Horror Movies

[Phil_The_Rodent]

What is the scariest movie ever made?

[SoonerDog]

I think every man was horrified by Fatal Attraction, ha ha.

OK, probably not the scariest of all time, but when I was young, The Birds scared the living daylights out of me. I think it was because birds are something we see in everyday life (as opposed to a make-believe monster). For the longest time, I wondered if I would get attacked by a flock of wild birds while walking home from school :)

[kristoficus]

Bambi :(

I dont watch Horror movies. Im a big kid, therefor i get scared sometimes :lol

[kumod]

I can't remember the name of it but when I was about 10 there was a movie that had this Tiki doll that had some sort of chain around the waist and if that chain every came off then the Tiki doll came to life. Well wouldn't you know it the Tiki doll came to life and was pretty much Jason x 10000 as far as not being able to be killed. Scared me but then again I was 10 at the time.

[cygnusX1]

Jaws.
It's the whole 'what's in/under the water?' thing. I didn't go swimming for years after seeing Jaws.
Also, Alien is quite scary when you're twelve.

[joeivo]

The Haunting (of hill house)

Fifties b&w, darkly gothic, no visible monsters, totally psychological.

Very scary!

[fotodog]

Ghost Story (1981)

More eerie and creepy than scary.
I had goose bumps from the beginning to the end and had nightmares for a month.

[Digi Pixie]

Kumod (Zimm's Evil Twin - no wait, you'd be the good one!)...that's the Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black...one of my all time favourites!

fotodog...I really liked Ghost Story too!

I too am more of a fan of the psychological horror...the unseen...rather than the blood & guts slasher films. I love ghost stories in particular...read a lot of them too. One of the scariest films I've ever seen is a British telemovie called Woman in Black...I think from the late 80s. Just a good old fashioned ghost story...but really scary! :o

[kiwicolin]

I personally don't like that Genre of movie. I don't like to be scared, and I hate blood and guts :)

But as akid it was an old movie called "The Tomb of Ligena (sp?)" It is an old b&W

[kumod]

Originally posted by the good reverend zi:mm
hey kumod,

if that's you on your avatar, you look like identical to me.

zi:mm

That would be me, maybe we were seperated at birth

[Phil_The_Rodent]

Originally posted by kiwicolin
I personally don't like that Genre of movie. I don't like to be scared, and I hate blood and guts :)

I hate slasher movies; but I have a craving for a good dose of fear. Well done psychological stuff... :)

[fotodog]

Psychological thriller's are wonderful if I'm in the mood.

Not a slasher fan except for Tarantino's style.

Give me a cop film or a really good comedy any day!!

[MartinLee]

old home movies of my ugly mumma!
only kidding... sorry mum...

i thought '28 days later' was quite scary

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[dualdesigns]

When a stranger calls...

Nothing ever scared me as bad as that -
He knows your alone came close but not that close

[Warmodder]

Tarantino, now your talkin'! :D

Horror movies are good too, though most of the time, i find they aren't really scary enough to be worthy of the Horror title. There are your typical host of popular movies like the jason series which might be scary to some. (I've been to that lake in friday the 13th. :o Actually I go their every summer for camp, but it's called Camp nobebosco. )

Then you have your sci-fi horror genre blending types like aliens which is a pretty good movie.

I guess moives are only really scary by the viewers standards. What may be horrifying to me, may be childsplay to you. (no pun intended. :lol)

[Edited on 30-4-2004 by Warmodder]

[Viika]

I like all the japanese modern horror films with distorted walking, crawling and other movements.

But what's even more horrible, " This isn't funny at all" - a stupid horror movie made about hundred years in which i acted Marik, a silly girl who loses her head to an unknown axe-murderer :lol

We shooted it in late autumn and it was pretty cold then, and in one part of the movie i had to walk around and lie down on the ground in the woods wearing only white burial sheets on me. And we had this moron perfectionist friend of mine as a director so i had to lay there for long periods of time. And I got so sick i had to eat antibiotics for two months. That was quite a horror experience.

[actionfx]

YES! The TRilogy of Terror! I could never remember the name, but that really freaked me out as a kid... the Tiki doll was the worst.

There was another movie about the same time about little creatures that lived in this house... ended up tying up the heroine and throwing her down a chimney. That creeped me out big time too... anyone remember that?

[actionfx]

fotodog... if you like Tarentino, in particualr the Kill Bill movies, take a look at Battle Royale. That is if you haven't already. Tarentino pulled some inspiration from that... the actress who plays GoGo is in that as well. The dialogue is in Japanese, so be sure to get the subtitled version! :x

[rigrider]

K, I'm gonna get booed off stage for this one but, The Blair Witch scared the hell out of me, the first time I saw it anyway. I had just come back from a jaunt across country with a couple of buddies where we did ALOT of camping. Hadn't heard a thing about the movie. The day we got back we ran into some other friends who asked us to go the show with them. That movie creeped me out to no end. Then I saw it the second time (On DVD) and it sucked....lol. Oh well, that's mine!

[fotodog]

Originally posted by actionfx
fotodog... if you like Tarentino, in particualr the Kill Bill movies, take a look at Battle Royale. :x

Thanks Al, I haven't seen that one yet.

Don't forget: Terror Train, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Don't go in the House et al.
In todays terms they are weird indie type films but back in the day, they were wicked.

But one that I almost forgot Reefer Madness. Scared me away from the drug scene, but I saw it when I was 8.:o

[mistapicman]

Amityville Horror---

the book truly scared the trouser-chili out of me though--- by Jay Anson...

It was actually based on a true story...

that is if you believe in the spiritual world..

don't laugh, but my family went through

a crazy spirited ordeal ourselves...made

us all believers....

anyway, after I read the book, I couldn't s

sleep on my stomach for at least a

month!

try not to laugh to hard!

:lol

[actionfx]

picman... I don't blame you. That book was very scary... I think I was 12 or so when I read it. The red pig eyes got me...

[Davey]

amitiville horror is pretty scary (have them all on DVD :p )

Pet sematary now that was a scary movie or serpent of the rainbow :o

[liquidwerx.com]

That's easy, "The Shining".

Great topic, Phil. I LOVE horror flicks, my favorite type of movies.


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