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Scariest Film?

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  • #52
    gc1971
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭gc1971


    Skinfull wrote: »
    Dangerously close to a "list thread" ... IBTL!

    For sheer terror I've never felt as scared as I did watching John Carpenter's Halloween 1978.

    The shots the music the "acting" is all spot on to make this one of the best horrors ever made. One shot in particular is when Tommy looks out the window and we see Michael Myers standing across the road at the Wallace house. But the scary thing is...is he looking at the Wallace house, about to attack or across the road to the Doyles house, lookign at Tommy watching him... :eek:

    Agree 100%. My favourite horror film of all time. Also love Black Christmas (original version)


  • #53
    gc1971
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭gc1971


    henryporter wrote: »

    A Tale of Two Sisters comes pretty close (Korean film about 10 years old)


    Great movie. Bedroom scene was so freaky.



    The Orphanage
    Them


  • #54
    Joey123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭Joey123


    Gal44 wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend a really scary film? Thanks!

    David Cronenberg’s The Fly is my favourite horror film of all time, and a rare example of when remakes are entirely justified.

    I found it very frightening and disturbing, though some friends of mine who I insisted watch it claimed they did not find it scary. It, like all horror movies, needs to be watched in the right atmosphere. So, not in a brightly lit room, or in a scenario when you’ll be checking your facebook or twitter every five minutes, or over a few instalments.

    You should set aside a couple of hours one evening (this goes for all horror movies), switch off the lights, turn up the volume and take it in.

    Some people argue that the film is more disgusting than scary, but I disagree. It is disgusting, but not gratuitously so.

    And Cronenberg is one of the best horror directors out there. Here’s what he had to say on the subject:

    “I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.”


  • #55
    akaspike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭akaspike


    If you had of asked me 20 years ago i probably would have said Rawhead Rex, Opening scene of a rural graveyard in Ireland… But then i came across it in the main library in Liverpool about 6 years ago took it back to watch and laughed a bit too much - re make up and acting.
    Audition is another one but isn't really scary. But in saying that it may make a few put the pillow up over their eyes.
    Me and my neighbor watched horrors by the bucket loads when we were kids (around 10 years and up)as my older brother spent half the time hiding behind the sofa and i think my mother only noticed when we told her that we were watching the exorcist ( that freaked the **** out of my brother).
    I think horrors don't strike a nerve anymore, when your a kid your not clued up on the working of the worlds and i guess you get used to them. But in saying that the classics will always have a special place in my heart. I love trying to get a fright now and again when Halloween is creeping up. A lot of the stuff i see now is instant fright strategy/cheap shots. Maybe i have been desensitised to horrors these days, but i still love them.


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