An example of a “realistic” scary movie is ”Savages”. Have you seen this? It’s a brutally disturbing movie which depicts graphic human torture.
Can someone explain to me how that is entertaining? I don’t get it.
The other type - fiction. Still can be violent, but you know it can’t happen.
The Alien movies The Halloween movies The Friday the 13th Movies Freddy Kruger movies Predator movies
None of these make my top one hundred movies list.
I have a buddy in the Chicago area who is an avid movie goer/watcher. Rarely does a year go by that he doesn’t see the top ten movies of the year. In his opinion, the scariest movie ever is John Carpenter’s ”The Thing”.
That being said, my favorite “scary movies” are:
Ghostbusters I + II Beetlejuice Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Scary Movies I,II,III,IV,V
See a pattern?
You know what? Throw in Freddy vs. Jason It’s so ridiculous I like it. (they slice and dice each other every other scene but they can’t be killed.) I like yelling at the TV: “Decapitate him twice this time!”
My wife loves scary movies, and October is just a wonderful month for her with marathons of the classics.
I just can't really watch them, I spend to much time wonder why any woman in her nightgown would hear a voice coming form the darkened basement "COME DOWN HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU" and just continue down the steps "John, is that you?"
And the repeated "startle" effects just annoy me....You know, they go to the kitchen and open the fridge, then when they close it, the cat jumps from behind the door or the boyfriend is standing there.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
Not a fan of blood and guts myself. That's not entertainment. I do agree with you on Abbott and Costello meeting all the famous horror creatures of the time. The scariest was when they met the democrats.
There's is no scary, there is no horror... there is only what has been done time and time, over and over, again and again.
Horror/scary movies of today are 9/10 crap. I do like the Insidious movies, but can't really praise too much else. My favorite scary movies (basing on the poster's criteria for "scary"):
Ghostbusters (wore the VHS tape out when I was a kid, had all the action figures and pretty much anything GB related (including soundtracks LOL))
Nightmare on Elm Street 1 & 2, took a crap thereafter IMO.
Aliens
House of 1000 Corpse, factoring people out there are like that, that movie was very disturbing and scary to me.
Edward Sissorhands, just a classic.
Insidious series, like em' all.
It Follows, original idea, newer type of horror and it was just very creepy, very freaky and I give this movie the "scariest movie I've seen as of a few years award" without a doubt.
... should be a nice, October-like, Halloween-like thread here!
It Follows, original idea, newer type of horror and it was just very creepy, very freaky and I give this movie the "scariest movie I've seen as of a few years award" without a doubt.
I was enjoying this movie until the end where it just completely sputtered and petered out.
The 'SAW' movies were quite unique when they came out, as is/was the 'Hostel' flicks. The first couple of movies in each of those series' creeped me out quite well because my mind could easily conceive the notion of being in those situations. It wasn't some fantastical thing like a drowned boy that grew up underwater after he died and then wanted to play with machete's at a campground, but only when the teenage counselors were having sex, lol!
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
Tulsa is easily the funniest conservative on this forum.
Also Texas Chainsaw Massacre is easily the scariest movie I've ever watched.
There's not too many horror movies I like from the U.S. in recent times. There's tons of great horror movies abroad though. Let The Right One In was p. amazing. But for US horror movies, "The House of the Devil" was one of the best ones I've seen, but mainly because it played so strongly to the 70's.
I always liked the original Polterguist movie. I watched it so many times when I was a kid. Plus there is the polterguist curse (several cast members died) which makes it even more horrifying.
And the repeated "startle" effects just annoy me....You know, they go to the kitchen and open the fridge, then when they close it, the cat jumps from behind the door or the boyfriend is standing there.
or the "Shaky-Cam stuff pioneered by Blair Witch Project.
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
to me the most psychologically disturbing is The Shining. There is SO much going on in the film on many different levels. I actually wrote a graduate paper on the themes and effectiveness of the movie ... I spent about 6 months of my life researching/watching/comparing notes/etc ... such a brilliant, yet scary movie at its root
"First down inside the 10. A score here will put us in the Super Bowl. Jeudy is far to the left as Njoku settles into the slot. Tillman is flanked out wide to the right. Judkins and Ford are split in the backfield as Flacco takes the snap ... Here we go."
I agree with you about the 2 different kinds but even within that, there are those that are just disturbing over a period of time, then there are those that just set up the gotcha moments to be scary.
For me, the ones that are closer to reality are far scarier..
I LOVE John Carpenter flicks. Halloween (there is only the ONE in my book) is the king of slasher flicks. And his remake of The Thing is EPIC.
I agree w/ whoever says modern horror sucks. It's all cookie-cutter teeny bop crap with too much CGI and cheap loud-music jump scares.
And I cannot stand the stuff dubbed 'torture porn.' The super graphic, let's make it look so brutally gory so everyone squirms in disgust. Eli Roth is the big name in that genre and I can't wait for his career to end.
I want my horror to be SCARY. Atmospheric, slow-burn creepiness. I doesn't even have to be R Rated to be good. Just be scary.
The best horror/scary movies are the ones where the horror/terror is perceived, not shown. You mind will make things much more scary than anything they can put on film.
Some of my favorites: The Legacy The Fall of the House of Usher Phantasm John Carpenter's The Thing The Evil Dead (the Bruce Campbell ones) The Wicker Man (1973 version) American Werewolf in London Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Near Dark The Changeling (1979) Trilogy of Terror (1975)
The best horror/scary movies are the ones where the horror/terror is perceived, not shown. You mind will make things much more scary than anything they can put on film.
Some of my favorites: The Legacy The Fall of the House of Usher Phantasm John Carpenter's The Thing The Evil Dead (the Bruce Campbell ones) The Wicker Man (1973 version) American Werewolf in London Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Near Dark The Changeling (1979) Trilogy of Terror (1975)
People hate on Blair Witch all the time. I know it's because of all the hype when it was brand new. By the time people saw it at home on TV in a well lit living room, they didn't see what the fuss was about.
I saw it in a sold-out theater opening night and you could cut the tension with a knife. We were all on the edge of our seats in that last 20 minutes or so.
It's not a film to revisit, really. Once, maybe twice will do. But I give the makers major props for what they created. And the PROFIT they must have made off of such a low budget production.
The Friday the 13th series is my favorite of all time, although as far as the horror factor goes, it's just not that scary.
The only slasher movie that really got me was the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The way it was shot. That final scene. It's textbook for the last girl to always survive, but I was convinced she was going to die. That scene at the family table is so messed up.
I thought You're Next was an enjoyable newer horror movie. I've also heard that The Conjuring is supposed to be excellent. There's good horror movies that have come out in the last 10-20 years. People have a hard time accepting anything that isn't the "classics" The music from their time is always better than the music of today, etc..
I do give credit to the old school 70's and 80's way that horror movies were filmed. That grainy, low budget looking picture really sets the tone.
I don't know if Seven (or Sev7n) is considered horror. Maybe more of a suspense than horror, but it's one of my favorite movies. If you haven't seen it, I'd suggest it. There's very little violence in that movie. Basically the entire movie is shot following around the detectives so you only see things after the fact.
The first hour or so of 28 Days Later is some of my favorite filming in any genre. I didn't like the way the movie went after that hour, but it's still an awesome movie.
I kinda miss the days of when we had Comcast cable in our house. They had an on demand channel just for horror called Fearnet that housed TONS of movies. All kinds of stuff that was beyond the big budget films. We switched to Directv 5-6 years ago, but I've heard since then that they've bagged fearnet which is sad.
Coming this fall on Showtime. Ash vs. the Evil Dead!!
Groovy.
HELL YEAH! Damn I thought I never say I wish I had Showtime, but this is one of those instances. Damn to holy Hell I bet that is going to be one awesome show!
The only slasher movie that really got me was the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The way it was shot. That final scene. It's textbook for the last girl to always survive, but I was convinced she was going to die. That scene at the family table is so messed up.
That movie is so gritty and dirty. Almost feels real the first time you see it.
To this day I'm taking a deep breath and holding it the first time I see him rev up the chainsaw.
And when he swings that hammer . . .
But the original Halloween is still king of slasher flicks in my book.
1959 and 1961 flicks, yeah I'd bet no one has seen em' either haha! That is old school x2.
Originally Posted By: FargoFan
Anyone ever recall a movie called "The Town that Dreaded Sundown"?
I do, but only because I just watched the remake here recently. Never saw the original, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say... it's likely better than the remake lol!
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