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films: Where have the Scary movies gone?

Meesh

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I went to the local Blockbuster a few days ago, and maybe ive been jaded by the typical horror flick: haunted houses, psychotic authors, maniac murderers, so on and so forth...i feel like ive seen them all...at least the good ones:
Gacy, Jacobs Ladder, 28 Days later, The Shining, Seven, The Ring, Carrie, Texas Chainsaw Masacre, Aliens, IT, Evil Dead, Frightners, all of the childs play, and Jason movies...all the others seem like they're just copying what all other talented film makers have already done. granted, this is only a small list of the scary movies ive seen, and the only ones that really scarred me, so have i just become immune to computer graphics and fake blood? or has the horror film industry gone down the tubes? Please, Please, Please give me a scary movie that's worth paying 6 bucks for to rent...cause i dont go to theatres. Thank you.
 
Sorry alasdair but I thought Session 9 sucked, just my opionion tho...

Have u seen House of 1000 Corpses Meesh? Now thats what I call a horror flick! =D
 
[homer]Seen that movie Young Frankenstein? Scared the hell out of me![/homer]

I tend to avoid scary movies these days... I'm such a fucking wimp :D
 
Rent Double Vision
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Session 9 is a good psychological mindfuck. If you want an in your face -WTF is this, then yes, rent House of 1000 Corpses, but I doubt it will stick in your mind like Session 9 does.
 
Yeah, House of 1000 corpses is just a pointless brutal horror movie with no ending. It just kinda stops. When is the second one supposed to come out?
 
one movie that was so much scary as straight up disturbing was 'the cell'.

for a good scare...rent event horizon, or in the mouth of madness. sam niel has been in some great horror flicks. in the mouth of madness still gives me the heebee jeebees everytime i watch it.
 
Maybe you just aren't scared anymore. One of my hero's (of the smart-ass one-liners), Freddy, ceased to be scary after I watched the first Nightmare on Elm Street for the 2nd time.
 
First of all - Blockbuster sucks! Their horror section is minimal and stocked with so mostly pseudo-horror fluff, it drives me crazy. I'm a big fan of Netflix, they usually have alot of the foreign stuff I am looking for.

Second of all, look across the world to Italian horror. There's alot of good stuff - Bava, Fulci, Argento.... you will not be disappointed.
 
I just watched 'Gothika' and it scared the fuck out of me! i jumped on numerous occasions and was pretty much in a state of suspense throughout the whole thing.

the story line was interesting, and both the acting and directing were good. all in all worth a watch.

ps: i'll also add that i'm personally not really much of a fan of scary movies -and not because they freak me out too much to be able to watch them either- its just that i dont really get the kick that some people do out of them... anyway, my point is that i'm not much of a jumper but this movie had me going for some reason. i think the supernatural element really added a lot to the creation of tension... and on that note, that's also possibly one of the reasons why 'The Shining' is such a great scary movie too (amongst other things of course like for example Kubrick being a cinematic genius :) ).
 
LinZ-E said:
First of all - Blockbuster sucks! Their horror section is minimal and stocked with so mostly pseudo-horror fluff, it drives me crazy. I'm a big fan of Netflix, they usually have alot of the foreign stuff I am looking for.

Second of all, look across the world to Italian horror. There's alot of good stuff - Bava, Fulci, Argento.... you will not be disappointed.
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i agree, but living in a small town as i do, i dont really have much of a choice, and internet movies arent easily accessible. i went back to that same blockbuster, and my only choice seemed to be to watch movies ive already seen and been scared by. but i did want to add some scary movies that i saw and did not scare me, (perhaps because im desensitized, and everything seems predictable): May, Van Helsing (good, but not scary), Stigmata, or any religious movie for that matter, except for Devil's Advocate, that shit was freaky. Insomniac looked scary, but also sucked. i think the newer version of the Haunting about a haunted house by dead children was pretty freaky, but im still looking back to the classics..anyway, thanks for the input.
 
remember that a lot of the particularly scary movies rely on ingenuity; ideas that haven't been seen before.

so even though the human imagination is technically an infinite resource, it only stands to mind that there will be peaks and troughs of creativity. in the mid nineties i think there was a bit of an increase, and now things seem to have calmed down again.

i agree with alasdair on session 9 though.
 
Ichi the killer would probably be a good one, i wouldn't call it scary but it's more of on a disturbing level and faily graphic.

Japanese and Italian seem to have the best horror movies. So look for some in that category if you can.
 
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