Yah, games today scare me way more than movies. A great comment from Ultradan.
... GOD THOSE GAMES WERE SCARY!!!
Ultradan
Yah I'm with you UD.
There are a few games I've played lately that scared me a hell of a lot more than any movie. I don't play console, though. On PC the scariest for me was in DOOM 3 while I was in a huge pitch black underground room... and you have to switch between a flashlight and firearm because it is pitch black. Every time something jumps out you switch to a gun and its black, you fire the last place it was, see it in the gun flash and adjust. I swear it almost gave me a f@!%ing heart attack.
Soon I'll be too old FOR that stuff or dead FROM it.
Yah, games today scare me way more than movies. A great comment from Ultradan.
How about the "Left Behind" video game, which teaches that all good Christians should go out and blast away at the unbelievers? That one scares me to death.
Well if we are talking about games now..
F.E.A.R
Alma. I never wanted to kill a character as much as I wanted to kill that evil little nine year old.
Indigo Prophecy.
The best adventure game in a decade. The consequences and decisions make it a role player's treat. So much possibility in each environment, and so cleverly scripted, that you can play the game twenty times and have each play differ from the rest.
System Shock 2.
Still the best. The way the ship belittles you and explains why all the people had to die.
Doom 3.
I played with the duct tape mod. It assumes that somewhere on mars, there would be a need for duct tape, so it tapes a flashlight to the assault rifle. The game is still scary.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Overall atmosphere and mood. Watching for the geiger counter to click while dodging sniper fire and trying not to get pureed by the anomalies while your weapon jams.
Half Life series.
Especially Half Life 2. The zombie attacks, the headcrab hurling corpses. The drainpipes rattling. Those fracking tripods.
Thief, Deadly Shadows.
The very creepy level with the haunted orphanage.
The Trickster levels.
Call of Chtulhu, the Dark Corners of the Earth.
The axes smashing down the doors, while the Cult of Dagon rasp at each other, predicting your moves.
Condemned, Criminal origins.
Good immersion. Ammo starvation. Best P.O.V work.
Coming soon:
Go to Bioshock.
I think that the made for TV remake of Salems Lot was better than the original film. That being said, any of King's other made for TV movies aren't so hot.
Hmmm, the made for TV remake of the made for TV film (that's gotta be a first). I know the remake was more true to King's book, but I still found the original creepier to watch.
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I think that the made for TV remake of Salems Lot was better than the original film. That being said, any of King's other made for TV movies aren't so hot.Hmmm, the made for TV remake of the made for TV film (that's gotta be a first). I know the remake was more true to King's book, but I still found the original creepier to watch.
Was the original a made for TV thing? It was a bit before my time, so I guess I just assumed that it had been a theatrical release.
Was the original a made for TV thing? It was a bit before my time, so I guess I just assumed that it had been a theatrical release.
Yeah, and it was directed by Tobe (Texas Chainsaw) Hooper. It was a made for TV flick, complete with those commercial-break cliffhangers that never work well when watching it sans commercials. Still pretty high on the creepy factor after all these years, I think the only TV show that surpasses it is the "Home" episode of the X-Files. That left me feeling really unclean...
yeah, the Excercist is number one one the scarey movie list for most peoples according to the charts as it was very distrubing and pulled a lot of strings from our cultureal histories; most horror movies are not that scarey to me though i do enjoy the monster flicks; so, to me the question is not what is the scariest movie ever; it would be what would be the scariest movie world to get put into as you playing yourself; then a lot of them seem pretty scary. And I agree, Salem's Lot was a great flick.
My list of the scariest movies....in no particular order except for the first.
Shining (Kubrick) I saw this in a theatre of college students and everyone screamed when those damn girls appeared in the hallway. It creeps me out every time.
Event Horizon
Halloween
Alien
Mothman Prophecies
Jaws (any movie that makes you creep out when swimming in open water deserves a vote).
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Dressed To Kill
In the Mouth of Madness (carpenter)
Ghost story -Fred Astaire-Alice K-
For me it's The Fog (The original). Nice low key horror.
The end of the Thing always gets to me.
Yes! Low key is the way to go- I really enjoy the gross out factor of a lot of horror, but that's a disgust or flight response kind of thing. Anyone can jump out of a closet and go boo or slop red corn syrup about, it's crafting something more sustained and emotionally nasty that gets my vote.
Horror is different- horror is that queasy sense of realisation one gets that will creep back on you long after the fact. My own favorites have to be the climax of Don't Look Now, the Wicker Man and The Haunting (the originals).|
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I was TERRIFIED after watching "Invasion of the Saucer Men" when I was 8. Those cabbage-headed aliens were scary! I've watched it since, and saw how silly it really is. Funny how that happens...
Horror flicks rarely get a rise out of me anymore (I've seen too many of them), but I agree with the Exorcist being scary. It even scared the Catholic Church when it came out!
For recent fare, I have to say "The Descent" is the scariest movie made in the last couple years. Between the feeling of claustrophobia you get, and the great suspense build up, I left the theater out of breath! Great ride!
Anymore, though, I'm just hoping for some original ideas instead of the long line of remakes we've been subjected to the last couple years...
Event horizon does have its freaky moments.The only movies that ever really scared me though were night of the living dead(my favorite movie ever),Texas chain saw massacre( this movie comes to mind when im driving on dirt back roads at night...and im from texas ..lol*shrug*) and Jaws...I cant even get near the ocean without thinking of man eating sharks and i blame this movie .
One of my college professors, a really hard left liberal and a modernist painter, loved showing films that he referred to as "accidental surrealism". Films with such a disconnect between what they were showing and the attitude presented ABOUT what they were showing that it became absurd and horrifying.
For instance, we watched a self-produced film about a professional gospel singer that survived a plane crash with his face completely burned off and his inspiring story of returning to Jesus and trying to use his story to help others. The surreal thing about it was kind of his attitude after the whole thing: he talked about one point where he was really depressed and singing wouldn't make him feel better and prayer wasn't working and he just wanted to lay in bed and feel sorry for himself (which, given what happened, is understandable). But what got him back on his feet was a visit from a friend and his wife; they didn't exhort him to turn to his faith and stop feeling sorry for himself, they just talked about all the fun they had playing softball and how they would always be friends. This got him back on his feet, back to singing and he returned to the hospital to sing to other men in crisis. And what does he tell them? Turn back to your faith, stop feeling sorry for yourself.
A film we didn't watch was an unnamed Shirley Temple movie that my professor swore,"Would make you weep for poor Shirley Temple." The film in question even got him monitored by the FBI through a poorly worded email.
And a Gulf War era Army medical film about therapy for soldiers missing limbs from combat. Therapists massaged these gentlemens' stumps while an avuncular narrator talked about what was going on as if it was the most natural thing in the world. Unreal.
And has anyone seen a French film called "Irreversible"? If I had any innocence and faith in mankind at eighteen, upon viewing this film, it was stripped from me. A friend rented it because he heard it contained graphic sex and violence, not realizing that "sex and violence" in this context meant "rape and murder". I can do without an unflinching portrayal of Monica Belucci undergoing a vicious sexual assault in a subway for twenty minutes, thank you.
And a man's face being beaten into pulp with a fire extinguisher.
That brings to mind Salo:120 days of sodom.
hehe how about "Scarey Movie" :) says so right in the title.
I think the old Hitchcock movies are the scariest. Well, I shouldn't say scary, more like suspensfull. Alot of movies I've watched lately try to scare you by having wierd creatures jump out at you, but Hitchcock kept you glued to the seat without any of that. I watched The Birds, and was afraid for a week.
For me, the scariest movie isn't a horror movie, it's a Cold War Era tale: Fail Safe. First time I saw it, the movie ended, I turned off the TV and just sat there wide eyed for about a half hour.
I very rarely have had nightmares for the last 20 years. If a horror movie can keep me up because I'm scared, it's good. If I actually have a nightmare because of it, then it's killer. The "killers" I've already seen in this thread are:
Seven [the "Sloth" scene still freaks me out.]
Exorcist 3
Fire in the Sky
One I haven't yet is "The People under the Stairs." I saw it in my early teens, when I happened to be having a recurring nightmare very similar to this movie BEFORE I'd ever seen or heard of it. It really tapped into something primal in my psyche....
I am sure the scariest movie ever made is "The Blair Witch Project".
I am sure the scariest movie ever made is "The Blair Witch Project".
Only if you have a fear of motion sickness!
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For me, the scariest movie isn't a horror movie, it's a Cold War Era tale: Fail Safe. First time I saw it, the movie ended, I turned off the TV and just sat there wide eyed for about a half hour.
Oooo...
Freakouts and mindf@&*s are a specialty of mine.
My top 5 scary non-horror movies.
- Fahrenheit 9-11
- Donnie Darko
- Requiem for a Dream
- Bowling for Columbine
- Dr. Strangelove
As a kid, these freaked me out:
Phantasm I
- the Tall Man, when he finally speaks... *meep!*
The Sentinel
- the little demons... after you... relentless...
- and controversial, well, see the IMDB for why, heh!
=)
Laeknir
"Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance"
Saw it at a friends birthdayparty! age 9.
baby strollers are still the stuff of nightmares...
Star Trek V -- I was sure it would kill the franchise.
Instead, it took ST: Enterprise.
Misery, I'm a writer, it stars with something Ive always been morbidly afraid of, being trapped writing for a character I no longer care for, goes on to the worst terrors of dependency and injury, and finishes with the acquired fear of success that would destroy any joy I had in my craft... its the stiff of nightmares, and the worst of it is its just so plausible, no monsters, nothing supernatural, just a chain of illfortune and madness.
The Exorcist has to be up there.
Werd. I can't ever watch this movie again. It's too terrifying.
I am sure the scariest movie ever made is "The Blair Witch Project".
I almost had a coronary watching this movie...no b&~**!*~. I drank three cafe mochas before I went in, and I hadn't seen a movie in the theater in over a year. Right afterward I played Lasertron for my friends for two hours solid. When I got home, I couldn't get out of the car. My heart almost gave out from the mixture of shaky-cam terror, laser-combat induced, and caffeine.
I think Jaws is the scariest movie made. It's the only one that could ever conceivably happen to any of us. I still have a hard time sitting through it.
That said. 99% of all horror movies are absolute garbage, pointless gore, and sadism/torture, that are better left unwatched-for numerous reasons, psychologically speaking.
In the last 10 years, I have seen TWO horror movies that I thought were moderately enjoyable and semi-worth watching: The Grudge and Jeepers Creepers #1. I have quasi-enjoyed several of the Halloween movies as well. The rest, you can trash 'em.
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I agree with most of the sentiments about the torture porn genre in general - not my cup of tea anymore, though I would have loved them as a kid.
Personally, there are two horror films which really freaked me out when I saw them, to the point where I actually continued to be frightened after they had ended. The first one was The Blair Witch Project, though I watched it a second time and wasn't scared at all. The second was The Ring, which I haven't seen since. Even thinking about the shot of Amber Tamblyn in the closet still gives me the willies.
I also haven't watched The Exorcist in a long time - I saw it when I was a pre-teen, and I wasn't too frightened; I don't think I was old enough to appreciate the real horror of it. I have a feeling that another viewing of it would really mess me up.
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I also kind of like the casting in the TV mini-series version of The Shining better than the Kubrick version. I know many would call this heresy, but Jack Nicholson looks like a nutcase from the beginning of the movie. Steven Weber looks a lot more like a normal dad, so that when he goes insane, it's a lot more jarring.
I also kind of like the casting in the TV mini-series version of The Shining better than the Kubrick version. I know many would call this heresy, but Jack Nicholson looks like a nutcase from the beginning of the movie. Steven Weber looks a lot more like a normal dad, so that when he goes insane, it's a lot more jarring.
Yeah, but NOTHING can be as cool without Scatman Crothers in it.
Hmmm...surprised I hadn't seen this thread before, but I'll jump at any chance to talk about the movie that f-ed me up for life.
Magic - I was seven when this came out and I still can't see a doll or mannequin without expecting it to turn its head to look at me. The thing is, the dummy never actually does anything!! Unlike similarly themed Twilight Zone episodes, Fats doesn't do anything by himself, but it's filmed in a way that you keep expecting it to. That anticipation is a lot scarier than just having the doll up and stab someone like in Child's Play.
Event Horizon.
*shudder*
Is that a shudder of fear or a shudder akin to the guzzling of a bacon grease and fromunda cheese milkshake?
Make my vote for the latter rather than ever watch that movie again. I'd high hopes for it and other than some quick cuts and gore (pulling from memory as I haven't watched it since it was originally in theaters) it never seemed a horror movie nor, really, a sci-fi movie. Halfway through I was hoping a velociraptor would jump out of the shadows and eat Sam Neill's character.
/OT ...hmmm, Trilogy of Terror scared the bejeebus outta me when I was a kid: that creepy little tiki idol chasing Karen Black around...and as a kid growing up in Hawaii we had plenty of tiki dolls around to keep the creepiness up for many years. After that, I think I was numbed to horror leaving the graphically gory Elm Street & Friday the 13th flicks to fill the gap in my teen years.
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Ahhh, my favorite subject (after D&D and heavy metal music)!
I have a collection of like 300 horror DVD's and it grows weekly.
Scariest:
The Exorcist
The Exorcist III
Prince of Darkness
The Fog (original)
Burnt Offerings
Salem's Lot Mini-series, not movie (Tobe Hooper version)
Alien
Event Horizon
Favorite:
Phantasm Series (1 thru 4)
Day of the Dead (original)
Intense (includes brutal and gory):
The Hills Have Eyes (remake)
Wolf Creek
The Hitcher (original)
Prophecy
Candyman
I can probably think of many, many more, but these are the ones that jump out at me.
I also have to stand up and say that I am so tired of the term 'torture porn'. These movies aren't for everyone. If you don't like these kinds of movies, you should avoid them; it's not like they try to disguise the movie as a Disney film or something. When you go see a flick like Hostel; most intelligent people know what they are in for. Like I said, it's not for everyone. But for some of us; it is a cathartic experience. It gets the negative emotions out and channels them into the movie. I often feel disturbed after seeing a Saw sequel or a Cabin Fever; and that helps reaffirm my humanity. But it's still cool to see the EFX guys at work and freak out on the realism of the kills. It makes the horrors of real life (unemployment, stress, depression) sit on the back burner for awhile.
I don't think it is fair that people that lump these films into the torture porn category often view people that like these movies as sadists or subhuman somehow. We just have a higher tolerence of what we can stand to watch. Bottom line: If you don't like those kinds of movies; stick to lighter fare and try not to demonize those that do.
Like it or not; Eli Roth and the new crop of 'torture' fimmakers aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Thank goodness we still have freedom to see their flicks if we want.
(Getting off soapbox for now) :)))))))
I also have to stand up and say that I am so tired of the term 'torture porn'... Thank goodness we still have freedom to see their flicks if we want.
I'm forced to admit that "torture porn" seems like an appropriate name to me; I'm not sqeamish, but I just don't derive any joy out of it. If you do, that's fine for you; I'm VERY anti-censorship. If people are into "adult erotica," that's fine with me, too... but that said, they can't realistically command everyone else to stop calling it "porn." Same deal with torture flicks. They've got a limited audience, and there's no way for that audience to force everyone else to consider them as "art." Or, in other words: I certainly won't tell you not to watch them, but in return you can't really tell me what to or what not to call them. That way, nobody has any quarrel :)