Paranormal Activity

[Kev]

...what movies do scare you guys?

The Exorcist is pretty scary up to a certain point, the movie that tramatized me as a kid was JAWS...that scared the crap out of me and anytime I was in the water whether it was the ocean or a lake or a cholrine filled swimming pool if I thought of that music I was getting the hell out of there!

Psycho scared me when I first saw it...great movie but more of a thriller than a horror movie.

The Halloween movies are always shot in a way that scared me a bit, barring #3 'Season of the Witch' which had nothing to do with Halloween at all, no Michael Myers, no Jamie Lee Curtis, no theme song....really strange that.

Good question, I think its totally subjective.

The Exorcist didn't scare me even remotely, in fact its more of a comedy imo, the possession scenes just make me laugh.

Yet I found Gothika a horribly unpleasant film, and the Ring as well. I think it stems from the fact that I watched all three Ringu films (the Jap Ring) and Sadako was just a trillian times scarier than Samara. Also the story in those were so much deeper, and more disturbing that it trasnferred itself to all similar films.

So Exorcism of Emily Rose I didn't like, Gothika, the Ring, all films where it's basically a long haired girl in a white night dress.

But Paranormal Activity just felt so cheap and tacky, like the home fan movie production it was. I don't think its possible to be scary in a Blair Witch cam style film either, it just doesnt build atmosphere the same way, at least not for me.

Blair Witch 2 was a much better film than the Blair Witch I think,

[Andre]

I thought that ghost ship one was decent enough film the other year.
The one where the wire takes all their heads off.

[Drago]

the amytiville horror (original film) scared me to death (the house shouting get out! to the preist & the friend of the little girl, thik was the devil if i remember)
halloween is probably my fav & first time round scared me shitless
exorcism of emily rose took me a long time to watch as had to pluck the courage up & wasnt as scary as i thought it would be.
the first nightmare on elm street also scared me (everyones gotta sleep at sum point)