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Films that scared the shit out of you
We were talking with my daughter about films that scared me when I was a kid, JAWS did it for me big time. I am still scared of the sea to this day. Anyway we downloaded it to see how scary it was, I had to turn it off after about 15 mins :rofl:
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Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Blue Cat
(Post 10846604)
We were talking with my daughter about films that scared me when I was a kid, JAWS did it for me big time. I am still scared of the sea to this day. Anyway we downloaded it to see how scary it was, I had to turn it off after about 15 mins :rofl:
anyone scared of Jaws? .......... unlike the original Halloween, John Carpenter's classic from the late-1970s. I still find it very uncomfortable to watch - it's a brilliant piece of directing. :scaredhair: The real mystery though is how Carpenter descended to the abysmal level of some of the garbage he produced later. |
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Originally Posted by The Dean
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Jaws was quite scary at the time, but that feeling eases after you watch it a few times.........
.......... unlike the original Halloween, John Carpenter's classic from the late-1970s. I still find it very uncomfortable to watch - it's a brilliant piece of directing. :scaredhair: The real mystery though is how Carpenter descended to the abysmal level of some of the garbage he produced later. |
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I will swim in the sea, in deep water but I prefer it to be clear and have to keep looking down. I think that film has scarred (yes scarred, not scared) a few generations now.
The Fly with Jeff Goldblum is one that really disturbed me. If some kind of teleportation ever became viable I don't I'd ever be able to do it. Brundlefly - eek! |
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Originally Posted by Meow
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I will swim in the sea, in deep water but I prefer it to be clear and have to keep looking down. I think that film has scarred (yes scarred, not scared) a few generations now.
The Fly with Jeff Goldblum is one that really disturbed me. If some kind of teleportation ever became viable I don't I'd ever be able to do it. Brundlefly - eek! |
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Originally Posted by The Dean
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The Fly is a great film in lots of ways - did anyone else find it curiously moving, or am I just a bit weird?
I avoid horror films generally as my imagination is bad (good?) enough without scaring myself silly. EDIT - Of course you're a bit weird, but not necessarily anything to do with this thread. Weirdo. |
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I watched The Exorcist for the first time a few days ago, that is one seriously disturbing film.
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Originally Posted by Blue Cat
(Post 10846634)
yes Halloween was a bit scary as well, I can't bring myself to watch any more of this JAWS though and the child has a cushion over her head :rofl: Remember Evil Dead? didn't manage to watch that to the end.
If shark type things scare you - thought Open Water was very tense... Evil Dead 1 & 2 are classics... ED1 is not so nice, ED2 is hilarious.... Not a big fan of the splatter gore of SAW, Hostel etc... Funny Games and Kill List are very creepy. The Swedish Let The Right One in is fantastic. Wolf Creek is very scary... Film that scared me most recently - The Strangers:- |
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Agreed on Wolf Creek. Disturbing. Bloody Aussies eh?
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Originally Posted by Autonomy
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Never really thought of Jaws as that scary TBH - love the film though.
If shark type things scare you - thought Open Water was very tense... Evil Dead 1 & 2 are classics... ED1 is not so nice, ED2 is hilarious.... Not a big fan of the splatter gore of SAW, Hostel etc... Funny Games and Kill List are very creepy. The Swedish Let The Right One in is fantastic. Wolf Creek is very scary... Film that scared me most recently - The Strangers:- http://youtube.com/watch?v=p5m_MaEy3ho |
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Is Open Water the one with the two people who are left behind by a dive boat? If so, I thought it so dull I kept hoping they'd be eaten. It was an hour too long...
Wasn't there a 'sequel'? Odd concept. |
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Not scary, but somewhat disturbing - Human Centipede II It's just wrong.
Frankenstein Experiment isn't exactly happy viewing either. But, oddly, 'What lies beneath' made me think a lot more. |
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What about a single jump-out-of-your-skin scary moment in a film?
The 'hand' at the end of Carrie? |
Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10846685)
Is Open Water the one with the two people who are left behind by a dive boat? If so, I thought it so dull I kept hoping they'd be eaten. It was an hour too long...
Wasn't there a 'sequel'? Odd concept. |
Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Millhouse
(Post 10846702)
Not scary, but somewhat disturbing - Human Centipede II It's just wrong.
Frankenstein Experiment isn't exactly happy viewing either. But, oddly, 'What lies beneath' made me think a lot more. SOMEWHAT disturbing? Just somewhat? :ohmy: I haven't see that film, never will, but a friend told me about it once and I was nearly sick. |
Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10846731)
SOMEWHAT disturbing? Just somewhat? :ohmy:
I haven't see that film, never will, but a friend told me about it once and I was nearly sick. |
Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by The Dean
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I know nothing about it........ let's keep it that way.......... :o
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Originally Posted by The Dean
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What about a single jump-out-of-your-skin scary moment in a film?
The 'hand' at the end of Carrie? |
Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10846731)
SOMEWHAT disturbing? Just somewhat? :ohmy:
I haven't see that film, never will, but a friend told me about it once and I was nearly sick. Don't want to go there with the specifics but you know what I mean. Another weird film that I didn't mind was "The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover". When she serves her husband the lover's .... Anyway, moving swiftly on. |
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Originally Posted by Kix
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I can't understand the thought behind the human caterpillar. Really I can't.
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I was schooled in Oz briefly when I was 10. We went to a drive-in movie theatre and watched Arachnaphobia and Edward Scissor hands. Couldn't sleep for a week!
Quite like Edward Scissor hands nowadays, but Aracnaphobia the movie, along with spiders both remain things I am very scared by. |
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I think being scared by a movie has a lot to do with the time / place / phone is off or not etc
Also what age were you when you watched that particular movie? I pretended to keep my eyes open while in fact they were shut while watching Thriller (MJ) the first time but I was very very young Then Evil Dead part 1 scared the crap out of me the first time I watched it ofcourse but not so anymore Saw the Blair Witch project in a stranger's house, totally alone (no I did not break in and enter) in the afternoon and was scared till the next day :D I think there is a difference between pure horror and gore Some film-makers tend to make it as gory as possible to horrify the audience whereas a master horrifi-er will only suggest, never show and still make you clench Like Hitchcock's The Birds was very much scary |
Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Irishbeekeeper
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I think being scared by a movie has a lot to do with the time / place / phone is off or not etc
Also what age were you when you watched that particular movie? I pretended to keep my eyes open while in fact they were shut while watching Thriller (MJ) the first time but I was very very young Then Evil Dead part 1 scared the crap out of me the first time I watched it ofcourse but not so anymore Saw the Blair Witch project in a stranger's house, totally alone (no I did not break in and enter) in the afternoon and was scared till the next day :D I think there is a difference between pure horror and gore Some film-makers tend to make it as gory as possible to horrify the audience whereas a master horrifi-er will only suggest, never show and still make you clench Like Hitchcock's The Birds was very much scary |
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Jaws as a kid- i watched it when i was 5 or 6- wouldn't sit on the loo for about a month as I thought a shark would come up the U bend. Had to wee whilst watching for ages.
More recently- The Descent- scared the living crap out of me- proper screamed in the cinema, leaving the cinema I had to do a full check in my car that there were no man eating creatures on my backseat, then when I got home had to check under the bed and tell myself if there was a man eating monster here it would be eatin you so stop worrying! Also the Saw films- horrible- not scary but just plain grusome and so messed up. i used to love a good horror- still do in some weird liek being scared sense but they play on my mind too much these days. |
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Originally Posted by OleJanx
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Many years ago, I watched 'The Fog' on a night when it was foggy outside. It was, to say the least, disconcerting....
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Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Millhouse
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I saw that film a long time ago and thought it had done no lasting damage - until earlier in the year when I was camping in the desert and (after drinking almost a bottle of jagermeister) the fog came so thick I could just about see the fire... early night for Millhouse.
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An oldie but good - "The Hills have eyes"
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Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by The Dean
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What about a single jump-out-of-your-skin scary moment in a film?
The 'hand' at the end of Carrie? |
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Poltergeist. Can't remember which one, but the one with the semi-excavated swimming pool from which emerged something (can't even remember what now). At the time I was living in Riyadh, and we had a swimming pool, the lights of which had gone out at one end. Never swam in it again in the dark...
And The Exorcist. Can't remember specifics, only that I never want to see it again. And Rosemary's Baby put me off jugged hare for a couple of decades. |
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I agree that Jaws, Evil dead and Halloween were really scary..that Michael Myers just wouldnt die, and it set a theme for lots of other horror films, the babysitter getting it on with the good looking, athletic loudmouth who ends up pinned to the door by an axe etc.
Salems lot was quite scary, the vampire scratching at the window scene. Can remember watching Candyman and being scared,and also the first Scream movie scared me, then they just got ridiculous. Also the one with Jason with the hockey mask..cant remember the name, Nightmare on Elm street was good too, the first one anyway. I used to cry behind a cushion watching the original Frankenstein, I always felt sorry for him. |
Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Kix
(Post 10846665)
Agreed on Wolf Creek. Disturbing. Bloody Aussies eh?
Jaws scared me as a kid, and still have shark phobia, but I think that's because I come from WA where Great Whites tend to snack on people often. |
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The Wizard of Oz scared me shitless but then again I was only 8 !
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Chucky!! had to switch that one of as well!
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The Excorcist, saw it as a teen when it first came out:eek:
The Shining had its moments, but the book was far scarier. |
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Originally Posted by Beaverstate
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The Excorcist, saw it as a teen when it first came out:eek:
The Shining had its moments, but the book was far scarier. |
Re: Films that scared the shit out of you
Originally Posted by Blue Cat
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Chucky!! had to switch that one of as well!
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Originally Posted by Bahtatboy
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When you ask--clearly and in writing--two or more questions, and the response doesn't answer all the questions and the respondent doesn't acknowledge that fact.
When I had direct reports (ahh, life's so simple now :D) I used this as an example of what was the biggest portion of appraisals--how many times I had to ask before I got a full answer (even if part of it was, "Sorry, regarding point b I don't know, but I'll get back to you, but here's the answer to the other questions you asked."). (I'm also very against incorrect punctuation--if you can manage to use four punctuation marks in succession that's definite browny (Brownie?) points.) Do you want to add 'people who answer in the wrong thread'? :D |
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Originally Posted by Meow
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Do you want to add 'people who answer in the wrong thread'?
:D |
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Originally Posted by Arcadia
(Post 10847562)
I agree that Jaws, Evil dead and Halloween were really scary..that Michael Myers just wouldnt die, and it set a theme for lots of other horror films, the babysitter getting it on with the good looking, athletic loudmouth who ends up pinned to the door by an axe etc.
Salems lot was quite scary, the vampire scratching at the window scene. Can remember watching Candyman and being scared,and also the first Scream movie scared me, then they just got ridiculous. Also the one with Jason with the hockey mask..cant remember the name, Nightmare on Elm street was good too, the first one anyway. I used to cry behind a cushion watching the original Frankenstein, I always felt sorry for him. Classic Error No 459: Frankenstein is the scientist - the creature doesn't have a name (I think)........... |
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Originally Posted by The Dean
(Post 10848380)
".....Frankenstein, I always felt sorry for him....."
Classic Error No 459: Frankenstein is the scientist - the creature doesn't have a name (I think)........... However, he does call himself when speaking to his creator, "The Adam of your labours. He is also variously referred to as a "creature", "fiend", "wretch", "zombie" "devil", and "ogre" in the novel. I Frankenstein, the movie is coming out January 2014 starring Aaron Eckhart:wub: |
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