Well just to defend my opinion of The Descent, it got an 84% on rottentomatoes and 7.4 on IMDB.... certainly that's not the be all to end all, but at least it shows the majority of people thought the movie was good. Now Blair Witch...I'd imagine it would seem a little more scary if I didn't know that it was fake...but the movie was over for me when the stupid kid threw the damn map away.
And about that...one of the things I liked about the movie was the interpretation you could take from the last half. You really start to wonder if those things were actually real.
Yeah, I saw the Hellraisers. #1 was pretty good, but it wasn't disturbing to me. Entertaining and original, but not really scary, per se. #2 was about the same, maybe a little bit less original (for obvious reasons).
Jacob's Ladder. Scariest movie ever. I slept with the lights on after I watched it. I was already an adult too.
I'm with you broheme. The Descent was a way above average scary movie. The scenes in the tight crawl spaces had my heart pounding.
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Hey anyone know about the stories behind those actors in Poltergeist and Exorcist? I heard those actresses got f#$%ed up. Like one of them died and the other went crazy or something. And that Poltergeist was filmed in an actual haunted house??
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I'm old, so I like alot of the older movies. I particularly enjoy Hitchcock films. "The Birds", "Psycho", and "Rear Window" are some of my favorites. Many of Hitchcocks movies would be considered a thriller or mystery, but I thought they were scary.
I was skimming this thread waiting to post Jacob's Ladder -- I watched it one time and it really disturbed me for some reason. I keep meaning to watch it again, but I always pass because i'm afraid i'll have that weird unsettled feeling again. Very psychological that movie -- gets you to the core. <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I0kW6xuxtPU&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I0kW6xuxtPU&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
To be honest, I've only ever watched 2 'horror' movies in my life, and they weren't even properly horror: The Number 23 and The Reaping. I watched the first movie, got slightly paranoid about 23 for five minutes but then reasoned that I could make any number I think of into a significant one, so I stopped being afraid. Then a few months later I watched it with a couple of friends and they just couldn't stop talking about it and I was like 'It's not htat scary, it's just numbers..."
I agree with you there. I recall watching pieces of the home movies Charles Ng and Leonard Lake made of the women they kidnapped and eventually murdered. That there are real people who could do those things to other human beings is far more frightening than anything that could possibly be filmed for a fictional movie. Linda Blair (Regan in the Exorcist) doesn't seem any more crazy than any other actress. After Poltergeist, the actress who played the older daughter (Dominique Dunne) was murdered by her estranged boyfriend. After the third Poltergeist movie, the actress who played the younger daughter (Heather O'Roarke) died from, I believe, an impacted bowel. The interiors of Poltergeist were filmed on a soundstage. The exteriors of the house were filmed at a regular suburban home in Simi Valley, California.
yup, folks like that are scary. no supernatural powers, just creepy & unnaturally wired humans. Ng proceeded to try and play the legal system. successively dismissing his legal counsel & delaying his case's trial date as a deliberate ploy to postpone his doom's day. no remorse, torture and murder is the joyful m.o. if caught, delays, lies and subterfuge. not to highjack the thread but movies just can't compete.
I notice that there are some recent 'popular' movies which are significant in their absence from this list of 'truly scary movies: all these crapfest 'torture-p*rn' flicks that have come out lately - Saw and its sequels, Hostel and its sequel, and all of these 'Hills Have Eyes', Hitcher', and on and on.. I happened to catch a few glimpses of Hostel 2 on the computer, more out of curiosity than anything else, because I had never Hostel, nor any of the Saw movies, so I was curious as to what the appeal was. I still don't know. All I can say is, if you are one of those people who claims to 'love' movies like this, who thinks these are 'great' movies, if you are the kind of person who gets off on these steaming piles of reeking filth, then there is something seriously wrong with you. The only thing 'truly scary' about them is that there are people out there willing to make them, and even worse, people out there who pay money to see them. Now THAT is scary.
Game 7 of the 2005 NBA Playoffs, First Round, Western Conference, Dallas vs. Houston. I literally had nightmares for days. Still do.
Most of the Aliens movies the first time you watch them have to go down as scary. The Exorcist is another one.
