posted February 09, 2013 08:00 PM            

However, some horror movies just scared the crap out of me at least:

-Hellraiser
-Aliens
-Jaws

posted February 09, 2013 08:32 PM            

-The Ninth Gate
-Night of the Demon (available on youtube)

And my all time fav..One Million Years BC

posted February 09, 2013 09:12 PM            

30 Days of Night scared me, perhaps because it was so much like the nightmares I've had of vampires since I was a child.

The Invasion (with the alien virus acting as a "body snatcher") really captured my imagination, too, not sure why, but I was pretty freaked at moments.

I'm not sure if the 2004 Dawn of the Dead scared me or just disturbed me.

When I got tricked into watching the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre I got greatly upset (I wrestled more with rage than fear, however) and would've ran out of the cinema had I not been stopped (that said, I saw little kids who seemed totally unfazed by it). I will never, ever watch it again.

And I'll give an honorable mention to The People Under the Stairs...I saw it over 12 years ago (on video), and though I never bothered to watch it again and found it really messed up (I actually liked it more as surrealism) I recall being very tense a lot.

I LOVED Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness, but they didn't really scare me (at least not anywhere as much as it entertained & amused me), but I do recall being creeped out by the original Evil Dead with the possessed corpse of a woman acting like a little girl giggling and singing, "We're going to get you."

And interesting enough, I believe I was 9, possible 10 (it was October when I turned 10 anyway) when I saw Salem's Lot (1979 version) and Return to Oz. I found the vampire movie kinda boring and fell asleep more than once during it but Return to Oz gave me the most horrid nightmares of being chased by wheelers as well as the headless witch while the decapitated heads shrieked at me, and I found it all very disturbing. But then I saw both movies again when I was about 20 and that time Salem's Lot creeped me out while Return to Oz struck me as being too silly to be frightening.

And I'll add that I know Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Spirited Away weren't meant to be horror, but I recall being frightened a lot through Spirited Away as an adult, and literally shuddering with bumps when the little girl shouts, "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming!" And as for Roger Rabbit, I think I screamed (and remained freaked awhile) when I saw this scene at age 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4B_jDp0ffI

posted February 09, 2013 09:17 PM            

When I was a kid, at a sleepover, if one was on, I'd go into another room and play with toys....

posted February 09, 2013 09:20 PM            

Why? I wonder......

I'm not judgiing. I just wonder how? why?.....what is that all about?

posted February 09, 2013 09:33 PM            

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Originally posted by T:
& not even afraid of nightmares or anything, I just didnt want to look at it......didnt want to let gory images into my mind....and still dont.

Why? I wonder......

I'm not judgiing. I just wonder how? why?.....what is that all about?

maybe to some people it's a form of art. I just don't like to see it.

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posted February 09, 2013 09:38 PM            

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Originally posted by starzy54:
Gore also bothers me. Torture too, can't stand it. The SAW movies and Hostel are movies I cannot stand to watch. I don't like seeing humans tortured or killed in such manners. Too realistic for me.

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Same way, just the whole binding and hurting and then killing stuff

Just no, truly despise even watching it

posted February 09, 2013 09:45 PM            

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Originally posted by T:
Must be all the Venus influence in me, but I can't watch horror flicks. Not even that I cant.....I just dont' want to - or won't.

When I was a kid, at a sleepover, if one was on, I'd go into another room and play with toys....

total avoidance to that type of thing.

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posted February 09, 2013 09:52 PM            

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Originally posted by peregrine:
shutter it's a thai film.

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Omg I remember watching this when I was 16 and screaming in one part (I was watching it in the day time) had to turn it off, never finished the movie lol.

posted February 09, 2013 09:53 PM            

And it angers me no movie in half a century has managed to really scare me!

I have been told to watch "The Strangers"

A challenge?

"The Serpant and the Rainbow" came close as well as "The Skeleton Key..."

posted February 09, 2013 09:55 PM            

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Originally posted by starzy54:
One of the creepiest movies I have seen in a long time is "The Others" Staring Nicole Kidman. Its eerie and gives me the chills.

Anything where a person is demon possessed is scary to me too. Zombies and Vampires are just funny to me, don't scare me at all lol.

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Oh yeah that was quite scary, ending was unexpected.

I don't like gore, it's not scary. Psychological movies that have less effects but make you think more scares me.

posted February 09, 2013 10:02 PM            

"I know what you did last summer"

"Scream" the original

and

"Candyman"

posted February 09, 2013 11:06 PM            

The only horrors that got under my skin/left an effect on my psyche in any way...

The Children (1980) - I grew up very close to 3 mile island, (and was born only shortly after the incident there), which left a mark on the memory and hearts of my relatives and neighbors... maybe we're all paranoid, there's a lot of folks back home who say that the incident is the real cause behind all the cancer related deaths to those born during this time and earlier, (paranoia/fear)... Either way, the kids are the creepy factor for me... in all the films that creeped me out there was a child, or children...

I hated The Mist, (centipedes, mosquitoes, giant roaches, yeah no thank you!) But, what really ****** me off was the ending... that movie went into the time wasted bin... >.<

Aliens... I hate aliens for the most part, the thought of extraterrestrials itself bothers me, though I'm of the "yes, I believe we are not alone in the multiverse" party... the film Aliens and ET both made me squeamish. Aliens Vs Predator too... though, I happen to think Predators are bad@ss! <333
ET just looked like a disgusting turd with creepy long fingers to me as a child (still even today)... I can't find anything "cute" about that story. lol sorry~ >.<;

The most recent film (trilogy actually) that I felt uncomfortable watching were REC (original!!! very important that they're the original 3 not that hogwash Hollywood version.) Again, children...

But, horrors have very little "scare" factor for me, it's that release of tension that makes me watch them~ more than anything else. I laugh when I'm scared... a fact that my siser-in-law was very oddly amused with when we went to the Halloween Haunt up here at Canada's Wonderland after only knowing each other a short while... her and her galpals were screaming their heads off, (she nearly pulled my arm clean out of the socket that night), and I had side stitches the whole time (one of the actors said, "you're not scared" I said, "no, but thank you" -- aww that puzzled look on his painted face! priceless!)... LMAO ohhh my abdomen hurt the next day, and my wrist/shoulder from her yanking me through the place (I had nail imprints and bruises, not kidding)... ugh! ^^; I laugh though... which destresses those moments that should incite "fear" and "suspense" ~

horrors my thing~ <3

Although I don't play many video games these days, I will gladly make time for a horror-survival game, and they tend to be far more frightening than the movies churned out today... lol

Having played Siren (ps2 - Japanese) and nearly ****** myself within the first 4 minutes of gameplay... I literally didn't want to move the character just from the atmosphere~ >.<; (This moment really happened, I'm ashamed of it.)
Then, having played the rest of the series... just after having my son, actually - there was a time when husband had to wake me from a nightmare where I was shouting in my sleep for the one character (a little girl) to run! HAH X___x; not such a good idea to play/watch after having a wee one... (love FEAR, hated Dead Space, can you guess why?! lol)

In fact, since having Doc a lot of film themes that didn't bother me before, do now, since becoming a parent... this is why my sister-in-law swore off horror... she won't go near it since having her first son. ^^;

I won't go that far...

We have 4 horror films on our "to see" list in the near future... I'm not missing any of them... XD (World War Z, Evil Dead (remake), Warm Bodies, Mama) ^^

So, I haven't lost my love for horrors~

I can say for fact I've seen over 200 horror/suspense from big budget to B flick, from foreign to indie - horror-genre films of every theme and style...
And, I won't be stopping anytime soon, god willing! ~ <3

But, the weirdest thing is, it's usually those life dramas that scare me more than the horrors.... honestly, I think films like Gran Torino and Trainspotting are wayyyy scarier than horrors...

Some people are like this though, right? It just feels more plausible, and that makes it scary... an addiction, rape, gang violence~ things like that are scary... not the 7 ft tall reanimated corpse, or talking puppet with a knack for putting together nasty brain-teasers... lol

Sorry~ >.>;

Scary horrors have to have a lot of things going on to make me cringe or jump (I've never screamed during a film, though I'd love to see something that would get that reaction out of me)... by a lot I mean "A LOT" of things in their favour... I'm a terribly harsh critic~ even the children/aliens/bugs are no guarantee in scaring me... they really gotta be well made, all the way through.

When Miike and Kubrick and Hitchcock are among your top 5 favourite film makers~ you just won't settle for cheap tricks and gore. nope! <3

posted February 10, 2013 03:32 AM            

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Originally posted by T:
why?.....what is that all about?

maybe to some people it's a form of art. I just don't like to see it.

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Horror tends to be a metaphor for very real fears and seeing them can be cathartic, especially when people overcome it (in which case it's a survivor's tale as well).

And btw I read somewhere by a woman that the reason she loved horror was because it was about the only genre (at least back when she was growing up in the 80s) where women were the ones to overcome the really scary guys & monsters, and I suspect this may be why Buffy tends to appeal a bit more to female audiences while Angel a bit more to male audiences (though fans of one tend to like both, but I'll have to add a caveat that both series are more of a soap opera & action with elements of horror & comedy thrown in, masterfully so for those of us who are fans).

Horror can be thrilling, but it's not true terror anymore than bungee jumping is. That is it's enough to drive away the boredom but not so much that viewers lose control over their body, feel sick & weak, and experience genuine trauma. Watching horror is even safer than riding a roller coaster. And as Faith mentions, serve as an excuse to grab hold of a guy (guys, I dare you to do this trick in reverse, grab hold of her, hide your face and mutter almost tearfully, "It's only a movie, it's only a movie," and see how she swoons...ok, I'm just daring that because I'd really like to see it happen along with a more typical female reactions to such clinging, and I can't go by my own reaction because I tend to see the funny side of everything ). As a supposedly added bonus (though this isn't widely known), it can even help burn calories.

And horror often touches on other genres like fantasy & scifi which can be appealing and/or intriguing to some, exciting the imagination.

posted February 10, 2013 03:50 AM            

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Originally posted by ail221:
The classic 90s teen horror

"I know what you did last summer"

"Scream" the original

and

"Candyman"

because I was a kid when I watched these and decided to avoid all horror films afterwards.

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candyamn... i never uttered his name 3x infront of a mirror when i was young.

posted February 10, 2013 05:04 AM            

The scariest movies I've seen?

"The fourth kind"

"Blair witch project"

And I think that new movie coming out inna week or so called " dark skies" , will also scare the soul out of me too.(I saw the trailer 2 days ago, and I've already had a nightmare since then, and that's only from seeing the trailer!)

"The happening" was a bit unnerving too for me. Especially since it takes place in NY (which is where I live)... But It didn't keep me from sleeping.

For me, it's all about psychological horror films. Paranormal or films about aliens are the ones that have the best chance at actually scaring me. Especially since I've def dealt with the paranormal since I was little. And because Im nearly 100 percent convinced that I'm being visited by aliens, constantly.

The Blair witch project scared me soo bad, that I couldn't sleep for three whole days straight. . Mostly because I was home alone for that whole weekend. I was soo scared, that I never even felt sleepy during those days ..I couldn't even mention the title of the movie, nor talk about the movie to anyone until a year later.. Because I was afraid I might summon the witch by mistake lol ..I hadn't done my research on this film prior to watching it, I hewrd about this film when paranormal activity one came out here in ny. And I kept seeing people comparing it to BWP. And how soo many people were scared of BWP yada yada. I didn't want to do any research on the film before watching in, I case I bumped into any spoilers, and how it was supposed to be based on a real story/events. It's been 4 yrs since I saw it, and it still creeps me the FCuk out.thats a movie I don't think I could ever watch for a second time lol. Even now knowing that the movie wasn't really based on anything, it doesn't change the fact that im still scared. Because I know how very real ghosts/demons are.

The fourth kind. Oh Lordy.... Especially with the 3:33 thing. Because some years before this movie even came out, I was always seeing these numbers constantly everywhere.. There were times I actually woke up @3:33 am/pm (I swear on my life I ain't joking)... And the thing with the weird marks on the skin. Fuzzy memory. Loss of time. and the "dreams" I was having. And soo much more. And then this film comes ,mentioning soo many things I was already going through? And how it was supposedly based on real events etc. forget it man, this film shook me like no other.

I agree with @pixiejane about coraline
Although it didn't actually scare me, it def was a very creepy movie. Especially for a kids movie. I love this film. Its got the perfect dose of " twisted dark fairy tale" quality to it. People still give me the "are you serious" face, when I tell them that coraline is creepy to me. I remember when the film came out in theaters, and seeing kids actually leaving the theater crying, scared sh!tless lol. And parents complaining about the film n stuff.

posted February 10, 2013 06:04 AM            

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Originally posted by peregrine:
i can watch gore, not that i've seen too many, because i know it's fake. like okay blood.

the saw 1 twist was script writing genius IMO. okay i was stoned and in college when i saw it!

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posted February 10, 2013 07:11 AM            

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Originally posted by Haplesschild*:
Omg I remember watching this when I was 16 and screaming in one part (I was watching it in the day time) had to turn it off, never finished the movie lol.

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