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What is the scariest movie that you have ever seen?

cardero

cardero

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What is the scariest movie that you have ever seen?

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Nepenthe

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mball1297 said:
I have to say I was unimpressed with Pan's Labyrinth.
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You and my wife both. I loved it, but she was underwhelmed and much preferred The Devil's Backbone.
mball1297 said:
Also, as most people have said, after you get to a certain point, not much really scares you anymore. Probably the scariest thing I've ever seen I just saw the other night, though. It wasn't a movie, but a TV show about ghosts. Normally, I watch them with no problem at all, but this one was good. It had a story about a little girl whose room was pretty much right at the top of the stairs. Every night she would hear footsteps come slowly up the stairs when she knew that her parents were already in their room. When the footsteps got to the top, a man's figure would appear in her doorway and stand there for a few moments watching her. Then it would go back down the stairs. They did a re-enactment, of course, and it's probably the scariest thing I've ever seen, mostly because I know I'd have been scared ****less as a kid.
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It's funny 'cause I am a horror nerd, and I much prefer supernatural horror in my fiction and film despite being a skeptic. I remember finding Curse of the Blair Witch- the pseudo-documentary that aired on the Sci-Fi channel- disturbing despite being a skeptic and despite knowing it was a mockumentary. The whole In Search Of type of horror always scared me as a kid and still manages to creep me out.
 
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monta said:
The current road safety ad here gives me the heebee jeebes and it has been on for months.

YouTube - Fógra - Dá mhéadú luas, 'sea is mó an scrios - I can't take
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I probably shouldn't be responding to this post on an IPhone while driving down the 134 at 90 mph.
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monta said:
I also have a horror of the mini series of Stephen Kings 'IT' but that is more likely a clown thing.
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I have a "doll thing". Horror films with dolls are disturbing.
monta said:
I still find the imagery disturbing in horror movies and am not immune to a good startle but gernerally don't find horror movies horrific.
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Yeah, I rarely find much horrific in film or lit'. No one is immune to a good startle especially if it's a loud noise, quick edit, a figure appearing in the frame quickly- atavistic reponses are entertaining but I find their use kind of lazy. I mean I'll react the same way to a screaming ghost suddenly appearing in a scene as I would to a balloon popping unexpectedly. Neither is more or less horrific than the other to me, but both elicit uncontrollable reactions.

I like my horror to hint, if not outright assert, a cosmic sense of awe, a peek behind the veil to something outside our experience. I like my horror in the vein of Lovecraft's cosmic paranoia, or Machen and Blackwood's who set their stories in (their) contemporary Britain yet populated it with threats that lurk just beneath the surface. I suppose I lean towards terror over horror: horror being the response- usually of revulsion- to a horrific event, while terror is the lingering dread and ominous apprehension leading up to the horror. If both can capture an ambience perfectly, then that elevates horror film and lit' to a higher status for me.

Wow... my posts just get more and more pretentious. :sarcastic
 
cardero

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Nepenthe writes: I have a "doll thing". Horror films with dolls are disturbing.
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Then you must have had serious issues (as I did) with the third chapter (Amelia) of Karen Black's TRILOGY OF TERROR.

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As you grew older you also probably didn't enjoy the inferior sequel (remake?).
 
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heavenknows said:
For a couple of years now, I have liked horror movies, but I have yet to fin any truely horrifying
movies. Can you tell me what is the scariest movie that you
have seen, so I can try new references of movies
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Candyman. Awsome old school horror. Not like today. Like the ring, so boring, or the saw, not scary, just grusome. I can get carnage on the news for free, lol.
 
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cardero said:
Then you must have had serious issues (as I did) with the third chapter (Amelia) of Karen Black's TRILOGY OF TERROR.

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As you grew older you also probably didn't enjoy the inferior sequel (remake?).
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Dammit Cardero! It's been about 7 years since I last saw Trilogy of Terror and now I'm gonna be afraid to open the oven door...!

Thanks a lot.

Yes, the sequel was disappointing.
 
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Nepenthe said:
Dammit Cardero! It's been about 7 years since I last saw Trilogy of Terror and now I'm gonna be afraid to open the over door...!

Thanks a lot.

Yes, the sequel was disappointing.
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Wait till I send you the actual size doll, you'll never go out for the mail again.

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monta

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Nepenthe said:
I have a "doll thing". Horror films with dolls are disturbing.
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My brother has the same deal, there was a Australian Soap Opera called E Street with a guy in it that was being controlled by a Doll or something(it was a long time ago) the doll was called Mr. Bad, if you say Mr. Bad to my brother he will still yelp like a little girl having here ears pierced.
 
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monta said:
My brother has the same deal, there was a Australian Soap Opera called E Street with a guy in it that was being controlled by a Doll or something(it was a long time ago) the doll was called Mr. Bad, if you say Mr. Bad to my brother he will still yelp like a little girl having here ears pierced.
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The real question is whether E Street used Mr. Bad as a metaphor for the Australian 1990 federal election or a symbolic representation of Bob Hawke's conservative deregulation and privatisation policies. Also, one could say E Street used darker storylines- incorporating murder for example- as a chiaroscuro like contrast to the brighter storylines traditionally presented in soap operas.

I'd elaborate but my IPhone's battery is low.
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Nepenthe said:
The real question is whether E Street used Mr. Bad as a metaphor for the Australian 1990 federal election or a symbolic representation of Bob Hawke's conservative deregulation and privatisation policies. Also, one could say E Street used darker storylines- incorporating murder for example- as a chiaroscuro like contrast to the brighter storylines traditionally presented in soap operas.

I'd elaborate but my IPhone's battery is low.
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You asked for this :sad:
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monta said:
You do get that you're the one scared of dolls right :areyoucra to me that's just a bunch of plaster and twigs :D

If you want to make me squirm this disgusting creature will do it every time :cover:

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Well, yeah- but I've learned to deal with it over the years. You know, that which does not kill you...
And Sorry, Service Temporarily Unavailable. isn't that disgusting.
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Circle_One

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Katzpur said:
I thought the original (1963 or something like that) "The Haunting" was scary. It scared me out of my wits when I saw it as a teenager and was almost as scared when I saw it again years later. The remake of a few years ago was so lame it was laughable.
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I tend to agree, the original The Haunting muchly scared me when I first saw it (and it was done 1963, FTR).

The original Fog scared me as well.

I think the main problem with horror movies and other people is that you all go into them expecting to be scared, so you're let down and come out not enjoying them.

Me, I go into a horror flick expecting it to be FUN, and more often than not, it usually is.
 
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kai said:
Alien
The exorcist
Psycho
the thing (the original)

Quatermass and the pit -- that was brilliant scared the life out of me when i was a boy ( not that i am a girl now! Oh you know what i mean)


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slasher films don't scare me i get bored very quickly with them.
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By the Thing, do you mean Carpenter's, or The Thing From Another World? Because the former was a remake of the latter, and I don't know a lot of people who actually know of the original. Just wondering :)
 
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