Scary movies?

[littl3red]

So last night, my boyfriend, our friend Marcus and I all went to see Sinister. And oh my gosh it was the scariest movie I've ever seen. :nerves1 My boyfriend said it was really scary and he doesn't get that scared by things usually. He said the only one he's seen that was scarier was the extended cut of The Exorcist. I never saw the Extended Cut but I saw either the Director's Cut or the original cut and I just laughed the whole time. But Sinister made me cry last night, no joke. Not to mention the soundtrack really messed with me. I have these "crossed wires" in my brain (easiest way to explain it) called synesthesia, which means my senses get mixed up. So last night there was this one part where the music was making this horrible awful scraping noise that felt like someone dropped a fishing hook down my throat and was trying to pull it out. It was awful.

So, does anyone else love scary movies? Hate them? What's the scariest you've ever seen? I love scary movies but I get, well, REALLY scared by them. :lookaround

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Love 'em. Just don't like the ones that rely on effects rather than story. Near Dark was really good and so was Pitch Black. The best was 28 days of Night although it was a little bit gory. I could go on and on with others too. Next please...............

 

[littl3red]

Oh, I LOVED 28 Days of Night, but I agree it was a bit on the gory side. I like psychological thrillers more than hack 'n slash gore films. Did anyone like Saw? As much as I WANTED to like the Saw movies (They COULD have been the perfect balance between psychological terror and gore) I feel that they were very badly executed. And really, REALLY overdone... I love the IDEA of found-footage films but lordy, Paranormal Activity was TERRIBLE. I didn't even finish watching it. I think Sinister was REALLY well executed and did the "found-footage" thing beautifully.

 

[agnesthelion]

LOVE scary movies! I just posted about this not too long ago.

I love the classics, Halloween (the original) Psycho (the original) Amityville horror, The Exorcist

I really liked Paranormal Activity. I have a wild imagination so the movies that dont have any extra special effects really get to me. And I loooove being scared the scene in the original paranormal activity where she wakes up in the middle of the night and just stares at her husband for hours........HOLY smokes I was freaked out!! Nothing even happened but it was the creepiness and the anticipation that something could happen......eeeek, love it!

I also loved The Blair Witch, again, my imagination is all I need. I think also people love to hate the movies that everyone likes. People like to seem like they are original by not liking popular films. I'm not like that at all.

I liked 28 Days of Night but yes alot of gore.

The Strangers had its creepy moments.

I hate to admit this because it was so cheesy but Wrong Turn freaked me out a bit. Inbred cannabilistic mountain men tend to be a bit scary.....hehe

I could go on and on, love horror films!

 

[littl3red]

I'm not gonna lie, that scene where she stares at him DID scare me, but that was about it. I want to watch Blair Witch but haven't yet. I also want to watch the extended cut of The Exorcist, because I think (hope) that it is a lot scarier than the one I watched. It just seemed hard to take seriously sometimes. Like when she was peeing on the floor... :?

 

[littl3red]

I think the reason The Exorcist didn't scare me is because its scenes have been parodied, satirized, borrowed and recycled until it's become a bit of a joke. Like in Toy Story, when Woody spins his head around freaking out the bully next door. How could I be scared of something that I saw first in Toy Story?

 

[agnesthelion]

littl3red wrote:

I think the reason The Exorcist didn't scare me is because its scenes have been parodied, satirized, borrowed and recycled until it's become a bit of a joke. Like in Toy Story, when Woody spins his head around freaking out the bully next door. How could I be scared of something that I saw first in Toy Story?

You also have to appreciate the movie for the era it came out. When Linda Blair was cast as Reagan I think she was 12 maybe, it was very controversial about the words she had to say! Also, having an understanding of being possessed (whether you believe or not) and how the catholic church views them and the dynamic of Satan and the church etc can give at least an appreciation for the movie.

But yes it has been made fun of over and over again!!

 

[agnesthelion]

Same thing can be said for Psycho (the original) everyone today knows Norman Bates mother was dead, he was a creep and how the shower scene goes.

But if we were alive when that movie came out and saw it with NO idea of the plot and that the mom was dead, talk about SCARY! And an ingenious plot

 

[I_heart_Fraggles]

Oh we are horror movie junkies here....We like a lot of J-horror and foreign movies...Jason loves human centipede...Has anyone seen centipede 2??? Its a red hot mess trust me.
I have to admit I find it interesting that your a synesthete. Really its just a whole new way of experiencing the world...I bet sometimes it can be annoying but honestly I would love to have it for just one day... synesthete's can HEAR color and TASTE sound....Very interesting

 

[littl3red]

I_heart_Fraggles wrote:

Oh we are horror movie junkies here....We like a lot of J-horror and foreign movies...Jason loves human centipede...Has anyone seen centipede 2??? Its a red hot mess trust me.
I have to admit I find it interesting that your a synesthete. Really its just a whole new way of experiencing the world...I bet sometimes it can be annoying but honestly I would love to have it for just one day... synesthete's can HEAR color and TASTE sound....Very interesting

I watched the first like 5 minutes of Human Centipede 2. As soon as the creepy guy bashed the girl's head in I had to stop watching it. Made me sick. I don't know. I never even attempted the first movie, it just sounds gross. :expressionless

And being a synesthete can be fun, but it can also be horrible painful. Luckily, there's not a lot of "horribly painful" sounds, and when I hear them, they're usually in experimental music. I don't think one sound really can be that painful, it's a painful combination that gets to me. Revolution Number 9 by The Beatles is so painful I can't move properly, I lock up when I hear it. So if I'm alone and I don't catch it before the guy stops saying "Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine" and the music starts, I just have to suffer through it. Worst is, when I first put my entire Beatles collection on my phone, Revolution Number Nine was on there... marked as Piggies. So I thought I was about to listen to Piggies and I got THAT. :X Needless to say it was removed from my phone immediately after.

 

[irishbunny]

I like older horror film from the 70's and 80's. They really don't make good horror films these days. All the actors are crappy and unheard of, and the actresses look like porn stars running around in half nothing covered in blood lol!

 

[Hyatt101]

I've never been a fan of horror movies Dunno why, but I just can't watch them!!

 

[agnesthelion]

Christina, you're only 12. Don't feel like you need to watch horror films at your age most are rated R so you shouldn't watch anyway

 

[agnesthelion]

Since I'm a horror movie obsessee! I thought of a couple more...

The Shining. Jack Nicholson was amazing!

And Poltergeist was pretty scary! I can remember trying to sneak to watch that movie when I was little.....

And a more recent one....anyone seen Hostel? I watched that knowing nothing about the film so when the plot was finally revealed I can say I was pretty horrified!

 

[littl3red]

My dad said I wasn't allowed to watch Hostel until I was actually old enough to see R-rated movies on my own... And now I am, so I guess he can't get mad about it.

The Shining and Poltergeist both made me wet my pants. I only mean that literally for one of those movies. But I was really young...

 

[sugarbunnies]

I am a gorehound (the more gore the better!) as well as a horror junkie but have never had any movie scare me (except when I was a kid). I guess they are just poorly done nowadays, or I'm just not someone who is scared easily. However, when I was a little girl, Stephen King's IT made me seriously scared for a year or so (I was afraid to go through a ditch on my way home from school, the clowns at the circus, etc).

The ONLY creepy part I have seen in a movie this past year is in Paranormal Activity when she was staring at him for hours beside the bed. Otherwise it has all been boring...

 

[whitelop]

I_heart_Fraggles wrote:

Oh we are horror movie junkies here....We like a lot of J-horror and foreign movies...Jason loves human centipede...Has anyone seen centipede 2??? Its a red hot mess trust me.

Holy crap! I haven't seen it yet, but my husband and I were just talking about that movie with my MIL at the dinner table the other night! hahahaha talk about AWESOME dinner conversation. We actually started talking about Cabin in the Woods and it went a little askew from there.

I love foreign horror films, well foreign anything really. They show so much more and its so much better.
I pretty much love ALL horror movies. I love the really crappy B rated movies. I LOVE zombies, probably way too much. Like to the point where my husband and I talk about a zombie apocalypse A LOT.
I also love Alfred Hitchcock. He was a genius.

 

[MagPie]

agnesthelion wrote:

I really liked Paranormal Activity. I have a wild imagination so the movies that dont have any extra special effects really get to me. And I loooove being scared the scene in the original paranormal activity where she wakes up in the middle of the night and just stares at her husband for hours........HOLY smokes I was freaked out!! Nothing even happened but it was the creepiness and the anticipation that something could happen......eeeek, love it!

I also loved The Blair Witch, again, my imagination is all I need. I think also people love to hate the movies that everyone likes. People like to seem like they are original by not liking popular films. I'm not like that at all.

I liked 28 Days of Night but yes alot of gore.

Hahaha that's why I can't watch Paranormal Activity by myself. Over active imagination so that scares me more than cheap effects and gore.
28 Days of Night was alright but too much gore for me.

I hated Saw (only saw the first one). Aside from the bad acting I had a few problems with the creepy dude trying to teach people to value life by making them kill others. That makes no sense to me.


Hahah the Exorcist totally creeped me out.
Other than that I don't usually get scared by horror movies. They either are silly or stupid.
I saw The Shining as an adult with my sister and a friend (who had been scared of it as a child). My sister and I couldn't stop laughing at it.

 

[Hyatt101]

Lisa: Yeah, obviously I can't watch r rated but I mean the ones that are okay for kids to watch, just scary, and I never like them

 

[luvthempigs]

I love Stephen Kings IT too, Tim Curry played the creepy clown well

Hostel was very disturbing :shock: