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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Treize69 on January 30, 2008, 07:17:43 PM
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The psycho-slasher flick (Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc.), the mind-screw (American Psycho, The Cell, etc), the classic monster movie (Werewolves, Vampires, the usual), or the other "supernatural" stuff (ghosts, possession, yadda yadda)?
Personally I'm partial to Vampire and Werewolf movies (and anything else having to do with them), from the old classics to the newer takes on the ideas. Can't beat them fuzzy blenders and hungry dead for a good creep-out. :aok
(http://awholenewbreed.com/sitebuilder/images/van_helsing_werewolf-361x282.jpg)
(http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd312/t-20-19/werewolf.jpg)
(http://blogs.the-review.com/leftofcybercenter/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/nosferatu1.jpg)
(http://seminars.torontoghosts.org/blog/media/blogs/new/nosferatu.jpg)
:D :aok
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I'm partial to the not-scary kind. I stopped watching scary movies in the 5th or 6th grade ~ I saw two movies that were just awful: The Thing... and something about Piranhas (probably called: Piranhas).
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Whatever kind best stimulates our own individual imaginations to evoke the horror that most scares us. For example, the original movie The Thing in black and white.
The longer the teases and hints fuel our imaginations, the scarier everything gets. The instant any monster is revealed we start to cope with it, usually looking for a way to laugh at it and mitigate our fear so we can start thinking about specific defenses against it.
Incidentally, note the paradoxical effect of color in monster movies. For example, no matter what slime or goo connotations are intended, green remains mostly a friendly color.
The less light, and hence less color, the more we must use our imaginations on the beast and its threat rather than color cues that often diminish rather than increase the fear.
The original b&w version of The Thing was much scarier than its sequel in color. Same for many of the Frankenstein, werewolf, and vampire movies.
Oh yeah, one more key ingredient: awful terrible demented SOUNDS! Especially off camera. A deep rumbling growl from the bowels of hell. Slow labored raspy gasps for breath. A sudden shriek that loosens bowels. A howling that soaks us in sweat. Ripping followed by gurgling. Sickening thuds. And we never saw a thing, which only makes it worse.
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Which Thing TXMom? Giant walking eggplant, or shapeshifting body snatcher?
And I don't actually find the vast majority of them scary, I just collect them and like the special effects. The only ones that ever really scared me were alien ones, like Aliens and the modern remake of The Thing. The alien facehuggers are the only thing from a movie that ever gave me nightmares.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Alien_facehugger.jpg)
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Originally posted by Treize69
Which Thing TXMom? Giant walking eggplant, or shapeshifting body snatcher?
The one Halo was referencing above. The original B&W.
EW! getting the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it!!!
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Alien and Aliens are still two of my favorites.. I remember I talked my parents into letting me watch Alien when I was a kid. Was a tough sell too on my part, but then I had nightmares for a while. :cry
Alien was made in 1979 and Aliens in 1986 and still hold strong today and don't look too out dated. Both were ahead of their time IMO.
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There are only few movies that I thought were scary.
The original "Haunting of Hill House" that I saw when I was 7 or 8 and "Darkness Falls". Hill House you never saw a monster or blood, just something in the dark that was there and not there. Darkness Falls took a twist on the tooth fairy story and she could only get you if you were in the dark.
I dont think the slasher flicks were all that scary, mostly seemed sort of dumb... "Hey someones going around killing us, lets split up and find him" :rolleyes: And creature features I like but still, "Hey a blood thirsty creature is running around lets go crawling into dark tunnels and rooms and find it":rolleyes:
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I prefer the standard monster movie, with the biggest monster being the Werewolf.
But above all, I prefer gory B-movies.
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(http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/janetleigh.jpg)
All the rest are imitations of the master.
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Thats one of the scary movies that I never thought was scary. Come to think of it, I've never thought any Hitchcock was scary. Creepy maybe, but not scary.
Then again, even when I was kid I laughed at horror movies, maybe I'm just one of those people who doesn't usually get scared by movies.
I might jump at something, but thats startled- completely different.
I think the only reason that the Facehuggers ever freaked me out was A) they are kind of spider like, and I'm arachnaphobic and B) Its more the idea of something that incapacitates you and lays an egg in you, then holds you down until it matures and lets you up just in time for something to break out of you than the visual from the movie. Thats a horrifying concept to me.
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My mother saw it in the theaters when it first came out, wouldn't take a shower without locking the bathroom door for a month.
My dad was a LA Fireman at the time, and one of his firefighter buddies decided it would be funny to surprise his wife with a knife in the shower. He was surprised that she didn't take it very well.
Scary is in the eye of the beholder I suppose... Halloween and Friday the 13th movies made me jump, but didn't make me think about them a week later. Alien was the same. I was dissapointed when they finally shoed the alien fully and it turned out to be semi humanoid. I wanted it to be more like a squid.
The scariest movie I ever saw was when I was 5 or 6 yrs old and saw The Wizard of Oz. When the witch sent her flying monkeys out, that scared the s*** out of little Holden.
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Oh American Psycho, Brave American Psycho...It was...A...Laugh riot.
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I can't do scary movies or even scary books. My job is out in the wilderness by myself and very often at night; if you have ever spent much time alone in the wilderness, you already know how spooky it can be at times.
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I don't do scary.
Mac
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To this day the only movie that really gets to me is The Exorcist. No matter how many times I've watched it it still gets to me. Big time.
Also, on a smaller scale, The Entity freaks the **** out of me as well.
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The only scary movies I really enjoy are monster movies. Zombies are my favorite for some reason. Don't like slashers or much of anything else.
I can't stand this modern trend of torture porn "horror."
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I like the type that start out as a normal kind of story then you get that "things don't seem right" feeling then the zinger twist at the end.
Stuff like Jacob's Ladder, Vanilla Sky, Sixth Sense, The Village, etc.
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Ginger Snaps
For some reason that one stays with me. The rest, meh, some were good, some were poor and some were excellent, but that one sticks in my mind for some reason.
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I second the zombies. not exactly sure why this genre "grabs" me like it does. I remember the first time I contemplated these sick things who ate their own - maybe because they are "us" ...
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"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
walkin through the streets of Soho in the rain.
He was lookin for the place called Lee Ho butters, gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein.
Chorus:
Aaahoo, werewolves of London
Aaahoo(2x)
Ya hear him howlin around your kitchen door, ya better not let him in.
Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London again.
Chorus 2x
He's the hairy, hairy gent, who ran amok in Kent.
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair.
You better stay away from him, he'll rip your lungs out Jim.
Huh, I'd like to meet his tailor.
Chorus 2x
Well, I saw Lon Chaney walkin with the queen, doing the werewolves of London.
I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walkin with the queen, doin the werewolves of London
I saw a werewolf drinkin a pina colada at Trader Vic's
And his hair was perfect.
ahhhooooo, werewolves of London
Draw blood "
Howoooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooo! :)
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My type of scary movie is Like Cloverfield. Not real scary but entertaining.
The movies that were most intense for me were the Dawn of the Dead, Exorcist, and Alien. The movie I had the most nightmares about was some little story about 4 kids cutting school and going swimming in a lake with some kind of sludge monster. My kids had nightmares over that one too.
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zombies, vampires, mutants.. werewolves.. aliens. end of the world scenarios
Hate the torture/slasher flicks.
If some kind of bullet won't stop the monster tho... I lose interest.
lazs
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I remember when "The Excorcist" came out. People were having nervous breakdowns. You really had to be there. Its still one of the scariest movies out there.
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Originally posted by Getback
My type of scary movie is Like Cloverfield. Not real scary but entertaining.
The movies that were most intense for me were the Dawn of the Dead, Exorcist, and Alien. The movie I had the most nightmares about was some little story about 4 kids cutting school and going swimming in a lake with some kind of sludge monster. My kids had nightmares over that one too.
That movie (the sludge creature) was an adaptation of a Stephen King short story... the movie didn't scare me...but... the short story did. I read it in High School and had nightmares about it for years. The short story was MUCH more gory and suspenseful. The "thing" always got someone just when you were thinking that someone might get away.
I thought the creature for the film was so stupid as to be wholly unbelievable. In the short story you couldn't tell where it was... it was transparent with only a hint of an oily sheen.... something about a thing that could kill you that you could look right past....just got to me.
I don't remember how the movie ended... but the short story had just the last kid stuck on the swim platform...(after the girl he gets action from is eaten out from under him whilst he's "performing") he was scared past his ability to cope and was just sitting where he couldn't be eaten, staring at his clothes on the bank, 50 yards away, as it was getting dark.
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I like Stephen Kings short stories a lot better than his novels, you can tell that his publisher pays him by the word. Not to mention that hes another one whos novels usually follow the same formula as all the others, get really redundant.
Theres one of his stories I've been trying to track down for a while- it was called "Gray Matter" or something like that. Guy drinks bad beer and turns into a slimy ghoul-thing. Ring a bell with anyone?
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I like the older scary movies like Frankenstein, the wolfman and others like that. Even the old "B" grade horror pix like the giant ants, spiders and rabbits were kind of neat.
The newer versions seem to rely more on gore as shock effect and turn me off. I did enjoy Resident Evil with all the zombies and Shaun of the dead was an OK comedy.
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Originally posted by Treize69
Guy drinks bad beer and turns into a slimy ghoul-thing. Ring a bell with anyone?
Sounds like my Ex Mother In Law
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I LOVE scary movies. The scarier the better. Problem is not many get to me now days.
I remember as a kid:
"The Excorcist" : What can you say? Classic!!!!
"The Legend of Hell House": Hey I was young.
"The Omen" : it was the inevitablity that got me. See a picture of yourself getting your head cut off and nothing you could do would stop it. Even if you tried to avoid it, everything you did was what was meant to happen anyway and still leads you to the same conclusion.
"Rosemary's Baby" : Sweet!
Just about any Zombie movie. I don't know what it is, but I'm a sucker for any zombie movie. "28 Days Later" was a good an interesting twist. The zombies moved freakin fast which made them even more scary!
:O,
Wab
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Still partial to my Vampire and Werewolf movies. Zombies never did it for me.
But somehow I've never seen any of the Howling movies.
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The late 70's remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was good too. As well as the remake of "The Thing".
Hmmmmm need to go update my Netflix list.
:lol ,
Wab
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Originally posted by Blooz
I like the type that start out as a normal kind of story then you get that "things don't seem right" feeling then the zinger twist at the end.
Stuff like Jacob's Ladder, Vanilla Sky, Sixth Sense, The Village, etc.
To be honest, I've never liked Shyamalan. The method acting just gets to be too painful. And the movies are downright predictable.
For example, I'm sitting through The Village, when I turn to my sister and say, "So how do they keep the airplanes from flying over?" She asked if I had read any spoilers. I hadn't.
That being said, Unbreakable WOULD have been a great movie if it were not for the method acting.
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6th sense was the only Shyamalamadingdong flick I liked.
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Originally posted by Treize69
But somehow I've never seen any of the Howling movies.
Ask and ye shall receive- The Howling (the first one) is on AMC right now, flipped to check the channel just as the opening credits were starting. :aok
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My favorite kind has to be the asian movies like the original Ring movies and that kind.. Ive kinda outgrown the blood and gore movies i used to love. The Blair Witch Project was also great in my mind as it allows the mind to wonder and you have to imgaine what is there, and not just be shown something. The mind can imagine far worse things than the movie can ever do.
Oh...If it has little scary girls it im hooked :D
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It was good, but the werewolf at the end was disappointing, too much like Lon Chaney Jr.s bipedal dog and unlike the rest of the creatures in the movie. Good transformation on Robert Picardo though. :aok
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I think I was about 12 yo but Jaws scared the bejesus outta me!:O
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If you like werewolf movies then you have to check out Dog Soldiers. :aok
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Ya I remember that one Treize. Guys sat in his dark house in front of tube drinking bad beer and mutated into a fungas or something.
I like King, but the formula does get old if you read too many back to back. Best to break up reading with different stuff. King tends to over develop his characters and the story comes up short towards the end.
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Originally posted by Dux
If you like werewolf movies then you have to check out Dog Soldiers. :aok
A sequel is coming out soon.
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The Thing (kurt remake) is one of my fav movies and i reckon a real underrated classic, but the one that still genuinely freaks me out is The Evil Dead **shivers**
recommended viewing technique: turn off all appliances in the house for at least 30mins apart from one lamp. kill lamp, start dvd. :aok
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Try watching the original Nosferatu (the Murnau version, with Max Schreck) at about 1am with no lights on, phone turned off, and alone (no distractions). Still creeps me out. :aok