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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
| Anything from "The Saw" series. |
These are recent greats. HIGHLY recommend seeing them in theater, DVD room [with yer fav hottie] or with hi-end h0m sSeater.
Halloween (1978) was my first "R" movie.
I guess our parents were "cool" 'cause I was 12, and a large group of us middle schoolers
[at least a couple of carloads] went to the theater together and got in.
Looking back, I'm sure a couple of Moms were a couple of rows behind us.
They let us believe we were free, but always within easy mother hen range. |
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Kikomom
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: them thar hills--Penna, USA--Zippy is my kid, the teacher in ROK. You can call me Kiko
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:51 am Post subject: |
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To this day I see clowns as sinister, menacing figures  |
Another scary clown is "It" by Stephen King. Was made into a 1990 tv movie with Tim Curry as Pennywise, aka, It. Look for a new one coming out in 2011.
I read "The Exorcist" in one day on the beach in the Bahamas when I was 19. (That's how old it is.) Then I had my bf who was living in Maryland take me to M Street in Georgetown just to see where it took place.  |
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Illysook
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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| recently, I ran out of "Orphan." I hope that the demon child was destroyed in the end, but I didn't get past the scene where she killed the nun. |
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Shapur
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Shapur wrote: |
| To this day I see clowns as sinister, menacing figures |
Another scary clown is "It" by Stephen King. Was made into a 1990 tv movie with Tim Curry as Pennywise, aka, It. Look for a new one coming out in 2011.
I read "The Exorcist" in one day on the beach in the Bahamas when I was 19. (That's how old it is.) Then I had my bf who was living in Maryland take me to M Street in Georgetown just to see where it took place. |
Oh yeah, I forgot about Pennywise. He\it confirmed all my prejudices  |
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madtownhustl
Joined: 04 Jun 2009
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return of oz for sure, the wheelers...
Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Dont know why, just did. |
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sarahsiobhan
Joined: 24 May 2009
Location: Wherever I am , I am probably drinking tea.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| OMG Pee Wee's Big Adventure! I forgot about that one! TOTALLY agree with the above! I was terrified by that film! |
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Deep Thirteen
Joined: 18 Jun 2009
Location: Swamp Land
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:03 am Post subject: |
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^^^ Large Marge sent me.
Not a movie, but my sister and I were always scared of the Thriller video too.
I saw part of The Fly on when I was five, and I never watched horror movies after that. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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"The Exorcist." It's a pretty old movie, but still bloody scary.
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It's funny. Maybe it was because I had absorbed over a decade of hype before I got around to watching it for the first time, but I just don't find The Exorcist all that terrifying. Especially not the parts that everybody raves about as being these masterpieces of horror(ie. Regan stabbing herself with the crucifix, puking up, etc). The earlier stuff, with the priest's dream about his dead mother and whatnot, are quite entrancing, though I wouldn't exactly call them scary.
I have a theory though: The Exorcist is scariest for people who have children, because the story is told mostly from the adults POV, and plays on parental fears of seeing their child descend helplessly into a state of uncontrollable illness.
The Shining, on the other hand, is told at least partly from the child's POV, and taps into children's fears of violence from the father(Jack Nicholson having a somewhat "everyman" quality about his performance, allowing the viewer to impose their own idea of a father onto him.) Numerous reviews I've read from its original run complain that the film isn't all that firghtening, and I think that the people who find it scariest possibly saw it for the first time(as I did) when they were children.
I quite liked that when I first saw it(the American version), but have now gotten pretty sick of every other horror film that comes out, from Japan, Korea, Hollywood, or otherwise, copying the general appearance of the ghosts and the overall tone of the film. I actually stopped watching An American Haunting after about ten minutes when it became apparent that it was gonna be just more of the same.
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Pretty much all David Lynch, especially Fire Walk With Me for some reason, creeps me out hugely.
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Yeah, the scene with the wolfman crawling through the window spooked me out pretty badly, even without considering the overall context of incest and rape. It was just a very startling image. Plus, a lot of the rest of the film as well.
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The scene where the children are singing the song in the school while the birds amass outside has an unsettling quality that's kind of hard to pin down for me. |
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roadwork
Joined: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Goin' up the country
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| The Exorcist? I can't believe all of you were creeped out by that flick. That was hokey and cheesy as hell. Even the special effects sucked. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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One of the best intros to a classic horror movie...
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The cursive pink font in the credits is the icing on the cake. |
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Psy
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
Location: Hongdae
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I can't believe that people actually watched "Return to Oz". I thought I was the only one.
It was the first movie that I ever watched in a theater. (I think I was like 7 at the time) Some teachers at a day camp had the bright idea to "treat the kids to a nice movie". And I honestly thought it was a go-happy, feel good, children's movie just as "The Wizard of Oz" had been. (as did everyone else)
*Spoilers* *Spoilers* *Spoilers*
I knew something was amiss when Dorothy was taken to a mental institution to get shock therapy.
Things started getting a bit creepy when I saw the yellow brick road destroyed.
Then the wheelers - with no hands and feet, and their crazy laugh. hmm
Everyone turned to stone?? Emerald City destroyed?? hmmmmmmm
I was even scared of that stupid wind up soldier thing.
That was nothing until the queen showed up with interchangeable heads!! WTF!!!
I had nightmares for years and years because of this movie!!! Screw you Disney!!!
Even now, I feel a bit scared while thinking about and typing this and I am a full grown man.
Exorcist, Ring, Saw, and others, only creeped me a little bit. But, maybe that's because I saw them when I was older. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:33 am Post subject: Horror |
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'The Thing' & Aliens, Jaws, haven't been mentioned yet
The book of 'the Shining' was great, & had a whole bunch of other weird stuff going on, that was never shown in the film. eg the topiary animals would slowly inch closer & closer to the house every day. Their positions would change, slightly, & the family at the hotel couldn't figure out if they were imagining it or not. |
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Gumdrop92
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: USA
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| Fishead soup wrote: |
| Anything from "The Saw" series. |
Ahhh, Billy. That clown scares the crap out of me. I always pictured him waiting in the corner of my room so he can knock me out and put me in a trap. I love the series though. |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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As a kid, my mom never let me watch violent movies.
But when I was 8 or 9 years old, I stayed over at my cousins house and his dad (my uncle) let us rent Robocop.
My first "R" movies and it freaked me out. |
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ReeseDog
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Location: Classified
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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William Peter Blatty.
I read it at the age of ten, because my parents forbade me to read it.
It was a huge mistake.
I cried. |
Ten!? You're lucky you weren't scarred for life
Speaking of which, I saw a movie starring Patrick Dennehy where he portrayed that serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Can't remember the name of the movie but I do remember a scene where he dressed up as a clown. Finished me for clowns forever afterwards. To this day I see clowns as sinister, menacing figures |
Ever seen It?
http://content6.flixster.com/question/51/95/25/5195252_std.jpg
http://media.photobucket.com/image/pennywise%20the%20clown/stella_w/pennywise.jpg |
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