Scary Movies

THE JAKER · Post by **THE JAKER** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 10:47 am

Well, It looks like I missed out on a lot of interesting discussions here in SYM over the weekend. I didn't turn on my computer the whole time, because I was doing a lot of decorating and cleaning around my place. (it looks nice now)

Also, I watched a lot of scary movies on TV. I always like the time around halloween because tv stations will play a whole bunch of scary movies. This weekend I watched:

Night of the Living Dead (1968? version)
Dawn of the Dead
Cujo
The Brood
John Carpenter's Vampires
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Back to the Future
Aliens

Um, needless to say I was a little scared of the dark by last night

And the best part is that Halloween isn't over yet so the movies will still be on a few more days!

So what are everyone's favorites and why?

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 11:00 am

ARMY OF DARKNESS!!!!

This movie rocks! It's funny and I think it's supposed to be scary aswel..(ah wel, can't have it all

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NeKr0mAnCeR · Post by **NeKr0mAnCeR** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 11:48 am

id say scary movie

nael · Post by **nael** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 11:57 am

i love how you included back to the future in with your scary movies...but i'd have to say the two sequels were much scarier than the first.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 11:58 am

Originally posted by Rob-hin:
ARMY OF DARKNESS!!!!

This movie rocks! It's funny and I think it's supposed to be scary aswel..(ah wel, can't have it all )

Yes a great movie

Here is a question. When I was 12 years old I saw a movie based on a Island. I can't remember how the people got there, ship wreck or something. There was an abandon hotel on the island. Off the island was a sunken sub from WW2..a german sub. In this sub was some experimental soldiers..some who could walk underwater without air.

Does this ring a bell with anyone??

THE JAKER · Post by **THE JAKER** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 2:29 pm

Originally posted by nael:
i love how you included back to the future in with your scary movies...but i'd have to say the two sequels were much scarier than the first.

You're certainly right on that one - I think Crispin Glover is the best part of the first one.

Well, I was of course just including it in the list of movies I had watched over the weekend, it obviously is a "different kind" of scary movie. Actually I think "BTTF" is a pretty good movie, a good example of the ultimate mainstream studio picture - it's got some of everything. I think the most offensive parts are:

1 - that they create an alternative timeline wherein a white boy invents rock n roll

2 - Huey Lewis and the News

@Weasel - I have no idea what movie you're talking about. Are you sure that this isn't a couple different movies that all seem like one in your memory because of "something" you might have been "drinking"?

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 2:32 pm

Night of the living deadII i turn it off when that woman punches the Zombie and goes through the head!

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 5:13 pm

Originally posted by THE JAKER:
it obviously is a "different kind" of scary movie.

The non-scary kind?

You gotta love the ending of Night of the Living Dead...

Most scary movie I ever saw: Event Horizon

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 5:32 pm

When I was 10 or 11 I saw a movie on TV called "Someone is watching over me" or something similar. It was about a girl who lived alone in a flat, and somebody watched her with binoculars from the house across the street, followed her, etc.

Apart from that, I've not seen any scary movies execpt documentaries. For some reason, I never feel scared by horror movies...

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 5:42 pm

Bambi, and any Barney movies. Scary as hell...

THE JAKER · Post by **THE JAKER** » Mon Oct 29, 2001 5:50 pm

@Georgi: I think Back to the Future was more scary in the sense of the fashions.....

Originally posted by C Elegans:
Apart from that, I've not seen any scary movies execpt documentaries.

Good one. Often the truth is the scariest thing.

Originally posted by C Elegans:
For some reason, I never feel scared by horror movies...

Well, you've only seen one...

There are some scary ones, although the same kind of thing doesn't scare everyone. The first "Nightmare on Elm Street" was sure scary back when it came out! A lot of the formulas get done to death though, then it's not scary anymore, just funny.

Watching the original "Night of the Living Dead", it's basically not a scary movie, its a "horror" movie, it is pushing all the buttons of society by putting all the 'horrors'- race fear (a black man even kills a white family man), insanity, mass murder, cannibalism, matricide, and the dead coming back to life up on the screen. This is an organized blasphemy, an intentional affront to every tenet of society (in America in 1968). They had a note after that the Motion Picture Ratings were created in part because of the movie.

I think this kind of thing is different from a "scary" movie. The scariest movies are often suspense movies.

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

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Saruman · Post by **Saruman** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 4:36 am

Scary Movies, personally I find that the most scary movies are one of two kinds;

The tripped out reality flicks such as Jacobs Ladder and Into the Mouth of Madness where you watch them and try and get your head around whats going on and half way through it all sort of clicks and sends a shiver down your spine.

Alternatively and by far more the scarier of the two are movies with real human violence and emotions involved, Resevoir Dogs was IMHO one of the most frightening films I've ever seen, just trying to realise what was going through that policemans head as Mr Blond decides to do some creative surgdery on him... Yuck!

Recoba · Post by **Recoba** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 5:40 am

Scary movies:

Event horizon
Alien
Mary Poppins!
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang!!

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 5:52 am

Originally posted by Georgi:


Most scary movie I ever saw: Event Horizon

Great movie, (Scary???)

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 6:55 am

Originally posted by Weasel:
Great movie, (Scary???)

was a bit scary i think.

Your gonna think im a sissy now but i found sixth sense a bit scary. when the boy goes to take a piss i the middle of the night...

normaly i dont like BW but i think he did ok in this movie.

scully1 · Post by **scully1** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 8:55 am

I absolutely love horror movies, I have a long list

"The Changeling". Oh my...I still get the creeps just thinking about that movie...

"The Haunting". The original one, not the re-make. Just the idea of what you don't see...

An old film called "The Uninvited". The first time Hollywood took ghosts seriously. Great one. Some nice chills and a mystery plotline as well.

The one part in "Gaslight" when Ingrid Bergman is trying to tell Charles Boyer about the incriminating letter, and he says "Yes! Yes, I remember it well! You standing there saying the words, and there was no paper in your hand! THERE WAS NOTHING THERE!!!" Just the idea that someone could make a person doubt her sanity like that...now that is chilling *shudder*

"The Shining". Again, the original. A classic.

Actually, "The Others" had some frightening moments as well. When Nicole Kidman is looking through that photo album of dead people...and then when her husband comes home and he's lying in the bed, they make it look like one of those pictures...*shudder* (I also liked that film because it didn't have the typical "release" motif, where the restless spirits go on to the next world. These ghosies are sticking around...)

The first "Halloween" had some great moments. 1.) When the girl gets into the car and notices the fogged-up windows, and you know what's coming... 2.) When Jamie Lee is running/limping across the road, banging on doors and calling for help and no one will help her, and she can't get into the house. Talk about a nightmare. 3.) When Myers is standing in that doorway wearing the sheet, with the glasses on his face, over the sheet. Yeeeh....

Another John Carpenter flick, "The Fog". A little too gory for my taste, and easy to make fun of; but the way those ghosts knock on those doors

And when the captain's voice comes over the tape player...

When I saw "The Exorcist" on video, I just laughed at it. When I saw it on TV all edited, it scared me to death. Go figure...

It's not a movie, but...the "Talky Tina" episode of "The Twilight Zone" (I think the episode title was "Living Doll"). I think that was Hollywood's first foray into the "talking doll" thing. And it's still more terrifying than any other attempts.

THE JAKER · Post by **THE JAKER** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 11:29 am

Some good ones there - I haven't seen all of those.

One movie that scared people good at the time was "The Hitcher". I thought "Event Horizon" was pretty cool, I only saw it once in the theater so I don't remember too well. "The Sixth Sense" definitely had its moments. I think some of the Twilight Zone episodes were some of the scariest stuff ever, which just goes to show you don't need to really show any gore or have a lot of effects to be scary.

Well, there wasn't anything too good on last night, unfortunately

Just "I still know what you did last summer" (utterly sucky, could not possibly be any worse), and some weird silent film with dubbed in narration and music from the sixties "Witchcraft through the Ages" on the INDEPENDENT film channel. I'm looking forward to the sci-fi channel's Halloween all-day marathon. I think they're showing "Bride of Chucky" which I haven't ever seen - love that Jennifer Tilly!

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue Oct 30, 2001 11:46 am

Here is a question. When I was 12 years old I saw a movie based on a Island. I can't remember how the people got there, ship wreck or something. There was an abandon hotel on the island. Off the island was a sunken sub from WW2..a german sub. In this sub was some experimental soldiers..some who could walk underwater without air.

To add to this...I believe the soldiers where dead SS troops, brought back and converted in to super soldiers.

(I didn't start drinking heavy till I was 13.

)

I think some of the Twilight Zone episodes were some of the scariest stuff ever, which just goes to show you don't need to really show any gore or have a lot of effects to be scary.

Remember the one where the oldman just wants to read..not enough time for him to do it, but at lunch he would go into the bank vault and read. I loved this one.

josh · Post by **josh** » Wed Oct 31, 2001 4:31 am

I was about 10 when I saw The Exorcist late at night. I had to make a dash to my bedroom afterwards and cover my head with my sheet. This continued on for a couple of nights.

Recoba · Post by **Recoba** » Wed Oct 31, 2001 5:35 am

Slightly off the topic but does anyone remember a series called 'Tripods' on UK tv in the early eighties? It was about a race of aliens who came to earth and enslaved everybody apart from a few freedom fighters, and I thought it was really scary back then. Anyone else remember this? I would quite like to see it again.