What movies are able to truly frighten you as an adult?

HMMMMM...

Audition.

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I was actually going to say both JL and Audition, originally. I've always been proud of my ability to withstand extremely graphic and gory films, but Audition.... there's a way movies freaked me out and made me squirm up to the age of, say, 12 or so, and then after that the emotion was completely lost. Until I saw "Audition".

haha :-)

When we were into teh w33d a few weeks ago I made some of my friends watch Fantastic Planet. It freaked some dudes out.

was just watching ju-on 2 a little while ago. overall it's cheesy but you will JUMP and you will LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER.

love the scene where the little boy ghost is playing with the hanging bodies.

http://www.dragonsdenuk.com/reviews/ju-on_2-3.jpg

it's better that way - imagine what it looks like!

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Re-watched Threads recently - pretty scary.

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very last scene of the Blair Witch Project

everything, but especially zombies. I just can't take them, i think it's the cannibalism angle. shaun of the dead gave me the creeps, though I could appreciate the humor, and I won't go near 28 days later and all that. I can watch movies with the kind of people who laugh and shoot the shit at scary movies cause their laughter gives me enough distance to laugh with them, but I'm not one of those people, if that makes any sense.

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/05/cteq/fantastic_planet.jpg
This bit was pretty sweet when they were meditating and all their bodies/clothes were blending together. v psychedelic.

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This bit was more wtf than scary.

i wanna see the blair witch project again

I'm with trememdoid; a lot of movies freak me out. I did fine with Shaun of the Dead but am afraid to see 28 Days Later because it's not worth the not-sleeping later. Weirdly, the more outlandish the plot, the more likely it is to bother me. Movie about a random killer? Probably fine. Zombies or ghosts or monsters? I don't sleep well for weeks.

The Crying Game

Also, The Quay Brothers' "Street of Crocodiles" was so fucking eerie and creepy to me; something about the jerkiness of the stop-motion and the not-explicitly-SCARY-but-very-eerie quality it had...

OH MAN is Fantastic Planet ever awesome. But even watching it on thee shrooms didn't unsettle me, and that is a situation in which I am easily unsettled.

Cronenberg's DEAD RINGERS sure as fuck did it --- Jeremy Irons as psychotic, meticulous, kinky twin gynecologists.

Land of the Dead really disturbed me, but a portion is bcz I forgot to take my meds that day. I'd driven about three miles home on the freeway when my friend pointed out that I really needed to shift out of second gear --- I was too busy quivering of the scared.

Quay Bros....a thing like Fantastic Planet that can creep you out while simultaneously boring you...to DEATH!

Has anyone seen their Institut Benjementa? What a fucking soporific...I think I would've gotten much more of the impact they wanted were it a book of photos.

The movie of WATERSHIP DOWN has scared a lot of people I know, to mention another animated feature.

FEMALE TROUBLE frightened me in a completely different way than a horror flick --- the only film I've turned off partway through in YEARS (when Divine had tied her daughter to the bed).

some of the movies that portray mental health issues scare me a lot like, a Beautiful Mind, Memento, Identity.

The blair witch project was scary, yes, but only for a short while.

Movies about Kissinger.

Freddy Krueger still scares the shit outta me.

I think I've said this somewhere else but I've never been scared of movies, not even when I was little - I was too busy being the creepy kid freaking everyone else out. My whole attitude to scary movies is basically the same as going on a rollercoaster. I watch them for the thrills and the adrenaline but they don't bother me afterwards. just don't have the imagination for it, I think. I'm way more likely to be freaked out by hyper-realistic portrayals of violence - like detached killing of little kids, and some of those scenes from "Children of Men", but I don't know if that's considered the same type of response.

That said, there's one thing that truly frightened me the first time I watched it - the video to Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy". You know the scene. It was late night, the first year I was living alone, and I was high and fucking hell that thing was terrifying. I had to go put on a spice girls cd to feel normal again.

The Wall

Exorcist. First and only time I watched it I couldn't go to sleep without the light on for literally weeks afterwoards. I was 21 at the time.

Ring was pretty bad too. Basically anything with mad-eyed posessed or undead females. Man I've giving myself the creeps now just thinking about them.

I think Threads would freak me out now if I saw it again, and I'm not sure I want to.

I dont think I want to watch "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover" again in a hurry either. It disturbed me for some reason. Oh and "Salo".

But that was less fright and more "omg wtf gross argh my brain".

Anyone seen "The Woman in Black", 80s UK ITV production? Notable for one scene in which yet another mad-eyed undead female suddenly appears above the protagonists bed, screaming, hair waving, mad eyes madly staring. Scared the crap out of me.

Oh yes I think I know what you mean! large mansion, horse and carriage outside, then suddenly this almost silent-scream banshee thru the window over the bed? Freaked me the fuck out too.

I saw the play of that in London recently, and it was highly effective and scary. There was a great deal of shrieking in the audience!

To get back on thread: I still find the Shining really scary. And Don't Look Now: even if you know what happens at the end, it's still very atmospheric, and that ending is really fucked up.

anyone here seen 29 Palms? my old flatmate has been trying to convince me to watch - by promoting it as the most disturbing thing he's ever seen. that really didn't sell it for me. i'm a total sissy when it comes to horror films/creepy films. my brain is way too impressionable and i end up having nightmares.

blair witch project scared the holy fuck outta me.

The Shining is impossible to watch drunk. Dunno what it is about it, but I can't get any further than about 20 minutes if I've had a few drinks.

Yeah, I watched it while drunk once and it did my head in.

blair witch yes.

house on haunted hill, the bits with the cctv of the ghost patients stop motioning around the place.

carrie, at the end. the cheap jump. yuck.

The Ring is the last horror movie I watched, um, three and a half years ago. It's the reason I haven't seen any others since. (It tapped into childhood fears of ghosts coming out of mirrors - I had to sleep on the couch in front of the TV the night I saw it, even though the girl comes out through the TV and kills people, because I was too scared to go up to a bedroom with a mirror thanks to reading too many ghost stories as a kid.)

Ring. I could not be alone in the room with the television off for about a week afterwards. It just has a whole OHJESUSMAKEITSTOP vibe to it.

Also 28 Days Later scared me so much that we had to stop watching it after half an hour and watch the rest of it at 11am.

And I saw the original Night of the Living Dead in the cinema about ten years ago and then had to walk to a party through dark streets afterwards. That was pretty scary.

Hostel really freaked me out.

Ring was pretty bad too.

There's a very brief bit in Repulsion (if you've seen, it you probably know what I'm talking about and if you haven't, I don't want to spoil it) that is almost magically shocking within the context of the movie.

The subliminal bits in The Exorcist still get me. Especially the one during Damien's dream about his mother.

The first half of The Descent was really hard to watch, mostly because the filmmakers went the brilliant route of exploiting real, tangible fears that a lot of people have.

I saw a preview screeing of Blair Witch several weeks before its release and all the attendant hype, knowing nothing about it. Scared the shit out of me. Post-hype, it was almost laughable. That movie is a gun with exactly one bullet in it.

Poltergeist, when I watched it a year or so ago, was still remarkably effective in giving me the creeps.

Unfortunately, I'm so jaded that it's rare for me to be genuinely frightened by a movie. That whole current rash of torture flicks make me incredibly uncomfortable, but that's a whole different thing.

The first half of The Descent was really hard to watch, mostly because the filmmakers went the brilliant route of exploiting real, tangible fears that a lot of people have.

Absolutely. Then the stupid mutants showed up and it became a joke.

"Dead Birds" had plenty of spooky bits, but I can't really watch any horror movie with ghosts. Hell, even the trailer for "White Noise" freaked me out.

Murnau's Nosferatu and the BBC Dracula still do it for me.

there were some shots in the holy mountain i had to look away from.

The subliminal bits in The Exorcist still get me. Especially the one during Damien's dream about his mother.

d'ya mean The Omen?

No. I mean The Exorcist.

The first half of The Descent was really hard to watch

That 'trapped' scene early on :O

I know, right? I mean, the thought of being trapped in a confined space is scary enough. The thought of being trapped in a tiny crevasse inside of a mountain and having no one know where you are...brrrrrrr.

everyone should watch threads again. good god. an encapsulation of terror.

other than that ... nowt i can think of. i'm rock, me.

Is it just me or does the Rob Zombie Halloween remake look much scarier than the original?

I'll go with Audition but that was more repulsive than scary.

The Shining scared me when i watched it (for the first time) as an adult.

I watch tons of horror crap, and the Ring is one of the few recent American horror flicks that actually had me climbing my seat in the theater.

Is it just me or does the Rob Zombie Halloween remake look much scarier than the original?

Yes it does. I think in huge part to the substitution of human skin mask for hockey mask.

New Halloween, like every Halloween since the original, will almost assuredly suck.

I had no idea Rob Zombie was doing it, tho.

I think it might be halfway decent. Although I'm generally loathe to revisions.

I still find "The Exorcist" and "The Shining" (aka "the Big Two" horror films for people who don't slavishly pour over the pages of FANGORIA every month) pretty fucking disturbing.

I never want to see "Eraserhead" again -- and I mean that in a good way.

"Hostel," "Saw" and the like.... well, they just seem kinda too dumb for me to be actively scared by.

"Audition," however -- talk about pulling out all the stops. I'm not just scared by the film, I'm scared by the people who made the film, `cos that's some fucked up shit right there, yo.

the lady in black, yes!!!

i saw that on A&E in the early 90s when it was an arty channel.

eraserhead really creeped me out, but i didn't find the shining scary in the slightest

Really? Not even this freaky bit?

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I actually find Eraserhead kind of soothing. It's very dreamlike and not quite creepy enough (to me, anyway) to cross the line into nightmareville.

I think that, seeing The Shining as a kid (which probably severely diminished the impact that it has on me now), there were bits that I thought would only make sense when I was older and understood more about the world (i.e. the dog costume bit). But...they kind of still don't.

I don't know if frighten is the right word, but The Reflecting Skin has a sort of soul-destroying vibe to it that I can't quite shake.

I had no idea Rob Zombie was doing it, tho.

I think the problem I have with most of these movie types is that it requires 1) people 'splitting up' for no reason, and 2) people tripping so that the mega-slow idiot can catch them or running through the woods / sheets / etc., and like magic, the mega-slow idiot is already there. Not so with Rob Zombie movies. People are just trapped and done away with gruesomely. So knowing he's directing, I want to see this now.

Event Horizon is a very bad film, full of cheap stunts - near-subliminal tricks and super-violent discontinuities.

It is the scariest thing I have ever seen. I have "seen it" c. 4 or 5 times, but I've only ever laid eyes on about 98% of it.

Reasons:

1. The gore and grunge far exceeds what you would expect from an
apparently big-budget film with Larry Fishburne in it

2. The generic sci-fi set-up also means that the passages of
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh argh argh are interspersed
with bits in which you might as well be watching a relatively normal
film before being suddenly plunged back into
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh argh argh

3. Numerous eyeless faces

4. The whole alternate evil universe thing

5. The emergent sense that the person in charge of the film is so
irresponsible and/or heedless as to try *anything* in order to bypass
your critical faculties and force his agenda (as such) on your reflexes
(as if the film were actually *directed* by the Sam Neill character)

I always get frightened by the part where Eraserhead runs around the house wearing a hockey mask.

What about that part where Rosemary's baby throws that guy in a meatgrinder? I screamed when that happened.

Is it just me or does the Rob Zombie Halloween remake look much scarier than the original?

Yes it does. I think in huge part to the substitution of human skin mask for hockey mask.

-- Ms Misery, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

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Oh my god, I got something wrong about a movie I haven't seen in more than twenty years. On an internet messageboard, no less! I can only hope the wide world of nerds will forgive me.

THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDNT COMMENT ON ROB ZOMBIE VS JOHN CARPENTER IF YOU HAVE NO IDEA WTF YOU ARE SAYING

Chaki, don't get all aggro. It's unpleasant.

VINYLFACE

man if people didn't comment on things when they had no fucking idea what they were talking about, we'd have no need to invent a language other than math

i swear im going to go all michael myers on all of you. wheres my razor finger glove??

This is a casual conversation on ILx, not aintitcool.com.

Trying to prove your superiority on a messageboard is no substitution for penis size, son.

My favorite part in the original Halloween is where William Shatner tries to kill that hermaphrodite.

AND what size is YOUR penis, Misery?

BOSTON CHAINSAW MASSACRE

im sorry, ms misery. please continue to make awesome observations.

that probably deserves a thread by itself. my guess is that ms. misery rocks the cock AND balls.

i say this with admiration, mind you.

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Penis not so much. Balls more so.

Believe me Chaki, striving to make awesome observations on this board is what I live for every day. (read: who gives a fuck)

xxpost

Only with a harness.

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I'm thinking she's got three balls consuming all that Texas beef. FUCK YEAH! And yes admiration :)

Humansuit, you're going to conjure JW here to start calling me fat with that 3 balls thing.

No. No fatness. Only cajones.

human cojone mask

So yeah, Neil W. OTM about Event Horizon: sucks but scary as hell. Therefore, doesn't suck.

And while I agree that Eraserhead is more dreamy/trippy than scary, the recent Lynch films are flat-out the scariest I've ever seen. First half of Lost Highway, intermittent scenes in Mulholland Drive, almost every minute of Inland Empire = terrifying.

I was going to nominate Lynch, although I think Twin Peaks is scarier than any of his films.

OK, the scary guy who lives behind the restaurant jump out moment in Mullholland Drive scared the shit out of me.

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/pics/pilot/pilot38.jpg

Actually, yes, that's sinister in the extreme, especially with the guy having a heart attack.

OTM Ring(u) and last scene of Blair Witch.

Ju-On was not especially scary when I saw it, but last night in bed I recalled a lot of images from it and got FREAKED OUT. the office building bathroom scene is really awful. that death rattle noise the ghost makes is awful.

why is everyone freaked out by Audition? the only scary scene for me is the shot of her slumped over by her phone next to the sack. the actual torture sequences are pretty tame, i thought. if we're talking about squirming, the 'in the realm of the senses' castration scene and the smiley in 'american history X' haven't left me.

(..i need to start re-reading my posts. yeesh.)

So, I need some assistance here.

There was a show or a movie or a portion of either (I'm thinking Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories or Tales from the Crypt style) where a person sees in the mirror, off in the distance behind them, something coming towards them. Each time this person looks in a mirror, any mirror, that thing gets closer and closer. Person ends up going nuts, and the thing finally catches them, and they become one thing. Anyway, that whole idea of the thing coming out of the mirror has freaked the fuck out of me for ever. What is this show/movie/segment I'm remembering?

28 Days Later, b/c of the lightening shift from uninhabited, post-zombopocalypse London to running away from growing hordes of Olympic-caliber sprinting zombies at top speed. And then walking down the empty street on the way home from the movie.

Blair Witch freaked the fuck out of me b/c I used to go camping in THOSE VERY WOODS in Western Maryland. Many, many a night spent in fall/winter woods looking exactly like that. Old houses with collapsed roofs, etc. Really threw me. It may have had one bullet, but it was a BIG one.

Exorcist scares me more and more each time I see it. You see so much pain and sorrow borne by people alone, and then this demon shows up and capitalizes on it all over the fucking place. Such a psychological horror movie, in addition to the whole crucifix hijinx and such. The defacement of the Virgin Mary in the chapel at Georgetown was particularly disturbing to me.

The Shining is more of a "WHAT THE FUCK?!!?!?!" than actually scaring me. The two girls, however, do still scare me to this day, mostly b/c I used to work with a woman who wore her hair that way and was approx. the exact same size as the girls. And she was weird as fuck.

I am cursing a whole lot today. Wow.

There was a show or a movie or a portion of either (I'm thinking Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories or Tales from the Crypt style) where a person sees in the mirror, off in the distance behind them, something coming towards them. Each time this person looks in a mirror, any mirror, that thing gets closer and closer. Person ends up going nuts, and the thing finally catches them, and they become one thing. Anyway, that whole idea of the thing coming out of the mirror has freaked the fuck out of me for ever. What is this show/movie/segment I'm remembering?

Amazing Stories, episode "Mirror, Mirror" directed by Martin Fuckin Scorsese, dog.

Right on, yo. That shit STILL scares the fuck outta me.

Phantasm has a pretty good evil mirror moment as well.

Exorcist/Omen/etc. never really did it for me because I was raised atheist, thus making possession/devil as boogeyman fall kind of flat. Everyone I know that was religious when they saw it has assured me that under that context, the scare factor is pretty high, though.

yeah Exorcist FUCKED FUCKED FUCKED with my shit the first time I saw it. So I watched it again the next day... I do that if a movie freaks me out especially, because I want to reassure myself that it's just a movie, etc. The second time through I noticed all the hammy, hysterical acting. But it's still a very very effective movie.

The Omen, otoh, is pretty stupid

The Excorcist is good and all but yeah I never found it remotely scary - all those Catholic signifiers = *yawn*. I don't give a shit about the Satan and Hell and all that

I saw the Exorcist during my first year of college, and, despite being raised Catholic, didn't find it scary. It was probably too late for me by then... Catholicism lapsing madly at that point. (I saw it on the campus of University of Notre Dame, btw).

This thread is a useful guide to movies I will never be able to see.

^^^^This is pretty much the same as me.

The scariest aspect of it for me was the utter LOSS of faith in everything by Damien and Chris McNeil (Ellen Burstyn). And THEN the demon coming in and tearing their barely-functioning lives apart. That's what the dream sequences are about - the falling of the pendant, the loss of his mother, the interstitial appearances by this demon face - freaky, freaky shit.

I used to be able to see those steps from my apartment in Arlington. Whoo.

I ain't got no religion and never have had but The Exorcist still fucks with me. Keep in mind that the main characters (and the posessee) are atheists when the possession takes place. Or at least not really religious in any meaningful sense. Just because they fixate on a religious solution doesn't mean that the possession had anything at all to do with religion. If you get me.

There are a lot of horror movies that I find effective even if I am not particularly frightened by them personally. The best ones usually fall under the category of "everything is fucked": Romero's Living Dead movies, Carpenter's The Thing (the blood-test scene is great at evoking dread), the 70s remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. An effective Lovecraft adaptation would probably be my perfect horror movie: everything is slightly, subtly wrong and just keeps going more wrong without much hope of becoming less wrong. "Subtle" would be the watchword there. It doesn't seem to exist in the vocabulary of most horror filmmakers.

Testament is pretty much the US equivalent of Threads. Slowly creeping dread and hopelessness. Much scarier than things jumping out at you.

Ditto on some of the recent Lynch stuff. Also: in Twin Peaks, the scene where BOB (for those who still don't know who BOB is) is killing Maddie is just about as terrifying as network TV gets.

(Oh, and Ms. Misery? For the record, I wasn't poking fun at you. Just collaborating in the dumbassery. Because that's what I do.)

Ditto on some of the recent Lynch stuff. Also: in Twin Peaks, the scene where BOB (for those who still don't know who BOB is) is killing Maddie is just about as terrifying as network TV gets.

So OTM. The electric fan even scares me.

Also BOB just totally creepy.

i first watched henry the serial killer when i was in a coldly furious and frustrated mood towards someone i felt had really badly exploited and abused my good feelings and kindness towards them (i afterwards decided/realised things hadn't been like this at all, yes they'd been a bit distracted and scaredycat about a difficult renegotiation of a relationship, but they'd also had hideous work and family stuff to deal with, which i knew but was "forgetting" in my tantrum)

anyway what scared me about it was that on the night in question i caught myself coolly thinking, as henry got on with his thing, "yes, *i* should be more like that"

Yeah, even when he appears and nothing happens the dude just oozes creepiness.
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anyway what scared me about it was that on the night in question i caught myself coolly thinking, as henry got on with his thing, "yes, *i* should be more like that"

jesus christ mark!

that movie really fucked with my head, only watched it once.

the scene where they film their B&E and attack that family and the videocamera falls on the ground and keeps recording ... ooof

I dunno if I consider that a horror movie though - doesn't really follow any horror movie conventions... (love that the guy went on to make Wild Things, which is TEH AWESOME)

I think Carpenter's The Thing takes the prize as genuinely scary horror movie for adults

I have never been able to make it through The Thing. TOO SCARY!

Yeah, I'd lump Henry... in with that whole "torture" genre. Which is more about just showing how horrible people can be towards one another. Which I know all about and can easily remind myself of just by reading the news on any given day. It's an effective film and it evokes a response, but it's not a response that I care to experience again (see also: the Faces Of Death series).

Enormous tragedy: they are remaking The Thing (and yes, I know that The Thing is, itself, a remake, but it's just about perfect...so why fuck with that?).

the remake is going to be relatively faithful/full of knowing irony re: the Carpenter version. Ergo it is going to suck.

Yeah, I'd lump Henry... in with that whole "torture" genre.

See also: Necromantik, which certainly didn't scare me but was just fucking disgusting and felt completely pointless.

Ooh. Creepshow. I don't know what it is about that movie, but it gets me a little. It's very overtly cartoonish for long stretches, and then there are these very vivid moments of horror that offset the cartoonishness in an unsettling way. And the Creep, just soundlessly standing outside of that kid's window. I love it.

Creepshow's all LAFFS to me - man haven't seen that in ages!

OH. And, for some reason, Hannibal? It's not a very good movie, but I really really love its slow transition from a psychological thriller into full-blown horror. And the horror bits are really creepy. You could practically see the theater audience squirming during that last scene with Liotta.

i guess it wasn't henry that scared me, it was ME

Yeah, Shakey Mo, Creepshow is mostly so goofy. But then there's the goofy great-aunt, getting drunk in broad daylight...and then the corpse of her father scrambles out of his grave. And the goofy millionaire, throwing goofy tantrums...until his body splits open and swarms of cockroaches crawl out. While most of the movie is high-camp, the horror elements are done in such a "no fucking around" way. It's such a great contrast.

Polanski's "Repulsion" I found pretty scary when I saw it on TV a good few years ago, I don't know what I'd think of it now though. The guy in the mirror would probably still creep me out a bit.

SHHHHHHHHHH! Some people haven't seen it!

Is it Creepshow or Creepshow II that has the film version of the short story "The Raft?" That is another one I just can't watch. Actually, reading the story gets me, too.

God I'm wimpy.

I remember actually liking Hannibal but all I remember is pretty European buildings and Giancarlo Giannini being cool.

Creepshow II had the raft in it.

Films that have scared me as an adult :

Ringu
Ju-On (also parts of Ju-On 2)
The Shining
Candyman
The Haunting (not the fucking remake)
Repulsion

Films that have scarred me as an adult :

Salo
Caligula

Audition was too funny to be really scary or disturbing, much as I loved it. The thing-behind-the-diner episode in MD made me jump the fuck out of my skin, but that's probably because I was watching it on a plane, in the middle of a scared-of-flying induced panic attack. Having a panic attack on a plane? Why not watch a FUCKING DAVID LYNCH FILM to calm yourself down? Jeez. I have only myself to blame.

(xpostx1000) Wait! Scorsese directed an episode of Amazing Stories ?! Must find this...

Why not watch a FUCKING DAVID LYNCH FILM to calm yourself down? Jeez. I have only myself to blame.

It's not your typical approach, true...

Thx John on the movie ID. And make sure to stay out of deserted lakes at this time of year.

I don't know if I'd call Argento's Inferno scary as such, but it's certainly the most nightmarish horror film I've seen, as in my nightmares are exactly like this (minus the cats).

Horror films rendered less scary by their pathetic sequels :

Candyman
The Blair Witch Project
Halloween
Hellraiser

the trolls from Ernest Scared Stupid are still freaky. when i was kid, i peed in a cup in the kitchen one night so i wouldn't have to walk back to the bathroom.

Some of the "symbolism & imagery" from films such as the Devils and Holy Mountain are shocking.

And yuh, Lynch stuff too.

i watch a lot of horror movies. for my votes:
- The Tenant: Polanski's scariest film, hands down. menace, inexplicability, personalities rent in two, suicide, disembodiment, cross-dressing. such an utterly terrifying movie that i try not to think about it too often, especially the scene where Polanski sees himself in his own apartment while he's in the bathroom. and the scene with the head.

- Fire Walk With Me: more scary than the show ever was, mostly because of the weird inexplicable noises on the soundtrack and the one scene w/ BOB and Laura in her bedroom.

- Suspiria: the soundtrack and lighting effects alone make it scary as hell. the story itself is only creepy.

- Event Horizon: what the fuck. that's all i can ever say about this movie. (okay, maybe one bit more: it's all about a) the leftover video footage of them eating each other and chanting, and b) sam neill's flashback to his wife(?) cutting her veins open)

- Funny Games: not frightening in the typical sense. more psychologically pummeling than scary, i guess.

- In the Mouth of Madness: totally weird and meta, as well as unsettling. more about the insane antagonist with his book ("LET ME SHOW YOU") than anything else.

- Session 9: oh boy, didn't expect that one coming.

- Bay of Blood: Bava's best film after Black Sunday.

also, Audition didn't really scare me that much, either. my friend gave me an illegal copy of it in 2000 or so, and i was shocked, but am basically of the opinion that Miike is just a more gory conglomeration of Cronenberg and Lynch.

The Haunting (not the fucking remake)

Exactly. That shit is pretty scary.

also, i didn't watch Friday the 13th until last year (when i rented EVERY SINGLE ONE of them during a rainy summer), but the first two are actually kind of terrifying, especially for slasher flicks. i also like the reference to Bay of Blood in part two, what with the teenagers being skewered whilst fucking.

oh and anything by Jim van Bebber, if only because the violence is so depraved. his movies are sort of like what i imagine when i listen to Wolf Eyes.

Session 9 is coming up on my netflix cue. I'm now a lot more excited about that than I was (can't remember who suggested it to me...)

Some people might find The Changeling scary. I didn't, particularly, but there were some unnerving bits. Fans of Ringu/The Ring should check it out. There are some definite parallels (to the extent that I kinda feel like those later movies might've outright stolen stuff from The Changeling).

I just looked up Session 9, and the "abandoned mental hospital" setting always freaks me out, even in really bad movies.

This place should be in more movies. (It was in 12 Monkeys.)

my mom grew up around the corner from there, when it was still an active prison.

Okay, this is how conflicted I am about this. I bought a video copy of the original version of The Haunting, which everyone says is terrifying - but I don't dare watch it. It's based on the Shirley Jackson novel The Haunting of Hill House, right? Loved that book. Reading horror is usually fine for me, but put a visual and some music with it and I'm screwed.

It's scary because it leaves so much to the imagination, IMO. The black and white makes it extra scary. It is based on the book.

Session 9 is truly creepy, plus David Caruso!

xpost I kind of feel like I should try to watch it before VCRs go the way of the dinosaur, but at the same time, I can't let on to my kids that Scary Movies Scare Mommy...

(ha, maybe I can find a way to not let on that I'm, like, sleeping with a nightlight...)

I saw The Haunting (original) in a theater a few years ago, and left feeling like I was the only person who didn't think it's a masterpiece. The spooks and sounds and breathing walls and all that are very well done, but the supposed psychological aspect of the story was campy to me and left me really cold.

Sara - lol yeah. Go to it! Watch it! I hope you don't have a big house.

Kenan - If you feel cold, engage the weasel. Haunting WAS brilliant.

maybe i was just in a bad mood. That can happen.

I've met quite a few people who didn't like it though, so I could see it happening again.

Creepshow's all LAFFS to me - man haven't seen that in ages!

Oh, TOTALLY! And it's so great! Romero 4ever.

http://www.horror.milowice.com/creep.jpg

I'M IN UR WINDOW TELLING U STORYS

http://www.dvdinmypants.com/features/10-05/images/creepshow2.jpg

IM UNDER YOUR BOTE EATIN UR GIRLFRENDS

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r192/samplehead/CREEPSHOW1.jpg

HI DERE

Sorry, I'll stop now.

That kinda made me wanna watch Creepshow tonight as I drift off towards the Sweet Land of Dreams. Because I am a masochist, apparently.

I scare very, very easily. Ringu scared me so much that I walked out of the cinema about 20 mins in. Similarly the one time I tried to watch the Shining I had to turn it off halfway through. Also, Event Horizon - I'm glad I'm not the only person who found that scary. I remember very little about it except for a couple of scenes, but I'm not sure I should go back to it again, really.

Come to think of it The Others scared the fuck out of me, too (except the ending made it all OK).

Man, I was terrified to see The EXORCIST because demonic possession was a fear, a huge Room 101 type fear, that really interfered with my social interaction until I was 14. I watched it at 22 and was more engrossed than terrified. I just felt so BAD for that poor little girl, rather than the Scary Thing possessing her. I thought the scariest scene was when they gave her the spinal tap in that creepy giant hospital machine.

The Exorcist, such a fucking A+ in my book. Great story, great characters, and I was reading hell of 18th century and 'gothic' novels all the time, so I got all analytical 'supernatural vs. rational confusion returns! And like in the Monk, they make it completely confusing!' I quote it all the time, "Captain Howdy, that wasn't very nice!" All the little bits & details like that make it so perfect.

The OMEN (original) is one I quote all the time, too, but bcz it's SO BAD. "It's all for you Damien! I love you Damien!" *dies* In high school me & my friends spent a whole night watching the scene where the guy gets his head cut off w/the pane of glass in slomo over & over bcz you can see the rubber dismembered head flatten out a little before it *bounces.*

Someone upthread was OTM with Children of Men...that's the kind of film that not only scares me but makes me depressed/not wanting to get out of bed for a week.

The scene in the Omen when they find a hyena skeleton in his mother's grave is pretty creepy, tho. But TRICYCLE BALCONY is not. I found it hilarious that the remake made it a RAZOR SCOOTER.

Has anyone watched movies that didn't scare them one whit, but later they had nightmares about them? My list includes Land of the Dead, the Ninthe Gate, and, uh, little Monsters with Kevin Arnold. :(

I've seen most of these.. scary but not that scary but then I was raised really Catholic so.. maybe desensitized after a point? the worst thing I've seen was In My Skin, I had to leave the theater (though I suppose some would find it absurd)

<i>The Thing</i> is really good! I didn't find <I>Audition</i> all that scary.. I mean, it was hard to watch.. but not the kind of thing that sticks with you

I thought the scariest scene was when they gave her the spinal tap in that creepy giant hospital machine.

interestingly, that's not in the original cut. You saw the 2000 cut. I thought it was was the best added scene.

that eyeless creature in "pan's labyrinth" scared the hell out of me.

i'm pretty bad with horror movies; even obviously fake cartoonish gore kind of bothers me. i like "the haunting" and "the shining" and "body snatchers" and all the other classics but i wouldn't say they SCARED me, in the sense that i couldn't sleep after seeing them.

you know what totally gave me nightmares? The bugs in Starship Troopers.

Not the bugs themselves, or even the way they killed... the implication that there are JUST TOO MANY. That there's no winning, no matter what. That gave me nightmares.

William Shatner tries to kill that hermaphrodite.

Bahahahahaha

Welcome to my fahntasies.

The glimpse of Hell seen towards the end of the sci-fi movie Brainstorm scared me witless. Perhaps it had a big shock factor due to most of the film being so boring and timid.

Lost Highway was pretty scary but it was also really boring and I never watched the whole thing.

The Ring probably scared me more than any other movie. Evil Dead scared me a lot when I was 11. I always fall for "jump scares" in the theatre, too.

that upcoming alvin and the chipmunks movie

Just watched Session 9. Holy shit, it's really fucking good.

Suspiria if you have a big tv and good sound system.
But you have to get really high.

Deep Red (dario argento's other most well known film) would be pretty good if you we're really high also.

All that artsy cinematography that quentin tarantino has in his movies or that you expect out of spaghetti westerns are in these two galla flics. The 2nd one mentioned has stuff like children singing and a scene that looks like saw copied directly (I won't elaborate). I wonder when children singing was first introduced to horror movies.

Jesusfuckingchrist, that face* in Inland Empire!

*Like a mad clown

Onscreen for just a fraction of a split second, but utterly terriyfing. The surface of my entire skin went instantly cold.

Safe, still. That ending...

"I love you.
I really love you."

*shudders*

The scenes in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me that take place in the red room (with the terrifying ZIG-ZAG PATTERNED FLOOR) scare me too.

http://www.lynchnet.com/fwwm/pics/fwwm279.jpg

The Black Lodge scenes in the final episode of Twin Peaks were scarier still.

finally got around to getting the Thing on DVD the other day

That movie is FUCKING GREAT.

I watched Candyman on Thursday. Awesome movie, and actually pretty creepy.

The bees!

man the cover of creepshow freaked me out so much as a kid

just watched it... it's adorable!

i always remember that story with the ants, though!

Jesusfuckingchrist, that face* in Inland Empire!

this. fucking david lynch and photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLQW2qr5Hs

haha I now realize that fantastic planet is the movie they were playing on the wall of some warehouse I saw broken social scene in

In all honesty, the first film to spring to mind when I saw this is THE WITCHES. I know it comes from childhood but the end to that movie still creeps me the fuck out.

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0844/ani2.gif

I know Tobe Hooper, and many critics, view it as a black comedy, but the original Texas Chainsaw (which I didn't see until I was in my early 20s) still unnerves me like no other movie.

The scene in the Omen when they find a hyena skeleton in his mother's grave is pretty creepy, tho. But TRICYCLE BALCONY is not. I found it hilarious that the remake made it a RAZOR SCOOTER.

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haha really?? a razor scooter??

is this the inland empire face?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v83/kamikazecamel/inlandempire24.jpg