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What are some really scary movies?

 
  

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nuberty
23:22 / 01.03.03
I just finished watching "The Ring" (US version) and i've got to say that is the scariest movie i have ever seen. Now i love being scared by a movie and it hardly ever happens any more. In fact in the only movies to have scared me (not counting ones i saw when i was a child) are "The Shining" and "The Omen".
Are there any recommendations for any movies that are guaranteed to make me wet the bed?
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
00:13 / 02.03.03
I wouldn’t say that it was a scary movie, but “Requiem for a Dream” is the only movie I would not want to see again.
 
 
Catjerome
00:35 / 02.03.03
Along the same lines, some folks might not think that *Audition* was scary, but I couldn't even watch a large portion of it, and several people left the theater during the showing that I saw. Implied gore and extended torture scenes, yergh. A vivid imagination = a bad asset here ... :: starts inadvertently picturing the Guy in the Sack crawling around on my bedroom floor :: *whimper*
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
00:40 / 02.03.03
I still think that David Lynch's movies are disturbing enough to be considered scary. I remember being totally freaked out by Lost Highway and Blue Velvet especially.

Anything by David Cronenberg before he made THe Fly is also damn scary in a disturbing way.

But then again, I have been told by people that the Romero Zombies movies aren't thought of as scary anymore, and they still make me watch them with the lights on.
 
 
Brigade du jour
00:43 / 02.03.03
Not so much scary movies but scary bits in movies :

The guy round the back of the diner in Mulholland Drive. So simple, so shit-scary.

The bit at the end of Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil where Jude Law's dead face comes to life and smiles beatifically at Kevin Spacey. "And don't you dare look back!"

Any of the boiler room sequences in Nightmare On Elm Street (before it went all fucking Disney)

The end of The Full Monty when I feared I might actually see Denzil from Only Fools & Horses' dick.

The end of Psycho in the fruit cellar - way scarier than the shower scene, at least until Anthony Perkins turns up in a dress.

Maybe think of some more later.
 
 
Rev. Wright
01:18 / 02.03.03
Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Don't Look Now

28 Days Later

Jaws
 
 
videodrome
01:57 / 02.03.03
Roman Polanski's The Tenant.
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
03:54 / 02.03.03
The Cell is full of over-the-top violent images.
 
 
000
04:35 / 02.03.03
Showgirls.

I rest my case.
 
 
Brigade du jour
04:41 / 02.03.03
If we're coming to that level of scariness, how about Blame It On Rio? Michael Caine in his well-documented 'Shit' period.
 
 
The Strobe
08:48 / 02.03.03
The original Japanese Ring.

Alien.

And, by far and aware the scariest film I've ever seen (to which the original Ring almost, but doesn't quite come close): Don't Look Now. It's perfect.
 
 
videodrome
14:20 / 02.03.03
The Cell is a hack pastiche of stolen images, porrly applied in a z-grade Slience of the Lambs retread. For fuck's sake, do some homework and discover where all the apparently cool stuff in that film came from rather than giving any sort of props to Tarsem's turds.

To that effect:

Joel Peter Witkin photography.
The paintings of Francis Bacon.
The films of the Brothers Quay.
The films of David Lynch.
The films of Luis Bunuel (and of course, his work with Dali)
The films of Jean Cocteau.
and so many more...
 
 
rizla mission
15:00 / 02.03.03
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Jacobs Ladder are still my votes for the most frightening films ever. They seriously, seriously fucked with my head in a bad way.

Don't Look Now as well of course.

And, yeah, if the remake scared you, make sure to watch the original Ring and the sequel.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
15:23 / 02.03.03
Robert Wise's The Haunting scares me silly when I watch it on my own. It's the constant suggestion of violence that does it - apart from a door bending inwards, you never get to see any of the haunters. It's doubtful that there are any ghosts there, anyway - the house itself is the evil presence in the film. I've not seen the remake and doubt I ever will.

Carnival of Souls is also pretty damn creepy, although the purposeful artiness occasionally works against it. There's little sense of human feeling in it - instead, there's an atmosphere that can only be described as clinical. But then the movie's about a woman who's become disconnected from the world, so it's perfect.
 
 
bjacques
16:25 / 02.03.03
The Pigeons From Hell episode of Boris Karloff's "Thriller." Though I was a kid when I saw it. "Eye of the Beholder" episode from the Twilight Zone, and "Need To Know" episode from Tales From the Darkside. Can't think of any movies that have recently made me not want to go outside or stay inside either, which is my own definition of scary.
 
 
arcboi
18:13 / 02.03.03
Long Weekend - an Australian film about a couple going camping at a remote beach. Possibly the only film that still has the power to scare me shitless 20 years on.

It's got its fair share of scary moments, but these are topped by the disturbing themes and visuals. Brrrr...

Also, another vote for the original Ring (not seen the remake yet).
 
 
The Photographer in Blowup
18:18 / 02.03.03
To that effect:

Joel Peter Witkin photography.
The paintings of Francis Bacon.
The films of the Brothers Quay.
The films of David Lynch.
The films of Luis Bunuel (and of course, his work with Dali)
The films of Jean Cocteau.
and so many more...


Didn't you forget the paintings of Bosch?


Scary movies?

The Shining
Psycho
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jaws
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
03:17 / 03.03.03
Geez, it's not like I was praising the movie as a ground-breaking masterpiece. I said it was full of violent images, and it was. Maybe that's all the author of this thread is looking for.
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
03:18 / 03.03.03
I'd like some details about Long Weekend, arcboi.
 
 
MissLenore
04:26 / 03.03.03
The Haunting of Julia. I saw this movie on t.v. years and years ago and have yet to be able to find it in a video store. There was nothing overtly scary about it really, but the atmosphere was enough to give me goosebumps. The ending was rather creepy too.
 
 
Mike-O
05:09 / 03.03.03
The remake of The Ring kept me from sleeping until I could see the light of day (given that I watched it around 9pm), and even then it was very hard. I have yet to see the original... but I cannot wait for it. And was that a sequel I heard someone mention there was? Does anyone happen to know the name of the sequel (assuming it's not Ring II).

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, undoubtedly, is disturbing. The original Hellraiser (Say what u will, it freaked me out for a very long time... and still does)as well.

Now, I wonder if anyone could tell me about a little film called The Serpent In The Rainbow. I've heard great things but am not too sure as to the plot or just how scary it really is..... anyone?
 
 
uncle retrospective
05:30 / 03.03.03
The Serpent In The Rainbow has one of the most scaring moments in cinema history. Nasty, Nasty stuff.
Event Horizon scared the crap out of me but most people hate it.
 
 
that
06:32 / 03.03.03
'Society'. Freakish. Very Burroughs-esque.

'Jaws' is scary but I could watch it repeatedly (though it's left me with a persistent fear of the sea), whereas I had to force myself to watch 'Society'. 'The Serpent and the Rainbow' is that Bill Pullman film about voudoun, right? I didn't find it scary, particularly.

I've never seen the original 'Ring', but have heard very good things about the remake. 'Paper House' is a pretty fucking creepy film too.
 
 
arcboi
06:43 / 03.03.03
Foust: Check out the IMDB link for Long Weekend here: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079482.

It's a very strange film that I guess in part could be described as 'eco-horror' - nature being nasty. But there's also this disturbing aspect of the couple in the film attempting a reconcilliation after an abortion. The wife feels she's being haunted - especially after hearing these chilling cries at night...

I don't really want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I pretty much guarantee you'll be sleeping with the lights on....
 
 
The Strobe
07:12 / 03.03.03
Mike-O - there are three Japanese Ring films; Ring, Ring 2, and Ring 0. The sequel and prequel aren't as good as the first one according to most people.
 
 
doglikesparky
07:48 / 03.03.03
Slight threadrot - sorry...

Has anybody here seen Ring 0? The first Ring freaked me out completely - by far the scariest film I've ever seen whereas the second left me a little cold. It still had a few great moments in it but somehow the impact just wasn't there.
Anybody share those views who's seen the third film as well? I can get it on DVD for about a tenner - should I?
 
 
LucasCorso
08:12 / 03.03.03
I'd say "The night of the hunter". Robert Mitchum singing "Leaning in everlasting arms" while he's hunting the two kids is absolutely scary.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
10:36 / 03.03.03
Yep. Get it. And send me a copy, because it's not on local release here in Australia.

I thought Ring 0 had some great moments, in much the same way that there's some fabulously scary moments in Ring 2. The "Birthday" movie is much more rooted in human-becoming-something-else land than out-out supernatural terror. They're good enough, though.

Actually, I'd have to add the remake into it too, a little. It's a lot more subtle than it's often given credit for being, and there's some additions that, I think, work well. I'd be interested to see the original version - apparently two scenes in particular were cut back a great deal to keep the audiences feeling comfortable...
 
 
hanabius yamamura
13:30 / 03.03.03
some suggestions re scary movies would be:

RING (original japanese) - yes, yet another vote for it but it is really good!!!

AUDITION - totally hideous, implied and otherwise ...

THE EYE - has some intensely unnerving bits in it

SEANCE - a made for japanese TV film i saw at a film festival once that freaked my wife out so much she banned me from suggesting what films to go and see :-)

DELIVERANCE - still unsettles me a lot in a nasty way

:-)
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
13:32 / 03.03.03
Dagon (2001 Stuart Gordon Lovecraft film)

Schramm (1993 Jörg Buttgereit film which, while a hack, did a good job of scaring me back to the womb)

Suspiria (1977 by Argento and the mad mad music. Also, Jessica Harper from Phantom of the Paradise is in it. Rent this tonigtht, lads)

Strip-Tease (Those gazoongas scare me)
 
 
casemaker
13:43 / 03.03.03
Although Event Horizon is another mish-mash "hack-job" of other movies (Alien and Hellraiser), it scared the hell out of me. I went into the theater thinking it was a science fiction story and was treated to some truely gruesome images and even more horrific sounds.

I also always thought the Salem's Lot film was frightening.
 
 
illmatic
14:37 / 03.03.03
The orginal version of "The Vanishing" before the totally inappropriate and JUST PLAIN WRONG US version. Amasing film, really striking.
 
 
Old brown-eye is back
15:37 / 03.03.03
The scariest film I've ever seen, I only saw recently - Gaspar Noe's insanely nasty Irreversible. Your life as bowel movement, basically. Other than that, Tommy frightened the shit out of me when I was younger with it's hypos, child abuse and Marilyn masks, and The Devils I still can't watch.

I love horror films but they're not really scary, are they?
 
 
The Strobe
18:09 / 03.03.03
Event Horizon isn't scary, it's just ugly and nasty. It was unpleasant, but didn't frighten me. Just made me feel a bit ill. Cheap scares and snap cuts. That's all.
 
 
000
19:24 / 03.03.03
Saw Hellraiser: Blood(Sport?) last summer, thought it had fantastically gorefic images (the eyeless monster with arms for legs, the tormentor with the whip whose licks were acidy and the 2 women monsters who, sexually, probed their hands under the skin of the protagonist. Although the story wasn't really surprising, round and round it went, it was very okay compared to the last 2 Hellraiser movies.

28 Days Later and the moments with the infected 'zombies', they were superbly realised.

I have to include the Fly, as a recent reacquaintancy proved just why it was successfull in the first place. The abortion scene was naaarsty.
 
  

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