Truly frightening

[MysteryGirl]

I was reading the worst movie thread and the majority of the flicks are attempts at horror movies.

Have you seen a horror movie that wasn't horrible - but truly frightening?

Not just one scene being passable - but the whole movie ranking up there for you as a good thriller?

 

[Phillips]

House Of 1000 Corpses....

 

[skeepe]

I was actually truly scared during both The Grudge and The Ring... and from what I'm told, the Japanese versions are even more frightening, so that's something I'll have to look into.

 

[DIEHARD]

Master of Disguise.

Truely frightening, but Im not sure if that was the producers intention.

I still have nightmares about it....

 

[Manurewa_Marlins]

Homewood Bound

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

The Ring.

 

[Phillips]

Master of Disguise.

Truely frightening, but Im not sure if that was the producers intention.

I still have nightmares about it....

tuuuuuuuuuurtle :lol:

 

[Big Bunny]

It's hard to be frightened of anything on a screen these days. I'm just too desensitised I guess. Jaws worked when I was little, as did a few films dealing with aliens and when it comes to gore, well that's just boring.

The only way to scare a person is to introduce something that they don't understand or was shown too quickly for them to comprehend, hence scary movies are always either something based on an illogical fear such as with a phobia (sharks, drowning, spiders, clowns, sock puppets etc) taken to new levels or when it's the unknown (darkness, aliens, ghosts). The only common element is that they all require your imagination to make it work.

Once you've seen something scary you're much less likely to jump the second time around, especially if you fully understand what it is that you saw.

I'd love to take a full grown indian guy, straight out of the amazon jungle and see how he'd react to watching ET or King Kong in an empty movie theatre. Priceless.

 

[Razor]

Not frightened by any fictional story I see. I might have been when I was a kid, can't remember.

 

[bulldog]

Don't really get scared by movies, but 28 Days Later is a great movie that seems to scare the hell out of a lot of people I loan it to.

 

[Big Bunny]

Maybe the Chyna sex video would scare me. I saw the cover once and that was at least creepy.

 

[Big Pete]

Hmmm I don't really watch scary movies too often.

But the best scary movie I saw was Aliens.

 

[NZ Warrior]

Poor X-pac gets the bash too. The sales can't of gone too well.

Probably the scariest movie for mine would be The Ring. Damn scary little dead girl.

But I'm pleased to say that in my 20's, I've finally watched The Shining and I really enjoyed it. I just hate movies with scary little kids in them. I can't bring myself to watch Spy Kids :lol:

 

[El Diablo]

Depends when you saw the movie. I saw A Nightmare On Elm street I & II on the big screen when I was 12 and they scared the shit out of me.

 

[hrundi99]

Blair Witch Project
The Ring (* spoiler* the part when she crawls out of the tv *end of spoiler*)
28 Days Later
The Exorcist

...all had their moments.

I prefer thrillers to out-and-out horror movies but the best horror films combine both.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

It's not strictly a horror film, but "Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer" is genuinely frightening. "The Blair Witch Project" gave me the creeps too, although the camerawork renders it almost unwatchable. And the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was actually a fairly scary film.

 

[Knightmare]

I can't understand what's so scary about the girl in 'The Ring' crawling out of the TV set. Movies don't realliy scare me, because they're just that- movies. But probably the most disturbing thing I've seen was the final episode of 'John Safran vs God'- even more so because it was so different from any of the other episodes. I kept thinking about it for the next two days. RALPH seemed to agree with me- they judged it as the most memorable TV moment of 2004- it even beat Crystal from Big Brother taking a shower.

 

[NZ Warrior]

I haven't seen John Safran vs God. Is it a mini series or something???

 

[PJ]

But probably the most disturbing thing I've seen was the final episode of 'John Safran vs God'- even more so because it was so different from any of the other episodes

I missed that episode, what happened?

 

[UndertakerMike]

Yea it was like he really was being exorcised by the wierdo religious freaks.

I was waiting for him to stand up and go "ha ha kidding you alll"

Must be a ploy to force yer all to buy the DVD.