Ya know, there are some who really like Dark City. I never saw the appeal in that movie. I guess I just didn't buy the whole "buildings-scootching-around" thing. Seemed pretty stupid to me. I'm not much of a vampire movie fan, either (thanks to my dad). In his wise words, "Oooooo you put on some plastic teeth, open your mouth and hiss at me, and all of a sudden you're a monster? I don't think so. What are you gonna do - bite me? that's it? pfeh." -- droxford
The first movie I ever remember being scared by is Candyman. My older brother and I watched it really late one night, when I was 9 or 10, and we both had trouble sleeping for a few nights. Of course I watched it a couple of years ago and thought it was rather lame.
I actually liked the ending, but it does have some of the freakiest scenes it made me say, "oooooooo" a lot.
for a long time, i would've put The Shining at the top of the list. it didn't really scare me per se, but it was pretty freaky and intense. when she's at the top of the stairs and sees those two dudes in the costumes in the room, for some reason that freaked me out more than any of the other things. but The Ring pretty much blew that out of the top spot. that's the only movie that's literally creeped me out and scared me after i was done watching it. i still won't watch it when it comes on HBO. it ****ed with my head. if my tv ever pops on and goes to static by itself and that well shows up on the screen then i am jumping out the nearest window. with any luck, the fall will kill me first.
I know what you mean about "The Ring". The first time I watched it (last Tuesday night), there were some things that definitely stayed in my head. But I watched it again this past Sunday night, and it might have been scarier a second time around than the first! ****SPOILERS**** One of my favorite and bonechilling scenes in movies ever is when Rachel confronts Mr. Morgan near the end of the movie about his daughter. He screams at her, "My wife was not supposed to have a child!!" But it gets better as Rachel follows him into the bathroom and pleads with him to help her or her son will die. He responds to her in an icy manner, "Oh your son is going to die" (sorta paraphrased) right before he kills himself. Just the whole way that he says it along with what he does afterwards caused the hair on the back of my neck to stand up. I watched "The Omen" last night and felt it was pretty good. For some reason, I wasn't that scared (maybe watching stuff like "The Shining" and "The Ring" several times has made me immune to being scared, lol) but it was still a good movie. The death scenes were awesome - so much that I had to look away, in particular, on one of them. Highly recommended for fans of these types of movies.
I love zombie flicks. Dawn of the Dead is my favorite by a long shot. 28 Days Later brought back the genre. Toss in some comedy and I like them too. Shaun of the Dead & Evil Dead series I watch quite often.
I have a funny story about The Ring. We tricked a friend of mine who hates horror movies to watch it. This big tough looking guy, it was funny looking at him during the movie because he was all scrunched down at his chair. He said afterwards when he got home he turned all the lights in his house and stopped watching TV for a few days. A couple of my other friends was thinking of calling him and doing the 7 days crap, but we decided against it because we thought it would be too mean.
The Shining is the only horror movie I've seen that actually holds up as a great "film." I've heard the Excorcist is similar in this regard but everything I've seen about it looks pretty... I dunno... stupid. Crap like the Ring I rank right up there with "Scream." Wow, someone popped out and said boo, yeah, that took some incredible filmmaking. I like most of the Friday 13th and Elm Street movies, but they're more entertaining than scary. Same with zombie flicks, although "28 Days Later" had some decent scares (the church). Gore is always fun. I've seen some David Lynch flicks that were pretty scary/freaky at times. Interestingly, I've heard there are so many Hollywood in-jokes crammed into "Mulholland Drive" that if you're in the film industry, it plays as a comedy. Nice!
I hate, hate, hate, hate Poltergeist. I know there was more then one, but whichever one had the people coming out of the mirrors is a very, very EVIL movie. When I was a little kid I was so stupid, and decided to watch it when it came on TV. I hate this movie just because the fact I'm in college, and I'm still freaked out about looking at mirrors, maybe even scared. Everytime I look at a mirror I remember being scared outa my mind watching people's own image come out of the mirrors to get them. Damn the Poltergeist movie!!! It's messed me up...
The original was really scary. When I watched this movie as a kid, I had trouble sleeping for 6 months. Couple times, I actually did dream Freddy was after me. That was freaky. One movie that I will NEVER watch again because it is just so extremely violent (and somewhat scary): The Last House on the Left
