Scary Movies

[THE JAKER]

Well, It looks like I missed out on a lot of interesting discussions here in SYM over the weekend. I didn't turn on my computer the whole time, because I was doing a lot of decorating and cleaning around my place. (it looks nice now)

Also, I watched a lot of scary movies on TV. I always like the time around halloween because tv stations will play a whole bunch of scary movies. This weekend I watched:

Night of the Living Dead (1968? version)
Dawn of the Dead
Cujo
The Brood
John Carpenter's Vampires
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Back to the Future
Aliens

Um, needless to say I was a little scared of the dark by last night

And the best part is that Halloween isn't over yet so the movies will still be on a few more days!

So what are everyone's favorites and why?

[Rob-hin]

ARMY OF DARKNESS!!!!

This movie rocks! It's funny and I think it's supposed to be scary aswel..(ah wel, can't have it all )

[NeKr0mAnCeR]

id say scary movie

[nael]

i love how you included back to the future in with your scary movies...but i'd have to say the two sequels were much scarier than the first.

[Weasel]

Originally posted by Rob-hin:
<STRONG>ARMY OF DARKNESS!!!!

This movie rocks! It's funny and I think it's supposed to be scary aswel..(ah wel, can't have it all )</STRONG>

Yes a great movie


Here is a question. When I was 12 years old I saw a movie based on a Island. I can't remember how the people got there, ship wreck or something. There was an abandon hotel on the island. Off the island was a sunken sub from WW2..a german sub. In this sub was some experimental soldiers..some who could walk underwater without air.

Does this ring a bell with anyone??

[THE JAKER]

Originally posted by nael:
<STRONG>i love how you included back to the future in with your scary movies...but i'd have to say the two sequels were much scarier than the first.</STRONG>

You're certainly right on that one - I think Crispin Glover is the best part of the first one.

Well, I was of course just including it in the list of movies I had watched over the weekend, it obviously is a "different kind" of scary movie. Actually I think "BTTF" is a pretty good movie, a good example of the ultimate mainstream studio picture - it's got some of everything. I think the most offensive parts are:

1 - that they create an alternative timeline wherein a white boy invents rock n roll

2 - Huey Lewis and the News

@Weasel - I have no idea what movie you're talking about. Are you sure that this isn't a couple different movies that all seem like one in your memory because of "something" you might have been "drinking"?

[Craig]

Night of the living deadII i turn it off when that woman punches the Zombie and goes through the head!

[Georgi]

Originally posted by THE JAKER:
<STRONG>it obviously is a "different kind" of scary movie.</STRONG>

The non-scary kind?

You gotta love the ending of Night of the Living Dead...

Most scary movie I ever saw: Event Horizon

[C Elegans]

When I was 10 or 11 I saw a movie on TV called "Someone is watching over me" or something similar. It was about a girl who lived alone in a flat, and somebody watched her with binoculars from the house across the street, followed her, etc.

Apart from that, I've not seen any scary movies execpt documentaries. For some reason, I never feel scared by horror movies...

[Nightmare]

Bambi, and any Barney movies. Scary as hell...

[THE JAKER]

@Georgi: I think Back to the Future was more scary in the sense of the fashions.....

Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>Apart from that, I've not seen any scary movies execpt documentaries.</STRONG>

Good one. Often the truth is the scariest thing.

Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>For some reason, I never feel scared by horror movies...</STRONG>

Well, you've only seen one...

There are some scary ones, although the same kind of thing doesn't scare everyone. The first "Nightmare on Elm Street" was sure scary back when it came out! A lot of the formulas get done to death though, then it's not scary anymore, just funny.

Watching the original "Night of the Living Dead", it's basically not a scary movie, its a "horror" movie, it is pushing all the buttons of society by putting all the 'horrors'- race fear (a black man even kills a white family man), insanity, mass murder, cannibalism, matricide, and the dead coming back to life up on the screen. This is an organized blasphemy, an intentional affront to every tenet of society (in America in 1968). They had a note after that the Motion Picture Ratings were created in part because of the movie.

I think this kind of thing is different from a "scary" movie. The scariest movies are often suspense movies.

They're coming to get you, Barbara!

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[Saruman]

Scary Movies, personally I find that the most scary movies are one of two kinds;

The tripped out reality flicks such as Jacobs Ladder and Into the Mouth of Madness where you watch them and try and get your head around whats going on and half way through it all sort of clicks and sends a shiver down your spine.

Alternatively and by far more the scarier of the two are movies with real human violence and emotions involved, Resevoir Dogs was IMHO one of the most frightening films I've ever seen, just trying to realise what was going through that policemans head as Mr Blond decides to do some creative surgdery on him... Yuck!

[Recoba]

Scary movies:

Event horizon
Alien
Mary Poppins!
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang!!

[Weasel]

Originally posted by Georgi:
<STRONG>

Most scary movie I ever saw: Event Horizon</STRONG>

Great movie, (Scary???)

[Tom]

Originally posted by Weasel:
<STRONG>Great movie, (Scary???)</STRONG>

was a bit scary i think.

Your gonna think im a sissy now but i found sixth sense a bit scary. when the boy goes to take a piss i the middle of the night...
normaly i dont like BW but i think he did ok in this movie.