Truely Scarriest Horror Movies Ever?
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The_Universe
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My wife still has nightmares about the Exorcist from time to time - and the last time she saw it had to be more than 3-4 years ago (and probably longer).
WayneLigon
Adventurer
The mention of the AMC thing reminded me: there's a part on there where Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses and this weeks sequel The Devil's Rejects) mentions the one film that he thought was just too disturbing for words: a japanese film called Audition.
So rent this from Netflix. I have to agree with him.
The film starts off almost like a romantic comedy. This young filmmaker loses his wife. Years later, filmmaker's now almost grown son says that he should get out and date, maybe remarry. So he and his buddy have a zany sitcom idea worth of Lucille Ball: they hold auditions for a fake movie in order for filmmaker to read dozens of detailed resumes of young actresses and get to see them act so filmmaker can pick someone nice to date and marry.
Hilarity definately does not ensue.
It's cute and endearing and even a little funny. Then he becomes interested in this girl and they begin to get closer. Guy's best buddy says he gets weird vibes off her but guy is in love and not hearing any of this. As he begins to find out more and more about her, the nice little life she's put down on paper begins to unravel .. slowly at first, then more quickly. The final scenes are gruesome beyond description. When your date puts on a leather apron and unrolls a rubber mat on the living room floor, you just know things ain't gonna go well.
So rent this from Netflix. I have to agree with him.
The film starts off almost like a romantic comedy. This young filmmaker loses his wife. Years later, filmmaker's now almost grown son says that he should get out and date, maybe remarry. So he and his buddy have a zany sitcom idea worth of Lucille Ball: they hold auditions for a fake movie in order for filmmaker to read dozens of detailed resumes of young actresses and get to see them act so filmmaker can pick someone nice to date and marry.
Hilarity definately does not ensue.
It's cute and endearing and even a little funny. Then he becomes interested in this girl and they begin to get closer. Guy's best buddy says he gets weird vibes off her but guy is in love and not hearing any of this. As he begins to find out more and more about her, the nice little life she's put down on paper begins to unravel .. slowly at first, then more quickly. The final scenes are gruesome beyond description. When your date puts on a leather apron and unrolls a rubber mat on the living room floor, you just know things ain't gonna go well.
David Howery
Hero
hmm.. I can't say that any scary movie has ever given me nightmares... with the exception of some Clint Walker movie who's title I can't recall. It was about a farmer in the old west who was being tormented by a huge grizzly. For months after that, I had nightmares about being chased by bears. Of course, I grew up in rural MT, where such an event was a possibility...
Barendd Nobeard
Explorer
Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Saw it on t.v. at 4 in the afternoon in the 1970s. Wish it was out on DVD.
Alien in the theater scared me. Great combination of gore (chest-burster) and non-gore (Captain Dallas' disappearence).
And, yeah, the scene in Close Encounters with the little kid. I guess it helped to be fairly young (13) watching it in a theater. I think I'd like Speilberg to make a horror film some day.
The 70s were great. Then I grew up and not much scares me now. Except real people, like Ed Gein, Richard Ramirez, etc.
Books tend to scare me more than movies, though.
Yeah, it was about the only movie on the list I had never heard of. John Landis is in the AMC thing talking about how disturbing it is. I'll have to put it in my Netflix queue. Thanks for the reminder!
Alien in the theater scared me. Great combination of gore (chest-burster) and non-gore (Captain Dallas' disappearence).
And, yeah, the scene in Close Encounters with the little kid. I guess it helped to be fairly young (13) watching it in a theater. I think I'd like Speilberg to make a horror film some day.
The 70s were great. Then I grew up and not much scares me now. Except real people, like Ed Gein, Richard Ramirez, etc.
Books tend to scare me more than movies, though.
WayneLigon said:
Yeah, it was about the only movie on the list I had never heard of. John Landis is in the AMC thing talking about how disturbing it is. I'll have to put it in my Netflix queue. Thanks for the reminder!
jcfiala
Explorer
Well, 'The Ring' creeped me out pretty good when I first saw it. I was glad I was watching it during the day (albeit with a darkened room), because I could go outside and get some sun afterwards and get over it.
'Candy Man' creeped me out pretty well too. That's not a movie I've heard of recently - it got some (bad) sequels, IIRC, but then sort of sunk out of sight.
There were bits of 'Pet Sematary' that really got to me - I remember some parts of it pretty clearly.
'Candy Man' creeped me out pretty well too. That's not a movie I've heard of recently - it got some (bad) sequels, IIRC, but then sort of sunk out of sight.
There were bits of 'Pet Sematary' that really got to me - I remember some parts of it pretty clearly.
Rodrigo Istalindir
Explorer
jcfiala said:
'The Ring' gets bonus points for the best twist-ending in recent memory.
WayneLigon
Adventurer
Barendd Nobeard said:
I remember that. That is one messed up vampire movie.
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