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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
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HOHH.....was that the one with the old mental institute where the mad scientist/doctor's ghost can be seen flicking about on the security monitors?
If so, those sequences are some of the scariest moments I've ever seen on screen. The guy playing the doctor is Jeffrey Combs, one o my favourite horror actors. |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Waterworld. Scared they could spend so much money on such a crappy movie.
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Seeing Halloween when it first came out made me realize I loved being scared. Halloween wasn't gory, just scary.
The first 15 minutes or so of Scream scared the snot out of me. It was just suspenseful. Who can ever forget the moment of realization in the first When a Stranger Calls? This weekend I saw 1408 and The Happening. I liked them both well enough, but wasn't as scared as I'd hoped. The Happening was a bit hokey but there was a creepiness about it that I loved. The Other (1972) was a nice creepy little movie. When the girl spider walks the stairs in The Exorcist, I still get so creeped that it scares me.
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I feel very ignorant not knowing who Jeffrey Combs was! I've remedied via Google now. I'm just not very good at recognising American actors I'm afraid. Last edited by Sundae; 11-03-2008 at 09:51 AM. Reason: Sounded Engrish |
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Werepandas - lurking in your shadows
Join Date: Jun 2008
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My top vote goes to - "W"
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Touring the facilities
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: The plains of Colorado
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The Ring (saw it on an airplane by myself!)
Event Horizon Anything with little kids doing unnatural things, is frightening to me. Seven was pretty scary, too. |
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go ahead, abbrev. it
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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The Haunting (original vers.)
Phantasm Reanimator
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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The Ring (saw it in a cabin the middle of the woods.)
Stir of Echoes (Kevin Bacon was excellent) Candyman (even scarier when you've been to those projects)
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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Saw
The Shining The Exorcist Jaws Jacob's Ladder The Cube Night of the Living Dead (original only) Halloween The Grudge I know there are probably a lot of other ones that I'd nominate, but I'm on caffiene underflow right now and can't think of any more.
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polaroid of perfection
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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I'm now wondering if I set my standards too high.
I named two films that deeply disturbed and upset me, and the fear remained with me afterwards. I always thought I was easily spooked, but the other films other people have mentioned here have just been there and gone things for me. Especially The Shining and Salem's Lot, where I sat deploring the changes made. Now I know it's all down to personal taste - hell I've even admitted people scoff at my two scary movies - but I do find it a little weird. Can y'all give reasons to help me out please, and/ or say exactly how they made you feel? Or tell me to piss off, whichever you prefer. |
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
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There are very few films that 'scare' me. Some, like Dead Set make me feel tense and on edge whilst watching and maybe leave a residual unease afterwards. very, very few actually frighten me.
The Grudge is one that did. I actually had to intermittently put my bedside light on during the night after that film lol. The scene where 'it' is under the bedclothes....*suppresse a shudder* that film hits childhood fears like they're skittles. The very first episode of Sapphire and Steel: that set me up with nightmares for years afterwards. I think I must have been about 8 years old. The sound of children's voices singing 'Ring a ring a roses' in that context is possibly the most terrifying thing I can think of. |
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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Raytown, Missouri
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2008 State of the Union Address. Scared the shit out of me.
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Come on, cat.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area
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Jaws fucked me up pretty good.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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Really, if a movie makes me think about it after, for several days, intermittenly, it has had a pretty major impression on me. When the movie is scary, the thoughts are more like little terrifying mini-nightmares. Event Horizon...I kept flashing to the part of the movie where the guy's wife opens her eyes and says something. Her eyes are all weird and bloody and he is already in that cramped little lighted hallway thingy. In the ring it was the idea that the kid came through the screen. That terrified me, and I imagined it everytime I saw a TV screen for a while.
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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I saw a few separate clips of Audition, less than 2-3 minutes total, and that alone disturbed the shit out of me. On the one hand, I can glaze right by most horror movies without even realizing I'm supposed to be scared--The Shining, for example (though the book scared me quite a bit,) or The Blair Witch Project, did not even ramp up a sense of suspense for me--but the ones that get me, I can't even watch.
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