• ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️



    Film & Television

    Welcome Guest


    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
  • ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
    Forum Rules Film Chit-Chat
    Recently Watched Best Documentaries
    ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
  • Film & TV Moderators: ghostfreak

Scariest Films Ever?

Krowblade said:
The Kubrick version of The Shining is scary for the way it was filmed. There's very little dialog, an enormous sense of isolationism, and the soundtrack is just plain haunting.

Yes, I agree the story was butchered, but in a good way. Sometimes less is more. Horror movies are scarier when the fear is psychological instead of completely visual. For instance, the thought of a child being hunted down by his father with an axe is much more frightening than the child being chased with a croquet mallet.

I saw the made for TV "Shining", and it did follow the novel more closely.
Unfortunately, the feel of the book was not there. It was more like watching the ABC After School Special of The Shining.

Maybe your problem isn't with the Kubrick version so much as just not liking crabby old Jack Nicholson.
Click to expand...

I hateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the actress who plays his wife. wtf's her name. Shelly Duvall. Yeah I call her Olive Oyl because she's so .. ick. I just think that movie contains some of the worst acting I have EVER seen.
 
randycaver said:
I hateeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee the actress who plays his wife. wtf's her name. Shelly Duvall. Yeah I call her Olive Oyl because she's so .. ick. I just think that movie contains some of the worst acting I have EVER seen.
Click to expand...


Ok Randycaver, Now I've gotta go rent the "scary" Popeye movie and make you watch it to see some real frightening acting. And YES, Shelly Duvall, your favorite, is Olive. =D
 
Krowblade said:
Maybe your problem isn't with the Kubrick version so much as just not liking crabby old Jack Nicholson.
Click to expand...


Nah it's probably more to do with the fact that I'm a huge Stephen King fan... :)
 
BTW, for Ringu fans, Dark Water (also by Hideo Nakata/Koji Suzuki) is out on DVD. I watched it for the first time on Friday, and although not a scary as Ringu, definitely gets creepy if you watch it on your own. In The Dark.

I hate kids in horror films, freak me out :)

(It's also on FilmFour - UK - on Friday at midnight, which I only discovered after buying the DVD on Amazon)
 
the mini series version of the shining is scary like ronald mcdonald's 'hamburglar' is scary.

atmospheric construction is what sets kubrick's version apart. the beetle driving along the winding roads; it's scary right from the start, without trying. it does deviate from the book, but it does so to provide a tangible and physical sense of fear and disturbance - both psychological and emotional - that stays with you pretty much for life.

i find it interesting to hear that there are people who prefer the other version. i'd never heard of anyone who does until now.
 
^^^ yep, taken on its own, imho, the shining is a great movie (mostly, like you said, for its atmosphere). what most people seem to find "wrong" with it is its deviance from the book. and, considering as (again, imo, but i think *most* people would agree) the book is better, a masterpiece, then the film gets judged really harshly, even though it's also approaching masterpiece status in its own right.

summarising, the movie only gets bagged so much because it's not *quite* as good as the book, thus kubrick is seen to have made the "wrong" decision (not imo - i'd prefer an inferior but innovative film over an okay one that follows the story) in deviating so much from the novel. er, i think that makes sense :) anyway, that's my take on it.

onto the logistics of the issue itself - i definitely feel that kubrick made the right decision - for him to cover the intense character development that occurs in the novel (jack's transformation, basically) would have been a herculean task when you consider just how much other information he already had to cover...
 
I know this was already posted - but In the Mouth of Madness..... try watching it on acid for the first time is all I can say!
 
I saw Alien for the first time when I was about 9-10 in a boarding house and it frightend the shit out of me, more so than any movie since, but obviously age was a factor. They were so helpless. Would have truly shattered me if original ending had been kept. The director wanted the alien to kill Ripley at the end, but the studio wouldnt allow it.

I didnt find The Ring scary, more suspenseful. BUT the image of Samara coming towards then out of the TV... jumpy digital zombie... that image has stuck pretty well :)
 
I like scary movies....and honestly there have been NO scary movies that have made me "scared"....they have startled me, but not scared me....EXCEPT for just one movie:

SIGNS

I don't know why either. I think it was so mysterious...it was very realistic and it wasn't focused so much on the "visual" aspects but on the steady increasing "what is happening" feeling.....the part that literally made me grab my friend (we were holding each other like we were going to be murdered...she was a girl btw...lol) was when the aliens broke into the house and were trying to get into the basement...that WHOLE sequence was so terrifying for me.
 
Black Christmas.

It's like the first American slasher movie made even before Haloween. I remember seeing it when I was about 14. It's extremely scary. It still packs a punch even now.

Also - Funny Games.

Maybe not a true horror movie but definitely the most intense, unsettling movie I have ever seen. You seriously feel drained afterwards.
 
Don't think I ever properly recovered from when my sister made me watch the shining when I was 10.
Still gives me the creeps when I watch it now. Also the woman in it looks just like olive oyl!
The japanese version of the ring is far better, but watch it before you see the american one.. They explain the storyline in the jap version too, whereas the american one wasn't very clear.
 
xtcvitality said:
I forgot about the exorcist... I think its creepy as hell watching a little girl stabbing herself with a crucifix
Click to expand...

in the crotch, no less. Ick.

Hellraiser was more philosophical to me than scary, like a mini de sade lecture or something.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was cool, but again it, and its sequels, are just too freaking deranged to be truly scary to me.

The only movie thats ever really stayed with me as truly horrifying was seven. My god that movies unsettling.
 
nothing is better than seeing the original Friday the 13th
part 3 in a theatre that is showing it in full 3-D...

it's a shame that the 3-d back in 83 when this was made
beats to a pulp the lame blue-red 3 d of today's SpyKids3.

shame, indeed.
 
when i was about 7 night of the living dead freaked the shit out of me. and the original halloween too

i havent seen any scary movies in several years. what are some good ones?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top