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kizzy7

Scary Movies, anyone?

Oct 28, 2009 17:49

Because I'm bored, and because it's that time of year, I am going to blab on about my favorite scary movies. Feel free to skip. Not that I am a scary movie connoisseur by any means, but I've watched quite a few. Especially since Mr. Kizzy is in Iraq... silly man can't abide the horror films, LOL! Note that my definition of scary does most ( Read more... )

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blue_paris October 28 2009, 23:13:33 UTC

The Strangers was indeed an odd one - I had the same thing. Wasn't too overly impressed, but got creeped out an hour later while home alone =P

As far as psychological/disturbing films, I highly recommend 'Requiem For A Dream', 'Funny Games' and 'Hard Candy'. They are probably the three most disturbing films I've seen so far, and I'm pretty much hooked on horror.

Have you seen the Saw series? It is getting a tad ridiculous with the sixth one coming out, but the first four especially are pretty good.

kizzy7 October 28 2009, 23:36:59 UTC

Yeah, I still get creeped out thinking about The Strangers although yeah, it totally wasn't that great!

Awesome, thanks for the recs. Going now to put them on my netflix Q..

I actually have not seen the Saw series! Ok, I saw part of one, where this woman is thrown in a huge pit full of needles. I was disgusted, lol. I'm not so much into the violence, gore without much plot, but perhaps I'll watch the first one. Didn't it have Cary Elwes in it?

blue_paris October 29 2009, 01:52:25 UTC

Np =D I shall post some more if I think of any. I have a penchant for the offbeat/indie stuff, and I know some of them have been really good... memory of a goldfish right now.

I'm not a fan of mindless gore either, but while the Saw films are graphic, I loved the storyline. I bought the first one in Germany and it was an uncut version... comparatively the average copies are not nearly as bad =P But yes, the first had Cary Elwes in it, and it remains my favorite of any of them.

redskyatnight76 October 28 2009, 23:27:26 UTC

Totally agree with you regarding Let The Right One In, The Orphanage, The Shining and The Exorcist (not only my favourite horror film, but probably one of my all-time favourite films of any genre - it's a brilliant piece of cinema, and I agree with you about the priest, btw). Misery, Rosemary's Baby and Lambs all great too ( ... )

kizzy7 October 28 2009, 23:46:20 UTC

Sweet!!

YES, The Omen, I was going to put that on the list and then totally forgot. I've seen both the original and the remake, the original as usual far, far better. And the Blair Witch Project, also excellent.

But I haven't seen pretty much any of the others, which is great. I've been watching horror films on a ridiculous level lately. Gotta go to Netflix now, see if any are available for instant play.

My neighbor told me last year to watch the Wicker Man, and I've completely forgotten about it til now. And 28 Days Later is on my (ever growing) list.

The Exorcist is brilliant. I watch it every October, and you're right, such a brilliant piece of cinema, one of those movies that makes you realize that yes, movies are a form of art.

redskyatnight76 October 29 2009, 00:01:07 UTC

I first saw The Wicker Man when I was in my early teens, and it had an incredible effect on me. It absolutely played on both my fears and my fascinations. It taps into a lot of things which lurk in my psyche, principally related to old pagan traditions which still exist in rural England (although the film is set in Scotland, the folklore, I think, possibly more English than Scottish) but which in the film, are taken to a far more sinister level.

kizzy7 October 29 2009, 00:05:24 UTC

"...played on both my fears and my fascinations..."

Those are the best types of horror, the ones that take those themes and drive them home for you, personally, though the characters, the themes, the imagery.

Love it!

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tamatersweet October 28 2009, 23:50:21 UTC

http://web.archive.org/web/20071030070540/http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/index.shtml... )

kizzy7 October 28 2009, 23:59:35 UTC

GUH JESS!!!

I love him. I watch seasons 2 and 3 over and over, *sigh*

Awesome, thanks for the recs. Going onto netflix now. This is why I never get anything done!

bemoan1000 October 29 2009, 00:39:09 UTC

I usually don’t watch scary movies, even though I have watched many of the ones on the list, which some wouldn’t consider scary. I think that there are just some scary moments that stay in a persons mind for the rest of their life. I know with the Wizard of Oz that many people can’t get over the flying monkeys. Is Wait Until Dark the one with Audrey Hepburn? Evil Dead is just funny and I hope some day to see the musical. I didn’t watch all of the Hitcher, but there was one scene that gave me the shivers. They didn’t show what happened, but my imagination got the best of me. I think I’m with Hitchock when he said the something like the scariest violence happens off screen. Not his exact words.

The kind of scary movies I watch are the old MGM ones, but not really scary. Well maybe. One movie that really creeped me out was Angel Heart.

kizzy7 October 29 2009, 00:45:06 UTC

Yeah, Wait Until Dark was the one with Audrey Hepburn. I haven't seen it yet.

Oh, I watched Hitcher (the one with Sean Bean, yes?) It was scary, but nothing that kept me up at night, lol! And of course Hitchcock, love him. Psycho, The Birds, The Rope, all wonderful.

Angel Heart, hmmm, never heard of it. Thanks for the recs.

bemoan1000 October 29 2009, 01:39:08 UTC

I watched the 1986 version of the Hitcher with Rutger Hauer and C. Thomas Howell(I was a big Outsiders fan.) And I did see Wait Until Dark. It was a good movie, but I didn’t find it scary. Here is the trailer for Angel Heart. I don’t remember very much about it just the parts that creped me out. So I don’t know how good it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5048Megdc8

kizzy7 October 29 2009, 01:42:43 UTC

If parts stay with you this long, that's definitely a good sign! Good sign of a creepy movie. Awesome!

lulabelle72 October 29 2009, 01:12:16 UTC

George C. Scott starred in "The Changeling" in 1980, a film that still gives me the chills. It's about a man whose wife and child die tragically, and he moves into a house that turns out to be haunted by the ghost of a murdered child. The child wants to communicate. Very freaky. I've got the chills now.

kizzy7 October 29 2009, 01:29:15 UTC

Looked it up on rottentomatoes (my go-to guide for movies), and the description sounds creepy!! Excellent, thanks for the rec.

redskyatnight76 October 29 2009, 01:55:07 UTC

This sounds familiar... I'm off to look it up.

Why are child-ghosts so scary, I wonder? Way scarier than grown-up ones. I note that lots of the films listed by people here involve ghost children, demon children, possessed children...

The BBC's 70s/80s drama output had a surprisingly sinister streak, and I was mentally scarred for life by a children's - CHILDREN'S - TV drama series called Dramarama which once had an episode featuring an adopted girl who had an evil ghost-twin which visited her at night and tormented her, and did terrible, violent, destructive things that would make her new family reject her and hate her. She heralded her nightly appearances by whistling the nursery rhyme 'Girls And Boys Come Out To Play'. This was on children's tv at like, 4pm or something.

I watched it aged about seven and didn't fucking sleep for about a month. I'm sure if I saw it now I'd think it was pathetic, but in my head, it's the epitome of terror, LOL!

lulabelle72 October 29 2009, 02:02:28 UTC

You were also scarred by Adam Ant, I might point out, so I think it's safe to assume that young RedSky was highly impressionable. Now look at you, sniffing armpits, writing smut...

Music and television are the devil's playground.

Now that I think about it, perhaps that episode was not about an evil ghost twin. Maybe it was all in the girl's mind -- maybe she never had a twin! This was just the other half of her warped psyche.

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