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[QUOTE=Magrus]I'd be screwed in a horror movie. :laugh:[/QUOTE]
Literally.

Damn, sorry, the browser froze and I sent it twice.

I like horror movies, because they are so much funnier than most comedies.

My favorite is Don't go into the Woods.

[QUOTE=penguin_king]because of number 1, 3, or both?[/QUOTE]

1, and the fact, chances are the idiots would think it was me that was the "killer" as I am known to be verbally abusive to idiots without common sense. Which, everyone knows the characters in a horror movie are idiots without common sense.

@ Chim, Of course! Who wouldn't have their way with the female lead who always runs around screaming half naked? The "We're about to die..." line has to be a good one! :laugh:

Well, most of the films mentioned here which I've seen/heard of are more or less made in Hollywood or so. Now, I have noticed that Asian horror movies are MUCH better than western ones. Mostly because the psychology and touch with paranomal is so huge in those films.

So, if you want to see good scary movies, try Asian ones.

Basicly, I believe that there are good movies in each movie genre. I might like a lot more crime movies than science-fiction movies, but there definitely have been made one or two sf gems IMHO.So even though I do not really love the horror genre, it definitly has produced some great movies. Besides, I think that everyone has a secret lust for the scary things, something to do with a dark side, though it varies on people.

I always find the psychological aspect a lot more nerving, the fear of the dark, the unknown, than exploding heads and the like. In that subject (psychological, not the exploding heads), Psycho by Alfred Hitchcock is a masterpiece. In my opinion his best movie, one of the best movies of the '60's and one of the best horror movies ever made. Terrifying.
(so was the 1998 remake, but that was due to bonesuckingly low quality)

Very critisized, but very effective is The Blair With Project. Yeah, at times it's boring (read: mostly when it's not dark), the "acting" is poor, but when you head into the dark, wide woods with a cam corder, some actors that are even terrified themselve at times and some simple, but nerve-wrecking scare effects, you can easily make some 90 minute horror that really is scary. Lying in a tent in the middle of the pitch black night, with no civilisation for a distance of 20 miles, and then hearing laughing kids running around your tent would freak me out.

Also great, being more of a real movie than the last-named, is The Shining by Stanley Kubrick, with a superb Jack Nicholson with his family in a big, deserted hotel in the middle of nowhere. Again something with kids.

I recently saw the last hour of Jaws and that one was surprisingly good. First the build-up of the tension on the boat with the shark circling around it and then later on a scene with a man sliding down the diagonal deck of the sinking boat, right towards the "monster". He tries kicking the mouth, the teeth, but the beast soon eats him, very bloody. But it was mostly the screams of the poor guy that made you realise so strong how terrible that must be, getting eaten by a shark. One of the most gruesome movie scenes I've ever seen.

Then some other good scary ones:
*The Sixth Sense (scary dead people, good atmosphere)
*Saw (sick games)
*Alien (untill the actually confrontation between Ripley and the beast, it's very tense)
*The Ring (the American remake) (the first scene and the television scene at the end are both very scary, the rest is so-so)
and *Scream (not extremely scary, but very entertaining)




Off subject, I will be away for some time. Don't know why excactly, don't know for how long excactly, though I definitly will come back (if you like it or not )
I guess I just need to work out a lot of stuff. Smell ya later.

[QUOTE=Magrus]@ Chim, Of course! Who wouldn't have their way with the female lead who always runs around screaming half naked? The "We're about to die..." line has to be a good one! :laugh:[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't you rather have your way with the Thelma of the group? Thelma in Scooby Doo and her quiet, mysterious ways could lure you in with her feminine wiles just as well as the Daphnes of the horror movie.

Maybe the scariest movie I've seen was The ring(american) it was so freaky when the tv turned on and the black and white screen with the well and slowly the girl rose from the well and started walking towards:speech: .
I was afraid of the tv for weeks later, maybe because I was only 11-12 when I saw it.

Scary movie is best "horror" I've seen .

The scariest movie for me is 'The Thing'. Some of the creatures featured there do give me the creeps.

Anyway, I thought 'Aliens' was a pretty scary movie when I was 10. Even had terrible nightmares for 2 nights after watching that movie. But now, when I look at that movie, it doesn't even scare me at all. Mostly its due to the gross factor, not the scare factor.

In my oppinion there is few movies that are scary. Most of them are full of monsters jumping infront of the screen while going "Eeeeeeeeeeh" or "Aaargh".
I'm not impressed when the creators of the movie go for the shock effeckts.

Nothing like watching 'IT' when you're eight years old