films is that it must be at like, noon, on a saturday with all the blinds open and all the lights on.
That said: Poltergeist. First scary movie I ever saw. To this day I count between thunder and lightening, and keep the door to my closet open so if any funny business starts up in there, I'll know it beforehand. None of that light-coming-from-under-the-door, then bulging door, then door-flying-open-to-reveal-a-giant-evil-throat-of-the-devil-to-swallow-me business up in Mayo's house. No sir. Closet door OPEN.
And: Event Horizon. Seriously, when Sam Neill is watching the video that comes back with the ship, and the captain of the EH basically says (as everyone in the background is mutilating each other with fervor) "free yourself from hell" ...............yeah, i saw that in the theater in hs, and when i got home, i asked my sister to sit in the bathroom and chat with me while i took a shower before bed, bc i was scared. to be in the bathroom alone. For fear of Dr. Weir's no-eyed wife killing me when i threw back the shower curtain. Similarly, I am in love with the movie Sunshine (NOT a horror flick) bc of it's likeness to EH, without all the paranormal mumbo-jumbo. ...Yes, that was just a plug for Sunshine. ;D
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Post by wannaberoo'ing on Aug 7, 2012 8:03:20 GMT -5
Pretty much all the movies from Stephen King's novels are my favorite. Carrie, Pet Sematary (most disturbing movie ever for me, my whole family was afraid of gray cats for a long time), Misery (a close second!), of course The Shining (Kubrick's take on King's novel, yes, but cinematic gold).
I love a good slasher film, zombie films make me chuckle, but psychological horror is more my thing. Seven (or Se7en, as some recognize it spelled) is definitely one of the best psychological thrillers of all time.
Also, Bergman's The Virgin Spring isn't a horror movie; just Craven's retooling of it as Last House on the Left. Bergman's only true venture into horror was The Hour of the Wolf.
Wasnt saying that The Virgin Spring was a horror movie, but if someone is going to watch Last House on the Left they should watch Bergman's version too. Cause it's so damn good!
You guys, I'm going to love reading this thread, but I wont have too much to contribute - as my rule for watching horror films is that it must be at like, noon, on a saturday with all the blinds open and all the lights on.
That said: Poltergeist. First scary movie I ever saw. To this day I count between thunder and lightening, and keep the door to my closet open so if any funny business starts up in there, I'll know it beforehand. None of that light-coming-from-under-the-door, then bulging door, then door-flying-open-to-reveal-a-giant-evil-throat-of-the-devil-to-swallow-me business up in Mayo's house. No sir. Closet door OPEN.
And: Event Horizon. Seriously, when Sam Neill is watching the video that comes back with the ship, and the captain of the EH basically says (as everyone in the background is mutilating each other with fervor) "free yourself from hell" ...............yeah, i saw that in the theater in hs, and when i got home, i asked my sister to sit in the bathroom and chat with me while i took a shower before bed, bc i was scared. to be in the bathroom alone. For fear of Dr. Weir's no-eyed wife killing me when i threw back the shower curtain. Similarly, I am in love with the movie Sunshine (NOT a horror flick) bc of it's likeness to EH, without all the paranormal mumbo-jumbo. ...Yes, that was just a plug for Sunshine. ;D
Event Horizon is awesome! And Pet Sematary is still creepy to me. Mainly Aunt Zelda.
Has anyone seen In The Mouth of Madness? Overall, it's not a great movie, but there are certain scenes that stuck with me. For example, I cannot drive down a back road at night without being terrified that we are going to pass someone on a bike.
I really liked In the Mouth of Madness. Not great, but I thought it was really entertaining. I can still picture chunks of that movie years after the last time I saw it.
I like the book better. The movie was great; great cast, great direction, great everything really. The stories were very different, and I just prefer the book's story to the movie's.
My favorite horror / Thriller flicks (in not particular order): Halloween (the original) Dawn of the Dead (remake) - I don't care what anyone says, the remake is better than Romero's version 28 Days Later / 28 Weeks Later Blair Witch Project - So many people make fun of this movie, but I still think it's great. Watching the characters slowly breakdown over the course of the film is very erie. Pandorum The Crazies The Descent The Thing Phantasm The Shining Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon Alien / Aliens A few different episodes of the X-Files.
Movies that scared / freaked me out the most: Pet Sematary Fire in the Sky
Also, The Grudge. I don't know if it is legit scary to me or if it was just because I saw it with Abra and she was scared out of her d*mn mind. My hand/leg was sore for a week after that movie.
IMO The Grudge is legit scary. It's one of my favorite pieces of semi-recent horror. It stuck with me, for about a week I was kinda jumpy.
CSB: My GF at the time, my self and a friend saw it in the theater at a late night screening. We dropped him back at his place and he had a computer tower he was giving us. I put the tower in the back seat and we started to leave. Pulling out of the drive way made the tower shift in the back seat so that it rested against the front drivers seat. As we pulled forward it started to slide down the back of her seat and the noise it made sounded EXACTLY like that croaking sound. We both heard it coming from the back seat of the car and she felt something pressing against the back of her seat at the same time...Scared the shiz out of us!
Back on topic: I recently saw Absentia (www.imdb.com/title/tt1610996/) and was very pleasantly surprised, despite it's weirdly low score on imdb. Definitely a creepy movie. I would recommend that one as well.
Blair Witch Project - So many people make fun of this movie, but I still think it's great. Watching the characters slowly breakdown over the course of the film is very erie.
I think the people who are bagging on TBWP probably only saw it in the theater.
The first time I saw it was before it got picked up my a major studio. A film freak friend of mine brought it over on a VHS tape, and it was very unnerving. Something got lost in it's transfer from video to celluloid, the theater version looks different. The VHS looked raw, like it had just been ejected from the camera, whereas the theater version looks...well it looks more like a movie and not like actual handy cam footage.
The Crazies was surprisingly good. The Descent was pretty good as well. Anyone who has ever been in a cave should be a little freaked by it.
I don't need to go spelunking to be freaked out by The Descent. I'm horrified at the thought of being underground like that- I was in fight or flight mode during the whole movie!
Blair Witch Project - So many people make fun of this movie, but I still think it's great. Watching the characters slowly breakdown over the course of the film is very erie.
I think the people who are bagging on TBWP probably only saw it in the theater.
The first time I saw it was before it got picked up my a major studio. A film freak friend of mine brought it over on a VHS tape, and it was very unnerving. Something got lost in it's transfer from video to celluloid, the theater version looks different. The VHS looked raw, like it had just been ejected from the camera, whereas the theater version looks...well it looks more like a movie and not like actual handy cam footage.