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Guys what are your favorites? Slashers? Monster flicks? Campy horror movies?
Here's my list
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
Friday the 13th (Franchise with the exception of the god awful Jason X)
Nightmare on Elm Street (Franchise)
Halloween (Michael Myers Franchise)
The Omen
American Psycho - one of my all time favorites!!!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Silence of the Lambs/Hannibal/Red Dragon
The Shining
Any of the new movies that come out are pretty scary (scary in a way that you never thought films could be so horrible)
Wanna shit your pants? Go see The Guardian!
....Ashton Kutcher trying to be serious is scary to me as well
The book is 10 times better..... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lyle
Scary movies are not my cup of tea.....
But heres a few;
Candyman
Nosferatu
Scream
Hellraiser
An American Warewolf in London
Se7en
Im not really into horror...
Hitchcocks psycho is more than horror though and I think its an excellent film....
Hopkins mincing it up as Mr Lector also appeals to me....
Otherwise the genre just leaves me with an empty feeling...
I once sat through Pearl Harbour (not the actual event, but the film) and that was pretty scary, but an entirely different kind of scariness altogether....
Some of my personal favorites...
in no particular order:
1. Black Christmas
2. The Exorcist
3. Magic
4. Monster Squad
5. The Howling
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
7. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
8. The Changeling
9. Halloween
10. Night of the Living Dead (remake)
11. Let's Scare Jessica to Death
12. They Live
13. Silver Bullet
14. Toruist Trap
15. Jacob's Ladder
*Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien -- I HAVE LOVED THIS SINCE CHILDHOOD
I have heard good things about The Woman In Black.
I have never seen it but have always wnated to. Any of the UK members know of this woman?
I meant know of this movie
I get the biggest kick out of The Simpson's halloween episodes. Scary movies are always a letdown. ie, not scary. The scariest movie I ever saw was Poltergeist. I was about 7, saw it in the theater with my cousin, and din't sleep the rest of the summer. I was convinced that a clown was under my bed.
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Originally Posted by CutMeMicK
I read(and saw) American Psycho as well...thought the book was better, too! I don't know many people who have read/seen it but good to see someone reads here mick.
I liked Friday the 13th (first one havent seen the others.)
I really like this movie called, "The Audition". It's japanesse and is really good and was really highly regarded when it came out a couple years back. If you dont mmind reading subtitles you have to see it.
Hostel was good, I also liked the first "Saw" movie, but thought the 2nd one sucked and don't plan to see the third.
It's funny all those scary movies are on tv now and if I flip through and see Jason or Freddy I still get a little shiver.
Netflix is the great if any of you are big movie fans.
I have a copy of the dvd and the book American Psycho. I read the book in high school and saw the movie years later. I thought the book was a very boring read except for the very graphicly described killings, which were awesome. I say skim through the book until you find the kills...
Have an anonymous one on me BG, I like your style
never been into typical horrors... i seen a couple like omen n stuff...
i think the only scary film i really like is 28 days later..
and dawn of the dead..
dont know if they count as horror.. more zombieish then horror but i guess its all horror at the end of the day?
peace
I liked Poltergiest. The tree scared me pretty good. Poltergiest II kicked ass. III was dreadful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Von Milash
I read the book in high school and almost stopped reading it b/c of how graphic the killings were. I am a fairly desensitized induvidual as well...But I remember those torture/killings being on another level! I saw the movie about a year ago and didn't like it as much as the book. The book had underlying themes on how money and status drives the american way of life and everything else is depersonalized, even people. Yada yada yada..Quote:
Originally Posted by BoxingGorilla
Spot on, but in all fairness thats the way it usually goes then book is most often better then the movie....Quote:
Originally Posted by dasamm
yo u all remember that scarry asss episode of Saved By the Bell when they was all at the mystery murder mansion for the weekend? The butler came in and screamed: Dinner is SEEEEEEERVED!!!!!!! and he collapses and has knives in his back. That episode was pretty scarry and Mr. Jamieson was a rather shady character.
CC for bringing those flicks up dude!Quote:
Originally Posted by BoxingGorilla
I own the Abbott and Costello DVD, it's a great deal you get like 6 movies for $20
Monster Squad= Kick the wolfman in the nards!!!!! kick him in the nards!!! wolfman has no nards?????
Monster Squad= Oh gee real religious doing the ritual outside in front of the church, we mine as well do it at Burger King
Did you know that little girl died in the making of the Poltergiest sequel. ? she drowned in one of the parking lot scenesQuote:
Originally Posted by BoxingGorilla
. :o
what about childs play!..chucky rulz!! ;D
really i heard that was a urban legend actually???? and in reality she died of cancer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lords Gym
shit you might be right, never heard that mate??? gonna check it out do alittle research. I B Back !Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P
Claim: A number of deaths have occured among the cast of the Poltergeist trilogy of films.
Status: True.
Origins: What
is seen as an unusually large number of deaths have occurred among the former cast of the Poltergeist trilogy. This occurrence has given rise to the rumor that the productions were in some way "cursed" due to the nature of the films themselves, as if the evil spirits conjured up in the make-believe world of the cinema have since reached out into the real world to claim what they might see as their rightful victims.
In a popular form of the rumor, one of the child actors is said to have come to an untimely end after the making of each film, one murdered, one in a car accident, and one of a mysterious disease. Though it's true Dominique Dunne and Heather O'Rourke have since died, Oliver Robins (the lad who played the boy) appears to be still with us.
Three horror films comprise the Poltergeist trilogy: Poltergeist (1982), Poltergeist II (1986), and Poltergeist III (1988). Each recounts an episode in the lives of the Freelings, a fictitious family who have the bad luck to take up residence in homes inhabited by spirits intent upon kidnapping their kids or to send their kids to live in such places.
(As to what the word itself means, a poltergeist is a noisy and destructive (but usually mischievous, not malicious) ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises and movement of objects within a home. It is hypothesized that poltergeists are drawn to homes in which there are prepubescent children, especially girls.)
Though coincidence is a much more likely explanation than a curse, there have been four deaths among the cast of this set of films -- Dominique Dunne (Dana Freeling), Heather O'Rourke (Carol Ann Freeling), Will Sampson (Taylor, a good spirit), and Julian Beck (Kane, an evil spirit). Though two of the deaths were foreseeable -- indeed, expected -- two were not. It's the combination of the two unexpected deaths which lies at the heart of every rumor about a curse.
22-year old Dominique Dunne died on 4 November 1982 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, four days after her boyfriend choked her into a coma from which she never awoke. Weeks earlier, Dunne had ended her abusive live-in relationship with Los Angeles chef John Sweeney. On the night of 30 October 1982, he dropped by their former shared residence to plead with her to take him back. The conversation did not go as he'd hoped, and the encounter ended with him strangling her for what was later determined to be 4 to 6 minutes, then leaving her for dead in her driveway.
Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, sentenced in November, 1983, and released in 1986 after serving only 3 years, 8 months of a 6 1/2 year sentence. His sentence is controversial to this day.
Poltergeist, the film in which Dunne appeared, had been released earlier that year, in June.
12-year-old Heather O'Rourke died of septic shock on 1 February 1988 at the Children's Hospital in San Diego. What had been thought to be a bout of ordinary flu launched her into cardiac arrest during the drive to the local hospital as bacterial toxins set loose by a bowel obstruction made their way into her bloodstream. Her heart was successfully restarted and she was flown by helicopter to the much-larger Children's Hospital where she underwent an operation to remove the obstruction. The toxins rampaging through her system proved too much, and she died on the operating table.
The circumstances surrounding her passing rendered her death even more of a shock than it otherwise would have been, as she went overnight from a little girl who had the flu to a dead little girl who expired during a desperate operation to save her life. It's hard enough to accept that a child can die of an illness, let alone a healthy-looking youngster no one knew anything was wrong with. (That she looked healthy did not necessarily mean that she was. The year before her death she'd been diagnosed as having Crohn's Disease, a lifelong inflammatory small bowel disease which often first manifests in children and young adults.) Of course such an unexpected death would fuel rumors, especially when considered in conjunction with Dominique Dunne's murder only six years earlier.
O'Rourke appeared in all three Poltergeist movies. Poltergeist III had been completed at the time of her death although it had yet to be released, leading to rumors that she had expired during shooting and a double had to be used to complete the picture. (Poltergeist III was in the can by June 1987 but wasn't released until 10 June 1988; however, writer-director Gary Sherman decided to change the ending of the already-finished film after O'Rourke's death, so a double was used to shoot the alternate ending.)
The other two deaths were of seasoned actors well into their careers, both suffering from serious illnesses that would in time take their lives. Because their deaths were not unexpected, only rarely is either one mentioned in connection with the Poltergeist "curse."
60-year-old Julian Beck died of stomach cancer on 14 September 1985 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Like O'Rourke, he expired during the period between filming and release, but in his case the film in question was Poltergeist II, which was released in May 1986. Unlike O'Rourke, his death was not unexpected; he had been battling the cancer for 18 months.
53-year-old Will Sampson died on 3 June 1987 in a Houston hospital after receiving a heart-lung transplant 6 weeks earlier. The cause of his death was ascribed to severe pre-operative malnutrition and post-operative kidney failure and fungal infection. It has been said he knew his chances for survival were small due to his weakened condition prior to surgery.
Like Beck, Sampson appeared in only one film in the series, Poltergeist II, released in May 1986. He was best known for his portrayal of the Indian who feigned being mute in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
An extreme version of the "curse" rumor asserts that everyone who appeared in these movies is now dead. That news must come as quite a shock to numerous thespians, most notably Craig T. Nelson (Steve Freeling), Jo Beth Williams (Diane Freeling), and Tom Skerritt (Bruce Gardner) -- they all think they're still alive and continue to ply their trade in movies and television shows despite their deceasedness.
http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/polter.htm
whoa interesting LORDS GYM have a CC brother
u all hear the scarrrrrry as urban legend about 3 men and a baby right? that one scared the bejeeesuz out of me for so long until i found out it was a hoax. :o
all joking aside: Wizard of Oz is one fukkkin scarrrrry asss movie on the REALZ son!
Speaking of that, I did not know that Blair Witch movie was fake for almost 5 months after it came out . I slept with a gun under my pillow, I had a guns in every room of the house. It's funny because I am not scared of any person. but you start throwing witches and ghost at me and I am like a baby ! sleeping with the lights on and shitQuote:
Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P
! ;D
Tell me about 3 men and baby thing? I had not heard that one
kids freak me out big time.. my little girl comes into the room one night.. "Mommy Daddy i think someone is in my room" , Wife calmly says honey go back to bed,, I said fuk that. I jump up and in about 45 seconds i got my Glock and a shotgun ! I looked like someone out of a John Woo movie, running down the hall in my boxers ! LMFAO ! it turned out to be nothing obviously , but I did not sleep a wink that night ! ;D
hahaah JOHN WOO style ahahah 2 guns one in each handQuote:
Originally Posted by Lords Gym
similiar to this: :badass:
thats it ! LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P
It is said that in the apartment in which they shot a specific scene, the image of a little girl that was tortured and killed appears in the bottom left corner..... I for one have seen the movie a couple of times and have never seen anything I remember in High School my film teacher took the movie to the actual seen but we didn't see anything....Quote:
Originally Posted by Lords Gym
The Wizard of Oz it is said in a specific seen right after the Tin-Man is lubbed up and comes back to life as they skip away singing if you pause it at a specific time the image of a body hanging from a tree appears in the upper left side of the screen I have seen this scene several times to be honest I feel it's all in the eye of the beholder.... It's basically what you make of it... ;)
RAWbert,
now on 3men i saw the scene it at first is scarrrry as F yo. but statistics proof that it was actually a poster of ted danson cut out and thats why it look like a lil child etc etc blah blah.
now on wizard of oz i saw that scene too. if u cop an original version u see the actual man hanging himself its when they are all holding hand and hand and singing its Fin scarrrrrrrrry. cuz that shiiiiiit is actual footage of a man killing himself. CUCUY to the 10th power on that one son!
yo rawbert i just remembered that when i was down on my trip i think it was JOJO on KISS FM???? he was going over the local legends etc. and there was a LATINA legend about a young mother who drowned her kids and so as the legend goes shes cursed to walk the world and morn her kids and shes supposed to be seen by TRABUCO CANYON and it creeped the F out of me cuz guess where i was driving thru? yes TRABUCO and then they played this sound bite of this creepy asss latina crying and moaning in spanish about drowning her kids. FIN CUCUY SON!!!!!!!
I like Amityville Horror the first one not the remake. I think that movie was effin scary man because that stuff really happened, I have actually seen that house to.
Also one movie that made me sleep with the lights on after I watched it was the curse of emily rose it wasnt really scary per say but more or less like that shite really happened to someone and could happen to anyone of us.
You know there is a scene in the wizard of oz were the scarecrow is holding a pistol?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P
The original amittyville scared me when I was a child, however when I watched it as an adult it was a snoozer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wadeb_21
Emily Rose creeped me out. Ghosts/Demons are a huge fear of mine.
You really think it was snoozer? I mean that really happened I think thats why I thought it was really scary.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoxingGorilla
But Yeah man Emily Rose creeped me out to, its funny to think a movie can make a grown assss man sleep with the lights on lol. But Demons like you scare the crap out of me. There this Hospital in Louisville Kentcucky thats still haunted it think its called waverly institute or something you can look it up online. But my girlfriends cousin went there and took pics and everyone of the pics has these weird looking dots in them, it kinda freaked me out man. That stuff does though.
personally movies that are basically imagination and unrealistic do not scare me its the ones of true stories of real mass murderes and psychos who murdered innocent peeps creeps me out. not like the flying werewolf from outerspace cuz we all know that silly ishhhh dont exist.
i also get creeped out for some reason when i watch a flick and its so old that the whole cast of the movie is dead. that creeps me out.
There is this silent movie German i think ? , some vampire shit, It's filmed in black and white, creepy shit ! something really evil about that flick . that vampire looks more real and cooler than anything in the modern era ! I think that mutherfucker was a Vampire? ???Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBESTP4P
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