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What Are The Scariest Movies, Books, & Stories?
I can't say it's the scariest movie of all time, but The Conjuring was the last movie I was really scared by, and I kept turning it off at night because it was making me feel... not good. Interestingly, there is no cursing, no sex, no "mature themes," and only the briefest shots of blood and dead things, but it got an R- rating anyway: for "terror." They can't point at why this kids aren't allowed to see this, but it's so scary they're slapping an R on it anyway.
That's quite an advertisement. (I don't disagree, by the way: Kids shouldn't see this. It will give them nightmares, for years.) Another recent movie I thought was just great was The Strangers. One odd thing about my idea of "scary" is that I don't really think supernatural stuff is scary. Usually I just think it's kind of fun and dumb with some occasional pop-up shocks. What scares me is just murder. I'm bothered especially by movies that take an almost lighthearted view of murder, like this movie that used to plague the the Channel 7 Midnight Movie slot in NYC. And then there is the music around murder. The music and stingers in Murder on the Orient Express are just stuck in my mind as frightening noises. The flashbacks of the all the deaths in the past, with those scary music cues... always gives me a little scare. And speaking of scary music, while the movie itself isn't so good, the opening sequence, and then the super-scary music, of Francis Ford Coppolla's first movie, Dementia 13, is great. Very scary. (Like I said, rest of the movie, meh, though I was surprised at what you could show back then -- nudity, decapitations.) As far as books: I'm not sure I've read a really scary book. I thought Misery and the Shining were kinda scary. Again, the books that actually scare me are just books about murder. Oh -- I did read one that was very weird, and so was kind of scary -- House of Leaves. Before you read it, though, make sure you check the description, to read how weird and experimental this book is. It's very odd indeed. Any recommendations? BTW: I'll put up a Hounds thread later, or maybe just wait for tomorrow.Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 30, 2015 05:36 PM (IN7k+)
Posted by: ahem at October 30, 2015 05:36 PM (lKGzI)
Only good thing is my friend started answering my phone calls by whispering " seven days".
Posted by: The Sampo at October 30, 2015 05:36 PM (btcb3)
Posted by: S at October 30, 2015 05:37 PM (HCXGq)
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 05:37 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 05:37 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: Pajama Boy at October 30, 2015 05:37 PM (22uju)
Posted by: S at October 30, 2015 05:38 PM (HCXGq)
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 05:38 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: pep at October 30, 2015 05:38 PM (LAe3v)
i forgot that one. Yeah, that scared me silly too.
Ghosts usually do it for me. I forgot "The Woman in Black," too, the one with Harry Potter. Very scary.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2015 05:38 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: imp at October 30, 2015 05:39 PM (XIXZz)
Posted by: S at October 30, 2015 05:39 PM (HCXGq)
Posted by: no good deed at October 30, 2015 05:39 PM (GgxVX)
Posted by: Huma, She of the MB at October 30, 2015 05:39 PM (22uju)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at October 30, 2015 05:39 PM (xInes)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 30, 2015 05:41 PM (Cq0oW)
I saw it... (both Austrian and American)... eh. Too gimmicky for me.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2015 05:41 PM (dciA+)
I thought about rewatching Dont Look Now.
My current favorite creepy movie is Apartment Zero.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 30, 2015 05:41 PM (iQIUe)
I like scream type stuff, that's sort of slasher but also tongue in cheek. I don't want to be really scared. Thrillers are good too, where there is something psychological going on...
Posted by: Lea at October 30, 2015 05:42 PM (vmMMi)
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 30, 2015 05:42 PM (k9qR4)
Posted by: Matt at October 30, 2015 05:43 PM (90w0O)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at October 30, 2015 05:43 PM (HMt16)
My first kid was three when I watched it. I think that had something to do with why I had to turn it off. You know the scene I'm talking about.
Posted by: no good deed at October 30, 2015 05:43 PM (GgxVX)
2nd scariest--"Schindler's List"
horror is what we do together ( to each other )
Posted by: English guy who makes tangential comments at October 30, 2015 05:43 PM (8CdUx)
The movie that scared me as a kid (and that's different, I know) was "The Monolith Monsters," about meteor rocks that would grow when they got wet and kill people. I couldn't bring myself to wash a rock for the longest time after that.
Posted by: elaine at October 30, 2015 05:43 PM (Y0Piu)
Posted by: Vinron at October 30, 2015 05:43 PM (KW0aJ)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 05:44 PM (4ErVI)
More recently, the first Paranormal Activity (when you don't really know what direction they're going with it) messed me up to the point I kept looking away from the screen even though nothing was happening.
It was doubly bad as I had closed captioning turned on (I forget why I first put it on and then couldn't get rid of it) and in one of the nothing happening sequences, I had a brief panic as the following text appeared onscreen:
Sounds of demon breathing
Except, I couldn't hear anything. I don't know why, but that made it worse.
Posted by: Methos at October 30, 2015 05:44 PM (ZbV+0)
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2015 05:44 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: pep
Ultimate test of how comfortable you are in a new house/apartment: can you watch The Exorcist right before bed and still sleep.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 30, 2015 05:44 PM (awspb)
Posted by: no good deed at October 30, 2015 05:45 PM (GgxVX)
Only good thing is my friend started answering my phone calls by whispering " seven days".
Posted by: The Sampo at October 30, 2015 05:36 PM (btcb3)
I actually saw the Japanese original a few years prior to the US version and it scared the living hell out of me. When the chick came crawling out of the TV I just about jumped out of my skin.
Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at October 30, 2015 05:45 PM (KkVB6)
Posted by: moe howard at October 30, 2015 05:45 PM (WCnJW)
Posted by: elaine
Ummmm......
Posted by: pep at October 30, 2015 05:45 PM (LAe3v)
Movie-wise, when I think scary, THE EXORCIST comes to mind but not for the usual reasons. The scene early on where poltergeist stuff starts happening and the mother goes to the attic with a candle. It wasn't until the DVD that I could notice very soft, eerie wind noises as she prepares to go up the stairs, as you'd hear in any large older house. That sound has always disturbed me in real life so that is one well-done creepy scene. Pretty much everything else in it is too over the top.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 05:46 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Russ at October 30, 2015 05:46 PM (rvua3)
2nd scariest--"Schindler's List"
horror is what we do together ( to each other )
Posted by: English guy who makes tangential comments
In that case, The Chekist should be on that list.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 30, 2015 05:46 PM (awspb)
I will say though the Exorcist was pretty damn scary.
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 05:46 PM (I4PQV)
Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at October 30, 2015 05:47 PM (veJi0)
Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at October 30, 2015 05:48 PM (veJi0)
The fear and paranoia, really effective. And I think the move was damn creepy too.
Posted by: Amos at October 30, 2015 05:49 PM (nPo3O)
I started that book but quit because it just seemed a little too avant garde, was it worth the payoff?
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 05:49 PM (I4PQV)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2015 05:49 PM (KrAjA)
Finding out later the director was a pedophile adds a different layer of creepy to it.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2015 05:49 PM (jhqr1)
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 05:38 PM (E5UB0)
That's a good one, but the one that really creeped me out was The Colour Out of Space. I was reading it in pieces over a few nights and had to actually stop reading it *at night* because I kept jumping at everything.
Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at October 30, 2015 05:49 PM (KkVB6)
Posted by: pep
For Me too.... The music still gives Me the shivers..
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 05:49 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: sinalco at October 30, 2015 05:50 PM (yODqO)
Posted by: elaine at October 30, 2015 05:50 PM (Y0Piu)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 05:50 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: u10e at October 30, 2015 05:50 PM (MNeEH)
After seeing 12 year old kids hacking off the heads of infidels, I'm pretty desensitized.
The violence has to be very graphic, like "Saw" which I watched with my god-daughter where people were thrown into vats of hypo needles. It was so gruesome - at the time - that I had to keep taking breaks which she thought was funny.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 30, 2015 05:50 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 05:50 PM (4ErVI)
It's the fourth book in a series but you don't need to read the entire series to enjoy this. The terror keeps building and building and building. The murder scenes are gruesome. Having the antagonist be a serial killer really made it horrifying, because you know the killer would not stop. You were just waiting to see who the next victim was. The scene where the killer is revealed is the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced. For real, I was gripping the book so hard.
Actually, all of Sansom's books in this series are pretty scary. They're all murder mysteries. Sometimes he goes off on long tangents in the books but they're still awesome.
Posted by: Adrienne at October 30, 2015 05:50 PM (lVcuh)
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 05:50 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at October 30, 2015 05:51 PM (vgIRn)
Posted by: Hillary's alcoholic depression at October 30, 2015 05:51 PM (T1Jm0)
Posted by: Buzzion at October 30, 2015 05:52 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: pep
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I dunno. I thought it was kind of dumb.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 05:52 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2015 05:49 PM (KrAjA)
The whole sequence of events that lead to the ball bouncing down the stairs alone brings on waves of chills.
Really, they could've just released that as the film and it would've worked. Just those scenes, the ball comes down the stairs, Scott reacts, The End.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 05:52 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Hillary's alcoholic depression at October 30, 2015 05:53 PM (T1Jm0)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2015 05:53 PM (JmGFJ)
Fox didn't air it again for a while but then people toughen up and forget.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 30, 2015 05:53 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: lyle at October 30, 2015 05:53 PM (nHwKj)
Session 9
The Descent
Both are a heady stew of scary and creepy. Like 'em both.
I've found that it's tough for a film to hold a consistently scary vibe. It tends to be easier to find individual scary scenes or scary sections of those films.
Like Evil Dead II. The first act, where Ash is pretty much going insane is actually quite scary, at least until Raimi repeatedly punctures the balloon with a Three Stooges gag. Once the rest of the cast joins Ash, it's not really scary anymore. Fun, but not scary.
Or Phantasm. Low budget, cheap scares. But for me, the scariest scene was the false ending where you're lead to believe that it's all in the kid's imagination as a reaction to his beloved older brother's death in a car accident. For some reason, that scared the piss out of me when I saw it as a kid.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 05:53 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 05:53 PM (/dSsq)
Duel
The Thing
Duel was the scariest because the monster was a truck controlled by a deranged man.
Sharks are real, but you kind of have to put yourself in their midst. Alien demons are imaginary (sorry, Fox).
But trucks are everywhere and deranged people are not exactly in short supply.
Posted by: eman at October 30, 2015 05:53 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at October 30, 2015 05:51 PM
That was a great book. Damned shame what Hollywood did to it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2015 05:54 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: goon at October 30, 2015 05:54 PM (gy5kE)
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 30, 2015 05:54 PM (k9qR4)
He explained how he they tricked and drugged him. He's not gay, not all. In fact, he pleaded that he loves women and was in fact what you would call a whoremonger, so into women he is. They told him was going to do a porno with women, but then gave him a pill that apparently turned him gay against his will and he went at it with the two other men and has no memory of it.
So be careful out there, there's a gay amnesia drug out there.
Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at October 30, 2015 05:55 PM (dvuhZ)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 05:55 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2015 05:55 PM (xujhj)
Posted by: Hillary's
Exorcist III and that hallway scene. One of the most effective scenes in cinema.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2015 05:55 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 05:56 PM (/dSsq)
ace, if you liked The Strangers, you should try watching You're Next - same kind of premise, but it has a bit of a fun twist.
Posted by: stephanie brown at October 30, 2015 05:56 PM (1uMz1)
Really, they could've just released that as the film and it would've
worked. Just those scenes, the ball comes down the stairs, Scott
reacts, The End.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 05:52 PM
That was very well done. The one bit that creeped me out the most was the bit from the seance scene.
*spoiler alert*
When the medium asked the obvious "Are you the ghost of the child who was killed by the coal cart?"
"No!"
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2015 05:56 PM (KrAjA)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 05:56 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2015 05:56 PM (wAQA5)
King writes a lot of crap though, I would say a good 3 out of 4 of his books are garbage and just about all of his good books were written 30 years ago.
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 05:57 PM (I4PQV)
Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at October 30, 2015 05:57 PM (KkVB6)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 30, 2015 05:57 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: GBruno at October 30, 2015 05:57 PM (u49WF)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 05:58 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 30, 2015 05:58 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: wth at October 30, 2015 05:58 PM (wAQA5)
Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 30, 2015 05:58 PM (ZY2zO)
Posted by: Coolio
I've heard that he doesn't even write his own books anymore, he pays recent English major grads to write the books and puts his name to it.
Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 30, 2015 05:59 PM (awspb)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 05:59 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2015 06:00 PM (JmGFJ)
That and Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
That parents could make their kids drink poisoned Kool-Aid was totally disturbing to me.
Posted by: Iblis at October 30, 2015 06:00 PM (rP2JJ)
Posted by: Lazarus Puthy at October 30, 2015 06:00 PM (5fSr7)
Ill Tempered, The Descent by Jeff Long? I have an unedited proof.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 30, 2015 05:58 PM (ZY2zO)
Nah. The movie with the Brit chicks going spelunking and finding they are not alone.....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 06:01 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 30, 2015 06:01 PM (39g3+)
"Pet Semetery" by Stephen King really gave me the willies (even if he went over the top at the end, which he usually does). I was so deep into reading that book that I didn't even notice we ran out of oil until it was 60 degrees in the house. I think the reason it grabbed me was because after our dog was hit by a car when I was 16, I had a dream where the vet gave her a shot and made her live again. But she wasn't "right" and in the dream I had to drown her in the bathtub.
Posted by: Miley's Tongue at October 30, 2015 06:01 PM (NTbr4)
IT had a wonderful wrap-up but I still cannot stomach what amounted to the child porn scene the adults suddenly all remembered.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:01 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 06:02 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 30, 2015 06:01 PM (39g3+)
That was "The Long Walk", "Running Man" and a couple of others, right? Not his worst work, I'll say.
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 30, 2015 06:02 PM (k9qR4)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 06:02 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: Chet Simms at October 30, 2015 06:03 PM (/BYqW)
Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at October 30, 2015 06:03 PM (y3EOW)
Posted by: Cindy Munford at October 30, 2015 06:03 PM (7Lm22)
Posted by: Hillary's alcoholic depression at October 30, 2015 06:03 PM (T1Jm0)
Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 30, 2015 06:03 PM (ZY2zO)
You know that John Kowalski died right there at that corner, right. Yeah, he got into a fight with Mak McMurphy and, oh boy, that was a fight. Everyone was there. Except Deilah of course.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2015 06:03 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Hillary's alcoholic depression at October 30, 2015 05:53 PM
I second this recommendation. One of my favorite books.
Posted by: stephanie brown at October 30, 2015 06:03 PM (1uMz1)
Posted by: doomed
__________________
Wasn't that "recollection" edited in some editions?
In my opinion, the publisher should have removed it as it did nothing for the story but make say Stephen King must be one sick man
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 06:04 PM (I4PQV)
This decision has been incubating over the past 17 years, years of watching the downward spiral of the Party of Lincoln and Reagan into the Party of Democrat Lite.
Posted by: Tom Tancredo at October 30, 2015 06:05 PM (e8kgV)
He is truly warped..
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 06:05 PM (/dSsq)
For scary movies I like The Shining the most. Love the pacing and the maturity of it. Hate the slasher genre crap. For recent scary movies The Woman in Black is the best I've seen in a while - for a guy who grew up watching Hammer horror films, it was great.
Posted by: Dang at October 30, 2015 06:05 PM (2oWD2)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:06 PM (No/ki)
For books, Salem's Lot is hard to beat. I actually had more trouble reading The Shining, though. The Shining was just relentless at building tension.
Posted by: Advo at October 30, 2015 06:06 PM (7hUS8)
the only horror type that come to mind are duel and the hitcher (the older one)
Posted by: concrete girl at October 30, 2015 06:06 PM (f3K9g)
One of the stupidest endings of all time, however. Just as bad as IT. Nearly as bad as the end of the Gunslinger series. Sense a trend?
Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 30, 2015 06:06 PM (ZY2zO)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 06:06 PM (gE2Li)
Saw The Exorcist on mescaline. They kicked us out because we were laughing so hard.
Posted by: tu3031 at October 30, 2015 06:06 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: Adrienne at October 30, 2015 06:07 PM (lVcuh)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:08 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2015 06:08 PM (2MkpH)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:08 PM (No/ki)
Posted by: Birdbath at October 30, 2015 06:08 PM (TgkA/)
And get this, the big reason King hates it is because it was misogynist and anti-woman because the Wendy character was helpless. Liberals can never turn off their politics.
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 06:08 PM (I4PQV)
Funny thing though. When I was a kid they showed the movie 'The House on the Haunted Hill' late one night and I got really scared and turned it off. Saw it again years later as an adult and of course enjoyed the hell out of it. Once scene that cracked me up was Vincent Price putting his hand around his wife's' throat and saying what a perfect match it was.
Posted by: HH at October 30, 2015 06:09 PM (DrCtv)
Posted by: Hillary's alcoholic depression at October 30, 2015 06:09 PM (T1Jm0)
And going to the way back machine: Rosemarie's Baby for the oppressive atmosphere of conspiracy and sickness.
Highly distuburing, somewhat incoherent: Jacob's Ladder. The "whipping heads" effect and (like Rosemary's Baby) pervasive atmosphere of paranoia becomes thicker and more disturbing as the movie progresses.
Less obvious in the "terror" genre but altogether great film with some truly frightening moments: Mel Gibson's "Signs." Particularly the small scale scenes when trapped in the storm celler, listening to aliens with bad intent skitter around the outer world trying to make their way in *shudder*
Posted by: Ex NYC Peasant at October 30, 2015 06:10 PM (k8tEg)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 30, 2015 06:10 PM (LA7Cm)
For books, Salem's Lot is hard to beat. I actually had more trouble reading The Shining, though. The Shining was just relentless at building tension.
Posted by: Advo at October 30, 2015 06:06 PM (7hUS
Event Horizon was really creepy. I think the Warhammer 40k borrowed heavily on its idea that warp space was actually hell.
Posted by: Iblis at October 30, 2015 06:10 PM (rP2JJ)
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2015 06:10 PM (b+df9)
Yes, The House On Haunted hill is campy fun as an adult-but not related to Jackson's story.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:11 PM (No/ki)
Posted by: Hillary's alcoholic depression at October 30, 2015 06:11 PM (T1Jm0)
And get this, the big reason King hates it is because it was misogynist and anti-woman because the Wendy character was helpless. Liberals can never turn off their politics.
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 06:08 PM (I4PQV)
I'm sure he's refused every royalty check on principle.
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 30, 2015 06:12 PM (k9qR4)
Neither did I until the end. Then, when you look back at the scene where Willis and the mom are waiting for the kid to get home from school, sitting in the chairs next to each other, and they never say a word to one another. She couldn't see him.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 30, 2015 06:12 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: eman at October 30, 2015 06:12 PM (MQEz6)
Posted by: tu3031 at October 30, 2015 06:12 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2015 06:12 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 30, 2015 06:12 PM (ZY2zO)
Posted by: Adrienne
That was good. The Awakening was too.
I'd like to see The Ring again. I remember liking it.
I thought The Grudge and The Grudge II had some really great scary moments in them. The third one was made by some loser hack.
Posted by: Dang at October 30, 2015 06:12 PM (2oWD2)
Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 30, 2015 06:13 PM (ZY2zO)
The Thing. the one with Kurt Russell. Still gives me the creeps; that between the "Holy Shit's and the "Whoa, Fuck!"s
I've seen it 6 times or more, and I still jump and have borderline anxiety attacks watching it.
The Saw movies? Saw the first one. That was enough. Not art. Just blood-ang-gore porn.
Hostel? A bit the same, but strangely compelling. With a satisfying ending...
Posted by: Gunslinger at October 30, 2015 06:13 PM (4S7hN)
Started slowly enough to let you care about the people, then screws them over.
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at October 30, 2015 06:13 PM (h53OH)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 06:13 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 06:13 PM (/dSsq)
I think maybe it was Twilight Zone.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 06:13 PM (dFi94)
I would say one of my recent faves was "Prisoner" with Hugh Jackman. The horror of what people can do to each other out of fear and misunderstanding. The scenes in the abandoned apartment complex were hard to watch.
One supernatural type film that still freaks me out is "Event Horizon." Science fiction. Deep in space. People going mad or are they in hell? Frightening stuff.
Posted by: K-E at October 30, 2015 06:13 PM (mD2pZ)
That is a really effective movie, I agree. very chilling with such a simple concept.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 30, 2015 06:14 PM (39g3+)
My favorite this time of year is the original Halloween. Kind of a tradition here. The Thing, with Kurt Russell is also one of my all time favorites.
Posted by: jewells45 at October 30, 2015 06:14 PM (5fvBZ)
Robert McCammon could scare me back when he wrote horror. Turn on the lights kind of scary stuff.
Posted by: huerfano at October 30, 2015 06:14 PM (O2jYw)
Posted by: CayleyGraph at October 30, 2015 06:15 PM (d10jJ)
What DOESN'T scare me these days is movies that think making some really loud noise after it's been quiet is scary. It's just annoying. And too damn common and most often out of context with anything that would have actually made the noise.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at October 30, 2015 06:16 PM (Wckf4)
Not a horor film but "Wait Until Dark" with Audrey Hepburn is scary the first time
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:08 PM (No/ki)
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Oh yeah I screamed during that one.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 06:16 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Methos at October 30, 2015 06:16 PM (ZbV+0)
Rosemary's Baby too.
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 06:16 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: Insomniac at October 30, 2015 06:16 PM (kpqmD)
Oh, I know that. Just happens that the two films have a similar name. And the book "The Haunting of Hill House" has probably one of the greatest opening paragraphs you will ever read.
Posted by: HH at October 30, 2015 06:16 PM (DrCtv)
Same feeling a few chapters before that when Jonathan Harker sees Dracula is hanging on the outside of the castle from outside like a lizard.
Posted by: The Cynic at October 30, 2015 06:16 PM (uKJIC)
Posted by: the littl shyning man at October 30, 2015 06:16 PM (U6f54)
Did we make it this far without Silence of the Lambs? I nearly took the seat out of the theater with me for gripping it. Was so tensed up I was sore after.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 30, 2015 06:17 PM (ZY2zO)
The other thing about Stephen King's books that piss me off, he gets lazy and goes to the same villain all to often.
Space Aliens.
Dood, really?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 06:17 PM (o98Jz)
Session 9
Event Horizon.
The House on Haunted Hill, the Jeffery Rush version.
MSNBC 2008 Election Coverage.
Comic Books:
Crossed
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at October 30, 2015 06:17 PM (0q2P7)
The one that stuck with me the most was episode #22: Time and Again. A clockmaker discovers a clock that gives him an extra hour each day. There's a cost of having it, of course...
Posted by: keninnorcal at October 30, 2015 06:17 PM (3OTR8)
Session 9
Event Horizon.
The House on Haunted Hill, the Jeffery Rush version.
MSNBC 2008 Election Coverage.
Comic Books:
Crossed
Obamas Inaugurations...
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Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 06:18 PM (/dSsq)
His story The Willows is better known, I think, but I didn't think it nearly as eerie as The Wendigo.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 06:18 PM (4ErVI)
darren mcgavin was great.
Posted by: concrete girl at October 30, 2015 06:19 PM (f3K9g)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 30, 2015 06:19 PM (GDulk)
Rural sheriff in the West gets a call about deaths in a mining town in the boonies. He rides out interviews locals to no immediate result.
One interviewer gives him a conflicting statement, a miner, out in the woods. The sheriff goes out to find him, but, of course, finds himself on a table in a hunter's shack.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2015 06:19 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Modern Man at October 30, 2015 06:19 PM (FkBIv)
Don't confuse it with- and don't bother watching- the American version of "The Vanishing" that came out a few years later - directed by the same guy who made the original. The idiot shit on his own movie - dumbed it down for Americans.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 06:20 PM (P8951)
you come to love and admire people who are rounded up, taken into a forest, and shot, methodically, like cattle
then you are buried alive with them
Posted by: Feh at October 30, 2015 06:20 PM (Uk9e2)
Possession movies like "Paranormal Activity" and "Insidious" really freak me out. Straight-up horror films disturb me because of of the inhumanity, such as the "Hostel" movies (just the thought of people who are torture tourists - ick) and "My Little Eye".
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2015 06:20 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Lamp at October 30, 2015 06:20 PM (k47e3)
The Orphanage: really good movie. Very creepy through most of it, but a nice ending that actually made me cry.
Sinister: has a typical dumb horror movie premise, but there are these tapes they play throughout it that are genuinely disturbing.
Trust: not even actually a horror movie, but it is a thriller and horrifying to watch.
Cabin in the Woods: not even really scary but just awesome
Coraline: my childhood favorite
Posted by: stephanie brown at October 30, 2015 06:21 PM (1uMz1)
https://screen.yahoo.com/snl-digital-short-mirror-000000079.html
Short films really need to keep the titles to under 5% of the run time. Proportionate to movies. I have seen maybe a thousand animated shorts.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 30, 2015 06:21 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 06:21 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: buzzion at October 30, 2015 06:21 PM (z/Ubi)
Agreed. The ending is FUBAR.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 06:21 PM (4ErVI)
One of the most effective actually had King in it. It's done kinda campy but in the end he transforms and it's disturbing.
Posted by: typo dynamofo at October 30, 2015 06:21 PM (ZY2zO)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 06:21 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: madamemayhem at October 30, 2015 06:22 PM (WPm3x)
Posted by: the other coyote at October 30, 2015 06:22 PM (yK44T)
Watch the original. Same director made an American version that isn't as good.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 06:22 PM (4ErVI)
A cheap 1970s vampire movie, Count Yorga, Vampire had me scared for weeks when I saw it as a kid.
Posted by: Dang at October 30, 2015 06:22 PM (2oWD2)
although i did like, kolchak, the night stalker.
darren mcgavin was great.
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"The Zombie" was probably the scariest episode of them all.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:22 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2015 06:22 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 06:22 PM (gE2Li)
Way scarier than when the alien escaped from Hurts body, although the theater went nuts then too. thats how you know a movie kicks ass...when audiences literally scream and jump out of their chairs.
Posted by: The Cynic at October 30, 2015 06:22 PM (uKJIC)
The scene where ol' Bill prances around with his dinger tucked back? Nightmares for over a decade!
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 30, 2015 06:23 PM (k9qR4)
And there's always The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon.
https://youtu.be/9VDvgL58h_Y
Posted by: bk in tx at October 30, 2015 06:23 PM (AyAyC)
Also Jaws, The Exorcist, The Omen and the end of Carrie.
Posted by: Blano at October 30, 2015 06:23 PM (NHQQx)
>>That is a really effective movie, I agree. very chilling with such a simple concept.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at October 30, 2015 06:14 PM (39g3+)
Something you might find interesting. The story was first published in Playboy magazine. Turns out it was based on an incident that happened to the author while he was driving through N.M.
Posted by: HH at October 30, 2015 06:23 PM (DrCtv)
There's rape, pillaging, rape, torture, cruelty - it's intense.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2015 06:23 PM (NOIQH)
But the show has evolved, and I find the interactions with truly bad living people even more jarring. the walkers have become a part of the environment, like the weather. Still dangerous, but manageable for the vigilant.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Former Blimp Wrangler at October 30, 2015 06:23 PM (RwwCT)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 06:21 PM (/dSsq)
That's the one with a calendar clearly visible in the space craft, right?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 06:23 PM (4ErVI)
Ironically, one of the scariest moments in US videogaming is a level in a game that isn't primarily a horror game. The overall plot for Thief: Deadly Shadows does have some horror elements, but they're largely limited in scope (and I won't get into them here because they're all spoilers). But there's That One Level, specifically Shalebridge Cradle...
There's a long article about that level somewhere on the internet. It's a good article.
And just for fun, because it's so unusual...
MMORPGs rarely venture into horror. Scaring people who are going to see the same content over and over can be a bit difficult. But Funcom's "Secret World" is built around the idea.
Final Fantasy XIV is another MMORPG. Unlike Secret World, it doesn't have a horror focus. But it does have a horror dungeon... Upon preparing to enter a very early dungeon for the first time, you're treated to a cutscene showing the aftermath of a previous party that failed to clear the dungeon. Two of the party membrs are complaining about third party member, the healer. Apparently she had trouble healing the party, which got the fourth party member, her fiance, killed. And for some reason she's holding onto his severed head.
Fast forward to much later, when the "Heroic" version of the dungeon was released. Unlike other MMORPG games, "Heroic" dungeons in FFXIV are not just the original dungeon with the difficulty ramped up. Instead, the idea is that time has passed since your party cleared the dungeon, and now there's another threat down there. In this case, one of the surviving members of the aforementioned party approaches you, somewhat concerned. You see, the healer just sent him a wedding invitation...
Cue a very creepy dungeon run.
Posted by: junior at October 30, 2015 06:24 PM (FRGa/)
What's funny is Stephen King HATES the movie version of the Shining that Kubrick did, which I would argue was probably the only horror movie of his that was actually good. 99% of the movies that have come from his books were steaming piles of crap.
And get this, the big reason King hates it is because it was misogynist and anti-woman because the Wendy character was helpless. Liberals can never turn off their politics.
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 06:08 PM (I4PQV)
King's just pissed that the scariest part of the film ("all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy") WASN'T written by him. It's not in the book.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 06:24 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2015 06:24 PM (vaR50)
The story in the old Boris Karloff movie, Black Sabbath where the
lady goes to the house to dress the dead old lady for the funeral
freaked me out when I was a kid. I first saw it in black and white on
tv. Seeing it later in color is all effed up. Terrible lighting with a
lot of red, purple and green lights. Really looks silly.
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"A Drop of Water," based on a story by Chekov. She shouldn't have stolen the ring from a dead witch. Freaked me out when I was little, too. Bava did overdo the colors, though.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:24 PM (bGLSw)
Scared the living crap out of ma as a kid. Haven't re read it in years though. Wonder if it would hold up.
Posted by: Ex NYC Peasant at October 30, 2015 06:24 PM (k8tEg)
Posted by: Blano at October 30, 2015 06:24 PM (uiVGU)
-Demons (1985): Italian splatter film
-The Beyond (1980): Italian splatter film
-John Carpetner's The Thing (1982)
-Dead and Buried (1981) written by the same guy who wrote Alien
-Reanimator (1984) loosely based on HP Lovecraft
-Dagon: based on HP Lovecraft
-Night of the Creeps
Posted by: Naes at October 30, 2015 06:24 PM (Ypc8j)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 30, 2015 06:25 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: jewells45 at October 30, 2015 06:25 PM (5fvBZ)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 06:25 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 06:26 PM (E5UB0)
shouldn't have stolen the ring from a dead witch. Freaked me out when I
was little, too. Bava did overdo the colors, though.
Posted by: doomed
Good to know - thanks!
Posted by: Dang at October 30, 2015 06:26 PM (2oWD2)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 06:26 PM (gE2Li)
I think The Exorcist was scariest to people with a Catholic upbringing. I'm not religious at all, so I think I lacked the background to find it truly creepy, or any of the possessed kid's utterances or actions shocking. And the cheesy gross-out effects remind me of Peter Jackson's early work like "Bad Taste" and "Meet the Feebles."
The Omen, OTOH, I still find genuinely creepy.
The Shining movie didn't scare me, but I read the book in my early teens and it creeped me the hell out.
Posted by: Alex at October 30, 2015 06:26 PM (7Yy8M)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 30, 2015 06:26 PM (iQIUe)
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"The Zombie" was probably the scariest episode of them all.
Posted by: doomed
Especially when the zombie wakes up while Kolchak is sewing it's mouth shut!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 30, 2015 06:26 PM (FkBIv)
I remember one TZ ep called "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?", and the end, where the soda jerk takes off his cap, gave me the willies.
Posted by: Mahan at October 30, 2015 06:26 PM (8BD8r)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNZJ17NF-xw
Yeah it's Italian and a bit overdone but watch it late, with lights out.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:27 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: teh Wind at October 30, 2015 06:27 PM (pQzyq)
Posted by: Blano at October 30, 2015 06:27 PM (uiVGU)
^^^
That movie was a complete mind fvck. I was a teenager when I saw it and had nightmares for weeks after.
Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at October 30, 2015 06:27 PM (KkVB6)
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 06:28 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: UGAdawg at October 30, 2015 06:28 PM (c+vBe)
(Spoiler)
In the book, Louis is sitting alone in the dark, waiting for his dead wife to rise from the Indian burial ground and come home, having convinced himself that that she won't Come Back Wrong like his son did, because she hadn't been dead for very long. Finally, he hears the front door open, but he doesn't get up or turn around, just sits there in the dark. until...
"A cold hand fell on Louis's shoulder. Rachel's voice was grating, full of dirt.
'Darling,' it said."
The End
Whereas the schlocky movie ending doesn't leave anything to the imagination: He kisses her and then she stabs him with a knife.
Posted by: Jon at October 30, 2015 06:28 PM (HA+/6)
The Exorcist is still my all time most scary movie...didn't sleep for weeks after.
Evil Dead 1 got under my skin quite a bit too.
Posted by: CanaDave at October 30, 2015 06:28 PM (hZmU4)
Forbidden Planet was scary. And I wasnt even sure what I was scared about.
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Probably that proto-electronic "music" unsettled you?
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:29 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da
Are you thinking of this? :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394054/?ref_=fn_ep_tt_1
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 30, 2015 06:29 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:29 PM (No/ki)
Posted by: Dang at October 30, 2015 06:29 PM (2oWD2)
I find books much scarier, because it tends to be quiet when I'm reading them, so every creak and groan of the house freaks me out... and my mind imagines stuff way worse than the movie scenes.
Posted by: the other coyote at October 30, 2015 06:29 PM (yK44T)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 30, 2015 06:29 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Naes at October 30, 2015 06:30 PM (Ypc8j)
Ugh, yes.
Poe's Tell Tale Heart was scary, so was Mask of the Red Death.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2015 06:30 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2015 06:30 PM (vaR50)
Posted by: UGAdawg at October 30, 2015 06:30 PM (c+vBe)
Posted by: stephanie brown at October 30, 2015 06:31 PM (1uMz1)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Former Blimp Wrangler at October 30, 2015 06:31 PM (RwwCT)
You mean the movie with Vincent Price or "The Haunting" with Claire Bloom and the other actress whose name escapes me?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:31 PM (No/ki)
An interesting one from the early 70s is Tombs of the Blind Dead. Zombie Templar Knights (who had their eyes pecked out by crows) hunt beautiful young people by sound alone. Not particularly scary, but the Blind Dead are pretty creepy and cool.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 06:31 PM (o98Jz)
Don't give up on us baby
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 06:32 PM (caCx2)
Original Dark Shadows. Song freaked me the fuck right out when I was a kid. Still not all that wild about it.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2015 06:32 PM (/tuJf)
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/frankensteins_army/
Posted by: bk in tx at October 30, 2015 06:32 PM (AyAyC)
Posted by: Naes at October 30, 2015 06:32 PM (Ypc8j)
Posted by: jewells45 at October 30, 2015 06:32 PM (5fvBZ)
Nah, more scary to those who are "Spiritual but dislike organized religion"
Catholics have faith in the Church and Exorcism.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at October 30, 2015 06:32 PM (0q2P7)
1) The Life and Times of Fredo
2) A Picture Gallery of Liberal Women
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 30, 2015 06:33 PM (DUoqb)
What I found even more surprising then the fact that Willis was dead, was that there was no spoiler alert from anyone I knew. Most popular movies are talked about endlessly and while plenty of people told me it was a good movie, they never ruined the surprise.
Posted by: Cindy Munford at October 30, 2015 06:33 PM (7Lm22)
Posted by: Mahan at October 30, 2015 06:26 PM (8BD8r)
Yeah, I'd put that one near the top on a list of ten best horror short stories of all time, along with "The Monkey's Paw."
Posted by: Jon at October 30, 2015 06:33 PM (HA+/6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:33 PM (No/ki)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394054/?ref_=fn_ep_tt_1
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 30, 2015 06:29 PM (FkBIv)
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Ya I think that's it! Thanks! What I really liked about Hitchcock and also the Twilight Zone - they could make you quiver and shake and squirm and gasp - and never really show much if any violence. (sorry Janet Leigh)
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 06:33 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2015 06:34 PM (2MkpH)
Posted by: junior at October 30, 2015 06:24 PM (FRGa/)
Horror video games. That's an interesting idea. Thanks for bringing it up.
The Korean kids always talked about a video game "Maple Story" that they liked because it was scary. The kids were younger but I guess there is a need to be safely spooked across cultures.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 30, 2015 06:34 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: jewells45 at October 30, 2015 06:34 PM (5fvBZ)
Posted by: myoda176 at October 30, 2015 06:34 PM (3WNa7)
It's a great story; He probably remembers it too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:34 PM (No/ki)
It's pretty scary for those of us in denominations that don't have trained exorcists.
Posted by: Methos at October 30, 2015 06:34 PM (ZbV+0)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 30, 2015 06:34 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: the other coyote at October 30, 2015 06:35 PM (yK44T)
Posted by: Josh Earnest at October 30, 2015 06:35 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Naes at October 30, 2015 06:36 PM (Ypc8j)
You know what is really really scary is Ace jacked up on caffeine writing a movie review. Shudder!
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 30, 2015 06:36 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2015 06:32 PM (/tuJf)
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You mean the TV show? What was his name - Jonathon something
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 06:36 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2015 06:36 PM (/tuJf)
Definite avoid. The premise is a real-life 1980's character in a post-apocalyptic world. And the super gore action.
Dumb, and almost without a single redeeming feature.
Avoid "Turbo Kid" at all costs.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 30, 2015 06:36 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: bk in tx at October 30, 2015 06:37 PM (AyAyC)
Posted by: The Inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at October 30, 2015 06:37 PM (bKgpZ)
I saw Halloween and Friday The 13th both when I was about the same age. They scared me to death. I couldn't even sleep.
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2015 06:37 PM (vaR50)
Posted by: Naes at October 30, 2015 06:38 PM (Ypc8j)
"When A Stranger Calls."
I don't care who you are, or even if you know how the movie works, the deliveries in the original are fucking INTENSE.
I forgot about "The Ring." and "Children of The Corn"
As for Books.
Amityville Horror, just gave me the creepy crawly's for a week.
And "Zodiac" not the fictionalized novel, the "social science" history of him, that was creepy as shit.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 06:38 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 06:38 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: Hitchhiker at October 30, 2015 06:38 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Qoheleth at October 30, 2015 06:38 PM (iIzG7)
It's pretty scary for those of us in denominations that don't have trained exorcists.
Posted by: Methos
Lol, us Protestants got shortchanged. Not even Holy Water
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 06:38 PM (I4PQV)
"Jacob's Ladder". Prevented me from sleeping properly for a week.
"The Ring" - US version, Japanese is arguably as good or better but the US version has better effects and uses them for one of the best out-of-nowhere gut punches I've ever seen.
"Signs" - hokey, but very effective while I was watching it.
"Noroi: The Curse" - an obscure Japanese picture that is the best found footage horror picture I've ever seen.
"Charlie Victor Romeo" - currently on Netflix. It's a film of an off-broadway play where aircraft emergency voice recorder transcripts are acted out in real time. I watch "Air Crash Investigations" for fun and I was genuinely unnerved for most of it.
"V/H/S" and "V/H/S 2" - collections of found footage shorts. Currently on Netflix. Massively uneven but most people find something to like. I think "Amateur Night" from the first movie is genius.
Books:
Besides seconding "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", I'd recommend "The Lurking Fear" and "The Rats in the Walls" by Lovecraft.
"Hangsaman" and/or "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" by Shirley Jackson, of "The Lottery" fame. They take a while to get going but get incredibly unsettling.
Posted by: SparcVark at October 30, 2015 06:39 PM (YLLI8)
Slingblade!
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at October 30, 2015 06:39 PM (h53OH)
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2015 06:36 PM (/tuJf)
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Good point. It's some weird combo of disturbing yet beautiful.
Posted by: bk in tx at October 30, 2015 06:39 PM (AyAyC)
It's a story of a demonically influenced psychopath who becomes the most powerful man in the world and has plans to eliminate millions of people thru warfare, famine and genocide.
I couldn't sleep for weeks.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (ej1L0)
Posted by: Shastacatfish at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (m43oq)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (h53OH)
In the nightmare I am in a dark hallway and in front of me is a rocking chair with a baby doll (one of those bald ones) in it. The chair starts rocking.
Does that sound like a scene from an old movie? Anyone remember it?
Posted by: @votermom at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (cbfNE)
"Something Wicked This Way Comes." By Ray Bradbury.
For TV delivery, Ray Bradbury theater at 11 on saturday nights was EXCELLENT for the creepy crawly's as was. . . I forget the other show that was on after midnight on fridays. . . Tales from The Dark Side.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: Insomniac at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (kpqmD)
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When we lived on Long Island, we drove a few towns over and saw that house. I think its in Massapequa.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (dFi94)
More likely, Event Horizon borrowed from WH40K, not the other way around. 40K and its definition of "Warp Space" has existed since the early '80s. WH Fantasy Battle is even older, but I don't think "chaos" was mentioned as useful for travel until later editions (with "Slaan Warp Gates" as part of the backstory).
Posted by: junior at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (FRGa/)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:41 PM (No/ki)
I've lost my taste for the horror genre though. Reality provides quite enough horror for me now.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 06:41 PM (P8951)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 30, 2015 06:41 PM (uZNvH)
Posted by: tu3031 at October 30, 2015 06:41 PM (YFFpo)
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 06:41 PM (caCx2)
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That's a classic.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 06:41 PM (dFi94)
Little side note.. I met Kane Hodder who played Jason in several Friday the 13th movies. The guy is hilarious. He could easily do stand up.
Posted by: jewells45 at October 30, 2015 06:41 PM (5fvBZ)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2015 06:43 PM (2MkpH)
Ace was saying on Twitter that it doesn't scare him because God can beat Satan. But the scary part is the human element -- the idea that our choices lead to letting Satan in. I don't think that being a Believer in God is the main reason why I find the Exorcist (and similar, like The Omen) scary, although I suppose it is a factor.
I don't really like scary movies. Scariest one that I enjoy is Poltergeist, which is not that scary.
Posted by: Y-not at October 30, 2015 06:43 PM (t5zYU)
Posted by: @votermom at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (cbfNE)
That's a common theme in movies, I think the one that best presented it was "Poltergeist" with the rocking clown doll.
BTW add the first "Poltergeist" and the second to the list of creepouts.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 06:43 PM (wdvFT)
chair with a baby doll (one of those bald ones) in it. The chair starts
rocking.
Does that sound like a scene from an old movie? Anyone remember it?
* * *
Don't know how old you are but the link I posted above to BLACK SABBATH (1963) has a scene very similar (though not a baby nor a doll) that has stuck with me for 40 years.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:43 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Fletch at October 30, 2015 06:43 PM (Q2mWp)
Blair Witch Project was scary if you ALLOWED it to be scary (suspension of disbelief)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at October 30, 2015 06:40 PM (h53OH)
The movie was ok, but when it came out Sy-Fy ran a special about it called The Curse of the Blair Witch that was positively fucking terrifying. My God one of the scariest things I'd seen. The movie was sort of a letdown after that.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 06:44 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 06:44 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: Huma at October 30, 2015 06:44 PM (BrSVL)
The Lovecraft Historical Society's version of The Whisperer in Darkness is nifty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgV9n_y9z1E
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 30, 2015 06:44 PM (jR7Wy)
Some of the classic Draculas scared me.
Also - bizarrely - the original Planet of the Apes. Gave me nightmares.
Posted by: Y-not at October 30, 2015 06:44 PM (t5zYU)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 06:44 PM (P8951)
Posted by: GBruno at October 30, 2015 06:45 PM (u49WF)
I slept better when I saw the cast doing interviews on the tonight show three weeks later.
I think scary movies with no name actors allow for easier suspension of disbelief.
Posted by: Methos at October 30, 2015 06:45 PM (ZbV+0)
Posted by: Eromero at October 30, 2015 06:45 PM (b+df9)
I actually made it through that movie. It was gruesome and depressing, but a different kind of scary from the Exorcist.
Posted by: Y-not at October 30, 2015 06:45 PM (t5zYU)
Posted by: Lem at October 30, 2015 06:46 PM (Jf/2g)
I think you almost have to be a Christian to really find the Exorcist scary, because that's part of the religion.
In Muslim cultures, they have Genies in the Koran (sort of like in the lamp kind with Alladin) which is laughable to me but I guess is actually really scary to them.
Posted by: Coolio at October 30, 2015 06:46 PM (I4PQV)
Alien, the first one where the guy is looking for the cat.
Twilight Zone the tv series, Outer Limits.
Cape Fear, the move. I never got past the intro.
One of the war movies, I forget which one, but they are out on patrol, and you just knew they were about to be ambushed, I couldn't watch it.
I'm a sucker for movies. I'll believe anything, and I marvel at how actors can face a green screen and make me believe. (Susan Sarandon and her conversation with the guild navigator in Dune Messiah.)
Been Obsessively Compulsing over a thing and can't concentrate on Hounds of the Baskervilles and all that 'florid prose'. (Quoting Dr Simon Tam from Serenity.)
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 30, 2015 06:46 PM (Dru0V)
I'm disappointed...
Probably one of the worst ways to go.
Posted by: junior at October 30, 2015 06:46 PM (FRGa/)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 06:47 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 30, 2015 06:47 PM (l4VN+)
related to demonic possession so that limits my choices as far as scary
movies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:41 PM (No/ki)
Then give "When a Stranger Calls" the original not the piece of shit remake a try. But seriously, the first half hour or forty minutes will have your hackles hit the ceiling.
22 years ago while in my A-school, on halloween, told the guys to give it a try, 8 Marines watching fangoria flicks used to late 80's "horror" whichwas just gore, and ignoring that old movie mostly in black and white.
After watching it, a buddy Kyle said, "What the fuck did you just do to us?"
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 06:47 PM (wdvFT)
- The Other by Thomas Tryon
or if you are a man....
- Harvest Home also by Tryon
- Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury
Movies
- Alien - "In space no one can hear you scream"
- When a Stranger Calls
- Phantasm
Posted by: Budahmon at October 30, 2015 06:48 PM (vcSri)
Satan. But the scary part is the human element -- the idea that our
choices lead to letting Satan in. I don't think that being a Believer in
God is the main reason why I find the Exorcist (and similar, like The
Omen) scary, although I suppose it is a factor."
Based on Merrin's dialogue in the novel, I never took Blatty as saying good winning in the end was a sure bet...something about Teilhard de Chardin's heretical notions of God being fragmented into the whole universe (including Satan and ourselves) at creation, and ever since trying to pull himself back together or something. Point was, good's victory over evil was never quite a sure bet, at least the way I read it. They were elements of the same thing, or something. It's nonsense but I guess that is (or was) possibly Blatty's version of Catholicism.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:48 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 30, 2015 06:48 PM (l4VN+)
Best horror romance, crime road story book I ever read is called MOJO AND THE PICKLE JAR. Reads like a movie script. Excellent visual descriptions and tight tight pacing. Yes it is a horror romance crime road story. Flat out fun. Set in southwest. Available used on Amazon. No kindle version. Think it might be out of print. I heard someone is sitting on the movie rights.
Posted by: simplemind at October 30, 2015 06:49 PM (BTnAK)
Posted by: Blanco Basura at October 30, 2015 06:50 PM (4WhSY)
Posted by: roscoek at October 30, 2015 06:50 PM (qDTOH)
psycho thriller
Posted by: navybrat at October 30, 2015 06:50 PM (ETxiG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 30, 2015 06:50 PM (FkBIv)
that was brilliant, because I went IN to the movie believing him to be dead. I thought, "Obviously, he is dead; that is the twist; duh, he's a ghost."
However, because he APPEARED to be interacting with the living, the movie tricked me into going back and thinking "Okay, I guess I was wrong, he's alive."
And then they showed, at the end, that my assumptions were all wrong; he may be present in those scenes, but no one actually interacts with him, except the kid.
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2015 06:50 PM (dciA+)
Ichabod Crane/Headless Horseman cartoon
Wizard of Oz-flying monkeys
Exorcist (I am catholic, so, yes. check.)
The Omen (see above)
Halloween
Clown scene in Poltergeist. Anything having to do with clowns, really.
Books
The Shining-great scary read
The Stand-which still haunts me. As someone said above-the total breakdown of society, Randall Flag and that creepy passage summing up a litany of horrific deaths in the 'second' follow on plague, who died because no one else was around (falling down a well, having a heart attack in broad daylight in a deserted neighborhood) completely freaks me out because it is so believable.
Posted by: Goldilocks at October 30, 2015 06:50 PM (pOgVG)
"N", which starts out as a psychologist's notes and then goes somewhere unexpected.
"1408" - skip the movie, but this is IMO one of the best horror short stories ever written.
For video games, the first two "Silent Hill" games are top-notch if you can find them. Also the two "Amnesia" games, with "A Machine for Pigs" being the more frightening one in my experience.
Posted by: SparcVark at October 30, 2015 06:51 PM (YLLI8)
Posted by: Old Blue at October 30, 2015 06:51 PM (9iR5/)
Thanks. Sounds good.
in my ol;d age however, I tend to to stick to things that are funny or inspirational
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 06:51 PM (No/ki)
Oh, and the best definition between Horror and Terror?
Horror is when you see your best friend being killed and eaten by the monster.
Terror is when you realize that you're next...
Posted by: HH at October 30, 2015 06:51 PM (DrCtv)
Posted by: Budahmon at October 30, 2015 06:48 PM (vcSri)
"It's NEVER over"
"Boooyyyyy!"
"You think that when you die you go to Heaven. You come to us."
Big Phantasm fan. Supposedly the fifth film is in the can but distribution is proving a problem. And Coscarelli didn't direct it which worries me.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 06:51 PM (4ErVI)
Long had I weathered the insults and slights of Fortunado until one day I resolved that I should weather them no more...
Posted by: Dude with a really nice cask of wine at October 30, 2015 06:51 PM (dciA+)
The State Department discovered the emails between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton as part of its effort to release the former secretary's emails, several thousand more of which were scheduled to be made public on Friday. Mr. Obama's correspondence was forwarded for review to the White House, which has decided against release.
That decision could intensify the political struggle between Mrs. Clinton, who is running for president, and congressional Republicans, who have pressed for disclosure of her emails as part of an investigation into the administration's handling of the attacks on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
The contents of the emails between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama have not been disclosed, but their presumed existence has not been a secret. The White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, acknowledged in March that the two "did have the occasion to email one another" when Mrs. Clinton was serving as the president's top diplomat.
... but Mr. Obama had no idea that Mrs. Clinton had a private email server.
Posted by: Sidney Blumenthal at October 30, 2015 06:52 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 30, 2015 06:52 PM (k9qR4)
The Ring, which was better and scarier than the Japanese movie it was based on
Event Horizon
Yes, I know this is not the first mention of them.
Posted by: fluffy at October 30, 2015 06:53 PM (DFSWT)
Posted by: Peggy Coffey at October 30, 2015 06:53 PM (xRA8Q)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 06:53 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2015 06:54 PM (vaR50)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 30, 2015 06:54 PM (FkBIv)
Posted by: Pennywise at October 30, 2015 06:54 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: The Original antisocialist-Accept No Substitutes! at October 30, 2015 06:55 PM (eGr8Z)
One of the most unsettling books I ever read was called The Shoemaker by Flora Schreiber (same author who wrote Sybil). Based on the killer Joseph Kallinger. It tells the story of his upbringing by adoptive parents and how his mind became so incredibly warped. This is a book that I had to stop reading halfway through because it made me feel so horrible. I had to get out of that world for a while. Finished it about a month later, and have never forgotten it.
There's also an old movie called The Haunting of Julia (full movie can be found on youtube) starring Mia Farrow (I know, I know) that creeped me out pretty good when I was younger. Based on the book Julia by Peter Straub (which I also read and is pretty good). Mia is Julia, a wife and mother, whose daughter dies after choking on an apple, and she then moves into a house that turns out to be haunted. She thinks its the spirit of her daughter, but......
The music in that movie still gives me a creepy vibe when I hear it. It's very 70s, very British, and very good, imo. Tom Conti and Keir Dullea (from 2001) are also in it.
Posted by: tdpwells at October 30, 2015 06:56 PM (evKax)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands)
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Yeah. Kind of like video games for me. I appreciate experiencing the fun of it earlier, I appreciate the memories, but now I feel like, been there, done that.
To continue consuming regularly would feel like a waste of time, although if something really groundbreaking came along, I might give it a try.
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 06:56 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: Knemon at October 30, 2015 06:56 PM (7k4e8)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 06:56 PM (gE2Li)
And Fembots from the Bionic Woman completely fightened the very young me. When they ripped the faces off-ugh.
Posted by: Goldilocks at October 30, 2015 06:56 PM (pOgVG)
Frailty with Bill Paxton. Imagine being a kid and suspecting that your father is a serial killer. The ending kind of unravels a bit, but super creepy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 06:56 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Machiavelli at October 30, 2015 06:56 PM (el6+R)
Henry: portrait of a serial killer.
I've seen them all but this movie really messed with me. It was the complete randomness of the people he killed. Nothing you did put you in an obvious situation where something bad could happen. He just killed whoever he wanted, whenever he wanted. I made me feel like we're never safe or doing the right things to be safe. A guy like Henry felt like killing you, you're dead. Possibly the best murder movie ever made.
Posted by: Does this leg smell gammy? at October 30, 2015 06:57 PM (s4mMJ)
Horror is when you see your best friend being killed and eaten by the monster.
Terror is when you realize that you're next...
Posted by: HH at October 30, 2015 06:51 PM (DrCtv)
I like it - stealing that.
Posted by: tdpwells at October 30, 2015 06:57 PM (evKax)
Holly got captured every time they went into that lost city. But they
kept going.
Posted by: Mark1971 at October 30, 2015 06:54 PM
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Chaka no like!
Posted by: Chaka at October 30, 2015 06:57 PM (7d8Ef)
1408, Trick R' Treat, The Raven, The Inkeepers, Midnight Meat Train. You might also try the Helix TV series, it's on Netflix.
Posted by: Rastus at October 30, 2015 06:57 PM (VjlMj)
The one that starts out:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
...
I don't know why. It's actually a silly little poem but maybe it is the triviality that catches me.
Posted by: bananaDream at October 30, 2015 06:57 PM (vLk7c)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 30, 2015 06:58 PM (DUoqb)
Posted by: The Original antisocialist-Accept No Substitutes! at October 30, 2015 06:58 PM (eGr8Z)
Posted by: Does this leg smell gammy? at October 30, 2015 06:58 PM (s4mMJ)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 06:58 PM (gE2Li)
FIRST DEMOCRATIC DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS -- A Bad Lip Reading of the First Democratic Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_yxGsWHx9o
Posted by: Debbie Weaselwords Schultz at October 30, 2015 06:58 PM (e8kgV)
Exorcist
Shining
Lady in Black
Touch of Evil
Jaws
Duel
Posted by: Ben Ghazzara at October 30, 2015 06:59 PM (+3bGd)
Yes. The movie sucked. And they changed the ending, ugh.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2015 06:59 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 30, 2015 06:59 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: The Original antisocialist-Accept No Substitutes! at October 30, 2015 06:55 PM (eGr8Z)
is that the one that is LIKE the newer "The haunting" with that crazy chick who specializes in playing crazy chicks, and people are locked up in the house for the night to prove the paranormal abilities of individuals?
Yeah, the original was much better. The remake played to modern social norms so on the nose it lost it's value.
Another movie, not really scary, but yeah, kinda, had a LOT of dark mood to it, and I think the first use of a computer as a word processor not a magic box for the murder of millions was.
"Prince of Darkness."
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 06:59 PM (wdvFT)
The one that starts out:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
...
I don't know why. It's actually a silly little poem but maybe it is the triviality that catches me.
Posted by: bananaDream at October 30, 2015 06:57 PM (vLk7c)
He wasn't there again today
I wish I wish he'd go away
Posted by: Insomniac at October 30, 2015 07:00 PM (kpqmD)
As a child: Something Wicked This Way Comes and Poltergeist (original, of course). Very, very, scary movies.
As an adult, I made the "mistake" of watching both Hellraiser and Prince of Darkness on Halloween night my freshman year in college. I DID NOT SLEEP A WINK THAT NIGHT. Every time I closed my eyes, I kept seeing either Pinhead or the demonic vision that was shown in Prince of Darkness when the protagonists tried to sleep. Very, very, freaky.
As far as books go, I'd have to toss in the entire Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft and all his enthusiastic followers/imitators--some are better than others, of course). Also, Robert Jackson Bennett's American Elsewhere is one of the most mind-bending novels I've ever read (and I've read more than a few). A very strange novel I once read called Golgotha Falls is also worth an honorable mention. Basically, "Christ was defeated at Golgotha Falls" is the tagline. Until <spoiler>the Pope arrives to drive out the Devil</spoiler>. Still pretty wild ride until then...
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at October 30, 2015 07:00 PM (y3dEv)
Killer Klowns form Outer Space....yeah it's campy, but those effin clown faces stick with you man!!
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 07:00 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: simplemind at October 30, 2015 07:00 PM (BTnAK)
Do not listen to this, Clarney. You should run. RUN!
http://tinyurl.com/nnf7gto
Posted by: Pennywise at October 30, 2015 07:01 PM (/tuJf)
I hate clowns...
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 07:01 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: The Original antisocialist-Accept No Substitutes! at October 30, 2015 07:02 PM (eGr8Z)
So my favorite movie of that genre is Transpotting.
Anyone who can make it through the bathroom heroin suppository retrieval scene without hurling has a unique ability to suspend disbelief. Or the opposite. Not sure why I can't figure that out.
Camera angles, actor size... whatever, it's something that shouldn't be described, only viewed. IF, and only IF, one has a strong stomach.
Posted by: se pa moron at October 30, 2015 07:02 PM (7v/r5)
But I have seen a few and Halloween remains on the top of the list. It had the perfect mix of kids that were just like us, a psycho who could be just like a guy in the newspapers, and music that is tough to top.
and the last 30 minutes of Carrie. Sissy became scary at the end of the movie, but her mother , Piper Laurie, was really scary to me.
By the way, that was Travolta's launch to stardom.
Posted by: Jen the original at October 30, 2015 07:02 PM (Mb+b9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 30, 2015 07:02 PM (FkBIv)
After all these years, Alien is my favorite film of all time, and I've seen it *easily* 80+ times, know every frame by heart. But I can't bring myself to watch The Thing more than once every ten years or so.
Funny thing is, the most nerve-wracking parts of The Thing aren't the gross-out monster scenes. It's the stuff leading up to that. The paranoid interactions, the alien autopsy scenes, etc.
Posted by: Jeff B. at October 30, 2015 07:02 PM (ewYO6)
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2015 07:02 PM (NOIQH)
Tomorrow would be better. I haven't gotten around to it, what with all the drinking, and porn, and all.
Posted by: pep at October 30, 2015 07:03 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: donna at October 30, 2015 07:03 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: tdpwells at October 30, 2015 07:04 PM (evKax)
It's both a radio play and a movie, I'm almost totally alone in greatly preferring the latter to the former.
Posted by: SparcVark at October 30, 2015 07:05 PM (YLLI8)
Posted by: fluffy at October 30, 2015 07:05 PM (DFSWT)
You're an actual scientist. Nobodies buying that shit.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2015 07:05 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 30, 2015 07:05 PM (xujhj)
Posted by: Rastus at October 30, 2015 07:06 PM (VjlMj)
Also - and, yes, I'm kind of hooked on Stephen King - "Needful Things". I kept reading a few pages, then throwing the book under the bed. Then retrieving it, reading a few more pages, then back under the bed it went. I did the same thing with "Cujo".
Posted by: The Original antisocialist-Accept No Substitutes! at October 30, 2015 07:06 PM (eGr8Z)
Here's a breakdown of the Guillermo del Toro Intro with all the references:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HkuVoUNddY
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 30, 2015 07:06 PM (jR7Wy)
The scene in M. Night's _Signs_ when he first shows the alien is so well-done. He really had discipline to keep the audience in suspense, then the reveal was on this shaky, grainy home video. Creeped me out.
Posted by: a440hz at October 30, 2015 07:06 PM (FAPxv)
Posted by: Vince Foster at October 30, 2015 07:06 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:07 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 07:07 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: simplemind at October 30, 2015 07:08 PM (BTnAK)
Posted by: Lindsey Graham at October 30, 2015 07:08 PM (aRUb8)
Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2015 07:08 PM (JSovD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Former Blimp Wrangler at October 30, 2015 06:31 PM (RwwCT)
I was reading "It" while babysitting one night, and it scared me so bad I had to go sit on the floor in the bedroom of a sleeping 7 year old.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:09 PM (JqEq4)
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 07:09 PM (dFi94)
The first 15 or so minutes of THE FOG, and some non-schlock moments from then on.
Adrienne Barbeau,
Nuff Said.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (wdvFT)
I've seen them all but this movie really messed with me. It was the complete randomness of the people he killed. Nothing you did put you in an obvious situation where something bad could happen. He just killed whoever he wanted, whenever he wanted. I made me feel like we're never safe or doing the right things to be safe. A guy like Henry felt like killing you, you're dead. Possibly the best murder movie ever made.
Posted by: Does this leg smell gammy? at October 30, 2015 06:57 PM (s4mMJ)
OMG, yes, that movie was incredibly horrifying for exactly the reasons you stated.
Any true crime/serial killer thing horrifies me. I am still a bit p.o.ed at Maet for linking to a site which featured photos of murder victims right before their deaths. The photos were taken by their murderers. Once seen, they cannot be unseen. And they haunted me.
It reminded me of what my dad said to me once when I was a kid and we were visiting his parents' graves. I said I didn't like going to the cemetery because dead people scared me. He said, "Kid, believe me, it's not the dead who will hurt you, it's the living you have to watch out for."
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (P8951)
Posted by: The Original antisocialist-Accept No Substitutes! at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (eGr8Z)
Posted by: Fen at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (LzTHP)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (mk9aG)
Please put up your request in the newest thread. I agree with you.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 30, 2015 07:11 PM (No/ki)
"Bonzo" with Ronald Reagen and a monkey. Scariest movie ever. Maybe the
first slasher movie. I affected me as a child and it still does.
Posted by: Lindsey Graham at October 30, 2015 07:08 PM (aRUb
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Don't you mean "Bedtime For Bonzo"? If so, I agree..it still scares the crap out of me.
Posted by: John McCain at October 30, 2015 07:11 PM (aRUb8)
Posted by: Tuna at October 30, 2015 07:11 PM (JSovD)
http://www.tangentonline.com/old-time-radio/1162-fugue-in-c-minor
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:11 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: simplemind at October 30, 2015 07:12 PM (BTnAK)
me so bad I won't ever rewatch them. The music for the series is
brilliantly terrifying.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (mk9aG)
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Outer Limits. Twilight Zone. Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The golden age of TV horror.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 07:12 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: junior at October 30, 2015 07:13 PM (FRGa/)
Posted by: The Original antisocialist-Accept No Substitutes! at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (eGr8Z)
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Saw it with a bunch of yahoos in C school. One nervous nellie kept shrieking at the Gotcha! scenes. His roommate hid under his bed and grabbed him when the lights went out, and we heard Nellie's blood -curdling scream pierce the cold still night air.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 30, 2015 07:14 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (P8951)
My grandpa tried to make me less afraid of the dark by telling me that the dark was my friend - bad guys can't see me in the dark. But gramps, I can't see them, either!
I'm nearly 40 and I still will not linger for too long by the side of my bed before hopping in it. Also can't have a cracked closet door - either entirely shut or wide open. I literally carry around the fears of a 10 year old.
Posted by: tdpwells at October 30, 2015 07:14 PM (evKax)
Yea, I'm not listening to that. I don't need to weep in shock.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2015 07:15 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Swamp Thing at October 30, 2015 07:15 PM (FkBIv)
Tomorrow would be better. I haven't gotten around to it, what with all the drinking, and porn, and all.
You're an actual scientist. Nobodies buying that shit.
Posted by: JackStraw
Damn. I so want to be one of the cool kids.
Posted by: pep at October 30, 2015 07:15 PM (LAe3v)
Effer
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 07:16 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 07:16 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: Fen at October 30, 2015 07:17 PM (LzTHP)
I once heard a radio drama about a dentist who somehow manages to get his wife's lover drugged up and in the dentist's chair. The last thing you hear is the drill....
I was always nice to dentists after that.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 07:17 PM (P8951)
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I get it, but the fact that it was broadcast in 1944...wow. The effect it must've had.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:18 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 07:18 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 30, 2015 07:18 PM (BHl9S)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 07:19 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:11 PM (bGLSw)
I once heard a radio drama about a dentist who somehow manages to
get his wife's lover drugged up and in the dentist's chair. The last
thing you hear is the drill....
I was always nice to dentists after that.
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Old time radio horror, done right, cannot be beaten by any film. The mind does all the work, against your will. There's one somewhere (Lights Out, maybe) about a fog that turns people inside out. And the story that Bill Cosby based his Chicken Heart routine on is actually creepy as all get out.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:19 PM (bGLSw)
I read Carrie when I was about 9. It scared me terribly. I was too young to read that book then.
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 30, 2015 07:18 PM (BHl9S)
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I had never read Stephen King before. I read the first chapter of that book, put it down, and have never read a book by Stephen King since. I wasn't scared. I just thought it was gross and kind of silly.
Posted by: grammie winger, uff da at October 30, 2015 07:21 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2015 07:10 PM (mk9aG)
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The one -- "Feasibility Study"? -- wherein a man is transformed into an alien so that global tensions can be redirected at a phony space invasion scared the crap out of me.
The Andromeda Strain's realistic (to Kid Me) scenario really scared me too.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 30, 2015 07:22 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 07:22 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2015 07:22 PM (NOIQH)
The Wizard of Oz.
When I was very little, my parents took me to the theater. When the witch was sending out the flying monkeys to get Dorothy, I was terrified. I've always hated that movie.
Jumanji was pretty scary for a 'kids' movie.
Posted by: Hayfield Volkovski at October 30, 2015 07:22 PM (Dru0V)
And he really knows how to fuck with you, too. Pet Semetary was heartbreaking as well as scary because he knew exactly how to destroy you emotionally.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:23 PM (JqEq4)
Posted by: Caleb at October 30, 2015 07:23 PM (uMvmH)
alien so that global tensions can be redirected at a phony space
invasion scared the crap out of me.
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"Architects of Fear," with Robert Culp drawing the short straw.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:24 PM (bGLSw)
I know it's an unpopular opinion to have, but I think "The Blair Witch Project" is actually scary.
Of course, I like to call it the '2001' of horror movies: you get out of it what you bring to it. If you expect something great, you get something close to that. If you expect something mediocre...
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:24 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 07:24 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:24 PM (bGLSw)
Check out IMDB about the movie. There's literally a SIXTY-PAGE DEBATE over whether it's great or it's crap. Which tells me it's worth seeing, call me crazy.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:25 PM (ntObR)
like this
http://www.thegreenhead.com/___s/giant-inflatable-spooky-tree-2.jpg
Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2015 07:25 PM (DL2i+)
The dude standing facing the corner at the end just shook me way more than it should have.
Posted by: ericinva at October 30, 2015 07:25 PM (ChGIS)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:25 PM (JqEq4)
Blair Witch is scarier IF you watch the companion documentary... which says that the house that appears at the end of the original movie, *isn't even there.*
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:26 PM (ntObR)
I have never seen it, only screenshots, and short scenes, but I have
heard that "Eyes Without a Face" is basically The TITS for fangoria
without goria.
* * *
It's very French. It has horrific parts, including some bad dogs, but the girl in the mask walking around in a gown is very dreamlike but not at all straight horror.
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:26 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:26 PM (JqEq4)
Posted by: 2nd Amemdment Mother at October 30, 2015 07:26 PM (YiRka)
I'm still terrified of The Exorcist. I vowed to never watch it again. Ringu is very scary. If you don't mind subtitles, it's definitely worth the watch.
As far as books, I get more scared by biographical ones dealing with murderers. When I was in my late teens, I read Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me about Ted Bundy. The descriptions of how he snuck into girls' rooms and caved their heads in with baseball bats while they slept was terrifying.
Posted by: Lady in Black...sigh at October 30, 2015 07:27 PM (pVkEV)
I consider it hilarious. And it's a great primer on baby boomer stupidity.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:27 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 07:27 PM (gE2Li)
I had just come back from a 9 week training rotation (I volunteered for everything) so I didn't know ANYTHING about it.
When I came back from the field I had enough time to ask my roommate what the hell he did to my car, take a shower, ask him again what the hell he did to my car, then for him to pay the bill for our night of skanking, but first we go see this movie he heard about.
Blair Witch Project, first time I heard about it was on the way to go see it.
In a car that I still have no idea what the hell he did to my car.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 07:28 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 07:28 PM (caCx2)
Just got it on bluray. It *is* scary, if only for the fact that we learn at the end... Henry's not redeemable.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:28 PM (ntObR)
Red Dragon is my favorite book. Big Will Graham fan, the first appearance of Hannibal Lecter and a fantastic criminal procedural. Manhunter was the best adaption.
Posted by: Saltydonnie at October 30, 2015 07:28 PM (qfsap)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 30, 2015 07:29 PM (B8JRQ)
One thing that added to the horror at the beginning of the Blair Witch Project mania, at the very beginning, is that people believed it was an *actual documentary.*
I actually had to convince a co-worker at the time that it wasn't.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:30 PM (ntObR)
Speaking of Blair Witch, there was a funny hysterical naughty movie made called Bare Wench Project that spoofed it.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:31 PM (JqEq4)
The Silent Partner with Elliot Gould and Christopher Plummer is that rare thing: a genuinely frightening crime flick.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 07:32 PM (o98Jz)
Misery
The Conjuring (thanks for backing me up Ace)
...oh, and I know there are probably people here who've seen it and hated it... but the French flick that came out a few years ago, "Rubber," is a great *deconstruction* of horror movies IMHO. Also, it was shot entirely in the Mojave desert.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:32 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 07:33 PM (P8951)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 07:33 PM (gE2Li)
OMG, I had forgotten about Texas Chainsaw. That was horrifying.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:33 PM (JqEq4)
The banshee in "Darby O'Gill and the LIttle People"had me down on the jujube-covered theater floor, as a kid.
Also, Twilight Zone's "Eye of the Beholder".
Someone mentioned Jame's short stories: "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You". Damn.
Posted by: Sal at October 30, 2015 07:33 PM (MRX6w)
"Cache," directed by Michael Haneke. About a family that keeps getting... disturbing... drawings in the mail, as well as VHS videotapes of themselves doing various ordinary things in the past. It *is* creepy at least.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:34 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: SparcVark at October 30, 2015 07:34 PM (YLLI8)
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Oh, yes. And it's horrifying. As someone upthread mentioned, the randomness is the stuff nightmares are made of.
Posted by: Lady in Black...sigh at October 30, 2015 07:34 PM (pVkEV)
Love that Peter Weir had the guts to literally leave the audience completely hanging, in that it's a film that has *no* ending. And the last couple scenes... yeesh.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:35 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: SparcVark at October 30, 2015 07:34 PM (YLLI
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Loved these films. Very unsettling.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at October 30, 2015 07:35 PM (jR7Wy)
Also, Thor feels I should mention it's soft core, not the real deal, lest some of you be disappointed.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:36 PM (JqEq4)
It was only two pages long. It was written in the first person about a woman living by herself. She's heard about an escaped murderer or mental patient in the area, and sets about making sure all her doors and windows are locked. Still, she feels an inescapable chill...
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 07:36 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at October 30, 2015 07:36 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 07:36 PM (E5UB0)
PAHR takes place in 1901, about a group of very young and attractive girls who completely disappear on a mountain trip.
Then one of them is finally found... and she remembers absolutely nothing. Talk about frustrating.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:36 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:37 PM (ntObR)
I kind of hate you for reminding me about that.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:37 PM (JqEq4)
Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 30, 2015 07:37 PM (E5UB0)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:38 PM (ntObR)
Lake Mungo,
Pretty chilling as it also worked as a "documentary"
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 07:38 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:38 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: no good deed at October 30, 2015 07:39 PM (GgxVX)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 07:40 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: Donna&&&&V. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 07:40 PM (P8951)
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 30, 2015 07:41 PM (BHl9S)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at October 30, 2015 07:41 PM (WTSFk)
Posted by: no good deed at October 30, 2015 07:43 PM (GgxVX)
I read that book by Ann rule too.
Posted by: CaliGirl at October 30, 2015 07:43 PM (BHl9S)
Posted by: Lady in Black...sigh at October 30, 2015 07:43 PM (pVkEV)
Stephen King is extremely annoying now, but Salem's Lot scared me when I was younger. Pet Sematary was scary, but in ... a different way.
I love Shirley Jackson, and The Haunting of Hill House is superb. Her essays on family life are fantastically funny, too.
For those who like "classic" ghost stories, there's Russell Kirk, who was an influential conservative back in the day. Very good, and with subtle morals.
October, for me, is for rereading Ray Bradbury and Roger Zelazny's spectacular A Night in the Lonesome October, which features a number of legendary monsters from books and films in a lighthearted novel.
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 30, 2015 07:43 PM (/S5ss)
Wish a movie could be done of it, but it's too short and Hollywood would probably mess it up.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:44 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: no good deed at October 30, 2015 07:44 PM (GgxVX)
The Exorcist
Rosemary's Baby
Amityville Horror
...I admit I have OCD, and don't want to find anything from these flicks stuck on constant repeat in my head.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:45 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:45 PM (ntObR)
I do remember being at a ball game in 1968 or thereabouts when the movie came out, and seeing a plane towing a banner that said "Pray for Rosemary's Baby".
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 07:45 PM (sdi6R)
One of the great horror movies of the past 30 years....
Forrest Gump.
The evil succubus Jenny keeps coming back into Forrest's life to tear his heart apart, then leaves him in despair. Only to do it again a few years later. And again. And again.....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 30, 2015 07:46 PM (o98Jz)
Although it may not be the scariest movie overall, the 1946 film Dead of Night is as close to being the most "perfect" horror film ever made. Every single second of film, from the very very first frame to the very very last frame are essential for understanding the all-time-classic plot twist (which I will not give away). It's actually a meta-film enclosing six smaller films, each in the form of a "ghost story" told by people at a party. And five of those six film-within-a-film stories are themselves all-time classics, and were the basis for countless copycat films in the subsequent decades.
(The odd-man-out sixth story is Dead of Night's one and only weak point -- a comic ghost story about two golfers that was only put into the film as a way to get a comedian duo who were popular at the time into the film; but their story is neither funny nor scary. Aside from the brief flaw, the overall movie is flawless.)
Basically,Dead of Night is the Ur-film of the horror genre and a must-see for anyone who cares about these things. And if you do watch it, MAKE SURE that you start at the very very beginning and watch to the very very end. I guarantee you will get chills!
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2015 07:46 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at October 30, 2015 07:46 PM (9jeGC)
Posted by: bk in tx at October 30, 2015 07:46 PM (AyAyC)
Wish a movie could be done of it, but it's too short and Hollywood would probably mess it up.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:44 PM (ntObR)
I remember seeing a short film of it in school.
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 07:47 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:47 PM (ntObR)
IMHO it should be called drama with elements of horror.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:48 PM (ntObR)
I remember it left me depressed.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:48 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 30, 2015 07:49 PM (/S5ss)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:50 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:51 PM (JqEq4)
Everyone kept citing a scene where a chopped-off finger ends up getting fried and eaten by someone else.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:51 PM (ntObR)
It was. Ever watch a movie/tv show about a haunted house and get frustrated the people don't just move out? Yeah, in Insidious they do...and it follows them.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 30, 2015 07:51 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Lance de Boyle at October 30, 2015 07:53 PM (Vwb3R)
I know that some of the people who helped write/produce Insiduous also helped with The Conjuring, which is supposedly a pro-Christian film.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:53 PM (ntObR)
Seen in its original intended raw form, it reprograms your brain into permanent "paranoia mode."
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2015 07:53 PM (jBuUi)
Most of us here (myself included) GREATLY prefer Michael Mann's original 1986 "Manhunter."
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:54 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 07:54 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:57 PM (bGLSw)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 07:58 PM (JqEq4)
Posted by: The Inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at October 30, 2015 07:59 PM (bKgpZ)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 07:59 PM (gE2Li)
Michael Jackson did the theme for its sequel, "Ben."
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 08:00 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: doomed at October 30, 2015 07:38 PM (bGLSw)
No, different film although I know the film you are talking about but can't remember the name of it. Great opening of that film, which looks like astronauts on the moon digging up some sort of spaceship, which turns out to be an airplane which is radioactive as hell. Plus a skull with a bullet hole.
Posted by: HH at October 30, 2015 08:01 PM (DrCtv)
Over a hundred years old and still enough to scare the wits out of you!
The ultimate "atmospheric" horror story -- nothing happens except inescapable soul-crushing dread.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2015 08:03 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 08:03 PM (gE2Li)
My younger sister was traumatized by watching an old WWII adventure flick - No Man is an Island, which was screened at our junior high theater as part of a summer movie program or some such in the late 1960s. The scene of ocean crabs scarfing down on a dead body was the trigger for her. Screaming nightmares resulted, and so Mom put her foot down for all of us.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom at October 30, 2015 08:03 PM (95iDF)
Seen in its original intended raw form, it reprograms your brain into permanent "paranoia mode."
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2015 07:53 PM (jBuUi)
I never saw the director's cut, but even in its usual form it's one of the great sci-fi/horror films of all time. I really liked the 1978 remake as well. A case where the original and remake were both good, and stand on their own.
Speaking of Donald Sutherland, his "Don't Look Back" from about 1975 or so was also excellent. I saw it in college.
I may or may not have been tripping. Let's go with "may". The movie is pretty trippy on its own.
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 08:06 PM (sdi6R)
An American version was made later but it doesn't compare. Seek out this specific movie -- and it will haunt you too. Here is the wiki link for more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanishing_(1988_film)
Posted by: Loretta at October 30, 2015 08:06 PM (1XRE+)
Posted by: TheOtherJay at October 30, 2015 08:07 PM (nojhZ)
An American version was made later but it doesn't compare. Seek out this specific movie -- and it will haunt you too. Here is the wiki link for more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanishing_(1988_film)
Posted by: Lorett
Agreed - - the Dutch original "The Vanishing" is a masterpiece.
Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2015 08:08 PM (jBuUi)
That shti was real. REAL
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 08:08 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: JTB at October 30, 2015 08:10 PM (FvdPb)
The voodoo priest in True Believers who could roll his eyes till only the whites showed and pull a beating heart from a person's chest also spooked me.
As a Catholic, I found Exorcist kind of hokey, but a more recent case of possession in Gary, IN in 2011 sounded seriously disturbing. A local dj had the priest who performed the exorcisms and other people involved on the radio this morning.
Posted by: venus velvet at October 30, 2015 08:10 PM (g94P/)
There was some movie from about the same time frame where a family moves into a house and doesn't realize a guy is still living in it.
I have no idea if it was even meant to be a horror movie, but it scared me no end.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 08:12 PM (JqEq4)
Not really scary, but deeply creepy: "Dead Ringers" with Jeremy Irons playing identical twins.
Posted by: DonnaV. (brandisher of ampersands) at October 30, 2015 07:40 PM (P8951)
That was a DAMN FINE movie. The acting was perfect, and it had all of that strange intrusion of madness you get from stuff like naked lunch, that horrible Jude Law movie, and of course "Videodrome."
And Wickedpinto ain't what he used to be doll, ain't nothing special.
As far as Rosemary's baby, I got a story for that.
My mother is named Rose and Mary, and while pregnant with my big brother my uncle, took her to see that movie 2 months before she gave birth. My mom joked about how my uncle joked about how rosemary is having a baby and mom said "I did, but 6 years later" (me)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:13 PM (wdvFT)
That really was awful.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 08:13 PM (JqEq4)
Speaking of Donald Sutherland, his "Don't Look Back" from about 1975 or so was also excellent. I saw it in college.
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 08:06 PM (sdi6R)
Oops. The Sutherland horror movie was called "Don't look Now".
"Don't Look Back" was a documentary about Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England. Lol.
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 08:14 PM (sdi6R)
Nosferatu
That shti was real. REAL
That's what he looks like, there is a documentary about it, a short one, and it's glammed up but the only thing constant is "other than the teeth that's what he fucking looked like.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:14 PM (wdvFT)
Oh bullshit. These here peeps are mostly newbs, and don't realize they are in the presence of Greatness.
Welcome back!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 08:15 PM (JqEq4)
It's basically a family horror film; has scares but also laughs, and was produced by the same team that made Audrey Rose. It starred the same guy who played a developmentally-disabed adult in "L.A. Law" a few years later.
I actually have that on video too.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 08:15 PM (ntObR)
Oh, and what was the one where the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE??
That really was awful.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 08:13 PM (JqEq4)
When a STranger calls. the most terrifying suspenseful movie ever.
Watch it again knowing the hook, and you will still have all your muscles taught.
That's What I been Preaching Tammy.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:16 PM (wdvFT)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081184/
Still don't know whether I should try to finish it or not.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 08:17 PM (ntObR)
They actually did a funny episode where Doug (Kevin James) is being stalked, but he can't figure out who's doing it, except that they have something to do with the karaoke bar he's been going to.
It turns out to be Spence (Patton Oswalt), and the 'big reveal' is also funny.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 08:19 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 08:19 PM (JqEq4)
Maybe hate is too strong.
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 08:22 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: logprof at October 30, 2015 08:23 PM (vsbNu)
I know, I know, phrasing...
And apparently no Series thread again.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at October 30, 2015 08:24 PM (JqEq4)
Posted by: HH at October 30, 2015 08:24 PM (DrCtv)
A lot of folks don't know, he wasn't done with the women when he murdered them and dumped their bodies in the woods. He'd keep coming back to... have even more fun with them, so to speak.
Cree. Py.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 08:26 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 08:28 PM (caCx2)
Book: The Mist by King STILL scares the bejeebus out of me. I hate foggy days now.
Posted by: Mr Wolf at October 30, 2015 08:28 PM (cjgnX)
Posted by: freaked at October 30, 2015 08:28 PM (BO/km)
Oh, and what was the one where the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE??
Black Christmas?
NO! it was and IS and ALWAYS will be "When a Stranger Calls."
full movie available for now on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIgx8CA5mn8
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:28 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 08:29 PM (gE2Li)
Love when Robert mentions Ray's going to be all alone in that big house: "Or ARE you??!!??!!??" ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 08:30 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: freaked at October 30, 2015 08:30 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: HH at October 30, 2015 08:30 PM (DrCtv)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 08:30 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:31 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 08:31 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:31 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 08:32 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 08:32 PM (ntObR)
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 08:33 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 30, 2015 08:34 PM (ntObR)
I tried doing some self-study of the language back then, but I made the mistake of going too quickly. I learned over 400 kanji in one week and burned myself out. I've thought off and on about taking the language up again since then, and your thread gave me the little push I needed. Thanks!
I also bought AnnaPuma's novel Golden Isis while I was at it. If I used the site correctly, you should've gotten a cut of the action, too. I was pretty excited to see my new stuff had arrived today!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler... Trump/Camacho 2016! at October 30, 2015 08:35 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at October 30, 2015 08:35 PM (Wo9OY)
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 08:35 PM (gE2Li)
I got out of the car to hang at the playground viewing section with my brother at the drive in when it came out. We walked away from the movies we were supposed to watch, and snuck in to watch Cat People.
Nastasia Kinski, Nuff Said.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:35 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:36 PM (wdvFT)
Oops. The Sutherland horror movie was called "Don't Look Now".
"Don't Look Back" was a documentary about Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England. Lol.
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 08:14 PM (sdi6R)
"Don't Look Back" was not especially horrifying unless you can't stand Dylan.
"That voice...is coming from INSIDE THE CONCERT HALL."
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 08:37 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: freaked at October 30, 2015 08:38 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: JTB at October 30, 2015 08:38 PM (FvdPb)
Posted by: freaked at October 30, 2015 08:41 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:43 PM (wdvFT)
Don't see Rocky horror picture show on anywhere tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 08:47 PM (gE2Li)
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 08:53 PM (wdvFT)
Don't see Rocky horror picture show on anywhere tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2015 08:47 PM (gE2Li)
At Neo-Neocon, the commenter Artfldgr once said that Rocky Horror Picture Show was actually an allegory for the Frankfurt School's "long march through the institutions".
It sounds completely demented, but not so much if you really think about it.
Now that's scary.
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 09:04 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 09:06 PM (caCx2)
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at October 30, 2015 09:11 PM (dPpmC)
Posted by: freaked at October 30, 2015 09:12 PM (BO/km)
Two movies that scared me so much that I left and waited in the lobby.
Alien
An American Werewolf in London.
Saw both when they first came out and I was 12 and 14 at the time. I have seen them many times in their entirety since then, and still love 'em, but yeah they were pretty tense.
Posted by: Darth Randall at October 30, 2015 09:16 PM (KlVdw)
Posted by: Auntie Doodles at October 30, 2015 09:19 PM (teYv/)
Posted by: Frank Underwood (D-SC) at October 30, 2015 09:34 PM (DfclT)
I don't watch horror flix because all the blood and gore annoys me. Although I like sci-fi, 'Alien' was a good one. More recently 'The Road' book (excellent writing) and movie was the most disturbing story ever, it spun my head around in weird ways.
I wish Hollywood would get over the overly FXed, crapola they put out, and realize, that sometimes frightening things can be implied and don't have to be so graphic.
Posted by: Kay at October 30, 2015 09:39 PM (SjUvB)
The first time I saw it, Angel Heart scared me, and that is very, very rare. The Others was excellent, too, right up until the end. A slightly more obscure one was Dust Devil, with Chelsea Field.
Posted by: David Gillies at October 30, 2015 09:49 PM (tjHrt)
Nosferatu
That shti was real. REAL
Posted by: Clarney at October 30, 2015 08:08 PM (caCx2)
=====================
It was a documentary about Mr. Nosferatu.My uncle knew him and has some pictures of both of them together, but they got burned in a fire.
Posted by: Whinney Horseshit at October 30, 2015 09:50 PM (aRUb8)
Growing up seeing cartoon violence on Batman and, well, cartoons, didn't prepare my sheltered little psyche for the sight of a bunch of guys lined up against a wall and mowed down. Messed me up big time.
Years later I was horrified after watching it again, as a grown up, by the horrible, drunken hamminess of Jason Robards' portrayal of Al Capone.
Then came that guy's head through the port hole in Jaws. That scene straight up f**ed me over..
Posted by: Bruce Strang at October 30, 2015 10:05 PM (bfJXM)
There was no more sleepytime that night
Posted by: Chico Escuela at October 30, 2015 10:09 PM (VvpaF)
Posted by: mangas colorados at October 30, 2015 10:09 PM (LYi+h)
I'm not gonna lie, I didn't go outside after dark for a week.
Posted by: Chico Escuela at October 30, 2015 10:14 PM (VvpaF)
Rocky Horror Picture Show was actually an allegory for the Frankfurt
School's "long march through the institutions".
It sounds completely demented, but not so much if you really think about it.
Now that's scary.
Posted by: rickl at October 30, 2015 09:04 PM (sdi6R)0
The guy who played riff raff wrote and choreogrpohed and even did the music for the movie.
Rocky Horror was about his sexual exploration in the mid seventies.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at October 30, 2015 10:18 PM (wdvFT)
Posted by: venus velvet at October 30, 2015 10:21 PM (g94P/)
Posted by: macleod at October 30, 2015 10:26 PM (Qf5bp)
ortrait of a Serial Killer scared the absolute living shit out of me. It took me years before I could watch Michael Riker in anything.Posted by: Gem at October 30, 2015 10:50 PM (c+gwp)
Posted by: Gem at October 30, 2015 11:05 PM (c+gwp)
Books - It, Salem's Lot, and Pet Sematary all get strong recommendations.
Short Stories - N, 1408, and for those that love Salem's Lot, "One for the Road" is a great little epilogue to SL that appears in King's Night Shift collection.
For me, The Color Out of Space is probably the creepiest of all the Lovecraft works, although Call of Cthulhu I can just read over and over.
The Great God Pan is interesting, but I was somewhat underwhelmed by it. The Wendigo is a much better one from that era, IMO.
Movies - Halloween and the Shining were the two movies that I saw on cable as a kid that kept me up all night in terror. Saw The Thing in the theater and it was just awesome for a kid in middle school (still holds up). Prince of Darkness is another one that you rarely hear about, but I'm glad to see it mentioned so often here, I saw that in college with a group and it freaked us all out. I probably saw Angel Heart 4 or 5 times in the theater when it came out, just loved that movie. Someone mentioned the hallway scene in Exorcist III, and I totally agree. I saw that one the night it opened at a midnight show and the entire theater about jumped through the roof.
543 - I saw Cat People at a Drive-In too! Still love the Bowie song from that movie.
Of the more recent movies, I'll also give a plus one to Coraline, which I saw with my kids, totally not knowing anything about it, and it gave them nightmares and is probably my favorite "children's movie" that I've seen with them.
Finally, I haven't seen this one mentioned, but the original Swedish version of "Let the Right One In" was probably the best horror movie of the last 10 years, for my money. Great sense of place and atmosphere (Soviet era Sweden) and a terrific payoff at the end.
Posted by: Bill Denbrough at October 30, 2015 11:07 PM (sFEk6)
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Posted by: JewishOdysseus (@JewishOdysseus) at October 30, 2015 11:24 PM (FWwQD)
House of Leaves is a very high concept book, in form and substance. I'm not sure I would call it scary, but you've never read a book quite like it, and it is very memorable.
The books of the Exorcist and Blatty's sequel Legion (what they made into Exorcist III) were very good reads.
A couple of movies I haven't seen mentioned are "The Sentinel" from the 70's, about a NYC Brownstone that has the Gate to Hell inside it. Also, the Serpent and the Rainbow, about voodoo in Haiti, is another underrated movie.
Posted by: Bill Denbrough at October 30, 2015 11:32 PM (sFEk6)
I like my horror movies to have some sort of comedy in them to lighten the pace and reset the scare level. Always watch these movies on Halloween:
(no particular order)
Evil Dead II: Bruce Campbell movie. favorite scene> Campbell's character cuts off his own hand with a chainsaw because it is possessed by a Demon...imprisons hand under a waste basket and puts books on top to hold the basket down over the still possessed hand.(one of the books is Hemingway's Farewell to Arms)
Frightners: Michael J. Fox and Jake Busey..Fox plays a ghost hunter and Busey plays the ghost of the town serial killer come back to increase his score of kills.
Jeepers Creepers: Justin Long>A brother and sister driving home for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature in the isolated countryside that is on the last day of its ritualistic eating spree. Very Scary movie.
Posted by: Speller at October 30, 2015 11:45 PM (hHs1b)
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Posted by: RovingCopyEditor at October 31, 2015 12:21 AM (/S5ss)
The dude was smart, and he kept getting away. I read the book just before bedtime over the space of four evenings. The first night I slept ok - because I hadn't yet made it to the part where he had started killing. The last three nights I went to bed with the very distinct feeling that I wouldn't wake up.
The effect may have been worse for me because I've lived in two of the states where Bundy committed many of his murders, and knew many of his crime scenes quite well, and could find them with no need of a map. I even had a friend who lived right next door to where he kidnapped one of his victims.
Even more frightening is that Bundy may very well have started when he was 14, when an 8-year-old girl a few blocks from him disappeared without a trace - and with the same M.O. as Bundy's first admitted murders.
A Stephen King book don't come close.
Posted by: WJ at October 31, 2015 12:23 AM (m3LJi)
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Posted by: annie at October 31, 2015 12:30 AM (i/GN5)
Actually it's not precisely scary, since you don't jump, and when it starts happening you know exactly what's happening. But you'll be breathing hard at the end.
I remember some King introduction where he ranked story effects as: horror, terror, and gross-out. He said he tries for the horror. If he can't get that he'll shoot for terror. If he can't get that he's just fine going for the gross-out.
Posted by: Something Guy at October 31, 2015 12:59 AM (slXFo)
You really have to wait for it, though, because it starts out like one kind of movie and then...
Very much like a fairy tale.
Posted by: Wry Mouth at October 31, 2015 03:27 AM (LbZ6h)
Did C.S. Lewis ever try to write a horror novel or short story?
"That Hideous Strength," the 3rd in the Perelandra series. It's a standalone though. Horrifically, his invented bureaucratic/nightmare authority, the N. I. C. E. , has recently been echoed in the UK with the formation of a govt agency called NICE.
Posted by: Wry Mouth at October 31, 2015 03:35 AM (LbZ6h)
1. The psychopathic, murderous dad in Chuck Norris's "Silent Rage" scared me for a long time as a kid. In the beginning of the movie he kills his own wife with an ax to the forehead.
2. The villain in Pan's Labyrinth has a few scenes that will make you want to run and hide.
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Posted by: ALow at October 31, 2015 01:16 PM (Melsq)
and the contest was called "two minute horror." or something very much like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adap4rzlM2I
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Posted by: Jeff at October 31, 2015 10:06 PM (80/Eq)
The biggest difference is that scary when done well is fun, disturbing is not. So I'll focus on scary.
I try to dig up the obscure ones, so I've two recommendations (both being "found footage" flicks - a gimmick that lends itself well to horror but seems worn out, until you stumble across the rare gems that so it well). One is the Spanish film "REC". The other is (bizarrely) Bobcat Goldthwait's "Willow Creek". "REC" is the overall more enjoyable watch, and if look into how it was made after you've seen it you'll find the methodology was quirky and inspired. "Willow Creek" is kind of a super, super dry near-comedy for a good portion of its run. But the last fifteen minutes of either one is *scary as fuck.*
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