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Offline Tarmac

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« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2008, 10:15:18 PM »
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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« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2008, 10:38:32 PM »
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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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2008, 01:14:41 AM »
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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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2008, 01:42:18 AM »
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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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2008, 04:33:52 AM »
"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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« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2008, 04:55:13 AM »
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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« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2008, 10:16:05 AM »
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.

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« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2008, 10:19:36 AM »
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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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2008, 10:22:46 AM »
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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.


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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« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2008, 10:32:55 AM »
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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« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2008, 12:08:14 PM »
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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« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2008, 07:43:19 PM »
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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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« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2008, 08:14:23 PM »
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!


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« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2008, 08:17:52 PM »
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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« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2008, 08:20:37 PM »
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.

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