I just cannot comprehend how anybody could find the Grudge scary. That movie was hilarious about 2% of the time, and dead boring 98% of the time.
I can’t even blame it on it being a yank remake. I watched the Japanese version and as it turns out the US version is better…AND THE US VERSION IS SHIT.
The Ring was good for a few jumps but nothing lasting.
The without a doubt, all time, scariest movie I have ever seen is Communion starring Christopher Walken. Woowee seeing that at 7 or 8 was a bad idea. Bloody aliens.
Bullshit ghosts blah blah don’t really scare me. Whenever I watch horror movies it always annoys me that everyone gets scared. “It’s just a bitch with a twisted back. Beat that bitch like she owes you money”. They don’t even try. Like a previous poster said “A ghost with a grudge, who gives a shit”.
Real life and realistic situations are much scarier than ghosts and zombies. The terror of a spirit is nothing compared to the terror of a man who has something very wrong with his head. You can see that every day.
[quote]DRock wrote:
The exorcism of emily rose, the ring, and amityville horror (the new one) all messed me up pretty bad.[/quote]
The exorcism of emily rose had potential but didn’t qute live up to it. There were a few ‘brown stain’ moments though like when she’s walking around campus and that guys face changes.
Another one I forgot about that scared the crap out of me when I was younger was Fright Night.
[quote]Gregatron wrote:
DRock wrote:
The exorcism of emily rose, the ring, and amityville horror (the new one) all messed me up pretty bad.
The exorcism of emily rose had potential but didn’t qute live up to it. There were a few ‘brown stain’ moments though like when she’s walking around campus and that guys face changes.
Another one I forgot about that scared the crap out of me when I was younger was Fright Night.
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No doubt! a true classic in my books. It really hooked me when I was still a kid. Oversized fangs with blood red eyes, looked like the devil in the children’s Bible!!! I actually forgot about this movie, I can see myself renting a couple of old classics mentioned so far.
For me it was Poltergeist…the one where the old man gets all those Pilgrims and convinces them the world is over and to seal themselves in a cave where they would all eventually starve to death or w/e. That disturbed the hell out of me. Still does. To think some people will believe anything.
Also, Event Horizon scared the feck outta me. I am glad I didn’t see all of it. SAW 3’s gore was just so overdone it was ridiculous. I don’t tend to like gorey or scary movies much lol. Oh yeah, the Freddy movies did it for me as a kid too. There was also a post-apocolypic futuristic movie that scared me too.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Egilll wrote:
One movie that I’m rather surpriced that hasn’t been mentioned (and isn’t really meant to be a horror movie) is Jurassic park, when I saw the first one in a movie it creeped me out because it was so realistic. A memorable scene is when the teenage girl and boy were hiding in the big kitchen and dinosaurs were walking in.
I can’t believe I am the only one here that got creeped out by jurassic park?
While seen by nearly everyone, I doubt most consider that a “scary movie”. Any movie promoted to kids first just doesn’t fall into that category. It was directed well and set a standard in special effects, but scary it wasn’t.[/quote]
I loved dinosaurs since I was a kid. When I saw JP, I was too in awe of the special effects and too jazzed about the up-to-date representations to be scared.
[quote]bigurukhai wrote:
Another one that scared the crap outta me was John Charpenter’s “Prince of Darkness”. Good over all spooky feeling with a couple of good shock moments.[/quote]
I saw “Prince of Darkness” in the theater when it came out in, what, 1987ish? It spooked me for a bit. Glad to hear someone else besided my wife and I has seen it.
you see, I live in asia, so I’ve got the chance to see the Japanese version of the grudge and the ring(and also the chinese version of “the departed”). I have to say the hollywood version is far from scary compared to the original.
so, my vote goes to event horrizon.
event horrizon, is also the first scary movie I recall happened in future, in a space ship.
I’ve seen Event Horizon mentioned several times. Great movie, but I’ve never been able to stop thinking of it as Hellraiser in space due to its concept and many of the visuals. If you liked Event Horizon, make sure you’ve seen Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and its immediate followup, Hellraiser II. They’re definitely dated now, but its the concept of a very dark, very near, not-so-western/christian kind of dimension of chaotic and painful hellish existence that they showcase.
Places of realized pain and madness that are closer to the nihilistic Lovecraftian concepts of dark and ancient evil that man can’t bear to look upon without going mad.
Speaking of which, if you like those, you may also enjoy John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness. It mixes Lovecraft, King, and some Barker pretty well. I think I like Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness more than his Prince of Darkness, but PoD is a damned creepy flick. And it has the Simon and Simon guy in it! hahah
[quote]pwilliams wrote:
bigurukhai wrote:
Another one that scared the crap outta me was John Charpenter’s “Prince of Darkness”. Good over all spooky feeling with a couple of good shock moments.
I saw “Prince of Darkness” in the theater when it came out in, what, 1987ish? It spooked me for a bit. Glad to hear someone else besided my wife and I has seen it.[/quote]
I love the first 90% of that movie to death. Liquid evil and Alice Cooper — what more could you want?
The giant plastic hand lets a lot of the steam out of that flick at the end.
PoD gets my “Most Unrealized Potential” award of all time…
[quote]Plisskin wrote:
Speaking of which, if you like those, you may also enjoy John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness. It mixes Lovecraft, King, and some Barker pretty well. I think I like Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness more than his Prince of Darkness, but PoD is a damned creepy flick. And it has the Simon and Simon guy in it! hahah[/quote]
Plus it has that hot little Asian girl — I think she’s the same one as the vampire from Lifeforce, that British space vampire movie with Steve Railsback, Frank Finlay, and Patrick Stewart.
I can’t believe that only one person mentioned “The Hitcher”. I saw it when I was a preteen and it scared the crap out of me. I was slightly creeped out by Rutger Hauer for years.
None of the sci-fi stuff or supernatural stuff ever scared me, but “The Hitcher” hit me with the “it could happen” factor.
[quote]mica617 wrote:
I can’t believe that only one person mentioned “The Hitcher”. I saw it when I was a preteen and it scared the crap out of me. I was slightly creeped out by Rutger Hauer for years.
None of the sci-fi stuff or supernatural stuff ever scared me, but “The Hitcher” hit me with the “it could happen” factor.[/quote]
The original Exorcist is the one that will never leave my head.
I thought the Blair Witch Project was very well done and an awesome concept.
Another great classic was John Carpenter’s - The Thing.
Thinking of those dogs in “The Thing” just now reminded me of perhaps the ultimate mentally disturbing movie of all time – “OLD YELLER”. Freakin’ Disney bastards.
Saw Event Horizon when I was about 10, I thought ir was creepy and weird, I didn’t really understand it. I don’t see how anyone could thing the Grudge was scary, I thought it was boring and stupid and kind of a knock off of the ring, I got scared at only one point when that face appear in the window on the bus, not because of the movie but because some girl behind me screamed in kicked me in the back of head.
[quote]Wrestler14 wrote:
Saw Event Horizon when I was about 10, I thought ir was creepy and weird, I didn’t really understand it. I don’t see how anyone could thing the Grudge was scary, I thought it was boring and stupid and kind of a knock off of the ring, I got scared at only one point when that face appear in the window on the bus, not because of the movie but because some girl behind me screamed in kicked me in the back of head.[/quote]
Event Horizon Scared the shit out of me when I was younger. The movie that really affected me was “Clown House”. I have never been able to look at clowns he same ever since.
[quote]Shrek2andFro wrote:
Wrestler14 wrote:
Saw Event Horizon when I was about 10, I thought ir was creepy and weird, I didn’t really understand it. I don’t see how anyone could thing the Grudge was scary, I thought it was boring and stupid and kind of a knock off of the ring, I got scared at only one point when that face appear in the window on the bus, not because of the movie but because some girl behind me screamed in kicked me in the back of head.
Event Horizon Scared the shit out of me when I was younger. The movie that really affected me was “Clown House”. I have never been able to look at clowns he same ever since.[/quote]
Event Horizon (simply because I’ve seen it so many times) used a lot of subliminal tactics to get to you as well…like the faded image of a pair of eyes in one of the consoles on the computers once the action starts. I think as far as scary movies go, it was nearly perfect and the only movie I can think that took a haunted house into outerspace successfully.
My curiosity is piqued about the original Wicker Man since it’s been mentioned a few times here. However, A Clockwork Orange?
Having just watched that movie about 2 weeks ago (I do a movie club with some friends), I am missing the scare factor. I mean, it certainly has an incredibly creepy vibe and raises some disturbing issues about society, the penal system, etc… but it’s not the kind of scary I would think of.
