I died inside during Paranormal Activity! The Exorcist pretty much shattered my world when I was younger. Anything to do with demons or satan fucks me up! I thought The Descent was pretty creepy too.
Theres a new nightmare on elm street coming out the end of this month i think havent seen a preview yet jst a poster at the theatre.
first saw scared me when i saw it, i know what u did last summer when i was really young and saw it scared me to death and the redone version of psycho was nuts
Check out some of the Masters of Horror series of short films. I’ve been watching them online all weekend. Most of them aren’t really very good, they are plagued with some bad acting and weak plots, but some of them are really fucked up.
No horror movie ever scared me. at all. Until I saw:
Event Horizon (somebody mentionned it earlier)
Scariest movie you can watch, period. The scene where they manage to access the video logs from the ship and they see what happened to the crew members, that scene still haunts me even two years after I watched it.
I guess movies where you can’t identify the source of evil, where you never really know what causes the pain are what works best for me and it that essence, Event Horizon was spot on. A must for horror fans.
[quote]ahu2468 wrote:
The now classic “Event Horizon”. That shit scarred me. Especially the hanging skin pelt. O__O[/quote]
That was creepy.
A good “scary” movie isn’t about gore or how elaborate the make up / costume is for the ghost/zombie/supernatural being; it’s about how well suspense can be kept up during the film.
This is why Paranormal Activity was well done. They could have done more with it, but it followed the formula I mentioned.
[quote]DreamTheaterFan wrote:
I guess movies where you can’t identify the source of evil, where you never really know what causes the pain are what works best for me and it that essence, Event Horizon was spot on. A must for horror fans.[/quote]
Exactly.
A really well done movie was The Others with Nicole Kidman. I remember watching it with a friend, it was a matinee showing, and the whole time we were like, “Man, I wish we had gone to see another film. I was really in the mood for a comedy.” We just weren’t paying attention.
Another friend had told us to give the movie a chance and wait until about the middle (or just past it). The scene came just as we were lamenting our choice of film and then we said, “Holy shit.”
I think too many movies, including horror movies, try to do too much. The viewers’ imagination needs to be fueled with just a few, CLEAR ideas. It’s creepier when your own imagination is fleshing out the concept because you will always think of the worst things that bother you. If the movie explicitly says, “Be scared of THIS!” it’s a tougher sell and the scare doesn’t haunt you for ages, like good movies tend to do.
Also, when there’s a scene with a character that’s terrified or really damaged (physically, emotionally), the scene needs to be INTIMATE for it to have an impact. I dont’ want to see a dude with a severed leg looking at his family and trying to give a lecture or heartwarming speech. That ruins the potential of what the scene is working with (gore, for instance).
Not sure if I’m making sense.
Does anyone remember Pet Cemetery?
Also, I thought The Village was creepy. At least, the build up of suspense was good.
The Crazies was good, too. Really great zombie movie and I think it was better than 28 Day Later. I love the beginning of The Crazies and how the movie progressed. Good camera work.
The Entity
Another “true story” of dubious authenticity, The Entity concerns a libidinous invisible presence. This unseen force repeatedly rapes poor Barbara Hershey, who can’t get anyone to believe her stories of sexual assault
Oldie but very scary
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
The Crazies was good, too. Really great zombie movie and I think it was better than 28 Day Later. I love the beginning of The Crazies and how the movie progressed. Good camera work.[/quote]
The original or the new one? I saw the new one recently and was quite impressed, then I heard it was a remake - might have to check out the original of it’s any good!
For those that like the Exorcist, check out the Exorcist III (which should have been part II).
This 1 is a real hair riser