The scariest thing in that is when the face pops into that hole in the boat while they're underwater. I swear it's an edit - from no head in one frame - to full face in the next, it happens so fast.
OT: Since it's so close to Halloween...what's your favorite classic scary movie?
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Most def, highly recommend.
To me, they've always been totally separate. (just my opinion, I could be off base)
King = The Overlook Hotel
Kubrick = Jack Torrance
With regard to time / speed, it would be great to see what Kubrick would do now with the advent of stuff like Netflix that would allow him to make films (in pieces) as long as he wanted to make them.
I agree. I think our imaginations can think of far scarier things than what some films show us on screen. Psych horror will also be far scarier to me than slasher films/jump scares. Once you know the scary parts, the film isn't really that scary on second viewing. Psych horror can linger and be scary time and time again.
Halloween is my favorite. It was amazingly well done for it’s time, and holds up extremely well. The opening scene is absolutely incredible, and the killer having free reign throughout the neighborhood, regardless of time of day, is creepy as hell. Also the music is amazing.
Scream is also a really well done movie, and would be up there for me. To me, it follows a very similar theme as Halloween, and the fact it’s made so literally everyone could be the suspect is great. The comedic timing is also well done. When you find out there are 2 killers? That, to my knowledge, had never been done before.
Scream is also a really well done movie, and would be up there for me. To me, it follows a very similar theme as Halloween, and the fact it’s made so literally everyone could be the suspect is great. The comedic timing is also well done. When you find out there are 2 killers? That, to my knowledge, had never been done before.
Was thinking the same thing. The moments of sparse sound and absence of music I find effective. I also liked more use of daytime for the scary stuff. I know movies have long since blown through those conventions, you have to give a nod to the early ones.
I don’t care for jump scare movies. Use of them is fine, but a movie has to have much more than that or I don’t like it. I am much more a fan of building tension and foreboding. Generally I think the 70s movies did a great job with that. For whatever reason I also found them to be much creepier and unsettling. Deliverance, Exorcist, and to a lesser extent The Shining just seem to affect me a lot more. I dislike the slasher movies, though the originals were definitely more than what the genre became.
I also try to remember seeing a movie for the first time when trying to evaluate it. For example, know it is totally not cool to say, but the first time I watched Blair Witch Project it was pretty damn scary to me and I really liked it.
I also try to remember seeing a movie for the first time when trying to evaluate it. For example, know it is totally not cool to say, but the first time I watched Blair Witch Project it was pretty damn scary to me and I really liked it.
The jump scare movies usually have the dumbest characters that turn into victims. It's why I stopped following shows like the TWD as I started disliking more characters all the time.
Good movie
I love horror movies. Unfortunately there is a lot more junk out there than not.
I voted for Alien, not sure why because I've enjoyed all of those. Maybe I should have chosen "other" as the original Night of the Living Dead wasn't included.
Also Haute Tension. I saw that in the theater and was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time.
I consider Alien to be a gothic horror that happens to take place in space.
It's super 'campy' yes, pun intended but I didn't know about the cult horror movie 'Sleepaway Camp' until the last two years or so.
It's kind of standard slasher stuff but the plot twist at the end is at least very...interesting.
Maybe we should have a 'terribly campy' movies thread.
It's kind of standard slasher stuff but the plot twist at the end is at least very...interesting.
Maybe we should have a 'terribly campy' movies thread.
Disagree. It's a tried and true haunted house movie set in space. Pure horror.
No difference between how the Alien engages with it's victims and how Michael Meyers did...
And there's the tag line... In space, no one can hear you scream.
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I saw that at the Ames drive in with Texas Chainsaw and Blood Beach
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