I've never been scared by a movie. And the only move I was ever scared to go see initially was Beetlejuice (I was 7).
Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Alien, Jaws, The Shining, The Birds, just to name a few. All excellent "scary movies," although really far more, which is one reason they're so good. They all share some things... great scripts, superb acting, great direction. You become so into the story and the characters. It doesn't matter that sometimes in The Birds that the birds look rediculous. Hitchcock's direction is incredible.
I forgot about Candyman. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yUBmpITdmPc&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yUBmpITdmPc&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Anyone seen The Beast Within? I remember that being scary.
The Angry Video Game Nerd has been doing a pretty cool thing where he is doing 31 small reviews on horror movie history for each day of October. I've had a kick watching him go through the different decades and how the horror movies tended to pattern themselves. Give it a look. I suggest starting at #1 and watching the progression. http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Cinemassacre&p=r
easier to be scared by fictional monsters when you're young. werewolves, goblins, vampires, Freddy, Jason, etc. i can't really recall being scared of any movie as an adult. i've revisited some of the 'scary' stuff from my childhood and laughed my head off. reality is way more scary than fiction. A&E interviewed a hit man recently, he had the most soulless eyes, talked about his killings either with dispassion or a curious little smirk. if i met up with him i'd be scared. but locked away in his cell responding to the reporter's questions i only felt pity.
Pity? Rocket River Hellraiser was scary because it was so painful looking. . . hooks etc Torture and pain make me uneasy so . . .that movie bothed me and it had me concerned about blinds for a minute
Anybody watch that show Fear that used to come on MTV? That used to freak me out with the history stories and the stuff they made them do like go in a coffin outside the graveyard and stuff...man what people would do for money!
Not many movies truly freak me out to where I'm scared to go to sleep at night...Sixth Sense, House on Haunted Hill, Poltergeist, Aliens, etc had their moments but weren't completely fear inducing. Now the last movie to do that to me was a pretty recent one: The Descent. S**t that movie was insanely scary, for a number of reasons. And if they ever made a movie out of Fatal Frame, I'd imagine I'd have trouble sleeping at night too.
Really? I never got to see this one but some friends said it was lousy. Time to visit thy Netflix queue...
Well don't confuse it with the horrible American remake, The Cave....and also you owe it to yourself to see the director's cut w/ the original ending, not the theatrical one. If you're uncomfortable in tight spaces, then the first half will definitely freak you out...now the second half becomes a little more mainstream horror, but still is definitely frightening...and sparks debate about the true nature of the events that took place in that portion of the film. Unbelievable movie, I was freaked the whole rest of the night and even the next few days.
I'm sorry but The Descent was terrible, nothing like being chased around in the dark by a bunch of Gollums. Anyway, my favorites are The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Thing Love the people who say that old horror movies are just more tame than what comes out today, if you really believe that go what Cannibal Holocaust or Cannibal Ferox
I love horror films, but I can't remember the last time one scared me (maybe Piranha when I was 11). One reason is that most horror films aren't about the things that really scare me. But the main reason is that I tend to know too much about the movie ahead of time. If you know what's coming, is it really going to scare you? In a way, I truly envy someone who's never seen (and knows nothing about) movies like Psycho or Audition - they're going to get so much more viscerally out of these movies than I did. Now I try to avoid reading about films as much as possible, but given that I've seen most of the classics, that leaves mostly lesser quality films. Consequently, they tend to inspire fewer "jumps."
I don't like scary movies but nothing can scare you so much that you must pie in you undewear. Nothing scares as a real thing,if a movie was horror and based on true facts that would be scary. Otherwise NO! Killer 7 was sick too..
if you saw the ring in the movie theater and had no idea what you were getting into. that was the scariest movie I've seen. Much of what made that movie so scary was the fact that I had no idea what movie I was going to see, never saw a preview.
Similar experience for me. I saw Blair Witch at the Dobie theater in Austin while it was in limited release (and before all the press). Because it hadn't blown up yet, it wasn't nearly as well known whether or not it was real or fake. Watching it, I could guess it wasn't real, and yet it was still incredibly creepy. The anti-Blair Witch backlash after the nationwide release really aggravated me, because I think it became trendy to slam the movie, whether or not you were really scared watching it. Personally, Blair Witch and Event Horizon are the only two movies that really disturbed me.
