hey, im a 15 year old and LOVE scary films. (you're probably thinking "casper the friendly ghost" is the worst i've seen!) but no, i wanna know what you lot think is the worst.
i think there's loads of different factors that make scary films scary, eg gory factor, jump factor, storyline, but most of all - if it leaves you will nightmares and could ACTUALLY be true.
here's my top 5:
1. Halloween -the first one, and the scariest film i've seen. (could also be to do with the fact i was 10 years old at the time!)
2. I know what you did last summer - this one could actually happen to you, as i kept telling myself for days after i saw it!
3. Silence of the lambs/Hannibal - excellent storylines, good deal of gorriness. images made me turn away.
4.The Grudge - made me jump, although everything in it was predictable.
5. Jeepers Creepers - typical american horror with idiotic girls refusing to run away from danger! rubbish ending but nonetheless a scary middle chunk!
other good horror films: Scream 1/2, The Shining, Sixth Sense, 13 Ghosts, 28 days later.
worst horror film ever made: Blair Witch Project - whats that all about?! no scary images and the world's worst ending! i couldn't understand why the end credits were coming up in the middle of the film!
Originally posted by corvis: I watched The Grudge with the lights off, in fact the lights were off throughout the house as my folks just went to bed.
Boy do I have balls...lol
so corvis, im guessing you watched The Grudge on dvd/video at home? would you say films are more scary at the cinema or at home? I watched the grudge at the cinema, and although there was a bigger screen, i didn't feel i had the maximum 'frightfulness' as if i watched it at home..where the grudge could actually get me!
and what about the company? do you think it's better when you're alone and scared, or with people who are scared too..so therefore make you scareder?!!
The Changeling, The Omen, Audition, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man, The Fog, Ringu, Ju On, Nosferatu (1922), Dark Water, Phone, The Warriors (not classically horror but it is still very scary), A Tale of Two Sisters, The Haunting (1963), The Thing, Arachnaphobia ( can't deal with spiders), The Vanishing (1988), Les Yeux Sans Visage, Cape Fear (original), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Fright Night, Jaws, Any Hammer Horror takes me back to being 7 or 8, staying the night at my grans house and turning the tv in my room back on, after she'd gone to bed, to watch the late night horrors ... I am cursed with an over active imagination so it doesn't take much to scare the crap out of me ...
Kairo is a pretty freaky film to watch, especially alone in a house with the lights off.
--------------- Every dead body that is not exterminated, becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills, get up and kill!! - Dr Foster, Dawn of the Dead.
Dated! I watched this film shortly before it was anounced they were re-releasing it at the cinema. I had heard so much hype about it that I didn't dare turn the lights out to watch it. Well, what a load of cr*p! I half wondered if I had been watching the wrong film. Surely that didn't cause all that controvercy? Nothing happened! Some expleatatives, but was that it? Whatever made it scary in its day, it don't work now.
Like I said with the other one - Don't watch Amityville unless you know what you're up against. It's scary because it's half true From dusk till dawn isn't scary but I recommend you turn away when the chinese kid gets cornered - It's very, very, VERY nasty!
"My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic" *Meet the new boss...Same as the old boss*
Originally posted by Moonstone: The Changeling, The Omen, Audition, Don't Look Now, The Wicker Man, The Fog, Ringu, Ju On, Nosferatu (1922), Dark Water, Phone, The Warriors (not classically horror but it is still very scary), A Tale of Two Sisters, The Haunting (1963), The Thing, Arachnaphobia ( can't deal with spiders), The Vanishing (1988), Les Yeux Sans Visage, Cape Fear (original), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Fright Night, Jaws, Any Hammer Horror takes me back to being 7 or 8, staying the night at my grans house and turning the tv in my room back on, after she'd gone to bed, to watch the late night horrors ... I am cursed with an over active imagination so it doesn't take much to scare the crap out of me ...
Don't Look Now terrified me and I slept with the covers over my head for years! Also some film about a doll (no not Chucky but one of those freaky victorian dolls) of which the title escapes me.
"That's right. I got your number, id boy. Only thing you're thinking about is how long before you can jump on my bones".
Like I said with the other one - Don't watch Amityville unless you know what you're up against. It's scary because it's half true
Oh please! That story is NOT TRUE at all. Some kid kills his family then tries to blame it on demon possesion, then the family that buy his house claim it is haunted when they couldn't afford the mortgage. The whole shaboodle gets turned into a book, then some films, and before you know it cultish fundimentalists use it as urben legends to scare their flock and everyone thinks its true!
The house still stands, and its recent occupants experience nothing more spooky than all the weirdos who have seen the films wanting to peak at the genuine article.
I haven't really seen any of the movies listed, except The Exorcist and I didn't really find it scary, a bit gross maybe. I think what made me jump most as a child anyway was Nightmare on Elm Street and the five minutes of Aliens that I saw that gave me nightmares for a year.
Oh, and just as Moonstone said, I can't handle Arachnophobia either as I don't like spiders in real life (don't mind snakes though...)
Like I said with the other one - Don't watch Amityville unless you know what you're up against. It's scary because it's half true
Oh please! That story is NOT TRUE at all. Some kid kills his family then tries to blame it on demon possesion, then the family that buy his house claim it is haunted when they couldn't afford the mortgage. The whole shaboodle gets turned into a book, then some films, and before you know it cultish fundimentalists use it as urben legends to scare their flock and everyone thinks its true!
The house still stands, and its recent occupants experience nothing more spooky than all the weirdos who have seen the films wanting to peak at the genuine article.
Archangel, have you posted at Watchtower Observer?
WOW zest you don't hold back do you? I always thought it was true, I read in a magazine article about it's most recent victims (this was a couple of years ago). But I guess after thirty years nobody knows fact from fiction anymore...What is the watchtower observer? Be cool, Zest
"My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic" *Meet the new boss...Same as the old boss*
Just another board I posted on ages ago. Another poster used Archangel01 as well, so I just wondered it you were the same namesake.
The reason for my message is it bothers me that fundimenatalist religious groups use films like Exorcist, Omen, and Amityville (among others) to scare their flock into mind numbing submission. Fear of the devil makes them reclusive from general society, and more dependant on the group. It looked as though your message was the thin end of a wedge to start preaching a religion like that.
Just another board I posted on ages ago. Another poster used Archangel01 as well, so I just wondered it you were the same namesake.
The reason for my message is it bothers me that fundimenatalist religious groups use films like Exorcist, Omen, and Amityville (among others) to scare their flock into mind numbing submission. Fear of the devil makes them reclusive from general society, and more dependant on the group. It looked as though your message was the thin end of a wedge to start preaching a religion like that.
No worries.
Nope, never been on it. I'm a newbie here. just a plain, exuberent film buff. I try not to over-analyse on films as it'll only drive you nuts. But saying that I'm no coach potato that watches any old thing. Stay cool, Zest
"My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic" *Meet the new boss...Same as the old boss*
Originally posted by archangel01: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Zest: [QUOTE]Like I said with the other one - Don't watch Amityville unless you know what you're up against. It's scary because it's half true
Oh please! That story is NOT TRUE at all. Some kid kills his family then tries to blame it on demon possesion, then the family that buy his house claim it is haunted when they couldn't afford the mortgage. The whole shaboodle gets turned into a book, then some films, and before you know it cultish fundimentalists use it as urben legends to scare their flock and everyone thinks its true!
It's true that the boy murdered his family in the house-- shot them all in their sleep. But the next family to buy the house (I think they're name was Lutz)the family who wrote the book, admitted in the early 80's that the "haunting" aspect of it was all a big hoax they concocted to make $$$. Still-- Jody the pig was some scary s@*t.
I have some friends who worked on the new movie-they shot it near Chicago (which is where I live)sounds like it might be a bit iffy...
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Oh please! That story is NOT TRUE at all. Some kid kills his family then tries to blame it on demon possesion, then the family that buy his house claim it is haunted when they couldn't afford the mortgage. The whole shaboodle gets turned into a book, then some films, and before you know it cultish fundimentalists use it as urben legends to scare their flock and everyone thinks its true! QUOTE]
whhops. That's a quote I was answering, not my post...
Crikey, I've whipped up quite a storm here haven't I? Urban legend or not I still wouldn't do it. The actors must've been eager to work! But what's a film without a good myth every now and then - Even if it does scare the S@^T out of you regardless whether it's true or not.
"My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic" *Meet the new boss...Same as the old boss*
God said to John, "Come fourth and recieve enternal life"............... but john came fifth and won a toaster 
